Roberta is a Brazilian actress, director, poet, spoken
word artist, activist and researcher of subjects like Voice, Orality and
Memory. Founding member of the Núcleo Bartolomeu de Depoimentos (first brazilian Hip-Hop Theater company), she is the creator and presenter of ZAP! the first brazilian poetry slam and curator of the Rio Poetry Slam -FLUP, the first international poetry slam in Latin America.
At the festival, she will perform in Portuguese with a simultaneous English translation.