Step into the lush sounds of Edzi’u, 2S Tahltan and inland Tlingit sound, performance and media artist. Edzi'us debut album, Kime Ani, was nominated for best electronic music album at the Indigenous Music Awards 2019. Their art practice weaves electronic soundscapes with collected audio clips, while drawing on classical songwriting elements.

Cassia Powell is an emerging contemporary artist based in the unceded lands of Lekwungen-speaking peoples, otherwise known as Victoria, BC. Powell is a BFA Visual Arts honours graduate from the University of Victoria. Their work emphasizes the critique of institutional and academic dynamics, and champions the importance of vulnerability and space-making within contemporary art spheres. They utilize these themes by using interior spaces, homewares, food, and digging into the dichotomy of comfort and discomfort, all with a visual focus on “lowbrow” art and pop-surrealism.

Kitt Peacock is an interdisciplinary artist and settler from O’odham Jeweḍ, currently living on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh nations. Their practice draws on spatial theory and folkcraft in order to heal breakages in the transmission of cultural practices to trans folks. They are currently an MFA candidate in Visual Arts at the University of British Columbia.

Florence Yee is a visual artist and serial collaborator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Along with Arezu Salamzadeh, they co-founded the Chinatown Biennial in 2020. They obtained a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from OCAD U.

Arezu Salamzadeh (she/they) is a Mississauga-based artist who creates objects for people to interact with and spaces for people to move through. She is interested in asking questions about hospitality, cultural identity, love, and loneliness through a language of entertainment, humor, and play. They are currently a Master of Visual Studies candidate at the University of Toronto.

김새로미, Romi Kim, or Skim in drag is an interdisciplinary artist living on the unceded xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. They are a queer, genderfluid, second-generation Korean. They see these words as verbs rather than nouns or adjectives—constantly in action, and in flux.Their practice explores multiplicities within stories, relations and knowledges through acts of intimacy and care.

甄念菻, Kendell Yan, or Maiden China (She/they) is a trans-femme, non-binary, feminist drag performance artist settled and working on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ilwətaɁɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations. Her practice explores the concept of the “hyphen”, liminal states of embodied being, and incorporates elements of classical Chinese opera, queer theory, resistance politics, and intimate contact performance art.

Margaret August Is a Coast Salish, two-spirit artist from Shíshálh First Nation. Margaret identifies with the pronoun they, them, their. They were born in 1983 in the traditional unceded Lkwungen and W̱SÁNEĆ territories. They believe, the many gifts of each Two-Spirited person is unique to the individual and rooted in where they come from.

Nicole Mandryk is Anishinaabe, Irish and Ukrainian and her traditional name is Niibinobinesiik which translates to summer thunderbird and the physical representation is the loon. On her mother’s side her family comes from Oka with lineage to Nippising yet were disconnected from community through the Indian Act. Her father’s side are Ukrainian and settled in Treaty 1 the homelands of the Metis, Cree and Anishinaabe people now known as Winnipeg. Nicole is a visual and performative artist who is dedicated to her cultural art practices. She is inspired by Anishinaabe and Ukrianian stories, art, land, language, and songs.

The Victoria Community Fridge and Community Food Delivery programs are part of a mutual aid group called Community Food Support. Both programs are a community response premised on mutual aid and work to make nutritious and exciting food free and accessible to those who need it.

keiko practices pronunciations of self through live and digitally mediated performances to accentuate in-between, hyphenated, third spaces that defy definition.

Estraven Lupino-Smith is a queer and non-binary trans artist, researcher, and educator born in Dish with One Spoon territory to an Italian and Scottish family. Their practice is interdisciplinary, informed by their creative and critical engagements with human interactions in our environments: natural, cultural, and constructed.