Daniela Marian Mussali Meza is a community organiser, farmer, educator, manager of social and environmental projects focused on the conservation of biocultural heritage in Mexico City and the Yucatan peninsula. She has a background in ethnoecology and cultural heritage development. She has extensive experience in facilitating social and environmental regenerative projects, in creating local cultural centres and leading community workshops, particularly those aimed at children and youth, and has worked as a project and outreach manager. Producing festivals and artistic events has also been a significant part of her strategies for bringing together people and regenerating heritage and sustainable practices.

 Xuân-Hạ is an interdisciplinary artist and community-engaged art practitioner, who currently lives and works in Da Nang; and whose practice focuses on the sociocultural changes in her hometown in the central region of Vietnam. Through various experimentations with materials, space, and social interaction, Xuân-Hạ interprets the visual structure of her own narratives using a vast array of different artistic representations such as painting, video, sculpture, installation, and conceptual art.

Besides working as an artist, Xuân-Hạ also plays an active role in building and expanding the local art community as she believes that community is at the core of her practice. She co-founded the art collective Chaosdowntown Cháo in Saigon (2015-2019); and a sông club (2019) aiming to explore the identity of Da Nang - Quang Nam and its people.

Aimée Gratia is a traditional Rwandan dancer in a Johannesburg based refugee cultural group. It is from here that she has drawn much of her creative and intellectual inspiration for her academic and community service work. She is a Mellon Mays fellow and has presented her research at Bowdoin College and Columbia University at summer institutes in the United States.

Passionately curious about humanity, Aimée Gratia describes herself as a creatively intuitive person who strives to find collaborations between her African-orientated academic work and broader social, political, and artistic spaces. She is also interested in the role of African women in knowledge production as well as their financial emancipation as community builders.

Sepideh Khodarahmi is an iranian/swedish dancer and actress educated at the University of Stage and Music in Gothenburg, the Hogeschool for the Arts in Amsterdam and the Broadway Dance Center in New York. Their technical background lies in acting, dance,  mathematics, mime and contemporary circus. They enjoy stretching out their body between entertainment and conceptual work. Their own works tends to revolve around spirituality, sensuality and transformation.

Fabíola Santana is an interdisciplinary artist and performance maker. Her practice combines classical and contemporary dance training, immersive theatre, film, audience participation, Butoh, actor training, voice work, live art, and making with communities. Fabiola works with performance as a medium for connection, transformation and exchange.

Fabiola’s projects include:

Award-winning dance film Canning Town made with longtime collaborator WilL Dickie. Awards include: Best Film at InShadow film festival, Special Jury Award at Bucharest International Dance film festival, and UK Award winner at Screen.Dance film festival.

A Home for Grief, a collection of experiences made for one person at a time. A series of communal actions that search for ways to share grief across boundaries and histories. These artworks will be at Tramway, Glasgow from the 12th - 16th July.

Fabiola is currently a PhD student at Liverpool Hope University. Her project is funded by a VC scholarship project ‘Decolonisation and Hope’. Her practice as Research (PaR) thesis focuses on how colonialism has impacted the need for preservation of familial care practices. 

Amanda Tavares is currently a Research Associate at the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sheffield. Her PhD thesis, entitled '(Re)envisioning the Mediterranean: unlearning and imagining through contemporary art', focused on eight artworks by women artists in order to reflect on the de- and re-construction of collective imaginaries. She is particularly interested in how artworks can renegotiate historical visual tropes and in the role of installations and multimedia art as spaces for political awareness and social engagement. She has recently been awarded a Leverhulme Study Abroad grant, and will be relocating to Lisbon in October 2023 to start a new research project on contemporary artist Zineb Sedira.