Person Type: Collaborator

dj miss is a Toronto-based DJ and writer. Their eclectic sets explore cutie grooves, pinballing trance, rubbery club music, and beyond. The goal? Warm, colourful sounds for a playful, welcoming dancefloor.  

Beat Sampras is a DJ and producer based in Toronto. He hosts Nile Radio Club on ISO Radio in support of his lifestyle brand, Nile Coffee Club. He also curates the evening house, disco, and dance party called Introverts.

Drawing inspiration from electronic African, House, Techno and more; Jelz is a Toronto based open format DJ that will make you move. Through her sets she strives to spread the sound of global dance while playing something for everyone.  She has taken stages in Toronto and beyond including but not limited to MURAL Festival, Electric […]

ISO is a community-minded radio platform based in downtown Toronto. We were founded in 2019 to showcase the diverse talents and perspectives of the DJs, producers, and collectives who create and curate music in our city.

Maracatu Mar Aberto is a Toronto-based community percussion group playing Maracatu de Baque Virado and other rhythms derived from the traditions of Northeastern Brazil. Translated to English as the Open Sea, the name represents the aggregated influences that have traveled from Africato Brazilto Toronto and beyond. Founded in 2010, the group has played on streets […]

Sofia Fly is a DJ and Recording Artist from Toronto. She is co-founder of the club collective “Veneno” and an iconic mainstay of queer dance floors in TO. Her DJ sets are complex, genre-hopping, beat puzzles built around her own signature remixes and beats. Her music features poetic party-girl lyrics set to a Latin inspired […]

Having only released a handful of EPs, and more recently, their debut album Fantast, dance duo TUSH (Kamilah Apong, Jamie Kidd) have gained attention around the world. With nods and collaborations with electronic music mavens like Jazzanova, Matthew Herbert, and Osunlade, TUSH are building a name due to their authentic approach to dance music. Their […]

BAYLI is a recording artist and songwriter from Brooklyn, NY. Her anthemic production and infectious melodies were cultivated under the mentorship of music guru, Rick Rubin. Following the 2017 debut of her band “The Skins” and their massive tour with DNCE, BAYLI has stepped into the beginning of her solo career with an exciting jumpstart. […]

Kate Stanley is associate professor in the department of English at Western University, where she works on American literature, climate, and culture. Her first book, published in 2018, is Practices of Surprise in American Literature After Emerson and her writing on modernist art and literature, pragmatist philosophy, aesthetic education, and more has appeared in PMLA, […]

Me Time is an interdisciplinary artist, techno-futurist, and founder of The R.A.V.E. Institute, who engages dance music, interactive technology, and science fiction for social change. They elevate the dancefloor as ‘more than a party,’ harnessing its transformative power to create collective utopias – where sharing limited resources, engaging in ecstatic somatic rituals, and forging deep […]

Akash Bansal is a writer, filmmaker, DJ and programmer based in Toronto. Their expanded poetry practice includes video, sound, performance, photography, as well as more traditional forms of text-based poetics. Their recent work has examined borders— both real and imagined, between people and places, and especially those within ourselves. Over the past 8 years they […]

Dr. Duke Redbird is an Elder from the Saugeen Ojibway Nation, on the shores of Lake Huron. A celebrated Indigenous Visionary as well as an established public intellectual, poet, broadcaster, and filmmaker, Dr. Redbird is also a highly sought after keynote speaker. He is an Elder and Advisor to various public and private organizations, and […]

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 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 […]

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 (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 […]