Woolf and Wilde: A Queer Party

Creatrix Tiara works with creative arts and media, performance art, technology, games, community cultural development and education to explore ideas around community, identity, liminality, belonging and social justice. She never neatly fits any one demographic and subculture; being Othered or Foreign is now near-first-nature to her – it drives her life's work. 

She is a life-long writer, a strident activist for rights to self-determination and personal choice, and have built a reputation for creating challenging, catalysing creative and community work that deals with race, gender, sexuality, nationality, ability and other identity axes.

She has worked with a wide range of organisations and causes in the US, Australia, Malaysia, and worldwide, including Quippings, Lesbians Incorporated, Autostraddle, Freeplay, DiGRA, Global Fund for Women, SF LGBTQ Speakers Bureau, SOMArts, Slutwalk, Center for Sex and Culture, 4zzzfm, Vulcana Women's Circus and many more.

She holds an MFA in Creative Inquiry from the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco and Bachelors in Creative Industries (Creative Industries Management, Creative and Professional Writing) from Queensland University of Technology.

Selina Jenkins is an acclaimed musician, award winning cabaret artist and celebrated character comedian. She has performed extensively throughout Australia and the US, appeared on ABC Comedy Up Late and will be debuting her highly anticipated new solo show ‘Boobs’ at this year’s Melbourne Fringe Festival. Selina is also the woman behind renowned comedy character 'Beau Heartbreaker'.

Mama Alto is a jazz singer, cabaret artiste and gender transcendent diva. She is a transgender and queer person of colour who works with the radical potential of storytelling, strength in softness and power in vulnerability. In addition to her excellence as a performing artist, she is a writer of intelligence and sensitivity. 

She has performed original spoken word and pieces of new writing for Melbourne Writers Festival, Queerstories, Emerging Writers' Festival and Word In Hand. Her writing has been published in the Age, Archer Magazine, Querelle 2018, the Music, and Melbourne Recital Centre's Soundescapes, and she has contributed chapters to Queerstories (ed. Maeve Marsden, Hachette Australia 2018) and Living & Loving in Diversity (ed. Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli, Wakefield Press and AGMC 2019). 

In 2019, she was one of the playwrights selected for the MTC's Cyber Electric workshop and readings series. Her Wheeler Centre Hot Desk Fellowship will build upon the research and writing work on the concept of the diva which she undertook as one of the 2019 Creators supported by Creative Victoria's Creators Fund.

Australia's second best David Bowie impersonator, Marlena Dalí is the gutsy immigrant-carny-scumbag of your wettest and weirdest dreams. Former Venice Beach Freakshow snake charmer, and current Juggalo heartthrob, a high school drop-out with a master's degree, Marlena is as versatile as they come with guaranteed graphic, non-binary moments on stage. In Sydney, they are well known as the host and co-creator of monthly queer variety night, The Oyster Club: Glamdrogynous Freakshow. 

Dan and Andy bring a take on pop music that is unashamedly passionate, cheeky, sorrynotsorry and informative. Like pop music itself, Popchops is an escape from reality – where friendship never ends, love don't cost a thing and the party don't start 'til you walk in.

Queenie Bon Bon is a London-born, Melbourne based sex worker, writer and fantasy maker. Her work focuses on labour and the body. Welcome to the Mystic Hole is her third full length show. Bon Bon has toured her last two shows in Australia, the UK and the USA.

Her work has been featured in Maximum Rock and Roll and the Lifted Brow. She is a member of Australian sex worker art collective Debby Doesn’t Do It For Free. On her last visit to Adelaide she was fired from three adult entertainment venues. She is currently writing a book.