ARTISTS & SPECIAL GUESTS 2026
27.08.2026 – 04.09.2026
With every edition, we intentionally gather a diverse constellation of artists, activists, athletes, creatives and inspiring voices who help shape the soul of the festival. ELLA is a meeting point where art, inclusion, sport and LGBTQ+ culture naturally intertwine. This year, we’re deeply excited to welcome a group of remarkable guests we can’t wait for you to discover. Here’s a little glimpse into who they are and what they bring.
JOIN US, HAVE FUN AND ENJOY THE SUN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WITH LIKE-MINDED QUEER WOMEN & NON-BINARY PEOPLE!
TABEA KEMME
LADY PHYLL
GISELE PALMA
FOOTBALLER
GERMANY
Tabea played with FFC Turbine Potsdam in the German Bundesliga, then UEFA and World Cup and, if that wasn't enough, the Olympic Games. Her last year, before her retirement, was with English club Arsenal.
ACTIVIST
UNITED KINGDOM
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah AKA Lady Phyll is one of Britain's most prominent lesbian activists, well known for her work on race, gender, and LGBT+ rights. She is the Co-Founder and CEO of UK Black Pride, and the former executive director of Kaleidoscope Trust.
SEX EDUCATOR
BRAZIL
Gisele Palma is a sex educator, a lesbian, and a native of Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. With a solid background as a journalist and content creator in the field of sexuality, she works to inspire women who love women to prioritize their sexual freedom and fulfillment. Her mission is guided by the valuing of female happiness and the promotion of lesbian visibility. Through her work, she has already helped thousands of people (re)discover the power they hold within—and to set that power in motion.
ORGANIZER PRIDE VIENNA & DJ
AUSTRIA
Katie Kace is an international DJ, producer & event mastermind from Vienna – with sets in NYC, LA, Manila, Madrid, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Berlin, and beyond.
Her sound? Genre-fluid, high-energy, always on point. From pop and house to electro bangers – she consistently brings the heat.
As the founder of PiNKED Vienna and organizer of Vienna Pride, she stands for pure energy, real connections, and unforgettable moments.
Katie Kace drops hammer beats & full-body vibes – with a presence that catches every crowd. No skips, just sweat.
DJ KATIE KASE
DANIELA VALLEJO
LADY PHYLL
MARTINA BENVENUTTO
MODEL AND ACTIVIST
SPAIN
Daniela Vallejo was born with the soul of a woman and an unbreakable spirit. After overcoming challenges that pushed her to the limit, she emerged stronger than ever, becoming the woman she always dreamed of being. Currently, she is Miss Spain Trans and continues to fight for visibility and empowerment of the trans community, inspiring others with her story of resilience and transformation.
ACTIVIST AND COMMUNITY BUILDER
UNITED KINGDOM
Phyll Opoku-Gyimah, widely known as Lady Phyll, is the co-founder and CEO of UK Black Pride, Europe’s largest Pride celebration for LGBTQ+ people of colour. She famously declined an MBE to protest Britain’s colonial role in anti-LGBTQI+ laws.
A longtime activist, she has served as Executive Director of Kaleidoscope Trust, patron of Micro Rainbow and Albert Kennedy Trust, and ambassador for lesbian visibility. With over two decades of advocacy, Lady Phyll is a respected strategist, speaker, and advisor to global LGBTQI+ movements, working at the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and justice.
PRESENTER OF THE ELLA OPENING
URUGUAY
She is fun, creative, authentic, and cosmopolitan. Born in Uruguay and a resident of Mallorca for several years, she is the founder and creative director of her clothing brand "Benvenutto". She is an interior designer, trained for in Barcelona, with a passion for collecting and learning about works of art.
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ACTIVIST
INDIA - UK
CEO/Co-Founder - OUTspoken Speakers - the UK's first speaker agency that platforms queer women and those non-binary, LGBTQ+ Activist, Award-winning Entrepreneur, Author - Untold Lies, Writer, TEDx Speaker, Podcaster and Host. Regularly featured amongst Top 100 Trailblazing LGBT+ women. Appeared on several media channels in the UK and India (BBC. Sky News, ITV, Channel 4, NDTV, India Today, BBC Hindi and several other regional languages) fighting for marriage equality in India.
RAGA D'SILVA
OLENA VASYLEVSKA
DJ ALX
ANNETTE SAHARA HORNING
SINGER, SONGWRITER & STORYTELLER
UKRAINE
A voice woven from stories of journey and belonging, Olena brings her heartfelt blend of soul, folk, and indie-pop to the sands and sea of ELLA’s Beach Day. With roots in Ukraine and a new chapter in the UK, her songs explore identity, resilience, and the freedom of starting anew. Expect gentle melodies, honest lyrics, and moments of connection that linger long after the tide has come in.
DJ
NETHERLANDS
Before playing festivals like Vienna rainbow parade and ELLA, DJ ALX arrived on the Amsterdam underground gay scene in 2005. She later hosted monthly parties, spotlighting female DJs. Now living back in Mallorca, she will bring us Nu-disco-electro-80's-90's sounds.
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SPIRITUAL TEACHER AND THERAPIST
DENMARK
Annette Sahara Horning (ASH) is the creator of the spiritual podcast "The Lonely Queers". Her mission is to inspire other women to find inner peace and self-empowerment. Based in Denmark, she runs her own dance studio and works as a spiritual yoga teacher and sex therapist. Her experience includes intuition, healing, self-awareness, and mindfulness.
At ELLA Festival 2025, ASH will offer her spiritual workshop “Intuition & Self-Empowerment” during the Spiritual Day, and lead a Ballroom Fitness Dance session at ELLA Beach — a fun, energizing and freeing class designed to reconnect with body and spirit through movement.
DJ
ARGENTINA
Born in Argentina, but she's spent her entire life in Spain.
Since coming of age, she has worked in nightlife. Interestingly, her career took an unconventional path:
before becoming a DJ, she was the CEO of her own event promotion companies, organizing huge parties in over 7 Spanish cities — all by the age of 20.
Being constantly surrounded by DJs sparked her curiosity, and she decided to train with one of the most experienced and renowned names in Spain’s DJ scene: Óscar Romero.
Since then, she’s spent the last 3 years performing on some of the best stages and touring all across Spain.
DJ DELVA
DANIELA ZEIER
KARLYN IMAYA
NATALIE ZEITUNY
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ARTIST AND ART EDUCATOR
SWITZERLAND
Daniela Zeier is an art educator and independent artist with an interdisciplinary approach that combines various forms of artistic expression while offering creative guidance. Three years ago, she moved from Switzerland to Mallorca, where the light, landscape, and natural materials have deeply influenced her work, which spans both painting and poetry. In her abstract paintings, she works with acrylics as well as Mallorcan stone, sand, and oxides, creating striking, richly textured pieces.
SHAMANIC FACILITATOR & THERAPIST
FRANCE
Karlyn Imaya is a shamanic facilitator, trauma-informed therapist, plant medicine integration coach and trainer for holistic practitioners. Inspired by the dream of a harmonious world, her passion lies in the intersection of individual transformation and collective change. She believes that as we each journey towards healing and wholeness, we organically contribute to the broader shift towards peace, unity, and harmony, on our planet Earth.
ENSOULMENT FACILITATOR
GREECE
Natalie Zeituny is a medicine woman, soul whisperer, international facilitator, and creator of the Ensoulment books and seminars. As a teacher, speaker, facilitator, and counselor, she has worked with thousands of individuals and business leaders around the globe.
RAQUEL (PALMA HILLS)
ELLA ACROBATS
ELLA ACROBATS
RUDA PUDA
RAQUEL (Palma Hills Events)
SPAIN
Palma Hills Events is led by the magnetic Raquel, this creative production team transforms events into memorable experiences full of personality and flair.
DRAG QUEEN
BRAZIL
Ruda Puda is an international drag queen. She offers glamorous shows for open-minded and fun-loving people who enjoy her performances in any of the 4 languages she speaks.
SARA HARRAK
ILDIKO VIRAG
MARTINA BENVENUTTO
FILM DIRECTOR
UNITED KINGDOM
Sara Harrak is a British-Moroccan Director who has been in the industry for over 10 years. Her short film, F**KED, aired live on Channel 4 after winning Best British Short at the Iris Prize 2023 and is in early development for a TV series.
SINGER/SONGWRITER
GERMANY
Ildiko Virag is a artist, singer, songwriter and producer. The enchanting and highly empathic soul translates her thoughts and emotions into moving lyrics, melodies and beats and needs nothing more than her heart, her voice and her technology.
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PRESENTER
URUGUAY
She is fun, creative, authentic, and cosmopolitan. Born in Uruguay and a resident of Mallorca for several years, she is the founder and creative director of her clothing brand "Benvenutto". She is an interior designer, trained for in Barcelona, with a passion for collecting and learning about works of art.
PSYCHOTHERAPIST
UNITED KINGDOM
Nailah Logan is a BACP-accredited psychotherapist with a background in psychoanalytic and psychosocial studies. Her relational approach centres emotional nuance, identity, and healing. She supports adults and adolescents through individual and group therapy, using frameworks like Intersubjectivity and Attachment Theory.
With experience at Relate, the NHS, and BUPA, she creates inclusive spaces where clients feel safe and understood. As a Black gay woman, she champions affirming care for BAME and LGBTQI+ communities, placing identity at the core of the therapeutic process.
NAILAH LOGAN
ENIOLA FALADE
NICOLE FARADAY
ACTIVIST
NIGERIA
Nini is a long-time activist for LGBTQ+ rights in Nigeria and ELLA's own community manager in this country where being ourselves is sadly still incriminated until this day, worsening in recent years.
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Ils graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Geel, Belgium and lives in Basel, Switzerland. Ils loves painting deep layers of love - and innate female beauty, wisdom and power, and will be bringing a series of exclusive artworks to the festival.
ACTRESS & SINGER
UNITED KINGDOM
Nicole Faraday is best known for her TV role as Snowball Merriman in two series of ‘Bad Girls’. She was also a regular on UK soaps Casualty and Emmerdale. She has starred in feature films including ‘Kill Kane’, ‘Top Dog’ and ‘Bad Girls the Musical’ – for which she won a TMA for Best Performance. Nicole was delighted to win Best Actress for her leading role in the British comedy feature film Not By the Book at the Marbella International Film Festival 2022.
DANCER & PERFORMER
UNITED KINGDOM
Maya Matriarch is a London-born, Afro-Caribbean dancer making waves in Barcelona's party scene at popular club nights like DROP Dance Society, Disco Marisco & Sweetie Darling. A self-proclaimed "body mover," she channels her love of music and dance into a dynamic mix of styles, leaving a unique mark on every stage she graces.
Maya thrives on captivating and energising her audience, inspiring them to let loose and fully express themselves. With her infectious energy, she proves the party truly begins when Maya Matriarch hits the dance floor!
MAYA MATRIARCH
LAURA ENCINA
NATHALIE PRIETO
OLENA VASYLEVSKA
FINANCIAL EXPERT
SPAIN
Laura is trained in finance, personal development, NLP and much more. She is the director of OVB Allfinanz Spain, one of the largest European multinationals in the sector, which has allowed her to fulfil her dream and professional objectives.
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PSYCHIATRIST & FORENSIC DOCTOR
FRANCE
Nathalie is specialised in Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. She has always worked in public hospitals. Very interested in crisis situations, she has been involved in emergency services with the most complex and psychologically distressing cases.
SINGER & SONGWRITER
UKRAINE
A voice woven from stories of journey and belonging, Olena brings her heartfelt blend of soul, folk, and indie-pop to the sands and sea of ELLA’s Beach Day. With roots in Ukraine and a new chapter in the UK, her songs explore identity, resilience, and the freedom of starting anew. Expect gentle melodies, honest lyrics, and moments of connection that linger long after the tide has come in.
SHAMANIC FACILITATOR
FRANCE
Karlyn Imaya is a shamanic facilitator, trauma-informed therapist, plant medicine integration coach and trainer for holistic practitioners.
Inspired by the dream of a harmonious world, her passion lies in the intersection of individual transformation and collective change. She believes that as we each journey towards healing and wholeness, we organically contribute to the broader shift towards peace, unity, and harmony, on our planet Earth.
KARLYN IMAYA
COLETTE HEBERT
KATERINA MILVIDSKAIA
DJ DELVA
TANGO DANCER
USA
Colette is one of the most respected and sought-after tango performers and instructors in North America. She believes that while technique in tango is important, it is the human connection that makes it a unique dance.
TANGO DANCER
USA
Katerina’s love affair with tango in Paris, while at the Trocadero plaza she heard sounds of unfamiliar music that reached her heart. Completely captivated, she watched as couples navigated the floor lost in each other's embrace.
DJ
ARGENTINA
Born in Argentina, but she's spent her entire life in Spain.
Since coming of age, she has worked in nightlife. Interestingly, her career took an unconventional path:
before becoming a DJ, she was the CEO of her own event promotion companies, organizing huge parties in over 7 Spanish cities — all by the age of 20.
Being constantly surrounded by DJs sparked her curiosity, and she decided to train with one of the most experienced and renowned names in Spain’s DJ scene: Óscar Romero.
Since then, she’s spent the last 3 years performing on some of the best stages and touring all across Spain.
LGTBQ+ ACTIVIST
SENEGAL
AISHA FALL
Diary Bodian
Mame Pouye
DIARY BODIAN
LGTBQ+ ACTIVIST
SENEGAL
LGTBQ+ ACTIVIST
SENEGAL
LGTBQ+ Activist
Senegal
LGTBQ+ Activist
Senegal
Mame Pouye
ENRI JOTA
ENGRACIA GRACE
AMANDA CURRIE
LITERATURE & POETRY AUTHOR
MALLORCA
Enri Jota is a multifaceted woman who combines her work as a teacher with her great passions: poetry and painting.
She has recently published a book and had been nominated for an award.
PHOTOGRAPHER
VENEZUELA
Engracia graduated as a Photography & Digital Imaging Specialist in 2008 and has been taking photos ever since. Her passion for photography lies in telling your unique story through images you can treasure for a lifetime.
PRISON GOVERNOR
UNITED KINGDOM
As Prison Governor & LGBT Advisor in prisons, with over 20 years experience of working within the UK Prison Service, Amanda was instrumental in implementing key strategies to improve the lives of LGBT staff and prisoners alike.
DJ
NETHERLANDS/MALLORCA
Before playing festivals like Vienna rainbow parade and ELLA, DJ ALX arrived on the Amsterdam underground gay scene in 2005. She later hosted monthly parties, spotlighting female DJs. Now living back in Mallorca, she will bring us Nu-disco-electro-80's-90's sounds.
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DJ ALX
ENRI JOTA
ENGRACIA GRACE
GEE GALVÃO
LITERATURE & POETRY AUTHOR
MALLORCA
Enri Jota is a multifaceted woman who combines her work as a teacher with her great passions: poetry and painting.
She has recently published a book and had been nominated for an award.
PHOTOGRAPHER
VENEZUELA
Engracia graduated as a Photography & Digital Imaging Specialist in 2008 and has been taking photos ever since. Her passion for photography lies in telling your unique story through images you can treasure for a lifetime.
PHOTOGRAPHER
SAN PAULO, BRAZIL
GEE GALVÃO is a Brazilian photographer and visual artist, born in Bahia and based in São Paulo. Her work engages with sociocultural dynamics, gender, and identity through an investigative and documentary approach. She creates images that connect body and landscape, navigating between the real and the poetic. Her visual practice also includes lifestyle photography and the documentation of festivals, with a focus on cultural expressions and collective experiences.
SPIRITUAL TEACHER AND THERAPIST
DENMARK
Annette Sahara Horning (ASH) is the creator of the spiritual podcast "The Lonely Queers". Her mission is to inspire other women to find inner peace and self-empowerment. Based in Denmark, she runs her own dance studio and works as a spiritual yoga teacher and sex therapist. Her experience includes intuition, healing, self-awareness, and mindfulness.
At ELLA Festival 2025, ASH will offer her spiritual workshop “Intuition & Self-Empowerment” during the Spiritual Day, and lead a Ballroom Fitness Dance session at ELLA Beach — a fun, energizing and freeing class designed to reconnect with body and spirit through movement.
ANNETTE SAHARA HORNING
VICKY MORTON
IRENE ATERIDO
ELLA DANCERS
VIDEOGRAPHER
UNITED KINGDOM
A filmmaker of prodigious talent, over 15 years experience in the film industry and credits at BBC and Netflix, she's worked extensively across fiction and documentary, including co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed "The Dragon on my Shirt".
SOCIOLOGIST & SEXOLOGIST
SPAIN
Irene is a Sociologist, Sexologist and Consultant in sexuality, health and gender. Dedicated to Training and Coaching, she also specialises in the experience of sexuality in chronic diseases and sexual diversity and gender.
SOCIÒLOGA I SEXÒLEGA
ESPANYA
Irene és Sociòloga, Sexòloga i Consultora en sexualitat, salut i gènere. Dedicada a la Formació i al Coaching, també està especialitzada en la vivència de la sexualitat en malalties cròniques i en diversitat sexual i gènere.
SOCIOLOGIST & SEXOLOGIST
SPAIN
Irene is a Sociologist, Sexologist and Consultant in sexuality, health and gender. Dedicated to Training and Coaching, she also specialises in the experience of sexuality in chronic diseases and sexual diversity and gender.