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Mohamad Bitari (Damascus, 1990) is a poet, playwright, editor and journalist. As a translator and poet, he has translated works by Federico García Lorca, Rafael Alberti, Miguel Hernández, the Chilean poet Thomas Cohen (in a book edited by Asmaa Azayza) and Miquel Martí i Pol. Currently, he is working on an anthology of the latter and another by Maria Mercè Marçal. As an independent editor, he has coordinated the poetry anthology Jo soc vosaltres. Sis poetes de Síria, published by Godall Ediciones, Pol·len Ediciones and So de Pau; he has also participated in the edition of the book Palestina. Arte y resistencia en Nayi Al-Ali, published by Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo. Recently, he founded Éter Ediciones, where he has published the Catalan translations of La tragèdia d’en Saied Mattar, by Majd Kayyal; Si fossin nens suecs, by Elisabeth Hultcrantz; and Panorama de mort i desolació, by Rasha Omran. He has also translated into Arabic a theatrical anthology by the playwright Josep Maria Miró. As a playwright, he has worked on the projects Habibti Rja'l Al-Tajet, by Greg Kalleres (2012) and The dictator, by Issam Mahfouz (2013), both projects presented at the Babel Theater in Beirut and directed by Lina Abyad. He has participated as co-creator in the shows Sous la plage (2016) together with Marc Villanueva and presented at the Sala Beckett, the Festival Grec and the Frankfurter Lab 2016-2017; and in the writing of Síndrome de Gel, with Clàudia Cedó, directed by Xicu Masó and presented at the Teatre Lliure de Gràcia (2022).

Juana Dolores (El Prat de Llobregat, 1992) is an actress, playwright and stage director. Also video artist and poet. She has published Bijuteria (56.º prize of Catalan poetry Amadeu Oller, ed. Galerada, 2020) and I SI UNA NACIÓ DESFILANT PER UNA CATIFA VERMELLA –rèquiem català– (Ed. Poncianes, 2023). In theatre, she has written, directed and starred in JUANA DOLORES, massa diva per a un moviment assembleari  (2019) and HIT ME IF I'M PRETTY o la princesa moderna. Audiovisual works include LIMPIEZA (2020) and MISS UNIVERSO (2021).

Eduard Escoffet (Barcelona, 1979) has presented his proposals in centers and festivals such as the Centre Pompidou, the Palais de Tokyo and the Fondation Cartier in Paris, the Berlin Poetry Festival, Bowery Poetry Club (New York), Centro Cultural São Paulo, SónarBarcelona, Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid), Roma Poesía, Poetry Africa (Durban, South Africa) and Museo del Chopo (Mexico City), among others. He has published the following poetry books: Gaire (2012), El terra i el cel (2013, published in 2018 with the title Suelo y cielo) and Menys.i tot (2017), as well as the artist book Estramps amb Evru (2012) and the poster-poem Plançó (2021), Carles Hac Mor prize. With the electronic band Bradien, with which he collaborated between 2009 and 2016, he published the albums Pols (2012) and Escala (2015). He is currently a member of the Barba Corsini group, with which he published the album Un nou incendi in 2021. Among other recent projects, he is author together with Gianluca Abbate of the film Cos endins (Italy, 2019). In 2005 he co-curated together with Eugeni Bonet the film cycle Pròximament en aquesta pantalla about lyrical cinema at the MACBA (2005). He has also curated, among others, the exhibitions La xarxa al bosc. Joan Brossa i la poesia experimental, 1946-1980 at the Joan Brossa Foundation in Barcelona (2019) and Tom Johnson. Música ilustrada at the José Guerrero Center in Granada (2023-2024).

Maria Isern Ordeig is author of two poetry books, Sostre de carn (Francesc Garriga Award 2017, La Breu, AdiA, Cafè Central, Edicions del Buc) and Rusc (La Breu, 2023). One starts an expansion that the other pushes, playing with the tile of the first and crashing it into a new city, more or less a colony of bees. She is also co-author of the video-essay Del peix, l'espina, premiered in El Bòlit (Girona) in 2023, which arises from connecting hunger and desire from the perspective of the anorexic body. At the universities of Barcelona and Paris 8 –Vincennes-Saint Denis, she has written a thesis in Comparative Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies that investigates the interaction between orifices and vision in the perception and construction of the body in literature, contemporary film and graphic novel. Some of her texts have been translated into Greek, Portuguese, English and Spanish.

Alicia Kopf, artistic name of Imma Ávalos, is a visual artist and writer. As an artist, she received the GAC / DKV Award in 2013 as the best young artist exhibition at gallery of the year, for her first solo exhibition at Galeria Joan Prats in Barcelona. She published her first book of stories Maneres de (no) entrar a casa, in 2011. Her first novel, Germà de gel (Ed. Alpha Decay, 2016) received the Documenta 2015 and Llibreter 2016 awards, as well as the Premio Ojo Crítico from Radio Nacional de España y Cálamo Otra Mirada in 2017, and the Premio Oksar of the Guild of Booksellers in Rome. Germà de gel has been translated into ten languages so far.

Ginebra Raventós is a poet and sound artist who investigates the sonic and performative possibilities of poetry through actions, recitals, compositions, publications and installations. In her works, she unfolds her poetic universe, where voice, action, sound, image, space and text intermingle in an indispensable whole. In 2021, she released the vinyl Saturn darrere nostre: el glaç, el got, el buit, l'acte verge. She has presented works at festivals, museums and foundations in Catalonia, Berlin, Paris, Reykjavík, London, Lisbon, Budapest or Chicago. 

Gabriel Ventura (Granollers, 1988) is a poet. His most recent books are W (2017), Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls (2020) and La nit portuguesa (2021), filming chronicle of Liberté, film by Albert Serra. His poems have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Greek and Dutch. His work usually starts from poetry, and from this discipline it expands in many directions: action, teaching, research, translation or video. He has recently filmed Els miracles del Mestre Cabestany (ARBAR, 2023), short film directed with Rosa Tharrats. His practice also includes action art, and works such as (-N-O-E-M-A-), L’ajudant or Passió i cartografia per a un incendi dels ulls, drift-poem published by MACBA in 2022. His last poetry book, Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls, has given the title to a collective exhibition at the MACBA dedicated to the local scene. Previously, the book was presented during a 24-hour performance in the window of the bookstore Documenta. His works have been presented in institutions and festivals such as MACBA, MNAC, Bòlit, Barcelona Poetry Festival, Poesia i +, Festival Veu or the Venice Biennale. He is currently working on a project for Manifesta 15, together with Rosa Tharrats, with whom he usually collaborates. Among others, he is recipient of the Montserrat Roig scholarship, and is an associate professor at BAU, Centre Universitari de Disseny, since 2019.