Karl Beveridge is an artist working in Toronto, in collaboration with Carole Condé. Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge have collaborated with various trade unions and community organizations in the production of their staged photographic work over the past thirty years. Their work has been exhibited across Canada and internationally in both the trade union movement and art galleries and museums. They are active in several labour arts initiatives including the Mayworks Festival in Toronto and the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre in Hamilton, Ontario.

Michael Caldwell is a Dora-nominated, Toronto-based choreographer/performer/curator/producer/arts advocate. An "intense dynamo on stage" (Scene4) with "exceptional interpretive skill" (Globe & Mail), Caldwell has originated roles for many of Canada's esteemed dance creators/companies, and has performed across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Caldwell is quickly garnering critical acclaim for his 'daring and powerful' (Bateman Reviews) choreography. With a bachelor’s degree in film/art history from Syracuse University, Caldwell is the artistic producer for Fall for Dance North Festival, and sits on the artistic advisory committee at Dancemakers.

Curator, writer, and artist Emelie Chhangur is the newly appointed Director and Curator of the Agnes Etherington Art Centre. This appointment follows a significant curatorial career at the Art Gallery of York University (AGYU). At AGYU, she led the reorientation of the gallery to become a civic, community-facing, ethical space driven by social process and intersectional collaboration. She founded the gallery’s residency program and received 25 awards from Galeries Ontario/Ontario Galleries for her contributions in writing, publishing, exhibition-making, public and education programming. Over the past twenty years, Chhangur has emerged as a leading voice for experimental curatorial practice in Canada and is celebrated nationally and internationally for her process-based, participatory curatorial practice, the commissioning of complex works across all media, and the creation of long-term collaborative projects performatively staged within and outside the gallery context. Chhangur has published numerous books on contemporary art and regularly contributes articles to art journals, peer review essays to anthologies, and presents her research at conferences internationally.

Distinguishing herself as a cultural worker dedicated to questioning the social and civic role of the public institutions of art, Chhangur has developed a curatorially-engaged approach to working across cultural, aesthetic, and social differences through a practice she calls “in-reach”—a concept that has since transformed engaged institutional practice in the arts across Canada. In 2019, she won Ontario Galleries’ inaugural BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour) Changemaker Award and was a finalist for the Margo Bindhardt and Rita Davies Cultural Leadership Award. In 2020, she won the prestigious Hnatyshyn Foundation Award for Curatorial Excellence. She holds a Master of Visual Studies from the Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design, at the University of Toronto.

Greig de Peuter collaborates on Cultural Workers Organize, an international research project exploring collective responses to precarity in the cultural and creative industries. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. He is a co-founder of Letters & Handshakes.

Greig de Peuter is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He researches the contested political economy of media and cultural production, with an emphasis on work, labour, and employment. He is currently collaborating with Enda Brophy and Nicole Cohen on a multi-country study of precarious labour politics in creative industries. His most recent book, co-authored with Nick Dyer-Witheford, is Games of Empire: Global Capitalism and Video Games (University of Minnesota Press, 2009). His writing has appeared in The Fibreculture Journal, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Cultural Economy, and several anthologies. His article with Cohen and Brophy, “Interns, Unite! (You Have Nothing to Lose—Literally),” received the 2013 Canadian Association of Journalists/Communication Workers of America—Canada Award for Labour Reporting. He has been active in collectively run autonomous education and curatorial projects, including the Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry (2005-2010), and Letters & Handshakes (from 2014).

Catalina Fellay-Dunbar is a Toronto-based dance professional and academic focused on Flamenco and Classical Spanish dance. She holds a BFA and MA in dance (York University), MA in Drama (University of Toronto) and Certification in Movement Analysis (Laban Institute for Movement Studies). Currently she serves as co-chair of the Canadian Alliance of Dance Artists - Ontario Chapter.

Francesco Gagliardi is a performance artist, writer, and occasional filmmaker based in Toronto. Programs of his work have been presented internationally in venues including Pieter (Los Angeles); Issue Project Room and The Stone (NYC); FADO, Images Festival, The Harbourfront Centre, and 7a*11d Performance Art Festival (Toronto), and Fondazione Mudima (Milano).

Born and raised on Cape Breton Island, Molly Johnson creates body-based performance projects and texts that investigate connection through the universal and familiar on themes of how to be. A Dora Award-winning dance artist, emerging creator, freelance writer, and advocate for human decency, Johnson works between Toronto and Montreal.

kumari giles is a multi-disciplinary artist, movement storyteller, curator, and producer. They are committed to carving space in performance to showcase the brilliance of people who are not typically valued in the performing arts including queer, gender non-conforming, trans, disabled, Deaf and people of colour. They are part of Unapologetic Burlesque, ILL NANA/DiverseCity Dance Company, and have been in numerous theatre and multidisciplinary shows as an independent performer, producer, and curator.

Jenn Goodwin is a second year student in the MVS/Curatorial Studies program at U of T. Her dance work and short films have been shown across Canada and internationally. Goodwin worked for a decade with Toronto’s Nuit Blanche and has curated performance and exhibitions for Summerworks Festival (2016), The Drake Hotel, and Harbourfront Centre.

sandra Henderson is a practitioner with a focus on production, touring and management for performance. Recent collaborations include work with Luminato Festival, Toronto Fringe Festival, and performance artist Jess Dobkin. sandra is an Associate Artist with Public Recordings, an organization that tests hypotheses about group work through performance, education, publishing, and other collective gestures.

Johanna Householder works through performance, dance, video, and intermedia art. Her interest in how ideas move through bodies has led her largely collaborative practice. She has recently performed in Mexico, Singapore, Java, and Calgary and reset her 1978 solo for Toronto Dance Theatre and the AGO. She is a founder of the 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art which held its 11th biennial in October, and is a Professor at OCAD University.

Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage whose work addresses issues of cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. Through her practice she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity: illness, rage, grief, desire and longing within the context of Black embodiment. She is the 2020–21 recipient of Concordia University's SpokenWeb Artist/Curator In Residence Fellowship. Karuhanga has presented her work at SummerWorks Lab (Toronto, 2020), The Bentway (Toronto, 2019), Nuit Blanche (Toronto, 2018), Onsite Gallery (Toronto, 2018) and Goldsmiths University (London, UK, 2017). Karuhanga's writing has been published by C Magazine, BlackFlash, Susan Hobbs Gallery, and Fonderie Darling. She earned her BFA from Western University and MFA from University of Victoria. She lives and works in Toronto, Canada where she is part-time lecturer at Ryerson University.

Brandy Leary creates contemporary performances through the body. She holds a BA Honours in Theatre with a specialization in Direction and Asian Theatre from York University's Theatre Program. Brandy has lived between Canada and India for the past seventeen years, training, collaborating, and creating in the traditional Indian performing languages of Seraikella and Mayurbhanj Chhau (dance), Kalarippayattu (martial art) and Rope Mallakhamb (aerial rope). In addition to founding and leading Anandam Dancetheatre, Brandy is a Founder and Co-Director of Collective Space (an alternative performance and rehearsal venue in Toronto’s west end) and a Founder and Co-Artistic Director of CCAFT (Contemporary Circus Arts Festival of Toronto). Brandy is a triple Shastri Indo Canadian Fellow, a Chalmers Professional Development Awardee, a visiting artist at the MFA program, Shiv Nadar University (India), has been shortlisted for the KM Hunter Award in Dance (2009 and 2011), and is a Multi-Disciplinary Dance Artist Nominee (2013) for the Soulpepper Dance Awards. Her work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, Hal Jackman Foundation, CreatiVenture Collective, Bata Shoe Museum, Summerworks, Rhubarb Festival, Fringe NYC, City Leaks Urban Arts, Infecting the City Public Arts Festival, Theatre Passe Muraille, Dance Made In/Fait au Canada Festival, CCAFT, Circus NOW, Metcalf Foundation, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Foundation, Toronto Arts Council, and Nuit Blanche.

Sally Lee is the Executive Director of CARFAC (Canadian Artists’ Representation/Le Front des artistes canadiens) Ontario. She has held management and leadership positions at a broad range of not-for-profit organizations and artist-run centres. She currently sits on the Advocacy Committee of the Toronto Arts Council, the Board of Wavelength Music, and the Advisory Board of Reel Asian.

Fabien Maltais-Bayda holds an MA in performance studies from the University of Toronto. He has worked with contemporary dance presenter Tangente, and the International Community of Performing Arts Curators. Fabien writes for publications including Canadian Art, The Dance Current, esse, and Momus, and was a 2016-17 Writer-in-Residence at Dancemakers.

Bee Pallomina is dance artist, performer, collaborator and creator, currently making and performing in work for stage, installation, and film/video. She has worked with many independent choreographers, and several dance companies including Dancemakers and Public Recordings. Bee and has performed in theatres, galleries, and site-specific contexts across Canada and in Europe.

Kim Simon is the former curator at Gallery TPW in Toronto. Simon’s curatorial work is grounded by an interest in the relationship between ethics and aesthetic experience across disciplines, thinking about the conditions of spectatorship, and experimenting with pedagogy as a form of creative practice.

Bojana Stancic is an artist, performance designer, and cultural programmer living and working in Toronto. She is a graduate of University of Toronto's Theatre and Semiotics programs and has an exhibition history working with numerous theatrical and gallery venues in the city. Inspired by transformative use of materials and space, she likes to envision her work as participating in a conversation between performative sculpture and site-specific installation. She is currently Coordinator of Cross-Disciplinary Programming at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Bojana Videkanic is a performance artist and an art historian/curator born in Bosnia and Herzegovina, ex-Yugoslavia. Her performance art practice mines personal experiences of displacement, movement, and identity as these intersect with political, social, and cultural precarity. Videkanic is an Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Waterloo, and a board member of the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival Toronto.