d’bi.young anitafrika is a Jamaican-Canadian international dub poet, theatre interventionist and decolonial scholar who is committed to creating and nurturing art that ritualises acts of recovery from violence inflicted upon the people and the planet. Shx is a multi-award-winning author of twelve plays, seven albums and four collections of poetry. After receiving hxr Master’s degree from the University of London in 2019, shx was awarded a full Dean's Scholarship in 2020 by London South Bank University to conduct hxr PhD research in Decolonial Praxis, Performance and Pedagogy in Theatre. In addition to teaching hxr decolonial framework at universities across the globe, d'bi.young has also worked as Theatre Interventionist in the UN's Global Initiatives Fellowship. Hxr latest book is Dubbin Theatre: The Collected Plays of d’bi.young anitafrika.

Waleed Abdulhamid is a Canadian Multi-instrumentalist, Composer, Vocalist, Music and Film Producer, and is known for his striking vocals, innovative bass technique, and his speed and precision on percussion. He has been an active member of the Toronto music scene since his arrival from Sudan in 1992, and is the recipient of the Canadian New Pioneer Award, African Tama Award, Reel World Film Festival Award, Canadian Film Board of Excellence Award, two-times DORA Award, and others. He demonstrates his versatility playing 20 instruments. Waleed has played and recorded with a large number of well-known artists including David Clayton Thomas of the Grammy Award winning band Blood, Sweat & Tears, and with the Motown legend The Drifters. However, Waleed is most proud of his role as a mentor to many acclaimed artists such as d’bi.Young, Ngozi Paul, and Zaki Ibrahim to name a few. Waleed has also been the subject of study for many researchers and PhD candidates seeking to understand the workings of the virtuoso mind. Waleed is also a Professor and faculty member of the Music Degree Program at Humber College.

Napo Masheane was born in Soweto, grew up in Qwaqwa (Free State) and holds a Marketing Management, Speech & Drama and Master’s Degree in Creative Writing. She is a playwright, director, poet and acclaimed performer on both international and national stages. A founding member of Feela Sistah! Spoken Word Collective and with its demise, went on to become one of South Africa’s leading black female theatre makers, after her provocative and humorous one-woman show My Bum Is Genetic Deal With It and The Fat Black Women Sing. She is the winner of Mbokodo Award, Pan African Language Award, and South African Film & Television Award, while she has three poetry collections, Caves Speak in Metaphors (2009), Fat Songs For My Girlfriends (2012), and Heartbeat Of The Rain (2019). Napo became the first black women to produce, write and direct a play, A New Song, at the Market Theatre mainstage (John Kani Theatre).

Mohammed is an artist born and raised in London, who uses sound as a medium of expression and communication. Starting as a self-taught artist, he is a recent graduate from Goldsmiths University studying a Masters in Sonic arts. His works include elements of found sound, experimental and improvised music whose compositions tend to draw from the immediate environment using an array of recording techniques in order to capture and sculpt his unique sonic creations. Through collaborations with artists from different practices and approaches, he has been able to incorporate moving image, theatre and performance into his artistic approach.