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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 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/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 […]

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 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.

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 […]