January is a Mohawk/Tuscarora poet, media producer, performance and sound artist. She lives on her home territory of Six Nations of the Grand River where she operates Ojistoh Publishing and Productions. She has seven published poetry titles and wrote and produced a comedy web series, NDNs on the Airwaves (2022) and a published play Blood Sport... Read more

Speaker, poet and word weaver.
 The first to hold the title of "Poet In Residence" at the Venice biennale and
together with ‘The Sámi Pavilion’ curators Beaska Niillas and Liisa-Rávná Finbog, Märak is also one of the three founding members of Hásstuheaddji collective, a Sámi led think-tank that gather thinkers, performers and artists to dialogue and reflect. 

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Nasrin Himada is a Palestinian curator and writer. Their practice is heavily influenced by their long term friendships and by their many on-going collaborations with artists, filmmakers and poets. Nasrin’s recent project, For Many Returns, experiments with writing as an act dictated by love, and typifies their current curatorial interests, which foreground desire, transformation, and liberation through... Read more

Yantong Li (b.1998, Dali, China) is a cultural organizer, researcher, artist, and curator based in Toronto, Canada. He is an Master of Visual Studies (curatorial) candidate at the University of Toronto. Li works at the intersection of global infrastructure, geopolitics, myths and decolonization. Currently, Li's work engages with ethnic minority cosmologies on Chinese borderlands and the... Read more

A poet, journalist, and curator, with two published poetry collections and a rich portfolio of articles. After leaving Syria in 2011, he lived in UAE and Turkiye and was a journalist documenting human rights violations. He settled in Canada in 2019 and ever since, they have been occupied with healing, fostering a space for knowledge, culture... Read more

A Syrian-Canadian poet born in 1984, published a poetry collection in 2010. He studied philosophy at the University of Damascus. Before the Syrian revolution, he participated in many poetry events and festivals in Syria and other countries. During the uprising, he worked in documentary journalism for several news channels such as Al Jazeera and Orient, and... Read more

Taqralik Partridge is an Ottawa-based writer, spoken-word poet, visual artist and curator, originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. She is a former editor-at-large for the Inuit Art Quarterly, and her curatorial projects have been featured in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Guelph. Partridge's visual work has been presented in Sydney, Australia; and London, England; and at various galleries across Canada.... Read more

Laakkuluk is an award-winning  filmmaker, performance artist, poet, actor, storyteller and writer based in Iqaluit, Nunavut. She is known for performing uaajeerneq, a Greenlandic mask dance that involves storytelling and centers three elements: fear, humour and sexuality. Laakkuluk describes uaajeerneq as both a political and cultural act and an idiosyncratic art form. Upon giving her the... Read more