Mentors°
Ksenia Ravvina
Mentor Lab°
Photo credit: Ksenia Ravvina
Ksenia Ravvina is a theatre director, author and curator whose international practice spans theatre, performance and interdisciplinary art. She studied History at Saint Petersburg State University, Theatre Directing in Frankfurt and Applied Theatre Studies at Justus Liebig University in Giessen.
Her work explores absence and visibility, weaving together the political and the poetic.
In recent years, she has created projects in Germany, Bulgaria, Latvia and the USA, collaborating with, among others, Deutsches Theater Berlin, Staatstheater Wiesbaden, Theater und Orchester Heidelberg, Schauspielhaus Bochum, RUHRTRIENNALE, Opera Philadelphia, Tanzplattform Rhein-Main and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm Frankfurt.
For several years, she has been leading a range of programs for young professionals at 180° – Laboratory for Innovative Art Festival in Sofia. She has assumed the artistic direction of Fringify – Independent Arts Festival Hamburg, curating the editions from 2024 to 2026 together with Alexandar Hadjiev.
AlanJames Burns
Mentor Accessibility°
AlanJame Burns is a neurodivergent, environmental and audiovisual artist, curator and producer. Their artistic practice centres on disability, climate change and the human mind.
Burns works highly collaboratively with diverse communities, artists and scientists to develop interactive and socially-engaged projects including: ‘Divergently Together,’ 2025-2027, exploring non-linear thinking and climate resilience; ‘Our Place,’ 2023-2026, fostering creativity and digital inclusion for intellectually disabled adults; Disrupt Disability Arts Festival, an annual Disability Festival by and for the disability community, held at Project Arts Centre, Dublin. They have been funded by Arts Council, Creative Ireland, ADI, Arts Council England and Cavan Arts.
Photo credit: AlanJames Burns