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Jocelyn Sanchez is a Salvadoran multimedia artist and educator. After receiving her BFA in Visual Arts at Simon Fraser University, she went on to earn her Masters in Animation at the University of South Wales in the UK. As an educator and artist she aims to provide tools that help access imagination and play. Her art practice was formed in a space that has involved: magic, forests, flowers, creatures frozen in time, and endless autumns and springs. It’s a space where all her memories and dreams have been played out by creatures and translated into different mediums using the visual vocabulary she’s built over the years.

http://jocelynsanchez.art

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Matthew Ariaratnam

Matthew Ariaratnam is a sound artist, composer, guitarist, and improviser, who likes to work with sound as sonic material and as a point of connection to create happenings and relational interactions. He manages this through practices of field recording, soundwalking, musicking, and making site-specific performance. He engages with ideas of ontology, epistemology, and multimodal listening. Matthew focuses on how the act of multimodal listening is a way of being in the world that provides specific knowledge and sensorial information, informing our relationships to others, ourselves, our environment, and community spaces.

https://matthewariaratnam.wordpress.com/

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Michelle Whimby

Michelle Whimbey is an artist exploring Painting and Needle Felting with Wool. She creates paintings inspired by animals and naturally occurring phenomena, finding inspiration from long walks in the forest. She also creates miniature figures out of Wool, her needle felted creations are anthropomorphic animals inspired by the styles of clothing from the 1920’s – 1960’s.

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Body|Scan: Linnea Gwiazda and Kayla De Vos

Linnea Gwiazda and Kayla De Vos‘s new collaboration.

Body|Seen is a brand new choreographic exploration of girlhood, and more specifically the ways in which girl-bodies can act as a site for judgement, ridicule and outside assessment. Working from personal experiences and observations made in childhood diaries, Body|Seen explores the intersections of conflicting attitudes regarding bodies as sacred yet threatening, innocent yet offensive, and how these projections culminate in the ways we view ourselves as we grow up into our adult skin.

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Raj Gill // Vancouver //

Raj is committed to and passionate about human interaction and creative community-building through theatrical interventions and play. He is driven to ease individual suffering by sharing the underlying primordial delight that surrounds our interwoven existence. His background in sound art and telematic happenings over long distance networks, physical theatre, movement/dance, clown, and design, have led to numerous multidisciplinary performances in various traditional and nontraditional settings.

Raj is the founder of the Wheel of Time Gallery and the Temporary Frames Project. As Artistic Director, he is fascinated by experimental community building through chance encounters.  He is a co-founder of Vancouver’s multidisciplinary performance collective: The Co.nstrained Crea.tions Collec.Tive; gathering interested artists from different disciplines into the exploration of constrained improvisations. He also co-founded the Grandma’s Palace art collective; hosting music, shows, shadow puppetry jams, clowns jams, and live-streaming events. Raj helps run a monthly variety show at the critically-acclaimed Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret.

Raj holds a Degree in Communication and Culture with a minor in German from the University of Calgary. He worked under the Canada research chair of telemedia arts, Dr. Kenneth Fields at the Syneme Lab in the University of Calgary. Raj has completed physical theatre training at the London School of Performing arts and has extensive training with the legendary movement/clown teacher David MacMurray Smith. He has also studied under world renowned teachers, Mary Overlie, Thomas Prattki, Nathaniel Justiniano, and Deanna Fletcher. Raj’s works have been presented and supported by United Nations New York, Happening Festival, Musicacoustica Festival Beijing, Victoria Fringe Festival and Glenbow Museum, Richmond Art Gallery.

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Lee Gerlach was born in Estevan Saskatchewan, and is a self taught visual artist based in Vancouver Canada. He works primarily in photography, and palladium/platinum/alt-process darkroom printmaking for fine art landscape and fashion. His professional work includes theater lighting, photography, cinematography, and cinema post-production. Lee graduated in 2011 from Vancouver Film School, has experience with the non-profit Ocean Conservancy, and is professionally accredited in Fine Art with the Professional Photographers of Canada. His work emphasizes the ethereal qualities of light and shadow in monochrome, exploring the subconscious of ruin, spirit and nature. His work is collected and nationally and world-wide, and has been published internationally. Lee has been photographing since 2008, and he currently serves as a board director for the Eastside Culture Crawl.

http://www.leegerlach.com

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Denise Fort // Munich Germany// New Zealand //

July 2017 Denise recently moved from Raglan, New Zealand to Vancouver, Canada where she works out of her studio in East Van.

Denise Fort is an artist, illustrator and designer. She graduated with a degree in Industrial Design at the University of Applied Science in Munich, Germany in 2007. Denise worked in the design industry as a concept drawer, illustrator and graphic designer ( branding ) for several years in Europe and New Zealand. In New Zealand, Denise started to work as an artist in 2009. Her style changed completely from European architectural inspired drawings to more bold fantasy black line nature-inspired art. It was then when she created the story of the helicopter which thematises migration told in a naive abstract way. With her style, she got commissioned for several mural work in New Zealand throughout the country. Well travelled, she left her mark in Asia and Europe and exhibited in several countries around the world. 2014 she opened her studio and gallery in the coastal town Raglan, New Zealand. Getting itchy feed after 3 years running her own Gallery, seeking novelty and for most following her long-dreamed dream she packed up once again and arrived in Vancouver in July 2017. Denise started painting again and a new style is evolving.

A little note, Denise fractured her drawing hand in May 2017, she was able to start working as an artist again in October 2017, the pain stuck around until December and halejulia ( !!! ) ( knock 3 times on wood ) the hand is pain-free and like before since January 2018! It was a shock and changed a few thinking patterns …

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Tito Ohep

Performance/Movement Artist

Venezuela

February 2018 – March 2018

I explore the phenomena of multi-dimensional living and share its tangibility in the now moment. Multi-dimensional living is experiencing the many felt sensations and abilities accessible to us, far beyond what our minds are patterned to interpret. I guide us to explore quieting the mind, to break hypnotic patterns limiting our experience and then to immerse ourselves into this very moment. Here we find an expansion of felt energy; our imagination becomes actualized, colours become fuller, intuition becomes stronger, the air becomes richer, every cell in the body becomes engaged, and we experience a flow of vivacious and limitless life energy. All created by you allowing the experience. During my performances, I allow the spontaneity of the moment to take control of the creation process. I immerse into my senses to create a raw, engaging, and provocative expression. In this way, I offer an open invitation for everyone to explore themselves intimately and find the experience they wish to create while surrendering fully to the Now. I experiment with movements and sounds to transport us to different dimensions within ourselves. I draw inspiration from my observation of nature’s movements. I also enjoy using projected photo images to add delicate details to create layers of stories. For me, everything is always moving, moving within. We are always evolving, we are ever expanding. Through my art, I intend to create a movement within you.

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Marie Whimbey

Visual Artist

Vancouver, Canada

February 2018 to March 2018

I am a Visual Artist and Mystical Creatrix. My Art is meant to bridge Dreamscapes into our Reality. I deliberately play with Vibrant colours and Mystical Landscapes to Experience a Multitude of Felt Sensations. When I create art I extend into the past, future and timeless. The impulses to stroke and draw flow through me with a knowingness and grace. I do not expect any end result, I choose to discover something with each piece. A spirit grows and the piece of art finishes itself, to be set free to expand, dance and play with all who embrace it. I am inspired by the rich, vibrant, gradients of forms and colours. The galactic realms tickle my living dreamstate, along with large mammals setting off on their own vast solo journeys into enlightenment, indicative of my own expression in this lifetime. I love to express my creativity as a way to dive deep into the imagination and magic, as an invitation for myself and the viewer to Dream. An interesting thing happens as we allow ourselves to open our imagination, our world around us starts to sing, play, synchronise, splash colour and become rich. My art is an invitation to believe in a colorful world and to experience mysticism.

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Grace Fournier //  Vancouver//  Toronto

Visual and Performance Artist.

https://gracefournier.wordpress.com