Asmaa Jama is a Somali artist, poet and filmmaker based in Bristol. They are the co-founder of Dhaqan Collective, a feminist art collective. As a filmmaker, Jama was commissioned by BBC Arts to make Before We Disappear (2021), and by Bristol Old Vic to make The Season of Burning Things (2021). Jama is a Film London FLAMIN Fellow (2022) and a former resident artist at Somerset House Studios.

Gouled Abdishakour Ahmed is an artist, stylist, costume designer and writer. Their work explores themes of memory, belonging and futurity using self-portraiture and self-fashioning as a tool to challenge traumatic histories and interrogate how structures of power create meaning and ‘othering’ in the Horn of Africa. Their work has been shown widely at venues such as V&A Museum, London (2022); Alliance Ethio-Francaise, Addis Ababa (2021); and Beursschouwburg, Brussels.

Dita Hashi (b. 1998) is an artist worker based between London and Paris. She works across moving image, installation and writing.