Experienced Festival Director, Art and Performance Curator, Radio and Social Media Producer with a demonstrated history of working in the broadcast media industry. Skilled in Adobe Audition, Sound, Interviewing, Live Events, and Radio Production. Strong media and communication professional with a BA focused in Performing Arts from King Alfreds College, Winchester. Amy Redmond is a Margate-based festival director, currently curating Margate Pride and POW! Thanet. With a background as a BBC radio producer, in 2008 Amy co-founded queer club collective Sink The Pink, an internationally-recognised entertainment brand and cultural phenomenon, which saw Amy named one of Time Out’s Top 100 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 took a step back from the day-to-day operations of Sink The Pink and East Creative to co-found Margate Arts Club as a queer-friendly community space. In 2016 Amy co-founded Margate Pride (which has grown from 500 attendees to a much-loved community event attracting crowds of 10,000+) In 2016 she co-founded OUT Margate, an LGBTQ-friendly youth club, recognised by Amnesty International as an essential community support service. In 2017 Amy co-founded Northdown Studios, exhibition space and creative studios. In 2019 she was appointed Artistic Director of POW! Thanet, an arts and culture festival and charity celebrating feminism, women and girls. Amy is available for live speaking opportunities and broadcast guest appearances, relating to queer culture, community activism, feminism, inclusivity and empowerment. Amy is currently hosting the Power of Women podcast.​