Miqhx  [Founder, Campaigns & Core team]

Miqhx has worked as a drama teacher, psychiatric nurse and housing support worker as well as being part of a co-operative working with wholefoods, radical books and community arts.

He is active within Albion Faeries, Helios charity in London, where he he coordinated the Healer Training School and specialises in JinShin Do.  This has roots in ancient daoist practice incorporating Ericksonian techniques with elements of Wilhelm Reich and developed by Iona Marsaa Teegarden.

Miqhx started practising meditation in the 1970's and qi gong since 1984 and started healer and psychic development with Maisie Besant in 1978.

Buzzy  Cnayl  [Technical & Core team]

I believe the energies and sounds that music and lighting bring are an incredibly healing and magical thing that really shine out at festivals. I really enjoy helping bring that magic to every Queer Spirit festival, with lights, lasers and sound systems. 

I also keep the website updated and running and look after the Sanctity of Sound streaming radio service.

In 2013 I founded the Quintasensual festival of queer/inclusive spirituality, sexuality and tantra, creating a special place where gays, bisexuals, straights, cross dressers, trans and more all mix in a safe and heart centred space. In 2015 I was honoured to be nominated for a Sexual freedom award for my work around the festival.

Al Head  [Founder & Ethos]

I am a queer, genderqueer human.  I am a pagan and an energy-worker.  I have been leading rituals and running pagan workshops for over 30 years.  Currently I lead 'This Land Sex Magic' and other energy-related workshops.  I have been an lgbt activist and organiser since the early 1980s and am also a peace, environmental and inclusion activist. I am the author of 'Queer Deity, Sacred Slut' 

In all my work my emphasis is on humans reconnecting with the land and ending/healing the destruction that we have inflicted on it, and upon ourselves, through our disconnection.

I have been involved in 'camps' and festivals since 1990.  I was a main organiser in 'Spiral Womens Camps' and have been part of organising 'Queer Pagan Camps'(QPC) since 2002 and 'Albion Faerie' gatherings for the last few years.  I coordinated Site Crew at QPC for 2 years running. I have worked at many festivals: performing, working in children's areas and working in the Queer Dome, a space for lgbtq people.  I have worked at the Accessible Camping Area at Glastonbury Festival, and have coordinated the Accessible Camping Space at the Green Gathering.  I've been Access Coordinator at QPC and other spaces, including Re-evaluation Counselling (RC) events. I'm a certified RC teacher.

I am a performer in static trapeze, physical theatre, music and Fooling.  In 2011 I created and performed in a solo show, 'Are You Talking To Me'.  I teach theatre and static trapeze and have produced community circus shows of up to 60 (mainly young) people.  In 2006 and 2007 I produced and performed in cabaret-type shows, 'Tarquin's Closet' and 'Further Tales From The Closet' for 'QUIP' (QUeers Into Performance) in Plymouth.  I've also produced and compared cabarets at other events, including QPC and Quintasensual Festival in 2015.  I've been involved in many other 'not-for-profit' organisations and have been treasurer of two.

Triskelion  [Sacred Sexuality & Core Team]

Triskelion is a queer shamanic drum maker, healer, spiritual activist and educator. Working with the LGBTQIA+ community providing affirmative GSRD Counselling and mentorship programmes across Wales and England.

Triskelion is also an academic who is dedicated to untangling the dominant white colonialist narrative of race, sex, sexuality, and power relationships.

Qweaver  [Village Hall & Energy Circle]

I’m a queer, non-binary, magical being. How wonderful to be able to say that out loud! Since the 90s I’ve been active in LGBTQ+ support and community-making, through groups like London Friend, Edward Carpenter Community, Radical Faeries of Albion and Loving Men +. In faeries I was part of the early visioning that helped birth Queer Spirit Festival, something that fills me with gratitude and joy as I see the festival grow and collective consciousness rising. 

I’ve run many workshops and activities in queer and festival spaces over a number of years to empower people and community.  I believe we queer people are, by nature, magical beings but, in many cases, have moved away or turned away from this understanding. For this reason I’ve become more engaged in creating rituals, ceremonies and events which seek to guide people closer to their magic. I hold magic-themed retreats as a way to step deeper into presence and connectedness.  For individuals, I offer myself as a guide, helping navigate a path to lifefullness.  

Please check out my page for more https://lifelovecoaching.wordpress.com

I’m a poet and performer, viewing my writing as a radical act and encouragement for all to be our unique, glorious selves. I love the way spoken word helps us rebuild vital collective skills, listening, being with difference, empathy.  For those magically-tuned it won’t surprise you there is a strand of channeled writing across all my books.

When we show
our love proudly, don’t lock it up behind walls,
it’s wild enough to set the world ablaze.
Every stranger suddenly lit up
we see to be no stranger at all.
For the fear that grows in the spaces between
dies back like the weed it is as those spaces
disappear. And we are love, completely.
            From Loves Burn, 2020

I choose to deal with the commercial world as little as possible. So if you’d like to know more about my poetry and get one of my books please reach out to me, and check out https://www.facebook.com/kevinjacksonpoetry

I’m super excited about our festival and in awe of the dedicated people making it happen. We are a work in progress, striving to be more inclusive, more diverse, more connected. We are enough. We can be more. Year by year I want to see us become more inclusive, for people of colour, people with access needs, for women, for people who are refugees and asylum-seekers, for trans and non-binary people and for all other people less represented so far.  I’m dedicating myself this year to finding practical ways for queer people who are refugees and asylum-seekers to be part of our festival.  I want to challenge myself to do more to turn love into action. If you have any thoughts, ideas or contacts to share please get in touch at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

With love, Qweaver

Paulina [Welfare]

Paulina is a queer person from Mexico. She is a physio, occupational therapist and sensory integration practitioner. She has more than ten years experience of working in mental health (mainly crisis) and four years experience working with neurodivergent people.

She first attended QS in 2023 as a volunteer with the welfare team and has joined the organisation team for that area in 2025. She is passionate about helping others and is looking forward to bringing her energy, knowledge and lived experience to the festival. 

Ash [CYP]

Ash is a queer non binary person from Wales. They have seven years experience as a Youth Worker working with queer marginalised and under represented young people.

They are an organiser of queer events and queer fundraisers and looking at bringing these skills to the CYP (children and young people) area at Queer Spirit. They first attended QS as a volunteer in 2024 and the experience showed them community and a space where they can be themselves. They are excited to be part of the organising team.

Fletcher [Decor]

Hello! I'm Fletcher, I'm a queer transmasc from Wales, and I am the decor team organiser.

I'm a maker with a background in cosplay, prop making and sculpture, and I like to spend my time doing embroidery and making scrap crafts. 

I first came to Queer Spirit in 2023 and it truly changed my life. I now have the honour of being a part of the team, spreading magic across the festival with my crew of decor fairies.

We will be using as many recycled and second hand materials as possible - I strongly believe we can create beauty out of what we already have around us, without giving our money to any companies that are harming our planet. 

I cant wait to share the magic with everyone!

Tom  [TNBI Space]

Tom is a queer heathen, shamanic practitioner and celebrant. Through Cormorant Cares, he runs the annual Rising Bird Festival, hosts monthly nature-connection circles in Leeds, and offers workshops and events throughout the year.

Tom came to understand his bisexuality at a young age, but did not fully recognise his gender queerness until he stepped into shamanic work in his twenties. Through gaining a more holistic understanding of himself, and seeing through the constructs our society tries to contain us in, he came to recognise the full extent of his own inner queerness and began his transition. 

He is dedicated to supporting others explore all facets of their identities with honesty, care and compassion. 

At this year’s Queer Spirit Festival, Tom brings his lived experience and community work to his role facilitating the Trans, Nonbinary and Intersex space.

Sparkling Water  [Healing garden]

I have had the privilege of running the healing area for Queer Spirit since it started and it has been exciting to see it grow.

I have been a holistic practitioner since 2007, touring the festival circuit during the summer and based in West London during the winter. I work at a diverse range of festivals, Glastonbury, Buddhafield, Boomtown to name but a few, offering individual sessions and teaching workshops.

My sessions are a blend of skills based on the client’s needs. My initial bodywork training was Thai Massage which I continue to deepen by studying with highly respect teachers from around the world and softened by moving towards the energetic and spiritual, studying Reiki, Tantra and Shamanism. I completed teacher training with Shivananda in India and Elemental School of Chi Kung in London and teach classes and one-one sessions. 

John [Programme and Exploration Space]

John has been involved with Queer Spirit since 2023, and his roles include workshop programming, the production of the printed programme for the festival, running workshops, and from 2026 organising the QS Exploration Space.

His background is in graphic design and publishing, humanistic group therapy, green politics and activism, and researching the history of erotic art, especially from the queer perspective – he curates the honesterotica website, the world’s largest resource for erotic art and illustration.

John has been exploring ethical relationship non-exclusivity for more than four decades, as a writer and group leader as well as in his own life. His book Getting Closer: Sex, Love and Common Sense discussed much of what later became called polyamory. He’s a member of the international Polyamory Leadership Network, and a regular presenter at polyamory gatherings.

Kate  [Performance]

Kate first came to Queer Spirit in 2019 with her big red van The Errant Stage offering intimate gathering and performance space and hosting open mics. Now, she works in the Performance Team curating the performance programme for the festival, scheduling the cabaret and spoken word nights and liaising with the artists.

Outside of Queer Spirit, Kate is a creative arts facilitator, puppeteer, van dweller, co-operative community builder and lover of sharing food.

Always finding new ways to create, connect and build communities, Queer Spirit has become a place that Kate can return to self each year to feel seen, inspired and replenished.

Apollo  [Crafting]

I’m bringing sewing to queer spirit. I started sewing because I couldn’t do furniture making in my flat and tried sewing instead.

I enjoy the challenges of making the 2D into 3D.

There will be a workshop on how to use your Granny’s old singer, and how to make a simple garment (shorts) from a pattern and teddy making demo.