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Annabelle Gaspar is widely regarded as one of Australia's most respected DJs. A co-founder and resident of the iconic Bad Dog parties, she's helped shape dance floors for 30+ years.
Her focus hasn't shifted. It's about building that moment a room comes together and lifts. An unspoken dialogue of reciprocated energy with the dance floor through sound, space and movement.
Her mixing and track selection is instinct-led and unmistakably her own. Genre is secondary to feeling. What matters is where things can travel, not where they're expected to sit.
No interest in playing it safe. Annabelle reaches for sounds that stretch people out, seamlessly steering the dance floor somewhere unexpected and letting it unfold. From intimate underground institutions to major events including regular appearances at Panorama Bar in Berlin, Annabelle has built a reputation as the kind of DJ other DJs come to hear.
Ayebatonye Abrakasa is a DJ, artist, and writer of Nigerian heritage, born on Gadigal Land and now based on Larrakia Country. Founder of the DIY arts platform Irregular Fit (2018–2022), she's known for groove-centred, cross-genre sets that blend afro rhythms, house, techno, and jersey club, built on her belief in the dance floor as a space of reciprocity between dancer and DJ.
She has supported artists including Honey Dijon, DJ Bone, Underground Resistance, and Dixon, and played Pitch Music and Art Festival, Dark Mofo, Boiler Room Sydney, and Meredith Music Festival, alongside curating soundscapes for Gucci, Calvin Klein, and Melbourne Fashion Week. Her essays, sound and video works have been exhibited at the Art Gallery of NSW, the MCA, and the Sydney Opera House, and she hosts the podcast series Four to the Floor: Exploring the Bl(c)k Roots of Contemporary Music.
Kilimi is the Tongan princess you need to know bringing smooth world tunes with body heat to the party. Blending a mixture of baile and afro sounds with club, vogue and house dips. Best believe you'll be sweating by the end of her set.
Betty Apple is an avant-garde Generation Y artist from Taiwan. Her artistic practice is influenced by rave, subculture, avant-garde theatre, new media film, and post-internet art. She performs her conceptual ideas in different formats, such as electronic music composition, sound art performance, live art, DJ, art rave, and more, and intentionally embodies her creative concept of ‘body politics’.She was recently invited to perform at Melbourne Fringe Festival (2021); Santarcangelo Festival 2050 (2021); CTM Festival, Berlin (2021); Museum of Old and New Art FOMA, Tasmania (2021);, Nuit Blanche Taipei (2020); Biennale Jogja (2019); Flaneur Festival in Berlin (2019), Bergen Assembly (2019); Playfreely Music Festival, Singapore (2018); and Taipei Art Festival (2018–2020). She received her BA in theatre and MA in new media art at the Taipei National University of the Arts.
Your wet local lesbian fever dream. Lotte, T-Bone, Meggy Sue, and Gadigal's greatest lesbian to ever exist – Joseph Mayers
Dykes on Bikes is an international motorcycle club of lesbian, bisexual, and queer women famous for leading LGBTQIA+ Pride parades worldwide with the roar of their engines
Come release your inner Freq with Miss Nasty Selektor , mother of Fempress , Creatrix and Doula ! Expect wide hipped Bass , high femme camp antics and an embracing dance floor! FEMME NASTY blends a love for hip hop and global club music mixed with some humid mischief from the tropics ! Always favouring femme MC’s, you will leave sweaty , full of joy and rebirthed !
Miss Nasty has warmed the dance floor for unfuckwithable artists such as Sampa the Great, Kaiit, JunglePussy and Charlie XCX. As well as played the parties/ festivals of Monstagras , FEMPRESS, CLUB KOOKY, Island Vibes, DARK MOFO , HONCHO DISKO, Women of the World , TENT Embassy Venezia !
Cheryn and Emma are an emerging creative partnership driven by conceptually bold, hyper-queer site-specific work. Their practice is rooted in experimental performance and shaped by responsiveness to unconventional spaces. As a duo they have credits across performance, drag, directing, writing, lighting design, curating and producing and have presented work for Performance Space, Dark Mofo, Biennale of Sydney, Bundanon, Bondi Festival, MCA and The Bearded Tit. They were the 2025 Steven Cummins Residency recipients for Performance Space’s Queer Development Program, where they developed their site-responsive practice by centering their work around a hearse. Cheryn and Emma
are part of the 2026 Experimental Commissioning Consortium; a multi-year, multi- organisation national initiative that scaffolds independent artists to make ambitious work.
As individuals they are also accomplished artists - Cheryn was the recipient of the Moogahlin Performing Arts First Nations Scholarship for the Queer Development Program 2020/2021. Other credits include The Queer Woodchop (Liveworks), Brolga: A Queer Koori Wonderland (Performance Space), Volcanoes & Vulvas: The Exploration of My Two Greatest Loves (Redline Productions/ The Old Fitz) and Hydraulic Fucking (PACT). Emma recently presented the sold-out return season of Notes On A Scandal: Folie A Deux (Qtopia Pride Festival) and consistently collaborates with award-winning production companies Studio Antics (Buff, Dykes on Bikes - An Origin Story, Single & Winona) and Stage Mum (Dough!, Truly Madly Britney & I Still Haven't Found What I'm Cooking For). She most recently performed in Straight Panic for ATYP & Purple Tape Productions.
The Misty Mountain Mystics are an experienced magical trio bringing clear and grounded divination to Blue Mountains locals and all who will meet them there. Each with their own unique way of working, between them the Misty Mountain Mystics offer tarot readings, palm readings and rune readings from a place of integrity and compassion.
Sarah Barry aka Psychic Sarah (they/she) has been a full-time psychic tarot reader since 2003, with a private office in Newtown as well as Katoomba. Sarah has a free-thinking, nonsectarian tarot reading style that is calm and grounding, while also fun, insightful and inspiring.
Deb Devi (she/her) is a naturally gifted clairaudient who has been reading palms since childhood, and professionally for over 30 years. She reads palms, numerology and tarot from an instinctual, feeling-based place, providing clarity, direction and heartfelt guidance for the journey ahead. Her style is joyful, insightful and profoundly transformative.
Rae Moss (she/her) of The Spirit of Healing is a modern Seiðkona and Spákona who reads and teaches the Elder Futhark Runes, honouring the traditions of her Norse, Dutch, Icelandic, and Anglo-Saxon ancestral foremothers. Her intuitive rune readings bring clarity and empowerment in a supportive and inspiring way.
The trio will be offering 5 minute ($20), 10 minute ($35) and One Minute Wonder ($10) readings in the Mystic Lounge on Saturday November 29th at the festival closing party at Victoria & Albert Guesthouse. Bring cash if you can, if not contactless is accepted.