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Doaa Magdy (she/they) is a multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker, decolonial educator, and writer. Her art practice aims at highlighting Black joy within the realms of the physical and digital spaces in film, dance, poetry and digital art.

They are the Founder of Vancouver's First BIPOC Horror Film Festival HORROR IN SECONDS, launching November 22nd- 26th 2023 at various venues throughout Vancouver. Horror in Seconds aims at broadening representation, accessibility, and breaking the financial barriers BIPOC artists face.

Relying solely on the power of visual storytelling to evoke fear, the Festival will showcase bite-sized shorts filmed on the participants’ smartphones and with no dialogue. By limiting the shorts’ submissions to 60 seconds or less, the Festival subverts the traditional ways of storytelling and encourages the emerging artists to unleash their creativity with some spine-chilling stories. To learn more visit @horrorinseconds and @doaaliciousart on Insta!

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Rojina Farrokhnejad (she/her/RJ) lives in Vancouver, BC. Originally from Iran, she came to the city in the early 2000s and quickly connected with the LGBT community and found like-minded people, now proudly calling Vancouver home.

RJ is renowned for her evocative images of memories & metamorphosis, expressions of solitude, and moments of importance that connect with the audience’s experiences. She uses myth to explore the darker side of human nature and as allegory to encrypt hidden meanings.

A painter, sculptor and filmmaker, she works using multiple mediums and techniques like oil, acrylic and clay in layers through a variety of motion, colours, tones and textures, to help provide a sense of narrative. Her most recent works push the boundaries of representation, integrating abstraction within imaginative figurative compositions. Her works have been exhibited at grunt gallery, Gallery Gachet, and the Cultch and her latest exhibit “GODS AND MONSTERS “ is running Oct14 - Dec1st at the SUM GALLERY (#425-268 Keefer Street) in Vancouver, Tuesdays-Saturdays 12-6pm. For more on the artist, visit www.handmadedesign.ca