KANDANDO's aim is to dig into and highlight the depths of the talent of young creatives from Lisbon's marginalized communities and create a space for collaboration and conversation.

With Special Guests:

El, 24, is an Afro-Luso multi-expressive artist and explorer. Born & raised in Lisbon, having immigrated and lived all over England for a decade before returning to Portugal in 2021. Expressing journeys documented through, photography, video, music & sound production, writing, fine art and whichever mediums best communicate the essence of expression. Inter-collaboration, Love Supremacy, the power of healing in storytelling are the formative pillars of El’s creative process and identity.

eloïse, of Bajan descent and culture, born in London, and grown in the mountains of Portugal is an artist translator. eloïse expresses creativity primarily through translation, using metalwork, silversmithing, illustration, writing and speaking as the tools to get the message across. Translation as an art form facilitates the communion and connection that eloïse seeks as a human being and as an artist. Offering freely what they have learned by creating and receiving endless uplifting interactions in return.

Jesualdo Lopes, son of Bissau-Guinean immigrants, born and raised within Greater Lisbon, more precisely in Odivelas, is a filmmaker, curator, creative director, model and founder of The Blacker The Berry Project, a creative collective which highlights Black queer creatives residing in Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and across the Diaspora. After graduating in BA (Hons) Filmmaking at Leeds Beckett University in 2022, Jesualdo returned to Portugal to develop both the collective and his professional career even further within the creative industries, namely film and TV, reinforcing his existent practices of uplifting marginalised voices through creative intervention.

Rafael de Oliveira aka oxyretronave (b. 1998, Angola) is an afrofuturist, multidisciplinary visual artist of the diaspora who expresses their vision of the world through photography and uses image manipulation to create new visual perspectives.