Darren is a multi-disciplinary designer, communicator, and educator who has built his career around serial reinvention. From innovative branding, design, and communications in both traditional and digital spaces, to user experience consulting and strategy, to creative direction, product design, and higher education, each move has been a tangent spun off from a previous trajectory. Passionate […]
Alyson Richards is an award-winning screenwriter, director, producer, and educator known for bold, inclusive storytelling. In 2024, she won the Director’s Guild of Canada Award for Best Short Film for her documentary I WAS HERE. She also directed the ‘horror’ episode of CHILDREN RUIN EVERYTHING (CTV, The CW, Netflix), featuring legendary filmmaker David Cronenberg in […]
Susan Blight (Anishinaabe, Couchiching First Nation) is an interdisciplinary artist working with public art, site-specific intervention, wearable art, film and social practice. Her solo and collaborative work engages questions of personal and cultural identity and its relationship to space. Susan is co-founder of Ogimaa Mikana, an artist collective working to reclaim and rename the roads […]
Doug Van Nort is an artist, scholar and composer/improviser of experimental and electroacoustic music. He regularly performs and presents his work internationally, with notable past venues including Casa da Musica in Porto, Betong in Oslo, Cafe OTO in London, Skolska28 in Prague, Liebig12 and QuietCue in Berlin, Ongaku no tomo hall in Tokyo, The Smithsonian […]
Brigitte Sachse Brigitte has almost 25 years experience in the TV and Film production industry. Prior to founding Bee Video, a digital media production company specializing in corporate video, whose branded projects include the CBC, PWC, Kids Help Phone, CAMH, Sobeys, Cooperators and various ad agencies, Brigitte was the Director of Business Affairs at RTR […]
Keira Loughran is a theatre, performing and martial artist. In her 25+ year career as an actor, director, playwright, dramaturg and producer, she has played a significant role in the diversification of the Canadian Theatre landscape. For the Stratford Festival, she directed four productions, and as the inaugural Associate Producer for the Forum and the Laboratory, […]
Jessica Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist who works predominantly in textiles, drawing and comics. Drawing on a wide range of influences, including science fiction, art world politics, and her evangelical upbringing, Campbell explores ways to reflect heterogeneity through a combination of disparate media, subjects, and tone. Whether through cartoony depictions or the use of unorthodox […]
Fabio Montanari is a filmmaker and scholar who has written a number of series for top networks including Netflix, HBO and National Geographic. He is the creator of an original international fiction TV series that is currently being filmed for Amazon Prime Video. As a Screenwriter and Director, Montanari’s independent work has been screened in […]
Canadian Mezzo Soprano, Melissa Davis is an active concert soloist, vocal professor, choral director and vocal clinician. Awarded the distinguished Krannert Debut Artist Award by the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, Illinois, Davis has guest soloed with Grammy and Juno-award-winning choirs and orchestras throughout North America including the Buffalo Philharmonic and Thunder Bay Symphony […]