(Coast Salish and Sahtu Dene) Storyteller, writer, filmmaker, and the 2014 Vancouver Public Library’s Storyteller in Residence. Rosemary has spent her lifetime reconnecting with her Coast Salish ancestry and family and is now working to publish a digital and print book and build an installation that shares and celebrates the reconnection of family and strong Coast Salish women from around the Salish Sea.

(Coast Salish) - Eva is a lifelong Galianoite. She belongs to deep rooted families, Georgeson, Head, Cook and Wilsons. Eva's work and love of the ocean takes her all around the Salish Sea.

(xʷməθkʷəy̓əm) Is a Hip hop artist, curator, MC, and Vancouver’s 2018-2020 Poet Laureate. As a poet, artist, curator, and filmmaker Christie and also holds language.

(Xwe'malhkwu) Fay Blaney is a Xwemalhkwu woman. She is deeply committed to issues affecting Indigenous women. As an educator and activist, she has devoted her heart and knowledge to educating and mobilizing Canadians to better understand the impacts of colonization, capitalism and patriarchy on First Nations women

(Spune’luxutth) is a knowledge holder from Penelakut. She is deeply concerned with the changes that are happening to the waters that her and her family continue to live from.

Kim Haxton (Potowatomi) is from the Wasauksing First Nation in Ontario. She has worked across Turtle Island and abroad in various capacities but always with a focus on local leadership. Her primary tools are based in ceremony and plant medicine. Her deep understanding of the need for genuine restoration has far-reaching implications as leaders seek vision and all people seek direction to address the mounting pressure of a system incongruous with the values of the natural world. Kim has developed and facilitated programs in more than 8 countries, and has been working in land-based education and leadership for the past 26 years, including as co-founder of Indigeneyez.

Co-Curator

Rosemary Georgeson is a storyteller, writer, filmmaker, and the 2014 Vancouver Public Library’s Storyteller in Residence. Rosemary has spent her lifetime reconnecting with her Coast Salish ancestry and family and is now working to publish a digital and print book and build an installation that shares and celebrates the reconnection of family and strong Coast Salish women from around the Salish Sea.

Co-Curator, Project Manager

Jessica Hallenbeck (PhD, RPP) is a critical intersectional feminist geographer and filmmaker (Lantern Films) whose work brings together decolonial methodologies, the archive, and research-creation to represence connections to / with water.

Co-Curator

Kate Hennessy is a scholar, artist, and curator of Irish and German descent who grew up on Galiano Island. She is an Associate Professor specializing in Media at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts and Technology. Her work explores the impacts of new memory infrastructures and cultural practices of media, museums, and archives.

Project Co-ordinator

Jeannine is a longtime resident of Galiano. She spent much of her childhood on Galiano with her grandparents and family. She has been fortunate to call Galiano her home and to raise her children in this community for the past 25 years. The work she is involved in has led her to some incredible connections and opportunities to learn more about our local biodiversity and to the land and waters, which her family has called home for generations.

Video and Sound

Coast Salish DJ, filmmaker, firefighter, and ball player, Ritchie’s family have a deep history of connection to Galiano Island and the waters of the Salish Sea.

Photography

Kali Spitzer is a photographer living on the traditional unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Skxwú7mesh and Musqueam peoples. The work of Kali embraces the stories of contemporary queer and trans bodies and BIPOC, creating representation that is self determined. Kali’s collaborative process is informed by the desire to rewrite the visual histories of indigenous bodies beyond a colonial lens. Kali is Kaska Dena from Daylu (Lower Post, British Columbia) on her father’s side and Jewish from Transylvania, Romania on her mother’s side. Kali’s heritage deeply influences her work as she focuses on cultural revitalization through her art, whether in the medium of photography, ceramics, tanning hides or hunting.

Photography, Project Assistant

Reese Muntean is a PhD student at the School of Interactive Arts & Technology at Simon Fraser University, a photographer, and media artist. Her research interests include digital cultural heritage and collaborative development of ethnographic new media projects, as well as tangible computing, 3D scanning, and virtual reality applications for cultural documentation and preservation.

Yellowhouse Art Centre Society

Roksan is a visual artist/art teacher with a BFA from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University located in Istanbul/Turkey. She immigrated to Turtle Island in 2009 and moved to Galiano in 2012 where she currently lives. Her work evolves around the the concepts of time, transformation, environment and our connections to nature. Her drawings and paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Turkey and Canada. She is the founder and the art director of Yellowhouse Art Centre Society.

Coordination Support

Sound Design and Mix - Parlante Sound

Finishing Editor and Sound Editor

Hân Phạm is an emerging artist and experimental filmmaker from Saigon, Vietnam. Working with experimental video and film, photography, and soundscape compositions, Hân’s works think through the ephemerality of memory, language, and history in relation to the constantly changing and dislocated landscapes, rooted in the in-betweenness of distance as space for reflection.

Symposium Documentation

Nilesh Patel is a producer and director focused on telling the stories of us coming together that have proven to be provocative, entertaining, and necessary. His work, screened and broadcast nationally and internationally engages viewers and participants in being in a space where the difficult is normal, the invisibilized is visible, and takes us to a space where we are free to see things differently. Nilesh is currently directing and producing Out of the Stands for Telus Originals while also continuing to advocate for racial equity in our film and television industry.