Marshall Diabo is an award-winning Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk)/mixed-heritage competitive dancer, choreographer, and instructor based in the Plateau. With a decade of powwow and street dance experience to the stage, he blends hiphop and contemporary styles to elevate queer, 2-spirit, and polyamorous representation in Montreal's arts scene.

Hakeem Lapointe (Amselysen) is an Outremont-based recording artist, visual artist, and founder of the EAF label. Morphing experimental, ambient, noise, and punk into confrontational leftfield electronic music, he builds titles and visual scenarios before composing to strike a perfect balance between deep emotional affect and sharp aesthetic innovation.

Carolyne Van Der Meer is an Old Montreal-based journalist, poet, and author of five published books whose work spans international articles, essays, and multi-disciplinary poetry collections. Obsessed with the sudden structural turns of a poem, her writing embraces an economy of words and minimalist punctuation to create space for quiet reader connection.

Double Curve is a Mile End and Little Italy-based indie rock trio formed in 2024 by longtime collaborators from Montreal’s underground music scene. Moving between nervous energy and hypnotic momentum, the band combines abrasive, 90s-inspired textures with melodic undercurrents ahead of their debut LP release later this year.

Gillian Sze is an NDG-based poet and children’s author whose work has earned the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the QWF’s A. M. Klein Poetry Prize. An instructor at Concordia University, her slow and attentive practice spans award-winning poetry collections and celebrated children's books translated into multiple languages.

Patrick O'Reilly is a poet from Renews, NL, now living in Montreal/Tiohtià:ke. He is responsible for two chapbooks, A Collapsible Newfoundland (Frog Hollow Press, 2020) and Demographics Report November 2023 (Cactus Press, 2024).

Tim Kraft has been performing stand up comedy since they let him in bars, and has since been featured on the Sudbury Comedy Festival, performed a solo production at the Edinburgh Fringe, has appeared on Prime Video, and released a half hour crowd work special that’s amassed over 500k views across Instagram, Tik Tok, and YouTube.

Sylvia Rack studied and worked professionally as a digital character animator in video games until 2015 when she decided to move to Florence, Italy to study the techniques of old master painting.

Enter the smoky, seductive haze of the Kit Kat Klub, where everyone is beautiful, the gin flows, champagne bubbles, and inhibitions melt away. But beneath the glittering facade of song and dance (and a bit of skin), a darker melody swells as 1930’s Weimar Germany, specifically Berlin, teeters on the brink, its vibrant and liberal shores threatened by a rising tide of hate.

The Blood Farts are a staple of the global music scene, with fives of followers chomping at the bit to hear more. With an ever-growing number of catchy originals and musical guests commonly joining them, you won’t want to close your ears.