Speaker Category: 2022 Speaker
Murray Zehr
Meet Five Oaks’ new chef, local and renowned Chef Murray Zehr! Chef Murray has extensive knowledge and experience as an author, chef, instructor, restauranteur, and consultant with over 25 years experience in the hospitality…
Nell Walker
Nell is a Pleasure Coach based in Waterloo (nellthepleasurecoach.com). Her journey into pleasure coaching began after a trip to her home country of Zambia. Through intimate conversations with rural Zambian women about their sexual…
Martha Chaves
Martha Chaves is a Latin-Canadian-LGBTQ award-winning comedian, actor, activist, and playwright. With her unique sense of humour, friendly-in-your-face style, and devilish charm, Martha paints hilarious stories drawn heavily from personal experience, like her upbringing…
Brian McLaren
Brian D. McLaren is an author, speaker, activist, and public theologian. A former college English teacher and pastor, he is a passionate advocate for “a new kind of Christianity” – just, generous, and working…
Theatre of the Beat
Theatre of the Beat (TOTB) is a Canadian touring theatre company working to catalyze conversations on social justice and its intersection with the beliefs of the communities in which we find ourselves. Since 2011,…
Forest Church Collective
Started in the United Kingdom where there are now many groups, and connected in North America as the Wild Church Network, Forest Church is the name taken by groups who seek to connect with…
Kate Reid (they/them)
Singer-songwriter and whip smart wordsmith Kate Reid is funny, feminist, queer as a three-dollar bill, and they’re sure to entertain. Slam-storytelling meets many a queer-themed tune in Kate’s songs, which just might have you…
Mama D (Diem LaFortune)
2013 CFMA Aboriginal Songwriter of the Year Nominee – brings a huge heart, tons of soul, a rich alto and fine guitar playing to her performances. Lafortune’s lyrics are profound and prophetic instruments for…
Matt Epp
On Shadowlands, veteran troubadour Matt Epp embarks on a journey through the geographies of darkness within him, sending back transmissions of lush, haunted Americana that embrace the dualities of this human thing—love, light, and the…