2026 Presenters
Ariel William Orah is an Indonesian artist and community catalyst based in Berlin. Orah’s interdisciplinary practice critically engages with systemic structures while addressing the emotional and cultural dimensions of displacement and identity. Working across performance, sound art, and socially engaged…
Billianne’s folk-pop oeuvre is a raw examination of growing, longing, and navigating all the relationships that form the building blocks of personhood. Her forthcoming debut album Modes of Transportation will arrive on the heels of a year that has seen…
Christopher Willes is a artist, musician, performance maker, and facilitator. His interdisciplinary work focuses on the subject and practice of listening, how participatory forms of art can produce new reflections on issues of agency, attention, collaboration and care. He studied…
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of dozens of books, most recently Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It (nonfiction); and the novel Picks and Shovels. His…
In’am Carere is a dynamic entrepreneur and community builder based in Guelph. Her experiences as a new Canadian, grounded in an education with an international perspective, and varied business ventures have shaped her understanding of how business and community intersect.…
Jo SiMalaya Alcampo (they/them/siya) is an interdisciplinary artist who lives in Toronto within the territory covered by the Dish with One Spoon agreement. Jo’s art practice integrates storytelling, installation-based art, and electroacoustic soundscapes. Jo is a Thread Residency artist with…
Toronto-based improviser Karen Ng has established herself as a unique musical force nationally and internationally. Whether encountering her on tour with renowned artists or in an intimate venue in Berlin, audiences have come to know her distinctive tone and remarkable…
L CON is the ever-evolving project of Lisa Conway — a sonic adventurer, songwriter, composer researcher, recordist, and mixer based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Her work is often minimalist, and blends analog synthesizers, tape machines, and electronics with acoustic instruments. Lisa is…
This Oneida/Mohawk Wolf Clan, Six Nations born-and-bred independent singer/songwriter describes her music as “Indigenous Soul” — grown from a passion for making music since she was a little girl. There is no denying the amount of heart that Lacey bleeds…
Madhur Anand’s debut book of creative non-fiction This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart (2020) won the Governor General’s Literary Award for Nonfiction. Her debut collection of poems A New Index for Predicting Catastrophes (2015) was a finalist for…
meLê yamomo composes with time itself—stretching, layering, and bending it into new sonic landscapes. His work is not simply about sound, but about the ghosts that inhabit it, the histories it carries, and the futures it dares to imagine. Born…
Nina Vroemen makes interdisciplinary work about ecology that is speculative and embodied. They live in Tiohtiá:ke (Montreal), on the traditional territory of the Kanien’kehà:ka and are a recent MFA graduate from Sculpture and Ceramics at Concordia University. Vroemen is a…
Odawa Wiingushk tells the story of three Indigenous Nations from Turtle Island (North America) coming together through dance. It was founded by three dancers, Lindy Kinoshameg from the Odawa Nation, Leslie Mccue from the Michi Saagiig Nation, and Jillian Sutherland…
Pedro Oliveira (1985, São Paulo) is an artist and researcher whose work is committed to an anticolonial study of listening and its material intersections with the violence of borders. He is currently part of the guest faculty in Sound Studies…
Peter Schuler is an Elder of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation of the Anishnaabek Peoples.
For decades, country and western fans have been begging for an all-drag-queen, -king, and -thing band. The Ratskin Family Band is an answer to these prayers. This all-drag country band performs country standards, reimagined pop hits, and original country songs…
Samuel Soga is a dynamic Contemporary R&B vocalist and seasoned live performer based in Cambridge, Ontario. With over five years of international performance experience aboard Princess Cruises, Norwegian Cruise Line, and P&O Australia, he has developed the rare ability to…
Sundus Abdul Hadi is an interdisciplinary artist, author, and curator of Iraqi origin. Her work spans painting, illustration, writing, and book arts. Rooted in a decolonial artistic, cultural and curatorial practice, Abdul Hadi utilizes ancestral knowledge and space-making in both…
Taqralik Partridge is an artist, writer and curator originally from Kuujjuaq, Nunavik. Partridge has held positions as Editor-at-Large for the Inuit Art Quarterly, Director of the Nordic Lab at SAW, Adjunct Curator at the Art Gallery of Guelph, and Associate Curator…