Dress to impress and stay late as we take you on set for your own lil’ photoshoot to capture the night at DEMO. Post event you will have access to a folder to save & share your Up Late night at JUDY.

Thomas Calder is a multidisciplinary creative with over 15 years’ experience in photography, music, filmmaking, and design. Raised in a creative family, his work is driven by a deep curiosity about people and a passion for storytelling that’s honest, beautiful, and emotionally resonant.

Thomas values process over perfection, quality over quantity, and strives to create meaningful images that last. His approach is grounded in presence, connection, and collaboration—always aiming to inspire transformation and expression through his work.

@thomascharlescalder

Caitlin Franzmann is a Brisbane based artist who works with installation, sound, performance, and community-based projects. In reaction to the fast pace and sensory overstimulation of contemporary urban life, she encourages people to slow down and pay closer attention to their surroundings and interactions with nature. By creating thoughtful and engaging experiences in galleries and public spaces, she fosters conversation and reflection on local histories, ecosystems, and environmental issues.

@caitlinfranzmann

Nadeem Tiafau Eshraghi is an artist, designer, organiser and DJ of Samoan and Iranian descent. Known as Enter whilst on the decks, they’ve shared music, atmospheres and body motivations across many events and spaces over the last decade; sound as custom, contrast or confluence. Local moments at KEPK, Vacant Assembly, QAGOMA, UQAM, Echo & Bounce, The Tivoli, Quivr, and the Brisbane Powerhouse, along with miscellaneous warehouses, parks and laneways. Interstate performances for RISING: Crip Rave Theory, and at Cement Fondu.

@enter__other

As the cool of the evening approaches, and the city hums with electric anticipation, Reverse Garbage emerges from the quiet corners of West End — a co-operative pulsing with purpose, colour, and reclaimed wonder.

Step into our night where the imagination takes spark. In this twilight workshop, the humble carabiner becomes your canvas — a clasp not just for keys or ropes, but for stories, symbols, and charms of your own making.

Guided by the hands and hearts of a worker-run collective, this is a space to tinker, to play, and to dream with your hands. Shape your own hook from salvaged treasures once destined for silence. Keep it minimal, bold and clean — or let your flair take flight with jewels, ribbon, and whimsical dazzle. Keep it simple, or make it sparkle! Your choice.

This is no ordinary workshop. It’s a moment suspended in the evening’s glow, where function meets poetry, and waste is transformed into wonder.

Reverse Garbage Queensland, since 1998, has danced to a different rhythm — breathing new life into industrial discards, championing reuse, and creating not just objects, but meaning.

Come, create, and clip into a movement that sparkles quietly beneath the surface — practical, beautiful, and absolutely alive.

@reversegarbageqld

Circa is one of the world’s great performing arts companies. Within Circa sits Circa Academy, a collective of young performers (ages 4-18) building creativity, confidence and teamwork through circus acts like trapeze, acrobatics, juggling and more.

We invite you to join in watching Circa Academy roam the Judith Wright Arts Centre during the evening, showcasing and responding to the diverse range of arts.

@circa_academy

Outer Space presents The Riḡorabana, The Balawaia by Dean Ansell. Held within the main gallery is an immersive exhibition that explores Melanesian heritage, environmental processes, and the transmission of Indigenous knowledge through the lens of both ancestral and diasporic experiences. Weaving together familial storytelling, fieldwork, and cultural practices from Papua Niugini, the project interprets local mythologies surrounding the caves and boulders deep within the sacred mountain of Lamana Golo, where sorcerers are initiated. Centred on these sacred sites, where Ansell’s ancestors evolved, the project also connects local beliefs to natural weathering processes that mirror cultural transformation over time. Through soundscape and embodied performance, the story of the Riḡorabana and the Balawaia is told.

Read more here.

@dean.ansell

Taking the eye outside the Judith Wright Arts Centre, Outer Space presents it’s inaugural Facade Projection for 2025 with Dylan Bolger. Bolger is a proud Maiawali, Karuwali, Pitta-Pitta and Gomeroi artist. Bold in his experimentation, he works across a variety of mediums and techniques. Most of his works are hand-drawn and exceptionally detailed, reflecting his background in architecture.

@dmb_mk2

You Are Here Too presents a collection of works by contemporary Australian artists exploring queer desire and sexuality. It serves as both a celebration and a response to the groundbreaking 1992 show You Are Here at the Institute of Modern Art, which made history as Australia’s first exhibition featuring exclusively gay artists during the height of the AIDS crisis.

Thirty-three years later, this contemporary reflection examines the evolution of LGBTQI+ expression in Australia, showcasing new and existing works that present queer desire as ‘amorphous, fluid, temporal, retreating, explicit, abstracted and political.’ Featured artists include Holly Bates, Nick Breedon, Alexis Kanatsios, Gian Manik, and Yangamini, with performances by Leen Rieth, Crystal Love, and others.

The show has been curated by the Kink collective, adjunct curators at the Institute of Modern Art. It emphasises First Nations and trans experiences as central to the exhibition, noting that they can’t be contained by the same narratives that dominated queer history and culture in previous generations. The exhibition is complemented by a film and video program.

 Read more here.

@kink.au

Micah Rustichelli is an interdisciplinary artist working on Jagera and Turrbal land, Brisbane. With a strong focus on performance, sculpture, drawing and painting, Micah’s work operates across modes of visual arts, circus and club kid/nightlife. This cross-pollination of forms & audiences has led the artist to a practice that is accessibly cheeky, sometimes humorous, but always rooted deeply in queer knowledge and methodology.

@micah.rustichelli