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Meet our
Team
Working away behind the scenes we’re lucky to have these fine folk getting the queer on for Queer Up Duck!
jake
Creative Producer - Jake is a Creative Producer based in Nottingham. He runs JOP Arts, a producing organising supporting Midlands based artists. He is Creative producer with Nonsuch Studios and Interim Executive Producer with tiata fahodzi. Jake is a trustee of Silent Uproar Productions
Minder
Assistant Producer - Minder is a freelancer with a portfolio career working in arts, culture and heritage.
From marketing, to project management, events organisation and producing, public
speaking, consulting, improv comedy facilitation, writing and even the occasional
onstage performance,
KIeran
Marketing Coordinator - Kieran is a marketing professional with several years’ experience in delivering
marketing and communications strategies and campaigns for arts venues, charities and
climate justice organisations.
Meet our
Steering Committee
The festival wouldn’t be possible without the brilliant support of our steering committee
CJ
is an Irish journalist from Clonakilty in West Cork. They are a queer, non-binary, Disabled person who was diagnosed as ADHD. They have been a journalist for fifteen years focusing on local news, history, sex and disability. CJ founded the Notts Queer History Archive in 2022.
THom
is an all round creative type based in Nottingham, where he lives with his husband, their two cats, and watches far too much Judge Judy. By day he is mostly a writer working in fiction, script, and poetry, and by night also works as a drag artist (the infamous Nana Arthole).
Hongwei
Dr Hongwei Bao (he/him) is a queer poet, writer and academic. He teaches at the University of Nottingham & conducts research on queer history & culture. As a producer, curator and event organiser, he has led Queer Asia Queer Arts in the Pandemic Festival & more