Collective Offerings

Beginning in street art, Mitra Fakhrashrafi (she/her) is a mixed media artist and curator interested in placemaking, anti-surveillance, and border abolition. Mitra is co-founder of Way Past Kennedy Road, a collective supporting artists living at the margins in producing, exhibiting, and profiting from their storytelling practice. In her spare she listens to music that emerges from Toronto; a since-always queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic city.

Vince Rozario is an independent critic, curator, writer, arts administrator, and community organizer based in Tkarón:to/ Toronto. Born in Bangladesh, raised in Dubai, and eventually settling in Canada, they attempt to map out trajectories of modernism, queerness, decolonial futures across multiple transnational axes- with a specific emphasis on South Asian diasporas. As a curator and organizer, they are interested in collaborative modes of cultural production which transgress traditional institutional hierarchies. Their practice interrogates the ethics of representation and the role of art in building, as well as undermining, solidarity across racial, classed, and socio-economic divides.

They have presented curatorial projects at Xpace Cultural Centre, the Gladstone Hotel and the Canadian Filmmakers’ Distribution Centre, as well as contributing to exhibition texts for Whippersnapper Gallery, InterAccess and Gallery 44. They were the winner of the 2018 C New Critics Award and have published criticism in C Magazine and Momus. They are a co-founder of Bricks and Glitter, a grassroots, intergenerational QTBIPOC (Queer and Trans Black, Indigenous and People of Colour) arts festival, and currently serve on the board of Whippersnapper Gallery.