ARTISTS & SPECIAL GUESTS 2024
ELLA Mallorca 16.08.2024 – 24.08.2024
In each edition, we carefully search for artists, activists, influencers, athletes and people of interest to enrich our festival, making it a source of inspiration where art, inclusion, sport and LGBTQ+ culture converge. This year, we are very pleased to announce the participation of very special artists and guests that you are sure to enjoy meeting. So that you can start to get to know them a little better, we offer you a preview of what to expect!
JOIN US, HAVE FUN AND ENJOY THE SUN OF THE MEDITERRANEAN WITH LIKE-MINDED QUEER WOMEN & NON-BINARY PEOPLE!
TABEA KEMME
LADY PHYLL
DJ PAMELA
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.
DJ
SWEDEN
Pamela came to Sweden from Chile at the age of 6, and has been pumping out tunes for the queer community for 30 years! She believes that music is a tool to unite us.
DJ
GERMANY
She’s the creator of the WomenPleasure Party, and the former Blue Lounge Bar.
DJ Blues creates a stir through the decades and her mixes turn every night into a unique experience.
DJ BLUES
SARA HARRAK
ILDIKO VIRAG
IRENE ATERIDO
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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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.
DJ
GERMANY
Caren went to a music high school where she played classical piano and sang background in a hiphop jazz
band. She organised some large festivals before moving to DJ herself. Her style is deep & tech house, with a passion for vocals and melodies.
CAREN CALLAS
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 has starred in feature films including ‘Kill Kane’, ‘Top Dog’ and ‘Bad Girls the Musical’- for which she won a TMA for Best Performance.
DJ
MALLORCA
After years organising events for the LGBTQ+ community in Spain, she left to focus fully on music. Delva trained in the iconic ES GREMI club and since then has not stopped doing what she loves most; making people dance.
DJ DELVA
LAURA ENCINA
NATHALIE PRIETO
MINA
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.
DJ
ARGENTINA
Mina began her career collecting vinyls of jazz, bossa nova, soul and other precursor styles of electronic music. She began DJing 25 years ago in South America, then Central and North America, and finally landing in Ibiza to bring her music to Europe.
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.
AMANDA CURRIE
COLETTE HEBERT
KATERINA MILVIDSKAIA
TANGO LIBERTAD
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.
QUEER TANGO DUO
USA
Tango Libertad is a collaboration between dance and life partners Colette and Katerina. Their love of tango is what brought them together and their passion for liberation fuels their creativity.
POUND WORKOUT INSTRUCTOR
GERMANY/MALLORCA
Instead of just listening to the music, you become the music in this full-body workout that combines cardio, conditioning and strength training with yoga and Pilates-inspired movements. Drumming becomes an incredibly effective way to workout.
SARAH LEXEN
JULIE BUCHER
DJ ALX
ENRI JOTA
YOGA & SOUND THERAPIST
FRANCE
Trained in India & Nepal, Julie seamlessly integrates ancient yoga wisdom with modern mindfulness practices. Join Julie for an immersive experience combining yoga, sound therapy, and shamanic chanting, offering a uniquely immersive journey.
YOGA & SOUND THERAPIST
FRANCE
Trained in India & Nepal, Julie seamlessly integrates ancient yoga wisdom with modern mindfulness practices. Join Julie for an immersive experience combining yoga, sound therapy, and shamanic chanting, offering a uniquely immersive journey.
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.
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.
SURVIVOR
AFGHANISTAN
Knowing she would not be free to assert her identity as a lesbian woman in her home country, Maryam escaped Afghanistan with the help of ELLA Global Community just as the Taliban were swooping in to take control.
MARYAM AMAL
TABEA KEMME
LADY PHYLL
DJ PAMELA
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.
DJ
SWEDEN
Pamela came to Sweden from Chile at the age of 6, and has been pumping out tunes for the queer community for 30 years! She believes that music is a tool to unite us.
DJ
GERMANY
She’s the creator of the WomenPleasure Party, and the former Blue Lounge Bar.
DJ Blues creates a stir through the decades and her mixes turn every night into a unique experience.
DJ BLUES
SARA HARRAK
ILDIKO VIRAG
IRENE ATERIDO
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.
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.
DJ
GERMANY
Caren went to a music high school where she played classical piano and sang background in a hiphop jazz band. She organised some large festivals before moving to DJ herself. Her style is deep & tech house, with a passion for vocals and melodies.
CAREN CALLAS
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.
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 has starred in feature films including ‘Kill Kane’, ‘Top Dog’ and ‘Bad Girls the Musical’- for which she won a TMA for Best Performance.
DJ
MALLORCA
After years organising events for the LGBTQ+ community in Spain, she left to focus fully on music. Delva trained in the iconic ES GREMI club and since then has not stopped doing what she loves most; making people dance.
DJ DELVA
ENGRACIA GRACE
VICKY MORTON
ALONA VINÇ
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.
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".
VISUAL ARTIST & VEEJAY
MALLORCA
Alona Vinç is an artist who trained at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Granada and Altea. She plays, through art, with augmented reality, placing emphasis on desires, hidden feelings and the truest face of humanity, with its virtues and its defects.
LAURA ENCINA
NATHALIE PRIETO
MARYAM AMAL
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.
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.
SURVIVOR
AFGHANISTAN
Knowing she would not be free to assert her identity as a lesbian woman in her home country, Maryam escaped Afghanistan with the help of ELLA Global Community just as the Taliban were swooping in to take control.
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.
AMANDA CURRIE
COLETTE HEBERT
KATERINA MILVIDSKAIA
TANGO LIBERTAD
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.
QUEER TANGO DUO
USA
Tango Libertad is a collaboration between dance and life partners Colette and Katerina. Their love of tango is what brought them together and their passion for liberation fuels their creativity.
POUND WORKOUT INSTRUCTOR
GERMANY/MALLORCA
Instead of just listening to the music, you become the music in this full-body workout that combines cardio, conditioning and strength training with yoga and Pilates-inspired movements. Drumming becomes an incredibly effective way to workout.
SARAH LEXEN
ENRI JOTA
ENGRACIA GRACE
ENRI JOTA
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.
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.