Ann Peuteman (1973) studied Germanic Philology at the UGent. She is a journalist at Knack and also writes the column De Zoetzure dinsdag. She previously published ‘Uitgesproken’ (Pronounced) (2008) and ‘Do you feel well, doctor?’ (2014).

In 2019, Vrijdag published her much-praised book ‘Grijsgedraaid. Why we should be afraid of getting old’, about how today in Flanders we take away from older people everything that makes life fun. In the same style, she also wrote a book in 2020 about how to make residential care homes more pleasant: ‘Verplant. Why it can be wonderful to live in a nursing home’. Her third book, ‘Old Warriors. Learning from rebels at age’, will appear in the summer of 2022.

Martijn Peirs is, among other things, a director, organiser, creative brain and cameraman at Ponyvalent, a cultural association aimed at young people with a healthy urge for creativity.

Hilde Vanderstraeten studied at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent (now KASK). She has been co-founder and involved as artistic director with theatre collective Het Bataljong since 2015. Het Bataljong stimulates imagination, guts and artistic development in its audience, gives the stage to anyone with an artistic egg and acts in an open manner and is vulnerable, without prejudice or hierarchy. The Battalion is an island where people can come, stay, move on and go again. The last two artistic projects were ‘De Loteling’ (in 2019), a performance with and by people with young dementia, and ‘Bus 41’ (in 2022), with and by non-native speakers and people with low literacy levels.