After Dark: Dis(order)

Lolo Lovina (‘Red Beer’) is an intoxicating brew infused with Unza, Swing and Balkan Gypsy beats. Created & fronted by Romani- Gypsy singer Sarah Bedak. ‘Lolo Lovina`s music reflects the cosmopolitan identity of an artist, who grew up with three native cultures. The charming and passionate performance of their charismatic singer makes each concert a unique experience.’ She sources musicians from around the globe to collaborate on recording,touring and artistic projects. Lolo Lovina have played at the Opera House Sydney, Havana World Music Festival in Cuba, Guca Festival Serbia, through the Pacific Islands, Macau China, across East & West Europe and at SXSW, Austin Texas. Lolo Lovina’s track Earlthings has over 40,000 rotations on Spotify. Their album Rroma Sapien received a 4 Star review in the London-based World Music magazine ‘Songlines’ (June 2016) RromAntics reaching 23 in the Global Transglobal World Music Charts and Rroma Sapien and RromAntcis both being featured albums on ABC Radio Nationals program, ‘The Daily Planet’.

Kerri Glasscock is the founding co-director of artist-run company 505. In 2013 she was appointed as CEO and Festival Director of the Sydney Fringe Festival, which she has grown from a small community event to the largest independent arts festival in NSW. Kerri is a leading advocate for the independent sector, contributing to a number of action plans and policy reforms. She is a founding Board member and Deputy Chair of the Night Time Industries Association, sits on Create NSW’s Festivals Artform Advisory Board, is a Board member of the performing-arts body PAC Australia and a member of the Ministerial Advisory Panel to the NSW Arts Minister.

Michael Lech is a research curator at Museums of History NSW. He has worked on exhibitions, presented talks and written extensively on various aspects of Australian history. Michael’s work has covered areas such as the history of shopping and the rise and fall of Sydney’s department stores; architectural history including the heritage movement; and the history of the home in Australia.

Kels Bagust is the Night Time City Project Manager at City of Sydney. Kels’s work is focused on building and growing a vibrant, sustainable and inclusive night time economy in the City of Sydney. With a background in the music industry, hospitality, the arts and events, Kels brings a wealth of knowledge of all-things nightlife in the City.

Sarah Bedák, an independent artist and front woman of Lolo Lovina, an 8-piece fusion band born in the cultural crossroads of Marrickville, via Romanistan, Gypsylandia.

Sarah is also the visionary creator behind 'Lolo the Caravan Stage,' an ingenious concept that transforms Australian vintage caravans into bespoke mobile stage spaces, providing platforms for the many diverse pockets of the emerging Australian arts community. These stages are reflective of Sarah’s duel Australian (Irish) and Hungarian Romani cultural roots.

Sarah Bedák is also the host of 'Planet Romanistan' on Eastside Radio and Roma Radio in Prague, Czech Republic. Through these platforms, she has become a voice in celebrating and sharing the rich cultural tapestry of Romani culture, connecting this with audiences from diverse backgrounds through the language of music.

Sunil Badami is a bon vivant, raconteur and flâneur. He’s also a writer, academic and broadcaster — as well as having been a trainee circus clown in England and sous chef in a pub on the Isle of Man, managing a sex shop in Kings Cross, working for Corrective Services NSW and becoming the last Grand Champion of one of Australia’s longest running and richest quiz shows — Sunil teaches at the University of Technology, Sydney, where his doctoral thesis was on the long and ignoble history of the Great Australian Literary Hoax.

Sunil has written for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Good Weekend, The Australian, The Monthly, The New Daily, Australian Gourmet Traveller and more, devised and presented the national ABC Radio show Sunday Takeaway, and regularly appears on ABC Radio and TV.