2024 CFP Workshop Leaders

Sarah Wong (she/they) is an emerging writer, choreographer, and interdisciplinary artist based in Vancouver, Canada on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Her work emerges from lived experiences as a queer and disabled 2nd generation Chinese-Canadian, focusing on archival processes and accessing embodied intergenerational knowledge to trace relationships between identity and lineage. Their practice makes space for the multiple, creating work that spans performance, site-specific installation, textiles, poetry, film, and zines. Sarah approaches access as a creative practice that is inextricably tied to movements for justice and collective liberation. They are devoted to cultivating practices of care, creating and facilitating spaces for bodies to rest.

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A selfie taken by Sarah, a Chinese person in her twenties with lightly tanned skin and black hair with neon green highlights, cut into a mullet. They wear a dark green tank top to match their highlights, dangly rock earrings, a necklace with a rock (they really like rocks), and a black KN95 cone-shaped mask to protect them from breathing in viruses and wildfire smoke. She stands in front of a white wall and looks straight into the camera, her face aglow with summer sweat.

Joshua Lam (he/him) is an emerging Creative Producer, Director, and Writer working in the Vancouver Film Industry. He contributes to the community as the Lead Creative Producer for Vancouver Asian Film Festival’s [VAFF] Mighty Asian Movie-making Marathon [MAMM], a program that helps support Asian-Canadians in film. He has also completed his 2021 - 2022 Canadian Media Producers Association [CMPA] producing mentorship with Brightlight Pictures in development and production of Feature Film and TV. Josh continues to develop his skill in sharing comedic & dramatic stories in the intersection of self-identity, queerness, family, relationships, and culture.

Sasha J. Langford makes sounds, writings, and intermedia performance works that investigate how bodies attune to one another across varied historical and social conditions. In her musical collaborations with choreographers and media artists, as well as her solo live performance practice, Sasha's work has been presented at Ehkä-Kutomo (Turku, FI), FestivALT (Kraków, PL), Lines of Flight Festival of Experimental Music (Dunedin, NZ), Ende Tymes (Brooklyn, NY), Suoni Per Il Popolo (Montreal, QC), and the International Noise Conference (Miami, FL), among other venues. As a writer and thinker, Sasha has published critical texts and delivered public talks through Access Gallery, About A Bicycle, Charcuterie, The School of Making Thinking, and the Vancouver Institute for Social Research. Sasha is Faculty at Columbia College, where she teaches media and cultural studies on occupied xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ territories known as Vancouver, BC.

Workshop Facilitator
Artistic Consultant

Nancy Lee 李南屏 is a Taiwanese-Canadian media artist, curator, and cultural producer renowned for their interdisciplinary works. They ventured into XR with the 2017 360 dance film "Tidal Traces," produced by the NFB, and co-created "Telepresence" in 2018, blending VR with live performance. Lee's art has been showcased internationally at Cannes, SXSW, MUTEK (Montreal & Japan), Centre Phi, and the Berlin Film Festival.

Dedicated to community engagement, Lee teaches XR workshops at IM4 Media Lab and supports artists at the Festival of Recorded Movement. They co-founded Chapel Sound, an electronic music and art collective, and CURRENT, a multidisciplinary initiative supporting underrepresented artists. Additionally, they serve as a board director for Love Intersections and Normie Corp, uplifting queer voices in media arts and music.

Lee operates a vibrant studio in Vancouver's Chinatown, serving as a creative hub for cross-genre performances, workshops, and artist residencies. As a community consultant, Lee collaborates with Creative BC and Music BC, providing grant coaching and outreach to improve funding accessibility. Their commitment to promoting gender equity in the music industry is underscored by their participation in the Keychange EU Innovator program across Canada and Europe. They have offered programming consultation to VIFF and MUTEK Forum.

As a Sundance Institute New Frontier Alumni and 2022-2023 artist-in-residence at the Society of Arts and Technology (Montreal), Lee collaborates with Kiran Bhumber on "UNION," a speculative sci-fi exhibition exploring 3D scanning/printing, XR, and multi-channel A/V dome theatre performance. Recently, they shifted focus towards performing dance and composing in their new show “OSMOSi: 422 Unprocessable Entity,” and a documentary project titled "Woven Memory" alongside Soledad Muñoz.