Trevor Anderson 

Trevor Anderson is a self-taught, independent filmmaker and musician. His short films have screened at many international film festivals, including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, SXSW, Outfest and AFI Fest presented by the American Film Institute. At Hot Docs in Toronto, he won the inaugural Lindalee Tracey Award, presented to "an emerging Canadian filmmaker working with passion, humour, a strong sense of social justice and a personal point of view.” Anderson is also a founding member of The Wet Secrets, whose song “Secret March” was listed by Grant Lawrence of CBC Radio 3 as one of the “Best Songs of the Decade”.

Tim Bowling

Tim Bowling is the author of nine poetry collections, three novels and two works of non fiction. He has received many honours over the years, at the civic, provincial, national and international levels, including six City of Edmonton Book Prize nominations, four Alberta Book Awards in three different categories, two Governor General's Award nominations and a Canadian Authors Association Award, and a Guggenheim fellowship. In 2010, he published The Annotated Bee & Me (Gaspereau Press), a poetic exploration of his family's beekeeping experiences in Edmonton from 1906-1929, and In The Suicide's Library: A Book Lover's Journey (Gaspereau Press), a work of non fiction recently selected as a finalist for the City of Edmonton Book Prize. He lives in Mill Creek with his wife, Theresa Shea, and their three children, Dashiell, Sadie and Levi.

Linda McBain Cuyler

Linda McBain Cuyler combines paint, fabric and heavy machine stitching to create rich, textural work inspired by nature. She graduated with a Bachelor of Interior Design from University of Manitoba in ’81 but for the last 20 years has explored the shapes and colours of the land as an artist.

When Edmonton was selected as a cultural capital of Canada in 2007, Linda represented Edmonton by demonstrating her work at Canada Day celebrations in Ottawa. Her artwork was included in the 2009 Craft Biennale in Cheongju, South Korea and in the Cultural Olympiad during the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics.

Drew McIntosh

Drew McIntosh is a documentary filmmaker and collaborative artist. Drew is a fifth generation Edmontonian. His city and its history play a vital part in his work. Documentary filmmaking has taken him to the Amazon Jungle and Andes mountains in Peru, the end of the roads in Canada's North and through a rock’n’roll revolution in central Cuba. In 2008, Drew founded Solidarity Rock, a group building connections and support between independent music scenes in Western Canada, the US and Cuba. Drew has lead the first three rock tours through Cuba and believes that art and music should be used to create the world he wants to live in.

aAron munson

Edmonton filmmaker aAron munson has created twenty-two experimental films over the last six years. Using Super 8, 16mm, and 35mm, his work explores the fine qualities of working with film while incorporating the use of other visual mediums. Employing a variety of different filmmaking techniques such as pixillation, timelapse, and stop-motion, aAron explores the many layers of a world yet unseen. His works have been screened at various film festivals, galleries and multi-disciplinary events worldwide.  munson also collaborates with numerous audio artists both locally and internationally.

Cam Neufeld

A long time fixture in the Edmonton music scene, Cam has played his own style of fiddle music in clubs and festivals across the prairies and around the world. From the street to the concert hall, his musical journey has spanned the gamut of styles from traditional fiddling to jazz .

Cam has an instructional DVD called “Fiddle Improv” which was recorded on Vancouver Island with Doug Cox. He has two recordings of original music, “Beats Crime“, a collection of music that has been called “jug jazz” and the latest recording “The Cam Neufeld Connection - Live @ Bonnie Doon Hall“. This recording features musicians he has played with in various combinations and bands. The Cam Neufeld Connection plays original music that has been described as "a grab bag of tangos, jigs, waltzes, swing numbers and blues-all performed with verve and immaculate taste"

Cam has just returned from a “gypsy odyssey” which involved tracing the route of the gypsy’s from India through Turkey , the Balkan’s , France and Spain.

Kristine Nutting

Kristine is an independent theatre artist who writes, produces and performs large scale theatre shows (typically with a minimum cast size of 8, and up to17) that ultimately tour across Canada. Kristine’s most recent success was writing, producing, performing and touring PIG (a large scale 19 person show). Pig toured too Montreal’s Edgy women festival, Calgary’s High Performance Rodeo, Winnipeg’s Fringe festival, as well as being produced in Edmonton twice. Kristine’s work is regarded as entertaining, grotesque, and meta-theatrical: a story telling vehicle that is pre-occupied with culture, class and the aesthetic form of theatre itself.  In the same year and a half period when Kristine produced Pig she also was a guest speaker at McGill University, an arts educator in rural Alberta, worked with Mile Zero Dance, and Performed with art band Brontoscorpio at Sled Island. 

Kristine’s seminal work ‘Three Sisters: A Black Opera’ won awards for best new play, best original work, and was one of the most widely toured shows of 2005/2006. 

Ben Sures

Singer/songwriter Ben Sures is a winner of numerous songwriting contests including the John Lennon songwriting contest and the International songwriting contest. He has traveled far and wide across this country performing at Festivals, small clubs, fairs, town squares and living rooms. He is well known for his work on CBC Radio as part of ‘The Irrelevant Show’ as well as the many interviews and broadcasts on Canada Live, The Round Up, Morningside, Madly Off in all Directions, The Vinyl Café and more.

In addition to his focus as a singer and songwriter he has also produced four Canada Live Concerts for CBC Radio. He is a painter, professional accompanist and studio musician for other artists. Most recently Sures released his 5th studio recording ‘Gone to Bolivia’.

Eryn Tempest

Eryn Tempest is a contemporary dance-artist currently working and residing in Edmonton. Over the past years she has danced for Mile Zero Dance, Kathy Ochoa, Helen Husak, and Orchesis as well as local dancer Linda Turnbull. Last March she performed in Mile Zero Dance's March presentation of "Knowledge Box" and has most recently debuted the piece, "the timely fragmentation of mme q", a collaboration between Kate Stashko and herself, as part of the Expanse dance festival. Her focus in movement is to practice embodiment and intention through improvisation, contact dance, and contemporary technique.