Paola Cavallin’s Comedia dell’Arte expert and performer, Paola has worked extensively with half mask in Italy with several directors, among many Eugenio de Giorgi of Teatro Olmetto. She trained in Commedia dell’Arte at the school of “Avogaria” in her home city of Venice, with Enrico Bonavera (of teatro “Il Piccolo, Milan) and Carlo Boso. She is a renowned solo performer

Hilary McCollum is a novelist, playwright and feminist activist. Her first novel, Golddigger, which spans the California goldrush and the Irish Famine, won the Golden Crown Literary Society award for historical fiction in 2016. Her second novel, Wild, set within the British suffragette movement, will be published in 2018. In 2014, her play, Life and Love: Lesbian Style, was nominated

AVOEC was established by Luiza Moraes and Lori Baldwin, who met in Budapest in 2013. AVOEC creates work that disrupts binaries, embraces uncertainty and revels in quiet spectacles. Working between the realms of performance, theatre and live art, their pieces are concerned with the experimental edges of traditional art making. RMQS (Raising My Queer Self) is a versatile performance that

Alisha Doody: Alisha is a young visual artist and activist living and working in Dublin/Leitrim, Ireland. Her practice is centered on issues relating to contemporary society and is focused on understanding how this relates to the personal. Utilising the interplay of medium and subject her working methods are fluid, meditative, including both analogue and digital photography as well as video.

Lovis Cassaris, geboren 1983 in Süditalien, aufgewachsen in der Schweiz, lebt heute in Fribourg. Sie studierte Germanistik, Philosophie und Englische Literaturwissenschaft in Zürich, Berlin und Potsdam. Aktuell promoviert sie im Forschungsfeld der Gender- und Queerlinguistik in Zürich, arbeitet als Kommunikationsverantwortliche und freie Journalistin. Für manche wäre eine 180km-Wanderung durch Lappland nur eine sportliche Herausforderung. Für Alexandra Roth ist der 5-tägige

maria salamon is an austrian violinist, composer and artist. her musical experience is extremely diverse and multifaceted, ranging from virtuous solo tunes to large scale pieces. her compositions have been performed all over the world. as a violinist, she has been awarded with several prizes, both for her solo playing and for her ensembles. gudrun salamon is an austrian singer,

Curator, Filmmaker and woman of culture, Veronika Minder was born in 1948, lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. She is involved in many different cultural events and has been one of the main influences on the Bern cultural landscape for over 40 years. During her studies – History of Art, Archeology, and Publishing – she took part (under the influence

Marie Vermeiren is a filmmaker and organizer of cultural events around women artists. Since 2008, she’s an active member of the Women’s Film Festival ELLES TOURNENT in Brussels. Synopsis/ Abstract: WE ARE HERE by Shitou and Jing Zhao (Chine, 2016, 60’, vo Ch Eng Subt, st Fr). Synopsis: Beijing, 1995. The Fourth UN Conference on Women breaks the taboos. The

Agnieszka Małgowska.Born in 1970 in Warsaw (Poland). A graduate of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw / Master of Art (2000), Postgraduate of Genders Studies ISNS UW (1999). Since 1995 she works as the theater director. Moniak Rak. Born in 1971 in Warsaw (Poland). A graduate of the Theatre Academy in Warsaw / Master of Art (2000), extramural acting diploma ZASP –

Kelly Cogswell was a founding member of the Lesbian Avengers and co-organizer of 1993 Dyke March in Washington D.C. which mobilized 20 000 lesbians, and propelled the Lesbian Avengers onto the national and international stage. Currently, she is a writer and indy journalist. Her regular column in New York’s Gay City News has been recognized by the New York Press

Born and raised in France, Julie Pernet « Julio » now lives in Brussels where she works in human rights advocacy. She has been drawing and painting since early childhood and has developed an immoderate love for women’s faces, figures as well as for all kinds of red. She has been using various techniques, from charcoal, pastels and acrylics to