The Bechdel Fest (2023) was a series of events I programmed for The Gate Theatre around the production of Fun Home: the musical. This included panel discussions on queer writing, queer families, and lesbian representation in popular culture, a lesbian and queer walking tour of Dublin 1 in collaboration with Dr. Mary McAuliffe, and an online interview with Alison Bechdel.
Utopia (2021) was a festival I co-curated at the National Concert Hall, Dublin, in collaboration with Conner Habib, emerging from our Utopia Ireland project. The festival included an improvised concert featuring multiple musicians (David Le’aupepe (Gang Of Youths), Gemma Doherty (Saint Sister), David Kitt, MayKay, Daoirí Farrell, Rory Friers (And So I Watch You From Afar), Izumi Kimura, with Ben Castle as MD), a live rap cypher event, an evening exploring the work of John Moriarty, an 8-hour chill out room experience in collaboration with Kate Butler, Don Rosco, and No Place Like Drone, and a live podcast event titled Everyone United with Conner Habib and Andrea Horan.
OneTwoOneTwo is a music documentary film festival I started with my friend Cillian McDonnell in 2012 at the Light House Cinema in Dublin. Myself and Cillian are passionate about music docs, and we've managed to show some of our favourites at our 2012 and 2013 - a mix of classics and premieres, including Mistaken For Strangers, Hit So Hard, In Bed With Madonna, Searching For Sugarman, and loads more exciting, award winning films that audiences saw at our festival first. In 2014, we also brought OneTwoOneTwo to Other Voices in Derry.
I sat on the Board of Directors of GAZE International LGBT Film Festival Dublin for four years until 2014. GAZE is a highly regarded film festival running for over two decades, and a key event in the LGBT arts calendar in Ireland. As a board member, I worked mostly in an advisory and planning capacity on communications, press, design and online strategy.