Dulce Maria Cardoso has published the novels Eliete: A Vida Normal [Eliete: A Normal Life] (2018, book of the year in, among others, Público, Expresso and JL, Oceanos Prize and finalist for the Prix Femina), O Retorno [The Return] (2011, Special Critics' Prize and book of the year in Público and Expresso), O Chão dos Pardais [The Ground of Sparrows] (2009, Portuguese PEN Club Prize and Ciranda Prize), Os Meus Sentimentos [Violeta Among the Stars] (2005, European Union Prize for Literature) and Campo de Sangue [Field of Blood] (2001, Grand Prize Acontece, written following the award of a Literary Creation Grant by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture).
Her novels have been translated into several languages and published in more than twenty countries. The English translation of O Retorno was the recipient of a 'PEN Translates' award in 2016.
She has published short stories in magazines and newspapers, most of which were collected in the anthologies Até Nós [Even Us] (2008) and Tudo São Histórias de Amor [Everything Is a Love Story] (2014). Some of them have been included in foreign anthologies, with the short story ‘Anjos por dentro’ [Angels Within] included in the Best European Fiction 2012 anthology, published by Dalkey Archive Press. In 2017, the texts Rosas were published, written as part of choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker's stay in Lisbon during the Artist in the City biennial programme. She also created the character Lôá, the girl-God, for an RTP2 series.
Adapted for film, theatre and television, Dulce Maria Cardoso's work has been studied in universities in several countries as part of curricula and has been the subject of numerous academic theses.  She has also participated in several prestigious international festivals.
In 2012, the French government awarded her the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. She writes the column ‘Autobiografia não autorizada’ [Unauthorised Autobiography] in Visão magazine (chronicles published in book form in 2021 and 2023).

Christiana Martins: "I started reading in Brazil and ended up writing in Portugal, a worker of words. With an accent, because roots are not something you let go of. And it was with this accent that I interned at 'Diário de Notícias', worked at 'Público', and landed at 'Expresso'. For 12 years, I searched for myself in the Economy sections, got lost in the Magazine, passed through Society, and returned to the Magazine. Always a journalist, writing, because someone will read it. Besides the accent, the only certainty I have is that learning is a never-ending task. After all, as my fellow countrywoman Adélia Prado taught me, 'I don’t want the knife or the cheese. I want the hunger.'"

Marisa Paulo, originally from Luanda, identifies as a movement artist and researcher, focusing on the Black woman’s body and the practices, ways of being, and presence it embodies as a means of communication with the systems it navigates. Her latest performance, FRAGMENTOS, had its international debut in March 2024 at the III Black Brazil Art Biennial in Rio de Janeiro.

Laura Beaujour is a Black woman from a remote island in the middle of the ocean. She grew up between Guadeloupe and mainland France. A performer, she writes poetry and short stories about her experiences, questions, and identities.

N▲N▼, known as "The Beast," is a multi-instrumentalist, DJ, and performer with a remarkable career. She is a master of infernal music and its pleasures, blending the introspection of jazz, the fury of the Black lesbian woman, and the Afro-Brazilian ancestry from northeastern Brazil, her homeland, to create unforgettable soundscapes. Her musical expertise and experience (Bachelor’s in Music, Master’s in Jazz, UFPE - Brazil) in improvisation set the tone for a voice that both needs and longs to speak and play in many languages. Her intense stage presence and profound musical wisdom offer a transcendental encounter with one's inner depths. As a performer, she develops strategies to reclaim and retell her narratives as a Black sapphic body that insists on learning how to love and be loved by women. With her most recent performances, she has graced stages in Lisbon, Porto, Leiria, Caldas da Rainha, France, and Germany.

ADUFE & ALGUIDAR is a group of nine voices that form a singing and percussion project, crossing symbolisms and traditions with rhythms of the adufe and other instruments, where experimentation is always an invitation. The adufe is our means of travel, like a square wheel, aided by other sonic companions that take us wherever we want to go. The alguidar—a vessel typically used for washing or kneading—serves as a metaphor for the reactivation, reinvention, and blending of sounds.
Participants: Ana Taipas, Diana Henriques, Isabel Bernardo, Joana Guilherme, Margarida Agostinho, Raquel Esteves, Rita Santos, Silvana Dias.

O Baque Mulher Lisboa (BML), , founded in 2019, is an autonomous, plural, and diverse collective, a movement in the making, born from the context of immigration, valuing respect, internal democracy, and mutual, horizontal learning and exchange. We are girls, mothers, daughters, immigrants, students, workers, and women in the process of becoming—we are batuqueiras. Together, we play Maracatu de Baque Virado, and through our singing, dancing, and drumming, we give voice to issues in favour of femininity, our autonomy, and freedom to be and exist, standing against patriarchy and all forms of oppression, racism, and violence against all women.
Participants: Heloise Medeiros, Bruna Oliveira, Palloma Silva, Alba Nogueiras, Elisa Cazalini, Cynthia Bravo, Beatriz Duarte, Bianca Mattos, Patricia Belotte, Tenilly Guian.

Coletivo Gira group is made up of multi-instrumentalist women from various places in Brazil and around the world, each bringing their unique qualities and influences. This results in a distinctive performance full of strength, yet simultaneously lightness, while not overlooking the activism and resistance of women who continue to fight for greater representation within samba.

The Bloco Bué Tolo is a carnival group created in February 2018 by Brazilians living in Lisbon, aiming to bring the infectious street carnival of Rio de Janeiro to the city with plenty of joy, fun, and good music. From this sentiment, a group formed by musicians, enthusiasts, and nostalgic revelers began holding regular rehearsals to make this a reality. Since then, the bloco has grown and evolved into a band that performs throughout the year at various events and music festivals. The repertoire ranges from samba to funk, axé to maculelê, as well as pop, rock, and international songs.
Participants: Leonardo Mesquita, Alexandre Pinheiro, Flávia Tourinho, Helena Beghetto, Luísa Pinto, Alexandre Fagundes, Antoine Demarche, Leticia Florencio, and Eduarda Meirelles.

BANGBANG PERCUSSÕES is a personal project by percussionist André Dez, aimed at promoting the traditional percussion and cultures of the western and southern African coasts through training and artistic performances. Annually, as a percussionist, he participates in various national and international projects and organizes the Kolafölo gatherings in Lisbon and the international festival Aldeia Djembe Camp in Proença a Nova, both of which focus on training and performance.
Participants: Asaf Berute, Stefania Romeo, Léo Oliveira, Henrique Ubach, Daniel Moreira, Nuno Sequeira, Rita Basso, and André Soares.