The Netherlands
Janneke Raaphorst is a textile wizard and storyteller from the Netherlands. She celebrates the glory of deterioration, the patina of the world. She creates performative objects to suspend disbelief, then infusing experience with meaning through storytelling; the material and the mythological realm start to overlap.
Alin Gherman is a composer who writes scores for and performs on his own handcrafted musical instruments. Currently he is playing and singing ‘medicine music’ to support listeners accessing body, mind, and spirit-expanded consciousness realms.