Mentors.
Jordy Deelight
Jo Dargie
Veronique Lapeyre
Tallah Brash
Lindz McLeod
Nicola Jeffs
Jordy Deelight is an award winning non-binary artist from Edinburgh, Scotland, who works across the UK creating work for theatre, film and music. Their work looks at identity and persona, exploring themes of disability, gender and mental health in autobiographical and auto theory based work. Jordy’s aim in their work is to bring conversations about the deep rooted psychology of humans and how they think, feel and act. Jordy Deelight trained at Queen Margaret University (BA Drama and Performance) and at Edinburgh College of Art (MA Contemporary Art Practice).
Jo Dargie is a freelance PR Manager, Journalist and Marketing Consultant helping artists and creatives in the electronic music industry grow their digital presence whilst staying true to club culture roots. As well as producing engaging written and on-camera coverage of the wider music scene with previous platforms including LOOP, SNACK Mag, The Skinny, The Back 2 Back Podcast and more.
Scottish-Mauritian Veronique AA Lapeyre (@veroforv) is a dynamic brand, communications and digital strategist based in Fife. An advocate for new ways of working and anti-racism action within the arts, Veronique is a trained coach and mentor, her side projects include @projectzanana and @peroworld.
Tallah Brash is the Music Editor at The Skinny, a free Scottish arts and culture magazine distributed monthly across Edinburgh, Glasgow and Dundee. She’s been in the role for six years now, but before this held various roles for five years at the now defunct and much-missed Edinburgh venue Electric Circus, from Live Booker to Venue Manager to Operations Director. Before working at Electric Circus, Tallah was the PR Manager at Edinburgh venue Cabaret Voltaire, was head of Edinburgh University radio station Fresh Air, was a tipster for Huw Stephens’ BBC Radio 1 Introducing show and made several pre-recorded features on emerging Scottish talent for Vic Galloway’s BBC Radio 1 Introducing in Scotland show.
Over the years Tallah has played in bands, DJed various club nights and promoted gigs across Edinburgh and beyond since 2007. In 2016 she was listed as one of We Got Tickets’ Indie 50, a list which recognised influential people at a grassroots level in the UK music scene. Tallah has been a nominator for the Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMAs) and is a regular nominator for The Scottish Album of the Year Award (The SAY Award); in 2017 she was a judge for The SAY Award, and in 2021 and 2022 was a judge for the AIM Independent Music Awards.
Lindz McLeod (she/they) is a queer, working-class, Scottish writer who dabbles in the surreal. Her prose has been published by Catapult, Flash Fiction Online, Pseudopod, and many more. Her short story collection Turducken is forthcoming with Bear Creek Press in November '22 and her debut novel Beast is forthcoming with Brigids Gate Press in March '23. She holds an MA in Creative Writing and in 2023 will begin her PhD in Creative Writing with Manchester Met. Lindz is a full member of the SFWA, is the Competition Secretary of the Edinburgh Writers' Club, and is represented by Laura Zats at Headwater Literary Management.
Nicola Jeffs is a Communications Specialist working between Scotland, London and Germany. She went to Edinburgh University and the University of Sussex, specialising in social history, art history, politics and photography theory. She works with range of institutions including Stills, Fruitmarket, Hospitalfield, Mount Stuart, LUX Scotland, Tramway, Hunterian and Collective in Scotland and on UK and international projects including Biennales, festivals, projects and institutions, and on behalf of individual artists such as Biennalegherdeina, E-Werk Luckenwalde and the Eden Project. Previous in-house roles included the Hayward Gallery, National Gallery, White Cube and an arts and architecture PR agency in Berlin.