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Jesualdo Barai-Lopes is a filmmaker, curator and community organiser born in Lisbon and based in London, of Bissau-Guinean heritage. His practices explore the memory of the Black diaspora, queer histories and community narratives through film, cultural programming and archival research.

His work has been developed in collaboration with institutions such as Tate Modern, Somerset House, The Africa Centre, Black Cultural Archives, and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s Centro de Arte Moderna, and has been featured in publications such as GAY Times, TimeOut, VOGUE Poland, among others. In 2021, Barai-Lopes founded The Blacker The Berry Project, a collective dedicated to championing Black LGBTQ+ artists through social and creative interventions, including The Blacker The Moses and Black Pride Matters – the first and only Black Pride in Portugal.

With support from Arts Council England, he recently conducted research in Brazil and across the Lusophone diaspora, focusing on community archiving practices for preserving Black memory. Jesualdo is also the Events and Outreach Lead at the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre.

Eloïse Grace Winter is an artist of Barbadian and English heritage, raised in inland Portugal, whose practice builds bridges between jewellery, linguistics, illustration and collective conviviality. Through their work, they seek to translate and bring the magic of the natural and spiritual worlds into everyday life through adornment and collective care.

In 2022, they founded their jewellery studio, sharing their creations online through the Instagram project @e.lu.iz. Eloïse’s interest in social and artistic practices has led them to create, curate and facilitate a wide range of community projects, forest retreats, events, exhibitions and creative direction.

Since 2021, they have collaborated with The Blacker The Berry Project, becoming the first person to lead its Safer Spaces programme as Head of Safer Spaces. They are also an artist-in-residence and co-curator at the Vale de Moses retreat in rural Portugal, where they develop projects and programmes that contribute to the cultural and artistic growth of the local community.

Born in Seixal, Herlander is rewriting the conventions of contemporary popular music through a sound that leans towards anti-pop and moves across a genreless landscape. His songs weave together layered vocal harmonies and contrasting sonic textures that coexist within the same space, creating an experience that is both challenging and instinctive. Refusing to be confined by labels, his music draws its strength from its singularity.

With experience composing for theatre and installation art, Herlander has collaborated with a range of artists, including Ana Moura, Extrazen and Odete, steadily establishing himself as one of the defining voices at the forefront of contemporary Portuguese music.

In 2026, Herlander released CÁRIE, his most personal mixtape to date. Following the singles deixa-me em paz, vertigensand vai bem., CÁRIE unfolds as an intimate exploration of identity, embracing decay as a metaphor for rupture that breaks with uniformity and affirms difference.

El is a trans multidisciplinary artist, producer and independent researcher whose practice explores memory, otherness and collective belonging through photography, moving image, sound, installation and live performance. Working across visual archives and audiovisual storytelling, he investigates how marginalised communities preserve, embody and transmit lived histories.

As a producer at The Blacker The Berry Project, El develops community-based visual archives that explore living memory through the intersection of presence, sound and image.

Rooted in Black, queer and trans cultural production, his work creates spaces for recognition, care and collective memory, using archival and audiovisual practices to centre stories that have long been overlooked or erased.

Rafael de Oliveira, also known as Oxyretronave, was born in Angola in 1998 and describes themself as an Afrofuturist, multidisciplinary visual artist of the diaspora. Through photography, they express their vision of the world, using image manipulation to create new visual perspectives and foster a deeper connection with humanity. At the age of six, they picked up a camera for the first time and began photographing everything that captured their attention.

In 2016, they transitioned into moving image, stepping from behind the lens to in front of the camera as an actor in the short film A Terceira Metade, for which they received a nomination for Best Performance in a Short Film in the National Competition. Between 2018 and 2020, they studied Film and Television at ETIC (School of Technologies, Innovation and Creation) in Lisbon, specialising in music videos and documentary filmmaking.

More recently, Rafael presented work in the projects From A Distance Calling (2021) and Our (Spatial) Stories Live in Performative Futures (2022) at HANGAR – Centre for Artistic Research. They also joined the curatorial team for Chorus in Rememory of Flight by Julianknxx at the Gulbenkian Modern Art Centre in Lisbon.

(tsunami) Tânia Miranda de Carvalho is a Portuguese actor, performer, presenter and curator of Angolan and Bissau-Guinean heritage, based in London.

Her practice centres on movement and dance performance, audience engagement, cultural curation and creative writing. Tânia has extensive experience facilitating workshops, presenting and curating events, and performing on stage. Her credits include Dreamland, V&A Museum, Tate Britain, Outernet London, The Lower Third, EarthL, City Splash Festival, Rich Mix and Omnibus Theatre, among many others.

A graduate in BA Theatre Arts from Middlesex University, Miranda de Carvalho has trained in acting, physical theatre and playwriting. She is currently the founding curator of The Library, an associate artist with the collective state of the [art], UK producer for The Blacker The Berry Project, and host of Chocolate Kizomba.