Rizwan is an archaeologist – his most remarkable discovery was at Amara West in Sudan, where he helped uncover the world’s oldest known case of metastatic cancer in a mummified skeleton.

Andriy creates digital artworks that combine photography, illustration, drawing, and collage. He approaches art as a space for curiosity and experimentation, crafting surreal, layered images that transform everyday scenes into something more unexpected and thought-provoking.

Hellen is the co-founder of Imagining Peace, a global initiative that explores alternative narratives of memory and belonging. As a curator and researcher, she brings this vision to her wider work on the politics of heritage, archives, and representation.

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Hiba is a filmmaker. Her practice traces the personal and material echoes of political histories through displaced objects, personal memory, and acts of smuggling – of books, images, and meaning. Working across film, installation, and writing, she constructs quiet, layered works that hold contradiction: the domestic and the geopolitical, the intimate and the archival, the visible and the withheld.

Shahd is a storyteller and podcaster. She produces long-form audio documentaries in Arabic and English that explore identity, memory, and meaning. Often months in the making, these podcast episodes are a space where she remains both a storyteller and a listener – always curious, always moved.

Fergus sings in a Gaelic choir. He began with Còisir Lunnainn to improve his language skills, but soon became its conductor and later president – helping lead the world’s oldest Gaelic choir in competitions across Scotland. Together, they celebrate the full range of Scottish Gaelic song, from ancient psalms to love songs and more.