Miss Kaninna is a First Nations artist from Bruny Island, Tasmania, of Yorta Yorta, Dja Dja Wurrung, Kalkadoon and Yirendali heritage, and one of the most compelling figures in so-called Australian music. Her 2024 debut single Blak Britney reached #1 on triple j, featured in Netflix’s Heartbreak High, and earned three ARIA nominations, making her the first independent Aboriginal woman nominated for an ARIA for a debut single. Her debut EP KANINNA won two 2025 AIR Awards and an ARIA nomination for Best Hip-Hop Release.

She has toured the UK and Europe with Kneecap on an 18-date sold-out run, supported Amyl and the Sniffers, Hiatus Kaiyote and M.I.A., and played Laneway 2024. Accolades include triple j Unearthed Artist of the Year, SXSW Sydney’s inaugural Justin Cosby Award, NME’s 2025 Essential 100, and Amazon’s 2026 Global Artists to Watch.

Moving between hip-hop, R&B, rock and pop, she is known for live shows that hold rage and joy in equal measure. Activism runs through her lineage and her art: in 2025 she founded Sovereign Day Out, a festival uplifting First Nations people after a white supremacist attack on sacred land, and she continues to support Indigenous, immigrant, LGBTQI+ and women’s rights initiatives.

Born in Aotearoa and raised on Dharug Country in Western Sydney, DEVAURA is an artist, songwriter and performer moving between rap, pop and electronic music, laced with punk. Her live show is the heart of her practice: explosive rap, choreography, props and theatrical staging that transform any space, from intimate rooms to festival stages, into her own world. Playful, unpredictable and deeply connective, she has performed at Golden Plains, Laneway, SXSW London and WOMADelaide, sold out a headline show at The Vanguard, and plays Woodford Folk Festival and NYE on the Hill this summer. Her second project, If You Don’t Laugh, You’ll Cry, reached #9 on the ARIA Hip Hop/R&B Albums Chart, followed by a triple j Like A Version and a 2026 Forecast Artist nod. Vol. 3, now in development, turns towards anger and forgiveness.

Deep Soulful Sweats is a collaborative and participatory event led by dance artists Sarah Aiken and Rebecca Jensen, founded on the Winter Solstice with Natalie Abbott and Janine Proost 2013. The project has seen many incarnations, from stripped back movement focused events for 40-60 participants to creating large-scale spectacles for upward of 300 participants diverse in age and experience. Deep Soulful Sweats is participatory contemporary art, its exercise, its community creating. Ecstatic and inclusive, it's a joyful, surprising and exhilarating experience for anyone and everyone.

Together Rebecca and Sarah have a long history of creating experimental choreography and performance in theatres, galleries, community, film, music & site responsive contexts. Their work has been described as formally reckless, slipping between codified forms and unbridled invention. Their freeform maximalist style has no rules, amassing multiple images in a torrent of references, satirical, sincere, absurd and unapologetic.
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Rocky Stallone is a DJ, MC and podcaster of Samoan heritage, and a respected figure in Australia’s Ballroom community. Moving fluidly between the decks and the mic, Rocky has become a defining presence at balls and functions across the country, building rooms where queer people of colour can show up fully, compete, celebrate and be seen. Rocky’s practice is as much about care as sound: the sets, the hosting and the events themselves are acts of community-making. Recent appearances include Shared Skies at the National Art School alongside BARKAA and Rainbow Chan, part of the opening program for The Neighbour at the Gate.

Amrita Hepi is an artist, choreographer from the pacific (bundjulung/ngapuhi territories) — through-lines in her practice include: historical fiction, the commodification of Indigenous culture as a global phenomenon, and how to satirise the demand for “authentically native” curios.

A recurrent theme in her practice is origins — how we come to understand ourselves/others through the archives of the body, land, mythos, and stories that precede us: real and imagined.

Amrita trained at NAISDA and Alvin Ailey NYC. A critically acclaimed artist she has twice been the winner of the people's choice award from the Keir Choreographic Award, was a Forbes 30 under 30 for artist, and has shown and been commissioned nationally and internationally. Amrita is a Triad member of performance company APHIDS, on the board of directors and artistic associate for RISING festival and part of the Artistic Associate group for STRUT dance. Her commitment to collaboration and kinship are key tenets to her practice.