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.

Jinwoo Park is a Saint-Henri-based Korean Canadian writer and literary translator. A graduate of the University of Oxford’s creative writing program and winner of the Jim Wong-Chu Emerging Writers’ Award, his work explores the complexities of the Korean diaspora and national division.

Fannie L’Heureux is a Montreal-based multidisciplinary artist whose practice reclaims femininity and resilience as radical acts of resistance. With a background in visual and media arts from UQÀM, her "undisciplined" work spans performance, relational art, and video.

Naghmeh Sharifi is a New Rosemont-based multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the gap between the tangible immediacy of painting and the narrative depth of time-based media. An Iranian-Canadian artist with degrees in both Visual Arts and Psychology, she explores the oral transmission of matrilineal folktales. Through a process of layering and erasure, she investigates the body as a site for memories that are personal, cultural, and ancestral.

IRL (Amanda Harvey) is a Villeray-based composer, DJ, and writer whose work bridges the gap between ethereal ambient textures and the low-slung rhythms of IDM.

Natasha Fagant is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges the gap between fluffy cheesecake erotica and the sobering grit of performance art. Whether she is recounting the bloody history of Montreal as a ghost storyteller or challenging audiences as the queen of uncomfortable arousal, her work uses physical theatre to explore the visceral friction between technology and the human body.