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About the festival
Step away from the everyday and immerse yourself in four days of connection, inspiration and discovery. Set in nature on beautiful Taungurung Country, Seven Sisters Festival brings women together to explore, learn, laugh, dance and reconnect with themselves and each other. Discover inspiring workshops, music, movement, healing, creativity, ceremony and meaningful connections. A space to try something new, embrace who you are and explore who you're becoming. Be Curious • Be Open • Become
31artists
121activities
Workshops
110 activities: workshops, wellbeing, talks and more
Ethereal Cacao - Grounding SessionRitual
Performances
31 artists
AlethiaLatin-soulALETHIA is a Colombian-born, Melbourne-based singer, songwriter and performer whose music blends reggae, R&B, rock and electronic sounds with vibrant Latin American influences. A three-time Latin Grammy nominee and 2023 Music Victoria Awards nominee, her soulful music is carried by a delicate, sensual voice, infectious rhythms and a captivating physicality rooted in dance and movement.
Her self-titled concept album ALETHIA, released independently through Quality Healing Recordings, explores self-discovery, love, healing and hope. Her sound has been described as a soulful blend of Sade’s elegance, Pink Floyd’s psychedelic atmosphere and Natalia Lafourcade’s poetic Latin essence.
A charismatic live performer, ALETHIA has appeared on stages including Melbourne’s Athenaeum Theatre, Melbourne Music Week and Newport Jazz Festival. She was also a finalist on The Voice Colombia in 2013 and later received a full scholarship to JMC Academy, completing a Bachelor of Music Performance and Master’s in Creative Industries.
For ALETHIA, music is a form of healing and self-expression. Through her music, dance and performances, she seeks to empower and inspire women and others to embrace who they truly are, follow their dreams and live authentically.
Alethia X maloUA unique embodied experience led by ALETHIA & MALOU, blending guided movement, worldly rhythms, electronic sound and live vocals.
Carolyn ManderslootShare your voice, music, poems, stories, and gifts at our Open Mic Sessions hosted by our fabulous comedic host Carolyn Mandersloot.
🌟 Win a Performance Slot or Entry for Next Year's Seven Sisters Festival! 🌟
Friday - Open Mic - 2.15pm - 4.15pm
Saturday - Open Mic - 3pm - 5pm
Sunday - Open Mic Finale - 10am - 12pm
We can’t wait to see you there!
Carolyn Mandersloot's comedy is like having a good biscuit and a cup of tea with your hilarious best friend. Only better. She weaves together a narrative exploring the grand complexities and challenges of the human experience- birth, life, death and parenting teenagers. Carolyn draws her experience of palliative care nursing to deftly hold a compassionate space in which audiences can laugh at the both the unthinkable and the undeniable.
Claire TontiIndieClaire Tonti is an Australian indie folk artist, podcaster & Matrescence activist. She released her debut album Matrescence in February 2023 with sold out shows both in her hometown Melbourne & across the UK and Ireland.
Claire founded the first ever Matrescence festival in 2024 in Exeter UK with fellow Matrescence activist & artist Lizzy Humber and the Australian version in 2025 in Eltham, Melbourne. She also hosts the podcast TONTS. where she celebrates women’s stories - talking to writers, experts, thinkers and deeply feeling humans about their lives.
Claire is about to release her first feature documentary called Matrescence the hidden world motherhood.
Dario di BelloDragDario di Bello is a Drag King with a crush.
A master of handwritten love letters and the kind of eye contact that stays with you, he has a habit of falling a little too hard, a little too fast. Now his latest crush has followed him all the way into his dreams.
Dario wakes with his head telling him one thing and his heart telling him… something else entirely.
Donna SparxCircusDonna Sparx is all about cheekiness, play and circus shenanigans! She is a professional hula hoop dancer and circus performer who is passionate about bringing the dance into the hoop and sharing the freedom and connection found in movement and flow.
Recognised globally for her creativity, innovation, flow facilitation and fun-loving approach, she has shared the circus spin n sparkle with thousands of people aged 2 to 72! Donna has performed with the Women’s Circus and at many festivals and events. She brings a passion and enthusiasm to her work that is infectious.
Her motto: Do it ‘til you can.
Eddie FitzPatrickEddie FitzPatrick is an English-Australian songwriter, storyteller and facilitator living on Wurundjeri Country in Naarm (Melbourne). Raised in the English countryside, she sang before she could talk, and connection with the earth remains a keystone of her work. Weaving poetry, nature and storytelling, her gatherings feel like gentle rituals. Audiences call her music "sound healing in its purest form" and like 'being anointed."
Eddie leads Our Earthen Prayer (a femme ritual choir), song circles, workshops across Australia. She believes everyone can sing, and singing together is our birthright and a radical act of aliveness in the modern world.
Inanna WildInanna is a Melbourne-based performing artist, writer, healer and trauma-informed somatic practitioner creating bold, embodied work about women's bodies, sexuality, identity, power and liberation. With a background in drama, Women's Studies, dance and teaching, Inanna blends storytelling, comedy, movement, poetry and song to explore the personal and political. Her practice is grounded in embodiment, feminist consciousness-raising and a belief in the transformative power of telling our stories.
Her debut work, My Vagina: A retrospective follows one woman from innocent childhood curiosity into sex, shame, pleasure, violence, motherhood and reclamation – a raw, funny and fearless reckoning with what it means to live in a woman’s body.
Jacqui DressensJacqui Dreessens, known as Esi Twebah, is an ethnochoreologist, choreographer, percussionist and community arts practitioner whose work celebrates the transformative power of dance, rhythm, music and cultural connection. Born and raised in Geelong and the Surf Coast on the lands of the Wadawurrung People, Jacqui brings over 40 years of professional experience across education, performance, community arts and cultural exchange.
As Director of Wild Moves International, Jacqui creates vibrant, inclusive and embodied experiences that bring people together through movement, drumming, dance and shared cultural expression. Her diverse programs include Embodied Drumming, Orisa Pan-African Dance, Garba Dance of the Sacred Feminine from India, Wild Moves Community Dance, Sparky Moves for Seniors and Drum On for Seniors (55 years and over). She is also the bodhrán player for TradJam of the Ironbark, sharing her passion for Irish traditional music and percussion.
At the heart of Jacqui’s work is a belief in the capacity of rhythm, movement and cultural practice to nurture connection, celebrate diversity and awaken a sense of belonging. Through Wild Moves International, she continues to create spaces where people of all ages and backgrounds can move, play, learn and discover the joy of coming together through the universal languages of music and dance.
Joydah Mae & ArohaJoydah Mae & Aroha will be joining us again from Aotearoa! Between them they carry the ancestral roots of Māori, Igorot, Japanese, Siamese Thai, English & Scottish. They carry ancient wisdom, a grounded presence and the will to explore the expansiveness of this human life.
Their music moves between worlds and activates a sense of remembering amongst those present. Reaching deep into the heart & soul, stirring, lingering, holding.
Jungle CityDancehallJungle City is made up of a collective of street dancers from Culturally diverse backgrounds that specialize in Dancehall and Afro Fusion dance forms based in Naarm (Melbourne). They promote Unity and Diversity through dance practice, performance and participation in and with community.
Leni & ElysiaFolkMother and daughter duo, Little Legend Leni and Mama Elysia have been performing folk, pop and rock cover songs, with an occasional original piece, together, for the last couple of years. Two guitars, two voices and plentiful bliss.
We had a super fun time playing together at the Seven Sisters Festival last year, in the open mic sessions. We love music and love playing, and playing together. It brings us so much joy, and we'd like to share that with you.
We'd love you to come along and to hear you sing along with us!
Love Letters to the 90sPart memoir, part singalong cabaret, Love Letter to the 90s brings queer history to life through storytelling, live music and a fabulous crew of backup singers.
A funny, moving and uplifting celebration of the decade that shaped a generation.
Cherry Charleston is a singer, storyteller, MC and performer who swapped a 30-year corporate IT career for a creative third act. She is a professional burlesque performer and teacher, menopausal, and unsurprisingly, late diagnosed with ADHD.
maloU x Miss MandyDiscomaloU & Miss Mandy are bringing the Feel Good Disco 🪩
Move over mamas, this one’s for the teens! Funky beats, pop faves and all the sparkle. Come dance, be silly and let loose.
Dress up, dress down, throw on some glitter, wear something fabulous, get a little quirky, or simply come as you are.
We’ll bring the music, glitter and vibes, you bring YOU. 🪩✨
MaxonFolk-popAward-winning folk-pop songwriter weaving heartfelt stories and connection.
Longer option: Award-winning songwriter Maxon blends folk-rock and indie-pop with heartfelt storytelling, warm melodies and songs grounded in connection. Named among Rolling Stone AU/NZ’s Best Australian Music of the Week, Maxon performs alongside her wife and long-time collaborator Nay Pattuwage, bringing guitar, keys, two-part vocals and an easy chemistry to the stage.
Their live show moves between vulnerable storytelling, playful conversation and uplifting moments that invite audiences in. With new music, growing international opportunities and a busy year of live performance behind them, Maxon and Nay bring a warm, engaging show built around honesty, joy and genuine connection with an audience.
Mermaid MeeksMermaid Meeks is a mermaid performer visiting beaches, birthday parties, private events and festivals for the past six years. With over 15 years in children’s entertainment and a background in yoga and education, she has a passion for creativity, nature, mythology and fantasy.
Mermaid Meeks grew from a love of mermaids, mythology and the magic of make-believe. She loves bringing a little fantasy into the real world and creating fun, memorable experiences for people of all ages.
Come and say hello at Seven Sisters Festival for a special mermaid oracle card reading and perhaps some bubble magic! Follow along on Instagram at @mermaidmeeks.
MontanaProgressive HouseThere is magic to be found in music. Inspired to dance we can leave the world behind. In between beats we find a world where the imagination can fly.
This is the dance floor crafted by Montana. Not just a set of epic beats, but a tapestry of magical moments that brings people together to create memories that last a lifetime. Her love of creation, with her versatile talent and her 10 years of damned hard work have allowed Montana to rise in the Melbourne music scene.
Resident at Dj at Sooki Lounge (HDC), Doesn’t Matter Melb.Montana has performed on stage at Elysium festival, Rainbow Serpent Festival / Burner theme camps, The Comfort Zone Festival, Esoteric festival, Seven sisters, New Dawn, Australiens,Celestial grove, Tanglewood.
Every set a journey that gets the dance floor pounding catered to the vibe of the house and the expression of sound || soul.Adaptive across Progressive house, Progressive psy trance, Techno, House, Deep house, Tech house and Funky disco, Montana’s sound is every fresh, always fun and never to be missed.
“I love how people let go of everything on a dance floor and just dance”
⁃ Montana
Nectar**Madhu Honey / Nectar**
Nectar aka Madhu Honey is a multidisciplinary artist, embodied facilitator, ceremonialist and sonic weaver working across dance, music, voice, ritual and the expressive arts. For over two decades, she has explored the body as a portal for transformation, creating spaces where people can move beyond the surface and inhabit more of themselves. Founder of Ecstatic Dance Melbourne and the artist behind **Nectar**, Madhu has facilitated dance floors, performances, ceremonies, retreats and embodied experiences across Australia and internationally. Her work lives at the meeting point of the primal and the divine, sass and sacred, depth and delight.
As DJ Nectar, she crafts sensual, rhythmic and deeply immersive sonic journeys for you liberation.
NeekoFolkNeeko is a Melbourne-born singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer whose music blends the storytelling of folk with the soul and groove of R&B.
Known for her raw vocal delivery, rich harmonies and emotionally honest songwriting, her work explores themes of love, loss, reclamation and belonging. Her creative journey has taken her from Melbourne’s vibrant music scene to Alice Springs, Bali and across Central and South America, where she continued writing, recording and performing. Fresh from the release of her sophomore album FLOWER // TONE // SLAYER in June 2026,
Neeko’s music draws listeners into a deeply felt sonic world of soulful textures, trip-hop influences and intimate storytelling.
Niki LobartoloMother–daughter duo Niki and Samara are joining forces with the lovely Clare on cello to bring a little musical magic to Seven Sisters!
With violin, cello, voices and plenty of harmonies, they’ll be sharing a bunch of uplifting tunes by the hammocks. These three love making music together — sometimes sweet, sometimes soulful, and always with a bit of fun.
Come find a hammock, get comfy, have a listen (or a sing!) and enjoy some feel-good music in the beautiful Seven Sisters atmosphere.
Rosy B & Cassie BriggsCome and strut your stuff, ready to sing out your favourite hits and get down with the girls as DJs Rosy B and Cassie Briggs flex their old school dance floor faves! Ride the high vibes on the last night of the festival and get ready for a good time.
Sanne KropCurious about Ayurveda and how it can support your everyday wellbeing?
In this workshop, we’ll explore the foundations of Ayurveda and its holistic approach to health and balance. We’ll look at the three doshas, Vata, Pitta and Kapha, and discover why what works for one person may not necessarily work for another.
The workshop is a gentle introduction to the principles of Ayurveda, with practical and relatable examples of how this ancient wisdom can be applied to modern life. No previous knowledge of Ayurveda is needed, simply come with an open mind and curiosity to learn more.
Sanne is an Ayurvedic lifestyle coach and yoga teacher.
“My work grew out of my own experience. Around 12 years ago I hit a wall during a period of stress and burnout. That's when I first came across yoga and Ayurveda, and noticed how deep the effect can be when you learn to listen to your body, instead of pushing through it.
What started as something personal quickly became my work. I’ve been teaching for 10 years now, guiding people to come home to themselves — to listen more deeply to their bodies and breath, connect with their energy, and cultivate a deeper sense of presence and wholeness.
Ayurveda kept showing up as a foundation. In recent years I've been studying it in depth as a full system and started my own coaching business Moon Child Ayurveda.
Seven Sisters ChoirCome together on the glorious green hilltop of Seven Sisters to learn a beautiful potent song. Join artist Claire Tonti and her friends stunning musicians Maxon and Mietta as they teach you the simple melody, words and harmony so we can lift our voices as one in solidarity and love, as a prayer for peace and deep connection to the sisterhood and our earth.
No prior singing experience necessary.
Everyone is welcome.
SHE NationSHE Nation, primarily a Mother and Daughter combo delivering delicious grooves within a cauldron of sonic delights and powerful intentions, a high-vibe musical prayer for a more connected and “Rise in Love” as SHE=Supports Humanities Evolution
Creator Victoria Whelan - singer/songwriter and sonic artist weaves music, storytelling and conscious connection - spanning decades of acts like WomanSpirit, Daughters of Gaia and Aria Ma.
Naturally soulful singer, Victoria is joined by emerging artist and daughter Scarlett who brings youthful, ethereal energy. Also joined by local goddess and witchy weaver Belinda Harton. Together they bring Triple Goddess Medicine - Maiden Mother, Maga!
SundelinDanceSundelin is a Melbourne-based DJ drawn to music that moves something within. Her journey through DJing, sound healing and embodiment has deepened her relationship with sound as a pathway to emotion, connection and self-expression. Through thoughtfully curated journeys, she weaves music that invites you to feel, soften, move and reconnect with something deeper within.
The Alive Poets Society with Bella AbrahamBella Abraham is a poet, creative facilitator and multidisciplinary artist devoted to the places where words, intuition and human connection meet. Known as The Holistic Poet, Bella creates intimate experiences through spoken word, intuitive typewriter poetry and creative workshops that invite people to slow down, feel deeply and reconnect with what is alive within them. Her work explores the sacred and ordinary — love, grief, womanhood, belonging and the beautiful mess of being human. Whether performing on stage or writing one-on-one for a stranger on her electric blue typewriter, Bella believes poetry can be a place to be witnessed, softened and returned to ourselves, this is our homecoming.
The King CoachDanica Lani (s/he) is a choreographer, performer and community-builder known as The King Coach. She is the founder of Kings of Joy, a joyful and affirming space where LGBTQIA+ people explore gender, performance, and self-expression through Drag Kinging.
Danica has mentored over 145 first-time Drag Kings since 2020, empowering people to feel good in our bodies and 100% at home in our own skin. Her work is grounded in joy, embodiment and queer liberation.
Tia MariaMs Tia Maria was named after a 1970s liqueur, and just like her namesake, she is smooth, potent, and a little is never enough!
Her repertoire has been crafted from years of youthful wild abandon. She sings songs of female empowerment forged in the flame of her own eclectic life experience.
With songs such as “We Never Owned an Ipad”, The Panadeine Forte Song”, and “I Love Bush”, there is something for everyone!
Tia Maria has performed at International Women’s Day events, Wise Women Gathering, Blue Mountains Music Festival, Blue Mountains Ukulele Festival, Melbourne Ukulele Festival, Peats Ridge Festival, Winter Magic Festival, and many women’s charity events and openings.
WaX FoXWaX FoX is a Naarm based DJ and Cofounder of the Vinyl Vixens DJ Collective.
Whether it is an opening set, peak party or the early morning hours, she always has the right mix of tracks to ignite any dance floor.
WaX FoX is no stranger to Seven Sisters and is thrilled to be bringing back her trademark rump shaking eclectic sound on Saturday night.
ZALAWorldZALA plays dynamic ecstatic dance sets spanning world beats, electronica and bass music. She loves creating immersive dance journeys that build energy, connection and release.11 activities: performances
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Bella AbrahamWriting and poetry
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Where it happens
The full venue map lives in the app. Stages, bars, water and toilets, offline the whole weekend.
LocationGlenaroua, Victoria, Australia
DatesApr 15, 2027 - Apr 18, 2027
