Anyi Yuan

is originally from China and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and English. She is an amateur singer & songwriter and loves dancing, playing guitar and all kinds of sports. She enjoys interacting with people from different backgrounds sharing experiences and stories. She is open to all kinds of arts forms and she believes that she is a good storyteller with her music because she is just ‘herself’

Vasiliki Tsouka

is an arts professional and dramaturg based in Melbourne. She was born and grew up in Athens, Greece where she completed a bachelor’ s in Cultural studies and management. She has worked for numerous arts spaces, artists, publishing houses, festivals as part of the production and press office. Her vision is to combine her love and knowledge for the Ancient Greek Theatre with Australian as well as international modern narratives

Cathleen Gay

was born in Melbourne, Australia and she grew up in Provence and studied in Paris, France. Dance, Music, Art and Fashion have always been a passion for her. She comes from Fashion Haute Couture where she was trained and she worked many years for prestigious brands and different sectors in this field. She has lived in Shanghai, China for 10 years and now she is back to her birth land, Melbourne where she teaches Fashion Design, provides Consulting and continues her Artistic work and collaborations as a multidisciplinary and transversal designer with textile, drawing, graphic and photo as her main tools of expression.

Lalita Ramona Yagnik

is a Kalari Healing Practitioner, Naturopath, Martial Arts and Yoga instructor. She is the director of Kalari Healing, which provides integrated health services and martial arts/yoga, and which synergises traditional and evidence based medicine. Originally from India, Lalita has lived in various countries such as Brazil, Singapore, India and Japan. Her father is a Gujarati from northern India, and mother from Goa in the south.

She speaks fluent English, Spanish and Portuguese, and understands Japanese and Hindi. Her father speak Hindi, Gujarati, Wagadi and Mewadi, the later two indigenous dialects from the north west.

Fabrice Ginap

is originally from Martinique Island and carrys within his Afro-Caribean heritage. This includes Creole Tales, dances and an unique perspective of life. He engages multicultural audiences as a citzen of the world where current and ancient uplifing cellebrations ememrges.

Grace de las Nieves

was born in Santiago de Chile, under the family Amigo Perez, a mixture of Spanish blood and Mapuche people where her family comes from. She has always found beauty in the Spanish language that creates her universe. She still dancing the fight

Johnny Niu

(Chinese name Xiaoming) is originally from Shandong in China where they speak Mandarin. He moved to Australia in 2008 and explorers his creative mind through coding softwares. He enjoys calisthenics, reading and travelling and wishes to have diversity in his life by trying different activities, exploring more places and different cultures around the world

Stefano Mangiola

was born in Milan (Italy), from a family emigrated from the south of Italy (Calabria and Puglia). He grew up in between the north and south cultures. From childhood he was passionate about Music and Science. Growing up, he kept both doors opened hoping that one day he would have choose the right one, for then understanding that he was quite comfortable in the anteroom

Soyoun

was born in Incheon, the town near the Western Sea in South Korea where they speak Korean; Hangeul, 한글. She has moved to Australia in 2005 to pursue her creative career and she is currently working as a photo-media artist and independent curator

Kana Sakai

was born and grew up in Japan. Her childhood dream to live abroad led her way to NZ and Australia and now has been teaching Japanese at primary schools in Australia over 20 years. Keeping Australia as her base, she has also been pursuing her passion for travelling the world and also another passion towards Afro latin music, especially Brazilian. Now she counts Australia as her home, Japan as home of her heart and Brazil as home of her soul.

Chloe

feels privileged to be living on Kulin Land. Her ancestors are English/Irish/ Scottish/German and she describes them and herself as settler/invaders of this country known as Australia. She is an artist and loves listening and drawing. Poetry, she feels, is an embodied practice of being inside a drawing, listening.

Arjady Martinez

is Peruvian Colombian and has been writing poetry for the last 20 years. He writes about love, passion and perspectives of life.

Julia Calasso & Edval Boa Morte

Julia Calasso is a performance artist originally from Brazil, based in Melbourne who loves storytelling and dancing. She perceives art as a powerful tool to question aspects of our society and to propose alternatives.

Edval Boa Morte "Mestre Val Boa Morte' is a reference in different areas of Brazilian culture. He is a Capoeira Master and a Brazilian drumming expert and has been travelling around the world since 1983 performing Brazilian Culture.

Dmitry Meow

is originally from Kazakhstan where they speak Russian and Kazakh. He moved to Australia with his family 7 years ago and find the best way to explore his creativity in coding. Passionate about cats he perceives the world around him as magical playground.

Renaud Gay

Renaud is a French performer and composer, founder of SoundScape, focusing on the contemporary use of traditional instruments. Renaud has played in various bands, venues and with different artists from around the world. He had been playing guitar/bass in first place for 10 years before life brought him to the realms of World Music.

Didgeridoo , jaw harp and throat singing were the first instruments he learnt and played for more than 18 years. He started then the practice of the Rajasthani/Pakistani double flutes “Algoza/Satara” 15 years ago, then other traditional instruments such as Persian Ney, Moroccan Guembri, Indonesian Suling... that Renaud has already incorporated in SoundScape as well as in other collaborations. Driven by his love of traditional instruments, he has since started to learn other instruments such as Dilruba and Ravanhatta. Renaud believes that traditional instruments are the living memories of mankind’s cultural heritage. They express the deepest interactions between men and environment they live in.