Maria Ferreira
Maria Ferreira was born and lives in Porto, where she has been working in the club booths for over a decade. With an international career, she is neither one of the first nor the last generation of female and feminist DJs created in Porto, but she is part of the first generation of women to gain space and a voice in the city’s club scene. As programmer and coordinator of the versatile Passos Manuel, she favours local culture and artistic communities where she herself was involved from an early age, as well as the freshest and most avant-garde international music circuit.

Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura
Tabitha Thorlu-Bangura is a cultural programmer from London. She’s the founder of interdisciplinary project Sabi Arts, and Global Programming Director of NTS, an internationally celebrated music platform. Shaped by her West African heritage and London mindset, she is a key figure in the city's music scene. She's collaborated curatorially with institutions like the ICA, Tate Modern, Somerset House, and Serpentine Galleries throughout a decade of work in the arts. As a music supervisor, she's worked across contemporary dance and film, for artists Martine Syms, Onyeka Igwe, and Malik Nashad Sharpe.