Sunday School: We’re Coming Out – Local LGBTQ+ Artists Presenting Their Work
We’re Coming Out is an expression of joy and work for this host of presenting artists.
We have gathered together some of Waterford’s finest LGBTQIA+ artists, each from different artistic backgrounds and disciplines. Each of these individuals will give a brief talk on who they are, what they do, and what they have coming up.
It’s a great chance for artists within the queer community to get to know each other and start to build a professional network with each other.
NB: The €10 ticket price covers entry for this event and for Spilling The Tea – Making Art with A Queer Lens
To remove barriers for attendance we have a limited number of stipends available for access and/or childcare costs. Please contact natashaeverittarts@gmail.com to avail of this.
Note: Stipends will be distributed on a first come, first served basis.
Sasha Terfous
Sasha Terfous, Poet Laureate for Wexford, is a leading figure in Ireland’s spoken word scene. Born in New Ross, she began writing as a teenager and launched her career in 2016 with the Word Up Collective. Her work, inspired by Maya Angelou and Sylvia Plath, addresses social issues, identity, and activism. Terfous has performed at major festivals and events, using poetry to amplify marginalized voices and explore her experiences as a queer person of colour.
Flavia Pordominsky
Flavia Pordominsky is an Italian-Argentinian Assistant Director who has been making waves in the screen industry since 2017. With a career spanning international productions for Netflix, Amazon Prime, BBC, RTÉ, Virgin Media, Channel 4, and more, she has carved out a reputation for excellence, precision, and creative collaboration on set. From thrillers to dramas, Flavia has brought her sharp eye and dynamic energy to projects like This Is Not a Murder Mystery, filmed in Portlaw’s Curraghmore House, where she played a pivotal role in ensuring local talent and businesses in Waterford were actively involved and benefited from the production.
In 2023, Flavia took her passion for storytelling and community to the next level by becoming the Director of the Waterford Film Centre. Under her leadership, the Centre is rapidly becoming a hub for creative talent in the Southeast, focused on attracting major productions, nurturing indigenous filmmakers, and offering hands-on training to the next generation of storytellers. Flavia’s recent credits include the SXSW Audience Award-winning horror film Oddity, as well as acclaimed series such as Hidden Assets, Dead & Buried, Louise Lives Large, and Harry Wild. Her commitment to uplifting regional voices through high-caliber, globally relevant stories is already leaving a lasting mark on the Irish film landscape.
Driven by a vision to make Waterford a world-class filmmaking destination, Flavia founded IRIT PRODUCTIONS to amplify diverse narratives rooted in local experiences with international reach. Originally drawn to Waterford by love—her wife brought her there five years ago—Flavia has since fallen for the place itself. Today, she’s on a mission to turn her adopted home into “the New Hollywood,” combining her global experience with unstoppable passion to build a thriving, inclusive film community right in the heart of the Southeast.
Caoilfionn Hanton
Caoilfionn is a multidisciplinary artist from Waterford, now based in Dublin, working across performance, painting, film, and installation. Rooted in collaboration and community engagement, her work looks at how the theatrics of hypermodern life are shaping our identities and transforming our experience of shared environments. Staging improvisational interventions across physical and digital settings, Caoilfionn seeks out moments where dissonant realities blur and preserve them through pixel-based observation. Encounters with the banal and the bizarre are woven into narrative threads – reimagined through material experimentation in the studio, and transformed into tangible works for exhibition contexts.
Wayne Power
Wayne is a writer, poet and spoken word artist based in Waterford city. In 2020 he released his debut poetry collection entitled ‘Everyone’s A Star After Midnight’
Playwright Jim Nolan described it as collection that “will speak for and to a lot of his generation”. Nolan subsequently launched Power’s follow up collection in 2021 , the gritty ‘Neon Hearts and The Angry Mob’.
He released his third collection ‘Only When I’m Dancing Can I Feel This Free‘ in October 2023 as part of the Waterford Writers Weekend. It was named as Best Book of 2023 by Liam Murphy of The Munster Express.
In 2023 , he was resident in Garter Lane’s A Little Room with debut play ‘Dress You Up’ It went to full production with Stagemad Theatre Company in October 2024 for 4 consecutive nights in Bank Lane, as part of the Imagine Arts festival, it played to over 200 people.
He has released six spoken word videos, his most recent, ‘A Place for Us’ was premiered by Hot Press magazine in November 2022. Directed by Cian Cusack, the piece was a rally cry for the queer community , written in response to the rise in hate crimes.
In October 2022, he founded the bi-monthly event ‘Slip of the Tongue’. This curated event fuses spoken word, poetry, live music, drag performance and comedy.
burke
Burke is a multidisciplinary artist with engagements in painting, collaging, object constructing, dog walking and filmmaking.
His attention is punctually focused on delivering obtuse elements and blunt textures through impulsive executions and experimentation. Scraps of ephemera are drawn on, cut up and stuck down, then cut up again with the chance of being stuck down elsewhere. Words are considered, written or typed. Sometimes contexts emerge and images form. Sometimes the images move and sometimes they do not. His most recent experimental films include both digital “things” and 8mm analog “stuff”.
burke’s direction is abstraction; if he’s to be believed, it’s “all going hard-style somewhere buddy.”
