OF AND

Kevin Andrew Heslop Musician, published poet, theatre-trained actor, award-winning filmmaker, independent curator, global arts journalist. Born 1992 in Canada. Currently in residence with Teatro Oficina. Next book: The Writing on the Wind’s Wall: Dialogues about ‘Medical Assistance in Dying’ (PNQ ’25). 2025 publications with The Fiddlehead, Amphora, The Seaboard Review, The Miramichi Reader, Parrot Art, Parrot Talks & more. Portfolio, CV, query, quarrel, quid pro quo: kevinandrewheslop.com. Go light.

Leslie Putnam is a London Ontario based Artist and Educator. She earned her BFA from Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec with a Major in Studio Art and BEd from Western University in London, Ontario. Putnam’s work includes exhibitions in France, Portugal and Luxembourg. In Ontario, her work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions including Electric Eclectics, Toronto Nuit Blanche, JNAAG and Hard Twist in Toronto and the Canadian Clay and Glass Museum. As a multi-disciplinary artist, her studio production ranges from explorations using sound and vibration within sculptural pieces to large installation works made from natural materials. Leslie creates multi-modal sculptures and installations on the premise that sculpture can and should include the ability of access through multiple senses. Removing the barrier of “do not touch” created by the limitations of institutions. In 2010 she and David Bobier formed the o’honey collective, as a platform for explorations between what we know as the truth of our natural world, and the way we have come to experience it through our own constructed realities. 

Curator Bio:

David Bobier is a hard of hearing and disabled media artist whose creative practice is researching and developing multi-sensory technology as a creative medium and language of expression. In 2012, he established VibraFusionLab, a creative multi-media centre that has gained a reputation as a leader in accessibility for the Deaf and disability arts movement in Canada and internationally.

As a practicing artist his exhibition career includes 18 solo and over 30 group exhibitions projects across Canada and in the United States, France, Costa Rica and the UK.

Bobier has served in advisory roles in developing Deaf and disability arts Equity programs for both Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council and was a panel presenter at the Global Disability Summit in London, UK. He has recently been nominated by the Canada Council for the Arts for a Governor Generals Innovation Award.