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Sasha Hill / Visual Artist
Sasha Hill is an indigenous emerging visual artist. She has a background in film and television and graduated from Sheridan College’s Media Arts program in 2015. She has been working with fine art mentor Joanne Gervais since 2018. Learning from a master painter in the Joie De Vivre painting style. She has been a live on-site sketch artist at Plein Air on Brock, Kingston Promenade, Mackinnon Brothers Beer Festival, and Kingston City BluesFest. Her work is part of the Kingston City Hall’s Then & Now exhibition. Sasha’s painting style is exploratory and consists of realism with abstract elements. Focusing on figures, anthropomorphized animals, and portraits. Themes centre around storytelling, playfulness and whimsy. She hopes to create artworks that can be a home for those who don’t fit in. In her works daydreaming is the norm, imagination runs free, and all are accepted as they are. https://www.facebook.com/Sashahillart / https://www.instagram.com/sasha_hill_art/ / http://sashahillart.com/ |
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Cassel Miles / Theatre Artist & Dancer
Cassel moved from Toronto to the Kingston area in 2014. He played with the Kingstown Players, Domino Theatre and Bottle Tree Productions (BTP). It was during a BTP production that he met writer and director, Charles Robertson. Since 2004 Cassel had been nurturing an idea for a play about the life of Josiah Henson. Charles liked the idea, which led to collaboration. Cassel provided resource material to Charles who crafted an epic two-hour, one-person show, Josiah Henson: From Slave to Saviour that followed the narrative of Josiah Henson’s 1849 autobiography. Current events that have sparked a global awareness of systemic racism, police brutality and discrimination makes this play and it’s message of hope more relevant than ever. Theatre Orangeville will present Josiah (www.josiahhensonproject.ca) this Fall pending any changes to social restrictions and government regulations. My deepest appreciation to Vicki and the folks at GRIP for sourcing and providing rehearsal space during this artistically stifling period. There’s a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel after all. |
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Sam Kaiser / Singer-Songwriter
Sam is a 20 year-old singer-songwriter from Hong Kong who now splits his time between there and Kingston, Ontario. His approach to music has always been multifaceted, reflective of his mixed heritage and upbringing across the world. He explores themes of love, longing, and hope while acknowledging growth and his own perception of the world around him. His intricate fingerpicking and layers of guitar and vocals complement his stripped-back style, which is ever evolving, much like him. Apple Music / Spotify https://www.samkaiser.com/ / https://samkaiser.bandcamp.com// https://soundcloud.com/samkaiser13 |
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Camille Spencer / Dance Artist, Teacher, and Choreographer
Camille Spencer hails originally from Utah, USA where she received her BFA in Dance, and Secondary Education degree. She has been working as a professional dance artist, teacher, and choreographer for the last 15 years. She has a passion for traveling and experiencing the diversity of the contemporary dance world. Camille has had the opportunity to expand her dance practices while working and living in the USA, Scotland, England, Australia, China, and now Kingston, Ontario.Her training is rooted in Bartenieff Fundamentals, with a strong focus on traditional modern and ballet techniques. She has engaged with cutting-edge dance artists such as Gary Clarke (UK), Maxine Doyle (UK), Crystal Pite (CA), William Forsythe (GER), and Andrew Morrish (AU). She is most passionate about developing her own choreographic material and has choreographed works within the university setting, professional companies, independent dance collectives, high schools, festivals, and private studios. Screen dance and nonconventional site-specific works are of interest within her research and choreographic projects. Improvisation as a tool of creation and movement research is an important part of her practice and teaching style. You can find her through her teachings at The Kingston School of Dance, the development of independent projects, and engaging with the community as a Dance for Parkinson's trained teacher and community advocate. Website: camillemaedance.com |
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Jill Glatt (she/her) is a printmaker, arts educator, and French and English teacher with the Limestone District School Board. Her artistic practice is based around and informed by ecology, community, and sustainability. Jill is also the Volunteer Coordinator for the Skeleton Park Arts Festival and sits on their board of directors as Treasurer. website: http://magpieprintshop.square.site/ |
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Zoë Sweet / Performer, theatre maker, teacher, movement coach and co-Artistic Director of FeverGraph Theatre Company and Co-Artistic Producer of The Dead Roads Collective.
Zoe holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Acting from York University and received her Honours B.A. in Theatre from University of Toronto Mississauga and Sheridan College. She has been teaching acting and movement for the last 15 years, most recently at Queen’s University with the Dan School of Drama and Music. Zoe is a multiple MY Theatre Award Nominee (Toronto) as both an actor and producer. Favourite credits include: Behaviour (world premiere Great Canadian Theatre Company),Butcher (Theatre Kingston), The Red Hose is Leaving (Summerworks), It’s Your Funeral (Upper Canada Playhouse), Brave New World (Litmus Theatre), Dead Roads (Dead Roads Collective) Objections to Sex and Violence (Praxis Theatre/Fevergraph), Look Back In Anger (Fevergraph). Enough Rope (Fevergraph – Summerworks). She was set to make her Soupepper debut in M.Butterfly when the pandemic hit and the show was cancelled. Recent creation credits: her co-creation She Spreads was in residency at The Factory Theatre and part of Why Not Theatre’s RISER Project and will have a world premiere in January 2022. She is also currently working on a new play with award winning playwright Sophia Fabiilli to be premiered in Kingston, Ontario October 2022. Zoë is interested in freeing impulses; a concept that not only benefits the actor, but anyone interested in presence, expression and embodied physicality. Zoë works with students of all levels and backgrounds, from the novice participant to the experienced actor. |
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Ned Dickens / theatre artist, writer, director. Ned is a relative newcomer to Kingston, having only lived here 17 yrs. He is the author of 15 plays including ICARA, HORSE, BEO’S BEDROOM, PAULO AND DAPHNE, and the absurdly ambitious seven play cycle CITY OF WINE, most of which have been produced in Toronto and elsewhere. His plays have won two Best Production Doras. Ned has also written an opera libretto, 4 CBC Radio Drama’s, a kid’s book, and various small film and TV projects. His adaptation of Kenneth Oppel’s AIRBORN was in development at The Stratford Festival when Covid hit. Ned’s telephone call at sunset presentation of LUKE AND THE BIG CIRCLES was part of last year’s Kick and Push Festival. He then Directed and Designed a production of ICARA at the Tett in September. |
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Tim Sheffield / musician, songwriter, instructor, mentor
A life immersed in music performance spanning three decades, connected with thousands of people locally, nationally and internationally.A respected guitar teacher and music educator within the developmental disabilities and vulnerable sector communities in Kingston.Sheffield has an accumulation of experiences that he uses every day to inform the vision of a world where music makes a positive difference in people’s lives. Sheffield has written and recorded rock songs with blues and funk feels,songs with reggae influenced grooves and songs reminiscent of of old time country waltzes he heard in his youth https://www.clemchesterfield.com |
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Lesley Ann Foster / singer, songwriter Lesley has spent years living in countries like Argentina and Mexico, steeping in rich musical influences distinct from her Canadian upbringing. The result is a sound that captures a universal experience: sun-drenched keys and gleeful synths combine with Foster’s standout hooks to form a soundtrack for unforgettable summer days, no matter where you are in the world. Photo: Stacy Lee -- www.iamlafoster.com |
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Michelle Reid / Visual Artist
Michelle Reid is a Resident Studio Artist at Kingston's Centre for Creativity and Learning. Her oil paintings are a contemporary approach to post-impressionism that will spark emotional memories of catching the perfect light in familiar places. She deconstructs a scene into bold and confident brushstrokes grounded in the drama between light, shadow and saturated colours that shine so bright it will make you reach for your sunglasses. www.michellereidart.com / www.instagram.com/michellereid_art |
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Adele Webster / Visual Artist
Adele is a Resident Artist at the Tett Centre for Creativity and Learning in Kingston, On. Painting in a contemporary abstracted style focusing on gesture and color. Her work is inspired by nature's landscapes, using a minimalist style she brings balance in an attempt to decipher the everyday chaos towards calm. She intends to create a mood or evoke a dream-like memory that one can escape into while enjoying the playfulness of the abstracted peaceful vista.Building many layers of acrylic washes over birch panels and allowing the wood grain to show through. Then finishing with a high gloss resin that adds richness, depth and makes the colors pop. |
