Adjudication Committee

This year, for the first time, we are thrilled to announce that all works will be evaluated by a specially formed Adjudication Committee. In the interest of representing a wider variety of artistic perspectives, your friendly festival organizers hand-picked a fabulous array of artists from Utah, Toronto, the SF Bay Area, and beyond!

Efren Corado

Efren Corado has been a Salt Lake City resident for over a decade. After completing his MFA from the University of Utah, Efren worked for Repertory Dance Theater for six seasons. Currently Efren is working for Salt Lake County Mayor Jenny Wilson as the Diversity and Inclusion Officer.

Bhumi B Patel

Bhumi B Patel is the queer, desi Artistic Director of pateldanceworks (she/they, please) creating work at the intersection of embodied research and activism. Her work involves dancing, choreographing, curating, educating, writing, and scholarship as a pursuit for liberation, with the time and space to decolonize the body. www.pateldanceworks.org

Tony Griego

Tony is an art school rascal, quintessential Capricorn, daydreaming gay boi, anti-capitalist vibe scientist, silly Billy, and overall ramblin' man. His studies focus on drawing and painting, but he has dabbled in many mediums such as video, sculpture, printmaking, theatre, puppetry, crafting, photography, etc. He believes in listening to your gut, aims to be rich in experiences, and always loves picking the brains of other artists.

Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb

Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto, where she teaches postcolonial literature and theory and poetry. Her academic research explores how science, medicine, natural history, and other kinds of colonial knowing reshaped literature, culture, economy, and politics. Her poems, translations, and essays have appeared in various venues and are in conversation with the traditions of Urdu poetry, contemporary queer poetics, and lyric memoir.

Hannah Hanson

Hannah is a math teacher, book artist, and bird enthusiast. She has exhibited work in Salt Lake City, Oakland, and online. Her work focuses on our personal and familial connections to nature’s mechanisms and communities.

Yein Ji

As part of her role as festival intern, Yein Ji (she/her) will be serving on the adjudication committee. Yein is pursuing her BA in Film & Media Arts at the University of Utah. There, she is the Public Outreach Executive for the Film Production Club. She enjoys making art about mental illness, identity, and the tough times in life people don't like to talk about. She produces mainly dramatic narrative short films, exemplifying BIPOC and LGBTQ+ representation.

nyx zierhut

nyx zierhut is a mixed black tenderqueer performer, poet, healer, organizer, and educator living in Bulbancha (New Orleans, Louisiana). a creator of visceral aesthetic and political interventions, they share public ritual in the wake of state sanctioned violence. their #BlackTouch practice offers somatic and energetic healing and connection for Black, Indigenous and other people of the global majority.