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crystal bi (she/they) is a queer, mixed race, Taiwanese American, multimedia artist working in the public realm. Her participatory art projects explore themes of imagination, creative archiving, and belonging. Her practice includes weaving sculptures with natural materials, collecting voice messages, and creating installations out of plexiglass. As a public artist, professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and Creative Engagement Consultant with Design Studio for Social Intervention, Crystal works with others to design interventions that imagine possible futures. She is currently fulfilling a dream to build a Department of Public Imagination, which creates infrastructure for horizontal dream work in Boston. 

www.crystal-bi.com

Dzidzor (Jee-Jaw) is a Ga-Ewe folklore performing artist, author, and entrepreneur. Dzidzor’s style of call and response has reimagined poetry and story-telling as a way to include the audience in an experience to challenge, inspire, and encourage self beyond traditional forms. Dzidzor weaves her love for spoken word, storytelling, mixing and collaging sound within her performance.

Born in Italy to Ghanaian parents and raised in North Carolina, she’s immersed herself in merging cultures from the South to Ghanaian culture. She’s a vessel chosen to deliver a message through writing, performance, and community organizing. Her performance art demystifies the role of an artist being watched and invites the audience to “perform” and be a part of the performance, such as in the Black Cotton Club and workshops that she facilitates. Dzidzor’s work is full of curiosity and questions surrounding the ideas of God, community and church, home, blackness, and identity.

Amanda Shea is a two-time Boston Music Award-winning Spoken Word Artist. Shea is an artist, performer, educator, artivist, film producer, host, and curator. She co-founded and curated six iterations of Activating ARTivism, a community festival to amplify POC through art, activism, and resistance. Her work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, The Boston Globe, TEDX, TEDXRoxbury, Netflix, Prime Video, BBC News, GBH, and much more. Shea is the curator and host of GBH OUTSPOKEN SATURDAYS. Shea is the recipient of The Boston Foundation LAB Grant 2024. Shea will be releasing her first book, Pieces of Shea, in 2025. Amanda's work examines her personal life experiences, social justice issues, and healing through trauma utilizing art as the tool. 
 

Wylsner Bastien is a musician, producer, engineer, arranger, poet, and artist. He has had the pleasure of teaching music theory at Bunker Hill Community College’s music club. While studying there, he shifted his life’s focus to music. After his departure from Bunker Hill, he went on to become the Jazz Ensemble Director for ensembles at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Music has been in his family for generations and is something he immerses himself in every day.   He has been in multiple bands, performed with many artists around Boston, and more. He has taught at places such as Guitar Center, Centre Music House, Lesson With You, The Advent School, and Fusion Academy. Wylsner is a music director and teaching artist and believes that music is something that can help us all grow, not only together but individually as well.
 

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Tim Hall is an award-winning Educator, Artist, and Entrepreneur, from Detroit, MI, who now resides in Boston, MA. He began playing alto saxophone at the age of 10. In college, Hall found poetry and used this form of creative expression to share his thoughts on paper. Tim Hall draws inspiration from his lived experiences - charting the nuances of blackness, masculinity, and the beauties of life. As a musician, Hall has shared stages with world-renowned recording artists such as The Nappy Roots, Carolyn Malachi, Bilal, Chris Turner, and Aloe Blacc. His poetry has been heard at Boston's Hub Week, The Museum of Fine Arts, Berklee College of Music, Outside the Box Festival, Bridgin' Gaps Festival, and many other venues and poetry slam communities around the Boston/Greater Boston area.