John-Paul Zaccarini is Professor of Performing Arts at the Research Centre at SKH. He has been a practitioner in theatre, dance, mime and circus with a focus on poetry and the spoken word as both performer and director/dramaturge and choreographer for 32 years. He is currently researching the intersections between art, therapy and activism in the project FutureBrownSpace where he runs the Black Study as Creative Process course at the Dance Department, and is the curator of the Seminar Series Season of Black Study.