Winter Speaker Series - Stuart Day

Join us for our 2026 FREE Winter Speaker Series (WSS) — a cosy and inspiring line-up of guest artists and creative practitioners sharing their stories, insights, and experiences. Through engaging Q&A sessions, you’ll explore a diverse range of art forms, hear behind-the-scenes perspectives, and connect with the people bringing creativity to life.

Stuart Day is a composer, performer, producer, sound designer and multi-instrumentalist musician (guitar, violin, mandolin, electric bass, keyboards & hurdy gurdy).

Stu’s has recorded over forty albums with various groups and his music has been heard from pubs and community halls in the Australian outback to the theatre stages and TV screens of the world. Come hear about his early days in Mount Gambier in the punk band, The Bushrats, to sweet acoustic harmony trio The Beggars, and his composition, sound design and performance for State Theatre Company of SA, Patch Theatre. Leigh Warren and Dancers, Queensland Theatre Company, Brink Productions, Cirkidz, Restless Dance and Raymond Crowe Illusionist. Stu might just play the hurdy gurdy for your enjoyment.

Next up in the WSS:

5 August - Bianka Kennedy - Multidisciplinary artist, experience designer and fabricator

19 August - Eliza Lovell - Intimacy Coordinator (Stage & Screen)