Sonya Lindfors is a critically acclaimed Helsinki–based choreographer and the powerhouse artistic director of the ground-breaking UrbanApa artistic platform. Sonya divides her time between her own artistic work and art director’s position. In all her activities she pursues subversive ways of working that aim at challenging existing power structures. Currently, she is developing decolonial dreaming practices and educating on feminist leadership.

Willa Koerner is a future-focused strategist, writer, editor, and artist designing opportunities and resources to catalyze creative brilliance. She is the co-founder of the Strange Foundation, an internet-and-nature-infused residency and retreat space in New York’s Catskill Mountains whose ultimate goal is to help forge a stranger, more imaginatively regenerative future.

Teo Ala-Ruona is a Helsinki–based artist and educator interested in generating new forms of collectivity, futurities and understanding of interdependencies, as well as space for unheard, marginalized or non-normative, queer and trans narratives and experiences. His work focuses on queer speculative fiction in forms of speech performances, texts, sound installations, video, community organizing and writing workshops.

Elina Minn is a writer and dramaturg working in the fields of contemporary art and performance. Elina is committed to nurturing cultures of experimentation, play and rest. They are fascinated by the dancing body, the spiritual body, the animal body and humans’ shared ancestry with other cellular life forms. Elina’s background is in animation, illustration and graphic design – drawing is their first language.