DJ Kookum
Kookum is a Turtle Island-renowned DJ and producer making waves out of Vancouver, BC. A woman of many hats and genres, Kookum keeps the party hype, fresh and ever deadly. This international star has performed in Germany, Australia, Mexico and America. Kookum has played some of the hottest parties in Canada like Basscoast, Bastid’s BBQ, Nuit Blanche Toronto, Ted Talks official after party, and the Vancouver Michelin awards just to name a few.
Sierra Tasi Baker
K̓esugwilakw
K̓esugwilakw is an Indigiqueer stélmexw from the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and is also Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw/Musga̱mgw Dzawada̱’enuxw, Łingít and Magyar/Hungarian. Sierra is a trained contemporary dancer and began performing as a professional fire and flow performance artist in 2013. Sierra is one of the choreographers for Butterflies in Spirit, an Indigenous dance group consisting of family members of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People raising awareness for the MMIP crisis. Working with concepts of shapeshifting, time, transformation, and healing, K̓esugwilakw works with movement as a modality for their healing and processing trauma. K̓esugwilakw’s form of “movement storytelling” works to challenge their audiences to question what is traditional and what is contemporary?