Johanna Couvée is a cultural manager, consultant and artist coach based in Brussels. With a background in sociology and psychology, she works for Citylab, a creative incubator that supports talent in Brussels to develop and imagine perspectives on an urban future. She has also curated the exhibition Apparition at Bozar, These Streets, Our Streets at the Beurs metro station, and Moving Within at the Kaaitheater. She believes in the power of art for collective healing, as a means of changing habits and attitudes, and as a source of inspiration for working towards new social realities. She has also trained as a somatic psychologist and is exploring ways of building bridges between therapeutic and embodied practices and collective action in favour of social justice.
Bouchra Lamsyeh is a cultural doula and multidisciplinary artist. She studied international law and geopolitics in Paris, and also works as a legal consultant. She has experience in a wide variety of activities and organisations that have a strong social impact by deploying artistic practices in innovative ways. She is active as a film actress, DJ and activist. Since 2019, she has been co-director of the Bâtard Festival. She collaborated on the exhibition These Streets, Our Streets in the Beurs metro station. She developed the Healing Sessions, a nomadic programme in collaboration with Samira Hmouda (Citylab) around the issue of healing through artistic practices.
Charlotte Smit was born in Brussels where she pursued a Master’s degree in cultural management at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, after a period of misguided wandering into the world of economics. She gained a wide range of experience in the cultural sector through multiple working opportunities, whether it be as a communications officer, volunteer, or production manager during live concerts. An eager music listener and nightbird, she seeks to engage in projects and events that aim at making the world a little brighter in any way they can, with the help of arts and human connections. This includes projects by Batard, There is Nothing Wrong with People, Espirito Mundo, Medeber Teatro, Ladale, the soon-to-be Attuned.
Julia E. Dyck is an artist and hypnotist working internationally in the field of queer and feminist participatory and relational art. She studied business, communications and media, web development, clinical hypnotherapy and fine art and brings all of these skills to the table for TiNWwP. Julia often works collaboratively and is a member of the techno-feminist radio collective ffiles and the healing music collective Audio Placebo Plaza. Dyck's work has been presented internationally at the Karachi Biennale, PK, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, DE, Cafe OTO, UK, Q-O2, BE, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Paris, FR, Fonderie Darling, QC among others.