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Trained in Childhood Education, Sonoplasty and Dance. Adviser on various projects between Art and Pedagogy and incentivizes/advizes projects in the area of Voice and Body. Studied voice in New York, at the Institute for The Living Voice, and in Thoiras (France), at the Roy Hart International School. Author of poetry shows for adult and child audiences, including “Tudo Gira” (2006), “Poemas para bocas pequenas” (2014) and “BALADA das vinte meninas friorentas” (2017). Invited guest artist of the project Marinho — One artist, seven programmers, which was developed between 2017 and 2019. Has a Master Degree Performative Arts — Theatre of Movement from ESTC (Lisbon).

Illustrator, comic book author, animated film director and artist-teacher. She has been connected to the theatre for more than twenty years, and has collaborated in props, costumes, graphic design, and also in creating fine arts environments. She has written and illustrated children´s books, and received the Illustration Award from the Amadora BD Festival – Melhor Ilustração Infantil (Best Children´s Illustration) 2003, for her illustrations for the book O Circo da Lua. She has created and moderated Reding a Creativity Workshops, bringing awareness to the different forms of reading of books and the world throughthe creation of fine arts laboratories, illustration, nature and science, enabling aesthetic, poetic, sensorial and imaginative experiences. She created the project Massa Folhada, a collection of limited edition art books that is now up to three in number. She drew live with the Gulbenkian Orchestra at the narrated concert Peter and the Wolf, by Prokofiev and Baba-Yaga, Kikimora, The Enchanted Lake, by Liadov integrated into the program Descobrir a Música at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Studied Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon. Since 1999, she promotes philosophy ateliers with children, advises teachers´ qualifications and lectures at seminars, namely at the Escola Superior de Educação Maria Ulrich. For 5 years, she was the adviser on several projects in the same area, geared towards children and young people between the ages of 4 and 18 years, emigrants and children of emigrants from Cape Verde, in the Cova da Moura neighbourhood. She was a grant recipient from Inovart in Cape Verde, where she worked with children from rural and fishing communities also in FCC. She is currently working on her Doctorate, under the advisory of the philosopher José Gil, at the Nova University of Lisbon and the UERJ in Rio de Janeiro.
She has been regularly invited by various programmers to develop activities for institutions and cultural events, including a mini-conference on racism, for children.

Joana Rita Sousa studied Philosophy at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP), in Lisbon. She has a project, filocriatiVIDAde, since 2008, through which she provides philosophy workshops for children, young people and families. She travels around Portugal to promote workshops for the youngest and also to provide training to parents, educators, teachers and educational agents. In 2011 she was at the Portuguese School of Mozambique, in Maputo, to work with the school community, within the scope of philosophy for children.
She holds a Master’s degree in Philosophy for Children, from the University of the Azores and she is a professor in the Post-Graduate Program in Philosophy for Children and Youth at UCP. Since 2011, has been co-organizing the Sentir Pensamentos | Pensar Sentidos meetings.