(they/she/nekm) is a Two Spirit, neurodivergent, mixed urban L’nu (Mi’kmaw) interdisciplinary artist and facilitator currently living in Guelph, Ontario. Lynx was born and grew up in Tiohtià:ke (Montreal) and is a member of Wagmatcook FN. Their art making is a hybridity of traditional l’nuk approaches with new media and digital arts, guided by the Mi’kmaq principles netukulimk (sustainability) and etuaptmumk (two-eyed seeing). Lynx’s artistic practice discusses land and relationality, environmental issues, navigating systems and societal structures, cultural and gender identity, (L’nui’smk) language resurgence, quantum and spiritual multiplicities. Their facilitation work focuses on designing community spaces committed to creating healthy Indigenous futurities, guided by lateral love, accessibility and world-building.

(they/ them) is a queer, nonbinary second year candidate in the Masters of Art History in Critical Curatorial Studies at the University of British Columbia, where they also received their Bachelors in Art History and Museum Anthropology. Nathan’s research focus is on the phenomenology and narrative poetics of virtual reality and queer digital immersive installations and the importance of embodied, affective relations between the viewer and the work of art. They also research digital queerscapes and the disembodiment of users within cyberspaces, and how artists are responding to this “Wild West” of new mediums and artistic processes.

is a mixed urban Mi’kmaw, Scottish, Irish person living in Toronto. Their spirit name loosely translates to ‘Strong Tree Spirit’ and she is part of the Caribou clan. She is a multilateral artist who uses lived experience, artwork and therapeutic skills to develop and facilitate specialized youth programs within the urban setting. Mel aims to embed CYC therapeutic perspective, creative/arts based activities and the L’nu concept of 2-eyed seeing (Teaching held in community by Knowledge keeper Albert Marshall) into programs to provide an environment of skill development, positive identity and engagement. Her work over the last 15+ years (as a peer support, frontline case manager, anti-human trafficking counsellor and Program development specialist) has enhanced her ability to create consistent therapeutic programming while also co-facilitating activities at conferences, survivor lead initiatives and youth harm reduction programs.

(they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist educator. They are of Kanien’kehá ka & euro-settler descent, and they are currently finishing their graduate degree in Art Education at NSCAD University in Mi’kma’ki. Their current thesis work takes a community-based arts practice approach to memorialization of difficult sites of histories, focusing on healing and stewardship towards the land as a way to decolonize memorialization, and care for histories linked to colonialism in an effort to disrupt the cycle of colonial amnesia.