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Glodeane Brown
CO-CHAIR
Midi Onodera
CO-CHAIR
Jenneen Marie Beattie
SECRETARY
Adi Baker
Noa Bronstein
Katherine Dennis
Peggy Gale
Katelyn Gallucci
Vera Frenkel
Darcy Killeen
Matthew Kyba
Katie Lawson
Marina Mandic
Crystal Mowry
Sarah Munro
Heather Nicol
Ricky Varghese
Jayne Wilkinson
PROGRAM CONTRIBUTORS / PARTICIPANTS
francesca ekwuyasi • Adama Delphine Fawundu • Bushra Junaid • Kosisochukwu Nnebe • Oluseye • Shaya Ishaq • Yaniya Lee • Alison Cooley • Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn • Gabby Moser • Ernesto Cabral de Luna • Kay Rangel • Diasporic Futurisms (Vanessa Godden and Adrienne Matheuszik) • Quite Ourselves • Camila Salcedo • Tamil Archive Project • Kofi Oduro • nichola feldman-kiss • Karina Iskandarsjah • Candide Uyanze • Jasmine Liaw • Brigita Gedgaudas • Luis N Del Angel • Rah Eleh • Olivia McGilchrist • Renee Gladman • Adee Roberson • Rashid Zakat • Safia Siad • Yuhan Zheng • Avalon Mott • Marina Fathalla • Lamis Haggag • Katherine Melançon • Ahmed Naji • Anahita Norouzi • El Rass • Fatma Hendawy Yehia • Joi T. Arcand • Celeste Pedri-Spade • Catherine Blackburn • Nadya Kwandibens • Ariel Smith • Jake Kimble • Warren Harper • Morgan Melenka • Megan Gnanasihamany • Stephanie E Creaghan • Andy Slater • Gillian Dykeman • Chandra Melting Tallow • Ashna Jacob • Anne Macmillan • Tamyka Bullen • Adrià Julià • Larissa Sansour • Reza Nik • LM Ramsey • Noor Alé • Claudia Mattos • Farah Al Qasimi • Kaya Joan • Bea Parsons • Yelaine Rodriguez • Whyishnave Suthagar • Brendan George Ko • Chris Andrews • Tanya Lukin Linklater • Laurie Kang • Lila De Magalhaes • Nona Inescu • Jenine Marsh • Florencia Sosa Rey • Morris Lum • Karen Tam • Valérie Frappier • Alana Bartol • Ileana Hernandez Camacho • Tsēmā Igharas • Emilie Croning • Jorian Charlton • Kablusiak • Maria del Carmen Camarena • Eliza Chandler • Saada El-Akhrass • Beatriz Miranda • Aidan Moesby • Jessa Agilo • Aimi Hamraie • Yo-Yo Lin • Lindsay Fisher • Shannon Finnegan • Ramya Amuthan • Bojana Coklyat • Zinnia Naqvi • Lori Brown • Carol Anne Hilton • Elke Krasny • Charlotte Zhang • ma ma (Magdalyn Asimakis + Heather Rigg) • Eleana Antonaki • Marina Xenofontos • Michelle Beck • Dana Snow • HollyJo • Kat Germain • Aislinn Thomas • Elizabeth Sweeney • Sean Lee • Vanessa Dion Fletcher • Wy Joung Kou • Dolleen Tisawii’ashii Manning • Andy Slater • Adam Wolfond • Estée Klar • Pejvak • Anthea Black • Jessica Lynn Whitbread • Adrienne Crossman • Lauren Lavery • Maxine Proctor • Danielle St. Amour • Cecilia Berkovic • Ben Donoghue • Merray Gerges • Steffanie Ling • Vanessa Runions • Amy Fung • Sally Mackay • Catherine Osborne • Tian Zhang • Emelie Chhangur • Myung-Sun Kim • Emily Peltier • Eric Chengyang • Ebrin Bagheri • Alex Jacobs-Blum • Curtiss Randolph • Camille Rojas • Eve Tagny • Liz Ikiriko • Nicole Kelly Westman • Amanda Beech • Neven Lochhead • naakita feldman-kiss • Ivanie Aubin-Malo • Henry Andersen • Mara Eagle • Phil Rose • Molly Teitelbaum • Anna Queen • The Video in the Public Sphere Working Group (Pansee Atta • Sasha Phipps • Ryan Conrad • Helene Lefebvre • Maayke Schurer) • Justin Tyler Tate • Maria Hupfield • Noa Bronstein • Azaeb Adane • Clayton Batson • Eli Carmona • Tahoy James • Ebti Nabag • Emma German • Guillaume Adjutor Provost • Adam Basanta • Adrienne Crossman • Nadège Grebmeier Forget • Florence-Agathe Dubé-Moreau • Maude Johnson • Lacie Burning • Jade Nasogaluak Carpenter • Dayna Danger • Cass Gardiner • Quratulain Butt • Khaled Hourani • Maha Maamoun • Smriti Mehra • Huma Mulji • Ed Panar • Alex Sheriff • Andrea Luka Zimmerman • Toleen Touq • Nahed Mansour • Lauren Fournier • Sharlene Bamboat • Hazel Meyer • Leila Nadir • Cary Peppermint • Sarah Nasby • Kayla Polan • Walter Scott • Agustine Zegers • Zula • Xavier Binette • Wolfie • Starchild Dreaming Loud • Sophia Nahz • Singing Thunder • Rachel Macintosh • Oddane Taylor • Nicholas Ridiculous • MT Ness • Michelle Charlie • Jessie Stone • Gen Gagnon • Elijah M • Bethany Papadopolous • Anonymous • Amelia Merhar • Anthony Stepter • Erika DeFreitas • Edie Fake • Marc Fischer/Public Collectors • Dina Kelberman • Nellie Kluz • Sanaz Mazinani • Eric Oglander • Leah Wellbaum • Katelyn Gallucci • Sebastián Benítez • Petar Boskovic • Shelby Fenlon • Maxwell Hyett • Mickey Mackenna • Maggie Groat • Jimmy Limit • Karen Henderson • Josée Pedneault • Eunice Luk • Ella Dawn McGeough • Juan Ortiz-Apuy • Biliana Velkova • Alison Cooley • Yael Brotman • Melanie Chikofsky • Doug Guildford • Tessar Lo • Tim Manalo • Roula Partheniou • Meghan Price • Natalie Wood • Sonya Filman • Brynn Higgins-Stirrup • Oana Tanase • Ruth Adler • Ricky Varghese • Jeannette Ehlers • Earl Miller • Patricia Kaersenhout • Søren Thilo Funder • Jens Haaning • Maj Hasager • Tina Helen • Stine Marie Jacobsen • Jane Jin Kaisen • Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen • Manar Moursi • Astarte Rowe • Mediolus corona • Jessica Drenk • Gabriel Lalonde • Claudia Wieser • Steven Beckly • Matthew Kyba • Morehshin Allahyari • Maria Flawia Litwin • Manuel Saiz • Marianna Milhorat • Terence Nance • Vincent Chevalier • Michele Pearson Clarke • Liz Gibson-DeGroote • Francisco-Fernando Granados • Theodore Kerr • Cait McKinney • Simon M Benedict • Christopher Manson • Susana Reisman • Ciprian Muresan • Oana Tanase • Shelly Kraicer • Karin Chien • JP Sniadecki • Huang Xiang • Xu Ruotao • Bai Bin • Chen Li-Hua • Zhong Su • Mary Grisey • Faye Mullen • Jérôme Nadeau • Deborah Wang • Nicolas Fleming • Victoria Brooks • Sven Lütticken • Katherine Dennis • Maria Flawia Litwin • Alejandro Garcia Contreras • Josée Pedneault • Tamara Gayer • Christine Gedeon • Janine Miedzik • Shani K Parsons • Heather Nicol • Mary Hambleton • Sara MacLean • Cathryn Miller • Andrea Cohen + Wiska Radkiewicz • Victoria Fu • Marta Ryczko • Manuel Saiz • Leif Low-Beer • Lyla Rye
ORGANIZATIONAL PARTNERS + CO-PRESENTERS
AGYU
Art Gallery of Ontario
British Council
Bodies in Translation
C Magazine
China Now / Cinema on the Edge
Danish Arts Foundation
DesignTO
DRAIN: A Journal of Contemporary Culture
Edition International Art Book Fair
EQ Bank
Friends of Chinatown Toronto
Gallery 44
Gallery TPW
Images Festival
Independent Curators International NY
Indigenous Curatorial Collective (formerly Aboriginal Curatorial Collective)
InterAccess
Koffler Gallery
MARSM Canada
Mercer Union
Native Women in the Arts
Nuit Rose
OCADU CEAD
OCADU Health Design Studio
Ocean Space
Ontario Galleries / Galeries Ontario
Partners in Art
Paperhouse Studio
Pleasure Dome
Reel Asian International Film Festival
SAVAC
SAW Video Media Arts Centre (now DARC)
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
Tangled Art + Disability
TBA21-Academy
Tea Base
The Power Plant Contemporary Art Centre
The Site Magazine
Taboo Health
Toronto Art Book Fair
Trinity Square Video
Visual AIDS
Women and Gender Studies Institute
York University
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