RONA. PRESENTS | EVERYWHEN Mparntwe / Alice Springs-based Kaytetye producer and DJ RONA. is proud to announce Everywhen, a new day party series with its inaugural event taking place at the newly-opened Lango Stage at Footscray Community Arts Precinct in Naarm / Melbourne on Saturday 5 December, with a blistering lineup featuring RONA., Becca Hatch (live), Yikes, naycab and Stacie, plus special guests. At Everywhen, the location where the party is held is just as impactful to the atmosphere as who is playing; it’s where sound comes together with the story and energy of Place. RONA.’s headline set is crafted specifically for this edition at Footscray, developed through relationships with First Nations Elders and knowledge holders connected to the region including Uncle Larry Walsh and Stacie Piper. RONA. will be drawing from field recordings of nature, birds, Country and waters and stories of Place and lived experience that are important to the Maribyrnong area into a moving electronic set. “It’s a completely emergent way of working,” RONA. shares, “based on relationships and what contexts the set is being created in. I sit in Country with people, and build songs around knowledge and stories that people want me to share, always starting with the energy of a story, sound, and place, and writing in response to that.” Joining RONA. at the inaugural edition of Everywhen is proud Kamilaroi/Samoan woman and ARIA Award-nominated, NIMA-winning R&B, electronic and dance-pop artist Becca Hatch - one of so-called Australia’s most compelling and fast-rising voices - who will be performing live with her band including from her conceptual EP Black Flower Project due February 2027, and Boorloo-based Wongi DJ and producer Yikes. Known for effortlessly gliding through a variety of genres tied together with his signature style of deep, broken and percussive sounds, Yikes has cemented himself as an unstoppable force in the so-called Australian music landscape. The Everywhen lineup has been specifically built in recognition of the extraordinary sonic world, community and networks each artist has built in, with the lineup featuring artists deeply tied and embedded within the Kulin Nation: naycab, aka Gunai/Kurnai, Gunditjmara, Wiradjuri & Yorta Yorta essayist, activist and DJ Nayuka Gorrie, an important mainstay in club culture across Naarm / Melbourne and the Kulin Nation and Victoria more widely as a voice and advocate; and Wurundjeri, Dja Dja Wurrung, and Ngurai Illum-Wurrung woman Stacie. Across her creative practice, RONA. has built a career grounded in Country, community and collective movement, bringing people together and creating platforms that amplify First Nations voices and perspectives. RONA.’s long-term vision is to bring Everywhen home to Mparntwe in the Central Desert. The series centres First Nations and Indigenous artists alongside People of Colour from across this continent and the world, creating a space for collective movement, connection and resistance that honours and strengthens power and sovereignty. EVERYWHEN RONA. Becca Hatch (live) Yikes naycab Stacie + special guests Sat 5 Dec, 3:00 - 10:00pm Lango, Footscray Community Arts Centre Naarm / Melbourne