Heather Zinger — 503.703.0305

I began The Red Hat Project because my biggest concern is that our society is loosing it’s ability to empathize and to find unity with one another. If we cannot understand each others’ feelings and perspectives, we will be unable to communicate. Dialoguing across differences is fundamental to a healthy democracy. As our empathetic capacities diminish so does our practicing democracy. This directly impacts our ability to work together to find solutions to our most pressing problems such as global warming and widespread violence and hate.

The Red Hat Project is my daily act for one year (until 10/27/2013) to empathize and unite with others by sharing our concerns and then our clothes. My year end goal is have an art exhibition featuring all the photos from this project and to use the photos and the concerns as a starting point for conversations that can heal our society’s ability to empathize.

You can follow it on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/TheRedHatProject or on Tumblr: http://redhatprojectzinger.tumblr.com/.

While studying Intermedia at PNCA, I feel in love with combining performance with video. Here’s an example of it:

Here’s an interview I did as part of Project Everyone: http://projecteveryone.wordpress.com/. They’re goal is to interview everyone on the planet. Literally.

Heather from Project Everyone on Vimeo.

I recently participated in a short film called, Years of Crying, written, directed and filmed by Pete Ellison. Starring Megan McConnell, Leland “Jazz” Radburn, Alison Stauth, Bob Ladewig, Michael Buchino. I play the role of the mom whose wardrobe came out of my sister’s closet! Here’s the link: http://youtu.be/iuZrb8ytux4?hd=1.

For more on Pete Ellison’s work:

http://www.heyitspete.com

http://www.diskowarp.com

http://www.peroxidemocha.com

http://www.kidwhatever.com

http://www.donutnook.com