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Alex Bozikovic is the architecture critic for the Globe and Mail. He is an author or editor of three books: the bestseller 305 Lost Buildings of Canada; Toronto Architecture: A City Guide; and House Divided. He won the 2019 President’s Medal for Media in Architecture from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA) is a non-profit media arts organization based in South River Ontario that presents performances and installations spanning the entire spectrum of electroacoustic and experimental sound art. www.naisa.ca 

Brady Peters’ design and research work successfully bridges technology and design. He specializes in architectural acoustics, environmental simulation, computational design, and digital fabrication, using computer programming, parametric modelling, and simulation to design performance-driven forms. Peters is an assistant Professor at the John H. Daniels School of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.http://www.bradypeters.com/

Mitchell Akiyama is a Toronto-based scholar, composer, and artist. His eclectic body of work includes writings about sound, metaphors, animals, and media technologies; scores for film and dance; and objects and installations that trouble received ideas about history, perception, and sensory experience. He is an Assistant Professor of Visual Studies in the Daniels Faculty of […]

Tosca Terán is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is a confluence of art, ecology and craft. From the Midnight Mushroom Music archives and the Mycelium Martian Dome to fungi-controlled VR experiences, Tosca constructs installations collaborating with nonhuman life, asking people to consider nonhuman sentience and how humans move within and impact the shared environment. [Website] […]

Zeyneb Rejeb and Fatima Khlifi are cousins, but grew up in two different countries; Zeyneb in Tunisia and Fatima in France. Zeyneb joined Fatima in Toronto with her family to do her PHD at the University of Toronto. Despite living far apart, they were connected their Tunisian roots and memories of spending summer holidays together […]

Maria Lourdes Polotan grew up in a family where food played a central part on how life was celebrated; the kitchen was where the family congregated and her mother presided. Maria has begun to share her passion for food by cooking for others offering traditional Filipino home cooking with quality local ingredients at pop-up events, […]

Rhoma Akosua Spencer is an award-winning actor and director, playwright, acting coach, comedienne and cultural critic. When not performing or directing, Rhoma is an accomplished foodie at heart and shares her culinary skills with friends. She reimages the traditional cuisine of Trinidad and Tobago, giving it a contemporary treatment in her present locale. Her moonlighting […]

Cookie Martinez earned her name making delicious cookies with an eye towards organic and local ingredients and creative South American flavours. Even though now lives and cooks professionally in Germany, you can still taste some of her tasty legacy recipes at Colombian Street Food on Dupont St. Instagram: @cookiemartinezcooks  Website: www.cookiemartinez.com

From a young age, Tsewang Chodon has enjoyed cooking a varied selection of delicious dishes and serving yummy food to her family and friends. Now TC is sharing traditional Tibetan/Himalayan cuisine by offering her own handmade MoMo sourced from local ingredients. TC has been selling her products at local farmers’ markets, the Evergreen Brickworks and […]

Tuba Tunç was a marketing professional in Istanbul for 10 years, but her true passion has always been cooking. Through countless dinner parties for friends and family, she came to realize that she needed to follow this passion and turn it into a career. Since graduating from the Culinary Management Program at George Brown College, […]

Chef Elita learned her craft from several generations of family chefs; her grandmother founded a popular noodle restaurant in Central Jakarta that has been a local staple for over 3 decades, and now owns a noodle factory in Indonesia. Her Mother continued the restaurant business with Elita at her hip. Those indelible experiences have inspired […]

A veteran Toronto restaurateur, Dali Chehimi’s storied career has seen him working at iconic restaurants such as Sassafraz, Sarkis and Avec, as well as running Casbah, a catering company specializing in North African fare.Instagram: @casbah707

Newcomer Kitchen is a Toronto-based nonprofit organization that seeks to create social and economic opportunity for newcomer women through food-based projects. Their ‘Willing to Work” food entrepreneurship training program is now in its fifth year and has help launch multiple food businesses led by newcomer women. A federally-funded pilot project, the women in the program […]

Toronto Dance Theatre (TDT) is an iconic name within the Canadian dance landscape. Founded in 1968, the company was instrumental in ushering a new era of modern dance to Toronto and national audiences. Today, TDT is one of Canada’s leading innovators in dance while being one of the very few contemporary companies in the country […]

Bekah is a multi-disciplinary artist who uses beadwork, fashion, and multi-media installations to tell stories through collaboration with community. Her work focuses on the junction of what she is learning and what she sees in society, working to foreground issues colonialism perpetuates. She enjoys creating bold multi-media work, which she favours for the encompassing experience […]

Toronto-based Dashmaawaan Bemaadzinjin (They Feed the People) is an innovative Indigenous catering company that has been working to support Indigenous seniors and vulnerable community members since June 21st, 2020. What began as a food security project for houseless Indigenous relatives is now a sovereign approach to raising funds and sharing much needed support for Indigenous […]

For over a decade, The Depanneur hosted thousands of unique Drop-In Dinners, Cooking Classes, Table Talks, and Supper Clubs. The Dep was also the birthplace of Newcomer Kitchen, a non-profit social enterprise that helped create social and economic opportunities for Syrian refugee women through food-based projects. In 2023 The Depanneur will be exploring new ways […]