Jackson V Krisp

The Cornman Cometh.

Louis Esme Cruz

Samonte Cruz

Samonte Cruz is a fierce trans, mixed race Pilipino, educator, organizer, singer/songwriter, audio engineer, and video editor. He has performed at various arts festivals in Canada and the US, including the Anti-Beauty Pageant, Seattle WA and Roots, Rhymes and Resistance, Vancouver BC. His curatorial work includes queer and trans specific events at Western Washington University: Brown Pride's Queer People of Color Film Festival, The Night After Judy Garland Died (Best Program, 2001/02, WWU) and Just Us: a queer youth art show at Allied Arts Gallery. He received technical training at Ground Zero Teen Centre, 2001 and Video In Studios, 2004 and is now teaching hands-on audio engineering and video production to marginalized youth.

Samonte organizes and teaches with Ugnayaan ng Kapatang Pilipino sa Canada/Filipino Canadian Youth Alliance, on Squamish & Musqueam territories (Vancouver). Salamat to our generous hosts! Mabuhay to Indigenous Queers out there!

William Maria Rain

William Maria Rain is a genderQueer mixed-race mizrahi/sephardi artist, currently living in chemically induced exile on the outskirts of olympia, washington. a survivor of multigenerational historical and "personal" trauma, incest, ritual torture, and non-consensual experimentation, billie lives with the consequences of history in a profound every-day kind of way, and s/he mostly does not believe in capital letters. also, william has multiple personalities and multiple chemical sensitivities, two things for which s/he is simultaneously enraged and grateful. also, billie is an insomniac. also, william is sick and stress makes hir sicker, so if you meet hir this weekend, please be kind.
You can find out more about hir work at Billie's Blessings.

Bobbi Kozinuk

Pardon me? Excuse me! Please don’t call me Sir! You can call me artist, I have had shows you know, yes, including Diffractions, in Venice and Lancaster. Call me performer, as I’ve explored gender in venues across Canada. You can call me technician, for I have aided many artists to create their vision, formerly at Western Front, at ECIAD and as an independent consultant. Call me a teacher, as I’ve taught hundreds to build their own low-power FM radio transmitters. You can even call me hostess as I’ve hosted, for several years, the radio art show Soundscapes on community radio CFRO, who released a CD of my sound art, Echo Locations. But when I am standing here in a skirt with my best make-up, Please don’t call me sir, even if you can only see the man that I was.