Lou Sheppard works in interdisciplinary audio, performance and installation-based practices. He has performed and exhibited across Canada, notably at The Art Gallery of York University; The Confederation Centre for the Arts, Charlottetown; and at Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg; as part of the first Toronto Biennial; as well as internationally at Kumu Kunstimuuseum, Estonia; in the Antarctic Biennial, and at Titanik Gallery, Finland. Lou has participated in numerous residencies, including the International Studio Curatorial Program, Brooklyn; La Cité des Arts, Paris; and as participant and faculty at Banff Centre. He has been longlisted for the Sobey Art Award in 2018, 2020 and 2021, and was the winner of the Hnatyshyn Foundation Emerging Atlantic Artist Residency in 2017. Lou is a settler on the traditional and unceded territory of the Mi’kmaq in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia.

Pamela Hart is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, choral instructor/composer and audio engineer. She is a graduate of the School of Recording Arts Canada and has toured with multiple projects across North America and Europe. in 2009 Pamela founded the Forever Chorus, an all-voices chorus that ran for five years in Montreal and is now in its third year in Nova Scotia. From 2009 to 2012, Pamela wrote and performed with her band Ledge’s Blast, and from 2014 to 2015 she performed with Mozart’s Sister (now Cecile Believe). Pamela has collaborated on multiple performances and art installations, including Kìzis’ Algonquin opera Wàsakozi in 2019,  Lou Sheppard’s Dawn Chorus/Evensong in 2018 and Rights of Passage in 2022. She is the recipient of multiple artist grants, and is currently working on her project, Queer Euphonia, composing a new choral suite for intergenerational queer voices. Pamela spent her formative years in Aotearoa/New Zealand and now lives and works in Mi’kma’ki/Nova Scotia.