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Tongan-Australian movement director Sela Vai is internationally recognised for her distinguishing choreography and empowering presence. Sela's credits and clients include Samsung, Hydralyte, Apple, MECCA, CADA, Paspaley, Suncorp, the A-League, T-Kay Maizda and Young Franco, Thelma Plum, Ngaiire, No Mono, Milan Ring, BloodMoon and more. She’s presented her works at Art Gallery of NSW; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne Fringe; PACT House: Temple; and collaborated with Powerhouse Museum. She is the founder of HUMXN and a recent presenter at TED X.

Jazz Money is a Wiradjuri poet and artist based on Gadigal land. Her practice is centred around poetics while producing works that encompass installation, digital, performance, film and print. Jazz's writing and art has been widely presented, performed and published nationally and internationally. Jazz's first poetry collection, the best-selling how to make a basket (UQP, 2021) won the David Unaipon Award.

Gillian Kayrooz is an artist based in Sydney; on unceded Gadigal and Dharug land, whose practice reflects her personal experience and ongoing engagement with local communities. Kayrooz’s work is collaborative; she invites members of the community to contribute authentic impressions, in a bottom-up rather than top-down conception of history and place. In 2018 she was awarded the Create NSW Young Creative Leaders Fellowship which led her to exhibit internationally in the Asia-Pacific region and complete residencies in both China and Japan. Her installation, video and photographic work has been shown extensively in solo and group exhibitions across Australia, including spaces such as Firstdraft, UTP, The Powerhouse Museum, Casula Powerhouse and Artspace. She was appointed Co-Director of Firstdraft in 2021 and most recently concluded a summer solo exhibition at the Murray Art Museum in Albury.

Ayeesha is a proud Māori Grenadian interdisciplinary artist who sparks social consciousness through her work. She is a graduate of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (Acting), the University of Technology Sydney (BA Communications, Social and Political Sciences) and is Artistic Director of Black Birds. Her writing's been published in The Sydney Morning Herald, Audrey Journal and bi50Mag. In 2022 she received the All About Women of Colour writing mentorship. She is a writer on Stan's new show Year Of and hosts/produces podcast No Offence, But.., hosts FBi Radio podcast CANVAS and creates content for the Powerhouse Museum.