Gina Westbrook (UK: Small size Network, freelance)

Kate Cross (UK: Assitej UK, The egg)

Caroline Duval (France: Small size Network, Assitej France, Cie Be Art)

Sara Myberg: (Sweden: Small size Network, freelance)

Anna Sacchetti (Italy: Small size Network, La Baracca) 

Suzana Schmidt Viganó (Brazil: Vincular,  University of São Paulo)

Gina Westbrook will be your Café Host. She has been a board member of the Small Size Network for five years and has long been an active producer of creative adventures for younger audiences. She was Early Years Creativity Director for Take Art in the southwest of England, where she developed creative collaborations nationally. She is now freelance.

Table Hosts will be inspiring Small Size Network members and Bright Generations participants, with experience in the Café Table's theme:

Kate Cross, Director of The Egg Theatre in Bath, UK and, until May 2025, Director of Assitej UK. She says "I am fascinated/obsessed with fostering a critically reflective, questioning and radically compassionate society and believe that this mission only fails when we suppress these natural dispositions in children from an early age. I see theatre, therefore, as being a way to keep those doors open right into adulthood…"

Caroline Duval is a multidisciplinary performing artist, actress, lyric singer, songwriter, director and art therapist. Member of ASSITEJ France and International,  Small size Network and the French belle saison platform. She set up and has run Cie Be Art and Research company for 15 years. She creates artistic, immersive and participative live performance and collaborates with researchers, professionals in art, childhood, education and social contexts.

Sara Myrberg is an actor and director from Sweden. She has created and performed plays for the youngest audiences for more than twenty years and has toured all over the world. She was a member and Artistic Director of Teater Tre in Stockholm for many years but is now working as a freelancer. She has a masters in acting from Uniarts in Stockholm and her thesis was on The actor meeting with the youngest audience. She is a member of the Small size Network Board.

Anna Sacchetti, current vice-president of the Small size Network, has been a member of its Board of Directors since 2016. She has been working with La Baracca since 2008, mostly as a producer of European projects focused on performing arts for Early Years.

Suzana Schmidt Viganó is a professor at The Department of Performance Arts at University of São Paulo - ECA/USP,  she has a PhD in Performance Arts Pedagogy and is coordinator of the Laboratory of Research and Extension in Public Policies and Cultural Action. She is founder and research coordinator of Núcleo Quanta, of artistic action for early childhood.