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Originally from Tunisia, I am a Web developer and digital media artist whose heart-centred approach guides creative collaborations and relationships. After graduating with a Com...
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PROFILE PETER OLALEKAN ADEDOKUN Born in Ibadan, Oyo-State, Nigeria, a prolific master drummer, drums maker, drumming trainer, actor, flautist and a versatile musician. He be...
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She is formally known as Caroline Aki Matsushita-Guertin, but you can just call her Aki. She is a biracial, Japanese-Canadian (nisei, second generation) dramaturg, arts educator...
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Jude is a mixed-race lover of the creative process, within and without, personally and co-creatively. In 2008, she came upon the Arrivals Personal Legacy Process as a contempora...
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Alida Esmail's practice encompasses performance, choreography, teaching, and health research. She holds a Bachelor’s (major Contemporary Dance, minor Psychology) from Concordia ...
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Anju Singh is a composer, musician, producer, and multidisciplinary artist located on the stolen, unceded, and traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7me...
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I am an actor, filmmaker, theatre creator & university lecturer. I have a backround in International Relations and African Studies from the University of Leipzig and at Hong...
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(EN) Brontae Hunter is an actress, singer and writer born and raised on the shores of Lake Huron, and now based in Tiohtì:ake (Montreal). She was embraced by the Canadian folk m...
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Bushra Junaid (she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist-curator, author and arts manager. Raised in St. John’s and based in Toronto (Tkaronto), Junaid maintains close ties to Newf...
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Christine Rodriguez is a writer from Montreal who creates from a mixed-race, Afro-Trinidadian perspective as a means to explore identity and self-expression. She’s received two...
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Claire Love Wilson (she/they) is queer white/Scottish settler multidisciplinary artist living on the ancestral and unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mes...
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Diane Roberts is an accomplished director, dramaturge, writer and cultural animator, who has collaborated with innovative theatre visionaries and interdisciplinary artists for t...
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World traveler, daughter, wife soon-to-be mother; I am a free spirit trying to exist within the material world. I've been searching for and discovering my paternal roots for a d...
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Born in Munich Germany and raised in Nelson BC in the magnificent mountains of the West Kootenay Region, Espoir is an Afro-Canadian trilingual, actor, storyteller, and performer...
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Gerry Trentham’s (he/they) sense of wonder has led him through four decades of creation, performance and teaching involving the disciplines of dance, theatre, poetic writing, fi...
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Gregorio Pablo Rodríguez-Arbolay is a queer Afro-Latinx educator, writer, researcher, and cultural curator based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang, historically known as Montréal. Gregori...
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Heather is an interdisciplinary performing artist-scholar, queer settler and parent based in Toronto, Treaty 13 Dish with One Spoon territory. Her work has explored the interfac...
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Jamila “Jai” Joseph is a dance performer/choreographer, singer/lyricist, actor & storyteller from Montreal/Tiohtiá:ke. Trained in Classical Ballet for over 15 years and Afro...
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Jason “Blackbird” Selman is a Montreal born poet, trumpet player and community worker. He is the author The Freedom I Stole (2007, Cumulus Press), Africa As A Dream That Travels...
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Jenni Schine is a sound artist born and raised in the traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation...
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Jillian (she/her) works as an actor, puppeteer, facilitator and creative producer in Tkaronto. She’s a member of Diaspora Kidz, a cross-country cross-cultural performance ensemb...
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Jonathan Langdon is a writer, activist and Professor who teaches development studies at St Francis Xavier University, in Mi’kma’ki or Nova Scotia, Canada. His educational backgr...
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Literature
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Bio Julie Tamiko Manning is an award-winning actor, theatre creator and playwright.  Selected acting credits include: Sin/ Zephon in Paradise Lost (Centaur Theatre), Marion in...
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Kaersten Colvin-Woodruff is a visual artist working in 3-dimentions and mixed media. She is a professor of 30 years at Pennsylvania Western University at Clarion in Clarion, Pe...
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Keren Roberts is a Canadian actor most recently seen on stage in What Rough Beast at Centaur Theatre. Keren has performed on stage in multiple cities with Serving Elizabeth (...
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Second generation settler living on the unceded unsurrendered traditional territories of the Coast Salish peoples of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl...
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Lee Williams Boudakian (they/them/theirs) is an Interdisciplinary Artist working across Film, Performance, Digital Media, Contemporary Art and Literature. Their creative practic...
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--- My body is a conduit, a link to past and to future generations. It takes me back, it takes me forward, it carries the present. My body is story. --- Based in Kjipuk...
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Lindsay Dawn Dobbin is a Kanien'kehá:ka - Acadian - Irish water protector, musician, artist and storyteller who lives, listens and creates in Wabanaki Territory, following the c...
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In 2005, Lopa had something to get off her chest. A story that lived somewhere deep in her, in her blood. It was the story of her grandfather but she had no idea how to (re)(un)...
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Lydie Dubuisson is a playwright, director, and curator from Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. She studied theater and graduated with distinctions from Concordia University. Her work examine...
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Michael Caldwell (he/him) is a choreographer, performer, curator, director, writer, producer, and arts advocate, based in Tkaronto, Canada. Garnering critical acclaim, his c...
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I'm a multidisciplinary artist from Scarborough, Canada, of Guyanese descent (Indo-Caribbean & Arawak). I'm based in Toronto and work as an actor in video game, film, TV, th...
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Mon Iker (they/she) is a transdisciplinary artist working across the fields of arts-activism and clinical herbalism. By engaging the intersection of social and environmental jus...
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I see my work as part of a canon of Black women artists, scholars, and activists, concerned with social justice, cultural reclamation, and freedom. In my interdisciplinary resea...
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FIND MUTYA a.k.a. mutya macatumpag (moo-cha) (maca-toom-pag) 
 Mutya is a queer filipino of Spanish and Malayan descent, born a settler on the unceded Coast Salish Territori...
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Nadia Myre is a renowned interdisciplinary artist and Algonquin member of the Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation. As exemplified by seminal works such as Indian Act (2002), T...
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natalie abdou I give thanks to the various lands that are a part of my lineage and being, that care and sustain me daily and the first peoples of these places and spaces – Miss...
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顏婷妍 is the name that my grandfather gave me. Natalie is what my parents named me. My mother is from Hong Kong and she loves to eat with me. My father is from Malaysia and he ...
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Natasha Eck, a multi-talented dancer, Kemetic Yoga practitioner, and educator, showcases a profound passion for movement and cultural relevance. With over a decade of experience...
Dance
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Natsumi Sophia Bellali was born and raised in Montreal, and received her modern dance training at The Ailey School in New York. She is a founding member of Brooklyn-based contem...
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Nicola Harwood (she/they) is a settler queer interdisciplinary artist and writer. Her plays, performances and installation projects have been seen in galleries, artist run centr...
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Nikki Shaffeeullah (she/her) is a theatre & film artist, facilitator, producer, writer, equity worker, and community organizer. Her work has included serving as Artistic...
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Olivia C. Davies is a Canadian Contemporary Indigenous dance artist who creates and collaborates across multiple platforms including choreography, curation, conversation, film, ...
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Rosemary Georgeson, Coast Salish, Sahtu Dene woman. Rosemary is a writer, performer, storyteller, documentary film maker, facilitator, her passion is finding and sharing of unto...
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Ruby Singh is a multi award winning composer and producer residing on the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy̓ əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ/Selilwitulh Nations (Vancouver...
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Sarah Rossy is a sonic creature of sorts, with a voice that is colourfully chameleonic yet vulnerably human. Bouncing between Tio’tia:ke/Montréal and New York City, Sarah combin...
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Interdisciplinary Arts
Arts for Social Change
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Sylvie Bouchard (elle/she/her) is originally from Montréal, where she began her dance training. She moved to Toronto to study at The School of Toronto Dance Theatre and subseque...
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Ülfet Sevdi is a writer, theatre director, dramaturge, visual artist, and Theatre of the Oppressed practitioner based in Montreal. She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts...
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Valerie is a multidisciplinary artist who performs, writes, directs, dramaturges, and produces. She was artist-in-residence at Shadbolt Centre and Urban Ink for her 2012 playwri...
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Yaya Yao is a writer and educator born and raised in Tkaronto, traditional territory of the Wendat, Anishnaabeg, Haudenosanee, Métis, and Misissaugas of the Credit nations. For ...
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Zainab Amadahy is an author of screenplays, nonfiction and futurist fiction. The most notable of her academic writings is "Indigenous Peoples and Black Peoples in Canada: Settle...
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