FESTIVAL ORGANIZERS

• Alda Rezende is a singer and songwriter who has been a resident in New Zealand for six years. In Brazil she has released three albums and has performed alongside major names such as Elza Soares and Joao Bosco. She also worked extensively in radio and television. In New Zealand Alda participated in projects such as OE Brazil and People in Your Neighbourhood, sings with her own quintet, is a member of band Zirigidum, and organizes Live Brazil. Alda is also a radio host in Radio Active where she presents Global Pulse, a world music show .
  

• Clo Mudrik is a circus artist, a dancer and a Physical Education and Capoeira teacher. Resident in Wellington for seven years and now a New Zealand citizen, she is the coordinator of the dance company Zamba Bem, is member of the Wellington Circus Trust (responsible for the areas of aerials, acrobalance and kids) and organizes the wing of dancers of Wellington Batucada. In Brazil and overseas she has performed with Companies such as La Fura Dels Baus, taught Capoeira and samba to Cirque du Soleil, Acrobatico Fratell and Circo Minimo.