Alyssa Rose (they/them) is a Lebanese-American, disabled, non-binary and queer radical dreamer of liberation, community organizer, and artist. They create paintings, collage, sculptures, dances, and healthy cultural ecosystems in the field of dance and movement-art. Currently, Alyssa serves as the program coordinator at DISCO RIOT in San Diego, CA. Alyssa feels called to guide humans home to their bodies and empower marginalized people through embodiment. They use dance and visual art to explore the mystery of being alive and interconnected. Alyssa’s ongoing interests span research around Buddha Dharma, disability justice, collective liberation, community care, and how these areas of focus can be expressed through art and creative process.

Alana is a singer/rapper and songwriter from Oceanside, CA, under the moniker theholyrainbowclub. It is a safe space to produce and write the music I want to hear. My sound is always changing but you can find me somewhere between R&B and Hip Hop.

I'm also part of another project based out of Oceanside called Topeka Clementine & we've been playing shows all over Southern California in the last year

Frankie Simone (they/them) is a queer, gender expansive, afro-indigenous pop artist that puts on uplifting, unapologetic and empowering shows. Tapping into ancestral wisdom, Simone’s songs touch on themes of self love, healing, community and liberation. Amidst these magnetic soundscapes, they create cathartic and sacred space for us to commune, dance, sing and remember our innate worthiness, power and joy.

Rose Tuttle (she/her) is a chef-turned-compost enthusiast exploring the correlations between soil and mental health. From a young age, Rose knew she wanted to cook & valued knowing where and how her food was grown and took notice of what a labor of love it is to truly nourish people. After 12 years of restaurant work in San Francisco & New York, she transitioned out of the kitchen and towards the soil. Rose attended Dr. Elaine Ingham's Soil Food Web school to understand the fundamentals of making healthy compost.

Rose is the Farm Manager at Community Roots Farm in Oceanside since September 2023. She has seen what can happen when the connection between death + life is made before our eyes through making compost. Rose believes with this work, we remember how to live in reciprocity with the land while understanding how to pull apart & work with the darker pieces of our very human experience.

Toni Lynn Junious (she/her) is a healing artist, arts & wellness curator, and women's health researcher that merges public health and holistic practices to promote wellness as liberation. She blends health equity, sexual and reproductive justice, and empowerment to address the root causes of dis-ease and promote healing from the inside out. Toni graduated from University of California, Irvine with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health and Global Cultures. She received her Masters of Public Health from George Washington University, and is also a certified yoga teacher, community herbalist, and full spectrum doula. Through Soultry Sisters, she curates soulcare rituals and nurturing spaces to cultivate community, foster belonging & tap into ancestral practices.

Alyssa “Ajay” Junious (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist, choreographer, wellness practitioner passionate about making art accessible to all. As a socially conscious artist, she uses art to process and create conversation around social change in her community. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts in Performance, Choreography, and Certificate of Arts Management from the University of California, Irvine. In 2018, she founded Continuum Arts & Pilates where she independently produces community performances, artist development programs, and movement workshops. Through Soultry Sisters, she empowers her community to use creative expression practices to improve their social, emotional and mental health.

As an Embodiment Composer, Ianne (she/her) unites 16 years in Cancer research and 10 years in the healing arts to the creation of Sonic Rituals®. Inspired by her Mexican culture, R&B, natural soundscapes, guided visualization, and spoken word, Ianne is a sound healer who creates sensual rituals + ceremonies to embrace the body for emotional wellness, self-actualization, and pleasure liberation. She creates digital spaces of exploration as the host of the podcast Pleasure Revolution and creator of the first World Pleasure Day on August 18th.

Che Che Luna (they/them) is a movement storyteller, (eco)erotic artist, certified sexuality educator and sensual embodiment facilitator dedicated to collaborative liberatory praxis. Their lens as a queer, trans, Autistic, kinky, polyamorous, Indigenous-chicanx informs their multidisciplinary work, which includes ecoeroticism + ecosystem-based philosophies, inherited ancestral knowledges, social justice frameworks and multi-cultural dance studies. It is their honor and life’s work to support underserved communities in reclaiming the body as a source of pleasure, elemental wisdom, expansion, transformation, erotic aliveness, autonomy, interconnectedness, and love. Luna evokes permission for others to live into their truth, heal from systemic oppression, embody their desires, and find their own access points into the sensual body and the collective interdependent body of the more-than-human world.

Dr. Cat (she/her) is a Chiropractor, Acupuncturist, Nutritionist, Herbalist & Shamanic Medicine Practitioner of The Luib Health Center. Dr. Cat (AKA Babaylan Dayang Guro) is here to holistically serve the Mental, Emotional, Physical, and Spiritual health needs of many communities around her. Restoration of Filipino Indigenous memories, Reactivation of Filipino Traditional Medicine (Native Hilot) & Re-Membering the Connection To Ancestral Healing are her legacy projects. She encourages all to experience the Ancient Filipino Healing Arts & she believes that Indigenous Filipino Medicine holds a significant impact on natural healthcare delivery, and of the healing of our sacred lands and ancestral traumas from our colonized past.

Kelsey O. Daniels is an artist organizer baddie scholar from Southeast San Diego. Their work centers on storytelling, world building, and dreamwork as tools for liberation. As a fat Black queer disabled femme, Kelsey honors her ancestors and descendants by revoking consent from the failed experiment of white supremacy & dreaming up worlds that are affirming and lit. Through poetry, performance, and mixed media, they explore themes of identity, imagination, and ancestral memory, inviting audiences to engage in active relationship with themselves and their communities. She curates a creative universe called Black Dream Experiment that explores Black dreaming as a collective ancestral, wellness, and liberation practice. When Kelsey is not moving in her public roles she enjoys going to the beach, cackling until her sides hurt & listening to her comfort playlists.

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Connect and Learn More at Kelseyshere.com

Katie Ruiz (she/her) is a Chicana artist working in painting and mixed media textile art. Her work is colorful and tactile. She is a community leader who uses her art to bring people together. Ruiz holds a Masters of Fine art from the New York Studio School.

Katie Ruiz's Pompom Project engages the community in a collaborative creative process. The experience of coming together to create with ones hands and working toward a shared goal promotes investment and pride in the community and shared space.

Ciara is a creative multi-hyphenate from Oceanside, CA who uses various modes of storytelling to convey it's connection to our liberation. Alternating between the worlds of filmmaking, writing, djing, and event curation, there is an underlying push to highlight how interconnected the arts are to the healing and expression of self.

Sunny Soto-Briscoe, founder & head chef of Sunny Street Outreach, a grassroots organization that focuses in providing nutritious meals for our houseless community. 

They create businesses like a catering company and mobile mocktail bar to be self-sustainable in their community missions to advocate for our underserved neighbors. Community, Hospitality, and compassion lead their mission.