Bedroom Suck Records—or B-S-R to those at home—is an independent record label based in Melbourne, founded in 2009 by Brisbanites Joe Alexander and Sam McCabe. The team at Bedroom Suck work with artists like Terrible Truths, Circular Keys, Totally Mild and Blank Realm, to name a few from its roster of creative and forward-thinking indie musical gems. New releases include Free Time's In Search of Free Time, the marvellous Illywhacka from Sydney outfit You Beauty, and the long-awaited and much-anticipated release from Melbourne slackers Scott & Charlene's Wedding, titled Mid Thirties Single Scene. Stay tuned for more musical greats. 

Briony Wright is the Australian editor-at-large of iconic British fashion-and-culture title i-D. In the early 2000s Briony helped launch Vice magazine in Australia and New Zealand, steering it over the decade from a purely print platform to the groundbreaking digital content provider it is today. With a break in 2010 to focus on motherhood, Briony returned to publishing in 2013 to launch i-D locally, developing the editorial strategy and building a network of writers and contributors to continue the legacy of the long-serving and inspiring publication.

After already having a few beloved projects in experimental and heavy music playing drums and singing, Evelyn Morris formed Pikelet in 2007 and has since released four full-length bizarre pop albums. Their songwriting skills are regularly reviewed as boundary-pushing and exploratory. Evelyn has also amassed an eclectic and prolific back-catalogue of live and recorded collaborations with artists such as Laura Jean, Ariel Pink, Nicholas Albrook, and The Boredoms for their 10/10/10 performance. On top of written work Evelyn has been enjoying performing solo and with others as an improviser for their entire musical career.

Jen Shyu (徐秋雁) is a groundbreaking, multilingual vocalist, composer, producer, multiinstrumentalist, dancer and 2016 Doris Duke Artist. Born in Peoria, Illinois, to Taiwanese and East Timorese immigrant parents, Shyu is widely regarded for her virtuosic singing and riveting stage presence, carving out her own beyond-category space in the art world. She has performed with saxophonist and 2014 MacArthur Fellow Steve Coleman since 2003 and has collaborated with such musical innovators as Anthony Braxton, Vijay Iyer, Bobby Previte, Chris Potter, Michael Formanek and David Binney. Shyu has performed her own music on prestigious world stages such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rubin Museum of Art, Ringling International Arts Festival, Asia Society, Roulette, Blue Note, Bimhuis, Salihara Theater, National Gugak Center, National Theater of Korea and at festivals worldwide.

A Stanford University graduate in opera with classical piano, violin, and ballet training, Shyu has studied traditional music and dance in Cuba, Taiwan, Brazil, China, South Korea, East Timor, and Indonesia, conducting extensive research which culminated in her 2014 stage production Solo Rites: Seven Breaths, directed by renowned Indonesian filmmaker Garin Nugroho. She has won commissions and support from Doris Duke Performing Artist Awards, MAP Fund, Jerome Foundation, Chamber Music America’s New Jazz Works, New Music USA, Jazz Gallery and Roulette, as well as fellowships from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Asian Cultural Council, Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Korean Ministry of Sports, Culture and Tourism.

Shyu has produced six albums as a leader, including the first female-led and vocalist-led album Pi Recordings has released, Synastry (Pi 2011), with co-bandleader and bassist Mark Dresser. Her critically acclaimed CD Sounds and Cries of the World (Pi 2015) landed on many best-of-2015 lists, including those of The New York Times and The Nation.

Currently based in New York City, Shyu will premiere her next solo work at National Sawdust June 29, 2017, and release her next album Song of Silver Geese on Pi October 2017, kicking off a 50-state U.S. tour of Songs of Our World Now / Songs Everyone Writes Now (SOWN/SEWN), planting seeds of creativity and threading communities together through art.

After seven years as a lawyer, Jon entered radio broadcasting in 1989 to produce and present Radio National's Law Report. He then presented 3LO's Morning and Afternoon programs, worked on ABC TV's Investigators, First Edition and Wise UP and has been presenting the Morning program on 774 ABC Melbourne since 1997.

Known for his provocative and probing debate, quick wit and willingness to ask the stickiest of questions, Jon Faine delivers thought-provoking radio. Each weekday morning from 8.30am, be it politics, finance, health, law, arts or sport, Jon investigates the issues and stories affecting Melbourne with energy and vigour - all without taking life too seriously.

Jonnine Standish is an acclaimed art director and musician, perhaps best known as one-half of the lauded minimal electronic duo, HTRK. Thematically her lyrics explore the body’s reaction to work and loss using sex drive and humour as themes and devices. 

With over a decade of work as the singer and co-producer of the band HTRK, alongside Nigel Yang, she has produced three critically acclaimed studio albums, toured the world over and collaborated with Chunky Move choreographer Anouk van Dijk, fashion designers Pageant (winners of Tiffany & Co National Design Award 2015), and film directors such as Andrew Dominik, Nathan Corbin and Laure Prouvost (winner of the 2014 Turner Prize). Amongst her multiple collaborations is the work with the iconic Rowland S. Howard, including the single ‘I Know A Girl Called Jonny’ and most recently new work with UK producer Powell for XL Recordings.

Jonnine also conceptualises and curates unique events, including the full-moon community sync titled M*Sync, for Melbourne’s MPavilion. In collaboration with MPavilion's Jessie French and Unconscious Collective (Motel Dreaming/Dark Mofo), M*Sync presents an engaging portable live multimedia artwork space, animated by the synchronised heartbeats of resting audience members. 

It’s been twenty years since triple j unearthed the Hooper siblings as Killing Heidi with their folk pop song, 'Kettle'. The Australian public embraced the duo who soon became a band, releasing debut album Reflector in March 2000. Singles ‘Mascara’ and ‘Weir’ made Reflector a blow-out success and the album makes up an integral part of Aussie indie music story – one that hasn't been told digitally until now.

Their top 20 singles are "Weir" (October 1999), "Mascara" (November, No. 1 on ARIA Singles Chart), "Live Without It" (April 2000), "Outside of Me" (September 2002) and "I Am" (July 2004). At the ARIA Music Awards of 2000 they were nominated in seven categories and won four trophies: Album of the Year, Best Group, Breakthrough Artist – Album and Best Rock Album for Reflector. At the APRA Music Awards of 2001 Ella and Jesse Hooper won Songwriter of the Year.

Linda Sproul is the manager of education and community programs for Museum Victoria. Linda’s professional practice has a strong focus on the engagement and participation of diverse audiences in cultural activities and programs. She commenced her career as an actor/teacher in the a project that worked with pre-school children aged four to five years of age. Prior to joining Museum Victoria she was the program director of Next Wave festival. In her current role at Museum Victoria she oversees the education and informal learning programs offered at the Immigration Museum, Melbourne Museum and Scienceworks as well as Museum Victoria’s outreach program. As a visual artist her practice focused on performative and site specific installations in cultural spaces.

Nicholas Mangan has exhibited extensively in Australia and internationally. In 2016 he presented a major survey exhibition at MUMA, Melbourne and the IMA, Brisbane titled Limits to Growth. His recent major installation Other Currents was presented at Artspace, Sydney, 2015 and Ancient Lights at Chisenhale Gallery, London in 2015. Other solo exhibitions include: Some Kinds of Duration, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, 2012; Nauru, notes from a cretaceous world, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne, 2010; and Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2009. Selected group exhibitions: Riddle of the Burial Grounds, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, 2015; Rocks, Stones and Dust, University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, 2015; Art in the Age of..., Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2015; and Melbourne Now, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2014. He participated in the 2015 New Museum Triennial: Surround Audience, New York; 9th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Alegre, 2013; and the 13th Istanbul Biennial, 2013. Mangan has been awarded numerous international residencies, including Recollets Artist Residency, Paris, 2011 and Australia Council's New York Green Street Residency, 2006.

Ramona Telecican is a Melbourne based producer, currently holding posts at VICE Media (Australia) and as the executive producer of Radioactive Gigantism Films.

During her time at VICE, Ramona has produced an abundance of documentary and commercial work both at home and abroad. 

In her personal capacity, Ramona's films have screened in competition at some of the world’s most prestigious film festivals such as Locarno, Rotterdam, Clermont Ferrand, and AFI Festival and picked up numerous awards, including the Emerging Australian Filmmaker Prize at MIFF 2011, Best Short Film at the 2011 Gijon International Film Festival, Best Short Horror at Austin Fantastic Horror Fest and the Grand Prix at the Bordeaux International Film Festival. 

Ramona’s most recent accolade being awarded to her fashion film Strangers in a Moment, as one of the three finalists at the 2016 Virgin Australia Fashion Festival, Fashion Film Series.

In 2015, with the assistance of Screen Australia, Ramona produced the short film Welcome Home Allen. This film will have its Australian premiere as a Dendy Award Finalist at the 2016 Sydney Film Festival and was recently screened at the 2016 Melbourne International Film Festival. 

Ramona believes in the youth and in calling out to them with empowering and engaging content that speaks volumes, excites and is infectious with action, reputation and conversation.

Ramona loves what she does and she has a proven track record of being damn good at it. 

The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health is one of the largest brain research centres in the world – and the biggest in Australia. Our scientists share a common goal – to improve people’s lives through brain research and, ultimately, to influence global wellbeing and health economics.

Wendy Lasica is an award-winning theatre producer, most recently with the sold-out Two Jews walk into a theatre… the new work by Brian Lipson, Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Guerin at Arts House. She also produced Lipson’s solo shows, Edmund, The Beginning and A Large Attendance in the Antechamber. Wendy founded the artists organisation, The Field in New York in 1985. Wendy Lasica has trained and worked as a dancer and choreographer. She also holds a masters degree in urban planning and has established a niche planning practice that works at the intersection of cities and culture. Wendy develops strategic planning responses as part of design and planning teams, and develops strategic plans for small and larger cultural organisations. She has hosted as MC and spoken on panels on topics of culture and the city for Open House, Arts House, Planning Institute of Australia and MPavilion.