Person Type: Collaborator

Adriene Mishler is an international yoga teacher, actor, writer, activist and entrepreneur. On a mission to make tools for mental, emotional, and physical health accessible for all, Adriene began hosting her YouTube channel Yoga With Adriene, an online community with over 12.4 million subscribers. Yoga With Adriene provides high quality practices on yoga and mindfulness […]

The Melanin Skate Crew was founded in the summer of 2020 during the pandemic as a medium to support the physical/mental health of community members through rollerskating, culture, and music. They have since grown to a community of over 1000 members who participate in events, workshops, lessons, and online engagements across Toronto, Durham, and the […]

Anthony Morgan is an award-winning science communicator, PhD researcher, startup founder and game designer who has hosted dozens of TV programs. He’s also the new host of The Nature of Things on CBC Television (alongside Sarika Cullis-Suzuki).  Aaron Fitzpatrick is a public communicator and event producer who has hosted and coordinated countless Freestyle Social events, […]

Skye Paul, a Dene artist originally from Toronto, draws her inspiration from her family roots in Northern Saskatchewan, where she first delved into the art of beadwork. Her creative journey encompasses an array of mediums including beadwork, leatherwork, quillwork, and illustration. Skye’s artistic practice explores ancestral techniques and traditional materials, interwoven with influences from pop […]

BEATS + SKATES is a collective of Toronto roller skaters, beat makers and street artists dedicated to using collaborative art-making approaches as relational storytelling. We organize DIY community activations that foster relationships between artists across disciplines. Every year, Enna Kim @fongkikid (Korean-Canadian muralist-roller skater, VJ and creative director) hosts the BEATS + SKATES residency that […]

The Mom Market Toronto hosts multiple events across the city ranging in size and scope. Toronto is a division of The Mom Market Collective Inc that spans the east to west coasts of Canada and has over 30 local divisions encouraging people to shop and support local.

Fawn Big Canoe is your friendly queer DJ from Toronto and a proud Chippewa of Georgina Island. A favourite DJ at renowned events and venues like Pride Toronto, Promise Cherry Beach, The ROM and Ontario Place, Fawn has shared the stage with the iconic talent of Horse Meat Disco, Big Freedia and Digitalism to name […]

SPURS is a queer line dance event in Toronto and Montréal. Based in the history of LGBTQ+ country and western dancing, SPURS combines traditional steps with a range of music—from honky-tonk to new country to contemporary pop. SPURS was created by Canadian-born actor Kathleen Munroe. After learning to line dance in LA, Munroe drove across […]

Kirk Lisaj is a photographer and image-maker based in Montreal, Canada.  His photographs work to transcend moments into mystical visual gems, from transforming modern mundane objects into surreal still-lifes or capturing vibrant portraits of friends and strangers. Inspired by the visual rhythms of nature, nightlife and queerness, his images highlight the absurdity and romanticism of […]

Aria Evans (Local Lead Artist) is a queer, Vancouver Island-born, Winnipeg-based, award-winning interdisciplinary artist whose practice spans dance, theatre, and film. They recently moved to Winnipeg after living, schooling, and working in Toronto for the past 15 years. As a public speaker, activist, and creative leader, Aria draws on their experiences of being multiracial. Aria […]

Rosana Cade (Lead Artist) is a renowned queer artist and facilitator based in Glasgow, Scotland. Their work straddles contemporary theatre, live art, queer cabaret, film, children’s performance, site specific, and socially engaged practices. They see the act of creating live works as practicing imaginative world building, taking us beyond normative realities towards new possibilities.  Their […]

Nico Williams is a member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation (Anishinaabe).  He has a multidisciplinary, often collaborative practice that is centered around sculptural beadwork.  In 2021, he was awarded the prestigious Claudine and Stephen Bronfman Fellowship in Contemporary Art. He has recently exhibited at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (2021), the New York Armory Show […]

Nnenna Okore was born in Australia, raised in Nigeria, and works in the United States. She is a Professor of Art at Chicago’s North Park University. As an internationally acclaimed artist, Okore has been involved in numerous environmental art projects and exhibitions designed to produce research, dialogue, and artmaking about current waste issues. Largely deriving […]

Chloë Bass is a multiform conceptual artist working in performance, situation, conversation, publication, and installation. Her work uses daily life as a site of deep research to address scales of intimacy: where patterns hold and break as group sizes expand. Based in Brooklyn, she began her work with a focus on the individual (The Bureau […]

Heather Nicol is a multidisciplinary artist based in Toronto whose practice includes immersive sound installation, sculpture, and independent curating. Her large-scale, site-specific interventions explore the architectural, sonic, historic, and operational conditions across a wide range of locations, including concourse atriums, rail terminus, lobbies, theatres, and decommissioned places such as an old public school building, a […]

WIP Collaborative (Work in Progress | Women in Practice) is a shared multidisciplinary practice of independent design professionals who work together on research and design projects that engage communities and the public realm. Founded on feminist principles and distinct from a traditional design practice built around a singular identity and authorship, WIP is centered around […]

Longtime local favourite Lucie Tic has been moving dance floors at nightclubs, festivals and concerts for almost 20 years. With an arsenal of eclectic tunes, she’s able to rock crowds from an indie dive bar to North America’s most exclusive events.

Gehl is a networked urban strategy and design consultancy, with offices in Copenhagen, New York, and San Francisco, offering expertise in the fields of architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, and city planning. Their approach is iterative and holistic, making cities for people and the planet using life-centered data, strategy, and design. They begin by working to […]

The DLSPH is an internationally recognized community of scientists, teachers, students, practitioners, policy makers and citizens, creating new knowledge, educating change makers, advancing practice and guiding the way to better, more equitable outcomes in population health and health systems – locally, nationally and globally.  

CAMH (the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health) is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital and one of the world’s leading research centres in its field. This partnership with The Bentway reflects our vision of health redefined and dedication to patient, family and community well-being. For more information about CAMH, please visit.www.camh.ca    HeART Lab at CAMH works […]