How does art make it possible to talk about the stories we inherit, the stories we contribute to and the stories we want to belong to?   Episode 5 features fin-xuan, Pree Rehal, Namitha Rathinappillai and Anna Shah Hoque joining for a compelling discussion about the importance of art and stories in their respective practices.   This conversation centres on friendships, developing a craft, lateral crossings and connections through creative practices and connecting intentionally to think about relationality, community and art-based storytelling.    Credits: Season 3 graphic created by Hunter Dewache. Custom intro / outro sounds created by Bucko aka Chris Binkowski. Podcast editing is by fin-xuan. This season of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive is generously funded by a Digital Now grant from the Canada Council for the Arts.   Participants:   Pree Rehal  Pree (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and illustrator based in Toronto, of Panjabi descent. They teach zine and art making workshops. Their art style is inspired by their community, snacks and storybook illustrations. Book them for workshops and check out their work at prehal.com. Their shop has been featured in CBC, Xtra magazine and BlogTo. Their art has been featured in Luminato Arts Festival, Design TO festival and the Art Gallery of Ontario.   Twitter: @preezilla   Instagram: @stickymangos @preezilla   Facebook: Facebook.com/StickyMangos   Website: prehal.com  fin-xuan  fin-xuan is an interdisciplinary artist living on unceded Algonquin territory. As a second-generation settler, they are drawn to questioning and exploring ideas of embodiment, history, power and, ultimately, access to resources and life chances. They love collaboration, community organizing and learning through art and relationships. Currently, they act as a Studio facilitator and Artistic Program planner at BEING Studio, where they also work with podcasting through the series SPEAK. fin loves to paint, draw, sculpt and explore through materials, experiences and sharing.  Instagram: @xuansshine  Website: fxuanlee.com  Namitha Rathinappillai  Namitha Rathinappillai (she/they) is a disabled, queer, Tamil-Canadian spoken word poet who entered the poetry community in 2017. Now based in Toronto, she was the first female and youngest director of Ottawa’s Urban Legends Poetry Collective (ULPC).   They are a two-time Canadian Festival of Spoken Word (CFSW) team member with ULPC and published their first chapbook, titled Dirty Laundry, with Battleaxe Press in 2018. They won the RBC Youth Ottawa Spirit of the Capital Award for Arts and Culture in 2019. You can find more at namitharathinappillai.com.  Anna Shah Hoque   Anna Shah Hoque (she/they) is a South Asian-Persian bi-queer femme curator, producer, visual storyteller, educator and SSHRC Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Feminist & Gender Studies, University of Ottawa. Her dissertation examines the relationship between decoloniality, visual arts and archive-making among Indigenous and South Asian artists and curators in “Canada.” She is the producer and host of To Be Continued: Troubling the Archive, a podcast series that shares stories, memories, and practices of Ottawa-based artists, community organizers and activists.