Embassy Cultural House
The Embassy Cultural House (ECH) is non-hierarchical and inter-generational, which paves the way for inclusive and open opportunities for artists, writers, cultural workers and other cultural advocates. Our most recent publication is Not/For the Money, launched January 22nd, 2026, is an extension of our online exhibition of the same title. In 2024, the ECH published an anthology, An Alternative Cultural History of London, Ontario: Art & Activism. This anthology introduces important and essential cultural material to a generation that has not had access to such documents. Since January of 2021 the ECH has published 10 publications.
Yanaminah Thullah
Yanaminah Thullah is an award-winning community builder and curator with a rich background in public speaking, policy, writing, and strategic consulting. She was born and raised in Toronto and is of Liberian and Sierra Leonean descent. Her work centres marginalized voices through immersive and interdisciplinary exhibits such as the award-winning “Beyond The Body” with Design TO and “We Do Not Dream of Labour” at the Ottawa Art Gallery. With a trilingual Bachelor’s degree in International Relations (uOttawa) and as a current MFA Graduate student at SAIC, she brings a global, intersectional lens to projects across cultural and institutional contexts. Yanaminah is passionate about world-building and storytelling as tools for representation, healing, and systemic change.Find out more
dis assembly
dis assembly is a collaborative and supportive arts co-lab dedicated to supporting conditions for neurodiversity; rethinking support and collaboration; and creating networks of mutual support. We are inventing our own ways of living.
Dena Davida
Dena Davida, an artivist curator living in Montreal, is also an ethnographic researcher, dance teacher, dancer, editor and indexer. She completed her doctorate at the Université de Québec (2006) where she taught improvisation, composition, creative dance pedagogy, dance aesthetics and anthropology. She co-founded and curated the Tangente dance presenting space (1980-2019) and the Festival international de la nouvelle danse (1985+). Her writings on dance and culture are widely published. In 2022, she initiated the biannual TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation. a seminal publication for the study, theory, and praxis of curatorial strategies in live arts.
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Kathleen Foran-Spragge
Kathleen Foran-Spragge is an independent curator, writer, and researcher whose work explores how patterns of listening and sounding can be altered to foster relationships between humans and with the more-than-human. Her MFA thesis exhibition at OCAD University, What Passes Unspoken (2025), featured artworks that use sound and movement to bridge linguistic divides. She serves as Board Chair at Xpace Cultural Centre and is a member of the programming committee at InterAcess. Her practice is committed to supporting emerging artists, facilitating interdisciplinary collaboration, and strengthening community connections. While at OCAD, she hosted a podcast interviewing graduate students from across the university’s six programs about their Master’s research, available on the OCAD U Live YouTube channel.Find out more