Dr. Mike Mavura leads Pamurove Foundation, a land-based social practice in Domboshava, Zimbabwe, blending social sciences, indigenous knowledge, and popular culture to explore civics, spaces, and design. His work spans curatorial projects, ecological interventions, rural design, and university teaching. Mavura’s fellowships include Liverpool Biennial Curators’ Week (2023), TURN2 Residency at ZK/U Berlin (2021), and Lagos Biennale Residency (2019). He holds a PhD in Politics from Rhodes University and a certificate in Conservation Agriculture from the Foundations for Farming Institute. He serves on the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust and ZK/U Berlin’s Advisory Board.

Dr. Paseka Blessing Chisale is a Stellenbosch University lecturer, artist, and research supervisor with over a decade of experience in creative arts education. His work is rooted in fostering creativity, critical thinking, and inclusivity in both teaching and research. Recent projects include the BAD ART exhibition at the 2024 SAERA conference and the Spaces and Place and Belonging initiative with his Creative Arts students. Chisale’s research explores creative arts teacher education, arts-based research, and self-study methodologies, emphasising innovative thinking and interdisciplinary approaches.

Frances Sakina Esterhuyse holds an Honours degree in Psychology and has just completed an Honours in Art Therapy. She is a qualified specialist wellness counsellor and has volunteered as a counsellor at Lifeline Western Cape for several years. She has a passion for learning about different cultures and speaks five languages. She also has a background in youth development and deeply believes in the healing power of art.

Khanyisile Mbongwa is a Cape Town-based curatorial theorist and sociologist who engages with her curatorial practice as Curing & Care, using the creative to instigate spaces for emancipatory practices, joy, play and Black Aliveness. Mbongwa is the founding Curator of the Stellenbosch Triennale, her other recent projects include: Inaugral curator of the Hazendal Festival 2024 Bele nje, Abathulanga; curator of Liverpool Biennial 2023 'uMoya: The Sacred Return of Lost Things'; Curator of History’s Footnote: On Love & Freedom at Marres, House for Contemporary Culture in Maastricht, Netherlands 2021. Mbongwa is a PhD candidate at the Institute for Creative Arts, University of Cape Town and is a Blak C.O.R.E (Care of Radical Energy) Fellow at the University of Melbourne 2024-2025.