Born in the city of La Paz-El Alto (Bolivia), she arrived as an immigrant in São Paulo in 2008. She started working in sewing until she started her own business. Freelancer, urban activist, rapper and mother. Nascida na cidade de La Paz-El Alto (BOLÍVIA). Chegou como imigrante em são Paulo no ano de 2008. Começou […]
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Brisa de la Cordillera, more commonly known as Brisa Flow, is a Mapurbe interdisciplinary artist and works as a singer, musical producer, performer, researcher and poet. Brisa de la Cordillera mais conhecida como Brisa Flow é artiste transdiciplinar mapurbe, atua como cantore, produtore musical, performer e pesquisadore poeta.
He is a poet, slam artist, rapper, singer, audiovisual producer and composer. Born in Roraima, he is of the Wapichana people. He is one of the Indigenous youths who communicate the cultural values of resistance, strength and spirituality in their artistic expressions. Ancestry is the guide of his messages of peace and healing, but also […]
Rapper, poet and urban Indigenous individual from Rio de Janeiro. Amidst the destruction of the earth and the consequences of the constant genocide and ethnocide of his Indigenous people, originating from the four states of the Southeast of Brazil, the Puri people. In combat, Kandu is part of the group for the revitalization of the […]
Auritha Tabajara is an author of cordel literature, holistic therapist and Indigenous storyteller. Her first book, Indigenous Teaching of Prose and Poetry, was adopted by the Basic Education Department of the State of Ceará. First Indigenous woman to publish books of cordel literature in Brazil. Auritha Tabajara é escritora cordelista, Terapeuta Holística, contadora de histórias […]
Maraíza Santos Pinheiro, more commonly known as Amarú Pataxó, was born in 2000 in Prado, in the extreme south of Bahia. Her paternal family migrated from the mother village of the Pataxó in Barra Velha. She is a b girl, flautist, LGBTQI+ poet, known for participating in MC battles. She began her career at 16 […]
Son of the river Araguaia and of the meeting between the Karajá people and remaining quilombolas*. Poet and rapper, he lives in Brasilia, where he acts as a cultural agent and teacher. He expresses his outrage at the destruction of forests and rivers through music. His poetry is in Portuguese, Yorubá and Iny Rybè (language […]
wescritor is a writer, actor, composer and singer, of the Indigenous Tupinambá people of Olivença, born and raised in the Baixada Santista (São Paulo). His objective is to bring consciousness, love, spirituality, strength and equality to all who identify with his expression. He is the owner of the artistic label Palavrando and a member of […]
Bryan Rodrigues, 27 years old, commonly known as Delapaz, is a Bolivian immigrant artist working in São Paulo. He has been an event organizer since 2015 and started with the Kantupac Latin Hip Hop Project, which was a series of events in immigrant communities in the capital, bringing together groups from various countries through hip […]
Katú Mirim is a rapper, singer, composer, actor and activist for Indigenous and LGBTQIA+ causes. She mixes futurism and the ancestral. Katú Mirim é uma rapper, cantora, compositora, atriz e ativista da causa indígena e LGBTQIA+. N’ativa vinda do asfalto, ela faz recorte entre o futurismo e o ancestral.
Her Indigenous name is Aratykyra, she is a journalist, producer, poet, consultant, curator, screen-writer and visual artist. She founded the Indigenous production company Originárias Produções. Collaborator of the Visibilidade Indígena network. For 15 years she has been working with the dissemination of Indigenous culture and ethnocommunication. She has been on the Curating Council of TV […]
Kahsenniyo is a spoken word artist from the Mohawk Nation Wolf Clan. Kahsenniyo began utilizing her poetry as a tool for social change and community engagement in 2008. Her work is centered around Indigenous issues. She aims to educate non-indigenous people about the struggles, beauty and realities facing Indigenous people. As well her work attempts […]
K’alii Luuyaltkw is a spoken word artist who comes from the Nisga’a Nation in British Columbia. Her name means “to return upriver” and serves as a constant reminder for her to always return to culture in her work of upholding oral storytelling traditions.
Theresa Cutknife is a queer Nehiyaw and Puerto Rican actor, writer, curator, storyteller and producer from Maskwacîs, Alberta located on Treaty 6 Territory and is a member of the Samson Cree Nation. As a playwright her work brings her both to Toronto and her homelands and has been presented as a participant of the Indigenous […]
Jill Carter is an Anishinaabe-Ashkenazi theatre worker and educator based in Tkaron:to.
Audrey Rochette is Anishinaabe from Waabadowgang-Whitesand First Nation. As Director, Indigenous Initiatives, she leads George Brown College’s efforts to implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) Calls to Action and oversees Indigenization measures as part of the college’s Vision 2030/Strategy 2022 initiative. Audrey’s passion for Indigenous relations was cultivated through her roles in the Indigenous community as […]
Dr. Jon Johnson is an Assistant Professor – Teaching Stream, at Woodsworth College, University of Toronto. His research is focused on urban land-based Indigenous Knowledge in Toronto and their representation through oral and digital forms of storytelling. He works actively within Toronto’s Indigenous community in his capacity as a lead organizer for First Story Toronto, […]
Markus Aurelyus is a Scarborough-based singer and songwriter with a story to tell. He has a unique R&B vocal style that’s influenced by Gospel, Soul, Pop and Hip-Hop. He has performed on stage with artists like Jully Black and DVSN, recorded with Serena Ryder, as well as many local artists, such as Quincy Morales and Katasha […]
D’Andrew Ricketts-Dunn is a happily married 28-year-old who identifies as a Transmale. He currently works as a Child and Youth Worker for the York Region School Board during the day and at night he enjoys reflecting on his coming out journey and how far he has come. He often uses poetry as healing tool to […]
Shoshana Magnet is a mother of two as well as full professor of Feminist and Gender Studies at the University of Ottawa. She is a published author and her work includes When Biometrics Fail: Race, Gender and the Technology of Identity (Duke UP, 2011). Her work with picture books focuses on big feelings and topics, […]
Nicola Correia-Damude is a Guyanese-Canadian film, television and stage actor. Film and television credits include Shadowhunters, Burden of Truth, October Faction, The Boys, Coroner, The Bold Type, Endlings, The Strain, Ghostwriter, Nurses, Remedy, Haven, Private Eyes, Saving Hope, Dino Dana, Endlings, Degrassi: TNG, Republic of Sarah, Pillow Talk and the feature films Margarita, Hellmington, Christmas Calendar, My Spy […]
David Storch* is a director, an actor and a teacher. Earlier this year he directed Tom Stoppard: From Page to Stage with Hermione Lee for Toronto International Festival of Authors. Just before the pandemic closed theatres, he directed Lynn Nottage’s Sweat at Canadian Stage (a co-production with Studio 180). He has acted at theatres across the country, and has directed shows at […]
Daren A. Herbert is a stage and screen artist, whose love for acting continues to grow. Recent television appearances include recurring roles on CBC series Kim’s Convenience and Pretty Hard Cases. His theatre work includes Dora and Toronto Theatre Critics Award winning roles in The Brothers Size and Jesus Hopped the A Train at Soulpepper, as well as, The Wild Party with Musical Stage Co. Daren […]
Simon McBurney is an actor, writer, playwright and director of theatre, opera, film and dance. He is co-founder and artistic director of Complicité, is married, has three children and lives at the end of a valley in the West Country. Complicité creates work that strengthens human interconnection, using the complicity between performer and audience that […]
