Silver Press
Silver Press is an independent publisher founded in 2017. It began by publishing classic works from feminist perspectives, including books by Audre Lorde, Leonora Carrington, Diane di Prima and Ursula K Le Guin. In 2024, Silver Press expanded with the launch of a new imprint, Spiral House: a home for art, poetry, transformation and ways of knowing, which includes the Portals series of pocket-sized entrances to expansive bodies of thought. The expansive Silver and Spiral House constellation encompasses books, events, gatherings, exhibitions, listening sessions, workshops and activations of texts, ideas and dialogues.
Set Margins
Creatively applying the cultural politics of content, form, and style whilst critically dissecting these to spark literacy, Set Margins’ publications enforces the voices of marginalized cultural agendas. Set Margins’ delivers critical experiences, discourse, and dialogue, steps up for liberties and builds critical community.
PAVED Arts
PAVED Arts is a non-profit, artist run centre for production, presentation, research and dissemination of contemporary media arts. The word PAVED is an acronym signifying the integration of media art forms addressed by our mandate: photographic, audio, video, electronic, digital. PAVED Arts exists to support artists who work in these media.
PAVED Meant is a biennial publication of critical writing produced by PAVED Arts in Saskatoon. Founded in 2012, it supports interdisciplinary dialogue around contemporary media and lens-based art practices. By contextualizing exhibitions and amplifying underrepresented voices, PAVED Meant contributes to critical discourse across aesthetic, political, and social dimensions of media art.
Yaoxi Zhu
Yaoxi Zhu is an arts worker and researcher with an academic background in art history and industrial relations. She brings a cross-disciplinary and equity-informed perspective to her practices, with a strong commitment to cultural advocacy and community engagement. Her experience spans curatorial support, public programming, and youth mentorship, including assistance to arts education initiatives and regular volunteer work. Yaoxi has contributed to cultural institutions across Toronto and Kingston, including Images Festival, Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, and the Kingston Canadian Film Festival.Find out more
Amin Alsaden
Amin Alsaden is a curator, scholar, and educator whose work focuses on transnational solidarities and exchanges across cultural boundaries. His curatorial practice is committed to advancing social justice through the arts, and to disseminating more inclusive narratives that decenter existing canons and challenge hegemonic epistemological and power structures. His exhibitions invariably raise questions concerning the interrelated domains of geography, colonialism, extraction, organized violence, and displacement.
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