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Kaylee Louie is a Chinese-Canadian contemporary dance artist and filmmaker working in Vancouver, Canada*. She has completed her BFA in Contemporary Dance at Simon Fraser University. During her time there, Kaylee became inspired by multi-faceted…

Taslim Samji utilizes arts and culture as a vehicle to educate communities on the strengths of embracing diversity in all aspects of society. She is a multi disciplinary artist that uses various medias to explore the conversation of inclusivity and…

Juneeta Vangala is a high-school student. She self-learnt filming and editing. She is passionate about painting, reading and writing. She is a landed immigrant. She actively involves in increasing mental health awareness, diversity and inclusiveness…

Yasmine Ross grew up in Beijing where she first developed a passion for film. After being accepted into the program at UBC, her main passion lay in cinematography. However, over the years she has grown to love production design and acting. However,…

Andy Wong is a co-producer of the fabulous QQ in BC. He was inspired to bring the Toronto Initiative to BC to be a part of something he thought was an incredibly special project, especially because he had a project he wanted to submit to this…

Music has been a lifelong hobby of mine. I've been interested in creating my own original music for a long time but was always scared that my songs will be trash. I finally took the leap in 2017 and published my first song. It's only been…

I’m Crystal Chen, I usually go by Coco and I’m a 14 year old student that currently attends moscrop secondary school. I’ve always really enjoyed songwriting and I’ve been playing the piano since I was 4.

Alger Ji-Liang (he/him), is an emerging photographer, filmmaker, and multidisciplinary artist living, breathing, and learning on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam peoples. His works situate the body as the centre…

I am a Japanese Canadian Circus Artist and Contortionist based in Vancouver.

Born in Victoria, I've been playing music my whole life – piano and school band when I was younger, and then teaching myself guitar as a teenager and going out to play rock and/or roll music. Since then I've been in a few bands, the last…

I am a Chinese-Canadian artist who specializes with character-focused art. I am currently a second-year student at Emily Carr University of Art + Design and I am majoring in illustration. Being someone who identifies as queer and is 3rd generation…

Tadafumi Tamura is a photographer who loves to depict ordinary subject matters found in his daily life.

I am a self-taught illustrator born and raised in Vancouver, BC. My family is from Hong Kong and it is my second home.

I am a visual artist and illustrator with an interest in storytelling. I enjoy working with others, helping them express their messages and unique experience through creative mediums. I graduated from ECUAD back in 2019 with a Bachelors in Design…

My name is Khim Hipol i am a Filipino artist who immigrated to Vancouver, Canada, the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. I focuses my work on the ideas around body, culture and identity, and their effects…

I am a Japanese American student currently finishing up my undergraduate degree at UBC working from home. I am finishing up my degree in psychology and the idea of entering the workforce has been daunting yet exciting for me. I love to paint and…

Hello! My name is Alexandra Bustos. I had just turned 23 a few weeks ago, and I have a passion for 2D Background painting. I enjoy reading, and indulging myself into forms of pop culture through comics. I often pursue creative writing communities…

Kyla Yin James is an illustrator and designer whose work is inspired by subcultures, sociopolitical systems, the unconscious, and their mixed heritage. They love to explore their connection to intergenerational experiences and how they apply to the…

Karen is a first generation Chinese immigrant, a digital comic artist (@bigbrowcomics) and writer. She's a recent graduate from UBC with a Bachelors of Commerce and is currently based out of Vancouver. She enjoys poetry, animated films and flea…

Granddaughter of shipbuilding japanese internment camp survivors who relocated back to the BC coast after the ban was lifted in the 50's. For the past 10 years Silke has been rediscovering her ancestral pull of the ocean through paintings,…

I am a proud grandma, who has a design background, and, who is submitting photos of an artwork created during COVID-19 by my grandson, Matthew. The Arts Umbrella Drawing and Painting Class was something for him to look forward to, to be happy…

I was born and raised in Japan. When I came to Canada in the early nineties, I first landed in Toronto and then moved to Vancouver a few years later. Vancouver is a fascinating place where mountains and oceans meet and greyish urban setting in a…

Pamela Chen is a first generation Chinese-Canadian illustrator based in Vancouver, Canada with a BFA in Visual Arts. She is enthralled by botanical and scientific illustrations, as well as tattoo culture and flash. Her work often combines unusual…

My name is Long Xi Vlessing (龙喜; happy dragon) and I was born, and continue to live and work, on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples, including that of the Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-…

omo.yomo AKA Joshua Lam (he/him) is an emerging filmmaker from Vancouver, located on the unceded territories of the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh, and Musqueam Nations. Joshua specializes in directing, producing, and creative writing; he experiments with…