Love-In’s annual Summer Love-In two week festival returns this year with physical training, somatic sessions and creative practice starting July 28 to August 9, 2025.
Engage with local and national artists and attend our annual performance series, PS: we are all here!
This year’s festival artists are…
Johanna Bergfelt
Chimerik 似不像
Bobby Pocket Horner
Christopher House
Juan Jaramillo
Lara Kramer
Janice Jo Lee
Jasmine Liaw
Raoul Wilke
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Sammy Chien and Caroline MacCaull are the Co-Artistic Directors of Chimerik 似不像, a multi-award-winning interdisciplinary nonprofit arts organization consisting of artists from underrepresented groups. Chimerik 似不像 specializes in the audiovisual new media software Isadora and has collaborated on over 500 multi-disciplinary projects. Selected presentations include Art Night Venezia (Venice Biennale), Documenta 15, Digital Arts Festival of Taipei, ISEA (International Symposium of Electronic Arts), Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting (TPAM), PuSh International Performing Arts Festival and Vancouver Art Gallery. Chimerik 似不像 has worked with influential corporations such as NIKE, Microsoft, BenQ and Google in live visuals/projection design and interactive video installations, in addition to actively empowering underrepresented communities and engaging sectoral change projects such as Virtual Live Art Database & International Choreographic Interlink. Awards: Chrystal Dance Prize 2023; the Changemaker Award of BC Museums Association 2022; 3 Jessie Richardson Awards. Online: chimerik.com, Instagram: @chimerikco, TikTok: @chimerik, Facebook: facebook.com/chimerik
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Bobby, a street dancer originally from Newmarket Ontario, has been dancing professionally since 2017. For the past decade, Bobby has been studying and training in Hip Hop and Street Dance. Bobby is the Co-founder of “House of Hunniez” Dance Crew, an Elite member of Toronto’s “Footnotes” crew since 2014, and has made their Broadway debut as an original Broadway cast member in “&Juliet” in November of 2022. Bobby’s credits include Disney’s “Zombies”, Disney’s “Sneakerella”, FX’s “What We do in the Shadows”, Good Morning America, The 76th Annual Tony Awards, The Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon, The Drew Barrymore Show, among others. Bobby is also an actor, choreographer, singer, mentor and teacher to many. As a trans artist, Bobby is determined to continue challenging gender norms within the industry to create more space and opportunity for other Trans/Non-binary artists. Taking a step back from performing, Bobby is focusing in on building a new relationship with dance. Deepening their connection with themselves and healing through their movement.
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Juan Jaramillo is an award-nominated Deaf director, writer, and performer of Afro-Indigenous Colombian heritage based in Ontario. Founder of Dancing Hands Theatre, his work centers on ASL storytelling, Deaf performance, and community engagement. Juan has presented work across Canada and Colombia and is a 2025 recipient of the Christine Karcza Disability Leadership Award. His signature works include Fernando and His Llama Friend and But the Truth Is. He offers rich workshops that integrate movement, Deaf expression, and ASL-poetic rhythm. Juan champions access and mentorship in Deaf arts and is known for dynamic, inclusive creative spaces.
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Lara Kramer is a performer, choreographer, and multidisciplinary artist of mixed Oji-cree and settler heritage, raised in London, Ontario. She lives and works in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal.
Her choreographic work, research and field work over the last fifteen years have been grounded in intergenerational relations, intergenerational knowledge, and the impacts of the Indian Residential Schools of Canada. She is the first generation in her family not to attend the Residential schools. Lara’s relationship to experiential practice of performance, sonic development and design is anchored in the embodiment of experiences such as dreams, memories, knowledge, and reclamation. She prioritizes deceleration as an essential mode of transportation for imagination, creation, and new possibilities. Her creations have been presented across Canada and Australia, New Zealand, Martinique, Norway, Vienna, Belgium, the US and the UK. She teaches workshops regularly in Montreal. Lara Kramer is a Center de Création O Vertigo – CCOV Associate Artist since 2021.
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Janice Jo Lee (she/they) is a queer, Korean multidisciplinary artist born and based in Tkaronto, Ontario. She is a folk singer, songwriter, composer, sound designer, spoken word poet, actor, clown, satirist, and educator. Janice is a hard femme, queer, radical, comedian, truth-teller and satirist. She is interested in using art to build flourishing communities based in justice and joy. Her work explores gender justice, antiracism, friendship, community, ancestry and the Earth. Janice has released three albums of music, two poetry chapbooks, and has composed music and sound for two musicals and five plays.
She has directed workshops and creation labs with her project Play Play Clown Theatre since fall of 2022 at Sweet Action Theatre. She has facilitated arts and anti-oppression programming professionally for 15 years. Janice studied theatre creation with: Musical Stage Company’s Noteworthy, MT Space, fu-GEN / Clown: Pig Iron Theatre School, Adam Paolozza, Deanna Fleysher / Bouffon: Nathaniel Justiniano, Adam Lazarus / Spoken Word: d’bi young anitafrika, Lillian Allen.
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Jasmine Liaw is an interdisciplinary artist, director, and designer in contemporary dance performance, new media art, and experimental film. Evidenced in collaboration and community, her work leans into transcultural narratives of porous identity and existence, intersecting her Hakka diaspora, and queer theories in temporality and ecology. Select presentations of her work include Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto, The Asian Arts & Culture Trust with Holt Renfrew, Northwest Film Forum, Gallery 44, Pleasure Dome, and Images Festival. This year, she published her first research paper in time displacement and dance-technology with Kronoscope: Journal for the Study of Time. Liaw is a recipient of the 2023 Emerging Digital Artists Award presented by EQ Bank and Trinity Square Video. Recently, she co-founded inter-grit studios, an experimental auto-ethnographic research collaboratory.
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Raoul Wilke, a multifaceted 2x Dora Award winning artist, is the co-founder of the Moon Runners Dance Crew and dance faculty at Toronto Metropolitan University. As a Black emerging artist, his accolades extend within different communities, opening doors for new collaborations. He was a model for Seika Boye’s “This Living Dancer” in collaboration with the AGO and battled for Team Canada in China for an event called KOD. Over the summer of 2023, he got to produce his own production commissioned by danceImmersion, which recently received 2 Dora’s, one being for best music composition and another for best production. He also received a Johanna under the mentorship of Natasha Powell.
As a leader of the street dance community within Canada, he has mentored various companies abd dance schools over the years, on the importance of the historical context, within these vernacular street forms and the value of themselves. He has learnt under the mentorship of Moncell Durden, Chester Whitmore, Travis Knight, Lisa Latouche, and many more inspiring artists, who define themselves as educators, as well have doctorates in this work. As a student of dance, he continues to live by the quote, “see the music, hear the dance” by Balanchine.
This year he can be seen, teaching both locally and internationally under the same people that had once mentored him. Bridging the generational gap and adding the nuance that a youthful approach brings to deeply rooted work.
pricing
We strive to provide PWYC access, varied accessibility measures, and a welcoming environment. Love-In offers a pwyc sliding scale by using the discount codes. You can find details below to help you decide how much to pay.
discount codes & donation options
ABUNDANT — add donation, no discount code used at check out
SUPPORTER — add donation, no discount code used check out
REDUCED — 25% off
SOLIDARITY — 50% off
ACCESS — 100% off (contact info@tolovein.com for barrier free registration)
about our pricing model
We offer a pwyc sliding scale by using the discount codes listed below at checkout. We ask that community members with a consistent income or salary pay at the regular price so that we can support community members with less access to income, wealth, or assets to attend barrier free. Thank you for locating yourself where best represents your economic situation and paying accordingly. This supports making our programs available to more folks for years to come!
abundant
This rate reflects a medium increase on the rate for the session. If you have access to a salary, savings, investments, assets, or generational wealth, paying this rate will subsidize the attendance of someone for whom cost is a barrier to attending. If you are moved to donate $10 or more, there is an option to do so.
supporter
This rate reflects a moderately increased rate for the session and will allow us to partially subsidize the attendance of folks for whom cost is a barrier. Please add a donation of $5 if you have access to a salary, savings, investments or assets.
regular
This rate reflects the regular cost for the session. Please select this rate if you have access to a regular income and are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation.
reduced
This rate reflects the reduced cost for the session. Please select this rate if you are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation, but have gaps in your income and no access to savings or familial financial support.
solidarity
This rate reflects the solidarity cost for the session. Please select this rate if you are able to meet your basic needs around food, housing and transportation, but don't have access to regular income.
access
The option to access this session at no cost ensures that members of our community for whom price is a barrier to participation are able to join us. Please email us at info@tolovein.com to receive this option.