Aram Boghosian began his career as a Freelance Photojournalist for the Boston Globe, while working toward his degree in Journalism at Northeastern University. After graduating, Aram continued to freelance regularly as a general assignment Photojournalist, and has now been shooting in Boston for over 10 years. In addition to his work at the Globe, Aram has worked with the LA Times, NY Times, CNN, MSNBC, Getty Images, and the Associated Press. He received a 2011 Dart Award for "Excellence in Coverage of Trauma", and in 2013, contributed to the Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombing. For his work in video, Aram received a 2012 Boston/New England Emmy Award for "Outstanding Politics/Government Specialty Report". www.aramphoto.com

Philip Gedarovich AKA Dynamic Phil is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer who finds comfort at the intersection of various mediated technologies and experiences. Part 3D animator, motion designer, graphics artist, metaverse architect, videographer and journeyman into the media multiverse, Philip is excited to collaborate and share his creative visions for all to enjoy. www.vimeo.com/creategreat

Rob Bethel is a freelance cellist active throughout New England. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Ohio State University. Principal teachers include William Conable, Einar Holm and David Darling. He is currently the principal cellist of the North Shore Philharmonic Orchestra. Favorite collaborations include projects with Revels, Actor’s Shakespeare Project, Aardvaark Jazz Orchestra, FilmProv, The Pan-Twilight Circus, Brown University Dance Extension, ADLI, Sonic Sandbox, Vortex Ensemble, Ballaro Dance of New York, and others. A most satisfying aspect of his musical life is his long-standing relationship with composers Forrest Larson and Steven Jobe. Highlights have included many premieres and the opportunity to perform at the Chants de Vielles Festival in Quebec.

Violist Eve Boltax grew up in Vermont and has been living in the Boston area since 2010. She holds a Bachelor's of Music in violin performance from UMass Amherst where she studied with Elizabeth Chang and a Master's of Music in viola performance from the Longy School of Music of Bard College where she studied with Dimitri Murrath. Accolades include the 2010 UMass Concerto Competition, Julian Olevsky Award, the President's Award for Teaching Artistry, and grants from the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Boston Foundation. She was the founding violist of the Cardamom Quartet and the saxophone/viola duo Patchtax. Festivals include the Banff Music Centre, Avaloch Music Center, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival, New Music Gathering, and Brevard Music Center. She currently lives and works in Jamaica Plain as a Feldenkrais Practitioner and Suzuki violin teacher.

Violinist Brian Clague studied with Kato Havas in London and George Neikrug in Boston and has performed throughout the U.S., Europe, and Japan, including recitals at the Warsaw Mozart Festival and the White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg. Brian is music director of the Fensgate Chamber Players and has appeared throughout New England with the Olmsted Ensemble, Copley Chamber Players, Art of Music Chamber Players, and Ensemble St. Germain. He coaches young musicians at the Lexington Chamber Music Center and is a visiting artist coach in the Somerville Public Schools. He has performed with numerous orchestras, including the Boston Philharmonic, Portland Symphony, Boston Academy of Music, and Civic Symphony of Boston, and has played with The Who, The Eagles, The Beach Boys, Andrea Bocelli, Smokey Robinson, Donna Summer, Jethro Tull, and the TransSiberian Orchestra. Brian is honored to participate once again in the beautiful, sacred Mt. Auburn winter solstice celebrations.

Daedelus is a musician enmeshed in the worlds of Electronic, Hip Hop, and Jazz. Synonymous Los Angeles' Beat Scene they have performed over 1,000+ shows across 6 continents. An Artist in residence with S.E.T.I., founding faculty of Berklee College of Music's E.D.I. performance program, and a long standing Dublab.com DJ.

Deb Todd Wheeler is an award winning multi-disciplinary artist in the Boston area who creates emergent spaces of radical generosity for emotional transformation and reclamation. In her most recent project, she guides participants through a geo-located audio-walk in the partially remediated landscape of Lost Pond, which you can read about in her recently released Book of Walks. She generates intimate experiences through interactive installations, objects, and participatory happenings, creating provisional communities through gathering, grief work, and holding commemorative space. She is on the Graduate Faculty at Lesley Art + Design, a Deep Listening facilitator, a founding member of the LENNYcollective, and is represented by Ellen Miller Gallery.

Mwalim (MJ Peters) aka, Mwalim DaPhunkee Professor is a multi-award-winning, interdisciplinary creator, performer, and scholar, whose works have taken the forms of plays, music compositions, sound recordings, performance works, films, books, and lectures; often reflecting on the cultures and experiences of his Bajan (Barbados) and Wampanoag communities. He is the artistic director of Oversoul Theatre Collective; a member of the Grammy nominated, indie soul-funk band, The GroovaLottos, and the owner and head of production at Polyphonic Studios. He is also a tenured professor of English, Communications and Black Studies at UMass Dartmouth. His work can be found on www.daphunkeeprofessor.com

Mother of three, creative, hardworking adult children. I live in a small stone cottage in the woods of Scituate, RI . The stone carving studio, shared with a small talented team of artists, is on the same land. In 1991 I carved my first letter into stone and something ignited in my soul. I Love Winter and the smell of wood smoke rising from the chimneys in the house and studio.

Ricardo Austrich has over 30 years of experience as a landscape architect focused on the design and site planning of parks, streetscapes, cemeteries, historical landscapes. He was the Project Manager for the renovation of Asa Gray Garden, which is an integral site within the Solstice program. He brings additional knowledge with commercial & developer-driven projects. These experiences exemplify his plant-centered practices. Ricardo’s work is informed by his past experiences as educator in landscape architecture in Chile as a Fulbright scholar and in Australia as a visiting lecturer.

Pelican Sound is a creative audio design studio delivering custom music + sound design and strategies for product design, brands, and experiences led by sound designer/music producer, Stefan Kostaras. Following his graduation from Berklee College of Music, Stefan embarked on a journey to establish a studio that could accommodate his artistic and commercial endeavors, while also demonstrating the prescience necessary to adapt and flourish within the continually shifting realms of digital, virtual, and tangible worlds. Pelican Sound slowly garnered recognition and appreciation, leading to its deployment in a wide array of applications, including video game sound design, product design, marketing campaigns, and user experience design for leading brands such as Burberry, Peloton, Byredo, Spotify, Amazon, and Aritzia. https://www.pelicansound.studio/