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Master in pharmaceutical sciences, manager in access to the health technology market, co-founder of Próxima Geração, political commentator at Expresso.

Ana Lua Caiano explores musical fusion by combining traditional Portuguese music with electronic music and “everyday sounds”. Creating melodies that refer to tradition – using choirs, harmonies and canons – in a union with synthesizers, beat machines and sounds taken from everyday life, her music brings the traditional Portuguese heritage to the modern, electronic and technological world. In 2024 she will release her debut album “Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado”, an album that has been very well received by both national and international critics, as well as by the Portuguese public and a little around the world.

Anabela Rodrigues, better known as Belinha, is an Artivist and one of the GTOLX Jokers. She was born in the Alfredo da Costa maternity hospital, and her entire life experience is linked to the Cova da Moura neighborhood where she grew up. She is a mother, a wife, a writer, and in her daily life she works as a cultural mediator in an immigrant association. Her practice is the Theater of the Oppressed. Since 2012, together with her fellow fighters, she has presented Forum Theater shows, nationally and internationally, through the AMI-AFRO group, which seeks to give visibility to the oppressions that black men and women feel and want to overthrow. She is part of the Together Network of the Theater of the Oppressed, which comprises associations practicing TO from Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Scotland, and Croatia. She occasionally steps onto other stages, as she is a Counselor at the Economic and Social Council and a non-elected candidate for the European Parliament in 2019.

André e. Teodósio (Lisbon, 1977), a member of the Teatro Praga company, was a member of the Casa Conveniente and Cão Solteiro companies. He directs theatre, opera, ballet and performances and presents his work in the most prestigious theatres and museums in Portugal and abroad. He is the author of television programmes, a lecturer and a university professor. His texts have been published by Documenta, Tinta da China, Douda Correria, Culturgest, Câmara Municipal do Porto, Serralves, among others. Among the numerous awards he has received, he was named by the Expresso newspaper as one of the 100 most influential Portuguese people.

Social worker with a postgraduate degree in Urban Studies and a PhD candidate in the same thematic area. He also has training in foresight from the School of International Futures. He is a researcher at Dinâmia-Cet ISCTE – IUL. Among several studies, he was one of the authors of “Strategies for the Culture of the City of Lisbon”. He is a member of the General Council of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

For the past ten years, he has been a member of the Aga Khan Foundation Portugal, coordinating territorial, local development, artistic and cultural expression projects. He has developed several cultural projects, most recently curating the exhibition Linha Imaginária – MUSA Sintra (2021), Interferências no Maat during 2022; and, of his authorship, the cycle “Os Mapas também o São” at the Teatro do Bairro Alto throughout 2022, with the exhibition “Também Estamos no Mapa” (They Are Also on the Map) as the final axis, still on display at Palácio Pimenta/Museum of Lisbon. He is one of the curators proposed for the next three editions of the Lisbon Literature and Portuguese Language Festival. He has been the curator of the Iminente Festival since its inception, proposing artists for the event, organising its debates and organising the workshops of the Bairros project.

Member of the editorial board of the newspaper A Mensagem. Chosen by the editorial staff of Expresso as one of the voices to be taken into account in the coming years, in a work carried out to mark the 50th anniversary of the weekly newspaper.

Eduardo Aires (PhD) is the founder and artistic director of Studio Eduardo Aires and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, and is currently working at BIOPOLIS/CIBIO - Centre for Research in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources. His professional experience dates back to 1987 and has since revealed a multidisciplinary approach to the world of design. Dominated by graphic and editorial expression, he also includes forays into the territories of products and interiors.

Studio Eduardo Aires' clients include companies and institutions such as Esporão, Imprensa Nacional - Casa da Moeda, CTT Correios de Portugal and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He is the author of the visual identity project for the city of Porto, internationally recognised in the fields of identity design and territorial branding and represented, among others, in the History of Graphic Design (Taschen, 2018) and the History of Portuguese Design (Verso da História, 2016), as well as in specialist journals such as Novum and Graphis. In 2023, Studio Eduardo Aires signed the visual identity project for the XNUMXrd Government of the Portuguese Republic.

Hugo Henriques is a graphic designer and illustrator. He was born in Vila Franca de Xira in 1982. He currently works with the Renovar a Mouraria Association and teaches illustration courses at the NEXTART art school.

Multidisciplinary artist. Born in Lisbon, her origins lie in Guinea-Bissau and Angola. She researches dramaturgies where black people are protagonists and hosts of their own narratives and experiences. Her main training is in acting at Chapitô, at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema – Ramo de Atores, and at UNIRIO in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2010, she has worked on projects in theater, cinema, television and performance – in Brazil, Portugal and Italy. In 2019, together with artists Cleo Diára and Nádia Yracema, they created the collective Aurora Negra, which in 2020 premiered the show with the same name, “Aurora Negra”, at the Sala Estúdio of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. In 2022, “Cosmos” will premiere at the Sala Garrett of the Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and, in 2023, “Missão da Missão” at the Teatro do Bairro Alto. The collective also created the KILOMBO Festival, in partnership with the Alkantara Festival, which had its first edition in 2021 at Espaço Alkantara and the second edition in 2023 at Teatro São Luiz. She has won numerous awards, such as Best Actress at the Sitges, Gramado, Zinegoak, and Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festivals, among others, for her roles in films such as “A Viagem de Pedro” by Laís Bodanzky, “Um Animal Amarelo” by Felipe Bragança, “As Boas Maneiras” by Marco Dutra and Juliana Rojas, “Joaquim” by Marcelo Gomes, “O Novelo” by Cláudia Pinheiro, “Estamos todos na gutter, mas algumas de nós olharam as estrelas” by Sérgio Silva and João Marcos de Almeida, among others. In 2021 and 2022, she was part of the Bantumen PowerList, as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the Portuguese-speaking world.

Joana Rita Sousa has, like the singer Marco Paulo, two loves: Communication and Philosophy.

As a philosopher and digital strategist, Joana Rita Sousa makes questions her preferred work tool, alongside creativity and critical thinking.

Working in the area of ​​creativity and philosophy for children as a trainer, consultant and university lecturer, Joana Rita Sousa has also been developing philosophy workshops for children, young people and families since 2008.

In addition to this, she is also a consultant in the area of ​​Digital Marketing, collaborating with brands and people in designing the best way to be and exist in the digital world (and in any other that they wish to consider).

And speaking of being and existing in the digital world - it is also on social media that Joana Rita Sousa stands out. Look for her on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, or Facebook, she is certainly there. You can also follow various content about philosophy on her personal blog.

At Academia Gerador, Joana is responsible for several workshops and the Critical Thinking course. Take a look here to find out more about the training courses we have available at Academia Gerador.

João Albuquerque was born on December 25, 1986, in Barreiro.

He is currently Vice-President of the Delegation for relations with the Federative Republic of Brazil and Member of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, the Committee on Fisheries and the Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. He is also a Substitute Member of the Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, the Committee on Culture and Education, the Committee on Petitions, the Delegation for relations with Mercosur and the Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly.

He chaired the Young European Socialists between 2017 and 2019 and was assistant to the Vice-President of the European Parliament between November 2019 and September 2022.

He was an advisor to the Minister of Internal Administration of Portugal between November 2017 and November 2019, having previously performed political advisory functions at the Lumiar Parish Council, in Lisbon, in the areas of Public Policies, Urbanism and Communication.

He is currently Coordinator of the Equality Agenda of the Setúbal Federation of the Socialist Party.

José Santana Pereira (Nisa, 1982) is a professor of Political Science at Iscte - University Institute of Lisbon. With a PhD in Political and Social Sciences from the European University Institute in Florence, he has, for the last 15 years, been developing research in the area of ​​electoral behavior and political opinion, as well as on electoral systems, the relationship between politics and entertainment, and the effects of the media. He is married and has two cats.

Singer, composer, lyricist, short story writer and playwright, JP Simões has been releasing albums since 1995, with Pop Dell'Arte, Belle Chase Hotel, Quinteto Tati and solo or in collaboration with other composers. He participated in the 2018 Festival da Canção with "Alvoroço", which won the award for best popular music theme at the 2019 Authors' Award Gala of the Portuguese Society of Authors, and also released, in 2016 and 2021, the albums "Tremble Like a Flower" and "Drafty Moon", under the pseudonym Bloom.

PhD student in Anthropology at ICS-UL, studies colonialism, memory and the city. Member of Parliament in the Lisbon Assembly of the Republic. Leader of the Left Bloc. Member of the Lei da Paridade podcast.

Lídia Pereira was born in 1991 and grew up in Coimbra, Portugal. She holds a degree in Economics from the University of Coimbra and a Master’s degree in European Economic Studies from the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. After an internship at the European Investment Bank, Lídia became a consultant in the financial sector. She later began her political activity at JSD, the youth organisation of the Social Democratic Party (PSD). Since 2018, she has been President of the Youth of the European People’s Party (YEPP).

Elected to the European Parliament in 2019, Lídia sits on the Committees on Economic and Monetary Affairs, Environment, Public Health and Food Safety, where she is the EPP rapporteur for the COP, and on the Delegations for Relations with the People’s Republic of China and the United States. She is a permanent member of the Subcommittee on Tax Affairs, and is the coordinator of the EPP group. She is also co-chair of the Cleantech Friendship Group.

Luís de Freitas Branco is a music critic, communications consultant, and a Master's student in Musical Sciences at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He has worked for several media outlets, both in Portugal (Público Blitz, Diário Económico, Jornal ie Observador) and in Brazil (O Globo). In 2024, he released the book “A Revolução Antes da Revolução” (Livros Zigurate), an investigation into the musical coup that anticipated the overthrow of the dictatorship, and created the events "Aprende a ouvir, companhia", public conversation and song listening sessions, on vinyl, to celebrate the albums and events that contributed to the 25th of April.

Cultural producer, graduated in Contemporary Dance Production and Management (Fórum Dança, 2001) and Creative Production for Television (Universidade Independente, 2004). Over the last two decades, she has worked as a producer and production director with several independent artists and with creative, production and programming structures for performing arts and audiovisual. She participated in the SPACE program - Supporting Performing Arts Circulation in Europe (2009-2011), representing Portugal in meetings of cultural producers held in several European cities. Together with other Portuguese producers, she created the PI - Independent Productions platform (2009-2015). She was a member of the team at INEP - National Institute of Studies and Research of Guinea-Bissau, as assistant to the director-general (2015-2016), supporting and coordinating several studies, consultancies and publications. She worked as a specialist technician with the Directorate-General for the Arts (2017-2018) within the scope of the new model of support for the arts/Sustained Support 18-21 programme. She was a manager at Companhia Olga Roriz (2018/2023), simultaneously assuming the management and production of the Corpoemcadeia project (PARTIS/Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation 2019/2022). She is currently a project manager at Hangar - Centro de Investigação Artística. She is also a member of the coordination and production team of the Greenhouse project, Portugal's representation at the 60th edition of the Biennale de Arte 2024, in Venice. Since 2020, she has been responsible for the workshop and course on Financing of Cultural Structures and Projects at Academia Gerador. She regularly participates, as a trainer, in training activities with cultural agents, addressing examples and good practices in the preparation of applications for different national funding programmes.

Master in Political Theory from the London School of Economics. Political consultant and SIC commentator.

Maria João Garcia was a dancer at the Almada Dance Company (1990-98), took the 1998nd Contemporary Dance Interpreters Course at Forum Dança (2000-2000), participated in workshops, seminars and national and international dance meetings, taught classes to children and adults and directed movement in theatre shows, maintaining regular activity as a performer until the mid-1995s. Since 2000, she has created dance/theatre/performance shows, and since 2004 with the Ninho de Víboras Association, in Almada, of which she is a member of the Board. Through this association, she has been present at REDE – Associação de Estruturas Para a Dança Contemporânea since XNUMX, contributing to the reflection and defence of the interests of Dance and its professionals, regularly participating in working groups related to cultural policies.

As a producer, she was part of the teams of: Companhia Clara Andermatt (2005-09); Granular (2009-13); casaBranca (2013-15); Companhia Caótica (2015-16); O Rumo do Fumo (2016-19); and several other artists' and entities' projects, also developing skills in management and communication.
He taught Production in the Performing Arts Degree at the Lisbon School of Technologies and Arts, between 2012 and 2016.

Between 2019 and 2020, he was Paulo Ribeiro's assistant in the direction and production of Casa da Dança, in Almada, continuing to collaborate occasionally with the subsequent direction of Adriana Grechi and Amaury Cacciacarro until today.

In 2022, it developed a cultural training program for the Municipality of Coimbra with several training modules, aimed at local associations and agents and carried out between January and February 2023.

Since 2021, she has been a consultant at CIMAC - Comunidade Intermunicipal do Alentejo Central for the development and maintenance of the “Transforma-te” portal, an information and documentation center for professionals and cultural agents.

Coming from the Cova da Moura neighborhood in Lisbon, Mynda Guevara carries in her name and attitude a thirst for revolution that is closely linked to the still very minimized role of women in rap.

Nuno Artur Silva was born in Lisbon, in October 1962.

Author and producer of books, plays, events, series and television programs.

Presenter of cultural, political debate and humor television programs.

He was the founder and director of Produções Fictícias, a creative agency; founder and director of Canal Q; founder and publisher of the satirical newspaper O Inimigo Público.

He was an administrator at RTP (2015/2018), responsible for content.

He was Secretary of State for Cinema, Audiovisual and Media in the XXII Constitutional Government (2019/2022).

He recently performed “Where Would I Go?...” at the Teatro Municipal de São Luiz and at the Tivoli in Lisbon, a solo stand-up comedy performance, accompanied by real-time drawing by António Jorge Gonçalves.

His last two original books are for children: “Síul, Epilif and the Great Zygomatic”, with illustrations by Pierre Pratt; and “How Our Friends Become Our Friends – Universal Theory of Friendship”, with drawings by João Fazenda, both published by Bertrand Editora.

In May 2024, Edições Asa released a special edition of the trilogy “As Aventuras de Filipe Seems”, commemorating the 30th anniversary of the comic book series he created with António Jorge Gonçalves in the early 90s.

Paulo Pena was born in Lisbon 50 years ago. He studied journalism at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, where he is now a visiting professor on the Masters in Communication Sciences. He has been a journalist since 1997. He was an editor at Visão magazine and a feature reporter for Público and Diário de Notícias. In 2016, he founded the Investigate Europe consortium with eight journalists, which regularly publishes in the main reference media in Europe. He is also a co-founder of Projecto Inocência, in Portugal. He has written three non-fiction books about student opposition to the Portuguese dictatorship (Grandes Planos, ncora, 2001), the financial crisis (Jogos de Poder, Esfera dos Livros, 2014) and online disinformation (Fábrica de Mentiras, Penguin Random House, 2019). He co-authored the Conspiracy Theories series (RTP, 2018). He received, among others, the Gazeta de Imprensa Award (2013) and the Gazeta Revelação Award (2001) from the Journalists' Club. He lives in Lisbon and has two daughters.

Graduated in Communication Science from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, with a specialization in Journalism and Interactive Media. Attended a Master's degree in Contemporary Culture. Journalist at RTP since 2000.

He coordinated the Telejornal program 30 Minutos and presented the news on RTP3. For several years, he followed the Justice and Security portfolio.

She is currently Society Editor and Coordinator of the program A prova dos Factos.

Winner of an Honorable Mention, within the scope of the ACIDI-UNESCO Journalism Award, with the report "Mercado das Vontades".

Writer, professor at the Catholic University, singer in her spare time.

Telma Tvon, registered as Telma Marlise Escórcio da Silva, was born in Luanda, Angola, on April 11, 1980. She immigrated to Lisbon, Portugal, in 1993, where she attended high school while also becoming involved in the hip-hop culture. She was a member of the groups Backwordz, Hardcore Click and Lweji, all three of which were composed of female MCs. She graduated in African Studies from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon and completed a master's degree in Social Services at ISCTE. In 2017, she released the book "Preto Muito Português" (Preto Muito Português), which addresses several issues related to the identity of a young man born and raised in Portugal of Cape Verdean descent. Budjurra, as he is known, tells us about his adventures in a society that sees and treats him as a minority. He reveals his concerns and raises some questions regarding concepts such as racism, discrimination, stereotypes, equality and humanity.