Community

Glastonbury Goddess Temple is delighted to be joining Queer Spirit this year, and will be led by the temple Talia, Michelle Braniff-Williams, supported by Priestess and Priests of Avalon. Michelle is a Priestess of Avalon and Sacred Oracle, who will be bringing the temple to Queer Spirit. Blessings and healing will be available from the Goddess Temple during the festival.

Glastonbury Goddess Temple is devoted to bringing the love and joy of the Goddess to the world. 

This modern-day Goddess-loving organisation and community is dedicated to the development of a spiritual tradition rooted in the empowerment of all human beings regardless of gendered expression and sexual orientation.

Online: goddesstemple.co.uk

Beautiful Garbage is a collaboration between Jez Franck and Nic Beck - an interactive space where you are invited to sit, create, chat, kiss, meet new friends and listen to the tinkling of chandeliers. Created using found and upcycled materials, the Beautiful Garbage garden will evolve over the course of the festival as a space for connection, creativity and relaxation. Beautiful Garbage invites you to rethink what is precious and what is throwaway. It invites you to find beauty in unexpected places and to ask questions - it is art in Queer form, full of surprises!

Jez Franck is a multidisciplinary visual artist, poet and facilitator living in Southampton, England. Their work is informed by ecological activism, magic and ritual, their identity as a nonbinary person and their experiences as an immigrant, neurodivergent person and outlier. They are interested in exploring the liminal spaces between objects, people, ideas and experiences. They have an interest in grassroots arts and art as a tool for activism and community building, believing that art has an important part to play in changing the world for the better.

Artist: Jez Franck

A place for queer activists to gather and share, building networks, linking queer campaigns and issues in a mutually supportive and intersectional way.

The 'Twin Peaks' tent hosts the scheduled workshops, while the Star Bell tent is a drop-in space for queer activists to gather at any time during the festival to build networks, linking campaigns and issues in a mutually supportive way.

Scheduled Workshops

GIN (Gay Indian Network) LGBTQ+ Indian & South Asian Network UK was founded in September 2018 by Mayank Joshi.

GIN works to support and connect the LGBTQ+ community of Indian & South Asian Heritage in the UK. 
 Our group promotes discussions on well being spirituality, philosophy, meditation, faith, festivals and self realisation.

Most GIN members are Hindus, Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists. These are the faiths of the individual path. So we speak about the Self, the Atman, the Soul and the importance of authenticity, self-realisation and connecting with our divine Self.

We are looking forward to being part of the Queer Spirit Festival.  The Festival resonates with us on many levels and recognising the Queer Divine within us.

Online: gayindiannetworklondon.com

Micro Rainbow’s vision is to create a world where lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex (LGBTQI) people are free from discrimination, persecution and have equal opportunities in life, including in accessing employment, training, education, financial services, healthcare, housing, places of faith, and public services.

We do this by:

• Providing safe housing to LGBTQI asylum seekers
• Facilitating access to employment, volunteering, training and education for LGBTQI refugees through our moving on programme
• Providing social inclusion activities to reduce the extreme isolation faced by LGBTQI people
• Advocacy – up to 6 tailored sessions with Outreach Officers to meet need and requirements, providing legal workshops and signposting and collaborating with relevant organisations 

Online: microrainbow.org