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Lamont is an emerging contemporary mover and creator. They are a French native speaker from Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. Their work has been presented in various venues and festivals in Montreal and Vancouver, including Festival Chronométrie, Material World 10.2.10, chalk it up!, Festival Errances, Festival Quartier Danses, Programmation À Part and Boombox. Through their creative platform self checkout, they work as a producer, facilitator and curator to bring together youth outreach and professional artistic activities within the queer/trans communities across Canada.

As a creator Lyzah dives into the intricacies of multiplicity within an individual, collective and ancestral experience. They are inspired by transparency and compassionate communication that comes from co-leadership. Leading them to co-direct multiple projects including inter/change with Lamont, a street/club dance collective with Nikki Mae and co-facilitating / producing Wh/aacking and House workshops with Jammin’ Cameron. Lyzah continues to choreograph, perform, facilitate and gratefully learn from the communities they reside in. Most recently based on traditional, ancestral and unceded MTS lands while also having opportunities in Iceland with WAFD (2025), Montreal with Circuit-Est centre chorégraphique (2025) and France with Khoudia Touré (2024).

Jaewoo Kang is a queer Korean-Canadian, an interdisciplinary artist working with film, animation, textile and performance. His training in art started with visual art, which allowed him to be interested in moving images. A major theme for him is queer eroticism and how intimate moments with others can allow the self to have an introspective experience. Recently he finished a residency at Griffin Art Project in North Vancouver with a fashion performance presentation. He also has been working with performers to integrate fashion and art. Most recently he was part of a durational fashion performance project, Returns. With the support of Canada Council and BC Arts Council, he is currently in post-production for his first animated feature film, Primavera. His other recent project includes puppet clown fashion performance ButtHead with 2Girls1Butt collective with Rhyan McCorkindale at rEvolver Festival.

Arash Khakpour is a dancer and choreographer from Tehran and based in Vancouver. He is privileged to be a dance artist who has immigrated to the unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Arash tends to invest in the nuances of prejudices in the body as a way of inviting the unconscious to the conscious, and as a doorway to confront unknown emotions. He sees dance as a process of physical, emotional, and spiritual discovery and a mode of transformation. As a first-generation immigrant, he continuously considers what healing he can bring to the land and communities he works with. Arash is interested in building a culture of relationality and reciprocity that celebrates the multiplicity of presences and approaches.

Rhythm is a Filipina new-age, organic, neo soul musician who lives and breathes music. She is an interdisciplinary artist in the world of visual media and music. As a musician, she creates musical landscapes that aim to connect and uplift. Through exploring various artistic modalities and communities, Rhythm found her path deepen into music, where art and creativity in the natural world harmonize and bridge her closer to ancestral connection. Through melodies made from the heart, she hopes to help others feel empowered and connected to the beauty of life’s infinite experiences and magic.

Corus is an Indigenous artist from Haisla & Kitasoo Xai’xais Nation in the heart of the Great Bear Rainforest of British Columbia.Drawing inspiration from nature, Corus creates new age, organic, neo soul and meditation music that resonates with the rhythms of the earth. Their music is a reflection of the profound connection they feel to their ancestral lands, blending soulful melodies with the natural harmonies of the universe. Creating music to unify all living beings of Mother Earth, fostering a sense of collective prosperity and growth.

For the majority of his 17 year artistic practice, Josh “Jammin’” Cameron has primarily focused on researching and developing his proficiency and immersion in Street, Club and Cultural Dance with emphasis on Breaking, Hip Hop, and House as well as Hustle, Dancehall, Vogue, Locking, Popping, Litefeet and Waacking. He has a deep and long standing practice of immersing himself in the complex and diverse facets of cultural gatherings including but not limited to battles, clubbing, Ballroom events, and traditional knowledge transfer from the expertise of Pioneers and Innovators worldwide.

Graduating from the Alonzo King LINES Ballet Program in San Francisco and Modus Operandi, Kira Radosevic has had the privilege of working with: Khoudia Touré, Kinesis Dance Somatheatro, Francesca Frewer, Generous Mess, Joshua Beamish (MOVETHECOMPANY), Alexandra Caprara, Jennifer Aoki, Anais West, Jay Hamburger, Blackout Art Society, MUCCI and others. Her own work has premiered at SKAMpede Festival, BC Culture Days, F.O.R.M. Festival, and Boombox. Her dream is to be an active member of the arts community where she grew up in East Vancouver and to create spaces that welcome strangers to connect through weird art and dance.