Christina Battle is an artist based in amiskwacîwâskahikan, (also known as Edmonton, Alberta), within the Aspen Parkland: the transition zone where prairie and forest meet. Battle’s work focuses on thinking deeply about the concept of disaster: the complexity of disaster and the intricacies that are entwined within it. She looks to disaster as a series of intersecting processes including social, environmental, cultural, political, and economic, which are implicated not only in how disaster is caused but also in how it manifests, is responded to and overcome. Through this research, Battle looks closer to both the internet (especially social media) and plant systems for strategies to learn from, and for ways we might consider disaster anew. [www.cbattle.com]

Chris Dufour (they/them) is a white queer settler having grown up and lived through many territories across Turtle Island. Raised in Kjipuktuk, Chris has spent the last four years living as an uninvited guest on Lkwungen territories.
Chris works at the intersection on ecology, queerness, and regeneration through social practice, textiles, and photo. Working on and off in community non-profits teaching youth permaculture and soil science for amateurs, Chris’ interests are in queer apocalypse skills and building inter-generational relationships. Currently, Chris and their collaborator, Alexis Hogan, are working on a new series of work in Hogan’s satellite programming space lichen.

Cecily Nicholson is the author of four books, a past recipient of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and the Governor General’s Literary Award for poetry. She has held the Ellen and Warren Tallman Writer in Residence at Simon Fraser University, and Writer in Residence at the University of Windsor. She works in gallery education, teaches at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, and collaborates with community impacted by carcerality and food insecurity.

Megan K Quigley is a curator, arts administrator, and researcher based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. She is currently an MA student in the Art History department at Concordia University. Megan holds a BA in Gender Studies and English Literature from the University of Victoria and a BFA in Art History and Studio Arts (Concordia.) Her thesis research investigates curatorial practices that engage with food-based and ecologically oriented public art engagements, with a particular focus on gardens. More broadly, her research is concerned with BIPOC and queer futures, critical geographies, and curatorial hospitality. Recent writing includes texts on public bathing, decolonial walking tours, aliens, and the artist-run-centre as kitchen. She has previously held positions with Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires, Open Space, Impulse Theatre, and Oxygen Art Centre, as well as other spaces and initiatives.