Irene Solà holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and a Master’s in Literature, Cinema and Visual Culture from the University of Sussex. She has published a volume of poems, recognized with the Amadeu Oller Prize and her first novel won the 2017 Documenta Prize. Her work has been exhibited at the Whitechapel Gallery (London) and the CCCB (Barcelona), among others. Canto jo i la muntanya balla (When I sing the Mountain Dances) is the winner of the prestigious 2019 Anagrama Catalan Novel Award.

Sergi Pàmies is a very regular presence in newspapers, radio, and television. Born in French exile, he is the author of three novels but best known for his short story collections. His previous literary awards include the 2007 City of Barcelona Prize and the eighth volume of stories, L'art de portar gavardina (The Art of Wearing a Trench Coat has already earned him both the 2019 Catalan Critics’ Prize and the 2019 Serra d’Or.

Eva Baltasar (Barcelona, 1978) has published ten poetry collections, which have earned her many awards including the 2008 Miquel de Palol, the 2011 Benet Ribas, and the 2016 Gabriel Ferrater. After her highly successful debut as a novelist with Permagel, she published Boulder, the second novel of an ongoing trilogy, whose third and final novel, Mamut, is due in Catalan in February 2022.

Marta Orriols is emerging as one of finest of the recent fine crop of female prose stylists from Catalonia. She studied creative writing at the Barcelona Athenaeum and she is also the author of a 2016 short story collection. Her debut novel, Aprendre a parlar amb les plantes (Learning to Talk to Plants), was sold to several languages even before its original Catalan publication appeared and earned her the Òmnium Award for Best Novel of 2018.

Josep Maria Esquirol (Sant Joan de Mediona, 1963) is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Barcelona (UB), where he directs the Aporia research group. He is the autor of numerous studies on contemporary philosophy and gives seminars on the subject at universities abroad.

Aina Bestard (Mallorca, 1981) studied Design at ESDI and then a postgraduate course in illustration at EINA. She has worked as a fashion designer and fabric printer for Miró Jeans and Women’ secret, and designed shoes for Camper. She is the author of the internationally bestselling series What’s Hidden and the delicate A New Life, among others.

Borja Bagunyà is one of the most outstanding authors from the new generation of Catalan writers. He holds a degree in literary theory and comparative literature, and his three published works have met with great praise from critics. When he was just 24 years old, his book of short stories Defensa pròpia won the Premio Mercè Rodoreda and Premio QWERTY. Since 2011, he has taught literary theory classes at the University of Barcelona, and he is co-founder of the Bloom Literature School, also in Barcelona.

Raül Garrigasait (Solsona, 1979) is a writer and a Hellenist. In his non-fiction he has explored such themes as cosmopolitanism (El gos cosmopolita i dos espècimens més [The Cosmopolitan Dog and Two Other Specimens]), the beginnings of modernity in Catalunya (El fugitiu que no se’n va [The Fugitive Who Won’t Leave]) and the relationship between Greco-Roman classics and power (Els fundadors [The Founders]). His novel Els estranys [Strange Strangers] (2017) won the Catalan Bookseller’s Prize, the Òmnium Award for Best Catalan Novel, and the Setè Cel Prize.

Rosie Goldsmith is an award-winning journalist specializing in arts and foreign affairs. A BBC staff Senior Broadcast Journalist for twenty years, she travelled the world, presented several flagship programmes such as Crossing Continents, A World In Your Ear, Open Book and Front Row. She has interviewed leading cultural and literary figures, from Margaret Atwood to Edmund de Waal, David Mitchell to Karlheinz Stockhausen. Rosie is a passionate linguist (French, German and Italian) and traveller and has lived in Europe, Africa and the USA. Today she combines journalism with chairing and curating arts and literary events in the UK and across the world – in these Covid-days both virtually as physically. Known as a champion of international literature, translation and language learning, she promotes them whenever she can. She is Founder and Director of the European Literature Network, Editor-in-Chief of The Riveter magazine (The Italian Riveter is published in 2022) and was Chair of the Judges of the EBRD Literature Prize from 2018-2020. She is a regular chair at literature festivals, at Cheltenham and Hay-on-Wye, among others. Rosie collaborates with major cultural organisations, from museums, to festivals to universities, such as Future Library Norway, ELIT-European Literature Days Austria, the Dutch Literature Foundation and the Swiss Arts Council.

Daniel Hahn is a writer, editor and translator with eighty books to his name. His work has won him the International Dublin Literary Award and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and been shortlisted for the Man Booker International Prize, among many others. Recent books include Catching Fire, a translation diary.

Georgina Godwin is Books Editor for Monocle 24  and the host of the flagship literary show Meet the Writers, and current affairs programme The Globalist. She chairs events worldwide and hosts a number of commercial podcasts. She is on the boards of the charities  English PEN and Developing Artists.  She tweets @georginagodwin

Vassiliki Tzomaka is a designer and illustrator based in Colchester, UK. She has a PhD in illustration from the Centre for Children’s Book Illustration, Cambridge School of Art. For the 'Extreme Environments' series (Thames & Hudson) she has drawn on her BSc in chemistry and MA in environmental studies to devise a distinctive visual approach to introducing children to the life in extreme environments.

David Constantine has published a dozen volumes of poetry (most recently – 2020 – Belongings); also two novels and six collections of short stories, the most recent of these being The Dressing-up Box, 2019. His Tea at the Midland (2012) won the Frank O’ Connor International Short Story Award. He is an editor and translator of Hölderlin, Goethe, Kleist and Brecht. With his wife Helen he edited Modern Poetry in Translation (2004-12).

Jay Griffiths is the award-winning author of many books including Wild: An Elemental Journey. She has broadcast and written widely, including for Radiohead and the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her work has received widespread accolades including from Gary Snyder, Barry Lopez, Don Paterson, John Berger, Philip Pullman, KT Tunstall and Nikolai Fraiture. Her latest book is Why Rebel.

Max Porter is the multi-award winning author of three novels. He frequently collaborates with theatre-makers, artists and musicians. His work has been translated into over thirty languages. He lives in Bath, England. 

Daisy Johnson's debut short-story collection, Fen, was published in 2016 and won the Edge Hill Prize. In 2018 she became the youngest author ever to be shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize with her debut novel Everything Under. Her novel Sisters was published in 2021. She lives in Oxford.

Christopher MacLehose is the founder of Mountain Leopard Press. He previously established MacLehose Press, where he was publisher from 2008 to 2020, and Harvill Press, where he was publisher from 1984 to 2003. He is committed to publishing literature in translation to the highest standard and has published literature and crime fiction in translation from more than thirty-five languages, and prize-winning writers from many cultures. He was awarded the London Book Fair Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006.

Rupert Thomson was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, England, and studied Medieval History and Political Philosophy at Cambridge University. His best-known works include Secrecy, The Five Gates of Hell, Death of a Murderer, The Book of Revelation, Soft!, and The Insult, and This Party’s Got to Stop. In 2015, Thomson was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London. His book Barcelona Dreaming (Other Press, 2021) received Best Book of the Year award from The Irish Times; New York Times Book Review: Editor's Choice; The Times (UK): Book of the Week Pick; Foreword Reviews: Book of the Day Pick; Conde Nast Traveler: Best Book of the Season Pick.

Peter Bush was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, in 1946. On leaving school in the mid-sixties Peter went on to read Modern Languages at Cambridge University, where there was a strong tradition of interest in Catalan literature and history. He was taught translation by Geoffrey Walker, and Spanish by Helena Valentí. With his knowledge of both French and Spanish, Peter was able to read the poetry of Carles Riba and Jacint Verdaguer. He then gained a D.Phil at Oxford University that led him to research republican federalism, anarchism, and the folletín in Catalan. Following his studies of Catalan at the end of the seventies Peter was to hold the post of Professor of Literary Translation at the University of Middlesex and then East Anglia, where he was also Director of the British Centre for Literary Translation founded by W. G. Sebald. Eventually, in 2003, Peter came to live in Barcelona. He had been the founder of the literary translation journal, In Other Words, as well as the International Literary Translation Summer School. He has translated authors such as Rosa Maria Arquimbau, Nuria Amat, Juan Goytisolo, Najat el Hachmi, Empar Moliner, Quim Monzó, Juan Carlos Onetti, Francesc Serés and Teresa Solana as well as Spanish classics like Celestina and Tirano Banderas. His projects also include a series of contemporary Catalan classics: Josep Pla’s The Gray Notebook and Life Embitters, Joan Sales’s Uncertain Glory, Victor Català’s A film (3000 meters) and Mercè Rodoreda’s In Diamond Square.

Mara Faye Lethem is a translator of contemporary Catalan and Spanish prose, and the author of A Person's A Person, No Matter How Small. Her translations have been recognized with two English PEN Awards, three International Dublin Literary Award nominations, a Warwick Prize nomination, a National Translation Award nomination (ALTA), and a residency at Art OMI's Translation Lab. Recent translations include books by Patricio Pron, Max Besora, Javier Calvo, Jordi Nopca, Marta Orriols, Toni Sala, Alicia Kopf, and Irene Solà. She is currently translating the collected short stories of Pere Calders as part of her PhD at the University of St Andrews.

Born and raised in Paris, Christian Michel spent part of his professional life in the corporate world, with long stints in Geneva and Moscow. Mercantile activities didn't dim his interest in philosophy. He started writing articles on the meaning of economics, what it does to human beings and societies, eventually lecturing on the subject after moving to London. Christian Michel has been organising the café philo discussion group at the Institut français in London for several years.

Ed Vulliamy is a journalist who has written for The Guardian and The Observer for three decades. Awarded with the Ryszard Kapuśiński Prize for literary reportage, he has also written about painting and music. Vulliamy's mother is the renowned children's author and illustrator Shirley Hughes. He proudly considers himself a national disgrace.

Born in the Maresme, she holds a degree in Translation and Interpreting from the UPF, a postgraduate degree in Language Correction and Support in Catalan in Audiovisual Media from the UAB and a master's degree in Teaching in Secondary Schools. She has been translating and proofreading for almost twenty-five years, task that she often combines with teaching. In the literary field, she has translated authors such as George Orwell, Sherman Alexie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Angela Readman, William Faulkner and Daniel Defoe. In 2019 she received the Crítica Serra d'Or Award for the Catalan translation of Faulkner's Light in August.

Gala Sicart Olavide is a translator, editor and, above all, an eager reader. She has worked for seven years at MacLehose Press and is currently collaborating with Mountain Leopard Press. Gala has published translations at OpenDemocracy and TheConversation. A member of New Spanish Books' panel of experts, she lives in London.

Jim Jump, chair of the International Brigade Memorial Trust (IBMT). He is the author and editor of several books on the Spanish Civil War and the international volunteers who fought in it, including Antifascistas (2010, with Richard Baxell and Angela Jackson) and more.

Jordi Martí-Rueda (Barcelona, 1976) is a historian specializing in Civil War and International Brigades. His first book, Tocats pel vent. Cinc històries humanes de les Brigades Internacionals i la Guerra Civil (published by Pagès Editors in 2014, and in Spanish by Editorial Milenio in 2017 with the title of Cinco rebeldes) received the Liberisliber non-fiction award in 2015. In 2020 he published Brigadistes. Vides per la llibertat (Tigre de paper, with four editions so far) and in 2021, Swing, swing, swing. Vides de jazz, rebel·lia i ball (Sembra Llibres, two editions so far). He currently works in the General Directorate of Democratic Memory.

Jorge Gárriz is from Pamplona, Spain, but moved to London in 2010 where he has been working for architectural practices as Studio Manager and organising events. From 2014 he joined Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest and in 2016 he became a programmer of the festival until 2021 where he has been programming films from both Spanish and Latin American filmmakers. He is also a member of Strange Perfume, a queer collective of artists and thinkers who curated the Strange Perfume Queer Book Art Fair. In 2020 Jorge launched his long-waited project, Romancero Books, an online bookshop of Spanish and Latin American literature based in London. In October 2021 he launched the first edition of the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London – FQSLL.

Manon Steffan Ros is a prize-winning Welsh author, playwright, and musician (she is one half of the acoustic duo Blodau Gwylltion). Her latest novel, Llyfr Glas Nebo (The Blue Book of Nebo), won one of the highest awards for Welsh-language writing, the prose medal at the Eisteddfod, in 2018, as well as the Welsh-language Wales Book of the Year Award and the Fiction and People's Choice categories for 2019. Since then it has become a best seller in the Welsh language market, is being adapted for stage and film, and is shortlisted for the 2019 Na nOg Prize for Literature for children and young adults, a prize that she has won three times since 2010. Her previous novels for adults have been shortlisted for and awarded the Wales Book of the Year and have been selected for the Wales Literature Exchange Annual Bookcase, including her novel Blasu (Y Lolfa, 2012), which was published in English translation as The Seasoning by Honno in 2015.

Meirian Jump is Archivist & Library Manager at the Marx Memorial Library and Honorary Teaching Fellow at the University Dundee. She has a research interest in archives and historical memory with reference to the Spanish civil war and Franco dictatorship.

Pol Guasch (Tarragona, 1997) is a poet and member of the cultural production company La Sullivan. He earned an undergraduate degree in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature (University of Barcelona), holds a master's degree in Construction and Representation of Cultural Identity (UB), and he completed the Independent Studies Program at MACBA. He has been an associate professor of literature and cultural critique at the UB and is currently researching contemporary theory and literature at King's College London, where he resides, thanks to a grant from Fundació laCaixa. He has published the poetry collections Tanta gana and La part del foc and has recited his poems at various national and international festivals. He won the Anagrama Award 2021 with his first novel Napalm in the Heart.

Vanessa Onwuemezi is a writer and poet living in London. Her work has appeared in Granta, Prototype, frieze and Five Dials. Her story 'At the Heart of Things' won the White Review Short Story Prize 2019. Her short story collection Dark Neighbourhood was published by Fitzcarraldo in 2021.

Carmen Segovia is an illustrator based in Barcelona. After a first period of Studies in Scenography, she specialized in illustration at the Llotja and Eina Art Schools in Barcelona. In 2002, her illustrations were selected for the Bologna Children's Book Fair, and since then she has devoted herself mainly to illustrated narrative. She collaborates in international press and publications, while regularly signing picture books. She also develops her personal drawing series, comic book stories and other collaborative projects. She is a professor of Illustrated Narrative in the Master in Creative Illustration at BAU Design College. Carmen Segovia is curator of the Catalan illustration exhibition Spotlight, Books in Catalan at the LBF 2022.

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Joan Negrescolor was born in 1978 in Barcelona. He studied illustration at the Escola Massana where he graduated in 2003. He later attended several courses such as the International Seminar on Illustration and Design in Albarracín and the Master's in Children's Illustration of the EINA School. His work in recent years has focused mainly on the fields of poster design, press and advertising. He has recently focused in illustrated album. His first author-album book, A Cidade dos Animais (Orfeu Negro 2017), has received a great acknowledgment and has been translated into more than 10 languages. In 2019 he released his second album Eu, Alfonsina (Orfeu Negro 2020, Portugal), also recognized and translated into many languages. Joan Negrescolor likes to explore the expression and poetry of the image. His work is characterized by a captivating narrative, a range of impossible colors with a powerful composition, a personal touch in each of the projects launched, building an own coherent formal and conceptual discourse in any of the projects in which he participates. His works keep achieving great success, leaving behind an imaginary of great wealth and values.

Júlia Sardà is an illustrator from Barcelona. After studying, Júlia started working as colorist in a studio in charge of the editorial merchandising for Disney/Pixar and two years later she moved on to freelancing. With work ranging from concept art for video games to children’s illustration, Júlia has had the chance to illustrate some everlasting classics such as Alice in Wonderland; The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Miquel Pang is an illustrator from Barcelona with a Cambodian mother and a Chinese father. He understands illustration and his creative process as part of his life, where each of them are intermingled & inform the other. He loves telling stories with pictures, making books, and playing with colors. Another of his passions is teaching illustration, creativity and drawing. He currently teaches at the Design University Esdi (Sabadell) & has been invited as a teacher at the Difumina Illustration Festival (Spain), Les Estivales de l’Illustration in Sarrant (France), Elisava (Barcelona), la Escuela Minúscula (Spain), La Càmera Il·lustrada, the Cervantes Institute of New York and the Shanghai Book Fair. Awards: Gold Medal Illustrators 63 exhibit of the Society of Illustrators of NY (2020), Communication Arts (2020), Special Mention Chen Bochui (2019), Society of Illustrators (2017), American Illustration (2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013), Latin American (2016, 2015, 2013) Bologna children’s book fair (2014), Premio Nazionale delle Arti 2012 per il Design della Comunicazione, Junceda Prize (2016).

Patricia Geis, from Barcelona, is a graphic designer, author and illustrator of children's books. She studied Graphic Design at the Eina School in Barcelona and Fine Arts at the New York Institute of Technology. Specializing in three-dimensional books, her books have been published in numerous countries and have won several awards, including Visual 2009, A l’Abord d’Art 2010, White Ravens 2011, Junceda Award 2015, and Filaf 2017, all of them for her art book collection.

Violeta Fernández Lópiz, 1980 Eivissa. She is mainly a picture book illustrator. But she has also directed and created illustrations for the animations of Whittle School and Studios. She has collaborated with the newspaper El Mundo, El Expresso de Portugal or Iberia magazine. She designes illustrations for clothes, interiors, murals, lamps, book covers, album covers and apps. She regularly teaches intensive illustration and creativity workshops for adults.

Yara Rodrígues Fowler. Her first novel, Stubborn Archivist, was longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize 2020 and the Desmond Elliot Prize 2019. Yara was named one of The Observer’s ‘hottest-tipped’ debut novelists of 2019 and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2019. Yara’s second novel, There are more things (2022), has been described as ‘a blistering collage of revolution, sisterhood and joy”. Yara received the John C Lawrence Award from the Society of Authors for research to write There are more things. It was shortlisted, as a work in progress, for the Eccles Centre and Hay Festival Writer’s Award 2019.

Uta Staiger is Associate Professor of European Studies at UCL, where she directs the European Institute, the university’s hub for research on Europe and a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence. She is also Pro-Vice-Provost (Europe), a strategic role shaping UCL engagement with European universities. Her research sits at the intersection of modern European thought, culture, and politics, with recent publications on the cultural sources of British Brexit bargaining and the politics of mourning in theatre and philosophy. Her open-access edited volume Brexit and Beyond: The Future(s) of Europe (UCL Press 2018) has been downloaded over 150,000 times. Uta is a member of the Russell Group EU Advisory Group, a Senior Fellow of the Centre for Britain and Europe at the University of Sussex, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

Cristina Losantos has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. Since 1985, she has devoted herself exclusively to illustration. She works for many Catalan and International publishers. She is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines such as Avui, Cavall Fort and El Tatano. In 1998 she won the 2nd National Illustration Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture, and in 2007 she obtained the first prize in the Contest about Humor in Sports Graphic Design, convened by the Catalan Sports Foundation.

Dani Torrent (Barcelona, 1974) has a degree in Art History, has also been studying film directing, PhD courses in Fine Arts and a higher degree in Illustration. Since 2011 he has combined his work as a painter with that of an illustrator, specializing in the creation of illustrated albums that he often writes himself, in a versatile style with a poetic approach to image.

Circ Pistolet was born from the encounter between Enric Petit and Rat Serra in 2008. Together they created the company's first show, "SobreRodes", with which they toured Catalonia, Spain and France, with more than 150 performances. In 2009, Tomàs joined the company Cie XY and participated in the collective creation of the show "Le Grand C". With more than 300 performances on tour all over the world, this show won the Ciutat de Barcelona Award in the circus category in 2012.
Since 2010, Enric and Tomàs have been training together and sharing the knowledge they acquire. All that led the company to expand, forming an acrobatic group of 6 artists, with whom they created the street show "Cabaret Pistolet" and the show "Incert". In 2014, the latter was awarded the prize for the best circus show at the Zirkolika Awards.
At the beginning of 2017, Enric and Tomàs started their latest creation "Quan no tocàvem de peus a terra", an autobiography of their friendship explained through circus, which revolves around three main axes: balances, friendship and wood, all tied together like a great adventure game. In the 2017 edition, it was also awarded as the best street circus show at the Zirkolika Awards.

En Diciembre was founded in 2014, from the passion of circus and the shared desire among its members to create a lot of different things. Created by Sergio Gonzalez and Silvia Capell, HOMENAJE is the first show of the company that originates from improvisations, and also from the risk and the interest of learning. It has been made and shown bit by bit to the public view. For this piece, Silvia Capell (Crime against the clock, Cia Capgirades) / Violeta, Col·lectiu La Persiana) skips her beloved trapeze to choose the Cyr wheel and the Chinese pole. Sergio Gonzalez (Learning, begining to lose, Atempo Circ / Retalls, GREC Barcelona Festival 2013 / AAAART, 18è Circ d’Hivern, l’Ateneu Popular 9 Barris / Violeta, Col·lectiu La Persiana) also works on this piece with the wheel and the pole. Since 2011 Sergio works and creates in the contemporary dance field.

Stevn J. Fowler is a writer, poet and artist who lives in London. He is the founder and curator of The Enemies Project and Poem Brut. He is the director of Writers’ Centre Kingston and the European Poetry Festival.

Hip Horns is a band that belongs to three different generations of jazz and modern musicians who have managed to find a unique sound formula that sets them apart from other brass projects in the state. A powerful show on stage, also versatile as a street show, and a mix of New Orleans music, hip hop and other elements of African American style.

Jansky is a duo based in Mallorca, who came up with the tag 'electroverse' to define their live electronic performances. A rave of synthesized organic sounds, beatbox flutes by Jaume Reus, and Laia Malo's unique poetry and voice. Upcoming fourth album, Insecta Dance Music, adds science to this already 'total work of art' project. Since 2013, they tour the world and have received awards like the SUNS Europe 2018 and the Museum of Sound/BBC3 Sound Of The Year 2020.

Marcos Morau’s multi-disciplinary company, La Veronal, returns to Sadler’s Wells with Pasionaria after his thought-provoking debut in 2015, Voronia. Granted the National Dance Award by the Spanish Ministry of Culture in 2013, La Veronal is known for its stunning and expressive work which extends across different artforms.

R.A.E (Rising Above Everything) is a rapper from South East London, with an explicit and claimed 90's style that translates through her music and aesthetics. Growing up influenced by singers and rappers such as TLC, Da Brat and MC Lyte, R.A.E very freshly fuses classic rap and r'nb with the urban sounds of today's UK. R.A.E fell in love with writing from a very young age and began rapping with colleagues in the school yard. After the release of some singles, in 2019 he released his first introductory EP under the name R.A.E, with half a dozen songs that talk about his generation: young people with attitude, no labels and many stories to tell.

Artist and dance teacher for over 25 years. He broadened his studies through several stays in the USA. He combines physical training of actors, work on postural awareness, speciality in jazz dance, and the holding of different movement workshops for students, professionals and artists from all spheres. During his artistic career he has given over 900 performances worldwide. As a dancer he performed with Albert Vidal, Carles Santos, Jerome Savary, Magda Puyo, Marta Carrasco, Joan Baixas & Jordi Sabatés. He has also collaborated with Dagoll Dagom, Comediants and La Fura dels Baus, among others. He is currently assistant director at Gelabert-Azzopardi dance company and has collaborated, since 2000 with the Companyia Carles Santos, for which he has taken on choreographic responsibility.

Rémy Bazerque is a writer-director for film and TV trained at the National Film and Television School in the UK. His films have screened at international film festivals, including Flickerfest, Raindance and the London Film Festival. His distinctive work has been funded by the BFI, Film London and Creative England. His advertisement Paranoid won the Firefox Flicks competition at the 65th Cannes Film Festival, and his short film Chemistry has over 600K views on YouTube.
His latest short film Leave to Remain is a BFI-funded comedy that premiered at the London Film Festival 2021 and is currently doing the festival rounds.

Nosa Eke is a platform-agnostic writer and director. While at the National Film and Television School, Nosa released the interactive digital series, The Grind, across different social media platforms. After writing a digital narrative for mobile, Nosa was spotlighted in the Apple app store in April 2018 as one of "Britain's Next Level Gaming Talents". In the same year she was picked as one of six for the BFI Flare/BAFTA mentorship programme while writing an episodic narrative on the Amazon Alexa for the BBC. Nosa was also chosen as a 2019 Trailblazer by Accenture for her work in the cross-section between technology and storytelling. Nosa has shadowed directors Destiny Ekaragha on Season 2 of The End Of The F***ing World and Wayne Yip on Doctor Who.
Her short film Something In The Closet premiered at the BFI London Film Festival 2019 where she was also chosen to be part of the Network@LFF programme; it was also selected for the BFI Flare Festival 2020. Nosa was a Film London Lodestar 2020, her debut AR feature film is in development with the British Film Institute and she has just directed TV show Big Age for Channel 4.

Graeme Arnfield is an artist filmmaker, curator and composer living in London, raised in Cheshire, UK. Producing sensory essay films from networked imagery his films use methods of investigative storytelling to explore issues of circulation, spectatorship and history. Research topics have included: the politics of digital networks, the distribution of ecological matter such as peat and asbestos and the adaptive circulation of global and local histories.
His work has been presented worldwide including Berlinale Forum Expanded, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Sonic Acts Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Transmediale, IMPAKT Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Plastik Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, LUX, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Berlinische Gallerie, Signal Gallery, Whitechapel Gallery and on e-flux & Vdrome. He graduated with a Masters in Experimental Cinema at Kingston University.

Noémi is a London-based filmmaker and a graduate of the Royal College of Art, where she specialised in Moving Image. Her work explores the boundaries of conventional documentary filmmaking, applying the tools of cinematic storytelling to all her subjects.
Her first short, The Happiest Barrack won three BAFTA-qualifying awards and premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Her Film London-funded short And It Was The Same With My Son, about a British Muslim mother who has lost her child to radicalisation, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019, where it was acquired by The Atlantic. Most recently, Noémi was invited to Berlinale Talents 2021 as part of Short Form Station, with a short documentary in development focusing on Eastern European seasonal labourers in the UK.

Julia Parks's practice encompasses film, animation and photography, often using series of photographs and projected 16mm film. Through this medium, she explores the different relationships between landscape, place and people, often focusing on the west-coast of Cumbria. Having graduated from Central Saint Martin's School of Art in 2015, Julia has since exhibited work in exhibitions and film festivals in the UK, Europe and Japan. She co-organised the Arts Council-funded residency, The Allerdale Film Farm, which explored handmade 16mm film making in West-Cumbria.
In April 2018 she was featured on BBC Countryfile where she demonstrated how to develop 16mm film using seaweed. She was a 2020/21 FLAMIN Fellowship artist. Julia is based in west Cumbria, UK.

Ezra's work often alludes to social misconceptions of cultural practices, with psychological underpinnings. He makes conscious efforts to depict the cultural values and practices of his Caribbean heritage, which reflect his experiences and desire to gain a deeper insight into his own identity.
Throughout his youth, Ezra always had heavy involvement in Steel Pans and Notting Hill carnival in London. This has enabled him to draw upon both authentic Caribbean experiences as well as his experiences of merged Caribbean and British cultures. As part of his approach, he reflects on historic events, people and music to draw parallels between processes and a range of societal outcomes. This contributes to an expression of his human experience and consequently opens up a 'grey area' for greater understanding of differential perception across different classes and cultures around the world.

For more than 20 years, Leandre has been touring the world with his poetic humor, inspired by silent film, mime, gesture and absurdity. He discovered street theatre in 1993 while travelling in Australia. When he returned in 1996, he was successful with "Streettease", his first solo show. In 1999, he founded the company Leandre & Claire, with the artist Claire Ducreux. His shows, "Fragile" and "Madam and Sir", toured the world. Since 2003, Leandre SL, production company, has created: "Desbandada", "Démodés", "Play", "No se", “Rien à dire".
Leandre has become a point of reference for street theater, and is considered one of the best contemporary clowns internationally. He usually collaborates with other artists and places, as: Cia La Tal, Cia cris-is, Dirque & Fien, Tortell Poltrona (Circ Cric) and Teatro Circo Price. Circus Award: Ciutat de Barcelona 2014 / National Circus Award of Catalunya : Best Artistic Direction 2013/ National Circus Award of Catalunya: Best Street Show 2010 / Coup de pouce in Festival Coup de Chauffe of Cognac 2007/ National Award of Catalunya: Best Circus Show 2006

After Tantes mudes, deserving of the Golden Letter for the best book published in Catalan in 2014, Mireia Calafell published Nosaltres, qui (We, who) in 2020, which won Mallorca Poetry Prize and Josep Maria Llopart Prize for the best poetry collection of the year. Varosha poetry and music recital is based on poems from Nosaltres, qui and includes some texts from Tantes mudes.
Calafell is accompanied on stage by Icelandic cellist and composer Björt Rùnars with her cello, keyboard and pedals for electronic loops. Together, they propose a route under the name Varosha, one of the busiest tourist destinations in the Mediterranean in the late 60's and which, with the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, was uninhabited. Since then, it has been a ghost town. Today, it represents the logic of a way of understanding the world as a place that can be devoured --with tourism, with war-- and, at the same time, the mystery and the contradictory beauty of a space that, due to the fact that can be inhabited again, allows us to think of a new way of doing things, of being, of telling ourselves. To ask ourselves who we are, who.

ATRESBANDES is a Catalan performing arts company based in Barcelona, led by Mònica Almirall, Miquel Segovia and Albert Pérez Hidalgo. From multi-disciplinary influences, the company's approach is based on a theatre laboratory where the process of creation is paramount and they seek to question everything around them.

Àngel Terron i Homar was born in Palma in 1953. He has a PhD in Chemical Sciences and can be considered a scientific poet or a poet scientist as he has combined both passions throughout his life and professional career. All his poetic production is marked for the unusual relation between the sciences and the letters, as the titles of his works already indicate. Àngel Terron's poems, with a precise and hermetic style, but beautiful and suggestive, combine solid formulas, characters, and figures within the textual space, to capture life in its complexity.

Casi Dylan is a cultural producer and commentator, and an Associate at Wales Literature Exchange. She has worked at the intersection of arts, education, and public engagement for over a decade, including roles at the Edinburgh International Book Festival and The Reader Organisation. Originally from Cwmystwyth, west Wales, she is now based in Scotland coordinating cultural activities at the University of Glasgow. A regular contributor to O’r Pedwar Gwynt, her writing has been featured in Words Without Borders and The Reader magazine.

Bel Olid (Mataró, Barcelona, 1977) teaches at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona alongside their work as a writer, translator and feminist activist. Their first novel Una terra solitària won the Documenta Prize in 2010 whilst Crida ben fort, Estela! was awarded the 2009 Qwerty Prize for Best Children’s Book of the Year. Alongside their fiction, which confronts issues of gender, sexuality and abuse, they have explored feminist struggles in the 21st century through several essays and have translated, amongst others, Judith Butler’s seminal Gender Trouble.

Balearic singer, composer and multiinstrumentalist Anna Ferrer, with four solo albums on her back, has sculpted her characteristic style by exploring folkloric music, her passion, and experimenting with jazz and electronic sounds. Anna presents her brand new project ‘PARENÒSTIC’, which repertoire includes new compositions as well as nearly-forgotten songs not written down anywhere but passed down by generations of field workers. Anna combines the tradition of folk and her creativity and her desire to bring something new to her music. For Anna, innovation and tradition go hand in hand.

It is their strong jazz roots that unite Magalí Sare and Manel Fortià in ‘Fang i Núvols’, a duo album that comprises a mixture of traditional Latin America, Catalan and original songs. The title ‘Fang i Núvols’, mud and clouds, defines the characteristic sound of the duet: their music is raw and naked, and the freshness and risk of improvisation allows them to reinterpret the songs by reformulating melodies, forms, and rhythm. It is a constant role-playing game: if one of the two sediments is the rhythmic part of the music (mud), the other can float freely above it (clouds).

La Perla 29 was founded in 2002 by Oriol Broggi and Carlota Subirós as a platform for the creation, work-in-progress and management of shows and is currently one of the reference spaces on the Catalan scene and in the city of Barcelona. The group is committed to a repertory theater inspired by the great classics that at the same time aims at getting closer to new stage languages and the new voices. La Perla focuses on word and tradition in dialogue with the present: an actor's theater, a theater of ideas and flesh.

La Perla 29 was founded in 2002 by Oriol Broggi and Carlota Subirós as a platform for the creation, work-in-progress and management of shows and is currently one of the reference spaces on the Catalan scene and in the city of Barcelona. The group is committed to a repertory theater inspired by the great classics that at the same time aims at getting closer to new stage languages and the new voices. La Perla focuses on word and tradition in dialogue with the present: an actor's theater, a theater of ideas and flesh.

Llucia Ramis Laloux (Palma de Mallorca, 1977) made her debut as a writer in 2008 with Coses que et passen a Barcelona quan tens trenta anys. The novel Egosurfing won the 2010 Josep Pla Award. She is also the author of Tot allò que una tarda morí amb les bicicletes, Les possessions (Anagrama Book Award 2018 and El Setè Cel de Salt Award), El petit menjatemps, illustrated by Gabriel Salvadó, and 50 llibres que m'han canviat la vida, illustrated by Julio Fuentes. She has published short stories in various anthologies.Ramis has been recognised with the Bartomeu Rosselló-Pòrcel Award, awarded by Obra Cultural Balear, and with the Time Out Best Creator Award for 2013.

Laura Peribáñez (born in Barcelona) made her debut at L’Auditori at the age of 9 and has embarked on an international career as a concert cellist ever since. Her accolades include awards and scholarships from the British Spanish Society, Drake Calleja Trust, the Catalan Government and the Hattori Foundation. Trained in Barcelona, Brussels and London, in 2020/2021 she was an Antonio Brosa Award holder at the Royal College of Music where she pursued an Artist Diploma degree. Recent highlights include performances at the United Nations in Geneva and the J K Matthews Great Hall in Pretoria.

Martí Sales debuted in 2005 with the book of poetry Huckleberry Finn (Moll, 2005), which won him the Premi Vila de Lloseta poetry award, and, since then, he has constructed an unclassifiable literary trajectory, transgressing the limits of each genre he has cultivated. These include poetic prose, narrative and even a dictionary, Aliment (Club Editor, 2021). He has also made a foray into essays, a chronicle of the Catalan music scene, and is the regular translator into Catalan of authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, John Fante, Shirley Jackson, Vivian Gornick and Patti Smith. In the field of music, he stands out for being singer and guitarist with the punk band Els Surfing Sirles. He has also contributed to cultural publications such as Time Out Barcelona and was co-director of the Barcelona International Poetry Festival (2010-2013) and Poesia i + at the Fundació Palau i Fabre. He is currently a member of the Barcelona Council of Culture.

Miquel de Palol studied Architecture and began his literary career as a poet. El porxo de les mirades he won the Carles Riba award and the Crítica Serra d'Or award. His first novel published in Catalan, El jardí dels set crepuscles, won almost all the awards given in Catalan and, since then, his literary creation, that includes poetry, novels and short stories, has been a recipient. of prestigious awards. His narrative output delves between fantastic and legendary storytelling and philosophical speculation. It has been translated into Spanish, German, Dutch and Italian.

Muriel Villanueva (Valencia, 1976) is a writer and author of more than thirty literary works for all ages, including novels, storybooks, poems, plays and short films, as well as short publications in anthologies and online. They include La Gatera, Rut Sense Hac, Duna, Dunes, El Refugi del Tarek and the L’Esfera trilogy. She has been awarded more than a dozen awards, including J.M. Caseri, Crítica dels Escriptors Valencians, Carlemany, Atrapallibres and the Llibreter. She has been translated into Spanish, English, Portuguese, Polish, Korean and Chinese. She has a degree in Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature from the University of Barcelona, a diploma in Music Education from the University of Valencia, and has been trained in Family Constellations at Espai Sistèmic i Humanista.

Najat El Hachmi was born in Beni Sidel (Morocco) in 1979. At the age of eight she moved to Vic (Barcelona), the city where she grew up. She studied Arabic Philology at the University of Barcelona, and has been a cultural mediator and host technician before dedicating herself fully to writing. She is the author of such well-known novels as The Last Patriarch (Ramon Llull Prize, Prix Ulysse and a finalist for the Prix Mediterranée étranger), translated into ten languages, The Body Hunter, The Foreign Daughter (Sant Joan Narrative Prize) and Mother of Milk and honey. In 2019 she published the manifesto They have always spoken for us, which had a great impact in the media and among readers. She currently collaborates with El País. On Monday they will love us (Nadal Award 2021) is her latest novel.

Born in Barcelona in 1949. Award-winning producer of the Catalan cinema, film critic and founder of the audiovisual production company EDDIE SAETA. In 2009 he was a member of the film jury in Locarno. Participates in the international festival scene. He is a member of the Academy of the Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain, the Catalan Academy of Cinema and the Catalan Association of the Cinematographic and Audiovisual Production Companies.

Maria Sevilla (Badalona, 1990) studied Catalan Philology at the University of Barcelona, where she now teaches Catalan language and literature. Her first two books of poems Dents de polpa (Pulpy teeth, 2015) and Kalàixnikov (Kalashnikov, 2017) won the Bernat Vidal and Tomàs and Miquel Àngel Riera prizes, respectively. In 2020 she won the Carles Hac Mor award with the plaquette if true: false; else: true, and in 2021 she published Plastilina (Playdough). She is the author, with the musician and mathematician Joan Martínez, of sound poetry performances. Her poems have been translated into Spanish, English, Croatian, Turkish and Lithuanian.

Manuel Forcano (Barcelona, 1968) is a poet and translator. He holds a PhD in Semitic Philology from the University of Barcelona, where he has been teaching Hebrew and Aramaic (1996-2004). He is the author of the historical essay A fil d'espasa: Les croades vistes pels jueus (2007) and Atles d'història dels jueus de Catalunya (2019). He has translated into Catalan several modern Israeli authors such as the poets Yehuda Amichai, Pinchas Sadeh and Ronny Someck, as well as the novelist Amos Oz. He has also translated Els viatges d'Ibn Battuta (2005). His own poetic creations include Corint (2000), El tren de Bagdad (2003), Llei d'estrangeria (2008), Ciència exacta (2014) and A tocar (2019).

Vicens Vacca (Granollers, 1954) is one of the leading figures in sound art in Catalonia. He started in the field of contemporary art in the mid-1980s, experimenting with sound in the margins of conceptual art. From its beginnings, sound is never an additional complement, but a bodily element with plastic qualities, which materialises in the space of action as a sculptural object. The uniqueness of Vacca's work can not be easily labelled nor framed, and this gives his career an overwhelming rotundity.

Born in 1992 in Barcelona. A graduate of ESCAC in screenwriting and drama, he combines his career as a creator with that of an actor. He has directed and co-written the feature film El sitio de Otto, released at the BCN Film Fest (Barcelona) and Cinespaña (Toulouse). As an actor, he has worked in television series and on creative theater projects such as 35m2 (Els Malnascuts, Sala Beckett) and Wohnwagen (La Seca Espai Brossa and Teatro Español). Karaoke Elusia is his first work as a playwright and stage director and has been awarded Revelation 2020 Award at the Premis de la Crítica d'Arts Escèniques (Performing Arts Critics Awards).