Winnipeg-born Coleen Rajotte is a Cree and Métis award winning director/producer with a passion for telling the stories of her people. A former CBC television reporter, she rose to national prominence as a journalist who covered some of Canada’s biggest stories in the 1990s. She embarked on a new career as an independent filmmaker inRead More
Tom Stroud is currently the artistic director of Company Link Inc., a company dedicated to “hybrid” performance, and an associate professor with the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of Winnipeg, where he teaches movement and performance. Known for his unique blend of theatre and dance, Tom has performed and created works forRead More
Debbie Patterson is a Winnipeg playwright, director and actor. A founding member of Shakespeare in the Ruins (SIR), she served as theatre ambassador for Winnipeg’s Cultural Capital year and was the University of Winnipeg’s 2012 Carol Shields Writer-In-Residence, as well as playwright-in-residence for Theatre Projects Manitoba’s 2013/14 season. She is currently a member of theRead More
Divya Mehra is a visual artist (MFA, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.) whose research-fueled practice often explores marginalization, otherness and the empty promise of “diversity”. Through appropriating, editing and reassembling a variety of literary, comedic and musical sources, she creates an acerbic dialogue on the commandeering, consumption and construction of race and identity politics. OftenRead More
David Bergen is the author of seven novels and a collection of stories. In 2012, his novel The Matter with Morris, an intimate portrayal of a grieving man in mid-life, was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His novel The Time in Between won the Giller Prize in 2005. In 2012, he publishedRead More
J.J. Kegan McFadden has spent the last ten years developing a hybridized practice as a writer, publisher, curator, and artist. Having toured exhibitions to public, university, and artist-run galleries throughout Canada and beyond, he has also contributed critical and creative texts for publications through various galleries as well as reviews for national magazines. McFadden isRead More
Grant Guy, founder and artistic director of Adhere and Deny, is a director, designer, playwright, curator, video producer, performance artist, and writer. His credits with A&D are The Bedbug, Three Sisters: A Still Life, Woyzeck, Paradise Lost, Still Walking, The Telephone, Found and Lost, and The Grand Inquisitor. Guy has also worked for theRead More
Keri Latimer is a composer, songwriter, and musician living in Winnipeg, whose music is heard in films, on television and radio, and on international stages. Projects she has contributed to include the Academy Award-nominated film Frozen River by Courtney Hunt, the Juno Award-winning album, Key Principles with her group Nathan, and the upcoming short film OnlyRead More
Nicky Mehta is an award-winning singer-songwriter whose solo career, and backup and ensemble work have made her a highly respected musician on the folk/roots scene. As a solo artist and founding member of the double Juno Award-winning, Billboard-charting trio The Wailin’ Jennys, she has toured three continents over the last ten years, garnering critical acclaimRead More
Bev Pike is a Winnipeg polymath. Since 1993, she has been exhibiting her large-scale paintings across Canada from two series: Microscopic Remains and Hysteria Chronicles. This work investigates perceptual regimes that create spectacle, that extend beyond the frame and engage the viewer in a complex spatial relationship. Pike also writes neo-baroque satire, artist-books and createsRead More
