AYCC's 18th Birthday Party for the Planet

Groundswell and AYCC are taking over the official wrap event of Climate Action Week 2025 and you're all invited to celebrate the incredible work of those at the forefront of the climate movement. After a week of hard-hitting facts and dedicated efforts, come let your hair down and celebrate 18 great years of AYCC.

AYCC's 18th Birthday Party for the Planet

Presented by Future Super & Groundswell Giving

📅 Friday, 14th March 2025
🕕 6:30 PM - Late
📍 The Underground, Sydney

We’re throwing an 18th like no other! Party for the Planet is here to celebrate AYCC turning 18 and keep the vibes high for Climate Action Week! Think live music, DJs, drinks flowing, and a dancefloor ready for you and your crew to take over. Whether you’ve been knee-deep in climate events all week or just need a solid night out, this is where you’ll want to be. Come let your hair down with a hoedown to celebrate!

Ticket Options:

• Free: You’re in!
• Friend of AYCC $20: Includes 2 raffle entries. All proceeds go to AYCC.
• Best Friend of AYCC $40: Includes 5 raffle entries. All proceeds go to AYCC.

✨ What’s the go with the raffle you say?

Along with some of our good friends, we’ve rustled up some incredible prizes.

• 1 x Bunnamagoo Wines Mudgee cellar door wine tasting and winery tour experience including 1 nights accommodation a Perry Street luxury, boutique hotel*.
• 20 x limited edition Tony Albert prints (one of each) from the series Ashtralia.
• 18 x KitX Tees valued at $155 each.
  
• 2 x $150 vouchers for Underwear for Humanity.
• 3 x Destiny’s Film Farm mixed 3 pack valued at $54 each. 
• 10 x Future Super tote bags. 
• Everyone wins the warm and fuzzy feeling you will get for donating to an incredible charity like AYCC and a good nights sleep knowing you’ve chipped in.

All funds raised will go directly to AYCC. 

*terms and conditions apply. 

✨ Featuring

MICKEY KOJAK - Mickey's music is a collision of new and old styles as well as digital and analogue instruments bent and pushed to their limits. Mickey is constantly leading his fans down an endless road filled with bold stylistic choices and wild sounds. Mickey first burst onto Aussie radios with the now house classic 'Feel My Pain'. In the years to follow, he's dropped banger after banger including 'Move Too Fast', 'Save Your Breath' 'All That Acid' and 'Video Games'. As well as this, Mickey has collaborated on singles with Bag Raiders, Go Freek and American EDM act K?d on the single ‘Electronic Memories’ which has amassed over 15 million streams.

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BETTY -  With roots spanning the stretch between Amy Winehouse and Adrianne Lenker, Betty has managed to conjure a multifaceted yet singular sound, blending all the best parts of her influences. The 25-year-old has become a fast favourite in the Sydney music scene with her unforgettable melodies and harmony-focused songs. Writing to conjure the intangibles attached to complex emotions and memories, her new music engulfs audiences with an aural experience laden with introspection. While being able to reference artists that connect with a wide audience, Betty sits in a sonic world that is entirely her own.

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GROOTI - Grooti is a Sydney-based DJ known for her summery house sets, often performing at Love Clvb on Glass Island throughout the summer. Off the decks, Babet is involved in global efforts to combat plastic pollution, working to amplify youth voices in environmental governance. At Party for the Planet, she brings her signature sound to a night of music and climate action, closing out Climate Action Week in style.

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GRACE VEGESANA – National Director AYCC in conversation with Groundswell. 

Grace Vegesana (she/they) is the National Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition, and a 25 year old woman-of-colour who has been building youth power to end fossil fuel expansion since she was 17. Her legacy includes co-founding the People of Colour Climate Network, pioneering climate justice organising on Dharug Country in Western Sydney with AYCC, and mobilising 3000 Australian businesses to join the Climate Strikes. At the heart of Grace’s work is a fierce belief in a better, brighter, and more climate-resilient world for young people to inherit and thrive in - and a reminder that hope is not just a feeling, but a call to action.

Grace's commitment to justice extends beyond activism to governance, and she sits on the Boards of the Foundation for Young Australians, Sweltering Cities, and Cricket for Climate. Grace is a part of the first International Climate Youth Advisory Council to Minister Chris Bowen, where she is guiding the Department of Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water's strategic approach to COP31 and beyond. She believes that we should not just advocate for change, but shape the institutions that drive it. 

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FASHION FORREST - ROSIE DEACON

Come frolic in Deacon’s Fashion Forest disco grotto - a fantastical, fluorescent sensory experience, merging painting and sculpture practises with installation, needlecraft, performance and play. At least 50% of this installation is made from reused materials, including foam offcuts, fabric remnants, timber, reused steel components, paper mache and tractor parts for bases.

PLUS! Activations, installations, wine tasting, games, art, and more.

Good people. Great music. A reason to celebrate. Whether you’re here for the movement or just here for the party, this night’s about letting go and showing up for a good time. 🌍🔥

To see all events happening at Climate Action Week Sydney CLICK HERE