WINTER ARTS SEASON 2012

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WINTER
ARTS
SEASON
2012
THE HOTTEST GUIDE TO THE
COOLEST SHOWS IN TOWN
FEATURES EDITOR
Helen Winterton
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William Yeoman
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CLIMATE
of culture
T
he temperatures outside are
dropping but the City of Perth
Winter Arts Season is ascending
to new highs for 2012. This
year will see our biggest Winter
Arts Season ever with over 150 events from
more than 60 participating arts organisations,
businesses and independent artists.
It is an exciting time for arts and culture
in the city with new cultural experiences
around every corner. This year’s program
combines world-class home-grown talent with
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the Museum of Modern Art and the Banff
Mountain Film Festival.
Our eighth Winter Arts Season promises
cutting-edge concepts and world-class artists
who will impress Perth audiences across all
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dance, visual arts, poetry and cabaret.
The program features talented locals such
as Tim Winton, Lucy Durack and the WA
Symphony Orchestra alongside emerging
talent from the Western Australian Academy of
Performing Arts and our WA Youth Orchestra.
Why not combine all Perth has to offer
into a fabulous night out with Friday night
shopping, a pre-show meal at one of the city’s
cosy restaurants or a drink at one of the many
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The Winter Supper Club at the Perth
Town Hall undercroft is a new event for 2012,
offering the opportunity to sample a range of
traditional European dishes and to meet some
of the talented performers taking to the stages
of Perth during this winter season.
Winter Arts Season is the perfect
opportunity to explore our new venues,
galleries and boutiques that have chosen to be
here. So resist the urge to stay at home every
night this coming winter!
I encourage everyone to come into the city
to be entertained and inspired by the artists
and performers that will make this year’s
Winter Arts Season one to remember. Support
our culture and arts and engage with your
city and feel the love while experiencing the
warmth of the 2012 season!
LORD MAYOR LISA SCAFFIDI
We’d like to thank these supporters who have helped
make the City of Perth Winter Arts Season possible.
Thank you to these organisations for helping present the City of Perth Winter Arts Season.
1UP Microcinema • Art Gallery of Western Australia • ArtBank • Ausdance WA • Australian Chamber Orchestra • Australian Performing Arts Network
Australian String Quartet • Barefaced Stories • Bell Shakespeare • Black Swan State Theatre Co. • Buzz Dance Theatre • CDP Theatre Producers
Celebrate WA • Chinese Consulate Perth • Chuckles Comedy • Cinema Paradiso • Comedy Lounge • Creative Connections • Downstairs at The Maj
Duet Entertainment • Ellington Jazz Club • Foodchain • FORM • Fremantle Chamber Orchestra • Gallery Central • Government House Foundation of WA
His Majesty’s Theatre • Janus Entertainment • Japanese Consulate Perth • Laugh Resort Comedy Club • Made on the Left • Museum of Performing Arts
Musica Viva • NAIDOC Perth • Northbridge Piazza • Perth Centre for Photography • Perth Concert Hall • Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts • Perth Jazz Society
Perth Theatre Company • Perth Theatre Trust • Scitech • St George’s Cathedral • State Library of Western Australia • State Theatre Centre of WA
STRUT Dance • Sugar Blue Burlesque • Sydney Theatre Company • The Army Museum of WA Foundation • The Bakery Artrage Complex • The Blue Room Theatre
The Comedy Shack • Theatreworks • Tura New Music • Underground Cabaret • UWA Cultural Precint • Venn Gallery • Voyces Inc • WA Poets Inc
WA Youth Jazz Orchestra • WA Youth Orchestra • WA Youth Theatre Company • West Australian Academy of Performing Arts • West Australian Museum
West Australian Music Industry Association • West Australian Opera • West Australian Symphony Orchestra • World Expeditions • Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company
WHAT'S INSIDE
MUSIC
From the hot bands of
the WAMi Festival and
the cool blues of the
Ellington Jazz Fest to the
sophisticated cabaret
of Lucy Durack and the
surf-inspired classical of
the Australian Chamber
Orchestra, this winter
Perth will ring with a range
of music to suit every taste
and pocket.
VISUAL ART
If it’s blockbuster art
exhibitions you’re after,
the hot ticket this winter
is most definitely at
the Art Gallery of WA
where, direct from The
Museum of Modern Art in
New York, the 140-work
survey Picasso to Warhol:
Fourteen Modern Masters
will add some pizzazz to
the dreary season.
FILM
THEATRE
Jemima Robinson has
a word of warning for
audience members at this
year’s Banff Mountain
Film Festival — what you
are about to see could
bring on a severe bout
of wanderlust. Of course
festival director Robinson
doesn’t expect everyone
to hurtle themselves down
a crocodile-infested river
in a kayak or paraglide
off Everest…
Moliere is the French
Shakespeare and his
plays are just as rich a
combination of comedy
and tragedy. Australian
thespian superstars the
Bell Shakespeare Company
bring Moliere’s School for
Wives to Perth this year
in a rare outing, making
a nice contrast with local
outfit Black Swan Theatre’s
production of Tim Winton’s
new play, Signs of Life.
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COMEDY
DANCE
FAMILY
LITERATURE
They say laughter’s the
best medicine. So if you’re
suffering a cold this
winter forget the cough
medicine and head out to
some of Perth's hottest
comedy venues to catch
a comedian or three.
International comedy
sensations include Gavin
Webster, Ian Coppinger
and Vladimir McTavish
in An Englishman, an
Irishman and a Scotsman.
This winter Perth explodes
in a frenzy of dance as the
inaugural MoveMe dance
festival, incorporating
the Australian Dance
Awards, presents a mix of
reinterpreted classics such
as STRUT dance’s sensual,
sexual The Afternoon of
a Faun and vibrant new
works like Buzz Dance
Theatre’s emotionally
fraught Fragile.
Forget baby chicks or
cuddly lambs — during the
July school holidays the
WA Museum will be home
to the world’s most unusual
petting zoo. You’ll be able
to feed a baby dinosaur
and even pat a meat-eating
giant. Just don’t forget to
count your fingers when
you’re done! Or maybe the
delightful new children’s
play The Gruffalo’s Child
will be more to your tastes?
Winter is traditionally
a time for curling up
with a good book. But
performance can bring
words alive like nothing
else — especially when it’s
acclaimed travel writer
and novelist Stephen
Scourfield reading
from his latest book
Unaccountable Hours as
violinist Sophie Edelman
performs the timeless
music of JS Bach.
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CITY OF PERTH WINTER ARTS SEASONł3
MUSIC CONTEMPORARY
Wendy Were has high
hopes and big plans for
the future of Perth’s live
music scene. Simon Collins
spoke to the new chief of
the West Australian Music
Industry Association.
F
rom pulling beers in the
Perth pubs where John
Butler and Jebediah cut
their teeth to sharing her
three-year-old daughter’s
love of Fremantle pop tyros
San Cisco, Wendy Were will bring a fan’s eye
view to her new position as chief executive
of the West Australian Music Industry
Association, or WAM.
Taking over from Paul Bodlovich, who was
chief executive for a decade, Were also comes
armed with invaluable knowledge of the
creative industries, thanks to her previous
roles directing the Perth and Sydney
writers’ festivals as well as the University
of WA’s Institute of Advanced Studies and
the federally funded Creative Industries
Innovation Centre.
It’s moving beyond
grassroots,” she said.
“It’s a case of looking
beyond a local community of
music and looking globally.
There’s glorious potential.”
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charge, the UWA graduate made the bold
assertion that WAM aims to transform Perth
into the “live music capital of Australia”.
“It’s an aspiration and I think there’s
a lot of work to be done there, but it’s an
important thing because it does cross the
entire industry, not just the musicians,” Were
said during a chat at Northbridge venue the
Bakery, which will host several festival events
including the 2012 WAMi Awards on June 2.
An impressive line-up starring Eskimo Joe,
John Butler, Mama Kin and Dom Mariani will
perform at the annual gongs, where winners
in industry and public voted categories
take home the traditional WAMington cake
instead of an inedible trophy. San Cisco, Split
Seconds, the Voltaire Twins and the Growl
lead the nominations this year.
2012 WAMI FESTIVAL
AT A GLANCE
Banding
TOGETHER
In addition to giving our best musicians
a sugar high each year, the WAMi Festival
features eight days of gigs, an industry
conference and even a star-studded soccer
match, the Crustacean Cup. On June 2,
the Saturday Spectacular really takes the
music to the masses with 56 bands playing
eight stages throughout Northbridge from
midday to 6pm.
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has a really strong brand nationally and
internationally as well,” Were said. “When
you talk about the WAMis, most people know
what you’re talking about and most people
think that’s all WAM does because it’s such a
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WAM is not just about supporting
musicians, but also managers — a “core
focus” of the organisation under
Were — and other industry
professionals.
“Certainly, we’re there to
foster creativity but we can’t
endow people with that artistic
brilliance,” she says. “We’re
there to provide the structure
and the support so those
people with that brilliance
can go as far as they possibly
can and make a living out of
the industry.”
Where two decades
ago it was a big
deal when local
experimental rock
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Prague released a
cassette for their
coterie, now nascent
Perth acts like Pond
and Grace Woodroofe,
right, receive rave
reviews in overseas
publications, such as
the NME (which recently
gave Pond’s latest album
nine out of 10) and the New
York Times (rock critic Jon
Pareles gushed over Woodroofe’s debut).
The new chief executive recalls working
at the Swanbourne and Grosvenor Hotels,
where she saw early gigs from Jebediah
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education just from those two venues,”
Were says.
Both pubs no longer host bands and while
Perth punters have enjoyed a boom in small
bars, only a few, including the Bird and the
Ellington Jazz Club, host live original music.
Via advocacy and lobbying, Were says
WAM “needs to make sure that there is space
for the local music to be heard”.
A fan of local acts the Ghost Hotel, Felicity
Groom, Abbe May and, of course, San
Cisco, the married mother-of-two said she
inherited a strong organisation with a few
areas needing improvement.
Were wants to make
WAM less reliant on public
funding through business
development and corporate
sponsorship (perhaps
increasing the mining
sector’s ongoing support of
WAM’s regional programs),
while the marketing and
communication also
need to be more “polished
and professional”.
The online presence
of WAM needs to be a
“platform and portal for
people all over the world”
— part of a new global
approach from the new
chief, who says all avenues
of revenue and exposure
should be explored.
“It’s moving
beyond grassroots,”
she said. “It’s a case
of looking beyond
a local community
of music and looking
globally. There’s
glorious potential.”
OPENING PARTY — Tomas Ford, Ben
Witt, MmHmmm, Cow Parade Cow, Felicity
Groom and Rainy Day Women,
the Bakery, May 26
SUNDAY LIVE AND THE CRUSTACEAN
CUP — Grace Barbe, Odette Mercy and Her
Soul Atomics, Minute 36, Datura and more,
Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge Piazza,
Forrest Place and Russell Square, May 27
MUSIC FILM SCREENING,
Northbridge Piazza, May 27
THE COMMUNITY BEAT CANTEEN —
Diger Rockwell, the Empty Cup, Naik,
Wisdom 2th and YELM,
Northbridge Piazza, May 28-June 1
THE BIRD SUNDOWNER SERIES —
James Teague, Simone & Girfunkle,
Cameron Avery and Anton Franc,
the Bird, May 28-June 1
LUNCHTIME MALL SESSIONS,
Murray and Hay St Malls, May 28-June 1
JAZZWA SHOWCASE — Victoria Newton,
the Glyn MacDonald Quartet and Horizon
Art Orchestra, the Bakery, May 28
EXPERIMENTAL SHOWCASE —
Heytesburg, Rack to Your Face and Usurper
of Modern Medicine, the Bakery, May 29
FAIRBRIDGE FESTIVAL SHOWCASE —
Ensemble Formidable, Rhys Wood and Rachel
& Henry Climb a Hill, the Bakery, May 30
JUMPCLIMB PARTY SHOWCASE — the
Empty Cup, Sunshine Brothers, Bastian’s
Happy Flight and Sam Perry,
the Bakery, May 31
BUSINESS CONFERENCE, the Bakery, June 1
WIRE MAG SHOWCASE — Split Seconds,
Emperors, Ruby Boots and Warning Birds,
the Bakery, June 1
SOUNDWORKS SHOWCASE — Paradise
in Exile, Reflections of Ruin and Malignant
Monster, Rocket Room, June 1
THE COMMUNITY SHOWCASE — James
Ireland, Diger Rockwell, Assembly Line,
the Boost Hero Man, Lowaski and Mostark,
Ya Ya’s, June 1
GUN FEVER SHOWCASE — Kill Teen
Angst, Coveleski, Ex-Nuns, Dead Owls and
Grim Fanbanjo, Beat Nightclub, June 1
SATURDAY SPECTACULAR — 56 bands,
eight stages, Northbridge, June 2
WAMI AWARDS — Eskimo Joe, John Butler,
Mama Kin, Dom Mariana and the Hurricane
Fighter Plane, the Bakery, June 2
CLOSING PARTY — Sonpsilo Circus,
the Chemist, Voltaire Twins, San Cisco,
the Bakery, June 2
MUSIC CLASSICAL
Surf,
sand
and SHOSTAKOVICH
Surfers and students joined the Australian Chamber Orchestra at Gnaraloo
Bay for a 10-day residency, writes Rosalind Appleby
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with several of Perth’s classical music organisations
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Tura New Music is hosting a 25th birthday party
hearted Russian maestro will give concerts in May and June and a gala concert
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broadest music organisation is celebrating its quarter century by inviting
Verbitsky will also continue his association with the WA Youth Orchestra with a
the prestigious Australian Chamber Orchestra, world-class surfers, local
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musicians, school students and a photographer to Gnaraloo Bay for a project
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tissues because Emma Matthews stars as Lucia and her
The linchpin in the adventurous project is composer
interpretation of Donizetti’s tragic mad scene will pierce
Iain Grandage, originally from Perth, who has drawn
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on his experiences as an improvising artist, a theatre
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operatic focus with WA Opera Young Artists performing
composer and his collaborations with indigenous
Hall, July 18
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element with cinematic screenings of the Metropolitan
“The aim will be to create a collaborative media piece
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Concert Hall, June 19
Robert Lepage’s ambitious new staging of the four operas
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will screen from June to August at Cinema Paradiso in
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WA Symphony Orchestra,
In the chamber music scene there seems to be a concert
Earlier this month Grandage joined ACO director
Perth Concert Hall
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June 23-24
Perth in June with a program including Dean’s Epitaphs
and pro-surfers Derek Hynd and Tom Carroll for a
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young musicians of ACO2 joined with Broome singer
Opera, His Majesty’s
Amacord, the a cappella group touring in July who have
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Geraldton school students, and a performance at Gnaraloo
The choral music continues in August with an all-Baroque
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Grandage’s composition links music by George Crumb and Dmitri
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There’s plenty of smaller and just as interesting gigs around town too,
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including a concert of guitar music at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery to
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has curated a concert with his ensemble, which will feature musical portraits
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party begin!
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AT A GLANCE
the BEAT
MUSIC JAZZ
KEEPING
Barney McAll is the first in a series
of highly credentialed artists who
will sing, play, entertain and educate
at Ellington’s writes Ron Banks
L
ike many young musicians, pianist Barney
McAll was drawn to the dim lights, jazz clubs
and recording studios of New York 15 years ago.
Unlike many musicians, however, he has stayed
on — making his career and home in New York’s heady
atmosphere of the jazz arts.
The Melbourne-raised graduate of the Victorian
College of the Arts was the pianist of choice for
Australian artists before he left and he has become a
sought-after artist in his new home since arriving in
1997. Early in his career he accompanied artists such as
Vince Jones, Renee Geyer and Kate Ceberano.
Accepting an invitation to join the Gary Bartz
Quartet, he toured with the American saxophonist
across the US and internationally. He has also played
with Fred Wesley, Josh Roseman and other emerging
young artists on the US scene.
As his American career expanded McAll moved into
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up with a host of talented musicians for concert tours.
He was nominated for a Grammy award in 2007 and
won a fellowship from the Australia Council in 2008.
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artists featuring at Ellington’s, Perth’s premier jazz
venue, during the winter arts season.
Another New York resident is bassist Bob Hurst,
who also maintains a home in Los Angeles so that his
career can literally cross the country.
Listen to [Kyle's] debut
album Possibilities and
you will get an idea of his
precocious talents and shrewd
choice of material that ranges
from pulsing and infectious
tunes to the stylishly
sophisticated ballad.”
Hurst is a well-recognised composer, recording
artist and jazz educator recently appointed associate
professor at the University of Michigan’s school of
music, theatre and dance in Ann Arbor.
As a performer he has teamed with artists as diverse
as Sting, Wynton Marsalis, Chris Botti, Diana Krall,
Dave Brubeck and Harry Connick Jr. His accolades
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recognition on top 10 lists around the world.
For nearly a decade he directed, arranged and
composed for Jay Leno’s Tonight show, and has scored
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Eleven and its sequels, and Goodnight and Good Luck.
As a jazz educator he has taught at major institutions
such as the Juilliard School of Music, the Thelonious
Monk Institute, the Dave Brubeck Institute and the
Stanford Jazz Workshop and Festival.
Hurst will perform at Ellington’s in a trio setting
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Melbourne singer Josh Kyle relocated to London last
year, a bold move designed to kickstart an international
career that is already paying off. This vibrant young
vocalist has all the electricity of a Jamie Cullum, and a
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a new star.
Listen to his debut album Possibilities and you will
get an idea of his precocious talents and shrewd choice
of material that ranges from pulsing and infectious
tunes to the stylishly sophisticated ballad.
Kyle deserves to draw a big crowd to his Ellington
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He has already won heaps of praise in the UK, a
tough market to crack, and his future on the wider
scene seems assured. As one commentator observed:
“Josh Kyle’s unfailingly beautiful tone, crystal clear
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with a real jazz sensibility.”
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scene who has performed in his home city for 20 years,
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Brothers, Medicinal Purposes, SCQUINT, Eff Sharp
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and New York, which laid the foundations for his
powerful improvising and compositional style which
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AT A GLANCE
ELLINGTON WINTER
JAZZ FEST, Ellington Jazz
Club, May 27-June 6
TIM FREEDMAN'S
FIRESIDE CHAT,
Ellington Jazz Club,
June 14-16
NADIA ACKERMAN,
June 27
TROY ROBERTS, Ellington
Jazz Club, July 19
NERISSA CAMPBELL,
July 27-28
GEORGE GARZONE,
August 24-25
MUSIC CABARET
Duo open
NEW DOORS
Two exciting young performers return to Perth to present another of their entertaining
shows, with Lucy Durack describing it as “a little more sophisticated”. Ron Banks reports.
I
t’s been four years since
singer Lucy Durack and
her musical collaborator
Matthew Robinson
performed at DownStairs
at the Maj.
In those four years quite a lot has
happened to boost their careers.
Durack spent more than a year
playing Glinda the Good Witch in
the musical, Wicked, while Robinson
had a musical produced in Adelaide,
another one commissioned by the
same theatre company, and spent
time in New York on a Churchill
Fellowship with celebrated composer
Stephen Schwartz, the writer of
Wicked and many other musicals.
Durack and Robinson’s return
visit to DownStairs at the Maj, which
will be their fourth in the past seven
years, is a chance to distil some of that
career-building experience of the past
four years into a tight entertainment
package especially for cabaret
audiences.
To underline their more recent
experience, the duo has called the
show Opening Doors. “A few doors
have been opened to both of us
recently, so we thought it would be a
good title,” says Durack with obvious
enthusiasm.
“The show is slightly
autobiographical, at least in a
philosophical sense, as we play what
could be described as heightened
versions of ourselves as the people
on stage. Neither of us has the
personal experience of say, a singer
like Toni Lamond, or Judi Connelli,
but because a lot has happened to
us recently we’ve been learning
very quickly.”
Cabaret fans of DownStairs at the
Maj may recall that in the past Durack
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and Robinson have presented
Robinson’s music in their shows,
including Immaculate Confection
and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
“This time we will be
presenting mostly music written
by Matthew since our last visit,”
says Durack. “It’s now a little more
sophisticated, and DownStairs at
the Maj is the perfect venue for our
kind of music with its intimacy.”
While in Perth, Robinson will
workshop his latest musical with
students from the WA Academy of
Performing Arts. “It’s more epic
in nature and needs a bigger cast
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Durack, who, like Robinson, is
a graduate of WAAPA’s music
theatre course.
DownStairs
at the Maj is
the perfect venue
for our kind of
music with
its intimacy.”
LUCY DURACK
Durack will spend most of
June at home in Perth, with
performances not only DownStairs
at the Maj but also at the Perth
Concert Hall. With a cast of young
performers, she will headline a
show of songs from musicals such
as Wicked, Hairspray, Carousel
and Rent on June 10.
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Sydney, now her home base, to put
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album — a collection of songs from
the world of music theatre.
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keep a girl busy, but that’s not the
half of it. She has just spent the
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that landed her the lead role in the
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that I would be getting the role,”
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for auditions three times, and then
I had to go to London to see the
show and talk to the creative team
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AT A GLANCE
CABARET SOIREE:
OPENING DOORs,
DownStairs at The Maj,
June 20-23
CABARET SOIREE:
GUY/DOLL, DownStairs
at The Maj, June 27-30
CABARET SOIREE:
WELL SWUNG,
July 4-7
CABARET SOIREE:
TWO WEEKS IN
PARIS, DownStairs at
The Maj, July 11-14
CABARET SOIREE:
KITCHMAS IN JULY,
July 18-21
SPOTLIGHT @ THE
KINGS, Underground
Cabaret, Kings Hotel
Perth, June 16
SONGS FOR A NEW
WORLD, Underground
Cabaret, Kings Hotel
Perth June 27-30
PAUL PEACOCK’S
OPEN MIC NIGHT
WITH TIM HOWE,
Underground Cabaret,
Kings Hotel Perth,
July 7
BLACK MARKET
CABARET Sugar Blue
Burlesque The Bakery
Artrage Complex,
June 20
Rehearsals for the Australian
production will begin in August,
before opening at the Lyric Theatre
at Star Casino in Sydney on
October 4.
Durack has also kept herself
busy with small roles in a telemovie
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musical, but she doesn’t get to sing.
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she says.
No doubt the really big stuff is
coming with Legally Blonde, but
audiences will get to see her up
close and personal in the Maj’s
intimate basement theatre.
VISUAL ART
PABLO PICASSO, GREEN STILL LIFE (1914)
Modern T
MASTERS
MoMA show of 140 works is the first of six booked
for the Art Gallery of WA, writes Lyn Diciero
he hot ticket this winter is most
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Dog (1905) through to later works such as Woman
by a Window (1956). Andy Warhol is spectacularly
represented with the entire series of 32 Campbell Soup
Cans on show, together with his equally famous Brillo
Boxes, and a nine-canvas silkscreen self-portrait. Also
included is Fernand Leger’s stunning Big Julie (1945),
Fauvist works by Matisse, Mondrian’s celebrated
Trafalgar Square, and a 1926 six-minute black-andZKLWHVLOHQW¿OPE\'XFKDPS
Jewellery and major mobiles by Alexander Calder,
together with sculpture by Brancusi, add a celebration
of economy of design. Perhaps less known in Australia
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woman to be honoured with a retrospective at MoMA
in 1982.
Carboni says the show isn’t only about bringing crowdpleasing Picassos or Warhols to Perth. “This is a way to
educate the public in understanding 20th century art
before pop art basically, seen through its major artists.”
It’s very different from what
we have done in the past, and
what other galleries in Australia do,
and it’s something I’m very
proud of.”
STEFANO CARBONI
With Picasso to Warhol closing in December and
a new exhibition from MoMA opening in January, the
gap between the major shows is a mere six to seven
weeks for the next three years. Carboni says he wants
to create a fast rhythm so people feel compelled to come
back and see the next exhibition. “It’s very different
from what we have done in the past, and what other
galleries in Australia do, and it’s something I’m very
proud of. It’s the biggest thing this gallery has ever
done, so we need the public to respond to it,” adding
with a chuckle, “otherwise I’m going to be in trouble!”
Carboni says both he and MoMA director Glenn
D. Lowry had common ground in both being former
curators of Islamic art. “I’ve known him for a while, and
for one reason or another he’s followed my career, so
I felt comfortable in asking him about loaning works.
He saw Perth as ideally located to position MoMA to be
more known in Australasia, which I think is very smart
on his part.”
AT A GLANCE
PICASSO TO WARHOL:
FOURTEEN MODERN
MASTERS, Art Gallery of
WA, June 16-December 3
JEFF WALL:
PHOTOGRAPHS,
Art Gallery of WA,
May 26-September 10
PATRICK DOHERTY
TALES OF HIERARCHY,
Venn Gallery,
May 4-June 8
APACHE CLIP AWARD
2012, Perth Centre
for Photography,
May 24-June 24
BEYOND LIKE-NESS:
CONTEMPORARY
PORTRAITURE,
Lawrence Wilson Art
Gallery, May 25-July 28
OBJECTS. FOOD.
ROOMS. Perth Institute
of Contemporary Arts,
June 23-August 12
THE MOORDITJ
YARNING ART
EXHIBITION 2012:
RELATIONSHIPS
AUSTRALIA, Perth Town
Hall, June 28-July 2
ST GEORGE’S ART
2012: 10TH ANNUAL
EXHIBITION, St
George's Cathedral,
July 21-August 2
METAMORPHOSIS
2012, Gallery Central,
August 13-24
ANDY WARHOL, SELF-PORTRAIT (1966)
While Carboni and MoMA are still thrashing out
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reveal the second in the series is a survey of New York
seen through the lenses of major photographers. To
follow are exhibitions focusing on post-Impressionism,
contemporary art and kitchenware design. Mooted
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Planned is a smaller, more intimate show, but with key,
extremely well-known works. “I’m not saying Starry
Night is coming, but two major Van Goghs will be
coming,” he says.
Carboni’s excitement is infectious. It’s not a far
stretch to imagine an eager young Venetian boy,
whose father had a degree in art history, being taken
around the galleries and museums of Venice viewing
everything from Byzantine to contemporary art. In a
sense the exhibitions transplant the magic. “My father
also went to the Biennale of course, so being exposed to
so many different things probably made me feel it was
fun. Through the exhibitions I hope to inspire children
as well, not to be afraid of looking at art, to feel you have
a relationship with what you have in front of you, and
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LEFT TO RIGHT
JACKSON
POLLOCK,
SHIMMERING
SUBSTANCE (1946)
FERNAND LIGER,
BIG JULIE (1945)
GIORGIO DE
CHIRICO, THE SONG
OF LOVE (1914)
FILM
You might consider doing
something way out of the
ordinary after attending this
event, as Lucy Gibson reports
FESTIVAL OF THE
EXTREME
AT A GLANCE
BANFF MOUNTAIN
FILM FESTIVAL 2012,
State Theatre Centre,
May 30-June 2
METROPOLITAN OPERA
IN HD, Cinema Paradiso,
June 2-August 5
OSCAR SHORTS 2012, 1UP
Microcinema, June 6-10
2012 SPANISH FILM
FESTIVAL, Cinema
Paradiso, July 19-25
J
emima Robinson has a word of warning
for audience members at this year’s
Banff Mountain Film Festival — what
you are about to see could bring on a
severe bout of wanderlust.
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doesn’t expect everyone to hurtle themselves down
a crocodile-infested river in a kayak or paraglide
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Australian leg of the world-famous tour incite even just
a cheer then her job is done.
“We get a whole heap of reactions from people in the
audience,” says Robinson of the international festival of
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and the environment, which hits Perth later this month.
“There will be people who come up to us and
say they are quitting their job and heading to South
America and others who say ‘No way would I do that’.
“Either way, in each screening there are usually
plenty of ‘ooohs’ and ‘ahhhs’ and clapping and we
encourage that.”
The Banff Film Festival began in the picturesque
Canadian town in 1976 when 500 people lined up
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250-seat theatre.
As word spread, so too did the festival, which now
attracts more than 300 entries from around the world
each year and is held in 33 countries.
It is Robinson’s job to select the best and most
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November in Canada, to showcase as part of the
Australian leg of the tour, which has been running for
13 years: easier said than done when you only have a
2½-hour window for each screening.
Many Aussies have been to
the destinations featured
in the films and tried all these
crazy sports.”
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parts of putting the festival together,” she says.
“However we are fortunate that by the time we get
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times in America so I can go online and get all the
audience feedback.”
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of Australia, her fellow countrymen are a fairly
well-travelled bunch, which makes them somewhat
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about adventure travel.
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DownStairs at the Maj
20 JUN TO 21 JUL
Every Wed, Thu, Fri & Sat
GUY / DOLL
WED 27 TO SAT 30 JUN
Featuring David Bowyer,
Corinne Cowling, Julia
Jenkins & Will O’Mahony
WELL SWUNG
WED 4 TO SAT 7 JUL
‘My career is failing so I have
to do a swing show’
Juicy jazz standards and
bubblegum pop by
Nick Christo.
TWO WEEKS IN PARIS
WED 11 TO SAT 14 JUL
Analisa Bell takes us on a
French musical journey with
Edith Piaf & more. Oh la la.
THE RING ON FILM
The jewel in the crown of this year’s Metropolitan Opera
Live in High Definition season must surely be visionary
director Robert Lepage’s Met production of Wagner’s
monumental Ring Cycle, screening at Luna Leederville and
featuring some of today’s most outstanding opera singers
including Bryn Terfel, Deborah Voigt and Jonas Kaufmann.
Also screening is
the documentary
Wagner’s Dream,
a fly-on-the-wall
look at the dayto-day challenges
of staging such
a massive work
and “the quest
to fulfil Wagner’s
dream of a
perfect Ring”.
Buckle up with a show
that bends gender and
upends convention,
guys singing Katy Perry
& more.
KITCHMAS IN JULY!
WED 18 TO SAT 21 JUL
‘A Stocking Thriller’
Tickle your tinsel and bewitch
your baubles as Christmas
is repackaged!
Book now at BOCS 9484 1133
or bocsticketing.com.au
Major Sponsors:
Proudly supported by:
www.hismajestystheatre.com.au
THEATRE
Fun in the
NUNNERY
Bell brings Shakespeare’s French counterpart to Perth, writes Ron Banks
N
ext to Shakespeare, Moliere is
any author other than Shakespeare to
probably the most popular
Perth, and marks the 20-year-old company
400-year-old playwright. His works
striking out into French comedy territory,
continue to be performed and,
yet with the same classical entertainment
and
like Shakespeare, Moliere’s classic
satirical values.
comedies are timeless, capable of
Director Lee Lewis says the play is “a
being manipulated into a modern shape that serves to
comedic train-wreck of a love story that
accentuate their universal values and relevance.
angles innocence with arrogance — and the
Take the case of School for Wives, one of the
other way round”.
major works of Bell Shakespeare in this year’s winter
arts festival.
For a start, Moliere’s French rhyming couplets have
been replaced by modern verse in an updating by Justin
Fleming, who has anglicised the names of the characters.
However, the setting remains a nunnery in which a
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LEE LEWIS
to become a virtuous wife with the kind of homely talents
that will please a husband.
It’s an old story that some men want to shape
In modern terms, she says, the play is
women to their will and control their destiny
asking the question of whether we are all
despite the advances of feminism in more
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modern times. Moliere knew this in
destiny. “We want the perfect
the 17th century and his comedy
partner: smart, sexy, healthy,
just keeps on giving the
funny and hopefully from
pleasures of recognition.
‘good stock’. But can
The School for Wives may
we design a life for
be less well known than The
ourselves and have it
Imaginary Invalid, Tartuffe, or
all go to plan?”
The Misanthrope, but its battle
The playing
of the sexes has the same
out of this
pertinent themes of human
comedy scenario
frailty, lust and cupidity
would suggest
as its more celebrated
controlling
companions.
someone else’s
Arnolde is a man with
emotions and
a problem. He wants to get
behaviour is just
married but is afraid a smart
too much to wish for.
girl would cheat on him. So
A world away from
he connives a plan to have
Moliere’s light touch, but
the local convent raise a girl so
nonetheless focused on human
stupidly innocent she won’t know
emotions and the drama of
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contemporary life, is Tim Winton’s
will remain faithful.
new play Signs of Life, which draws
So far so good, until the young woman
on some of the characters from his novel
meets a youth her own age who stirs lusty feelings
Dirt Music.
in her otherwise innocent body.
The setting is the Moore River region north of
The School for Wives is one of those rare
Perth where Georgie Jutland (the central character
occasions where Bell Shakespeare has brought
from Dirt Music) lives alone in her farm house.
We want the perfect
partner: smart,
sexy, healthy, funny and
hopefully from
‘good stock’.”
Helen Morse plays the recently widowed Georgie,
From Melbourne comes Nicola Gunn’s show Hello, My
a little spooked by the isolation. Out in the darkness
Name Is… which is all about building communities.
of her veranda is an Aboriginal man (Ernie Dingo)
“I am interested in making a participatory work
seeking help. He says he needs petrol. His sister is
where the audience feel they are a part of something
screaming and they’ve been sleeping in their car
without performing,” Gunn explains. “Transforming
for days.
the performance into something intricate, sublime and
Should she help them? What if they move
unexpected; transforming the world as it is, to the world as
in to her farmhouse and will not leave? How
it could be.”
do you share your house with strangers?
Perhaps even more intriguing is the debut of new
These are the questions Signs of Life attempts
theatre company Spectre, whose Les Affreux (The
to resolve, or at least
Frightful Ones) is a thriller about a
grapple with, in Winton’s
journalist returning from the Arab
terse, enigmatic style.
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As Black Swan Theatre’s
forces at work to punish him for his
publicity for its new show
participation in that event.
outlines, Signs of Life is
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his dark and intricate story is laced with
ways in which people with
themes of submission and domination.
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themselves forming awkward,
Robinson’s Songs for Nobodies, in which
spiky alliances in order to survive.
the Melbourne music theatre singer and
Bell Shakespeare and Black
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companies to produce shows
such as maids and servants. The show
during the winter season, but
has been a huge success on the east
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there are plenty of smaller gems
coast, and plans are under way to take it
to enjoy, too.
to Broadway.
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SIGNS OF LIFE,
State Theatre,
July 21-August 18
MADAME BALLET,
State Theatre Centre
of WA, June 5-17
LES AFFREUX,
The Blue Room Theatre
until June 9
HELLO MY NAME IS…
The Blue Room Theatre,
June 14-30 (previews
June 12-13)
SONGS FOR
NOBODIES, State
Theatre, June 22-July 1
!
Book Now
COMEDY
An Englishman, an Irishman
and a Scotsman is expected to
be such a hit that it has been
moved to a bigger venue, as
Rob Payne reports
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Webster isn’t changing his style for
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fun, whereas other parts of England, particularly the
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producer John McAllister is certain Webster is going to
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Lounge & EIS Riverside
Theatre, July 14
COMEDY SHACK,
The Burger Shack
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LAUGH RESORT
COMEDY CLUB, Rosie
O’Grady’s Northbridge,
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& Wheelbarrow,
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steeped in Scottish lore, including The Top 50 Scots of
All Time and A Scottish History of the World. He’s also
renowned for a single joke requiring him to consume
two pints and a shot of whisky.
Meanwhile, Ireland’s Coppinger doesn’t dodge any
stereotypes, spinning rich comic yarns about rural
Berties and imbibing Bobs.
“He’s the funniest Irish guy I’ve seen, and I’ve seen
them all,” McAllister says.
While An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman
tops the bill of the Perth winter comedy season, there’s
lots on offer, a fact Laugh Resort co-ordinator Alex
Manfrin points out with pride.
“There’s comedy on just about every night, making
it more than just an occasional option for people. It has
become a regular part of what you can do in Perth —
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Now in its 21st year, the Laugh Resort is the city’s
comedy pioneer. The night runs every Wednesday at
Rosie O’Grady’s and features two local or national
stand-ups followed by an open mic segment. Upcoming
comics include Paul “Werzel” Montague, Mike G,
Emma Zammit, Tien Tran and Bonnie Davies.
Other regular nights include The Comedy Shack on
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Murray Street and Chuckles Comedy Gong Night on the
last Monday of the month at Northbridge’s Elephant &
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on stage.
And if global warming and photosynthesis crack
you up, check out the Scitech Comedy Debate.
Promising witty banter, scintillating science and
lively disputes, the night promises stand-ups, media
personalities and science communicators going
head-to-bespectacled head.
DANCE
Perth-born dancer James O’Hara
returns to his home town for a
dance festival to perform the
sensuous work, Faun, based on a
Ballets Russes work presented a
century ago. Nina Levy reports.
T
here’s nothing like a scandal to get
bums on seats, as Sergei Diaghilev
discovered 100 years ago.
In 1912, Diaghilev’s famed
Ballets Russes presented Vaslav
Nijinsky’s L’Apres-midi d’un faune
(The Afternoon of a Faun), created to Claude Debussy’s
Prelude L’apres-midi d’un faune and based on Stephane
Mallarme’s poem of the same name. The work was
considered experimental because it rejected the
turned-out legs and virtuosity of classical ballet and
instead utilised angular and pedestrian movement.
Its concluding moments, depicting sexual climax,
prompted moral outrage, which in turn increased
ticket sales. Never one to shy away from avant-garde
ideas, this experience fuelled Diaghilev’s desire to
commission works that would shock and provoke.
Gradually we learnt to let
go and abandon ourselves to
the sexuality and sensuality of
the work.”
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steps
It was Diaghilev’s desire to experiment that
catapulted dance from the gauzy tutus of the Romantic
era into the sharp-edged world of modern art. Central
to his vision was artistic collaboration. Picasso,
Stravinsky and Chanel are just some of the names of
the Ballets Russes’ collaborators.
Fast forward a century and Perth is about to see a
contemporary interpretation of the seminal L’Apresmidi d’un faune. Created by internationally renowned
Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the work
is simply entitled Faun.
Faun will play in Perth as half of a double bill
presented by STRUT dance as part of the inaugural
MoveMe dance festival.
What is particularly pleasing about Cherkaoui’s
Faun hitting WA is that one of the two performers
in the work is Perth-born dancer, James O’Hara. An
alumnus of John Curtin College of the Arts and STEPS
Youth Dance Company, O’Hara was not yet 18 when he
moved to Europe to pursue his dance career. He met
Cherkaoui soon after.
“I went to Geneva to join a young company for 17-26
year olds,” he says. “I would often take class with the
Ballet du Grande Theatre de Geneve, which is the
main contemporary ballet company in Geneva. Larbi
(Cherkaoui) was creating a work on the company. I had
a huge admiration for his work so I would hang back to
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incorporates one of Australia’s biggest annual dance
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pile of adventure. Incorporating puppetry, animation and
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visual design, Fragile shows how to cope with feelings
dance as an art form here, and is,
and relationships. “I am very aware that today’s society is
perhaps, best known for being the
not always an easy place for children and young people
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to grow up in. There can be bullying at school, family
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relationship breakdowns, a barrage of visual stimulus, as
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lonely and isolating place, where they feel a lack of control
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the difficulties of life,” artistic director Cadi McCarthy says.
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AT A GLANCE
MOVEME DANCE
FESTIVAL,
August 28-September 2
FRAGILE, Buzz Dance
Theatre, Dolphin Theatre,
June 16-26
BREAKING OUT,
WAAPA, Dolphin Theatre,
August 21-25
AUSTRALIAN DANCE
AWARDS, Ausdance WA,
State Theatre Centre,
September 1
FAMILY
Your chance to pat a
Perth will be home to one of the world’s most unusual petting zoos
when dinosaurs hit town next month, as Heather Zubek reports
DINOSAUR CITY
Perth will be known as Dinosaur City during
the winter months, with another prehistoric
exhibition hitting town. Explore-a-saurus
features animatronic versions of the
world’s most famous dinosaurs including
the Muttaburrasaurus and Tyrannosaurus
rex. This interactive exhibition, developed
by Scienceworks in Melbourne, will
show how palaeontologists use fossil
evidence to learn about these prehistoric
creatures. Kids will be able to test their
paleontological skills by uncovering fossils
and bones, compare the types of food
eaten by dinosaurs and examine insects
under microscopes.
B
aby animal shows,
petting zoos and
travelling animal farms
are constant features
at fairs and community
events. Somehow their
popularity with the younger generation has
survived the lure of electronic entertainment.
During the July school holidays, the
Western Australian Museum will be home to
the world’s most unusual petting zoo. Forget
baby chicks or cuddly lambs. At this petting
zoo you will be able to feed a baby dinosaur
and pat a meat-eating giant. Just don’t forget
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audiences will be able to get up close and
personal with creatures ranging from the
cute dino babies to the teeth-gnashing giants
of the prehistoric era.
This show brings
entertainment,
education and science
together.” MINISTER JOHN DAY
GRUFFALO II
One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s
child ignores her father’s warning and
creeps out into the snow. Surely nothing
out there will scare her! If you loved The
Gruffalo then you can’t miss the sequel, The
Gruffalo’s Child. Once again the best-selling
book has been adapted for the stage and
will be heading to Perth for the Winter Arts
Season. Songs, laughs and scary fun for
children aged four and up.
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performance featuring a cast of actual-size
dinosaur puppets brought to life by the
innovative theatre company Erth Visual
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visual theatre since 1990, incorporating
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scale puppets into their performances. The
company, based in Sydney, tours the globe
and has performed at most major Australian
and international festivals, including the
Sydney Olympic Games Opening Ceremony,
the Singapore Arts Festival and the Festival
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involved in bringing physical theatre and
puppetry into the museum environment here
and overseas.
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cool show that is presented as a live animal
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and snakes we have dinosaurs”. These
incredibly life-like creatures are developed
in consultation with palaeontologists and are
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dinosaur fossils.
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recent additions to their dinosaur family
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will be able to meet the ferocious carnivore
australovenator, reconstructed from the
most complete skeleton of a meat-eating
dinosaur found in Australia to date and
the mighty titanosaurus, the long-necked
dinosaur whose relatives were some of the
heaviest creatures to walk the planet.
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animal presentation. Each dinosaur has
a story about where it came from, what it
eats and how it moves. And they respond
with the unpredictability and intelligence
that you would expect from a prehistoric
creature being controlled by a live performer.
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feed and interact with them, and as Scott
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education and science together and is
another example of the WA Museum’s
commitment to providing dynamic and
varied programs to engage all Western
Australians,” says John Day, Minister for
Culture and the Arts.
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Museum last year, and this year the show
promises to be bigger and better, with a fulllength performance and more dinosaurs to
entertain audiences.”
AT A GLANCE
DINOSAUR PETTING ZOO, WA
Museum, July 7-22
EXPLORE-A-SAURUS, Scitech
Discovery Centre, May 31August 21
ACTORS BOOT CAMP, Western
Australian Youth Theatre
Company, July 9-13
BIG TOP OLYMPICS, Forrest
Place, July 9-21
MOLECULAR ORIGAMI,
Scitech Discovery Centre,
August 15-19
THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD, State
Theatre Centre, August 21-28
DINOSAUR
SPEED CIRCUS
The Big Top Olympics is
coming to town for the
July school holidays!
Bring the kids into
Forrest Place this school
holidays for The Big Top
Olympics combining
extreme sporting
spectacles and hilarious
circus acts into one
side-splitting show. This
high-energy, fast-paced
performance introduces
young audiences to an
array of Olympic sports
in a comical countdown
against the clock.
LITERATURE
Strings
THAT BIND
Words, sound and sculpture are brought together as a writer reads from his novella about a
luthier, inspired by a violinist performing Bach. William Yeoman reports.
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and fragrant with meaning, is as musical
as the most baroque poetry that rings with
rhyme and assonance.
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Unaccountable Hours, which comprises The Luthier, Like Water
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The Luthier, promising young violinist Alton Freeman becomes a
maker of musical instruments in order to recapture something of
the sound produced by his idol, Monica Erica Greenbaum as she
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family has been making violins for centuries.
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his wife Margaret, an artist, and their
daughter Spit, a gifted violinist who forges a
career for herself as a member of the Bondlike all-girl string band, the Redheads.
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Edelman is a gifted violinist of a different
kind, determined to forge a more conventional
musical career while being interested in all
aspects of historical performance practice.
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Art Gallery of WA
The Bakery Artrage Complex
The Bird
The Burger Shack
Carillon City
Cinema Paradiso
City Farm
Council House
Elephant & Wheelbarrow
Ellington Jazz Club
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29 Riverside Theatre,
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30 Rosie O’Grady’s Northbridge
31 Scitech Discovery Centre
32 St George’s Cathedral
33 St Mary’s Cathedral
34 State Library of WA
35 State Theatre Centre of WA
36 UWA
37 Venn Gallery
38 WA Museum
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Andaluz Bar & Tapas
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The George
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THURSDAY
Ya-Ya’s
SUNDAY
Frisk Small Bar
ART IS THE SOUL OF THE CITY
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f, as the poet Goethe said, architecture
is frozen music, there’s nothing like
the living music of the performing
and visual arts to thaw out Perth’s clubs,
small bars and laneways, historic theatres
and churches, contemporary performing
spaces, squares and cinemas and stately
universities, libraries, museums and
galleries over winter.
More than that, the arts warms the
hearts of a city’s workers and residents,
giving them a new “architecture” based
on a new, more spacious view of the world
— and a new, more generous view of
each other. We need heritage-conscious
urban renewal, yes; but we also need a
complementary renewal of the spirit, and
on a daily basis.
This year’s City of Perth Winter Arts
Season embraces both, offering a soulnourishing blend of music, dance, theatre,
comedy, film, spoken word and visual
art throughout some of Perth’s oldest
and newest venues such as St George’s
Cathedral and the Northbridge Piazza, His
Majesty’s Theatre and the State Theatre
Centre, the Perth Town Hall and Grand
Lane, Council House and The Bird and
The Ellington Jazz Club and The 1UP
Microcinema.
And to prolong the pleasure, official
Winter Arts Season post-show lounge
bars Andaluz Bar & Tapas, The George,
Venn Bar, Ya Ya’s and Frisk Small Bar
provide the ideal environments for cosy
late-night discussions.
TURN UP THE HEAT.
Your guide to the hottest
City of Perth Winter Arts events.
JUNE
EVENT
PRESENTER
VENUE
START
END
I (Honestly) Love You
The Blue Room Theatre & Damon
Lockwood
15-May
2-Jun
Les Affreux
The Blue Room Theatre & Spectre
Theatre Co.
22-May
9-Jun
Madame Ballet
Janus Entertainment
State Theatre Centre of WA
5-Jun
16-Jun
Exhibition: The Importance Of Being
Theatrical
Museum of Performing Arts
Downstairs at The Maj
11-Jun
31-Aug
Hello my name is
The Blue Room Theatre, Nichola
Gunn & Theatreworks
12-Jun
23-Jun
Actor’s Studio
WAYouth Theatre Company
King St Arts Centre
13-Jun
15-Aug
Black As Michael Jackson… and Other
Identity Monologues
The Blue Room Theatre & Yirra
Yaakin Theatre Co.
19-Jun
7-Jul
Songs for Nobodies
Duet Entertainment
22-Jun
1-Jul
It's Dark Outside
Perth Theatre Company
29-Jun
14-Jul
Fragile
Buzz Dance Theatre
Dolphin Theatre, UWA
16-Jun
26-Jun
Spotlight @ The Kings
Underground Cabaret
Kings Hotel Perth
16-Jun
16-Jun
Cabaret Soiree: Opening Doors
Perth Theatre Trust & Downstairs
at The Maj
20-Jun
23-Jun
Black Market Cabaret
Sugar Blue Burlesque
20-Jun
20-Jun
Cabaret Soiree: Guy/Doll
at The Maj
27-Jun
30-Jun
Songs for a New World
Underground Cabaret
Kings Hotel Perth
27-Jun
30-Jun
Here’s a little colour key to help you navigate your way through
all the fabulous events on offer over the winter months.
THEATRE
DANCE
CABARET
COMEDY
MUSIC
VISUAL ARTS
FILM
LITERATURE
YOUTH
& FAMILY
Music to warm the soul.
Heating to warm everything else.
JUNE
EVENT
PRESENTER
VENUE
START
END
Comedy Shack
The Shack
The Burger Shack
5-Jun
7-Aug
The Laugh Resort
Laugh Resort Comedy Club
Rosie O’Grady’s Northbridge
6-Jun
29-Aug
Chuckles Comedy Gong Night
Chuckles Comedy
25-Jun
27-Aug
Barefaced Stories
Barefaced Stories
The Bird
26-Jun
28-Aug
25-May
7-Jun
The Ellington Winter Jazz Fest
Ellington Jazz Club
Ellington Jazz Club
WAMi Business Conference
WAM
1-Jun
1-Jun
The WIRE Mag WAMi Festival
Showcase
WAM
1-Jun
1-Jun
Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninov
WA Symphony Orchestra
Perth Concert Hall
1-Jun
2-Jun
WAMi Awards Ceremony
WAM
2-Jun
2-Jun
WAMi Festival Closing Party
WAM, Triple J & RTR FM
2-Jun
2-Jun
State of the Art
Celebrate WA
Perth Concert Hall
3-Jun
3-Jun
Tina Arena with WASO
Riverside Theatre, Perth
Convention Exhibition Centre
8-Jun
8-Jun
Sampology Super Visual Blockbuster
9-Jun
9-Jun
Musicals in Concerts – Lucy Durack &
Friends
Australian Performing Arts
Network
Perth Concert Hall
10-Jun
10-Jun
Music on the Terrace
Government House Foundation
Government House Ballroom
10-Jun
12-Aug
Def FX
11-Jun
11-Jun
Legacy
Australian String Quartet
Perth Concert Hall
11-Jun
11-Jun
The Black Seeds
14-Jun
14-Jun
Tim Freedman's Fireside Chat
Ellington Jazz Club
Ellington Jazz Club
14-Jun
16-Jun
Tijuana Cartel
15-Jun
15-Jun
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
Perth Concert Hall
15-Jun
16-Jun
Hype Williams
16-Jun
16-Jun
Concert: James Penberthy –
A Retrospective
Janus Entertainment
Perth Town Hall
18-Jun
18-Jun
Takács Quartet
Musica Viva
Perth Concert Hall
19-Jun
19-Jun
Morning Melodies Opera Concert
20-Jun
20-Jun
Verbitsky’s 25th Anniversary Gala
Perth Concert Hall
23-Jun
24-Jun
Antarctic Convergence
Tura New Music and Liquid
Architecture National Sound Art
Festival #13
WA Museum
25-Jun
26-Jun
Nadia Ackerman
Ellington Jazz Club
Ellington Jazz Club
27-Jun
27-Jun
JUNE
EVENT
PRESENTER
VENUE
START
END
Your Collection 1800 - today
Art Gallery of WA
Art Gallery of WA
Patrick Doherty - Tales of Hierarchy
Venn Gallery
Venn Gallery
4-May
8-Jun
Apache CLIP Award 2012
Perth Centre for Photography
24-May
24-Jun
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24-May
24-Jun
Gardens for the Blind
ongoing
ongoing
24-May
24-Jun
Beyond Like-ness: contemporary
portraiture
UWA Cultural Precinct
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery,
UWA
25-May
28-Jul
Julie Dowling: Family and Friends
UWA
25-May
28-Jul
Jeff Wall Photographs
Art Gallery of WA
Art Gallery of WA
26-May
10-Sep
Creative Journeys
Celebrate WA
Carillon City
1-Jun
4-Jun
This Wall Talks
Foodchain
1-Jun
31-Aug
Light Locker Art Space
Foodchain
Grand Lane
1-Jun
31-Aug
On and Off the Bench
Gallery Central
Central Institute of Technology
9-Jun
23-Jun
Wearable Narratives, Contemporary
Jewellery & Objects
Gallery Central
9-Jun
30-Jun
Kate McMillan - Paradise Falls
Venn Gallery
Venn Gallery
15-Jun
25-Jul
Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern
Masters
Art Gallery of WA
Art Gallery of WA
16-Jun
3-Dec
Objects. Food. Rooms.
Perth Institute of Contemporary
Arts
Arts
23-Jun
12-Aug
Jimmy Pike’s Artline: Yanartilu
Marnalu Kirranani - You call it desert,
we used to live there
UWA
26-Jun
15-Dec
Wondrous Possessions
28-Jun
29-Jul
The Moorditj Yarning Art Exhibition
Relationships Australia
Perth Town Hall
28-Jun
2-Jul
Living Walls
FORM
FORM
29-Jun
29-Jun
The uncanny edge – a component of
touch this earth lightly
Gallery Central
29-Jun
18-Jul
Artbank Perth Tours
ArtBank
Hyatt Regency Perth
29-Jun
31-Aug
BANFF Mountain Film Festival 2012
World Expeditions
State Theatre Centre WA
30-May
2-Jun
Metropolitan Opera in HD
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso
2-Jun
5-Aug
Oscar Shorts 2012
1UP Microcinema
1UP Microcinema
6-Jun
10-Jun
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Year of Reading
State Library of WA
State Library of WA
21-Jun
16-Aug
Explore-a-saurus
Scitech
Scitech Discovery Centre
31-May
21-Aug
National NAIDOC Week 2012
NAIDOC Perth
Various
15-Jun
7-Jul
Winterfest 2012
St George's Cathedral
24-Jun
24-Jun
Supper Club
City of Perth
Perth Town Hall
29-Jun
29-Jun
JULY
EVENT
PRESENTER
Theatrical
11-Jun
31-Aug
Actor’s Studio
King St Arts Centre
13-Jun
15-Aug
Yirra Yarns
The Blue Room Theatre & Yirra
Yaakin Theatre Co.
3-Jul
7-Jul
Actors Boot Camp - 5 day workshop
King St Arts Centre
9-Jul
13-Jul
The School for Wives
Bell Shakespeare
11-Jul
14-Jul
Signs of Life
Black Swan State Theatre Co. &
Sydney Theatre Co.
21-Jul
12-Aug
Paul Peacock’s Open Mic Night with
Tim Howe
Underground Cabaret
Kings Hotel Perth
7-Jul
7-Jul
Cabaret Soiree: Well Swung
at The Maj
4-Jul
7-Jul
Cabaret Soiree: Two Weeks in Paris
at The Maj
11-Jul
14-Jul
Cabaret Soiree: Kitchmas in July
at The Maj
18-Jul
21-Jul
Comedy Shack
The Shack
The Burger Shack
5-Jun
7-Aug
The Laugh Resort
6-Jun
29-Aug
Chuckles Comedy
25-Jun
27-Aug
Barefaced Stories
Barefaced Stories
The Bird
26-Jun
28-Aug
Comedy Lounge & EIS
Riverside Theatre, Perth
Convention Exhibition Centre
14-Jul
14-Jul
An Englishman, an Irishman
and a Scotsman
VENUE
Our artists aren’t tortured.
Just a little chilled.
START
END
JULY
EVENT
PRESENTER
VENUE
ArtBar - Tim Finn
Art Gallery of WA
Ravel’s Piano Concerto
START
END
10-Jun
12-Aug
Art Gallery of WA
5-Jul
5-Jul
Perth Concert Hall
5-Jul
7-Jul
Portraits in Guitar
UWA
6-Jul
6-Jul
The Bamboos
6-Jul
6-Jul
Club Zho 101
Tura New Music
10-Jul
10-Jul
Lucia di Lammermoor
WA Opera
14-Jul
21-Jul
Verbitsky Conducts WAYO
WA Youth Orchestra
Perth Concert Hall
14-Jul
14-Jul
Baroque to Romanticism Christopher van Tuinen conducts FCO
Fremantle Chamber Orchestra
Perth Town Hall
15-Jul
15-Jul
Amacord
Musica Viva
Perth Concert Hall
17-Jul
17-Jul
The Reef
Tura New Music & ACO
Perth Concert Hall
18-Jul
18-Jul
Troy Roberts
Ellington Jazz Club
Ellington Jazz Club
19-Jul
19-Jul
The Piano
Perth Jazz Society
Downstairs at The Maj, His
Majesty’s Theatre
22-Jul
4-Aug
Ladyhawke
24-Jul
24-Jul
Nerissa Campbell
Ellington Jazz Club
Ellington Jazz Club
27-Jul
28-Jul
Mozart’s Masterpiece
St Mary’s Cathedral
27-Jul
27-Jul
2012 Sydney International Piano
Competition of Australia
Perth Theatre Trust and Perth
Concert Hall
Perth Concert Hall
30-Jul
30-Jul
Art Gallery of WA
Art Gallery of WA
26-May
10-Sep
Creative Journeys
Celebrate WA
Carillon City
1-Jun
4-Jun
This Wall Talks
Foodchain
1-Jun
31-Aug
Foodchain
Grand Lane
1-Jun
31-Aug
Gallery Central
9-Jun
23-Jun
If the weather doesn’t
give you goosebumps,
the performances will.
JULY
EVENT
PRESENTER
VENUE
START
END
Jewellery & Objects
Gallery Central
9-Jun
30-Jun
Venn Gallery
Venn Gallery
15-Jun
25-Jul
Masters
Art Gallery of WA
Art Gallery of WA
16-Jun
3-Dec
Arts
Arts
23-Jun
12-Aug
UWA
26-Jun
15-Dec
28-Jun
29-Jul
Perth Town Hall
28-Jun
2-Jul
Living Walls
FORM
FORM
29-Jun
29-Jun
Gallery Central
29-Jun
18-Jul
Artbank Perth Tours
ArtBank
Hyatt Regency Perth
29-Jun
31-Aug
Lecture: The Biological Portrait
UWA
5 & 12 Jul
5 & 12 Jul
TOHOKU – Through the Eyes of
Japanese Photographers
Consulate-General of Japan in
Perth
Council House
10-Jul
26-Jul
Out There Ladies
Gallery Central
Jul-09
27-Jul
The Eye of the Beholder Supper
UWA
Wed 11
July
Wed 11
July
The Outsiders
Narda McMahon
13-Jul
5-Aug
St George’s Art 2012: 10th Annual
Exhibition
21-Jul
2-Aug
Benjamin Forster, Tom Freeman and
Clare Peake - Spatial Drawing
Venn Gallery
Venn Gallery
27-Jul
31-Aug
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso
2-Jun
5-Aug
Year of Reading
State Library of WA
State Library of WA
21-Jun
16-Aug
Soiree Dinner: Portrait of a Luthier
The University Club Restaurant
4-Jul
4-Jul
Mirror an exhibition by Jeannie Baker
State Library of WA
State Library of WA
5-Jul
28-Sep
Erth's Dinosaur Petting Zoo
WA Museum
WA Museum
7-Jul
22-Jul
Big Top Olympics
City of Perth
Forrest Place
9-Jul
21-Jul
Kids’ Cushion Concerts
Perth Concert Hall
11-Jul
21-Jul
Play Me A Picture
Perth Concert Hall
22-Jul
22-Jul
Supper Club
City of Perth
Perth Town Hall
27-Jul
27-Jul
Made on the Left Markets
Made on the Left
29-Jul
29-Jul
AUGUST
City Forecast: Cloudy with a
chance of watercolours.
EVENT
PRESENTER
VENUE
START
END
Theatrical
11-Jun
31-Aug
Actor’s Studio
King St Arts Centre
13-Jun
15-Aug
In Tender Hands by Peter Bibby
Janus Entertainment
8-Aug
18-Aug
The Mousetrap
Michael Coppel, Louise Withers,
Linda Bewick in association
with Adrian Barnes and by
arrangement with Mousetrap
Productions Ltd London
14-Aug
26-Aug
Breaking Out
WA Academy of Performing Arts
Dolphin Theatre, UWA
21-Aug
25-Aug
MoveMe Dance Festival
STRUT Dance
Various
28-Aug
2-Sep
Comedy Shack
The Shack
The Burger Shack
5-Jun
7-Aug
The Laugh Resort
6-Jun
29-Aug
Chuckles Comedy
25-Jun
27-Aug
Barefaced Stories
Barefaced Stories
The Bird
26-Jun
28-Aug
Scitech Comedy Debate
Scitech
14-Aug
14-Aug
10-Jun
12-Aug
Brahms’ German Requiem
Perth Concert Hall
3-Aug
4-Aug
Tasmin Little Plays Bruch
Perth Concert Hall
10-Aug
11-Aug
WAAPA Lunchtime Concerts
WA Academy of Performing Arts
State Library of WA
10-Aug
31-Aug
Beethoven 9, Ode to Joy
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Perth Concert Hall
15-Aug
15-Aug
The Four Seasons
17-Aug
17-Aug
James Morrison in Concert supported
by the Australian Army Band
The Army Museum of WA
Foundation
Perth Concert Hall
18-Aug
18-Aug
Mike Stewart & Sarah McKenzie with
WAYJO
WA Youth Jazz Orchestra
24-Aug
24-Aug
Mozart & Mahler
Perth Concert Hall
24-Aug
25-Aug
George Garzone
Ellington Jazz Club
Ellington Jazz Club
24-Aug
25-Aug
Australiana: Celebrating Australian
Choral Compositions
Voyces Inc
Perth Town Hall
26-Aug
26-Aug
Sir Francis Burt Memorial Recital
30-Aug
30-Aug
Arabian Nights
Perth Concert Hall
31-Aug
1-Sep
AUGUST
EVENT
PRESENTER
VENUE
Art Gallery of WA
Art Gallery of WA
Creative Journeys
Celebrate WA
This Wall Talks
START
END
26-May
10-Sep
Carillon City
1-Jun
4-Jun
Foodchain
1-Jun
31-Aug
Foodchain
Grand Lane
1-Jun
31-Aug
Gallery Central
9-Jun
23-Jun
Jewellery & Objects
Gallery Central
9-Jun
30-Jun
Venn Gallery
Venn Gallery
15-Jun
25-Jul
Masters
Art Gallery of WA
Art Gallery of WA
16-Jun
3-Dec
Arts
Arts
23-Jun
12-Aug
UWA
26-Jun
15-Dec
28-Jun
29-Jul
Perth Town Hall
28-Jun
2-Jul
Living Walls
FORM
FORM
29-Jun
29-Jun
Gallery Central
29-Jun
18-Jul
Artbank Perth Tours
ArtBank
Hyatt Regency Perth
29-Jun
31-Aug
Iris Award 2012 + Iris Award Book
Launch
2-Aug
2-Sep
2012 Graduating Fundraiser Auction
Gallery Central
2-Aug
2-Aug
Creative Connections Art & Poetry
Exhibition
Creative Connections
City Farm
4-Aug
4-Aug
Here & Now
UWA
10-Aug
6-Oct
metamorphosis 2012
Gallery Central
13-Aug
24-Aug
Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso
2-Jun
5-Aug
Year of Reading
State Library of WA
State Library of WA
21-Jun
16-Aug
The 2012 WA Poetry Festival
WA Poets Inc
Various
17-Aug
20-Aug
National Science Week - Molecular
Origami
Scitech
15-Aug
19-Aug
The Gruffalo's Child
CDP Theatre Producers PTY
21-Aug
28-Aug
Supper Club
City of Perth
Perth Town Hall
31-Aug
31-Aug
Visit showmeperth.com.au to read more about these events.
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