Jyllie has had over 40 years experience in the creative industries, from international fashion designer to now CEO and Artistic Director of LightnUp Inc, an independent community arts enterprise and producers of the renowned Lismore Lantern Parade. She is in the unique position of being an arts administrator, entrepreneur and practicing artist and manages projects ranging from 3 artists to 3,000 participants. Fundamental to Jyllie’s philosophy is a commitment to fostering the creative spirit and ability in individuals and their communities. This includes the principles of excellence, respect and authenticity, which allow projects to be accessible with a strong sense of ownership by the participants involved. Jyllie is working with lantern artist Sara Tinning. Sara Tinning enjoys texture and light, making a lantern brings both to life. Sara’s favourite stage of the lantern making process is covering the cane work with muslin. Sara loves working with fabrics and sewed as a child, she studied pattern making as a teen. Uninspired by the early 80’s rag-trade, Sara joined the costume department at the Australian Opera and set out on a journey through the wardrobes of theatre, film, circus, dance, weddings and more to find herself working with LightnUp and Moorambilla Voices.

Phil is the Artistic Director of IKARA Celebratory Events, a site-specific theatre company that specialise in transforming space, and celebrating what is important to society as a whole – most notably with fire, one of the four elements of life. Phil studied community celebration at Charles Sturt University (Theatre/Media) specialising in site-specific theatre, large-scale street puppetry and lantern construction. He has worked both here and overseas on major festivals and with theatre companies such as Welfare State International (UK) and Bread & Puppet (USA). In 2007 he formed IKARA Celebratory Events, and in 2018 established a studio/workshop in the Northern Rivers of NSW. IKARA now has a presence in Sydney and Bangalow, working with communities in both coastal and regional NSW.

Graham Hilgendorf has studied various percussion instruments and styles of music from all over the world and has a Bachelor of Music Degree (performance) from The Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney University.
Graham is not only a director of YuNiOn, he is also a founding member of Sydney percussion ensemble B’tutta and was a member of Japanese style drumming ensemble TaikOz for 18 years. He has travelled extensively performing throughout Australia including group concerto performances of Maki Ishii’s ‘Monoprism’ with Australia’s major Symphony Orchestras, toured to Thailand, performing in the Bangkok International Arts Festival, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan and America and performed and given workshops throughout Japan.
As a freelance drum set player, Graham has performed in clubs and festivals in Sydney and around Australia with many of the Australia’s jazz greats and crosses over between contemporary jazz,‘old school’ traditional jazz, latin and African styles with ease.
In 2012 he premiered a new work for jazz drum set and taiko ensemble. This work has since been performed in Hamer Hall (Melbourne), Sydney Recital Centre, Canberra Theatre, Brisbane Concert Hall, and Adelaide Festival Theatre and toured regional Australia for 3 months in 2014. He has also directed and played many events which include the Sydney Festival First Night 2012 for 150 drummers, major corporate events for Toyota and AMEX and a music theatre work called Shifting Sand, which he composed, directed and choreographed. Graham also produced a 90 minute DVD film of Shifting Sand and toured this work extensively around Australia in 2012.Graham began working for Musica Viva Australia in 1991 performing with his percussion ensemble B’tutta in the Musica Viva in Schools program as well as working as an independent educator/musician travelling to schools all over Australia running creative workshops and residencies with students from 8 – 18 years of age.
As a director and performer in YuNiOn, Graham has taught in classes and schools, performed many school incursions, performed at major festivals, performed and directed major corporate and sporting events, collaborated with many taiko groups around the Australia and collaborated with many artists including Satsuki Odamura and KANO Yasukazu from Japan.

Masae Ikegawa was born in Kagawa, Shikoku, Japan and at age 5 she started playing taiko in a local kids group in Marugame city.
In 1997 she joined Manno Daiko, a taiko group from Manno town – Kagawa. For the next 2 years she performed with Manno Daiko throughout the Kagawa and Kansai areas as well as touring to the USA.
Masae arrived in Australia in 1999 and travelled to Adelaide and Melbourne where she met taiko groups before settling in Sydney and joining TaikOz in 2000. As a member of TaikOz she has travelled throughout Australia, South East Asia, Europe and America performing and giving workshops on her national drum, the taiko.
In 2005 Masae decided to return to Japan to study more about the art form of wadaiko (traditional Japanese taiko drum). During this trip she studied with many master players including Eitetsu Hayashi, Kyosuke Suzuki (Edo Bayashi), Takashi Kikuchi (Hachijo Daiko) and Akio Tsumura (Miyake Daiko). She also formed YuNiOn with Graham Hilgendorf.
In YuNiOn, Masae has been seeking her own voice as a taiko drummer, dancer, singer and performer as well as discovering the wonderful array of percussion sounds and how they blend with the taiko. She has a passion for the traditions of Japanese music, art and culture and continues to study these forms while also experimenting and discovering how she can present this music in a modern and new way. A recent collaboration with Clockfire Theatre Company saw Masae perform for the Sydney Festival 2020 in the Art Gallery of NSW.Masae’s understanding of the traditions of taiko has meant that she is a very popular teacher not only in Australia but also internationally. She enjoys sharing her knowledge of taiko drumming while having fun and keeping the spirit alive – her motto is “play together with fun and energy”.

Jamie-Lea Trindall is from Coonamble, starting the role in November 2009. Jamie-Lea was born and bred in Coonamble, after finishing school spent five years in Sydney where she graduated from the College of Fine Arts, University of NSW with a Bachelor of Art Education and a major in Sculpture/Photography.

Lost All Sorts is a multi-disciplinary collective of Independent First Nations Artists from many different Nations. All of whom are graduates of NAISDA Dance College, Australia’s leading Indigenous Dance College. A collective that was formed, to maintain our values and virtues as artists and friends. We as a collective, will venture to continue to artistically express our contemporary Indigenous identities through different artistic disciplines, build upon a network of First Nation Independent Artists, and keep our connection to Country strong, in a modern world. We strive to tell our story, our history and our culture. Artists: Neville Williams Boney, Amy Flannery, Joan Atkinson, Aroha Pehi, Jye Uren and Emily Flannery.