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Tracy Gentles

Tracy Gentles is Artistic Director and CEO of SICK! Festival, an international arts and health festival based in Manchester, UK, that creates bold, care-driven programmes challenging stigma, promoting wellbeing, and inspiring change. A working-class woman of colour she connects local communities to national and global conversations, commissioning work that examines personal and societal experiences of health, identity, and inequality.

Recoding Realities—Residency Open Call for Media Artists in London

Pirkko Saisio at European Writers' Festival in London

Valo / Light – Open Call at Fruitmarket in Edinburgh for Finnish and Finland-based artists

Beyond Survival: International Time Travel at Oulu2026

Sonja Jokiniemi brings 'Howl' performance at Fest en Fest in London

Anssi Kasitonni: Below Zero Finnish Art Award 2025 at Serlachius