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This is the archived website of the Waterloo Festival 2021 with additional material from Waterloo Festival 2020. We hope you will enjoy exploring this cornucopia of arts, heritage and community creativity. For the current website, visit here.
lgbtqia+ art blog (2020)
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 27, 2020
- 4 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #12: Team and friends at Waterloo Festival
For Pride Saturday, we've asked the supporters of and the teams behind Waterloo Festival and St John's Waterloo to put together this...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 27, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #11: Jhonny Alexander Salas
Jhonny Alexander Salas works as a Help Desk team leader at Coin Street Community Builders. He has recently completed a BSc Environmental...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 26, 2020
- 3 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #10: Switt art
Sarah Witt is the artist behind @Switt_Art, and has used lockdown to paint everyday to keep her distracted from the unexpected twists and...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 25, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #9: Beth McHattie
Beth McHattie is Communications Consultant for St John's Waterloo and Waterloo Festival, as well as an Associate Director at Flotilla...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 15, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #8: Shanon Shah
Shanon Shah is the national coordinator of Faith for the Climate and the author of The Making of a Gay Muslim: Religion, Sexuality and...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 11, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #7: Sarah Gray
Sarah Gray latest short story collection, Urban Creatures, is out now. For more information about Sarah visit:...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 6, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #6: Michelle Zahner
Michelle Zahner has been working in theatre and performance since 2011; she's toured fringe shows, made short films, worked in set design...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 5, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #5: Harry Castle
Harry Castle is a composer and singer from Sheffield, via Cambridge and Connecticut. He is into all things vocal and groovy, and is...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 4, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #4: Anne Abouchar
Anne Abouchar is the volunteer Art Guide at St. Paul’s Cathedral and currently finishing an MA in Christianity and the Arts at King’s...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 3, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #3: Donna McDowell
Donna McDowell is head of Schools & Family Learning at St Paul’s Cathedral. She has worked on a number of artistic projects such as Under...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 2, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #2: Lusty Lovelace
Lusty Lovelace is a London based drag performer who performs regularly with the SOAS Drag Collective. They are known for their...
Waterloo Festival Team
- Jun 1, 2020
- 2 min
LGBTQIA+ art blog #1: Josh Mock (and an introduction)
Josh Mock is a cellist, composer, and conductor currently studying Arabic and Farsi at SOAS, University of London, where he is the...