Renelyn Quinicot
Renelyn Quinicot (she/her) is a queer filipina artist and movement & meditation teacher born and based out of Parkdale Village in Toronto. Her offerings include Kundalini Yoga, Pilates, Aerobic Exercise, Yoga Nidrā, Sound Meditation and more. She is passionate about curating spaces for connection and storytelling, where art, music and wellness can intersect. In all […]
Toronto Public Library
Toronto Public Library is the busiest urban public library system in the world. Every year, we have millions of users visiting our branches and taking advantage of our online services. We empower Torontonians to thrive in the digital age and global knowledge economy. With expanded access to technology, lifelong learning and diverse cultural and leisure […]
Art Metropole
Art Metropole is a non-profit visual arts centre with a focus on contemporary art in formats predisposed to circulation and dissemination: artists’ books and art publications, video, audio, electronic media, and multiples. Art Metropole distributes works through its space at 896 College Street, pop-up and satellite locations, and online. [Website: artmetropole.com] [Instagram: @artmetropole]
Public Visualization Lab/Studio
Public Visualization Lab/Studio is a design collective whose members are designers, artists, creative technologists and researchers. The collective creates projects as a means to pursue inquiries into the political and conceptual aspects of interaction, space, and media. Its members attempt to investigate how specific technologies of vision, communication, and gesture support our experiences in participatory […]
Vanese Smith
Vanese Smith is the co-founder of Loop Sessions Toronto, a Toronto Arts Council and Canada Council for the Arts supported music organization, which focuses on music production, education, and vinyl record culture. For over 2 decades she has created electronic music and DJed under the alias Pursuit Grooves and has served as mentor for Toronto […]
Julia Rose Sutherland
Julia Rose Sutherland (b.1991) is a Mi’kmaq (Metepenagiag Nation) / settler artist and educator (Assistant Professor at OCADU) based out of Tkaronto (Toronto, Canada). Sutherland’s interdisciplinary art practice employs photography, sculpture, textiles, and performance. She earned her MFA at the University at Buffalo (2019) and BFA in Craft and New Media at the Alberta University […]
Toronto Field Naturalists
Toronto Field Naturalists is a volunteer-run-not-for-profit that connects people with nature in the Toronto area. We help people understand, enjoy, protect, and restore Toronto’s green spaces and the species that inhabit them.
Sydney Allen-Ash
Sydney Allen-Ash is a strategist, and the creator and host of the podcasts Re:Search and Toenails.
Jac Sanscartier
Jac Sanscartier is a writer and foresight strategist with From Later. She lives and works in London, England, UK.
Erica Whyte
Erica Whyte (she/they) is a foresight strategist and artist with From Later. Her work engages with science, technology, and ecology.
Emily Woudenberg
Emily Woudenberg is the founder of Strike Design Studio. With a focus on independently publishing both websites and editorial, they have participated in residencies at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto) and Artscape Launchpad. They have exhibited at Printed Matter and other international art book fairs in Tokyo, Vancouver, Toronto, and Vienna.
Robert Bolton
Robert Bolton is a Canadian artist and strategist and principal at Toronto-based foresight studio, From Later.
Macy Siu
Macy Siu is an artist driven by expression and empowerment tied to the hyphen of in-between spaces. She is a foresight strategist at studio From Later.
Omii Thompson
Omii Thompson is Toronto-born and NYC-raised artist. A graduate of Sheridan College’s Classical Animation program, his initial love for storytelling and illustration drew him to portrait photography and the challenges of distilling the spirit of the person in front of him.
Naomi Skwarna
Naomi Skwarna is a National Magazine Award-winning writer and artist. As a journalist, Naomi has written for The New York Times, Vulture, Hazlitt, The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Life, The Believer, and others. Since 2019, Naomi has been producing slow fashion and soft sculpture under the name Casual Clowne.
Tala Kamea Berkes
Tala Kamea Berkes is an artist and maker who works most prominently with textile and sound as her media. She holds a Master of Arts in Fashion from Ryerson University. Tala works as a costume designer in film, as a fashion designer and stylist, and as a textile artist.
Rajni Perera
Rajni Perera was born in Sri Lanka in 1985 and lives and works in Toronto. She explores issues of hybridity, futurity, ancestorship, immigration identity/cultures, monsters and dream worlds. Her subversive aesthetic counteracts antiquated, oppressive discourse, and acts as a restorative force through which people can move outdated, repressive modes of being towards reclaiming their power.
Memory Work Collective
Memory Work Collective is a community of artists and writers. Concerned equally with the relational and the imaginary, the collective engages in the mutual recounting and reconstruction of lived experience to contemplate possible worlds. Their research-based practice creates material for meditation, critique, and new ways of living — negotiating ethical and moral imperatives across (past, […]
DJ Karim Olen Ash
Karim Olen Ash is a Toronto born and raised DJ and multidisciplinary artist who has worked on numerous projects aimed at providing space for the BIPOC + LGBTQIA community. He is the co-creator of the Pep Rally raves alongside Chippy Nonstop. [Soundcloud] [Instagram]
Danah Rosales
Danah Rosales (She/Her/Siya) is a Tkaronto based queer millennial; second-generation Canadian-Filipinx; a daughter; a dawta; a sister; a sis; a cis; a mother of two little humans; a motha of a kiki house; and an artist in which her work encompasses teaching, collaborative and interdisciplinary choreography and performance. She is a graduate of the School […]
Double Happiness
Architects and educators Joyce Hwang and Nerea Feliz are the collective, Double Happiness. Based out of Buffalo, NY and Austin, TX respectively, their works seek to make visible the under-acknowledged world of the non-human, as active participants of urban life, by attracting and magnifying their presence in shared urban spaces. Joyce Hwang [Website: antsoftheprairie.com/] [Instagram: […]
Lisa Jackson
Toronto-based Lisa Jackson is an Anishinaabe filmmaker (Aamjiwnaang) whose documentary and fiction films and VR work have garnered two Canadian Screen Awards, been nominated for a Webby, broadcast widely, and screened at top festivals including Sundance, Tribeca, SXSW, Berlinale, and HotDocs. Indictment: The Crimes of Shelly Chartier won best doc at imagineNATIVE and is one […]
The Walk Productions
The Walk Productions is a not-for-profit company created to present very large scale participatory public art that tries to face some of the world’s biggest challenges by dreaming big and acting boldly. Through their work, they bring disparate communities together to celebrate art and each other, to rethink the world and to try to inspire […]
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts
Red Pepper Spectacle Arts was founded in 2002 to provide a multidisciplinary arts facility with diverse production capabilities. They design and facilitate small and large-scale engagements in a wide variety of media. Red Pepper is the producer of the Annual Kensington Market Winter Solstice, now in its 34th year.