Kailan Fournier was generously supported by the Helen Graham Artist Award

Kailan Fournier is a freelance clarinetist based in Toronto. As an orchestral freelancer, Kailan has performed with ensembles such as Les Violons du Roy, the Ontario Philharmonic, Hamilton Philharmonic, the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra and various others. Kailan completed his Bachelors degree at The Glenn Gould School with Joaquin Valdepeñas, a Graduate degree at McGill University with Todd Cope and recently finished his Advanced Diploma in Performance at the Eastman School of Music with Michael Wayne. Kailan started his musical education on bass clarinet, which is quite uncommon, and loves to get a chance to explore contemporary music and the unique sounds possible on bass clarinet. In his spare time, Kailan also manages a cafe in Yorkville and enjoys rock climbing.

Yueyu Liu was generously supported by the Isobel and Tom Rolston Fellowships in Music Endowment

Yueyi Liu is a North America–based percussionist and educator currently pursuing the Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of British Columbia. As Founder and Artistic Director of the Vancouver Youth Percussion Ensemble, she is dedicated to fostering music education and community engagement through percussion.

As a versatile percussionist, Liu’s performance career spans solo, chamber, and contemporary works. She has collaborated with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Turning Point Ensemble, Vancouver Brass Ensemble, and the Canadian Music Centre, and has participated in interdisciplinary projects at the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery. Her international performance experience includes performances at Lincoln Center and New York City Center in collaboration with the Martha Graham Dance Company, as well as numerous orchestral performances in China.

As an educator with over a decade of teaching experience, she has mentored students who have earned top prizes in international percussion competitions and gained admission to prestigious ensembles, guiding young musicians toward both artistic excellence and professional development.
 

Thomas Law was generously supported by the Isobel and Tom Rolston Fellowships in Music Endowment

Chinese-Canadian flutist, Thomas Law, is a freelance performer, passionate educator and Music Director of the Capilano Flute Choir in Vancouver, Canada.He has performed with the Vancouver Symphony, Victoria Symphony, Vancouver Island Symphony, Kamloops Symphony, Okanagan Symphony (Acting Principal) and various local ensembles.

Thomas is well-known as a frequent recitalist, often performing with his flute-guitar and flutepiano duos, with a keen focus on performing works by women and Asian composers. He has presented these recitals at universities such as Capilano University and the University of Victoria.

Beyond his musical performances, Thomas is not only an accomplished musician but also passionately dedicated to education. He maintains a full studio of flutists across Vancouver and frequently serves as a flute workshop clinician and adjudicator. He is currently on faculty at the Vancouver Academy of Music. Thomas received his M.Mus from the University of British Columbia and further studies has taken him to Pender Island, Orford, and Miami Beach, where he has gotten to study with Lorna McGhee, William Bennett, Paula Robison and Marina Piccinini.

Dr. Gladys Rowe (she/her) is Muskego Inninew (Swampy Cree) with membership in Fox Lake Cree Nation in Northern Manitoba, Canada. She holds a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies (Social Work, Indigenous Studies, and English, Film & Theatre) and is the Director of Indigenous Insights Collective.

Gladys is a community facilitator, program designer, educator, researcher, and evaluator with approaches rooted in Indigenous, decolonial, and anti-colonial frameworks. She integrates arts-based methods including poetry, collage, zine-making, and visual storytelling to support reflection, storytelling, and collective meaning-making. Her practice recognizes that systems transformation happens through relationships, dialogue, and creativity—holding space for complexity, healing, and emergence.

Gladys hosts Indigenous Insights: An Evaluation Podcast, launched in 2022, which has released over 50 episodes and received more than 31,000 global listens. Through this platform, she uplifts stories of Indigenous and decolonial evaluators, artists, and community leaders who are reimagining what evaluation can be when grounded in values, stories, and shared humanity.
 

Wearable design technology was developed by the Social Body Lab. Founded in 2010, Social Body Lab is an art, design, and research lab at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada that explores body-centric technologies in the social context.

www.socialbodylab.com

Kate Hartman is the Co-Director and Founder of Social Body Lab (est. 2010) - a creative research group dedicated to exploring body-centric technologies. Working between Toronto and New York, Hartman is Associate Professor in Digital Futures at OCAD University, Adjunct Instructor in the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, and Director of ITP Camp - an innovative creative technology summer program for grown-ups.

As an artist, designer, and researcher, Hartman probes the nuances and awkward bits of human and more-than-human social interactions. Through wearable technologies and electronic textiles, Hartman explores new possibilities for expressivity, tactility, and embodiment. Hartman delivered a main stage TED talk about her social wearables projects which has since garnered over one million views. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Hartman is the author of the recently published book "Make: Wearable Electronics, 2nd edition" (2025) which is used widely by independent artists and designers and also as a textbook in university wearable technology courses internationally.

Adam Tindale is an electronic drummer and digital instrument designer. He is an Associate Professor of Human-Computer Interaction in the Digital Futures Initiative at OCAD University. Adam performs on his E-Drumset: a new electronic instrument that utilizes physical modeling and machine learning with an intuitive physical interface. He completed a Bachelor of Music at Queen’s University, a Masters of Music Technology at McGill University, and an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Music, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Victoria.