Zoë Heyn-Jones
Zoë Heyn-Jones is a researcher-artist and cultural worker who grew up on Saugeen Ojibway land in Ontario, Canada and on Tz’utujil/Kaqchikel Maya land in Guatemala. Zoë uses artistic research and curatorial practice as tools for communal abundance, and convenes groups in order to weather the collapse of capitalism together.
She works with agroecology and food systems, convivial cooking and eating, compost and waste, vernacular architecture and embodied practices of solidarity in the service of decomposition and regeneration. Zoë lives and works in Tenochtitlan/Mexico City and Tkaronto/Toronto.
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The Creative Food Research Collaboratory
The Creative Food Research Collaboratory germinates collaborations at the intersection of art and food studies, exploring how the arts can imagine—and therefore help to achieve—food security, food sovereignty, and food justice in Canada and across the Americas.
Tender Again
Tender Again is a mutual-aid, abolitionist, decolonial care initiative providing monthly drop-in bodywork, food, and community support for neighbors facing barriers to healthcare — prioritizing unhoused, frontline workers, low-income, Indigenous, Black, trans, and migrant community members Find out more
Regatu Asefa
Regatu Asefa (she/her) is a curator and art historian based in Toronto and Oxford, where she is completing her MPhil in Islamic Art and Architecture. Her practice prioritizes non-visual sensory experiences and body engagement in the formations of place and identity, with a particular focus on arts of the Islamic world. She grounds her curatorial work in rigorous research, both academic and community-based knowledge, to explore how art creates social spheres. Her recent projects include Pleasant Smells and Warm Fellowships: Scent in Islamic Ceramics (Gardiner Museum); Behind the Curtain and My Body is Wherever it Has Something to Do (NAMARA | projects); Inviting the Conflict (Ottawa Art Gallery); 83 ‘Til Infinity: 40 Years of Hip-Hop in the Ottawa/Gatineau Region (Ottawa…Find out more
Heather Frise
Heather Frise is a Toronto-based filmmaker, visual artist and educator. Her experimental films and animations have screened internationally. She has also worked on a range of community-based media and digital storytelling projects including the Emmy-Award winning, Highrise. She currently teaches at OCAD University.Find out more