Miss Pickles the Drag Pug
Miss Pickles is a twelve-year-old pug with a sparkly personality and even sparklier outfits. She bills herself as the “world’s first doggy drag queen” and has a penchant for recreating the outfits of celebrities and drag queens. She is a three-time survivor of mast cell cancer and once weighed more than 30 pounds. Howl’oween is […]
Spencer Litzinger
Spencer Litzinger is a Canadian kids TV host, a TikTok fanatic, and of course a dog mom! She is so excited to be hosting this year and can’t wait to see all the costumes. Fun fact: Halloween is Spencer’s favourite holiday, and she has all the character figurines from the Nightmare Before Christmas!
Caterwaul Theatre
Caterwaul Theatre was founded by Erin Fleck and Sarah Fairlie in 2013. Both Fleck and Fairlie have long been active within Toronto’s theatre, music and visual art scenes. Caterwaul produces innovative and immersive storytelling in puppetry, analog projection and stop-motion film. Caterwaul has created video, live projections and puppet installations for various bands and events […]
Zunaid Khan
Zunaid Khan is President of the Toronto Field Naturalists, a Nature photographer, Naturalist and Fellow of the Royal Canadian Geographic Society based in Toronto, Canada. Born in South Africa, Khan moved to Canada in 1979. He has worked in the technology industry for a number of years before deciding to pursue an interest in photography […]
Jessie Jakumeit
Jessie Jakumeit (she/her) is an award winning Visual Artist and Educator from Vancouver with German, Icelandic, Tsimshian and Gitxsan ancestry. She loves guiding her students through a creative process filled with experimentation and play. Her project will explore the question of how we can dance and move with our four-legged relatives, dogs, to build good […]
Saysah Hassen
Saysah Hassen (they/them) is a mover and maker whose practice is ever-evolving, community-oriented, and rooted in the Black Radical Tradition and an Afro-presentist lens. They find the intersections between Black liberation, Indigenous sovereignty, queer liberation and belonging. They use multi-sensorial mediums as a way to tell stories that centre 2SQTBIPOC experiences and resistance.
Charlotte Carbone
Charlotte Carbone (they/she) is a designer and dancer. They enjoy creating interdisciplinary projects that combine street dance, fashion, and abstract storytelling. Char is dedicated to creating work and sharing knowledge that honours the lived experiences of marginalized people, drawing from their own experiences as a queer diasporic Asian adoptee.
Urban Visuals
Based in Toronto, Urban Visuals specializes in responsive lighting and digital media for exhibits, interiors and architecture. Their approach to design is multi-disciplinary and has evolved by applying specific ideas about how virtual ‘ 2D’ design can inspire three dimensional, physical design. The ongoing goal is to create environments and experiences that are both visceral […]
Nathan Whitford
Nathan Whitford is an award-winning artist and lighting designer, as well as co-founder of Urban Visuals. He has designed, developed and installed innovative projects in experiential art and design for clients around the world. Much of his work explores how light, in its many forms, can be used to alter our perceptions and experiences.
MONEYPHONE
MONEYPHONE is a Toronto-based duo dreaming of the future. Using pop as a medium, and music as the format of delivery, the group merges influences to create a sound that is seamless yet robust — pop yet genre-less. The duo is composed of David and Enoch, two lifelong friends living together in their twenties. Their […]
mr. kwazi
mr. kwazi blends samples, drums, synthesizers, and other elements to create music that expands the bounds of reality. As an avid acquirer of sounds, tapes, and vinyl records – and with a deep understanding of musical instruments, synthesis, and ableton – he effortlessly layers moments in time and space to create works that force the […]
Evan Vincent
Emissive (Evan Jamal Vincent) is an electronic music DJ & producer. Drawing influence from the explosion of forward-thinking 90s electronic music innovation and shining it through the mutated prism of contemporary sound design approaches, Vincent’s music is familiar yet otherworldly. Vincent’s most recent release comes in the form of a 4 track EP called Unseen Measures on […]
Tennesha Joseph
Tennesha Joseph is a Project Coordinator at 8 80 Cities, passionate about finding new and creative ways to make public spaces accessible for all. In 2021, she started her own public space project, ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark T.O?’, which used outdoor LED-lit furniture installations to test out ways to make public spaces more […]
Lauren Abrahams
Lauren Abrahams brings her experience in architecture and urbanism to her work at a range of scales at Toronto-based PUBLIC WORK. Lauren has a strong international profile, enriched by over a decade and a half of practice and urban research in Canada, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United States, with a focus on understanding the […]
Lanrick Bennett Jr
Lanrick Bennett Jr is currently the Executive Director of The Laneway Project. He works within the active transportation, environmental protection, and placemaking sphere. Lanrick is Toronto’s first Bicycle Mayor and was recently selected to join the City’s Climate Advisory Group. He is a vocal advocate with HousingNowTO and the Bike Brigade.
Fly Lady Di
If Toronto native Diana Reyes a.k.a Fly Lady Di has been known for rocking parties and stages from New York to Mumbai since her early 20s, she wants to spend the latter part of her 30s onward recognized for her work as a creator; streamlining her abilities as a dancer, choreographer, DJ, writer, actor, performer […]
Logan MacDonald
Logan MacDonald is a mid-career Toronto-based interdisciplinary visual artist, curator, educator, and activist who focuses on queer, disability, and Indigenous perspectives. He is of European and Mi’kmaq ancestry, who identifies with both his settler and Indigenous roots. Born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, his Mi’kmaq ancestry is connected maternally to Elmastukwek, Ktaqamkuk. His artwork has […]
Brother Nature
Isaac Crosby, also known as Brother Nature, is an Ojibwe and Black Canadian farmer and landscape horticulturalist from South Western Ontario who has been living and gardening in Tkaronto for 25 years.
SHEEEP
SHEEEP is a Toronto-based experimental studio working within community, education, activism, culture and architecture, exploring the boundaries and possibilities of these intersecting disciplines. It is directed by Reza Nik, an artist, a licensed architect and an Assistant Professor in the Teaching Stream at the Daniels Faculty, University of Toronto.
Agency—Agency
Agency—Agency is a New York City based architectural design studio led by Tei Carpenter. The studio’s work focuses on cultural and public projects of various scales, including environments, infrastructure, buildings, and exhibitions. It has been featured in publications such as Domus and PIN-UP and was honored with the 2018 AIA New Practices award and the […]
Toronto Art Crawl
Toronto Art Crawl was established in 2013 by Toronto Artist Nadia Lloyd. It’s main goal has always been to create events and opportunities for local artists to meet and connect a Toronto art loving crowd, who will support their creativity. Toronto Art Crawl hosts 5-7 events per year, representing thousands of artists, and hosting over […]
T.O. Waacking
T.O. Waacking/Whacking is a Toronto-based dance community collective that strives to respectfully practice and evolve the street dance called “waacking.” Our members include street dancers, choreographers, dance educators, DJs, interdisciplinary artists, and more. The queer roots of waacking remain strong as queer dancers find safety, support, and freedom within the style, culture, and community. Waacking/whacking […]
PCT Cheer & Tumble
Established in 2004, PCT Cheer & Tumble is the premier cheerleading and tumbling facility in the GTA. Located in the Winston Churchill and Dundas Area of Mississauga, ON, we teach life lessons through the sport of cheerleading – confidence, self esteem, work ethic, and so much more.
Jillian Jerat
Jillian Jerat is a Toronto-based creative-thinker who embraces challenging the status quo and celebrating one’s inner child through playful explorations. She believes that experimenting with colour is medicinal for the soul – a sentiment that radiates through her rainbow-saturated textiles and workshops.