Shalaka Jadhav, curator of To Broadcast is to Scatter, is a writer, researcher, and curator who spent their childhood between cities in India and in Dubai, before moving to a neighbourhood spitting distance from Ontario’s largest mall. Trained as an urban planner, Shalaka has bridged critical narratives of belonging and resilience through climate impact projects at local, national, and international levels, and has been named a Future of Good Young Impact Leader. Shalaka’s research and curatorial interests exploring spatial positionality and critical geographies of grief, public memory, and queer ecologies can be evidenced in exhibitions they have curated in Halifax, Winnipeg, Guelph, and Toronto. They have held roles at OCAD University and The Blackwood, and co-direct Textile, a hyper-local arts collective in Waterloo Region that supports writers and artists through mentorship, publishing, and curation. Shalaka splits their time on Haldimand Tract and Treaty 1 territory and always orders dessert. 

Lillian O'Brien Davis, curator of The Performance of Shadows, is the Associate Curator at the MacKenzie Art Gallery. She previously held the position of Curator of Collections and Contemporary Art Engagement at the Goldfarb Gallery of York University. She has curated independent projects at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Susan Hobbs Gallery (Toronto), and School of Art Gallery at the University of Manitoba. Her writing has appeared in BlackFlash Magazine, Peripheral Review, Canadian Art online, C Magazine, and RACAR Art History Journal.