Curator, producer e researcher in performing arts. In 2009, after 10 years as a director of alkantara, she became a nomad, assuming the curatorship of several projects in Spain (El Ranchito), Brazil (Festival Panorama) and Chile (Movimiento Sur). Back in Portugal, between 2018 and 2021, she curated Festival Verão Azul. In 2018, she launched the project Linha de Fuga – an international creation laboratory and arts festival. Author of several articles on the performing arts field, she works as an advisor and artistic mentor to artists and organisations in Europe and South America.

Creator, cultural programmer, professor and researcher. PhD on the subject of Community Artistic Practices and Civic and Political Participation in Brazil and Portugal, he is a guest lecturer at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Évora and at The School of Dance – IPL. He works as an artistic advisor to institutions and national and international project in programming and cultural policies. He was artistic director of Festival Imaginarius and MEXE and a curator in different projects and contexts. Currently, he is the director of DESEJAR – Movimento de Artes e Lugares Comuns and 'O que fazemos com isto?', Braga 25 – Portuguese Capital of Culture. Learn more

Programmer of performing arts at Teatro do Bairro Alto (2019-2025). With a degree in Psychopedagogy and postgraduate degree in Cultural Management, she was part of the programming team of Teatro Maria Matos as a programming assistant (2009-2018), having collaborated in curating projects in the field of contemporary performing arts. During that period, she was responsible for managing an international network of theatres and festivals financed by the EU Creative Europe Programme, focusing on the support of artistic creation, the promotion of cultural mobility and the diffusion of cooperation and exchange between different cultural contexts.

Brazilian sociologist and transdisciplinary artist, director, curator and poet. Master in Artistic Photography (2022) and Sociology (2007), PhD in Sociology of Cinema (2019), she is the co-creator of the Nêga Filmes Cultural Association, which develops transdisciplinary projects in visual arts, cinema, curatorship, education, photography, poetry and performance. She is one of the creators of the KUBATA – Casa de Potencialização Artística project. Since 2016, she has coordinated and curated several film cycles and exhibitions.

Deputy coordinator of ICNOVA – NOVA Institute of Communication, assistant professor at the Autonomous University of Lisbon and the School of Social Sciences and Humanities of NOVA University and film programmer. In 2023, she was awarded the Hélio and Amélia Pedroso Chair / Luso-American Foundation in Portuguese Studies, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research focus on colonial visuality and coloniality, film propaganda and censorship in Portugal, women in decolonisation movements, and militant uses of images.

Visual artist, curator, programmer and art educator. She has a degree in Anthropology from UNL/FCSH and a postgraduate qualification in Performance from FBAUP. She develops her practice at the intersection between performance, video, photography, text, curation, research, and education, while also developing visual arts curatorial projects in independent spaces and in partnership with cultural institutions. She is one of the founding artists of UNA – União Negra das Artes.

Curator, architect and cultural advisor the Cabo Verde Embassy in Portugal. Executive Master's degree and PhD candidate in the MIT Portugal programme, he works at the intersection between artistic practices, space and cultural mediation in Portuguese-speaking countries and territories. In architecture, he has developed projects on various scales, for which he has received distinctions and awards. He is the curator of the 11th São Tomé and Príncipe Art Biennial. He has collaborated with cultural centres and museums in curating, programming and strategic consulting. 

Curator at CACE – Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado since 2022, she has a degree in History of Art and a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of Lisbon, her career being closely linked to contemporary art, as a teacher, researcher, or exhibition curator.