Performers

We have so many brilliant performers coming to Fenland Pride!! Want to learn more about them?

Gloria / Jack Wilkin (they/them or he/him)

Gloria is Jack’s camp, sequin wielding persona who finds power in laughter and holding safer spaces for LGBTQIA+ young people. When the sequins are packed away, Jack is an artist, youth worker and facilitator based in Peterborough.

Icebreaker questions and rule bending are key to Jack’s work as a facilitator, youth worker and performer. Using play, workshops and a sprinkling of camp, they connect with communities and young people to challenge restrictions and traditional expectations. Jack wants audiences to discover how fun and joy can be used to provoke and question, and how laughter can be used as a radical act.

You can find out more about Jack and their work over on their website: jackwilkinart.weebly.com/

Follow what they get up to on Instagram @Jacktassium

Charley Genever is an LGBTQIA+ poet and creative producer. Living and working from Peterborough, she is a former Peterborough Poet Laureate, vice chair of the Syntax Poetry collective, and produces her own spoken word night ‘Freak Speak’, rated as one of the UK’s best Poetry & Spoken Word nights by Picador. She has worked with a variety of arts organisations across the country, including Tate Britain, The Poetry Society, Apples and Snakes, and The Mighty Creatives.

In her personal practice she often explores topics of censorship, intimacy, and vulnerability. Her work also explores unconventional methods of presentation – from a poetry suit to cut-up stop motion videos to collaboration with dancers. Her debut collection, ‘Unsexed’ was published in 2017 by BX3.

Currently co-hosting a new poetry podcast called ‘We, The Poets’ alongside Mark Grist and Keely Mills, available from May 2024.

@ellisdeedrag he/it a freak of nature armed with a microphone!

Leo he/him – Local artist, poet, and performer from Peterborough! He started writing and creating art as a way to express things in a way people can’t ignore. Here to perform poems and pieces full of anger, protest, love, and joy.

Queer Compere they/them – ✨️Here , Queer and ready to appear! ✨️

Mx Holly Would (She/They) It’s been a story of rags to rhinestones for Mx Holly Would, who started life as a mediocre at best comedian in the big smoke. 5 years ago she moseyed back to her hometown and started dressing up all fancy like and pretending she knew what she was doing. By day Mx Holly Would teaches students the importance of inclusivity and proper grammar, and by night she does the same thing… Just in a wig.

Alex (She/Her)

Lily Dumont has been entertaining and bewildering audiences professionally for over 20 years. Whether she has shimmied her sequins in London’s premier cabaret venues, shown her talents to dive bars in New York City or performed alongside British acting royalty on film, she has combined her craft with a keen sense for the ridiculous, embodied in her current form of drag.

She has been a Cambs resident for just over ten years and is proudly queer in every aspect of her life. She is originally from a small rural community so Fenland Pride is very dear to her heart.

Gabriella Pineda-Rodrigues, @divainafurcoat is a professionally trained opera singer, who obtained her degree from the prestigious Guildhall School of Music & Drama in London. Prior to this she attended the world class Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester. In 2016, she opened her own thriving singing teaching business in Peterborough.

Gabriella is now a highly in demand singer of all genres. She is a singer/pianist who performs authentic covers of pop songs, 40’s/vintage, Disney songs, showtunes and everything in-between & is becoming known for writing her own opera riffs over hip-hop & pop songs. Gabriella has performed at The Royal Albert Hall, The Royal Festival Hall & The Bridgewater Hall but to name a few venues; she has also performed for the late Queen. She played Princess Jasmine in Aladdin in Spain alongside famous British actors & was commissioned by the BBC to write an original song “Hiphopera” – a rap/opera collaboration.

Zoe Oswald – Live Looping Musician