Mixtape Memories: A Gala of Story and Song

Claire G. Coleman is a Noongar woman whose family have belonged to the south coast of Western Australia since long before history started being recorded. Claire writes fiction, essays, poetry and art writing while either living in Naarm (Melbourne) or on the road. During an extended circuit of the c... Read more

Carly Findlay OAM is an award-winning writer, speaker and appearance activist. Her first book, a memoir called Say Hello, was released in January 2019. Carly edited the anthology Growing Up Disabled in Australia with Black Inc Books. It’s in stores now. She writes on disability and appearance... Read more

Mawunyo Gbogbo is the author of Hip Hop & Hymns: a memoir of loving hard, falling apart and fighting back, set to an unrivalled playlist. Published by Penguin Random House Australia, Hip Hop & Hymns is described by Books+Publishing as ‘a beautiful and heart-wrenching memoir’... Read more

It is difficult to describe Paul’s career easily. He has directed of some of Australia’s most prominent festivals, composed nearly thirty feature film scores, and several works of music theatre, founded and lead for nineteen years of the Australian Art Orchestra, was an executive at the ... Read more

Award-winning performer, Jess Hitchcock, draws inspiration for songwriting from her family origins in the Top Western Region of the Torres Straits and from Papua New Guinea. Jess performs as a solo artist and has also joined forces on stage and in the studio with Paul Kelly, Archie Roach, Tina Are... Read more

Written, recorded, and produced in a small studio apartment during her first year of living alone, Pop Music for Normal Womenis an inventive, energetic, intense and amusing journey through eight new pop songs by singer/songwriter/producer June Jones. The album marks a move away from the slower, mor... Read more

House band pianist Sam Keevers has lived in Melbourne since 1991 and is a graduate of the QLD Conservatorium of Music, Victorian College of the Arts and the Australian Film Television and Radio School. He was a Wangaratta Jazz Awards finalist in 1992 and 1999 and a Freedman Jazz Fellowship finalist ... Read more

House band drummer James McLean is from Melbourne, Australia and works at the intersections of movement, rhythm, and improvisation. James’ practice sees him working as a solo artist, a bandleader, and an ensemble member in numerous ensembles and styles, spanning from modern jazz to experimental im... Read more

Loretta Miller is a musical shapeshifter with a voice that can slip between genres with ease. Often referred to by her peers as one of Australia’s finest vocalists, Loretta was recently chosen to perform the vocal parts for the new Australian feature film “Seriously Red.” As front ... Read more

Tamara Murphy (bassist/composer) is based in Melbourne, Australia. She has performed with Kate Miller-Heidke, Ali McGregor, Harry Angus, Clio Renner, Andrea Keller, Nat Bartsch, Paul Grabowsky and Stephen Magnusson and many more artists in addition to her own band, Spirograph Studies. She has toured... Read more

Rhys Nicholson is a multi-award winning Australian stand-up, writer, actor and collager. With an enormous passion for live performing, their work continues to receive awards and accolades around the world. As well as numerous televised stand up performances in Australia, the UK and Canada, in early ... Read more

Amy Remeikis is a political reporter with The Guardian, helming its popular Politics Live blog and a regular contributor to The Project, The Drum, Insiders and ABC radio. She is also the author of the best selling, On Reckoning.

Em Rusciano is one of the most talented and in demand entertainers in Australia. Em is a comedian, singer, writer, storyteller and broadcaster. She hosts the Emsolation podcast which was Australia’s first Spotify exclusive show. Em is also a regular panellist on Network Ten’s The Project. Em... Read more

In an era when the world is falling apart with such a deafening roar, Cash Savage’s voice rings loud over the cacophony. Songs of politics, grief, songs of rage – this is weighty music that has been written to cut through the noise. Savage’s band The Last Drinks are a powerhouse of fierce and ... Read more

Ben Shewry was born in New Zealand in 1977 and moved to Melbourne, Australia in 2002, before taking on his first head chef role at Attica in 2005. Originally obsessed with the detail and balance of Thai food, Ben began to develop a style at Attica that reflected his rural New Zealand upbringing and,... Read more

House band guitarist Fran Swinn has carved out her own sound in the Australian musical landscape. She has studied and performed extensively locally and internationally. Swinn has a diverse range, touring Australia with Circus Oz in 2009, and running her own band The Fran Swinn Trio. In 2011 her tri... Read more

The Australian music scene is no stranger to Thndo (fka Thando). The widely loved Zimbabwean-born ‘First Lady of Soul and R&B’ has commanded massive crowds at festivals such as Bluesfest, WOMAdelaide, Adelaide Cabaret Festival, Groovin the Moo, BigSound, Jungle Love, Woodford Folk Festival a... Read more

Myf Warhurst grew up in regional Victoria and studied music and fine arts at Melbourne University. After writing arts and music stories for The Age and street magazine Inpress, she became Managing Editor of Inpress in 1999. After her first radio gig as showbiz reporter on Merrick and Rosso̵... Read more