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  Jack "Mia" Shamblin,  (USA). 

 Is a genderqueer performer, playwright, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Shamblin creates mixed-media theatre that explores evolving identity. Currently, Jack is working on "Flower Child," a queer multimedia fairy tale, and has had plays produced by theaters such as La MaMa ETC and Dixon Place. In 2015, Shamblin published "Queering The Stage," a collection of his plays produced in the 1990s. 

 The artist debuted as a creator and performer with NY-based theatre and visual artist Theodora Skipitares, who describes Shamblin's creations as "heroic." New York legends such as La MaMa ETC, Dixon Place, Mother, and HERE have produced their plays.

In 2015, Shamblin published Queering The Stage, a collection of their LGBTQIA++ scripts. In addition to a NY community, Shamblin lived several years in Portugal where they wrote and performed for choreographer Paulo Henrique and others, taught at Centro Em Movimento, and created the experimental film O Castelo Preto. Highlights were performing with Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Skriker by Caryl Churchill and with Kate Bornstein in Shamblin’s play Thurma.

Recently, Shamblin completed their short film THERAPYTHIA, which delves into non-binary evolution. Shamblin made the film this January in Delphi, Greece, with artist Colin Ginks.​ Notably, critically acclaimed transgender actor Alexis Arquette, performed their final role as Mommy Myra Breckinridge in Shamblin's short BLATANT.

José Carlos Teixeira,  (PT-USA).  

Is a visual artist, filmmaker, researcher and educator. MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio, UCLA; BFA in Visual Arts/Sculpture from FBAUP. Through participatory, performative and poetic methodologies, his practice examines ideas of identity, belonging, otherness, exile and displacement. At the intersection of cinema and anthropology, art and politics, Teixeira addresses the politics of representation, while generating space for empathy and intersubjectivity. His work (in video-essay, documentary, installation, text and photography) has been featured internationally in exhibitions and film festivals. In recent years, he had solo shows at MAAT (Lisbon), SPACES (Cleveland), MMoCA (Madison), Hawthorn Contemporary (Milwaukee), MNSR (Porto), as well as group shows and screenings in venues such as LACE, Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), UnionDocs, Anthology Film Archives (NY), MOCA, The Sculpture Center (Cleveland), Württembergischer Kunstverein (Stuttgart), DAZ, Rosalux (Berlin), 104 Cent Quatre (Paris), Hélio Oiticica Art Center (Rio de Janeiro), S.P. Cultural Center (São Paulo), Oriente Foundation (Macao), Carpe Diem, Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon),

Museu FBAUP, Galeria do Palácio, MausHábitos (Porto), and at the Instituto Camões Cultural Centers, to name a few. Teixeira was the recipient of a Fulbright/FCC and Gulbenkian/FLAD grants, Efroymson Fellowship, AFFEST Jury Award 2019 (NY), SMHAF Experimental Film Award 2019 (Glasgow), FUSO Jury Prize 2011, and the 2005 EDP New Artists Prize nomination. Na artist-in-residence at the Akademie Schloss Solitude (Stuttgart), Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), MacDowell and the Headlands Center for the Arts (USA), he has also taught at ESAD.cr, (Portugal), at CWRU and CIA in Cleveland, in addition to UW-Madison (USA).

Židrija Janušaitė,  (LT).   

Is a Lithuania Intermedia artist working in painting, installation, land art, video and performance art. Active on the Lithuanian and international art scene since 2007. Židrija’s artworks are defined by stillness; her art opens up to an experience of intense meditative silence. What is personal is shared with whoever chooses to enter the special time space created by an artist. Her arts are mostly meditative, calming and mind relaxing. On another hand, this is how she creates the loop for particular and always individual comprehension and perception of the viewer.