​Dr Sidonie Carey-Green is a practitioner-researcher based in the UK with 10 years of experience in facilitation, filmmaking, and choreographic projects. She holds a PhD in dance from Royal Holloway University of London. Her PhD practice explored a methodology for performance with new technologies to become transformative rather than oppressive for othered bodies. Over her studies she developed a long-term collaboration with Tom Tegento to create a series of choreographic objects with Arts Council Funding ongoing. She works as a teacher, choreographer and film practitioner across Kent and Surrey, teaching performance and technique for youth companies, adults, and universities. Her credits include Channel 4’s Random Acts, Malta’s European Capital of Culture, Brighton Dance Film Festival, Womencinemakers Bienale, and official selections in festivals globally. In 2022 she took on the role of lecturer and artistic director of the 3rd Year Touring Company for BA Dance at the University of Winchester, and previously she has been a sessional lecturer with Canterbury Christ Church University and Royal Holloway University of London.

Born in Gonder - Ethiopia, Tom Tegento is an artist, mentor, and practice researcher (PaR) based in Kent with a range of cross-cultural and all-round performance training experiences with an MA in Physical Theatre and Movement studies at the University of Kent.

In his practice, Tom mainly uses his experience of training practice inspired mainly by ancient African principles and traditional folk dances, music, theatre, comedy, games, creative and academic writing etc. Tom currently is working as a session artist at (NPO) Playground Kent and Digital playground artist; workshop facilitator at Projekt Europa Theatre Company at the University of Kent, member at Kent Creative Youth advisory mentor, Projekt Europa Theatre Company advisory team, lead artist at ‘Body as Data’ project funded by ACE. Tom has also worked as an assistant theatre including at The Gulbenkian Theatre - University of Kent, at Moving Memory Dance Theater Company - dance workshops for the elders in Kent. Tom has been involved in a variety of local and community performances within and across countries. He is keen on intercultural and intergenerational performance encounters with and beyond the mainstream structures. Recently, Tom is developing his practice to fully understand his approaches to arts while working on an Arts Council funded creative development project. Acknowledging the holistic benefits of performing arts for individuals & communities; Tom’s project will focus on developing his inclusive performance, workshop & training approaches through practical observations to develop his practice he will use for his future career.

Farida Yesmin is a Bangladeshi artist based in Folkestone. She makes work across performance, socially engaged practice, video, photography and drawing. Farida grew up in Bangladesh and has overcome personal trauma to settle in the UK. Her groundbreaking ever-evolving artistic practice explores themes of feminism, body politics and cross-culture identity. Through her work, she engages with Eastern and Western cultural expressions, as a woman, as an artist and as an immigrant.

Her practice is shaped through human rights and feminist politics, in parallel to her lived

experience of trauma in the asylum process, homelessness, and as an immigrant.

Her work negotiates barriers of language whilst staging her “otherness”, expressed through

communication using her body, gestural mark making, painting and voice.

In Bangladesh she studied Fine Art at Dhaka University (1998) and has a Master’s degree from Visva-Bharati University in West Bengal India(2003). Despite the extreme personal barriers she has faced, she strives to develop and amplify her practice. Since migrating to the UK, her work has been championed and showcased at Creative Folkestone, Conversation Over Borders, Performance Space, Tempting Failure London Biennial of International Performance Art, Counterpoints, Artsadmin and WIP project.

Josephine Carter is a poet, artist and community worker. Using and producing found and devised text, she is interested in 'reinscribing' the act of writing. Through movement, erasure, improvisation, translation and manipulation, she makes poems highlighting the generative, collaborative and durational aspects of the craft, attempting to subvert the cultural and political dominance of the written word in English. 

Based in Folkestone, UK, Carter is an intent observer of the UK Government's border regime as it manifests on the south-east coast of England. She works as a facilitator, convener and producer of socially engaged co-designed artworks and projects with communities, including with displaced people living in East Kent.

Recently, she has worked with Autograph ABP, The Brixton Project, Complicité Theatre, Counterpoints Arts, Creative Folkestone, Dulwich Picture Gallery, King's College London, People United and the University of Kent. She maintains deep links with refugee solidarity efforts in the Folkestone area, and has worked with the Napier Drop-in and Napier Friends to support people housed by the Home Office at Napier Barracks since 2020.

Nadia began her love of artistic expression at the tender age of 3 years old, learning tap, ballet and piano at the Shepherds Bush BBC Children's Studios in 1983. From 1987 she also attended Mountview Theatre School from the age of 7, and expanded her attention to Acting, and Singing; yet after decades of working in various musical capacities, in 2020, Nadia received her calling and initiation as an Ancestral Healer.

As a certified Reiki Master practitioner & Sound Conduit, Nadia works with Her voice, rattles, drums, heart and hands in order to channel healing sonic frequencies & energies. Specialising in Collaborative Collective Creative Harmonic Fusion in unlimited settings. At Hut23 Nadia is the lead Vocalist, on Percussion, Keys, Shruti, Ukelele, and the Glue. At Oneness Jams Nadia is a space holder and energetic anchor. In ceremonial settings, Nadia works with various indigenous tribes, and facilitates sound journeys weaving sonic webs through the collective consciousness. Nadia holds Voice Activations, jam circles, and initiates Call and Response in crowd settings.

Surya Dev Chandra is a master’s student at University of Kent, currently pursuing an MA in Physical Acting. His background is a fitting one to match the hybridity of much physical and experimental theatre practice. He has worked with Shudrka Hyderabad, a theatre group in southern India, trained with Swapan Mondal, Director-Founder of the group and collaborated with colleagues in India and UK. At the centre of his pedagogy is the work of Michael Chekhov, but what makes Surya’s work so singular is his ability to draw upon and meld a range of approaches into the single end of creating the physically articulate and responsive performer. 

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Being an ardent follower of (Michael) Chekhov’s techniques, Surya’s approach to physical theatre encompasses experimentation with a variety of movement forms. He also aims to develop physical technique and expressivity to empower the stage performer’s art. Beyond this, he hopes to experiment with a number of movement forms that helps to better understand and direct his own talent and discover what best suits his artistic needs and capacities that may be further developed. In India he has applied his movement forms in plays like ‘Gadha Kahini’, ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’ and others.

Surya is currently working as a Production Assistant for project 'PROJEKT ENCOUNTER' at PROJEKT EUROPA where he also facilitates workshops for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

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