Amy Hale PhD is an Atlanta based writer and critic who has researched Ithell Colquhoun for 25 years. She has written extensively about her life and work, most notably the acclaimed biography, Ithell Colquhoun: Genius of the Fern Loved Gully and Sex Magic: Diagrams of Love.
Dr D Ferrett is Associate Professor of Music, Sound and Culture at Falmouth University. Her work explores feminist sound studies, ecocriticism, and the sonic entanglements of gendered violence and environmental crisis. She is the author of Dark Sound: Feminine Voices in Sonic Shadow (Bloomsbury, 2020), founder of ‘Voices on the Edge’ and author of the chapter ‘Witching Sound in the Anthropocene (and Occultcene)’ in The Witch Studies Reader (Duke University Press, 2025). She leads ‘Quantum Listening to the Elemental Imaginary of Dark Kernow’ – a project based on inventing ritual and the biopolitics of the binary between fertility and barrenness. Her most recent projects include voice, field recording and narrative work for In the Company of the Mother Tree, a 360º immersive film poem about Cabilla – a temperate rainforest in Cornwall.
Maria Christoforidou is an Afro-Greek artist, writer and researcher. Her practice explores the political, physical and performative operations of words and images. She is motivated by a hope to create pauses that allow minor stories of sameness, voices, bodies and plant comrades to evade classification, come to rest, undoing unspeakable knots of otherness. She is an art history lecturer at Falmouth University and lives in Cornwall.
Black Voices Cornwall (BVC) is an Anti-Racism Charity striving for racial justice and committed to enabling Cornwall to become an actively anti-racist region. BVC is a multi-faceted Charity which provides many services. They are passionate about empowering the global majority communities to succeed and thrive, alongside encouraging and educating more allies to tackle racism.
Libita Sibungu (b.1987) lives and works in Cornwall. She is a multidisciplinary artist drawing on her British-Cornish-Namibian heritage, to make discursive works that explore — the entangled personal histories, and colonial legacies inscribed in the body and land. Sibungu is the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award (2022).
Dr Rupert White is founder of artcornwall.org and author of a number of books including 'The Reenchanted Landscape: Earth Mysteries, Paganism and Art in Cornwall' and 'Magic & Modernism: Art from Cornwall in Context'.
Shelley Trower is Professor Emeritus of English Literature at the University of Roehampton. Books include Senses of Vibration: A History of the Pleasure and Pain of Sound (2012), Vibratory Modernism, edited with Anthony Enns (2013), Myth, Mysticism, and Celtic Nationalism, edited with Marion Gibson and Garry Tregidga (2013), Rocks of Nation: The Imagination of Celtic Cornwall (2015), and Sound Writing: Voices, Authors, and Readers of Oral History (2023). Shelley is currently funded by Arts Council England to develop her novel writing.
Astrida Neimanis writes about water, bodies, and weather. Author of Bodies of Water: Feminist Posthuman Phenomenology (2017) and How to Weather Together: Feminist Practice for Climate Change (co-authored with Jennifer Mae Hamilton, forthcoming 2026), they are particularly interested in the intersections between feminism, colonialism and climate crisis. Currently, they are Canada Research Chair in Feminist Environmental Humanities at UBC Okanagan on unceded syilx territory, where they are also Director of the FEELed Lab (www.thefeeledlab.ca).
Norah Bowman PhD, is a queer ecofeminist and anti-colonial poet, scholar, and artist living on unceded Syilx Okanagan lands. Her most recent book, My Eyes Are Fuses (Caitlin Press, 2024) is a poetic ramble that weaves feminist art history, magic, poison, and liberation from patriarchy into an experimental and emotional journey.
