Kati has always felt most 'at home‘ around a stage, and writing is her first love.

She is drawn to performances that are immersive, interactive and experimental; and gets excited about anything to do with mental illness and dis/ability; and the metaphorical 'big top‘ that is modern circus and sideshow.

Katherine specialises in producing collaborative, experimental, multi-arts cultural experiences. Throughout her 20 year career she has produced festivals, international conferences, experimental Chinese Opera, theatre, circus, numerous gigs and exhibitions and countless community workshop programs.

Aaron is a Producer and Creative in the arts and live performance sector working across diverse art forms. He has worked on projects in major arts organisations including Qld Music Trails, QMF (Queensland Music Festival), Opera Queensland, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, and Camerata - Queensland’s Chamber Orchestra as well as creatively producing independent theatre and film. Aaron specialises in managing complex arts projects with community and social outcomes, and has a particular interests in regional Queensland and arts education. Aaron holds a BFA (Drama) from QUT, and studied performing Drama and Film at Interlochen Centre for the Arts in Michigan, USA.

Fed is Sardinian by birth, nomad by choice, and doctor of Peace and Conflict Studies by training. When she is not plotting at House Conspiracy , she teaches Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Queensland.

As a proper Westender, she can be found handstanding on people and by the river, dancing with the moon, and in contemplation of visions of hope at art shows.

Fed writes on local art for The Westender, ArtsHub, and Nothing Ever Happens in Brisbane.

Phoebe Manning is a character clown. She loves stories that reflect humanity. She has performed in festivals and cabarets around Australia. She works with Vulcana Circus.

Lauren is a Brisbane-based performer, maker, and professional silly billy. She has written, directed, and performed in countless shows and trains regularly with Zen Zen Zo Physical Theatre Company. Lauren illustrates and co-publishes a short story zine called GULP! Fiction aimed at supporting local genre writers.

She believes that Brisbane is a juicy peach of weird and wonderful artists and will do everything she can to convince you to taste it.

A chameleon of the Arts Industry, Lizzie is an independent artist and Co-Director of Prying Eye whose work spans across performance, creation, production, admin, advocacy, education and health. Her primary practice investigates communication beyond words through the animated articulation of the human body.

A curious explorer of human behaviour she loves expanding creative capacity through collaboration with others. Also a deep thinker who is concerned with finding solutions that work for the long term, she is sometimes referred to as 'The Little Vampire' - probably also because she's a quiet one that tends to surprise people when they least expect it and because she manages to change between roles as if she has some sort of shapeshifting superpower.

Angela Pieta is a performance poet, Founder of Ruckus Brisbane, one of Australia's largest poetry slams, and the current coordinator and producer of SlammED!, Queensland's largest interschools poetry slam learning program.

Kelsey A isn’t a mover or shaker, but she is an avid art-maker. She struggles to settle down and has dabbled wide in circus, poetry, producing, gin appreciation and (shudder) academia. She believes art is about speaking to the soul; everything else is wrapping paper.