Finn WARMAN
Artistic director / Chief Executive
Finn is passionate about sharing their love of queer culture; because representation matters, and seeing aspects of their life reflected in culture has been the catalyst to accepting their own queerness. Finn founded Andro & Eve to make space for better representation and put community first.
With a background in theatre design, Finn has a worked as an artist, workshop facilitator and producer in the cultural and education since 2005. Specialising in large – scale participatory arts projects, they have a wealth of experience in partnership working, project management, leadership and communications.
Finn programmes and produces each project for Andro and Eve and facilitates our training and workshop offer. A huge fan of all things drag kings, Finn can often be found seeking out zine fairs and gigs across the North of England.
IBK Adebambo
Creative Producer
Ibk is passionate about representation, wellbeing and youth work. They believe it is important to constantly celebrate and showcase the diversity within queer and non-white communities and how the two intersect.
Ibk has worked in the youth and museums sector and their work with Andro and Eve has supported their development as a Producer. Since 2021 they have assisted with many of Andro and Eve’s creative engagement activities and events and led on the delivery of Fresh Air zine with Site Gallery in 2022.
Ibk enjoys skateboarding, cooking, listening to music, shooting on analogue film and dancing.
Luci Pina
Project Coodinator
Luci is passionate about working with various underrepresented communities and assisting in creating spaces where people feel celebrated and comfortable to be and express themselves.
Luci has been a freelance illustrator since 2020 having designed various fun posters for queer events within that time and has worked for a selection of arts organisations alongside this as an assistant producer and workshop facilitator delivering programming for local community groups.
Luci loves being in nature, drawing, seeing live music and art exhibitions.
ARTISTS
We work with a wide range of artists from across the UK. Longer term collaborations have been forged with artists including Seleena Laverne Daye, Ghetto Fabulous and Christian Adore.
Our live events have hosted performances by drag and cabaret acts including Sadie Sinner, Rhyss Pieces, Adam All and Apple Derrieres, CHIYO, Don One, Sigi Moonlight, Romeo De La Cruz and Wesley Dykes and artists including House of Noir, House of Blaque, DYLEMA, Ella Otomewo, Maz Hedgehog and Victoria Firth. We’re passionate about nurturing and platforming new talent too through our workshops and queer cabaret, A Reyt Queer Do.
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LOLA WHITE
Board Member
Lola believes that providing safe spaces and stages for the LGBTQ+ community is essential for us to celebrate queer culture, promote belonging and nurture talent. This is why she loves what Andro and Eve represent.
Specialising in people, organisational development and leadership, Lola has dedicated her career to working in the NHS. Lola collaborates with healthcare professionals to enable the improvement of patient safety and the provision of high quality patient care.
Lola has previously co-presented a radio show showcasing South Yorkshire talent as well as creating, curating, and playing records at various club nights.
Morel O’Sullivan
Board Member
Morel O’Sullivan is passionate about growing queer performance in the north. They love any opportunity to connect queer communities, work on queer futures and celebrate local queer history.
Morel has plenty of experience in queer performance, gigging around the country as guitar-wielding drag thing Ding Frisby. As a producer they founded Huddersfield’s first queer open mic and devised the Trans Post Project, involving hundreds of trans people in participatory art activities every year. They love that accessibility is such a big part of what Andro and Eve do.
Morel is a big fan of fungi, naff sci-fi films and trying out all the queer sports clubs in West Yorkshire.
Natalie Patrick
Board Member
Natalie is a firm believer in building community and solidarity within both queer and non-queer spaces. Key to this is providing safe spaces where people can connect and be themselves.
With several years of experience working as a project manager for an engineering consultancy, Natalie is skilled in organisation, long term forward planning, risk and financial management. Her experience and skills help guide the development and growth of Andro and Eve.
Natalie loves Sheffield’s grass roots, DIY music & art, and queer scenes. She spends plenty of time at gigs and events, but also enjoys reading, walking in the peaks, and cooking food for those she loves & cares about.
Amy Thornton
Board Member
Amy is passionate about creating opportunities for queer joy to thrive. As a big people-person Amy loves empowering others to pursue experiences and opportunities that allow them to connect with their own queerness and be involved in the wider queer community.
Bringing experience in membership engagement management and service development, on the Board, Amy is particularly interested in using her knowledge of organisational growth, business planning and people development to support Andro and Eve.
Amy loves to cook for friends and family and spends a lot of time playing board games, reading, cross stitch, and becoming extremely interested in a new hobby for 1 month then completely losing interest and laughing about it with friends.
Our Trainers
For our Gender Awareness Training we work with a small group of highly skilled and experienced trainers who bring with them a wealth of experience from various sectors.
This diverse team includes people working in higher education, equity consultancy, arts and culture and community organising. They draw upon experience working in primary, secondary and higher education, coaching and facilitation experience to support the learning of participants with all kinds of different life experiences.
VOLUNTEERS
We work with a small but dedicated team of volunteers who give their time to help make our events so special. From decorating, to flyering, greeting our audiences, to selling cake they are a vital part of what we do.
We basically think our volunteers are wonderful and we’re very thankful for their contribution to our beautiful queer community. We’re always interested in working with new people, so if you’d like to get involved, drop us a line.
