Eli Hartman is a multidisciplinary performing artist that has been producing theatre and interactive performance art in the prairies for 13 years. Having been leadership for the FLoYD Festival, Chaos Encouraged Productions, the Green Beans Drag show, and performing as drag king Queer'd Al, they love pushing the audience's envelope. Their style is based in experimental exploration of connection and interactive displays that aim to change the audience's perspective on what counts as "art".

Peace Akintade-Oluwagbeye, Saskatchewan 11th Poet Laureate, is an African-Canadian Interdisciplinary Poet, Workshop Facilitator, Chorus-Poem Playwright residing in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Organically from Yorubaland Nigeria, Peace explores the intersectionality of the artist community from an explorer's perspective, dipping her honey-stained fingers into poetry, playwriting, intimacy direction, textile creation, and performance art. Her work knits together folklore, abstract riddles, and Òwé Yorùbá elements of poetry to create a collective one-self. Author of Earth Skin, Equanimity in Sonder, Equanimity in Conversation and The Taste of Sonder. Her newest manuscript, “The Goat’s Tongue,” won the Metatron International Poetry Prize and will be released September 2026.

The Saskatoon Glassworkers’ Guild is a member-funded, registered non-profit organization dedicated to glass art. From across Saskatchewan, our members’ expertise spans all levels - from novice to internationally recognized. The guild supports a wide variety of glass art forms including stained glass, mosaic, painting, fusing, glassblowing, lampworking and many more.

Roman Sabasch is an emerging artist studying at the University of Saskatchewan. In his paintings, soft sculpture, assemblage and performances he explores themes of nostalgia, memory and personal identity. His performances draw on improv, drag and theatre. Inspired by the aesthetics of his childhood in the early 2000’s, his work is a playful recasting of childhood memories

Ryan A. Richard is a Métis intermedia sculptor and incoming MFA candidate at the University of Saskatchewan. Grounded in the relational ethics of wâhkôhtowin, his practice explores the intersections of identity, ancestral memory, and contemporary Indigenous experience. By bridging traditional land-based craft with advanced digital technologies, Richard channels a restless creative energy to investigate the tensions between physical reality, historical resilience, and modern algorithmic spaces.

The Nostradameus Factor Collective invites you on a journey to the future. Before entering, you'll write a postcard to your future self, pledging one action that will help create a better future for the world. Then step through the Portal of the Present into an immersive celebration of possibility, where dazzling lights, projections, ritual, music, a live DJ, dancers, actors, and interactive art surround you. The Future is YOU! experience blends performance, technology, and imagination to remind us that the future isn't something we wait for—it's something we create, one choice at a time.

Jessica Morgun and JingLu Zhao have collaborated since 2021, developing their practice through projects and residencies in Saskatoon, including Biofeedback’s Community Project, Art Placement, AKA Artist-Run, and a Saskatchewan Arts Board grant. Their work articulates loss and isolation among artist-parents. Drawing on Eastern concepts of Qi and Western apophatic traditions, they create an East/West visual vocabulary. Through imagery of mist, domestic scenes, and landscape motifs, their collaborative practice explores caregiving, material relationships, and shared artistic inquiry.

Melanie Lazelle is an experience designer working primarily with interactive popup installations that share stories of our world. Her practice sits at the intersection of art, storytelling, experience creation and placemaking, creating environments that invite curiosity, play, and emotional connection—particularly in public and outdoor spaces.

Her creative studio is The Wilder, based in Canada, and they produce light experiences, art festivals, and immersive environmental installations and experiences. Their work explores themes of wonder, environmental connection, and engaging immersive experiences to create moments of discovery.

Since completing his studies in film production at Concordia University, Roberto Santaguida’s films and videos have been shown at more than 400 international festivals, including Tampere Film Festival (Finland), CPH: DOX, Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Denmark), Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil (Brazil), Flickers' Rhode Island International Film Festival (United States), transmediale (Germany), and Message to Man (Russia). He has also taken part in artist residencies in numerous countries, including Iran, Romania, Germany, Norway, and Australia. Roberto is the recipient of the K.M. Hunter Artist Award, the Chalmers Arts Fellowship and a fellowship from Akademie Schloss Solitude in Germany.