MaggZ is a Naarm-based movement and multimedia artist, specialised in waacking - a freestyle dance originated in 1970s LA from the latinix and African American queer community, predominantly involving arm movements. Traversing amongst street dance battles, live performances, installations and movement direction, MaggZ aspires to explore the possibilities of creativity whilst to honour the unique being of self and others. MaggZ’s recent achievements are - the recipient of the Young Creative Awards in 2020, nominated four times by the Green Room Awards, and the winner of Sisters Session Vol.8 allstyle dance battle in 2021.

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Leigh is a Ugandan-Australian actress, writer, and theater maker based in Naarm. She joined Western Edge Arts in 2018, writing and performing theaterworks as a member of the ‘Sub-30 Collective’, including TIG (2018), THE WATCHING (2019) and THE RETREAT (2020). As a company Lead Artist, she also collaboratively devises and delivers drama workshops for young people throughout Melbourne’s Western suburbs.

Leigh is the co-creator/co-writer of upcoming web-series ‘CEEBS’, which has received developmental support from SBS’ Digital Originals and ABC iView’s Pitch-O-Rama. Other recent screenwriting credits include ABC ME’s ‘Turn Up The Volume’ (2022) and comedy short film ‘Checkmate, Atheists’ (2021). After assistant-directing Liv Satchell’s ‘let bleeding girls lie’ (2021), which represented Australia at the Women Playwrights International Conference, Leigh will continue working with Satchell for ‘The Grief Trilogy’ at La Mama Theater in 2023.

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Tarryn is a proud Gunditjmara Keerray Woorroong woman, born and raised on Wadawurrung Country. She is a koorroyarr, teenyeen ngapang, tyeentyeeyt ngapangyarr and wanoong ngeerrang - granddaughter, youngest daughter, youngest sister and Aunty. Tarryn is an emerging artist and curator, whose practice exists in the space of creative cultural expression. She creates under the collective of Koorroyarr (grandaughter), honouring her positionality as a Gunditjmara woman and paying respect to her Ancestors, past and living. Tarryn’s work represents the distinctiveness of Gunditjmara ways of knowing, being and doing that is not one way but constantly happening and changing. She aims to explore identity in the here and now while centring language and carrying on the work of remembering, reclamation, regeneration, and revitalisation.