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Olga Assayah was born in Kiev Ukraine and moved to the United States at the age of 5. She always had a love and appreciation for art and its expression and learned to sew as a little girl. She graduated from SLCC fashion institute and decided to start Zaiya Collection to create beautiful designs that are innovative yet practical for everyday life. She lives in Salt Lake City with her husband and 2 daughters.

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Bryan Young (he/they) works across many different media. His work as a writer and producer has been called "filmmaking gold" by The New York Times. He's also published comic books with Slave Labor Graphics and Image Comics. He's been a regular contributor for the Huffington Post, StarWars.com, Star Wars Insider magazine, SYFY, /Film, and was the founder and editor in chief of the geek news and review site Big Shiny Robot! In 2014, he wrote the critically acclaimed history book, A Children’s Illustrated History of Presidential Assassination. He co-authored Robotech: The Macross Saga RPG has written two books in the BattleTech Universe: Honor's Gauntlet and A Question of Survival. His latest book, The Big Bang Theory Book of Lists is a #1 Bestseller on Amazon. He teaches writing for Writer’s Digest, Script Magazine, and at the University of Utah. Follow him on Twitter @swankmotron or visit http://www.swankmotron.com

Emily Young is an artist proficient in the medium of embracing the here and now. Her gifts span from guiding mothers through birthing realms to examining consciousness and healing through plant medicine.

Twenty years ago the black and white may have talked about her going to court reporting school for all the wrong reasons or eating pancakes and playing the piano high in her Mormon church. Ten years ago she was a few months sober out of her second rehab starting at the non-profit she would be with for eight years before ayahuasca and the plague revolutionized her world.

Today she lives in a blue house with an orange door in Denton, Texas. She pays the mortgage as a doula and educator. Currently her focuses are in the birth and postpartum arenas and she is excited to have expansion into other passions in the works. In early 2022 she started her own company - Dancing With Now - a name that perfectly reflects her approach to life and birth that allows her the freedom to follow her professional flow wherever it leads.

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A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the twelfth track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now!

I am an Artist based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

I was born and raised in Texas and moved to Utah in 2014.

I spent Two years (2015-2017) serving a mission for

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mongolia.

My Passion has always lied within visual art.

These days I’ve been painting film sets for an upcoming

Apple TV show set to launch later in 2023.

My personal work explores the relationship between

memories throughout time and space and

what we perceive as “reality.” I pull from a

lifelong fascination with exploration characterized

by dreamlike figures that intertwine current

fashion and culture iconography. I aim to

create combinations of imagery born from

things recognized and things yet undiscovered.

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Katharine Coles was born and raised in Salt Lake City. After four years at school in Seattle and two in Houston, and a year in Washington, D.C. as Writer-in-Residence at St. Albans School, she moved back to Salt Lake to pursue her PhD at the University of Utah. She taught for several years at Westminster College, then returned to the University of Utah, where she is now a Distinguished Professor in the English Department. Coles’ ten books include seven collections of poems, most recently Wayward (Red Hen Press, 2019). Her memoir, Look Both Ways, was released in 2018 by Turtle Point Press, which will also publish The Stranger I Become: essays in reckless poetics in 2021. 2018-19 Poet-in-Residence at the Natural History Museum of Utah and the Salt Lake City Public Library for the Poets House FIELD WORK program, she also served from 2006-2012 as the third Poet Laureate of Utah, and in 2009-10 as the inaugural director of the Harriet Monroe Poetry Institute at the Poetry Foundation. In 2010, she traveled to Antarctica to write poems under the auspices of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers Program. She has also received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the international Digging Into Data Challenge, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Her poems and essays have been translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Dutch.

Kathak is one of the eight major forms of Indian classical dance. The origin of Kathak is traditionally attributed to the traveling bards in the of ancient northern India known as Kathakars or storytellers.The term Kathak is derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word Katha which means "story", and Kathakar which means "the one who tells a story". Wandering Kathakars communicated stories from the great epics and ancient mythology through dance, songs and music. Kathak dancers tell various stories through their hand movements and extensive footwork, their body movements and flexibility but most importantly through their facial expressions. Stylistically, the Kathak dance form emphasizes rhythmic foot movements, adorned with small bells (Ghungroo) and the movement harmonized to the music

Sonali Loomba, the Artistic Director of Kaladharaa Dance established this dance company in 2017 in Utah and Washington D.C along with her sibling Nidhika Loomba, which focuses on imparting the nuances of this ancient form to others in the community as a way of passing it down to generations and aims at preserving this ancient dance style, which traces its roots back to 400 BCE.

Sonali Loomba completed her post graduate in Human Resource Management from India and worked at a multinational company there for over 6 years before she decided to quite and completely dedicate her self to Kathak as full time performing artist. She started learning Kathak in 2006 under the guidance of Gurus (teachers) Hari and Chethana from Bangalore, India. She believes Indian Classical Dance is like an ocean which is limitless. The deeper you dive in the more beauty you see of the form. It can take up-to several years to call oneself a master of this art form. She visits India often to advance in her studies of Kathak under her Gurus.

Sonali has performed at multiple leading festivals in the states as well as international, Such as TEDx Salt Lake City, North American Festival of Colors- (Utah & LasVegas USA), Living Traditions – (Utah, USA), Hampi Utsav – India , Nritya Utsav – Orissa, India, to name a few. Sonali is also the recipient of several state art grants which are a driving force in her mission to spread the knowledge of this art form , beyond.

Sonali Loomba is currently serving as a board member of the Salt Lake Arts Council.

Kaladharaa Dance has trained several dance enthusiast and continues to do so. The school host’s a bi-monthly open house event which is in invitation to all community members to come and experience this art form in a classroom environment. The school’s social media pages on facebook and instagram are constantly updated with upcoming events, we would encourage you all to follow our page to stay connected and hopefully learn this art form. ‘

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A breakdown of the writing, meaning, and hidden treasures in the eleventh track of my new album "The Hallowed Wide" out on all streaming platforms now!

Corvus Cazier

I was born in Boise. The youngest of 4 kids. Raised there until i was 11 and we moved to Kaysville Utah. I have two older brothers and one sister who passed away in 2020. As a young child we were not allowed to watch much television but our parents gave us plenty of books. My brother Ryan and I challenged each other although we fought endlessly we loved making things with our hands from a very early age. When i was 8 and he was 10 we took apart our mothers vacuum cleaner and turned it into a hovercraft on the back patio. Insatiably curious, no lock was was a barrier to us. We could crack our fathers safe from 10 years old. We both tested off the charts yet flunked out of school. Unfortunately schools are not set up to teach gifted kids. Incredibly ADHD and prone to mischief I was a pain in the ass to my parents. But i learned from them that you can make anything if you're determined. When I was 15 my grandmother gave me a deer hide that was shit by her father when he was 80 years old. That was the first piece of leather I worked and became a lifelong obsession. Around the same time I'd found the goth scene and the beautiful people in black leather spoke to my soul. Career wise I joined the service after highschool and spent a couple of years as airborne infantry and a combat engineer. After I got out I couldn't decide what to do but eventually went to culinary arts school and catered movie sets for a few years followed by running restaurants. 14 years ago I switched to electrical and have done that ever since. However in my heart my greatest dream has always been to create with leather. At the beginning of 2021 I decided to make a real go at my leatherwork and have been pushing forward with it ever since.

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At the age of 19, the perfect acting job came along. It was a very strenuous audition process. After months of searching the producers of Trolls 2 could not pass up on Steve’s talents. No seriously, they could not pass him up. They tried....they really tried but well they needed someone with minimal acting abilities and who was under four feet tall.

Steve was offered the non-credited position to play one of the movie’s vital roles of a Goblin....ummm the movie rocked so much that it wasn’t even about Trolls!

The rest of Steve’s life was average at best...I mean he did some politics, he was a journalist. Basically, he always ended up eating his family’s highly sought after confections.

In 2003 Steve became one of the founding owners of “Hatch Family Chocolates” located in Salt Lake City.

In 2010 Steve and his business partner Katie were featured on TLC’s “The Little Chocolatiers”.

Steve has also been fortunate enough to act as an extra on such films as “The Lone Ranger” with Johnny Depp and “A Million Ways to Die in the West” directed by Seth MacFarlane.

You can listen to Steve on the podcast “Your Cre8tivity”, where he has been honored to serve as a co-host for the last several years. Mr. Hatch is currently working on his new venture a made for YouTube/Facebook talk show called, “Short & Sweet. Most nights Steve can be found eating chocolates and tormenting customers up in the Avenues at Hatch Family Chocolates.

Steve feels like he has the greatest job in the world where he gets to sample top-notch desserts all day long. Steve will always share that he is most proud of all the community and amazing friends who have made his shop the success it is.

Most nights Steve can be found eating chocolates and tormenting customers up in the Avenues at Hatch Family Chocolates.

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