Tomomi Adachi (Japan) is a performer/composer, sound poet, instrument builder and visual artist. Known for his versatile style, he has performed his own voice and electronics pieces, sound poetry, improvised music and contemporary music, also presented site-specific compositions, compositions for classical ensembles, choir pieces for untrained musicians, sculptural poetry pieces in all over the world including Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou and Poesiefestival Berlin. He has been working with a wide range of materials; self-made physical interfaces and instruments, brainwave, artificial satellite, twitter texts, fracture and even paranormal phenomena. CDs include the solo album from Tzadik, Fontec, Omegapoint and naya records. He was a guest of the Artists-in-Berlin Program of the DAAD for 2012.

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Nikolina Andova Shopova (Macedonia) was born Skopje. She graduated from the Faculty of Philology (Macedonian and South Slavic literature) at the St Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje. Her first book of poetry, The Entrance Is on the Other Side (2013), won the Stružské mosty award for best poetry debut and was later translated into English. Her second book of poetry, Connect the dots (2014), was published in Serbian as well. Nikolina Andova Shopova's poetry was translated into ten languages and published in numerous anthologies of Macedonian poetry. Besides poetry, she writes short stories and picture books for children. In 2018, the Skopje-based Templum published her first novel called Somebody was here (2018).

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Pietro Cagni (Italy) In 2015 he received his degree in Classical philology from the University of Catania. He's teaching in Catania and currently working on Dante's Comedy as well as contemporary Italian poetry. He is a founding member of the Centre of Contemporary Poetry of Catania, which organizes literary events and workshops in collaboration with the University of Catania. He collaborates with literary magazines and journals and he contributed to the publication of Poesia inChiostro, an anthology of essays about Italian poets of 20th century. His first volume of poetry Adesso è tornare sempre (Now it's always coming back) has won the XXX° Laurentum Prize in Rome and was a finalist for Premio InediTO 2018.

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Veronika Dintinjana (SIovenia) is a poet and translator based in Ljubljana. Her first book of poems, Rumeno gori grm forzicij (Yellow Burns the Forsythia Bush) received the Best First Book award at the 24th Slovenian Book Fair in 2008. Her poems have been translated into 10 languages. Her second book V suhem doku (In Dry Dock), published in December 2016, was nominated for national critics' choice award (Kritiško sito) and won the 2017 best poetry book of the year award (Jenkova nagrada). As a translator, Veronika has published poems and essays by writers in the likes of Louise Glück or Muriel Rukeyser. As founder and manager of the Kentaver Arts and Literature Society, she organises monthly poetry readings Mlade Rime.

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Bruno Doucey (France), writer and publisher, was born in the Jura mountains. After having managed Editions Seghers, he founded his own publishing house dedicated to defending the world's poetry and the activist values that drive it. He is the author of numerous anthologies of poetry, such as La Neuvaine d'amour (2010), S'il existe un pays (2013) or Ceux qui se taisent (2016), as well as five novels devoted to assassinated poets, the most recent one being Lounès Matoub, non aux fous de Dieu (2018). His most recent book of poetry is titled L'Emporte-voix (La Passe du vent, 2018).

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Łukasz Jarosz (Poland) is a percussion player, vocalist and lyricist for bands including Lesers Bend, Chaotic Splutter, Panoptikum and Katil Ferman. He teaches Polish at a primary school and lives in the countryside near Olkusz. His first collection of poetry was Soma, published in 2006, which won first prize in the W. Gombrowicz Young Writers' Competition. It also won the Young Cultural Foundations prize, one of whose jurors, the poet Bohdan Zadura, said of it: "A collection of muted, unpretentious poems, unobtrusively meditative and moderately narrative, telling an honest story. Here we find sensitivity and an original use of metaphor, authenticity and subtlety. Death, which is there in the background, merely underlines the beauty of the world being described."

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Agda Bavi Pain (Slovakia) is a poet, writer, screenwriter and a frontman of the banned music band Liter Gena. Under several artistic names and brands, Pain has published works in the press, radio and television in Slovakia and abroad. Apart from literature, he also writes for television, film and theatre. His acclaimed provocative debut poetry book Skin & Bone (Kosť & Koža, 2002) was labelled as satanic while his first novel debut, gory gangster novel The End Of The World (Koniec sveta, 2006) was awarded with the prestigious Big Prize for Literature from Eastern Europe Bank Austria Literaris 2008. The novel was translated into German and made into a successful film. His latest book of poems Pästiarsky list (Fist List) was published in 2017.

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Silva Hannah (Great Britain) is an award-winning British poet, performer and sound artist who uses technology, verbal fractures, sound poetry and gesture creating sonic explorations of meaning and sense. Silva's words and word-particles spark ideas and ignite feelings as she subverts and erodes assumptions, taboos and the languages of power. Her latest performance Schlock! splices Fifty Shades of Grey with a novel by Kathy Acker, celebrating 'the slipperiness of words, reinventing them so that none of them are safe' (The Guardian). Total Man was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Her poetry collection Forms of Protest (Penned in the Margins) was Highly Commended in the Forward Prizes. Her debut record Talk in a bit is released with Humankind Records.

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Kinga Tóth (Hungary), writes and publishes short stories, poems and drama pieces in Hungarian, German and English languages. She is a musician, extensive vocalist, visual and sound-poet, and presents her work in international performances, exhibitions and installations. She is also a philologist and teacher and has worked as a journalist, copy editor of art magazines and cultural program organizer. Tóth's international publications include collections of poetry Party (2013), All Machine (2014), Village 0-24 (2016), Wir bauen eine Stadt (2016) and a visual-art catalogue Textbilder (2016-2017). Her novel, The Moonlight Faces (2017) won the Hazai Attila and the best novel special prices in Hungary. Her work has been published internationally in many magazines and journals.

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Lucia Hurajová

lives in Bratislava. She regularly performs in various theaters in Bratislava (City Theater of Pavol Orságh Hviezdoslav, Divadlo v Podpalubí). She is a member of Túlavé divadlo ensemble (Wandering Theater), a coordinator of international Francophonic project Karavána desiatich slov/Caravane des dix mots. She holds a doctoral degree in theater studies.

Marek Majeský

Graduate from the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Department of Acting. Slovak actor in theatre, film, television and radio; voice actor.

Premiered and starred in over 70 stage productions. He was a resident actor in theatres in Trnava, Nitra, Košice and Bratislava; since 2008 he has been a freelance artist. He guest-starred in theatres all around Slovakia. The most recent premiere: the Trnava theatre – leading role in "The Great Gatsby." TV: various productions and shows, Films: "Bathory", "Candidate", Since 2011: A pedagogue at the Theatre Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava.

Ivan Šándor

After graduating from the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, he worked in the Ján Palárik Threatre in Trnava and later in the Nová Scéna Theatre in Bratislava. He currently works as a freelancer and a guest actor in the Arena Theatre in Bratislava. He is a voice actor, he works in the radio and stars in various television series.