Artists & Contributors

Since 1992, Rungh has worked with an incredible array of artists, critics, poets, writers, academics, and visual culture experts.

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Rez Abbasi

Rez Abbasi is one of the most significant voices on the current jazz scene.

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Jordan Abel

Jordan Abel is a Nisga’a writer from British Columbia and the winner of the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize for his poetry collection Injun.

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David Adler

David R. Adler has written about jazz and assorted topics for JazzTimes, The Village Voice, and many other publications.

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Carmen Aguirre

Carmen Aguirre is a Chilean-Canadian, award-winning theatre artist and author.

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Kamal Al Solaylee

Dr. Al-Solaylee is the author of the national bestselling memoir Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes.

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Rusaba Alam

Rusaba Alam is a PhD student in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

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Durrah Alsaif

Durrah Alsaif is an interdisciplinary artist who has exhibited at galleries such as the Presentation House Gallery in North Vancouver, and the Surrey Art Gallery.

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Madhur Anand

Madhur Anand is a full professor of Ecology and Sustainability Science at the University of Guelph.

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Simranpreet Anand

Simranpreet Anand is an interdisciplinary artist and is committed to a community engaged practice.

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Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout is a recently retired professor of poetry and poetics at UC San Diego.

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Kamal Arora

Dr. Kamal Arora is an anthropologist whose work focuses on gender and Sikhism.

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Mohamed Assani

Mohamed Assani is an award-winning sitar player and composer.

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Tara Atluri

Tara Atluri has a PhD in Sociology.

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David Austin

David Austin is an author and editor.

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Arpita Bajpeyi

Arpita Bajpeyi is a kathak dancer and a public historian (Carleton University).

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Manahil Bandukwala

Manahil Bandukwala is a writer, visual artist and editor.

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Nimra Bandukwala

Nimra Bandukwala is a visual artist and community facilitator.

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Himani Bannerji

Himani Bannerji is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, York University.

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Mathilde Benignus

Mathilde Benignus works both as a documentary filmmaker and performance artist.

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Sujata Bhatt

Sujata Bhatt is a poet and translator.

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Kiran Bhumber

Kiran Bhumber is a media artist, composer, musician and educator based in Vancouver, Canada.

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Sadhu Binning

Sadhu Binning is a bilingual author a central figure in the Punjabi arts community.

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Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand was Toronto’s Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012.

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Noa Bronstein

Noa Bronstein is a curator and writer based in Toronto.

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Cathy Busby

Cathy Busby is a Canadian artist and activist based in Vancouver.

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Fathima Cader

Fathima Cader practices human rights law in Toronto and teaches at the Faculty of Law at the University of Windsor.

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Charles Campbell

Charles Campbell is a Jamaican-born multidisciplinary artist, writer and curator.

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JP Catungal

Dr. John Paul (JP) Catungal is an interdisciplinary scholar trained in the nexus of critical human geography and intersectional feminist theorizing.

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Gurinder Chadha

Gurinder Chadha is one of the United Kingdom’s most proven and respected Film Director and Producers.

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Sammy Chien

Sammy Chien (Artistic Director of Chimerik 似不像) is a first generation Taiwanese-Canadian immigrant and queer artist-of-colour.

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Tom Cho

Tom Cho has been freelancing as an editor and writer since 1993.

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Rohit Chokhani

Rohit Chokhani is an award-winning arts curator, director and cultural leader.

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Quill Christie-Peters

Quill Christie-Peters is an Anishinaabe arts programmer and self-taught visual artist.

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Hannah Claus

Hannah Claus is a Kanienkehá:ka and English visual artist who explores Onkwehonwe epistemologies as living transversal relationships in her transdisciplinary practice.

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Zoë-Blue Coates

Zoë-Blue Coates is an artist and historian of Afro-Caribbean and African American descent.

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Samaqani Cocahq

Samaqani Cocahq (Natalie Sappier) grew up in Tobique First Nation, New Brunswick.

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Wayde Compton

Wayde Compton is an award-winning author and editor.

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Scheherazaad Cooper

Scheherazaad Cooper is an accomplished Canadian performer and choreographer.

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Amina Creighton-Kelly

Amina Creighton-Kelly is Project Leader at Rungh.

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Chris Creighton-Kelly

Chris Creighton-Kelly is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and cultural critic.

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Annahid Dashtgard

Annahid Dashtgard is author of the recent and acclaimed memoir “Breaking the Ocean: Race, Rebellion and Reconciliation”.

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Mehjabeen Datoo

Mehjabeen Datoo is a Secondary Humanities teacher and teacher educator working in the Richmond School District in British Columbia.

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Glenn Deer

Dr. Glenn Deer teaches in the areas of rhetoric and Canadian Literature at the University of British Columbia.

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Junie Désil

Junie Désil is a Haitian-Canadian poet who has performed at various literary events and festivals.

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Sam Dharmasena

Sam Dharmasena, also known as Roshanie, is a Brampton-based DJ, writer and radio host.

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Deena Dinat

Deena is a PhD Candidate in the English Department at the University of British Columbia.

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Phinder Dulai

Phinder Dulai is a writer and poet living in Surrey, B.C.

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Francesca Ekwuyasi

Francesca Ekwuyasi is a writer and filmmaker originally from Lagos, Nigeria.

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Mercedes Eng

Mercedes Eng is the author of Mercenary English, a long poem about violence and resistance in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver.

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Soheila Esfahani

Soheila K. Esfahani is a visual artist, lecturer at the University of Waterloo, and an educator at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto.

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Tawhida Tanya Evanson

Tawhida Tanya Evanson is an Antiguan-Québecoise poet, performer and producer.

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Adrienne Fast

Adrienne Fast is a Curator of Art and Visual Culture at The Reach Gallery and Museum in Abbotsford, BC.

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Sal Ferreras

Dr. Sal Ferreras is a percussionist, administrator, and an artist.

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Kathleen Flaherty

Kathleen Flaherty is the Dramaturg at PTC, and a former producer of radio drama and Ideas documentaries for CBC Radio.

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Helena Martin Franco

Helena Martin Franco is an artist from the Caribbean region of Colombia who has lived and worked in Montréal since 1998.

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David Garneau

David Garneau (Métis) is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Regina.

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Veena Gokhale

Veena Gokhale is a freelance writer living in Montreal.

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Babak Golkar

Babak Golkar spent most of his formative years in Tehran until 1996 when he migrated to Vancouver.

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Beau Gomez

Beau Gomez is a photo-based artist living in Toronto, Canada.

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Ayumi Goto

Ayumi Goto is a performance apprentice, currently based in Toronto.

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Garry Gottfriedson

Garry Gottfriedson has 10 published books, and has read from his work across Canada, United States, Europe, and Asia.

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Naomi Gracechild

Naomi Gracechild (she/her/hers) is a multidisciplinary artist, educator,and antiracism activist.

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Nicolás Grandi

Nicolás Grandi is a Buenos Aires based filmmaker, transdisciplinary artist, researcher and educator.

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Pilar Guinea

Pilar Guinea is a Guatemalan artist living in Vancouver.

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Sunil Gupta

Merging cultural activism and photography, Sunil Gupta creates compositions that exist within the frames of politics and theatre to explore themes of identity and homosexuality.

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Melanie Hardbattle

Melanie Hardbattle is an Archivist with Simon Fraser University Library, Special Collections.

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Osheen Harruthoonyan

Osheen Harruthoonyan is an Armenian-Canadian photographer who merges movement with themes of cultural heritage and renewal.

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Jamelie Hassan

Jamelie Hassan is a visual artist and activist based in London, Ontario.

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Eli Hirtle

Eli Hirtle is a nêhiyaw(Cree)/British/German filmmaker, beadworker, youth mentor and curator.

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S F Ho

S F Ho is an artist.

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Roald Hoffman

Roald Hoffman is a writer of poetry, essays, non-fiction, and plays.

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Tarah Hogue

Tarah Hogue is the inaugural Senior Curatorial Fellow, Indigenous Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery.

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Zakir Hussain

Zakir Hussain is one of the world’s foremost percussionists in Jazz and World Music.

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Navarana Igloliorte

Navarana Igloliorte is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker working in short gauge film, video, painting, printmaking, and dance.

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Anosh Irani

Anosh Irani is a critically acclaimed novelist and playwright.

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Doaa Jamal

Doaa Jamal is a freelance graphic designer and photographer.

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Sherazad Jamal

Sherazad Jamal is an interdisciplinary artist.

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Sana Janjua

Sana Janjua is a poet, playwright and a performer.

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Am Johal

Am Johal is Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement.

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Wanda John-Kehewin

Wanda John-Kehewin is a Cree writer, originally from Kehewin, Alberta

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Jessica Johns

Jessica Johns is a poetry editor and co-organizer of the Indigenous Brilliance reading series in Vancouver.

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Hugh Johnston

Hugh Johnston is a professor emeritus of history at SFU, where he taught for 36 years.

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Dr. Virinder Kalra

Dr. Virinder Kalra is Head of the Sociology Department at the University of Warwick.

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Hanif Karim

Hanif Karim lives in Vancouver and once, many years ago, played soccer with Rawi Hage on a gorgeous summer day in Montreal.

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Kiran Kaur

Kiran Kaur is a writer who was born on the traditional territories of the Sinixt peoples, and the Ktunaxa peoples.

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Ali Kazimi

Professor Ali Kazimi is a filmmaker, writer, and visual artist.

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Stephanie Wong Ken

Steph Wong Ken is a writer based in Canada.

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Hussein Keshani

Hussein Keshani is an Art Historian at the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna, B.C., Canada.

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Prithi Khalique

Prithi Khalique holds a BFA in communication design from Parsons School of Design.

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Ausma Zehanat Khan

Ausma Zehanat Khan is a community activist and writer living in Colorado.

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Erum Khan

Erum Khan is a film and theatre maker.

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Sara Khan

Sara Khan was born in Birmingham, England and raised in Lahore, Pakistan.

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Chelene Knight

Chelene Knight is the author of the poetry collection Braided Skin and the memoir Dear Current Occupant.

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Lera Kotsyuba

Lera Kotsyuba is an editor, art critic and art historian based in Toronto.

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Sukaina Kubba

Sukaina Kubba is an architect and artist.

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Rahat Kurd

Rahat Kurd is a poet and cultural critic living in Vancouver.

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Mackenzie Lad

Mackenzie Lad is a photographer, writer, and journalism student at Concordia University.

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Larissa Lai

Larissa Lai is an author and poet.

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Soleil Launière

Soleil Launière is an Innu multidisciplinary artist from Mashteuiatsh.

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Chris Lee

Chris Lee is Associate Professor of English at the University of British Columbia.

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Nancy Lee

Nancy Lee is an interdisciplinary media artist, filmmaker and electronic music curator.

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Krishna Luchoomun

Krishna Luchoomun is a Mauritius based artist.

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Darcy McFadden

Darcy McFadden is a local educator, writer and performer who has called Vancouver home since 1995.

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David McGonigal-Videla

David McGonigal-Videla is a multicultural artist and writer residing in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary).

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Bruce McIvor

Dr. Bruce McIvor is a lawyer and historian.

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Heidi McKenzie

Heidi McKenzie is a Toronto-based ceramic artist.

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Zab Maboungou

Zab Maboungou is an artist, a philosopher, and a leader in the field of both dance creation and dance teaching.

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Rudresh Mahanthappa

Rudresh Mahanthappa is a composer and educator, and one of the premier voices in jazz of the 21st century.

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Lata Mani

Lata Mani, Ph.D. is a feminist historian, cultural critic, contemplative writer and filmmaker.

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P. Mansaram

P. Mansaram was born in 1934 in Mt. Abu, Rajasthan, India and studied at the Sir J. J. School of Art.

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Ashley Marshall

Ashley Marshall’s research critiques how power, economics, and politics influence social change.

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Derek Mascarenhas

Derek Mascarenhas is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies Creative Writing Program.

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Seema Mehta

Seema Mehta is a dancer, choreographer, and fine artist.

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Farrah Marie Miranda

Farrah Miranda is an Abu Dhabi born, Toronto-based artist of Goan and Mangalorean descent.

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Shani Mootoo

Shani Mootoo writes fiction and poetry, and is a visual artist and video maker.

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Peter Morin

Peter Morin is a Tahltan Nation artist, curator, and writer.

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Tijiki Morris

Tijiki Morris is a creator, puppetry artist, performer and director.

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Dr. Anne Murphy

Anne Murphy is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Studies, and is joining the Department of History.

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Audie Murray

Audie Murray is a multi-disciplinary artist.

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Jag Nagra

Jag Nagra is a Graphic Designer turned Illustrator.

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Carolyn Nakagawa

Carolyn Nakagawa is a poet, playwright, and cultural organizer.

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Shenaaz Nanji

Shenaaz Nanji is an internationally published children’s author.

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Zinnia Naqvi

Zinnia Naqvi is an interdisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal and Tkaronto/Toronto.

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David Ng

David Ng is a queer, feminist, media artist, and co-founder of Love Intersections.

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Joy Ngenda

Joy Ngenda is a multi-disciplinary artist and sometimes student, with a passion for ethical organizing and community justice.

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Cecily Nicholson

Cecily Nicholson is the administrator for Gallery Gachet in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

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Jivesh Parasram

Jivesh Parasram is an award winning multi-disciplinary artist.

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Jenelle Pasiechnik

Jenelle Pasiechnik is the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Campbell River Art Gallery.

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Shagufta Pasta

Shagufta Pasta is a Vancouver-based literary advocate, social planner and writer.

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Rebecca Peng

Rebecca Peng is a writer.

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Dawit L. Petros

Dawit L. Petros is a Visiting Artist in the Department of Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Patrick Pouponneau

Patrick Pouponneau is a writer, poet, activist, and musician based in Vancouver.

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Fauzia Rafique

Fauzia Rafique is a writer of fiction and poetry and a co-founder of the Surrey Muse Arts Society.

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Zahida Rahemtulla

Zahida Rahemtulla is an emerging writer of fiction and theatre.

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Jagdeep Singh Raina

Jagdeep Singh Raina is an artist.

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Shazia Hafiz Ramji

Shazia Hafiz Ramji is a writer, poet and editor.

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S. Ramnath

S. Ramnath is a poet.

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Natasha Ramoutar

Natasha Ramoutar is an Indo-Guyanese writer.

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Raghavendra Rao K.V.

Raghavendra Rao K.V. is a multidisciplinary, practicing visual artist.

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Ian Iqbal Rashid

Ian Iqbal Rashid is a London-based poet, screenwriter and filmmaker.

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Phil Roberts

Phil Roberts is a writer based in Montreal.

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Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie is the author of thirteen novels, a book of stories, and four works of non-fiction.

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Julian Samuel

Julian Samuel is a documentary filmmaker, writer and painter.

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Hassan Ghedi Santur

Hassan Ghedi Santur emigrated from Somalia to Canada at age thirteen.

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Hagere Selam

Hagere Selam “shimby” Zegeye-Gebrehiwot is an artist, writer and arts administrator.

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Sandra Semchuk

Sandra Semchuk is a photographer and storyteller.

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Rajarshi Sengupta

Rajarshi Sengupta is a practitioner and a PhD candidate in art history at UBC.

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Nep Sidhu

(Nep) Nirbhai Singh Sidhu is an interdisciplinary artist in Toronto.

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Shamik

Shamik is a Vancouver-based South Asian producer and beatboxer.

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Ratika Singh

Ratika Singh is an artist, filmmaker, and photographer who established the Preet nagar Residency in 2014.

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Ruby Singh

Ruby Singh is an interdisciplinary artist crossing the boundaries of music, poetry, visual art, photography and film.

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Roger Sinha

Roger Sinha is a charismatic choreographer and dancer, and the artistic director of Sinha Danse which he founded in 1991.

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Madiha Sikander

Madiha Sikander graduated from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, specializing in miniature painting.

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Jason Samuels Smith

Jason Samuel Smith is a dancer, choreographer and performer.

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is University Professor, and a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

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Leila Sujir

Leila Sujir is Chair of the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University.

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Jen Sungshine

Jen Sungshine speaks for a living, but lives for breathing art into spaces, places, cases.

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Zara Suleman

Zara currently works as a family law and fertility lawyer in her own solo firm.

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Kiran Sunar

Kiran Sunar is a Liu Scholar and a PhD student in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC.

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Sroop Sunar

Sroop Sunar is a London based illustrator.

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Sanchari Sur

Sanchari Sur is a 2018 Lambda Literary Fellow.

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Risham Syed

Risham Syed is a Lahore-based artist.

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Swapnaa Tamhane

Swapnaa Tamhane is an artist and curator.

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Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch

Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch is a queer Arab poet.

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Manjushree Thapa

Manjushree Thapa has written several books of fiction and non-fiction.

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Sunera Thobani

Sunera Thobani is a professor, activist and writer with a focus on anti-racist, feminist and anti-war movements.

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Jeffrey Thomas

Jeff Thomas is an urban-based Iroquois, self-taught photo-based story teller, writer, pubic speaker, and curator.

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Sarah Tolmie

Sarah Tolmie is an author of speculative fiction.

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Toleen Touq

Toleen Touq is a curator, cultural producer and writer based in Toronto.

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France Trépanier

France Trépanier is a visual artist, curator and researcher.

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Luya Tshimbalanga

Luya Tshimbalanga is a Congolese-Canadian freelance photographer.

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Jaret Vadera

Jaret Vadera is a transdisciplinary artist.

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Salimah Valiani

Salimah Valiani is a poet, activist, and researcher.

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Aritha van Herk

Aritha van Herk is a cultural commentator and an award-winning Canadian novelist.

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Conner Singh VanderBeek

Conner Singh VanderBeek is a composer, pianist, and ethnomusicologist.

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Ricky Varghese

Ricky Varghese is an art writer and psychotherapist based in Toronto.

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Rahul Varma

Rahul Varma is a playwright, essayist, and community activist.

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Indu Vashist

Indu Vashist is a writer, and the Executive Director of SAVAC (South Asian Visual Arts Centre).

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M.G. Vassanji

M.G. Vassanji is the author of eight novels, most recently A Delhi Obsession.

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Eduardo Velázquez

Eduardo Velázquez is a Dominican American artist and filmmaker.

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Hal Wake

Hal Wake has been engaged with the literary community in Canada for more than 30 years.

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Isabella Wang

Isabella Wang is a poet and editor.

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Mandeep Wirk

Mandeep Wirk is a writer and journalist.

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Mercedes Webb

Mercedes Webb (Malidi Hanuse) is Haida and Kwakwaka’wakw with mixed settler background.

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Rita Wong

Rita Wong is a poet-scholar who has written several books of poetry.

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Kendell Yan/ Maiden China

Kendell Yan/ Maiden China is an intersectional feminist drag performer.

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Hyung-min Yoon

Hyung-Min Yoon is a visual artist who lives and works in Vancouver, Canada and Seoul, Korea.

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Abeer Yusuf

Abeer Yusuf is a journalist, media professional, and writer.

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Artists & Contributors

Rez Abbasi

Jordan Abel

David Adler

Carmen Aguirre

Kamal Al Solaylee

Rusaba Alam

Durrah Alsaif

Madhur Anand

Simranpreet Anand

Rae Armantrout

Kamal Arora

Mohamed Assani

Tara Atluri

David Austin

Arpita Bajpeyi

Manahil Bandukwala

Nimra Bandukwala

Himani Bannerji

Mathilde Benignus

Sujata Bhatt

Kiran Bhumber

Sadhu Binning

Dionne Brand

Noa Bronstein

Cathy Busby

Fathima Cader

Charles Campbell

JP Catungal

Gurinder Chadha

Sammy Chien

Tom Cho

Rohit Chokhani

Quill Christie-Peters

Hannah Claus

Zoë-Blue Coates

Samaqani Cocahq

Wayde Compton

Scheherazaad Cooper

Amina Creighton-Kelly

Chris Creighton-Kelly

Annahid Dashtgard

Mehjabeen Datoo

Glenn Deer

Junie Désil

Sam Dharmasena

Deena Dinat

Phinder Dulai

Francesca Ekwuyasi

Mercedes Eng

Soheila Esfahani

Tawhida Tanya Evanson

Adrienne Fast

Sal Ferreras

Kathleen Flaherty

Helena Martin Franco

David Garneau

Veena Gokhale

Babak Golkar

Beau Gomez

Ayumi Goto

Garry Gottfriedson

Naomi Gracechild

Nicolás Grandi

Pilar Guinea

Sunil Gupta

Melanie Hardbattle

Osheen Harruthoonyan

Jamelie Hassan

Eli Hirtle

S F Ho

Roald Hoffman

Tarah Hogue

Zakir Hussain

Navarana Igloliorte

Anosh Irani

Doaa Jamal

Sherazad Jamal