Amy ZingRedmond
Amy Zing is a Margate-based festival director, curating Margate Pride and Power of Women festival. With a background as a BBC radio producer, in 2008 Amy co-founded queer club collective Sink The Pink, which saw Amy named one of Time Out’s Top 50 Influential Londoners. In 2014 Amy and her co-founders established East Creative, an entertainment agency with inclusivity, community and queer culture at its core, producing large-scale events including the Mighty Hoopla Festival.
In 2016 Amy co-founded Margate Arts Club a queer and femme focused community space. In 2016 Amy co-founded Margate Pride (which has grown from 500 attendees to a much-loved community event attracting crowds of 15,000+) In 2016 she co-founded OUT Margate, an LGBTQ+ youth club, which had her work recognised by Amnesty International. In 2019 Amy was appointed Artistic Director of arts charity POW Thanet, a festival celebrating International Womens Day. In 2022 Amy and her Sink The Pink co founder Glyn Fussell won the Community Award at the Attitude Awards.
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Amy hosts the Power of Women podcast and has been DJing disco and pop bangers across festivals and clubs for 20+ years.
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Amy is available for DJing, writing, live speaking and broadcast guest appearances, relating to queer culture, community activism, feminism, inclusivity and empowerment.
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