Jade is a queer, biracial, multidisciplinary artist. Their work for Borderless this year explores the themes of imperfection, going with the flow, and how the process is sometimes prettier than the final piece.
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Kelli Marshall is an Anishinaabe (Ojibway) from the Mississauga territory of Hiawatha First Nation. She represents the Pike Clan. Her most important jobs are, a Mother, sister, friend, and provider. She is a Professional dancer, facilitator, teacher, and storyteller. She has been dancing since she could walk, and has been teaching workshops, and dance classes on Indigenous style dancing for six years.
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Yumna is a poet and spoken word artist who has also worked as a journalist and newspaper editor and enjoys writing prose and fiction. With a focus on the liminal space of the body and mind, her work aims to connect ideas that may have otherwise drifted away from each other.
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Mithila Ballal is a trained Bharathanatyam dancer and choreographer. She has performed in India, the USA, and Canada, and teaches children and adults. Her passion for dance led her to pursue her Masters in Dance/Movement Therapy and Mental Health Counselling at Lesley University, Cambridge, USA in 2010, before moving to Canada in 2013.
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Casandra Lee is an Asian-American visual artist, author and Montessori educator, based in Peterborough, Ontario. Casandra has written and illustrated two children's books, The Sun Dance and Building a Home. She loves very bright colours and every medium available in the art store.
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Said Jiddawy is a multidisciplinary artist best known for their digital illustrations. They identify as trans-feminine, non-binary, and queer. They emigrated to Canada from Zanzibar, Tanzania more than ten years ago but miss the island sun every day.
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Muna Ahmed is a community organizer and occasional funny girl based in Nogojiwanong. She likes to focus her comedy on the many different intersections in her life and current social movements.
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Don Soul is a music producer, multi-instrumentalist, song writer and has been producing for many artists in the GTA and surrounding areas. His diverse music allows for creative ideas and introspection being guided by the principle “Higher Infinite Power, Healing Our People” to flow together collectively, and it shows in his music.
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Shahed Khaito is a filmmaker 22 years old, she came to Canada as a refugee in 2019. Shahed’s passion with camera and video editing started in 2013 while she was living under siege with her family in Zabadani, Syria. During that time, she began documenting the ways that people reacted to the war in the shelter using a camera phone. She shared the materials on Facebook. Then she started editing using simple mobile applications.
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Sara O. Shahsavari (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, musician, performer, and cross cultural community-builder. Born to a family of migrants who came to Canada as refugees from Iran and Poland, she has found herself in the middle of a larger moving picture.
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B is 26 and is from the other side of the world. They are an amateur film maker and they see film as an escape to self and in to others. The struggle for recognition and the importance of minority influence is something B is passionate about. Their previous work has dealt with environmental justice in minority communities and international youth struggles. Covid has made us all want to escape, B tries to invite her viewers into a visually guided headspace to be heard in silence, together.
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Saskia Tomkins is a master musician of Violin/Fiddle Viola, Cello and Nyckelharpa. She is classically trained with a folk background and a B.A.hons. in Music (Jazz & Popular Music), and she won All Britain Champion Irish Fiddler. Saskia’s current personal projects include Steáfán & Saskia with Steáfán Hannigan, the instrumental jazz/roots duo 2ish, with Brandon Scott Besharah; the Celtic crossover group Cáirdeas and the jazz trio Marsala and the Imports.
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Just Janis is a (completely self proclaimed) Dancing Diva, and comedy queen. Who absolutely LOVES working a steamy sweat on stage! With an original background in Theatre, This Sativa Diva is sure to make you laugh, cry, and feel ALL the good feels. Get ready to go back to the Future baby!
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Kavya’s name literally translates to “a collection of poems.” Poetry exists within them as a form of comprehension, a form of longing, a call for desperation. From a small hill station in India, Kavya spends her time unlearning colonial thought and making spaces where everyone exists as they are. Keep a lookout for some bonus content you can carry in physical forms (hint: an upcoming chapbook “frolic of identity”).
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Danny Taro, a.k.a. Erroneous Monk, is a rapper, activist and entrepreneur. An organizer at heart, events follow Danny wherever he goes, including Bangkok, Thailand, where he worked as a teacher for nearly 5 years. While living in Bangkok, and finding himself in good company, Danny started a band called Peanut Butter Jams, which produced 3 EPs: Launch, Transit, and Arrival.
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Steelburner & Suns is a musical family, enjoying creating and performing together. Featuring the Staveley-Watson family, these musicians learn and play together, performing a collection of original and traditional tunes as a 4 piece band.
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Carlo José Quinones (they/he) is a queer poet and visual artist from the Philippines. The second child of Celia and Eduardo Quinones, Carlo moved to Peterborough in 2012.
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Thomas Vaccaro is the founder and Artistic Director for the non-profit Organization, The Peterborough Academy of Circus Arts. Matriculated from the National Circus School of Montreal, Thomas is trained to coach 17 different circus disciplines to all age groups in a recreational, advanced, social, or production setting. His primary loves when it comes to circus are Cyr Wheel, Aerial Acrobatics, Flow Arts, and a study and practice of movement in general.
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JONCRO is an Afro-Jamaican fronted experimental noise rock/Dubgaze based out of Mississauga, Ontario. They have been together for five years as of November and have been spreading the gospel of noise ever since. The name Joncro is Jamaican Patois for vulture, specifically the turkey vultures that are native to the Americas.
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Ále is a queer, trans, non-binary, Venezuelan-American, Canadian immigrant, multi-instrumentalist, Expressive Arts Therapist and singer songwriter. Phew that's a whole lot of adjectives but bare with us! Their dream is to create a safe space for the LGBTQI2SA+ community to dwell and commune with the divine and spirituality.
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