Mark Hopkins

Mark Hopkins is based in Mohkinstsis, colonially known as Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He’s an Associate with Human Venture Leadership, which seeks to build our collective capacities to reduce ignorance, error, waste, suffering and injustice, and Co-Artistic Director of Swallow-a-Bicycle Theatre, which generates productive discomfort through art-making. Mark volunteers on the board of Kawalease Arab Canadian Theatre and founded We Should Know Each Other, a community-bridging initiative. He’s proud to be a contributing writer for the Energy Futures Print Portfolio and accompanying anthology, Reimagining Fire: The Future of Energy, conceived and edited by Eveline Kolijn.

Some of Mark’s honours and awards include the Creative Placemaking Award (2016 Mayor’s Lunch for Arts Champions), the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Best Screenplay (2014 Alberta Media Production Industry Awards), Avenue Magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 and the Calgary Herald’s 20 Compelling Calgarians.