After Dark: Boycott

Dr Liz Giuffre is a Senior Lecturer in Communication for the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Liz teaches into Music and Sound Design and the Communications Core, and her research explores popular music and popular cultures, including audience studies, genre studies and (post) broadcast radio and television. She's recently published a cultural history of Sydney Community Radio station 2SER (Halsted Press), has a forthcoming academic book on Popular Music and Parenting (Routledge), and is busy finishing a retrospective on Kylie Minogue's first album (Bloomsbury).

Jack Sargeant is the author of numerous books and essays on underground film and culture, including Flesh And Excess: On Underground Film, Against Control, Naked Lens: Beat Cinema, and Deathtripping: The Cinema of Transgression. He has contributed introductory essays for books by Lydia Lunch, Joe Coleman, and Karolina Urbaniak and Martin Bladh, amongst others. His work frequently focuses on underground film, outsider art, photography, performance, and counter cultures. In addition to writing he is a curator of film and art, and an occasional visual artist. More recently he has worked as a consultant on both documentary and narrative feature films. In pre-pandemic days Jack enjoyed participating in public readings and lecturing. He is a founder of the Transgressive Cultures Conference, Paris.

Tess Allas holds a Bachelor of Creative arts from the University of Wollongong and a Masters of curation from the University of Sydney and is an award-winning visual arts curator, researcher and writer specialising in contemporary Indigenous art. She has worked in Indigenous cultural development since the early 1990s and has curated exhibitions for Wollongong Art Gallery, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Murray Art Museum Albury, the Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection (USA), the Art Gallery of South Australia and Carriageworks. Her independently curated exhibitions as well as her own works as a visual artist have been shown in the Australia, Finland, France, Canada, Japan and the United States. She has been engaged as a curator for the Art Gallery of NSW, Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Cooperative and currently holds the position of First Nations Curator at the Museums of History NSW.

The mission of WestWords is to facilitate and magnify the cultural, social and educational impact of creating, sharing and reading the stories of Western Sydney. Through stories, WestWords shows diversity of voices, sense of worth, increased confidence, resilience and exploration of identities and potentialities. WestWords recognises that shifting the financial wellbeing of individuals and communities starts at the grassroots level – creating change through the power of the written word allows young people to potentially change the narrative of their lives. WestWords increases the profile and networks for their community and increases the knowledge, understanding and appreciation of new and established Western Sydney writers as well as the increased diversity in form and content in Australian literature reflective of the diverse community of Greater Western Sydney.