JuSTart was founded by Teresa Ariosto, Helga Arnalds and Nicola Visser, three successful arts professionals who had relocated to Aarhus and had to reinvent themselves. Their challenge became the source of new inspiration and an artistic drive to bring their experience with theatre, dance, visual arts, community work, diversity and disabled arts to their new home.
Board members
Tatiana Chemi
Professor (Associate) at the Aalborg University. She is passionate about the field of artistic learning, arts-integration, teaching artist and creative processes. Her specific focus on the arts is performance, drama and theatre. She is currently involved in research projects examining artistic creativity and learning in theatre laboratory, arts-integrated educational designs in schools, artist-school partnerships and the role of emotions in learning.
Juliana Appel
graduated in Arts Education from University of Joinville, Brazil. Postgraduate in Teaching of Art, by the Faculty of Arts of Paraná - FAP, Brazil. She received training at The Commedia School, physical theater school in Copenhagen, Denmark. She has more than 16 years of experience as a teacher of Drama and Art, delivering workshops in schools, cultural centers and other cultural spaces in Brazil and Argentina. She has participated in various trainings in theater. She works as a storyteller and as independent actress. She currently lives in Aarhus.
Mai Damgaard Rasmussen
Mai Damgaard Rasmussen is the director and founder of Filmselvskab and and director of the festival FoodFilmFestival.dk. Mai has studied at The University of Amsterdam, Erasmus University, Milano University and Aarhus University. She holds a MA in Societal History and Art management as well a MA in Cognitive Semiotics. The past 20 years. Mai has been active in the co-creation segment, where she has initiated and organised cross-media projects in Holland, USA and Scandinavia. Since 2011, Mai is part of the Scandinavian Doc Lounge network, where she organises workshops, curates the film selection and produces pop-up film screenings of international documentary films. Mai has furthermore curated exhibitions, book reading, film programs, created film workshops with filmmakers at international film festivals and been part of the jury of international film festivals such as Nordic Panorama, Sundsvall Film Festival and IGCATs Food Film Menu. She is co-founder of Tænketang, an organisation concerned with sustainability, food innovation, seaweeds, health and the usage of natural resources.