Anna MallaAnnapurna is a second generation mixed race Desi settler, community organizer, educator, movement-based storyteller, and arts producer. Anna has been involved with anti-capitalist, anti-racist, feminist, migrant and land justice organizing since 2004. She is also the Managing Director at The AMY Project, a community arts organization in Tkaronto offering free performing arts training programs serving young women and non-binary youth. Anna has performed for Pride Toronto and internationally in Mexico, the USA, and Switzerland. She has also been an artist in residence with Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, The Feminist Art Collective, and as part of the International Laboratory at Teatro delle Radici (Lugano, Switzerland). To explore embodied connections to liberatory futures, Anna works with dance and acrobatics, live and pre-recorded soundscape, fabric and found-object installation, and performance for video, designing work both for traditional performance venues and for the streets.
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daniel jelani ellisis a multidisciplinary artist raised in Jamaica by a village of theatre artists, poets, and educators. His art practice includes performance-installation creation, playwriting, dub poetry, and acting. danjelani challenges colonial cultural authority by examining and exploring the ways this authority clashes, connects, and intersects with Afro-diasporic traditions and methodologies. As a Black queer immigrant he is committed to celebrating those of us who live within the margins. www.groundworkredux.com
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Sedina FiatiSedina Fiati is a black, queer, multidisciplinary performer, creator, activist and producer for stage and screen. She was born and raised in Tkaronto and holds a BFA in Music Theatre from the University of Windsor. Her name means a gift from God in Ewe and she hopes to be just that to the world. Recent credits: Lukumi (performer, Watah Theatre), Letters to the Universe (producer), Divine (producer, Storefront/SummerWorks), 3penny Opera (performer, Small Wooden Shoe). The Switch Project sits at the intersection of things that are dear to Sedina’s heart - social justice, urgency and art created by QTBIPOC artists. She is incredibly thankful to work with this wonderful group of artists. Sedina is the facilitator of the Artist Producer Training Program at Generator and Managing Producer of The Storefront Theatre.
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Naty TremblayNaty Tremblay is invested in the transformative power of the arts leveraged for community rooted education, organizing and healing. Naty’s experiences as an identical twin, a poor metis-francophone farmer, and a gender-queer feminist have greatly shaped their creative social change practice. Naty has developed a broad body of interactive multimedia performance, workshops, gatherings & community engaged art works exploring identity, power, regenerative reciprocity, justice and decoloniality amidst the backdrop of global predatory capitalism. Naty graduated from OCADU with honors in Integrated Media & Art for Social Change in 2006. They co-founded the Xpace artist-run centre as well as The People Project, an arts and activism organization working with LGBTQ youth. Naty currently coordinates the media, community arts & transformative justice programs at Sketch Working Arts, building creative leadership capacity with young people impacted by poverty. Naty leverages murals, video, puppetry, costume, wearable technology, projections, movement and conceptual performance for community engaged & public works.
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