Oil is everywhere. 

It's in the clothes we wear, the cars we drive, the roads we drive in, and the buildings we live in. 

It's production employs us. It's sale sustains our booming economy. Our lives, our cities, our world are shaped by oil, from the arrangement of streets to the arrangement of geopolitics.

Much is made of the economic, environmental, and political consequences of our oiliness, but about the cultural and social consequences?

Words in Edgewise 45 features leading 'petroculture' scholars and award winning artists whose business it is to think about how oil changes who we are and how we understand ourselves and our world.

Lisa Moore is an award winning author from St. John's whose heart-wrenching novel "February" told the story of a young widow, Helen, grappling with the loss of her husband on the Ocean Ranger offshore rig.

Dr. Janet Stewart is the Director of the Centre for Visual Arts and Cultures at Durham University, she curated an international exhibition on “OilScapes” at Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen and she works on the Advisory Board of “Capturing the Energy” – a multi-partner initiative to document Scotland’s energy history.

Drs. Danine Farquarhson and Fiona Polack are English profs at Memorial and are leading a major research project on the effects of Newfoundland’s offshore oil called “Cold Water Oil”

Other presenters will be announced soon and will include visual artists and filmmakers.

Words in Edgewise 45, hosted by Morgan Murray. Admission is pay-what-you-can.