Sonya Lindfors is a critically acclaimed Helsinki–based choreographer and the powerhouse artistic director of the ground-breaking UrbanApa artistic platform. Sonya divides her time between her own artistic work and art director’s position. In all her activities she pursues subversive ways of working that aim at challenging existing power structures. Currently, she is developing decolonial dreaming practices and educating on feminist leadership.

Willa Koerner is a future-focused strategist, writer, editor, and artist designing opportunities and resources to catalyze creative brilliance. She is the co-founder of the Strange Foundation, an internet-and-nature-infused residency and retreat space in New York’s Catskill Mountains whose ultimate goal is to help forge a stranger, more imaginatively regenerative future.

Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki–based artist and educator interested in generating new forms of collectivity, futurities and understanding of interdependencies, as well as space for unheard, marginalized or non-normative, queer and trans narratives and experiences. His work focuses on queer speculative fiction in forms of speech performances, texts, sound installations, video, community organizing and writing workshops.

Elina Minn is a writer and dramaturg working in the fields of contemporary art and performance. Elina is committed to nurturing cultures of experimentation, play and rest. They are fascinated by the dancing body, the spiritual body, the animal body and humans’ shared ancestry with other cellular life forms. Elina’s background is in animation, illustration and graphic design – drawing is their first language.

Mandy Harris Williams is the Programming Director of the Women’s Center for Creative Work, an organization that cultivates LA’s feminist creative communities and practices. She is a theorist, multimedia conceptual artist, writer, educator, radio host and internet/community academic. Mandy’s work seeks to get everybody the love that they deserve. She focuses on desirability privilege as a real and mythological market and political force. She graduated from Harvard, having studied the History of the African Diaspora, as well as the mass incarceration crisis, and other contemporary black issues. She received her MA in Urban Education and worked as a classroom teacher for 7 years in low income communities.

Feminist Culture House (FCH) is an intersectional feminist organisation based in Helsinki, Finland, working with and for underrepresented artists and arts workers. It’s co-founders are Katie Lenanton, Neicia Marsh, Orlan Ohtonen, and Selina Väliheikki. The main goal of FCH is to function as a supportive structure for those who are practicing in the Finnish art field, but due to – for example – structural racism and cis-sexism, have to work harder to be 4recognised. FCH aims to create a caring and inclusive feminist working community that is based on sharing, togetherness, celebrating, and supporting one’s peers.

Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs is a Los Angeles-based artist creating experimental, immersive public ritual with sound, sculpture, video, costume, and collective performance. Her work uses ancient archetypes, canonized heroic narratives, and mythological tropes to explore structures of power and the actions one can take – both as individuals and collectively – to combat psychic and systemic oppression. She is the creator/composer of the site-specific choral/movement ensemble, Song of Eurydice; teaches Songbuilding workshops to adults and tweens; makes up one half of the duo, Bouquet; and – with conductor Tany Ling – leads Community Chorus, a resistance-themed, commitment-free chorus that performs at justice-themed events.

Jenni Laiti was born in Inari, Finnish side of Sápmi and lives in Jokkmokk, Swedish side of Sápmi. Laiti works on the interface between art and activism and has a degree in traditional Sámi handicraft, Duodji. Her work is a mixture of performative direct action, culture jamming and installation. It deals with decolonialism, Indigenous rights and climate justice. In recent years, Jenni has been developing situated methods for land-based art practices that, on one hand, aim to strengthen and empower Sámi communities and on the other, share important knowledge and resilience skills stemming from these communities and their traditions. Jenni is asking what it takes to 'become human again' – eallit olmmožin – to acknowledge our interconnectedness and to live accordingly. Her aim is to develop solutions to the ecological crises that are based on communality and situated practices.

Kimi Hanauer is an artist, cultural organizer, and writer based in Los Angeles. Kimi is the founding editor of Press Press, a publishing studio that aims to shift and deepen the understanding of voices, identities, and narratives that have been suppressed or misrepresented by the mainstream. In this role, Kimi has edited multiple publications, including Sentiments, If I Ruled the World, and Manifesto for Tender Collaborative Work. Kimi’s practice ranges in forms, including events, publications, and in

Founder of Pony Sweat, a fiercely non-competitive, radical dance aerobics class.