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Hitoko Okada

Hitoko Okada is an interdisciplinary fibre artist, curator, facilitator, and storyteller. Her work explores the politics and cultural significance of Japanese heritage textile folk crafts, fashion, gendered and racialized garment labour from historical, critical, and anti-capitalist perspectives. She engages ancient Japanese practices of thread-making and shifu weaving to commune with ancestral knowledge and relationship to cloth, plants, earth, and spirit. She works on an urban organic farm and is growing her first urban scale crop of Japanese indigo. Her work has been exhibited in various galleries and events in Vancouver, Toronto, Hamilton, and Burlington. She is the recipient of multiple grants and awards including Ontario Arts Council, Canada Council of the Arts and City of Hamilton Arts Awards.

Keaton Leier (Aritsts Climate Collective)

My name is Keaton Leier. I am originally from Saskatoon SK, and received my professional training in classical ballet at the Royal Winnipeg Ballet School. I have now had a professional career as a leading dancer with the Atlanta Ballet for the past 5 years. I am currently transitioning back to my Canadian roots, and will be joining the ranks on the National Ballet of Canada this summer. I have taken a few courses in environmental studies and I am extremely passionate about the conservation of our earths ecosystems.

Juliet Palmer

Juliet Palmer’s music has come to life under a highway off-ramp, in a swimming pool, in the plastic flotsam of a remote beach and in concert halls across North America, Europe and Oceania. Originally from Aotearoa New Zealand, Juliet makes her home in Toronto where she is artistic director of Urbanvessel, a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Urbanvessel

Urbanvessel creates new performance works through interdisciplinary collaboration. Rooted in music and sound, the power of the human voice is at the heart of our creative process. Led by Artistic Director Juliet Palmer and drawing upon the diverse talents of our collaborators, Urbanvessel fuses sound, music, text, imagery and movement. Urbanvessel shares knowledge through our educational programmes and community outreach activities.

Aeris Körper Contemporary Dance

Aeris Körper is a professional dance company based in Hamilton. We bring people into their bodies through movement, awareness of sensations and connection to self and others with the aim of fostering resilience, understanding and empathy. This allows us to lean into blocks of self-expression which ultimately leads to self empowerment, community building and social change.

Mayumi Lashbrook

Mayumi Lashbrook is a Japanese Canadian settler in Tkaronto who seeks to expose, challenge, and rectify systems of oppression by creating innovative, introspective and inclusive dance theatre. She sees embodiment as at the crux of world making, providing alternatives to unconscious thought, consumerism and oppression. Her primary practices span performance, choreography, education and Artistic Direction. Mayumi is the Co-Artistic Director of Hamilton based Aeris Körper, a facilitator of Dreamwalker Dance’s Conscious Bodies methodology, and the Communications and Outreach Manager for the Canadian Dance Assembly. She is currently studying Butoh and composition in a year-long mentorship with renowned Japanese Canadian dance-theatre artist Denise Fujiwara. Mayumi’s different roles are all-encompassing and overlapping. This enables her to approach projects and communities with openness, curiosity, excellence, and with deep satisfaction.

Jill Letten

Climate change has presented humanity with the most profound and urgent challenge ever faced. Reflecting upon my understanding of rising environmental concerns, I use my practice to combine art with research to address how we interact and perceive the natural world.

Shannon Taylor-Jones

Shannon Taylor-Jones is an interdisciplinary artist working in Toronto and London, Ontario with a BFA from OCAD University. She is a current resident artist at Good Sport, an art collective, gallery, and studio space in London, Ontario. She works with painting, textile, and organic matter; her creative practice is an exploration into the interdependencies of life, decay, and grief as biological and creative processes. Existing as the layered (un)domestication of interwoven life forms and as fragments of larger processes. Through collaborations of care, the inevitability of transience remains; detritus as the answer to one question and the ask of another.

Donna Grantis

#culturevspolicy is a climate project conceptualized by musician Donna Grantis at 418 ppm.

“My vision is to create music inspired by — and featuring — conversations with climate scientists, activists, Indigenous leaders, policymakers, researchers and sociologists about Earth’s systems and how people relate to the climate emergency. I will explore the connection between culture and policy, in relation to human impacts on our planet, and present ideas as musical works.” — Donna Grantis

Philippe Allard

Philippe Allard vit et travaille à Montréal. Il est titulaire d’un baccalauréat en design graphique de l’université du Québec à Montréal. Ses œuvres ont fait l’objet d’expositions individuelles et collectives au Canada, en France, au Portugal, au Maroc et en Corée du sud. Notons celles présentées au centre Articule, à la Fonderie Darling, à Dare-dare, au Confederation Centre de Charlottetown, ainsi qu’au Musée d’art de Joliette. Ayant à cœur les interventions In situ, Il fut, avec Justin Duchesneau, lauréat du concours de la Place des Arts de Montréal en 2009, récipiendaire du prix d’art public de l’AGAC pour leur installation Courtepointe en 2014 et auteur de l’œuvre publique permanente Le Joyau royal et le mile doré pour le bureau d’art publique de la ville de Montréal en 2016. En août 2019, il a fait partie de la publication internationale de Thames & Hudson Hundred sculptors of tomorrow.

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Hitoko Okada

Keaton Leier (Aritsts Climate Collective)

Juliet Palmer

Urbanvessel

Aeris Körper Contemporary Dance

Mayumi Lashbrook

Jill Letten

Shannon Taylor-Jones

Donna Grantis

Philippe Allard

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