Moderator: Ruadhán Ó Críodáin (he/him) is the Executive Director of ShoutOut, Ireland’s largest provider of LGBTQ+ inclusive education. Since 2012, ShoutOut has been working to promote inclusion for LGBTQ+ young people through storytelling, dialogue, and instilling empathy in young people. Ruadhán oversees the charity’s educational programmes which work to end homophobic and transphobic bullying in schools. Outside of ShoutOut, Ruadhán is a member of the Board of Directors of GAZE International LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. Ruadhán Ó Críodáin has spent more than a decade agitating fiercely for change in Ireland’s approach to LGBTQI+ people, and the challenges they face. Over the years, Ruadhán has played a key role in the campaigns for Marriage Equality and to Repeal the 8th. More details here

Venus Patel is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist working across film, visual arts, and theatre. Her work proposes the deconstruction of boundaries and the unleashing of hidden and erased histories. She relies on the absurd, the fantastical, and the monstrous to create speculative realities for Queer/POC liberation. She has exhibited/performed with IMMA (2025), Galway Arts Centre (2025), Dublin Fringe Festival (2024), Sirius Arts Centre (2024), Rua Red (2024), Crawford Art Gallery (2024), Pallas Projects/Studios (2023), and RDS Visual Art Awards (2022). Her film work has screened with festivals across Europe and the US. In 2027, she will present a new film and installation at Sirius Arts Centre with support from the Arts Council and Dublin City Council. More details here

FELISPEAKS is a Nigerian-Irish visionary artist celebrated for their profound exploration of identity, social justice, and personal growth through poetry, performance and theatre. Their work in ‘WAKE’ and ‘OCTOPUS CHILDREN’ has earned them both ‘Best Performer’ award in 2021 and Best Ensemble award in 2025 for Dublin Fringe Festival. As well as being featured in the Irish Leaving Cert Curriculum for their poems “For Our Mothers” and “Rainbow Blood”, their compelling work transcends borders, leaving an indelible mark on international literature performing their work across Europe and the United States. More details here

Lyónn Wolf is an artist and writer currently engaged with de-productive trans & class poetics. His work unfolds a desire for structures of being away from the logics of reproductive colonial time towards the collective reimagining of political futures centred on pleasure & interdependence for queer, trans & crip social bodies. Wolf has developed a trilogy of works since 2014 dealing with queer & working class counter propositional spatial politics, historical & speculative: The Re-appropriation of Sensuality, Sex in Public & Domestic Optimism. Exhibitions include: The Project Arts Centre (IE), The Grazer Kunstverein (AUT), Steirischer Herbst Festival (AUT), NCAD Gallery (IE), Dundee Contemporary Arts (SCT), nGbK Berlin (DE), Survival Kit Festival (LV) & De Appel (NL). Wolf is the author of Text in Public, Zine Performances and Rants published by Archive Books, Scriptings Berlin & EECLECTIC Publishing, 2022. Lyónn Wolf is a field:arts Independent Artist in conjunction with Iarlaith Ní Fheorais. More details here

Pea Din­neen is a play­wright, cabaret artist and lyri­cist based in Dublin. Much of her work uses musical theatre and cabaret to dis­cuss trans­gen­der and queer iden­tities in con­tem­po­rary Ireland. She has been awarded both the Markievicz Award and the Next Gen­er­a­tion Artist Award by the Arts Coun­cil of Ireland. Her autobiographical cabaret play Pea Din­neen: Rais­ing Her Voice opened at Dublin Fringe festival 2025, where it won the award for Best Production and earned a five-star review from The Irish Times. This June the play will transfer to New York for an off-broadway run at The Irish Repertory Theatre.

As a facil­i­ta­tor, Pea founded and led the Trans­form­ing Stages devel­op­ment pro­gramme with Out­burst Queer Arts Fes­ti­val, the first theatre men­tor­ship pro­gramme on the island of Ire­land specif­i­cally for trans artists. As a cabaret artist, Pea is the co-founder of the legendary award-winning Dublin queer cabaret col­lec­tive EGG. Pea is a resident artist at Project Arts Centre and she is currently developing an original stage musical about polyamorous relationships. More details here