Queer in Warrane

• Live music and DJs curated by FBi Radio (artists announced soon)
• Light artworks by Dylan Mooney and Jacqui North from sundown
• Food and beverages personally selected by Archie Rose

Free entry, booking essential.

• Live music and DJs curated by FBi Radio (artists announced soon)
• Artist talk at 6pm: Join First Nations artist Dylan Mooney and Creative Producer Jacqui North as they delve into the stories behind the creation of their works and what it means to be a queer artist working today. The conversation will be hosted by Mel Flyte, a member of MHNSW’s Diversity and Inclusion working group. After the discussion, a special viewing of their projections will take place at sundown.
• Food and beverages personally selected by Archie Rose

Free entry, booking essential.

• Live music and DJs, featuring a special guest lineup, curated by FBi Radio (artists announced soon)
• Light artworks by Dylan Mooney and Jacqui North from sundown
• Food and beverages personally selected by Archie Rose

$15 general admission. Booking essential.

• Live music and DJs curated by FBi Radio (artists announced soon)
• Light artworks by Dylan Mooney and Jacqui North from sundown
• Watch a live stream of the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras Parade
• Food and beverages personally selected by Archie Rose

Free entry, booking essential.

• Light artworks by Dylan Mooney and Jacqui North from sundown

Free entry, booking essential.

Dylan Mooney is a proud Yuwi, Torres Strait and South Sea Islander man from Mackay in North Queensland working across painting, printmaking, digital illustration and drawing. Influenced by history, culture and family, Dylan responds to community stories, current affairs and social media. Armed with a rich cultural upbringing, he translates the knowledge and stories passed down to him, through art.

The digital medium’s backlit display allows Dylan, who is legally blind, to produce a high-impact illustrative style with bright, saturated colour that reflects his experiences with keen political energy and insight. This blending of digital technology and social commentary is a uniting of his sense of optimism. Pride within the works exude with profoundness and substance.

Dylan is among artists who are rethinking digital technologies and artistic practices to consider contemporary issues around identity, desire and representation. Interested in the ways in which we can reframe the conversation around some of the voices that have been left out, he has made an important body of work that embodies a shift in representation of queer love among people of colour.

^{Our Moment by Dylan Mooney.}

Jacqui North is a creative producer and light artist who makes stories for diverse audiences. With 27 years’ experience, she has worked with the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association and National Film & Sound Archive (NFSA). Her films have screened on SBS, ABC, NITV, Nine, Seven, plus in Denmark, Canada and America. Between 2006 and 2017, Jacqui delivered 130 events in regional Australia, attracting 50,000 visitors each year for NFSA. From 2017 to 2019, she worked as a key member of the Northern Beaches Council Public Art Working Group, and in 2020, Jacqui was awarded a City of Sydney Arts Fellowship.

^{Jacqui North with her light artwork SHINE at the Hyde Park Barracks.}