Jasna Jovicevic is a distinguished figure in the Serbian jazz scene, renowned for her versatility in composition, saxophone performance, and leadership across various musical projects, including the Jasna Jovicevic Quinary, ANJALI Trio, Jovicevic/Miklos/Wojcinski Trio, and her solo work. Her artistic journey spans international borders, with Artist in Residency programs in cultural hubs like New York, San Francisco, Banff, and Graz. She has won awards in prestigious music competitions in Milan, Budapest, Belgrade, and Ljubljana, and received a research grant from the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C., reflecting her commitment to exploring Women in Jazz.
As a performer, Jovicevic has graced stages worldwide, presenting her original compositions at numerous festivals across Europe, the USA, and Canada. She is also an educator, teaching music, art theory, and artistic research at the university level. She founded the all-female big band, New Spark Jazz Orchestra-Balkan Women in Jazz, a significant milestone in Southern Eastern European jazz history.
Her discography includes albums of original music such as "Invented Reality," "The Sound of Birds," "Travellers"-Dharma, and “Flow Vertical” under the British label FMR Records, "Informal Shapes," „Cardinal Points,“ and “Live at Belgrade Radio” by Not Two Records with ANJALI Trio, and "Sounding Solitude" by The State51 Conspiracy Records, showcasing her mastery and versatility.
Jovicevic's artistic projects blend artistic expression with scholarly inquiry, exploring experimental music production, gender/cultural studies, and jazz praxis. She was a national winner of the EU AI Lab Project for her work “I Sit and Worry About Her” (Ars Electronica) and received the “Anđelka Milić” award (SEFEM) for her monograph “Good Morning, Jazzwomen” (Dobro jutro, džezerke, OrionArt Books, 2023).
A graduate of the "Franz Liszt" Music Academy in Budapest and York University in Toronto, Jovicevic earned a Ph.D. in Contemporary Arts and Media from Singidunum University in Belgrade, focusing on the phenomenology of jazz and free improvised music within gender studies through artistic research. As of 2024, she serves as a Research Associate at Tshwane University of Technology, Arts Campus.

Kumi Naidoo is a South African human rights and environmental justice activist, who currently is the Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University. He is the former Secretary-General of Amnesty International (2018-2020) and also the first person from the Global South to lead Greenpeace International (2009-2015). He is an advisor for the Community Arts Network. He serves as a global ambassador for Africans Rising for Justice, Peace and Dignity. His family has started the Riky Rick Foundation for the Promotion of Artivism to build on the positive legacies left by popular South African rapper Rikhado “Riky Rick” Makhado through his music and life’s work. Kumi is the author of award-winning Letters To My Mother: The Makings of a Troublemaker. Kumi is also the host of the podcast Power, People and Planet.

FAVIANNA RODRIGUEZ GIANNONI is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and entrepreneur based in Oakland, California. Her art and praxis address migration, gender justice, climate change, racial equity, and sexual freedom. Her work centers joy and healing, while challenging entrenched myths and dominant cultural practices. Favianna's creative partnerships include companies like Ben & Jerry's, Spotify, Old Navy, and Playboy Magazine. She has completed a number of large scale public art commissions with the City of San Francisco and the Presidio National Park. Through her poignant speeches, she has inspired audiences around the world including at the United Nations Climate Summit, Sundance Film Festival, Smithsonian, Google and Lush Cosmetics. Favianna's creative practice serves as a record of her human experiences as a woman of color embracing pleasure and womb healing through creative expression and personal transformation. Her signature mark-making embodies the perspective of a first-generation American Latinx artist with Afro-Latinx roots who grew up in Oakland, California during the era of the war on drugs and the birth of Hip Hop.
A strategy advisor to artists of all genres, Favianna is regarded as one of the leading thinkers and personalities uniting art, culture and social impact. Through her thought leadership as President and co-founder of The Center for Cultural Power, an organization igniting change at the intersection of art and social justice, she has been instrumental in building a cultural strategy ecosystem that supports BIPOC artists in the U.S. She helped launch the Constellations Culture Change Fund, a philanthropic initiative designed to build cultural power by investing in BIPOC artists and grassroots art organizations.
Favianna is a recognized climate justice leader, and brings her personal journey to the climate justice fight through her writing, including as a contributing writer to the best selling anthology, All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis, edited by Ayana Johnson and Katharine Wilkinson.
In 2016, Favianna was awarded the Robert Rauschenberg Artist as Activist Fellowship for her work around immigrant detention and mass incarceration. In 2017, she received an Atlantic Fellowship for Racial Equity for her work around racial justice and climate change. In 2018, she received the SOROS Equality Fellowship for building the field of cultural organizing. As an entrepreneur, she has co-founded various institutions, including the EastSide Arts Alliance, a cultural center and affordable housing development in Oakland, CA.
Favianna is currently working on a feature film about healing from generational womb trauma.

Mona Miari is a Palestinian/American artist, singer/songwriter, and lawyer.
Celebrated for her commitment to Arabic cultural heritage, she skillfully blends Palestinian-Levantine influences with various musical genres, showcasing a profound global perspective and innovative artistry.

Multi-instrumentalist and performer Collis Browne is as much known for movement-building and software platform engineering as for musical performance, but they all intertwine and coalesce in practice. Focusing now on vocal composition and electronics to catalyze spiritual and political change, individually and globally.

Dr. Patricia Achieng Opondo Applied Ethnomusicologist and Senior Lecturer in African Music and Dance at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. She is also Director of the African Music Project and curates the annual African Cultural Calabash festival. She was appointed to the South African Ministerial Committee for the National Indigenous Music Project to formulate of a national strategy and plan for the collection, preservation and promotion of indigenous music of South Africa with the ultimate objective to re-engineer the National Sound Film and Video Archives. She has served on the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) Executive Board and as Chair of the ICTM Study Group on African Musics (SGAM). She was instrumental in the University of KwaZulu-Natal hosting the 40th ICTM World Conference and the 1st ICTM SGAM symposium. She has served as Vice President Southern Region for the Pan African Society for Musical Arts Education (PASMAE). She is Editorial Board Member of MUZIKI: Journal of Music Research in Africa and serves as a panellist on the DHET Creative Outputs sub-field panel for the evaluation of scholarly creative art works. She was recently appointed as a member of Répertoire International de Littérature Musicale (RILM) Committee Mixte

Edward Amankwah , a Development Practitioner at the Center for Environmental Governance-Ghana ,a non -profit and non governmental organization. Center for Environmental Governance-Ghana promotes research, sensitization and advocacy on Voluntary sustainability standards, biological diversity,climate change, and land governance. As an Assessment practitioner with over 20 years’ experience, his work traverses identified disciplines. Performed roles as an advocate on conservation and ecosystem services and climate change. Has received fellowships and awards from several reputable institutions as:
1.The Dutch – German ABS Capacity Development Initiative for Africa
2. Australian Government to participate in the World Indigenous Network (WIN) Conference in Darwin as one of African representatives

Sam Brakarsh is the Africa Regional Representative for Artists at Risk Connection (ARC), coordinator of the AMANI: Africa Creative Defense Network, and co-chair of the upcoming PANAF Summit on Artistic Freedom. He is from Zimbabwe where he cofounded the Chikukwa Research Trust and Culture Centre, focusing on sustainable governance, political theatre, and environmental justice. Sam is a Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) practitioner, having established a TO network in Zimbabwe as well as conducting trainings in Ghana, Kenya, the United States, the Philippines, and Palestine. He has a background in health justice and previously worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative, supporting the Global Health Workforce team on COVID response and Community Health Worker system strengthening in seven countries across Sub-Saharan Africa. Sam sits on the Mind and Life Institute’s Advisory Council, where he also serves on the review and design committee for their international Changemaker Grant.

ARC is a keystone organization providing a protection mechanism for at-risk artists around the world who push the frontiers of free expression, explore risky and often dangerous terrain, and make provocative ideas accessible and even safe for the rest of society to consider. The program has safeguarded the right to artistic freedom of expression and has ensured that artists and cultural professionals everywhere can live and work without fear. This is possible because ARC connects persecuted artists to its growing global network of resources, facilitates cooperation between human rights and arts organizations, amplifies the stories and work of at-risk artists, and raises visibility of the field of artistic freedom.

Festivales Solidarios is an experimental laboratory of communication, anti-colonial art and environmental education led by indigenous women, made up of artists, communicators, community activists, journalists who put at the service of the people’s methodologies that support the fight against the climate crisis, criminalization and maintaining historical memory. They accompany communities and grassroots organizations that are building alternatives to climate change and extractivism that destroys our common home.

Navan Chetty initially pursued studies in Architecture at the University of KwaZulu Natal before shifting his academic focus to Fine Arts, with a specialisation in painting and printmaking, at the Durban University of Technology. Subsequently, he secured a prestigious artist-in-residence position at the renowned Print Making Workshop in New York, where he spent a year honing his artistic talents.
Presently, Navan Chetty works as a television director, with a primary emphasis on the production of programs spanning the realms of arts, educational content, and documentary filmmaking. In recent years, he has rekindled his engagement with painting, aiming to leverage his wealth of experience in photography, film, and the visual arts to create fine art masterpieces.

Annemi Conradie-Chetty is an educator, writer and artist. She completed her MA and PhD degrees in Visual Studies at Stellenbosch University and has lectured in Art History and Visual Culture Studies at Rhodes University and University of Cape Town. She is currently senior lecturer in History of Art at North-West University, where she also directs the research entity Visual Narratives and Creative Outputs (ViNCO). Her current research focuses on the commodification and appropriation of colonial archival images in contemporary art and design, and constructions of gender and race in visual culture. Annemi’s artistic practice encompasses mixed media work, collage, installation and performance. She combines sewing, weaving and embroidery with discarded archival material and found urban and agricultural detritus to investigate the vestiges of colonialism and environmental degradation in the context of neocolonialism.

Beatriz Itzel Cruz Megchun is an associate professor of design and innovation at the Dr Robert B. Pamplin, Jr School of Business at the University of Portland. Her research has two streams. One focuses on the role and value of design in organizations from the strategic to the operational level and the role of design in technological innovations, social innovations and responsible innovations. The second stream centres on exploring the value of brand experiences in global brand management. She is interested in creating instruments that facilitate the design of retail spaces, services and identities for global brands. She has over fifteen years of experience consulting in the creative, manufacturing and new technology industries. She also participates in projects with non-governmental organizations and governmental institutions addressing social inequalities.

Summer Dean is a 27 year old artist, storyteller, and environmental advocate based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work lies at the intersection of culture, sustainable fashion, and climate education. Through social media, she;s grown a community of 70,000 people around the world engaged and passionate about environmental issues, and established herself as a leader in the sustainable fashion space. Currently, I’m an ambassador for The Fashion Act, a bill in New York that would be the first of its kind to put legally binding environmental standards on the fashion industry. I’m also a fellow with Remake, a global organization fighting for human rights and climate justice in the fashion industry.

Karendra Devroop is a professor of music at Tshwane University of Technology and NRF rated researcher. He has over 100 publications and conference presentations and he has served as an examiner and peer-reviewer for most universities in South Africa, national and international journals and the National Research Foundation. He is a winner of the prestigious Alice Branfonbrener researcher award that is awarded by the Performing Arts Medical Association based in the USA. In addition to his research outputs, Prof Devroop has 8 full-length CD recordings and over 40 creative outputs. He has performed at major music festivals in the USA, Canada, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. His recent CD recordings have received airplay in over 40 countries with several tracks reaching the top 10 on the Smooth Jazz Global charts. He has recently performed at the 2024 Presidential Inauguration and will perform as one of the headline artists for the 2024 Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival.

Professor Zoliswa Fikelepi-Twani is a full professor of music and a distinguished scholar at the University of Zululand, South Africa, specializing in Western and South African Music History; Ethnomusicology, World Music, and Music Education. Her passion lies in exploring the intersection of music, culture, and creativity. Prof. Fikelepi-Twani is dedicated to both research and education. She delves into South African indigenous and traditional music, ensuring its preservation and significance. She also champions the decolonization of the creative arts curriculum, promoting inclusivity and cultural relevance. Currently she is engaged in exciting research projects, including “The Khabi Mngoma Autobiographical Project.”

A gifted mentor, Prof. Fikelepi-Twani has guided numerous Honours, Master's and Doctoral students. Her dedication to nurturing the next generation of scholars is widely recognized. She is a recipient of the prestigious Mzansi Golden Economy Grant (2022) and the NIHSS Working Groups Grant (2021-2023), testaments to her impactful work. Prof. Fikelepi-Twani actively engages with communities. She believes in bridging theory and practice, advocating for Community Engagement in music education and choral music. Her research currently focuses on the role of Community Music Experts and the decolonization of teaching methods in the Musical Arts.

Foli has a background in the creative disciplines of theatre, fine art and sculpture with a Bachelor of Fine Art degree (with distinction in Drama and Sculpture) from Rhodes University and a Masters degree in Digital Arts (Interactive Media) from Wits University. She has taught classes at the University of Pretoria Drama Department namely Digital Media in Theatre; Acting and Identity Politics in Film. She has also been part of a number theatre productions and art exhibitions such as Dakar Biennale (2012); Turbine Art Fair (2014) and SculptX at the Melrose Gallery (2018, 2019) and most recently the Infecting the City Public Art Festival (2023). Currently, she works as a researcher, visual artist and digital marketing specialist.

I am an intersectional Black feminist, a development activist and a campaigner in global development issues. As a futurist, I strongly believe in Africa’s transformative power and i am committed to advancing equality for women, queer, and gender non-binary people.

My experience includes contributing to programs focused on advancing economic justice and equality. I have actively participated in various initiatives promoting fair economic systems and have been involved in advocating for tax justice at international levels, serving in leadership roles. Currently, as Deputy Director at Workers’ World Media Productions, I focus on strategic direction, project implementation, and resource management. I also work on media projects aimed at amplifying the voices of working-class communities through democratic mass media initiatives.

As a feminist scholar, my work is rooted in understanding how the social conditions of our lives are deeply influenced by the politics of living. I believe art, in its myriad forms, is a powerful tool for communication, healing and transformation.

Moreover, my work is informed by a commitment to decoloniality, driven by the goal of dismantling colonialism's lingering heteropatriarchal effects on knowledge, culture, and societal norms, reimagining a world that ensures equity and justice for all.

Nicola Haskins is a Naledi nominated, embodied moving researcher, choreographer, educator and dancer who has performed nationally and internationally over the last 20 years. She is a full-time lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology in the Performing Arts, Dance Stream. She was a performer for the First Physical Theatre Company for 4 years. She has won three Standard Bank Ovation Awards and a Gold Ovation Award for her company’s production, The Anatomy of Weather. Her company, The Matchbox Theatre Collective, founded with Bailey Snyman, has produced and performed a variety of works nationally and internationally. She toured for 10 years in Dada Masilo’s Swan Lake throughout Europe, America, and Asia. Nicola is committed to teaching and learning practices, specifically choreographic practice and how new approaches and methods can be explored. She completed her PhD study in 2023 at the University of Pretoria entitled: Decolonial Storying: embodied memory in facilitating choreographic composition. She is a certified movement analyst (CMA) through the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York.

Dr Hayley Hayes-Roberts is a UCT NIHSS Centre for African Studies Postdoctoral Fellow and UCT Humanities and GSB academic writing consultant, a History Access Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in 2021/2022, Design Historian and a South African Museum and Heritage expert. Research interests include post-apartheid museum design, material culture studies, cultural tourism, visual history, intangible cultural heritage and sartorial histories. Hayley was awarded a PhD in History from UWC in 2020 titled ‘Frameworks of Representation: A Design History of the District Six Museum in Cape Town’ which related to how the museum utilised design as a strategic, cultural and political tool to navigate and negotiate its presence and the legacies of apartheid forced removals in the city. Hayley began her career as a Graphic and Textile designer, later completing a B: Tech Degree in Post school Education and lectured in Textile/Fashion History, Design and Visual Art. Hayley holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage studies, UWC (2010) and a MA in History with a specialization in Museum and Heritage studies, cum laude, UWC (2012) that surfaced social, design, textile and architectural histories through the Sacks Futeran & Co buildings in Cape Town. As a senior researcher, (2011-2013) headed the Two Rivers Project, a District Six Museum initiative to work with the memories of forced removals at six sites in the southern suburbs of Cape Town and she designed a collaged visual memory box archival system for the museum. At Iziko Museums of South Africa (2014-2020) developed Social History museum education resources, initiated and facilitated a Fashion History, Textile studies and Design History student mentorship programme enabling a critical awareness of design while fostering archival research skills and design studies at the Iziko Slave Lodge and Groot Constantia Wine Estate. Her most recent position was as a UCT History Access Postdoctoral Fellow where she facilitated academic poster design and collage workshops curating an online digital New Media exhibition showcasing expressive visual forms of the History Access cohort's academic works, including podcasts, poetry, artworks and collages titled Exploring Alternative Forms: Sharing experiences.https://humanities.uct.ac.za/history-access/projects-workshops/exploring-alternative-forms-sharing-experiences Working fields of knowledge include Forced Removals, Cape slavery, Exhibition Design, Curatorship and Consultation, Art History, Design Thinking, Design Education, Social, Textile, Fashion and Oral History.

Nasreen is a master's student in the Environmental Humanities South. Her research aims to evaluate video games and online spaces as tools for digital intervention and environmental communication.

As well as being a qualified teacher, Nasreen holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and classical history from the University of Cape Town, and an honours' degree in Digital Art from the University of the Witwatersrand. Her research interests lie in the intersection of art, media, storytelling, environmental issues, and education.

Abel Idebe (PhD) is a senior lecturer and researcher in the department of English, Gombe State University where he handles drama and theatre arts courses for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. He is currently one of the external supervisors for postgraduate students in the Department of Theatre and Performing Arts, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Over the last decade, he has participated and coordinated different development communication and community theatre for development projects in Nigeria. He is also actively involved in promoting youth and children creative arts empowerment initiatives in North Nigeria via engagements with different Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and advocacy groups. Dr. Idebe belongs to relevant national and international professional bodies, some of which include: Society of Nigeria Theatre Artists (SONTA), International Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ, Nigeria North-East Regional Coordinator) and Nigeria Popular Theatre Alliance (NPTA, Nigeria North-East Regional Coordinator). To his credit he has several papers in peer reviewed journals and books, where he has examined key topics in theatre and drama studies particularly in the fields of Applied Theatre Practices.

Anna-Marie Jansen van Vuuren is a South African film professor and research chair of the Department of Visual Communication, Faculty of Arts and Design, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria. Her research centres on the history of the South African film industry, as well as historical representation and identity construction in film, television, and streaming narratives. Her research is strongly influenced by her decade-long in-depth coverage of the local film industry for SABC Radio Current Affairs. Apart from her journal articles, she recently penned a chapter within the books Political Economy of Contemporary African Popular Culture: Selected Case Studies (Lexington Books: Rowman & Littlefield, 2024) and Public Intellectuals in South Africa: Critical Voices from the Past (Wits University Press, 2021). In her professional career, Jansen van Vuuren honed her craft as a screenwriter whose writing credits include the feature films "Wolf Wolf" (2012), "Babalas"(2013) and several episodes of the series "Lappies Leeu" (kykNET) and "Thabang Thabong" (SABC2). She is a proud member of the Writers’ Guild of South Africa (WGSA).

Ruhul Robin Khan is a filmmaker, festival organizer, and communications expert dedicated to LGBTQI+ rights in Bangladesh. He organized 'REINCARNATE (https://shorturl.at/anqsu)' the only LGBTQI+ art and film festival in Bangladesh, promoting cultural movements for LGBTQI+ rights in South Asia. His documentary 'Against the Wind (2021),' focused on intersex issues, has received international acclaim. He created 'TRANS TALK (https://shorturl.at/hnoST)' the first and only mainstream TV show for LGBTQI+ voices in Bangladesh. His advocacy led to official gender identity recognition, including gender diversity issues in textbooks, and the transgender person protection act. Ruhul works for an inclusive and resilient society irrespective of sex and gender. He has introduced an interactive workshop to learn about gender and sexuality. It is a unique workshop to understand LGBTQI+ issues and transform a safe and just society.
Debuting at 24, Ruhul has directed many award-winning films and television dramas, including 'Nameless,' which won 'Best Democratic Film' from an International Short Film Festival. Ruhul received fellowships from BRAC University, Movies That Matter. He is an alumnus of The Festival Academy and the Swedish Institute. He currently leads Public Relations and Communications at the only Bangladeshi NGO, working toward an inclusive and resilient society for the LGBTQI+ population.

Hello. My name is Neo Komane. Born in the province of Limpopo and raised in Gauteng.
I am a 22 year old South African female with a keen interest in fashion design activism.

I am a fashion design graduate and a postgraduate student studying at the university of Johannesburg at the Faculty of art, architecture and design. When it comes to my work as a designer and an academic, I tend to look at things through a fashion activist lens. How can I speak on a subject through the use of fashion as a medium. Storytelling is the foundation of my work as I hope to speak to it point out certain subjects which question our moral compass as a society, small and large. Although fashion activism is usually used in an environment space, I use it in a social setting, a social activist setting. I I have found my identity through the fashion practice and I believe that every garment is a narration. I hope to continue to do so and perhaps add value to the South African fashion activist discourse.

Award winning writer and director Joseph Komani is a South African independent artist running a
company called the Actcaffe, a film and theatre school, Including a Theatre Magazine. His love for
theatre started in 2007 when he joined Moonyth drama house at the South African state theatre. He acted in productions such as “Mbekwa and The minister, deputy and president” which also took part of the Zwakala festival in 2011 at the Market theatre. In 2009 wrote his first one man show titled “The interpretation” inspired by Gerard Sekoto and his work, it performed under the Mzansi fela festival.

In 2012 he co-wrote another play called“TWISTED” with Paul Grootboom. The show got a chance to be staged at the state theatre (In the spot light program). In 2013 he co-wrote with Tumi Modise the *Naledi award nominee stage play “Mother and child. The show was first performed at the state theatre under the “Vavasati international women’s festival”. During that same year the show took part at the “Ishashalazi festival” and was nominated for *BEST PRODUCTION. In 2014 came back with another show titled “Birth”. First staged at the state theatre under the “Vavasati international women’s festival” the play was mentored by Paul Grootboom, the show got a chance to show case at the Plat4orm and POPART theatre. He then joined the MB Studios art gallery in 2016 and participated at the FNB ART FAIR exhibition, showcasing the Lady in white. He also worked with Professor Matjila from the University of South Africa in 2017 staging a musical play titled "Thaga the singing bird". In 2018 the young writer and director teamed up with the OzoneFelaz and stage the Standard Bank Gold award winning production XOVA which performed at the State theatre, National arts festival. The play has 12 Naledi Nominations under its wing (2019). He recently stage the Story of Solomon Plaatje at the State theatre starring Mandla Gaduka and Thulani Shange.

In 2021 he was invited at the Market theatre to state the multi award-winning production of Xova and had a sold out production. Again Joseph Komani collaborated with Paul Grootboom with the stage play tittle "A betterlife". The production won best production at the 2022 Naledi awards.

Runette Kruger is an honorary researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Design at the Durban University of Technology. Her research focuses on the underlying dynamics shaping our societies and the various ways in which visual artists have responded to these dynamics. More specifically, her research focuses on notions of the Other, time/space philosophy, Afrofuturism, agency, and dissent, and utopias in which these are foregrounded. For her PhD she created a utopia (named distopia) predicated on difference and dissent.

Adenekan Lanre Qasim is a Scholar-Artist and a lecturer at the Department of Theatre and Performing Arts department, Faculty of Communication, Bayero University Kano, and an associate researcher with Theatre Emissary. He is passionate about using drama/ theatre for social engineering and advocacy. To further drive his vision for a social development through socially engaged theatre, he is working on a research project on how radio drama could aid to achieving a key target of the Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals: Agenda 2030 in Kano State.

Karina Lemmer, PhD, is a senior lecturer at the Tshwane University of Technology Department of Performing Arts where she specializes in acting and voice. She is a certified Lessac Kinesensics body-voice facilitator and Meisner Teacher who has coached several stage productions and films. Karina has adapted and directed several classical texts and has also created original multilingual South African Theatre and is one of the founders of the Creative Research Lab that seeks to enable and showcase the relationship between performance making and research through embodied seminars and other collaborative creative outputs.

Janine Lewis is an associate professor in the Department of Performing Arts at the Tshwane University of Technology. Her fields of specialisation include physical theatre, acting, theatre making, creative industries and theatre for empowerment. Lewis holds a doctorate in devising as WARPING (re)conceptual theatre making. Additional qualifications include PGDip HE Pedagogy and MBA HE management from University of Haaga-Heila, Finland, and Touch for Health kinesiology. She also serves as a board member on both SACIA and TAU and is the chairperson for the DHET Creative Output Performance, Dance & Theatre subpanel. Lewis has taught internationally at the Ohio State University USA, the Hunter Gates Physical Theatre Academy Edmonton, Canada, and the Annual International Festival of Making Theatre in Athens, Greece; and has presented at conferences in countries across the world and South Africa. Lewis has devised 21 productions at TUT, curated the Verve Physical Theatre Platform and has facilitated various applied theatre projects.

Magwati Phineas graduated with a Doctor of Philosophy in Creative and Performing Arts, Ethnomusicology, in 2022 October from Great Zimbabwe University (GZU). The title of his thesis is “Economic Sustainability Through Zimbabwean Indigenous Heritage: A Karanga Cultural Musical Arts Community Project.” He also holds a Master of Education (Music), University of Zimbabwe, Bachelor of Education (Music), (GZU). He studied Diploma in Education (Music) with Morgenster Teachers` College, Diploma in Music, Midlands Academy of Music. He is also a holder of Grade 8 Theory of Music with ABRSM, Grade 5 Theory of Music (UNISA). Currently he teaches music at Midlands State University, part-time music lecturer with GZU, Adjunct lecturer with Rusangu University in Zambia. His research interests are on Musical arts and sustainable development, Zimbabwe Indigenous Music and dance, Africa indigenous music instruments, Africa indigenous knowing systems, Cultural and Creative Industries. He is a Board member of Midlands Academy of Music, Zimbabwe National Music Strategy Team member, Founding Board member Africa Musical Charitable Arts Trust. He is the chairperson of Zion Christian Church Brass Band. In 2017 he started Mbira music project with children living in the streets of Masvingo. He plays/performs mbira, marimba and Zimbabwe indigenous dances.

Prof. Anne Mastamet-Mason has over 24 years of teaching experience in higher education. She has taught in Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa. Her research interests include garment sizing and fit, the socio-environmental aspect of the garment and textile industry, and the decolonisation of fashion/textile design curriculum. She has successfully supervised 6 PhD and 15 master’s Students, many of whom are currently distinguished professors, researchers, and academics in Eastern, Western and Southern Africa. She has published numerous research publications and currently supervise 4 PhD and 1 master’s Students. She received her NRF C rating for 2022-2026 in November 2021.

PhD in Visual Arts at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil), master degree in International Relations from the Federal Fluminense University (UFF) and bachelor degree in Social Sciences from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).

Wandile Mgcodo is a Naledi Award-nominated lighting designer. He additionally teaches at the Department of Performing Arts, Tshwane University of Technology in South Africa. He has extensive theatre expertise, particularly in technical theatre, production management, and community theatre. Wandile has a master's degree in Performing Arts Technology, with an emphasis on production management and community theater processes and is currently pursuing a PhD at Rhodes University. His current research field is in scenography, with a focus on stage lighting design, engagement, and aesthetics. He has served on various committees, including the Theatre Advisory Panel of the National Arts Council of South Africa, the Gauteng Department of Sports, Arts, and Culture Adjudication Committee, and the Technical Production Services Association Council of South Africa.

Thina Miya is a transdisciplinary cultural curator currently engaged as an independent curator for the House of African Feminisms and as a Customer Success Curatorial Specialist at Artfundi. Her work is dedicated to preserving Black familial material and oral histories, highlighting the authentic existence of Black families. Since 2016, she has significantly contributed to South African cultural heritage through event organisation, performance curation, and exhibition design. Thina leverages cultural platforms to promote social cohesion, showcasing skills in social media management, internship coordination, fundraising, and stakeholder engagement.

Her expertise also encompasses discussions on social justice, with a focus on womanisms. Committed to matriarchal values and the evolving roles of women in contemporary society, Thina aims to curate, collaborate, and lead initiatives that advance cultural preservation, social unity, and community well-being. As a curator, she ensures effective implementation and coordination of initiatives that promote locally-rooted justice policies and align with global goals.

Sibonelo Mchunu is a South African young man born on the 20th of March 1997 in Umsinga KwaZuluNatal. He is the firstborn in a Zulu-speaking family. His objectives are to grow into a consistent creative producer, a dedicated dancer, a dance teacher, and a prolific choreographer that commits to spawning innovative ground-breaking performance art. Sibonelo aims on being a recognizable art(act)ivist within the creative industry. He was trained by Myhayise Productions and furthered his training at Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) where he obtained a cum laude in both a National Diploma in Performing Arts – Dance (2021) and an Advanced Diploma in Performing Arts (2022), He is enrolled in Postgraduate Diploma in 2023.

Botho Theatre Cooperative consists of writer, Mphutlane wa Bofelo and thespians, Mpho Lovinga and Styx Mokejane.

Mphutlane wa Bofelo is South African cultural worker and political theorist who focuses on social and political development, governance, political transformation, and strategy and leadership. He has worked in the field of Worker Education and training and development for more than twenty years. Having developed the love for reading and writing in his teens, Mphutlane wa Bofelo became active in organised literature and theatre programs in the mid-1980s and early 1990s through the Makana Poets and Makana Arts Commune, which draw on both Theatre of the Oppressed and Total Theatre. In 1998, he completed a Theatre Ambassador Course in Drama at the Vereeniging Civic Theatre and in 1999 he played a central role in the establishment of the Uniqwa Dance and Drama Society (UDDS). Between 2002 and 2017, Mphutlane wa Bofelo was involved in the development of literature and theatre in Durban through active participation in Nowadays Poets – Izimbongi Zesimanje, Slam Poetry Operations Team (SPOT) and Live Poets Society (LIPS). During this period, Bofelo participated several times in the prestigious Poetry Africa Festival and facilitated several creative writing workshops at the Westville Correctional Service, commissioned by the University of Kwa-Zulu Natal’s Centre for Creative Arts (CCA). He has published several books that includes poetry, short fiction and essays and has participated in several concerts and conferences, including – among others- BRICS Literary Forum in Zhuhai in the People's Republic of China, the World Cup of Cultures in Berlin in Germany, Conference of Iranian and World Poets in Tehran and Shiraz in the Islamic Republic of Iran and African Poetry under the Trees in Saint Denis in the Reunion Island. Bofelo holds an Honors Degree in Political Science and a master’s degree in governance and political Transformation. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate in Governance and Political Transformation at the University of the Free State and is the training officer in the Members Affairs section of the Public Servants Association of South Africa. (PSA).
Styx Mokejane is an arts manager, facilitator, community-based theatre activist and talented actor with strong stage instincts and intensive formal training. He has worked with renowned theatre and film companies. Styx works as a performing arts seasonal actor/director. His past works such as Storms and Valleys by Mncedisi Shabangu, The Very Next breath by Paul Noko, Bound by Love, Face to Face by Matlakala Motaung, Jika, The Nurse by Maishe Maponya, Silent Cries by Styx Mokejane, The Story of an African Choir by Jane Collins and Livewire Explosion as a Director. Styx is a perfectionist who possesses a solid work ethic which compels him to work on his artistic craft until he and his colleagues are satisfied with his craft. He is committed to achieving the highest standard of performance and still willing to learn and listen from others. Styx has been a community theatre activist since the early 1990s, His involvement is through making theatre for young people.

Mpho Lovinga is a seasoned actor known for his outstanding performances in movies such as Final Solution, Max and Mona, catch a Fire. Loving a’s acting prowess comes along with theatre plays such as Moshoeshoe, The Suit and Sbale.

Dr Roland Moses is a senior lecturer specialising in Performance and Improvisation teaching at the Tshwane University of Technology. Roland Moses completed the Doctorate in Literature and Philosophy (DLitt et Phil) in Musicology and MMus (cum laude) in Jazz Performance, Composition and Arranging and the MBA in education management at Haaga Helia university in Finland. He currently serves as the artistic director for the YAMAHA young soloist competition 2024.
He attended Goteborg University in Sweden as part of a student exchange program and was selected as the pianist/composer/arranger for the Standard Bank National Youth Band. Notable performance achievements include winning the National Jazz Group categories of the Old mutual Jazz encounters Competition and incentive prizes at the SAMRO Overseas Scholarship Piano Competitions.
Roland has performed at numerous local and international Jazz festivals including the Joy of Jazz, Awesome Africa, North Sea Jazz Festival – Cape Town, Holland, KKNK, Macufe, UNISA Jazz Festival, Samui Jazz International (Thailand), Jazz on V (Bangkok), Amersfoort (Netherlands), Festival Kreol / Laserenade Enternasyonal de Victoria (Seychelles).
Roland has presented master classes, lectures and solo concerts at Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA), Stockton University (New Jersey, USA) and University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA).
Roland has recorded as sideman on numerous albums, most notably, Kevin Davidson’s – ‘Breathing Winston, Living John’, Peter Auret’s Trio Album, Mateo Mera (Uruguay), Ziza Muftic (Croatia). Roland has also performed with Venezuelan musicians Leonard Jacome (Harp), Eddy Marcano (Violin), Fabrizzio Savino (Italy), Emmanuel Cisi (Italy) and at the UNISA Saxophone Symposium.
Roland has developed and facilitated several community music projects and conducts music literacy workshops in Kwa-Zulu Natal and Gauteng.
His doctoral research focused on a music literacy program for church musicians. Other research interests lie in the area of religion and identity, Jazz performance evaluation, success rate, decolonisation of the curriculum, curriculum development and e-learning. He is currently a National Research Foundation post-doctoral scholar working on a project titled: Performance Practice traditions in Pentecostal Church Music.
Roland is a participant in the South African Academic Leadership (SAAL) programme hosted by Erasmus University (Rotterdam, Netherlands) and Groningen University (Groningen, Netherlands).
Roland has also adjudicated numerous national and international music competitions and was a judge for the Jazz category at the 2015 SAMA awards. Roland is a YAMAHA artist and represented South Africa, in Japan, at the recent YAMAHA-GULF study excursion. Roland is a recipient of the Faculty of Arts and design best lecturer award in 2022 and creative researcher award in 2023.

Muwonwa Ngonidzashe is an academic based in Zimbabwe and has research interests in community development centred around issues of empowerment, youth sexuality and community development.

Gifter Ngobeni obtained his master’s degree in Performing Arts from Tshwane University of Technology in 2023, with his research title: Exploring the Interweaving Theatre-Making Effects of Blending Ritual Elements in Physical Theatre. The research included a devised ritual physical theatre performance, Wela. Ngobeni is also a teacher/ lecturer who has taught at Alexandra High School and is currently lecturing at TUT. He is the founder of 4Play Theatre Productions which was established in 2016. 4Play Theatre Productions has since produced over 10 productions. One of its recent productions conceptualised by Ngobeni is De[tach], that was part of the Jomba Festival, with an article about the creative process published in 2022. Ngobeni performed at the 2023 National Arts Festival, in a production titled The Rain Song and is set to perform it again in Angola this year. Ngobeni has performed with Mamela Nyamza in Europe and the UK and has taught physical theatre workshops in Mozambique. Ngobeni is the Festival Director of the Tembisa Theatre Week Festival, an annual festival which serves the purpose of celebrates and honours an artist that is from Tembisa by creating a platform for emerging theatre practitioners to showcase their new works.

Ezenwa Eleazar Okoro is a social justice advocate, human rights activist, poet, film-maker and art administrator with seventeen years-experience working with communities and entities across West Africa. He is the Program Director of Street Project Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that uses creative arts to foster youth engagement, social mobilization and cross-cultural dialogue. Street Project Foundation won the Intercultural Innovation Award by the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group. Ezenwa is a 2014 Mandela Washington Fellow of the Young African Leaders Initiative (a United States Government program). He is a 2019 and 2020 Global Fellow of the International Society of the Performing Arts (ISPA). Ezenwa currently serves on the Board of Initiative for National Growth (ING), Foundation for Social Innovation (FSI), NAIJA Youth Entrepreneurship Network and Black Soup Media respectively. Ezenwa was recently elected Chairman of the Community of Practice on Youth Activism and Vice President of Nigeria Youth Workers Association respectively. He is skilled in film production, movement building, advocacy, public speaking, project management, resource mobilization and communications. He is an alumnus of Galilee International Management Institute, Israel and University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA.

Dr Rostislava Pashkevitch-Ngobeni (PhD) is a world-renowned composer, director, producer, performer and academic. Her successes as a composer include the musicals MADHOUSE (The Last Hour), King Inna De Jungle, Sofia My City and The Lost Puppets. She also composed the music for the first original South African ballet Story Time. Her major works focus on contemporary, avant-garde, reggae, African and popular styles of music. As a performer, she has mastered a colorful range of music, from baroque, classical, reggae to contemporary styles. She holds sixteen international awards for composition and performance.

Dr Pashkevitch is presently the Head of the Department of Performing Arts at Tshwane University of Technology. Her PhD focused on innovative approaches to teaching music in the Musical Theatre Programme of the university. She has dedicated most of her time to working on community projects involving musical productions, addressing the youth, and demonstrating the powerful tool that music can be for addressing social issues.

Deneesher Pather is a part-time lecturer in Visual Studies, as well as a doctoral student and Andrew Mellon scholarship holder in Digital Media & Culture at the University of Pretoria. Her research interests include South African visual activism, political iconography, and networked image theory.

Dr Matthias Pauwels is an extraordinary researcher (NRF rated) at the School of Philosophy of South Africa’s North-West University, as well as the interim chair of the School’s Contemporary Institute for Ethics (https://www.contemporaryethics.org). His highly interdisciplinary work of the past ten years has focused on the intersections between aesthetics, culture and politics, mainly in the contemporary South African context. Published work in academic journals and edited volumes (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3553-3101) addressed diverse contemporary topics such as decolonial iconoclasm, protest against artworks, racial stereotype humour, queer artivism in indigenous African contexts, black identity politics, and the aesthetic politics of left-wing populism. Before moving to South Africa, Pauwels was part of the independent activist-theoretical research office BAVO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. Key publications here include the edited volume Cultural Activism Today: The Art of Over-Identification (2007, Episode publishers), the monograph Too Active to Act: Cultural Activism after the End of History (2010, Valiz Publishers), and chapters in important anthologies on activist art such as Art and Activism in the Age of Globalisation (2011, NAi Publishers) and Culture and Contestation in the New Century (2011, The University of Chicago Press).

Jamie Perera is an Asian mixed heritage composer, sound artist and producer from East London. His work is inspired by transformation in the Anthropocene, with themes that juxtapose nature, people, places and timescales.

He is the first artist to turn the Holocene - 12,000 years of climate data - into an immersive orchestral piece with "Anthropocene In C Major", touring internationally. Other notable work includes making a "score in the sky" with satellite data, and using sound to show differences in conscious state. Perera’s collaborations and commissions include a diverse range of organisations and people including The Serpentine, The Royal College of Art, Forma Art, Wild Alchemy Lab, The Guardian, Financial Times, European Space Agency, RNCM, Erased Tapes Records, Crossover Labs, Amnesty International, Anil Seth, Marcus Du Sautoy, and Lubomyr Melnyk.

Felipe is Chilean born artist, strategist and academic specialising in storytelling for impact, program design and fundraising. He has worked with governments and organisations globally, and helped to co-found Culture Hack Labs, a not-for-profit consultancy that supports organisations, social movements and activists to create narrative-led systems change.

Throughout his career Felipe has championed epistemic justice, social and Indigenous peoples rights. Felipe is a Bertha Fellow, a member of the UN Harmony with Nature initiative and a board member at Amazon Watch. He holds an MSc in Whole Systems Ecology from Schumacher College, in the UK.

Ukho Peyi is a South African visual artist graduated at the Walter Sisulu University majored in printmaking, where he obtained a national diploma in Fine Art in 2020 and an advanced diploma the following year. With his passion for arts and devotion to helping others, during his final years at varsity, he tutored level l and ll students in painting and printmaking.
He has participated in numerous group exhibitions , research conferences, art competitions and art festivals. Inspired by his sorrowful upbringing of growing without a father, and how that affected both him and his mother, he is using his talent to advocate for unwed women who are raising their abandoned children without the help of their fathers. He believes every child has a right to life, love, education and parental support from both parents.
With his works of art, he is fighting against fatherlessness and father absenteeism in South Africa. Peyi alludes to everyday struggles children and parents are facing using charcoal drawings and pastels on Fabriano paper, addressing struggles of the voiceless for healthy and safer environments for women and children.

VAS PUTTER (born Vasantham Pillay) Resides in Kwa-Zulu Natal

Putter completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Durban-Westville (now UKZN) Department of Fine Arts, majoring in History of Art (with distinction). She went on to tutor History of Art to first year Fine Art students until the closure of the department.

In 1994/95 Putter was involved in the Peace and Reconciliation through Art mural project across KZN during the Truth and Reconciliation Talks.

Putter went on to become a muralist and display artist.

The onset of Multiple Sclerosis left Putter with impaired eyesight, numbness and, at times, limited mobility. Unable to continue with her occupation, she became a volunteer for people living with disabilities and in 2011 received The National Tribune Award for Women in the Disability Sector.

After much rehabilitation and many lifestyle changes, her healing journey through creating art finally began in 2016. Putter works in painting mediums, printmaking and mixed media assemblage.

She is fascinated with the diaspora of peoples, and the subsequent displacement of belongings. Her work explores movement and touch while at the same time unpacking historical and contemporary influences on her life.

In 2020, motivated by the social and environmental injustices of unethical production practices, Putter started various upcycling initiatives in her community, promoting sustainability and eco-conscious consumerism. She was commissioned to create a garden sculpture installation for a venue in Durban. Her piece was a multi-ethnic flower seller made from upcycled materials and discarded fast fashion rejects. In 2022 she was runner up in the UN Women and Climate “She Reigns Tech Award”.

Zanele Lucia Radebe is a Lecturer in the Fine Art program within the Visual Arts Department at Vaal University of Technology. She earned her M-Tech from Vaal University of Technology in 2019. Radebe's research interests lie in Gender Studies, with a particular focus on African women. She is also deeply engaged in cultural studies, employing a feminist perspective to critique her Zulu cultural practices. Her research projects include the artistic exploration of the diverse hairstyles of black women and the re-imaging of controlling images of African women. Radebe has published an article titled "Exploring Alternative Views on the Western Miniskirt and Isigcebhezana in the Patriarchal Zulu Culture of South Africa" in Gender and Behaviour Journal. Her current research project interrogates and critiques the Zulu custom of wearing inzilo (the mourning dress) by Zulu widows, examining the gender inequality associated with this practice. This research contextualizes a mainstream Zulu widow, as a visual response to patriarchal, social subjugation and objectification of black women’s body and dress.

Owen Seda (DPhil) is Associate Professor at Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria RSA. He has also taught at the University of Zimbabwe, Africa University, The University of Botswana, and University of Pretoria, including California State Polytechnic University (Cal Poly Pomona) where he was Fulbright-Scholar-in-Residence.
He is also a Commonwealth Scholar and joint recipient of a Fulbright Alumni Initiatives Awards grant with the late Professor William H. Morse II of Cal Poly, Pomona.
With a particular research interest in African performance studies, popular culture, and the construction of identities within the Global South, Owen has published a combined total of over 60 academic journal articles and book chapters, including three co-edited books. He has also participated in numerous academic conferences and theatre festivals in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the USA.

I began my academic career in Kwazulu Natal, as an educator before relocating to Gauteng. My area of interest remains a feminist position within the visual arts. As a practicing artist, I have participated in numerous exhibitions both nationally and internationally and the notion of landscape has occupied my work as both socio-political and feminist images. My academic career spans twenty five years and my interest remains the documenting of art history embedded in apartheid experiences and responding to the black female body. I currently hold the position of senior lecturer, Fine Art at the University of Pretoria.

Anel van Rooyen is an accomplished Program Coordinator specializing in Fashion Styling at STADIO School of Fashion. With a BA Honours in Fashion (Cum Laude) from STADIO, her academic and professional journey is deeply rooted in fashion education, where she has developed a keen interest in integrating industry experiences into academic curricula. Anel is currently pursuing a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, expected to complete in 2025. Anel is dedicated to fostering an inclusive and dynamic learning environment, ensuring that her students are well-prepared for the evolving demands of the fashion industry.

Daniel Walter has been writing, recording and producing music for social change across Africa for over 20 years. Daniel Walter is the founder & director of CMFD Productions, a Johannesburg and Maputo based communications for change consultancy, as well as leading Sigauque Project, which comprises music production, community arts activities, and a live-performance band.

Inge Lize Weber is a practicing interior designer and lecturer at Tshwane University of Technology. She holds a master's degree in interior design from Tshwane University of Technology and a degree in interior architecture from Leeds Beckett University in the United Kingdom. Inge is currently associated with the Advanced Diploma Interior Design practice students, where there is an emphasis on developing students to be active participants in the interior design industry.

"Jakob Wirth (www.jakobwirth.net) is an artist, activist and PhD Candidate in artistic research at the Bauhaus University. They work in the public space and chooses their artistic language processually, depending on context and theme. They use mediums ranging from performance art, video, social practice to direct guerrilla interventions. Their main interest is to intertwine the artistic field with politics and everyday realities by hijacking unknown systems and questioning the boundaries of norms - parasiting structures and using them for collective purposes.
Jakob has worked extensively with collectives and is the co-founded the cultural project Die Blaue Blume, urban collective stadtgewitter and the Project Space Make-up in Berlin. They is also a member of the collectives including Stadt von Unten, Kollektiv Raumstation (AU, DE) and Arterias Urbanas (BOL). They has realized works and interventions in non-institutional public space as well as in institutional contexts (Architecture Biennial Chicago, Museum Worpswede, Gorki Theater, Schillermuseum Weimar, Münchner Kammerspiele, Art Biennial Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Alte Münze Berlin, Allentown Center for Contemporary Art, US, …). They has taught at Bauhaus University Weimar, the Kunsthochskolen Holback, DNK, the Agogis Zürich and the Humboldt University Berlin. They is founder and editor of the magazine Parasite Art and is a guest editor for Kunstforum International.
They holds a Master's degree in Spatial Strategies (Kunsthochschule Berlin), as well as in Public Art and New Artistic Strategies (Bauhaus University Weimar), and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology, Politics and Economics, with periods of study in Madrid (ES), Santa Cruz (BOL), Holbaeck (DNK) and Chicago (US)."

Tiaan van Niekerk is a South African film lecturer at the film programme, Department of Visual Communication Faculty of Arts and Design, Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in Pretoria, as well as a practising reverend in the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa and a freelance filmmaker specialising in screenwriting and directing. He is currently enrolled in a Doctorate in Film at Tshwane University of Technology. His research is focused on the phenomenography of how the stylistic narrative devices of myth, metaphor, and parable could enhance storytelling possibilities in South African Christian films. His background in Practical Theological studies and his continued work as a youth minister, self-proclaimed cinephile and storyteller strongly influence his research. Although van Niekerk writes for various media platforms, he is most well-known for the kykNET Silwerskermfees short film Ben se Begrafnis (2014) and the feature film Die Pro (2015), both of which he wrote and produced. More recently, van Niekerk was the screenwriter for the kykNET Storieflims HerLeef (2023) and Drie Ja’s en ‘n Nee (2024). Van Niekerk is a proud Writer’s Guild of South Africa (WGSA) member and was honoured by the WGSA’s MUSE Awards in 2023 for his feature film screenplay Umsindisi/Lifesaver.

I am a warm-hearted, approachable, and highly motivated individual that is passionate about the fields of Design and Art. My passion is motivating people and communicating clearly at all levels, making sure that every assessment I take on is done to the highest standard. After earing a BEd with honors, I worked as a teaching assistant for 6 months before moving on to become a part-time lecturer in the Faculty if Education, where I am currently working towards a master's degree. In this role I help in building engaging module content, assist students in art exhibitions and review students during their practical placements in the schools. I have been in this role for 2 years now, providing both theoretical and practical lectures and spans various levels, from foundation phase, intermediate, Senior and Further Education and Training (FET).