Em Weirdigan

Green Gathering director

Em became a Green Gathering director in 2013 after a decade touring an organic travelling cafe around UK festivals. She continues to assist in various roles at independent events from Knockengorroch in Scotland to Small World in Kent.

Em manages Green Gathering’s traders, coordinates publicity, and is passionate about sustainability topping the agenda. She sources wristbands, designs teatowels, recruits volunteers and curates the festival’s Enchanted Woods - a space filled with art and magic, aiming to realign humans and nature. Em qualified as an assessor for A Greener Festival in 2017, curated the Solution Zone at Extinction Rebellion’s Spring Uprising in 2019, and was interviewed for Festival Vision’s Green Leader Q&A in 2021. Her environmental activism saw her arrested at a Manchester fracking site, and she’s worked with refugee solidarity groups in France and Greece.

Em strives to convince people that expecting interminable growth on a planet with finite resources is silly; sneaks off on long distance walks across moorland and peat-bog as often as possible; counts campfires and dancing amongst her favourite things.