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Ewok completed his Bachelor of Arts Degree in 2003 at the University of Natal Durban with majors in Drama and Performance and English. He is a member of the hip-hop crew Illuminating Shadows who have enjoyed successful performances at local music festivals such as Awesome Africa, Flux and Splashy Fen, and continue to work within the Durban hip-hop scene promoting a return to the original roots of hip-hop culture. As a poet and mc, Ewok has worked consistently with the Flatfoot Dance Company on various productions including Busy Being Blue (2004), a choreopoem in which he performed some of his own work.

Quincy Fynn is an internationally trained actor, writer, poet and spoken-word artist. Since his return from City College , New York in 2003, he has appeared onstage in a number of very diverse roles, including as Gill Scott Heron in Flatfoot Dance Company’s performance piece entitled Busy Being Blue. He wrote an original monologue for Walking Like an African with Flatfoot Dance Company and co-wrote and directed JAE – Just About Education HIV/Aids Awareness SchoolsTour. He recently appeared as Jim Morrison in the stage production To the Other Side: The Doors. He is also an active figure in his community, leading groups such as the Wentworth Arts and Culture Organization (WACO). He will tour the country later this year with Riders from the Last Outpost, as part of the Boombox Distribution Network South African Tour

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Bandile Gumbi holds a BA Social Science from the University of Natal . Since 2000 she has performed in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town, mainly at poetry clubs and art exhibitions. She is a founding member of 3rd Eye Vision, an artist-administrated interdisciplinary arts organisation based in Durban. She has also collaborated with visual artists and participated in interdisciplinary arts workshops and exhibitions in Cape Town through Thupelo Workshops organised by Greatmore Studios. Her poetry has appeared in magazines and journals in South Africa ; the established feminist journal Agenda has published her prose and short fiction. Gumbi has worked as production assistant on various Centre for Creative Arts festivals such as Time of the Writer, Poetry Africa and the Durban International Film Festival, also the Awesome Africa Music Festival, and is currently part of the threesome organising music gigs under the theme ‘Waiting For The Music’. Her self-published Pangs of Initiation was recently launched in Durban.