SPEAKERS 2025

Raisa Raekallio from Kittilä, Finland, and Misha del Val from Bilbao, Basque Country are a Lapland-based artist couple. Raisa studied fine arts in Finland and Misha in the Basque Country and Australia. They are working in collaboration on paintings, drawings, performance art pieces, ceramics, curatorial projects, and podcasts since 2013.

Myrto Delivoria was born in Athens, Greece in 1974. She is a painter and an illustrator. She has illustrated books, theatre posters, boardgames and her work has been published in Greece, Brazil, Korea and France.  She has been honored for her illustrations with the Greek State Illustration Award, the! EBGE Illustration Award, the IBBY GREECE Illustration Award among others. In 2016 she received an honorable mention on the IBBY Honour List 2016.e Honor IBBY 201

Theda Mimilaki received her Bachelor of Arts from Athens School of Fine Arts, majoring in painting. Additional interests included graphic design, multimedia and printmaking. Theda has been illustrating children’s books and young adult's literature books covers since 2010 and she has also focused on educational aspects of visual arts in primary schools. Nominated twice for Greek State Illustration Award and twice for IBBY Greece Illustration Award. She has participated in several art festivals and exhibitions. She lives in Volos, a small town near mountain Pelion.

Vanessa López is an editor at La Duplicadora in CDMX together with Emmanuel García. Since 2016 they have been reproducing and redesigning prints found in the private collections of some second-hand old bookshops, and they also publish current works by emerging artists. They are committed to small editions. They like to publish books that take advantage of the qualities of the risograph printing system and pay special attention to the finishes.