Nic An tSaoi Nic an tSaoi is the name under which Maggie McEntee creates her music—an Irish singer-songwriter whose work blends poetic storytelling, rich cultural influences, and contemporary folk sounds. Her songs explore themes of identity, memory, nature, and belonging, with a style rooted in tradition and shaped by a modern sensibility. Long Bio: Nic
Ray is a poet, performer, freelancer and caffeine enthusiast based in Birmingham. His work centres around discomfort and pushing people to dip into pools of thought they previously thought they may drown in. Ray is black, trans, queer and grateful. He is currently working on THE EXAM under Eastside projects and the Middleway mentorship scheme
As an artist originally from West Coast of Ireland, Tina O’Connell has been living and working in Brixton, London, since completing both an MA in Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art, London and a postgraduate degree at Les Beaux Art de Marseilles, France. Drawing on her agricultural background in rural Ireland, her early sculptures were developed whilst undertaking the
I graduated as a Dramatherapist in 2014 with an MA [Hons 1.1] from Maynooth University, where I also worked as a lecturer and Interim Director of the Dramatherapy programme. I also qualified as a Creative Supervisor to facilitate other therapists’ processes, and I am currently completing my second MA in Transpersonal Therapy through the Spanish
Ελένη Κολλιοπούλου Eleni Kolliopoulou is a visual artist interested mainly in the intersection between Performativity and Philosophy. Initially Kolliopoulou trained as a painter, her research was concentrated in the abstract relation between elements as colour, lines, and shapes. From the very start her strongest interest was the movement occurring in the surface and stimulating the