Planting Party

Creative Climate, funded by Creative Australia, is the new national peak body for arts and climate providing leadership, connections, advocacy and access to high-quality resources that support artists, arts workers and arts and cultural organisations and their funders to transition from a carbon economy and adapt to the impacts of climate change.

Aunty Bronwyn Razem

Aunty Bronwyn was born in Gunditjmara Country, Warrnambool and comes from a long lineage of Traditional weavers. Bronwyn learned from her grandmother Georgina and mother Zelda Couzens.

Through her work, Bronwyn acknowledges the importance of maintaining the cultural knowledge behind the weaving and the role this played in times past. Teaching traditional weaving techniques asserts the strength of this cultural practice that was utilised for every day life.

Bronwyn’s workshops make an important contribution to reconnecting Aboriginal people with their culture and strengthening their identities, as well as bringing forth awareness and cultural values of Aboriginal people to the general public and educational institutions.

Brooke Wandin

Brooke Wandin is a wurundjeri woman, artist, educator and language worker. Brooke adores weaving and mapping and, recently, has found both pride and joy in creating sound works containing woiwurrung. Brooke is interested in investigating relationships between people and place. She nurtures her identity in many ways, through research, teaching, sharing woiwurrung and spending time on Country absorbing all that she provides.

Craig Burgess

Craig (he/him) is an artist, facilitator and plant lover, and has hosted Draw Plants Together drawing workshops since 2023, contributing his skills and experience across creativity and learning in the space of ecological care and wellbeing.

Darcy Justice

Darcy Justice has paved her way through classic hip hop and soul to the underground house music scene. Impressing her colleagues and patrons alike with her eclectic musical taste and smooth transitions. She landed her first residency with Lucid in 2017 and now is becoming a regular at Butter Sessions parties and beyond. Whether it be warming up the crowd or closing down the house, Darcy Justice takes you on a euphoric journey through rhythm with style and grace

Elsie

Elsie is a DJ, event curator, and radio host, known for her warm and trusted presence within Naarm’s close-knit electronic music scene. Elsie’s selections move with a dynamic energy that makes space for sounds from all over, including downtempo, Balearic, dub, synth, post-punk and left-field.

Her selections have seen her play multiple festivals throughout 2025/6, including Hopkins Creek, Pitch Music & Arts, NTS Radio in Naarm, Golden Plains, Moniker, Ballista, and When Pigs Fly.

General Vibes

General Vibes (The Fabric, Astrophony – 3RRR 102.7FM) weaves cool changes and sweaty warmth to bring you all the textural delights of Island living, right here on the dancefloor. Bringing beats to kick back to, this one’s for those who like to slow dance or wile out simultaneously.

Gretel Tobin

Gretel (she/her) is a visual artist and environmental educator, born and working on unceded Wurundjeri Country. Gretel’s practice centres connection and curiosity for our natural world, particularly through illustration and communal art-making. Gretel is the cofounder of Hyphae Cocreates a collaborative art project and General Manager of B-Alternative where she is deeply engaged in waste reduction and regeneration projects.

Kai Lane

Kai is a proud First Nations man and trainee ecologist with Ecology & Restoration Australia. He works in ecological restoration while sharing Indigenous knowledge through education programs, workshops and on-Country projects.

Based in Victoria, Kai is passionate about inspiring young people to care for Country and demonstrating how traditional ecological knowledge can strengthen modern science. He co-leads the Habitat Warriors initiative and supports community-led conservation through Eco Warriors Australia.

Kai loves to inspire young people to care for nature while applying cultural knowledge so the students are implied with that knowledge throughout there life.

Kee’ahn

Kee’ahn (they/she/nyulu) is a Kuku Yalanji, Jirrbal, Torres Strait Islander songwriter and performer from North Queensland. Kee’ahn was gifted their name, Wik word ‘kee’an’ meaning to dance, and to play and has been singing, dancing and playing guitar since childhood deeply loving the sounds of soul, R&B, and pop. Blossoming into the limelight in 2020 after the release of her debut single ‘Better Things’, Kee’ahn effortlessly weaves lush melodies and rich vocals, with heart-warming stories of hope and healing. Kee’ahn champions finding strength in our struggles, encouraging us all to reflect, reinvent, and rejoice in our journeys.

Joanne Mott

Joanne Mott is an interdisciplinary Australian artist working across sculpture, installation, new media and site-responsive art. Her practice explores ecologies, environment and placemaking, often engaging with plants and the relationships between humans, more-than-humans and the natural world.

John Power

John Power is an award-winning Australian artist, director and producer whose practice spans screen-based, time-based and generative art, VFX and ambient screen installations. His work explores new ways of experiencing moving images in public and shared spaces.

Nickolas Gauci

Nickolas is a visual artist, working in Naarm on Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung lands. Nickolas has been a practicing artist for over 10 years, specialising in painting, drawing, and ceramics.

Nick shares his passion for ceramics through engaging, beginner-friendly workshops. His teaching style is relaxed, supportive, and focused on fostering creativity and confidence with clay.

Riff Raff Marching Band

Riff Raff Radical Marching Band is a loud, brassy, and irreverent street band. Fully acoustic and always inclusive, they play songs for environmental and social justice.

With driving rhythms, bold horns, and powerful lyrics, Riff Raff leads roving performances that get crowds smiling, dancing, and singing along—amplifying community actions through music you can’t ignore.

Tess Monaghan

Tess Monaghan is a Naarm-based DJ and broadcaster. With a background in radio, and stepping in regularly as a trusted fill-in host for several longstanding programs on Triple R, she is also a foundational crew member of Skylab Radio where she hosts her own show Colourful Environment. Her sets sets oscillate across sounds and genres, all the while inclined to the dubby and downtempo side of things.

Veisinia Tonga

Veisinia Tonga is a Kakala (plant material) artist. A settler who is creating on the lands of the Kulin Nations. Veisinia marries her training in western floristry with her traditional kakala knowledge to create installations with plant material gleaned from her surroundings. Plants in Tonga tell stories of place and are often symbolic of lineage and legends. Veisinia is interested in examining how this can evolve on a foreign land using foreign kakala.

Winsor Kerr

Winsor Kerr are architects, striving to create positive contributions to built environment through architecture and design consultancy. They are a family, striving to create a conscientious and compassionate contribution for the next generation. And are humans, striving not to mess it all up as they go.

Their practice understands architecture as a reflection of culture over time, and materials as teachers of a place’s history — yet Australia’s built architecture is often self-referential of colonialism. Winsor Kerr have a responsibility to acknowledge and work with Country and community, with deep listening central to that work.

Aunty’s Place

Aunty’s Place creates safe spaces, for Aboriginal, &/or Torres Strait Islander people who are d/Deaf, disabled, chronically ill, or have complex mental health to share their stories, knowledge, and cultures.

Petrichor

Petrichor are a landscape architecture and research practice focused on driving and promoting opportunities for First Nations-led processes, intrinsically tied to place and ecosystems. Jakobi, Gina, Maria and Harrison together are building this emerging group that strives to foster people’s relationship with Country through both storytelling and design.