Cris Ferraz Prade

Psychotherapist

Cris has been working as a psychotherapist for over 20 years. She graduated in psychology from Mackenzie University and has a Master in music therapy from New York University. She specialized in Grief and Bereavement, by the Instituto 4Estações.

She worked in hospitals in the USA (Beth Israel and Mount Sinai), in Brazil (Beneficência Portuguesa Hospital, Israelita Albert Einstein Hospital and Sírio Libanês Hospital) and in the UK (Royal Trinity Hospice).

Cris is a founding partner of Casa do Cuidar, Practice and Education in Palliative Care Association. Currently vice-president of the institution residing in England, where she has a pravite practice, coordinates the on line basic multiprofessional course and supervises Casa Paliativa project.

During the pandemic Cris created a new project, Vital Kompass, where she explores different pathways to promote mental health as well as ways to expand the philosophy of palliative care.

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Father Timothy Radcliffe

Priest, honorary Oxford University fellow and Author

Timothy Radcliffe OP joined the English Province of the Dominican Order in 1965, and was ordained a priest in 1971. He studied in Oxford University, and Paris. He was a chaplain to the University of London in 1974 – 76, before returning to Oxford, where he taught for twelve years. In 1992 he was elected Master of the Order of Preachers (the Dominicans), finishing his term in 2001. He is now an itinerant preacher and lecturer, based in, Oxford, spending half the year traveling until covid! He was a Trustee of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development for fourteen years and is a patron of ‘Embrace the Middle East’.

He is an Honorary Fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and Doctor of Divinity hon. causa of Oxford University, and also from Fribourg University and ten other universities in Italy, France and the United States. He has written several books, which have been translated into 24 languages, the most of which is ‘Alive in God: a Christian imagination’ (2019). He was awarded the Michael Ramsey Prize for theological writing in 2007. He is a Sarum Canon of Salisbury Cathedral and has the freedom of the city of London.

Dr Rukudzo Mwamuka

Psychiatrist

Dr Rukudzo Mwamuka is a psychiatrist living and working in Zimbabwe. For the past 6 years, she has been providing clinical care to patients from marginalised communities at the referral psychiatric units in the capital city of Harare. Her experience in working with patients and understanding their challenge to access to mental health services ignited her interest in community mental health interventions. To pursue her interest, Rukudzo joined the Friendship Bench, an organisation that trains community health care workers to provide Cognitive behavioural Therapy with emphasis on Problem Solving Therapy, activity scheduling and behavioural activation.

In her role as the Clinical Programs Manager and member of the organisation’s Senior Leadership Team, Rukudzo provides oversight and strategy for the Implementation teams. She is currently focusing on ensuring fidelity of the program as it scales across the country with support from the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation under the special initiative for mental health.She is a member of the Catalyst 2030 movement.

Rukudzo holds a medical degree (MBCHB) from the University of Zimbabwe and a Master of Medicine degree (Psychiatry) from the same university and she continues to tutor undergraduate medical students from the university’s mental health unit.

Gabriela Gandel

Board Director, Impact Hub

As an experienced leader of innovative global organisations, organisational and personal development consultant and experiential learning designer Gabriela is committed to building organisations and systems that enable people and planet to thrive and meaningful visions to get accomplished.

She spent her last 15 years working as an executive manager with a mix of not for profit and for profit global organisations spanning over 50 countries around the world. As an executive manager she worked for AIESEC International and Romania, Future Considerations and Impact Hub global. As a consultant her clients included HSBC, KPMG, BP, TATE Britain and 10 key art galleries in England, ProVita Romania, RoPot, Human Invest. Throughout her career Gabriela had coaching engagements with over 40+ leaders. This all was fun and makes up for her more than 5 passports used up to date.

Currently she happily serves the Impact Hub network as a Board Director, helping build strategic partnerships and policy influencing initiatives. And with this pursuing her stand of a connected humanity acting as a power for good.

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Nadine J. Kaslow

Psychologist, Past president of American Psychological Association (APA), Professor at Emory University

Nadine J. Kaslow, Ph.D., ABPP is a Professor, Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Director of the Atlanta Trauma Alliance, Emory University School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Chief Psychologist, Grady Health System; and Director of Postdoctoral Residency Training, Emory University School of Medicine. In 2012, she received a Doctorate of Humane Letters from Pepperdine University. The 2014 President of the American Psychological Association (APA), Dr. Kaslow is Past President/Chair of APA’s Divisions of Clinical Psychology (12), Psychologists in Public Service (18), Family Psychology (43), and Psychotherapy (29); the American Board of Clinical Psychology and the American Board of Professional Psychology; and the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). The former Editor of the Journal of Family Psychology, Dr. Kaslow was a Primary Care Public Policy Fellow through the United States Public Health Service, a fellow of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine Program, and a Fellow of the Woodruff Leadership Academy. She has received numerous awards including: APA’s Distinguished Contributions for Education and Training Award, an APA Presidential Citation for assisting displaced interns and postdoctoral fellows in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, APPIC’s Award for Excellence in Postdoctoral Training, a Heiser Award for legislative advocacy, Elizabeth Hurlock Beckman Award for inspiring her junior colleagues to develop effective programs in the community, Grady Health Foundation’s Inspiring Mentor Award, Emory University’s Thomas Jefferson Award, Distinguished Member of Psi Chi, Georgia Women’s Legislative Caucus Nikki J. Randall Servant Leadership Award, Emory University School of Medicine Lifetime Service and Leadership Award, Emory’s Women of Excellence Award for Distinguished Leadership, and Emory@Grady Career Impact Award. The recipient of multiple federal and foundation grants, she has published over 350 articles and six books. A frequent media guest and a member of Rosalynn Carter’s Mental Health Advisory Board, she is a nationally recognized expert in intergenerational trauma in Black families, suicide and family violence, global mental health, psychology education and training, and clinical supervision, and leadership development. A former professional ballet dancer and the psychologist for the Atlanta Ballet, Dr. Kaslow is passionate about integrating psychology and the arts in the service of individual and community level healing.

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Maciej Kułakowski

Cello

In 2015 at the age of 19, Maciej won 1st Prize at the Lutoslawski International Cello Competition. He was a Laureate in the Finals of the 2017 Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, and a prize winner at the 2019 YCAT International Auditions at Wigmore Hall.

Over the last year Maciej has appeared as soloist with the London Mozart Players, the Baltic Philharmonic, Polish Chamber Orchestra Sopot, Opole Philharmonic and Koszalin Philharmonic Orchestras.

During the 2021/22 season he gives solo recitals at Wigmore Hall, Kronberg Festival, the Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Konzerthaus Berlin and Laieszhalle Hamburg.

He premieres a new work by Anna Roclawska-Musialczyk in Gdansk, returns as soloist with the Podlasie, Kielce, Kalisz and Zielona Góra Philharmonic Orchestras, and records Penderecki’s complete solo cello music. His recording of French music for Delphian Records is due for release in 2022.

Born in Gdansk, Maciej studied with Wolfgang Emanuel Schmidt at the Kronberg Academy.

Maciej plays a Giovanni Baptista Ruggeri Cello made in Cremona, 1700 on loan from a Charitable Trust.

Madalitso Band

Banjo Music – Malawi

Madalitso band are a two man musical army from Malawi. Described as ‘Uplifting and Vibrant’ by the BBC, they get a crowd to their feet and big smiling. Their last album was produced by Bongo Joe records and the band has already performed at Womex 2020, Womad 2019, Roskilde 2018, Sauti Za Busara 2017 and many more.

Intuitive, authentic, and full of ruthless rhythms, Malawian Madalitso Band has taken Europe by storm. Madalitso will make you clap, dance, smile, and rethink everything you thought you knew about African sound and instrumentation. Madalitso is authentic to the core and coming on tour once again after demand from clubs and festivals around the world. The traditional duo from Malawi, who in the last year have been featured on BBC Africa, and performed at such festivals as WOMEX, WOMAD in UK, and Roskilde in Denmark, were first discovered by a local producer busking outside a shopping centre in Lilongwe in 2009. The connection that the musicians gained with each other through living this way for 10 years is evident in the way they burst onto the scene, after their very first performance outside Malawi, in 2017, at Sauti Za Busara in Zanzibar. 6 months later and they were on an aeroplane for the first time in their lives, to do a 2 week European tour, and wow audiences with their down-to-earth nature, and raw on-stage energy. The following year the tour was extended to 5 weeks with 22 shows, and in 2019, reached 9 weeks with 42 shows! A second album has spread the music further afield also, giving listeners a sense of the band as they would sound on the streets of Lilongwe. Wasalala, was released in March 2019 under Bongo Joe Records, a label from Geneva, who instantly fell in love with the Madalitso ethos, when the music inside is so strong that it says, “why should we buy our instruments, when we can build our own, and get the sound we want.” The music inside Madalitso Band is SO strong, and it comes out effortlessly, full of syncopated rhythms, lush harmonies and a solid back beat. Two nice guys from the village in Malawi, smiling their way around the world and bringing dancefloors to life. What’s there not to like about that.

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Daniel Steegman Mangrané

Interdisciplinary Artist

Daniel Steegmann Mangrané (1977, Barcelona) lives and works in Rio de Janeiro From drawing to film, passing through sculpture, installation and landscape interventions, Daniel Steegmann Mangrane’s work questions our relationship to the environment and invites the viewer to be physically involved in his projections and displacements. His video pieces and installations engage with the imagination of the spectator and often traces the boundary where nature meets artifice.

Recent solo shows include Dog Eye, Kunsthalle Münster, Münster, Germany (2020); A Leaf-Shaped Animal Draws The Hand, Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan (2019); Ne voulais prendre ni forme, ni chair, ni matière, Institut d’Art Contemporain de Villeurbanne, Villeurbanne (2019). His work has been also featured at the group shows Liverpool Biennial (2021); Taipei Biennial (2020); Concrete Contemporary, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich (2019).

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Corinna Da Fonseca-Wollheim

Music Critic

Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim is an award-winning music critic (New York Times, Wall Street Journal) and cultural entrepreneur. Her work has been honored with the 2021 Virgil Thomson Award for Outstanding Criticism, the 2015 Communication Prize at Mondomusica Cremona and a residency at the American Academy in Rome. She is the founder and artistic director of Beginner’s Ear, an innovative program of deep listening events that has brought live music and meditation to diverse audiences in spaces ranging from Lincoln Center to a federal prison in Brooklyn. Born to German parents in Brussels, she holds degrees from the University of London, the University of Sussex and Cambridge University, where she obtained a Ph.D in Italian literature.

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Organik Dantza

Dance Theatre

ORGANIK was founded in 2002 but it is from 2007 when it has a continuous creative activity. Since 2011 it has been one of the two consolidated companies in the Basque Country (Department of Culture of the Basque Government) for its trajectory and educational project in schools with adolescents.

Natalia Monge has directed ORGANIK since its inception.

In his creations, he starts from personal aspects and transfers them to the current universe to share the human side that worries us in this Western society.

From a language between text and dance, he uses movement as a vehicle of expression and emotions to talk about what interests him. In his compositions he looks for different landscapes through his connection with the world of sound and generally from an ironic point of view.

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STREET PARTS

In 2002/03, he created the street shows Tellagorri and Tellagorri BI in the popular festivals of his municipality, Getxo. In 2004 he created ES3IN and in 2007 +ES3 where he repeats a team of six performers mixing dance, theater and live music and delving into stress from humor. Malditas en 2008 is ORGANIK’s most ambitious project co-produced by 5 Festivals (Umore Azoka in Leioa, TAC in Valladolid, Kaldearte in Vitoria, Kalealdi in Bilbao and dFeria in Donostia). Tour in prestigious Festivals in the Peninsula, and abroad: Colombia, Argentina (Córdoba and Buenos Aires) and France (Libourne). Malditas travels from terror to humor. In 2012 he premiered his street dance work Carneros, a duo in which the ram fight is questioned as a gambling game between the Basque winners. Visit, among others, the Fairs of Tárrega, Valladolid, Chalon and Festivals of Havana, Libourne, Bordeaux and Manchester. In 2015 he created the street version of Irrintzi as a co-production of Aterpean (Renteria, Biarritz) which is a tribute to the popular Basque cry, visiting festivals in the Basque Country and South Korea.

ROOM PIECES

In 2003 he created Tú o yo and in 2006 the music and dance improvisation work Serie Impros. In 2008 in Lilas he works with three dancers and talks humorously about female hormones. In 2010, with the Maniátic@s trio, he ridiculed the manias that all humans have. It toured in numerous theaters in the Basque Country and Spain and made a tour in the province of Barcelona. In 2012, In Corpore Sano satirizes the world of diets and gyms with 4 dancers, reflecting on the sense of guilt inherited from ancestral beliefs. In 2014 Txapeldun shows us the multiple experiences of a champion. The renowned accordionist Kepa Junkera contributes with his music that part of the Basque roots from which we work in Txapeldun and in the dramaturgy he collaborates with the theater company El pont Flotant. In 2016, the room version of Irrintzi IN was born, in which two dancers and a musician travel in a sound universe full of irrintzis, vindicating the scream as a means of liberation and explosion of emotions.

EDUCATIONAL PROJECT

Through an approach to the creative process of a show since 2011, ORGANIK has carried out a project to raise awareness of dance in schools with adolescents in the municipalities of Getxo, Sopelana and in the province of Barcelona (Anem al teatre programme).

NATALIA MONGE

Graduated in Physical Education interested in Corporal Expression. Graduated in Choreographic Composition at the SNDD (School for New Dance Development, Amsterdam). She works as a dancer with the Circus Wonder company (Les Ballets C. de la B.) in Holland, Belgium and France. With the piece “d´k´me you speak…?” wins the second prize in the VI Masdanza International Contemporary Dance Contest in the Canary Islands. Since 2002 he co-founded and directs ORGANIK directing all the pieces mentioned above.