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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Amanda White
Amanda White (she/her) is an artist and researcher, living on unceded Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh territories. She is Canada Research Chair in Sustainability, Ecological Justice, and Climate action in Creative Practices (Tier II) at Emily Carr University, where she is currently building a kitchen-lab to support environmentally engaged work with a focus on plants and food. Her recent collaborative projects include co-author and producer for Ecologies in Practice (book and podcast); the Creative Food Research Collaboratory; and Shy Cat and the Stuff-the-Bus Challenge, a graphic novel for middle grade readers about food security (Second Story Press, 2026).Find out more
Jeneen Frei Njootli
Jeneen Frei Njootli is an award winning artist and na’aa (mom) of two, living in Old Crow, Yukon. They are Vuntut Gwitchin with Czech and Dutch ancestry and are currently part of BUSH gallery, The ISHI Collective and helped form the ReMatriate Collective in 2014. With a love of the land and working with community, Jeneen has also exhibited and performed internationally, their most recent solo exhibition was at the prestigious Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in 2025. They are represented by Macaulay & Co Fine Art in Vancouver.Find out more
Shira Leuchter
Shira Leuchter (she/her) is a performance creator, actor, and researcher. She makes performances that invite audiences to imagine and rehearse new ways for us to be together. Shira is currently a PhD student in York University’s department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies. She is a parent to two very cool and funny people.Find out more
Mark Reinhart
Mark Reinhart moves through the world as an artist: a dancer listening for rhythm, a curator tracing connections, an educator interested in relationships, and a translator wandering through languages. He chases constellations as a way of knowing—one that invites curiosity, compassion, embodiment, and collective meaning-making. Through arts-based and queer ways of seeing, he cultivates spaces and architectures where people and momentums can encounter complexity with sensitivity and wonder. Whether in studios, classrooms, conversations, public spaces or community places, he seeks to create the conditions for connection, where stories, bodies, and ideas gather into new constellations, ecosystems, and galaxies of possibility.