As a Métis-Cree cultural leader, Kamala Todd brings twenty years of experience as a filmmaker, cultural planner, facilitator, and curator working in relationships with local First Nations and urban Indigenous artists. Todd has curated a variety of exhibitions, including We Carry Our Bundles Forward (GPAG, 2022) and three permanent installations at the Roundhouse Community Arts Centre. Her work is grounded in respectful, relational practice and in long-standing connections with Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh community members, as well as artists and Knowledge Holders from many other Indigenous Nations.

Candace Campo Candace, ancestral name xets’emits’a (to always be there), is a Shíshálh (Sechelt) member from the Sunshine Coast, BC and the co-founder of Talaysay Tours. Trained as an anthropologist and teacher, she shares the stories and history of her people, focusing on Indigenous language and cultural revitalization. Candace’s art expresses her ancestral shishálh connections and deep love for family – the ones here & the ones passed – through paint, mark making, screen printing, and sculpture.

Bracken Hanuse Corlett is an interdisciplinary artist from the Wuikinuxv and Klahoose Nations. His current practice fuses sculpture, painting and drawing with digital-media, audio-visual performance, animation and narrative. He is a graduate of the En’owkin Centre of Indigenous Art. Bracken will share artwork portraying Sasquatch or other beings of this region.

Siobhan Joseph is a young Squamish Nation woman, who is steadily building her reputation as creator of paintings that she describes as a reflection of both “traditional” styles of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest coast of British Columbia and more “realistic” portrayals of animals in particular. Siobhan will share artwork portraying the Double-headed Serpent.

Trent is a writer, artist, filmmaker and citizen scientist, and a settler of mixed European ancestries, including Germanic, Celtic and English, born and raised as a guest in Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) Nation and shíshálh (Sechelt) Nation lands. Trent has a Masters of Science in Geography from the London School of Economics (2009), researching environmental racism in B.C. forestry policy. They worked in media at Channel 4 (UK), The Beaver, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and currently develop decolonial collaborations in arts, film and ethnoecology.

Savanna Todd is a graduate of the MFA and undergraduate programs at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her art practice consists of illustration, textile sculpture, painting and collage. The monsters in Savanna’s work are representations of beings that refuse to be bound by capitalism and colonialism, revolutionary traits the artist believes we must embrace within ourselves to survive. Savanna will share artwork of myth-making and monsters

Senaqwila Wyss is an ethnobotanist and cultural leader who is passionate about bringing awareness to the now extinct Salish Wooly Dog and leads many creative and educational projects about the deep relationships her ancestors had with this special animal companion. Senaqwila holds a BA in Communications, Arts and Technology (SFU), and a certificate and diploma in the First Nations Language Proficiency in the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Sníchim. Senaqwila will share artworks and stories about the Salish Woolly Dog.