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fotofreo 2010- Capturing An Array Of Emotions

 Cyrus Cornut @ Wolf Lane

Cyrus Cornut @ Wolf Lane 

 

Fotofreo is one of Perth’s most important cultural festivals and begins March 20 to April 18 in Fremantle.

 

Why is it so meaningful? Its comprehensive scale; its significant subjectivity, its skill in strong storytelling plus how it stimulates deep emotions.

 

I urge you to take a day or more to wander through the streets of Fremantle plus other parts of Perth. Exploring and being captivated by the works that can seem at times quirky, controversial, humorous, powerfully inspiring and powerfully confronting plus countless other feelings.

 

To download the full festival go to - www.fotofreo.com

 

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unwrapped - Perth’s Premier Markets - March 6

unwrapped - Perth’s Premier Markets

The annual unwrapped is on March 6 at Sir James Mitchell Park, South Perth.

Featuring more than 70 designers. Browse men’s and women’s wear, artwork, photography, accessories to homewares.

 

A premium event for unique style finds. 

Moonlight Cinemas: Line Up & Ticket Special

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Moonlight cinemas and mystylelocal.net are offering subscribers to mystylelocal the chance to win a double pass to the cinema. Simply email ‘mystylelocal@westnet.com.au’ with the title ‘Subscribe - Moonlight Competition’ with your address and you will automatically go into the draw to win one of five double tickets. One winner will be drawn for the next 5 weeks and you can use the ticket any night until March 14. Simple.

 

Here is Moonlight cinemas line up for the next two weeks:

 

Tues 12 January       IN THE LOOP MA 15+                        

This film is a fast-paced, comedy based on the BBC sitcom The Tick Of It.

 

Wed 13 January        PULP FICTION (R18+)                    

A Tarantino classic.

 

Thurs 14 January      WHIP IT! (M)                                      

A feisty, female-friendly action-comedy directed by Drew Barrymore.

 

Fri 15 January           MAO’S LAST DANCER (PG)         

A true story based on the autobiography of Chinese dancer Li Cuxin who defected to the US and is now a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.

 

Sat 16 January          2012 (M)

A blockbuster based on the ancient Mayan civilization end of the world prediction in the year 2012. Starring John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Amanda Peet and Danny Glover.

 

Sun 17 January         A CHRISTMAS CAROL (PG)         

The animated classic story of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Jim Carrey stars as the main role.

 

Mon 18 January        CLOSED

 

Tues 19 January       ZOMBIELAND (MA15+)                   

If you like a Zombie comedy check this one out.

 

Wed 20 January        WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (PG)     

A wild adventure based on a classic that has been highly anticipated and adapted by director Spike Jonze.

 

Thurs 21 January      AN EDUCATION (M)                                    

An unconventional adventure based in 1961 when a 16 year-old girl is introduced to a new-world, a new education.

 

Fri 22 January           AVATAR  (M)                                                

Visionary and Oscar winning director James Cameron takes you on a new Science fiction adventure (which is proving to be a massive hit at the box office).

 

Sat 23 January          AVATAR (M)                                     

As above.

 

Sun 24 January         ALVIN & THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL (G) 

Take your niece or nephew.

 

Mon 25 January        MAMMA MIA! (PG)                           

A surprisingly great flick inspired by the music of ABBA and set in Greece.

 

Tues 26 January       CLOSED

 

Wed 27 January        THE BOYS ARE BACK (M)            

A deeply moving story of fatherhood and based on a true story starring Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Clive Owen. Directed by Australian Scott Hicks (Shine.)

 

Venue information

Synergy Parklands at  Kings Park & Botanic Garden, May Drive (easy entry off Saw Avenue).

Gates open 6.00pm, film starts at sundown approx 7.30pm.

 

Ticket options

Tickets are available online at www.moonlight.com.au or at the gate.

Adults $15, Concession $13, Senior/Child $11, GOLD GRASS luxury ticket package $30, which includes a glass of wine and a bean bed in the ticket price, reserved in a premium viewing position.

 

Catering and Facilities

BYO hamper and drinks, or on-site catering and licensed bar facilities are available.

 

 

Perth Marketplace - Support Our Local Design Industry

mkt-2.JPGAs we move into the Christmas season why not go local for this years gifts?Over the next month support our local artists and community by buying up at the following markets!  Continue reading ‘Perth Marketplace - Support Our Local Design Industry’

2008 Northbridge Festival - Colourful Street Treats

 

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Don’t miss this years Northbridge Festival, over two days this weekend. The festival line up is expansive with colourful and unusual events to performances which are designed to capture your imagination.

Highlights include:

Market stalls, a variety of performances on four small stages, eclectic street performers, fire sculptures, trapeze artists, temporary galleries, stunt displays and the occasional percussive outburst.

Also get your groove on at the Silent Disco, confess in The Booth, Have a drink in The Schmigloo bar plus enjoy the Big N Busk-a-thon. 

There are also 100 drums and drum workshops with a variety of top acts playing on the stages including Institut Polaire.

The festival commences on Saturday from 1pm to 11pm and on Sunday from 4pm to 11pm. The festival is made up of four quarters and the central streets will be closed. 

 

To get the full line up and times go to - http://www.northbridgefestival.com.au/

 

So get festive and make a day of it with friends and family.

 

 

 

Creative Call Out – Unique Ventures for WA Designers

artrAGE - Perform or Sell At The 2008 Northbridge Festival   

 

Click through to find out how you can participate in the following creative call outs!

 

ArtBound Sculpture Award – At Southbound Festival (Jan 09)

 

The Missing Link Festival - Spectrum Project Space (Dec 08)

Unwrapped – Designer Markets in Subi (Dec 08)

ARTRAGE – Entertainers & Market Stalls (Nov 08)

 

ArtBound Southbound Rod Laws Sculpture 

Rod Laws sculpture ArtBound 2008  


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What’s On in Perth - August 14 Onwards

 

 

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Nullarbor LAN Festival - August 15 and 16

 

Creatives to geeks celebrate the finale of the Nullarbor independent game developers competition by participating or attending a special two-day event party at the Bakery August 15 and 16.

 

The event starts this Friday with the Developers’ Old School Demoparty. Developers, designers and creative’s will work over 24 hours to create new games and digital content from start to finish.

 

Keen to be apart of the LAN festivities check out the gamejam website http://gamejam.org/.

 

The festival wraps up Saturday from 7pm when the Red Bull stimulated digital designers and developers present their works which they have just spent 24 hours developing. Punters get there on Saturday to see the finished digital games, vote for your favourite game and meet the digi set.

 

Free Entry

The Bakery – 53 James Street, Northbridge  

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Must Winebar - The Best of Bordeaux

Bordeaux Dinner must wine bar

 

Bordeaux boasts a long history of quality wine dating back to the 3rd century BC.

 

The Bordeaux region produces one-quarter of France’s total wine production and is regarded for its stellar standard.

 

Must Winebar is privy to some of the most significant and spectacular wines from this region and will celebrate this by hosting a special evening in the Champagne Lounge hosted by Bordeaux expert John Baker.

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Neo Perth - Current Exhibitions

Image: Rodney Glick, Everyone NO.9, 2008, carved and painted wood (detail)

God-favoured, Rodney Glick: Surveyed, is the current exhibition Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA that showcases renowned
WA artist Glick’s eclectic works in sculpture, installation, photography and publications.

Open till August 10, 2008
Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery UWA

The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA
T. +61 8 6488 3707
http://lwgallery.uwa.edu.au/ 


Wonderlust is a showcase of the entire WA Art Galleries collection with a different take on final exhibition. Instead of hanging the works in historical or cultural origins they have hung them in groups according to their meaning.

Opening June 28, 2008
WA Art Gallery
Perth Cultural Centre                                         
Perth WA
T. +61 8 9492 6600
http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/index.asp

 Jean Baptiste Apuatimi,Minga, 57 x 77 cm, natural ochres on paper 

 Mignonette Jamin, Untitled 2008, 130 x 125cm, Natural ochres and pigment on canvas

Mignonette Jamin: Black on White – White on Black
Seva Frangos presented and exhibition in association with Waringarri Aboriginal Arts community, until July 19.

Open until July 19, 2008
Seva Frangos Gallery
271 Rokeby Road Subiaco WA
T.+61 8 9380 9938
http://www.sevafrangosart.com/

DofA Julian Stadon, Slarips, mixed digital media, 2008 

Julian Stadon, Slarips, mixed digital media, 2008
 

The annual DofA is a chance to view postgraduate students from the Department of Art, Curtin University of Technology work.

Featuring students: Beth Kirkland, Dragica Milunovic, Kuemhee Oh, Mark Parfitt, Lynn Smith, Fong-Yeng Soon, Julian Stadon.

Open till August 1, 2008
Curtin University of Technology,
Building 200, Kent Street, Bentley, WA
T. + 61 8 9266 4155
www.johncurtingallery.curtin.edu.au 

A powerful show by young and highly acclaimed artist Joshua Webb ‘New Violence’ continues to explore his concerns with global politics in the age of economic imperialism.

OPENS SUNDAY 29 June 3PM until 27 July 2008
GALERIE DÜSSELDORF

9 Glyde Street Mosman Park, WA
T. +61  8 9384 0890
http://www.galeriedusseldorf.com.au  
   

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Surreal artist Creepy is current exhibiting at Keith & Lottie in Northbridge.

Describing his work as ‘loosely based on his own human experience, depicted through fictional characters in a world very similar to our own’. His characters are twisted, exaggerated  with beasts coated in hair, tattoos and symbols.
Celebrate his works in his first exhibition since 2006 at Keith & Lottie until July 11.

Luna Cinemas - A Mightly lineup

Seek out new film experiences. Here is a just a small taste of some of the lattest films at Luna:

The historical epic drama Mongol is based on one of the most feared leaders in world history Ghenghis Khan - a visual masterpiece.
Showing at Luna Leederville+ Luna SX Fremantle.

Discover the powerful, poetic and deeply compassionate tale of the human courage in the new Australian film Unfinished Sky starring William McInnes.
Showing at  Cinema Paradiso + Luna SX Fremantle.

The new Australian Documentary Hope is an extraordinary and inspirational tale of 400 people who set out on a boat, only 7 arrive to Australia. This is one on the most horrific and controversial events in modern Australia history.
Showing at Luna Leederville.

The opening night film at the Sydney Film Festival this year was Happy-Go-Lucky which is a comedy about an optimistic London schoolteacher. Written by Mike Leigh and stars Sally Hawkins, who won Best Actress at the Berlin Film Festival.
Showing at Cinema Paradiso + Luna SX Fremantle.

Animation fans shouldn’t miss Reelanime 2008. Madman Cinema showcases the most up-to-date Anime feature films. Screening four of the freshest anime feature films this side of Tokyo.

The movie program includes  the CGI brilliance of Appleseed: Ex Machina and Vexille; to the highly anticipated  Batman: Gotham Knight plus the skillful story of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Opening night July 3 and runs till July 16, at Luna Leederville.

Here is just a selection of what’s on offer. To find out more and film times go to: http://www.luna.com.au

Vmoto - Cheap Way To Travel


 

Lower your carbon footprint by investing in a zippy 2006 Vmoto Scooter. These cool, vesper-style scooters are a great way to get around town.

Perth 3MW has brought a bulk order of Montego 125cc scooters. You can own one for only $2,250, plus 6 months rego and a full tank of petrol.

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Perth International Arts Festival - Explore New Cultures

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One of my favourite parts of the festival has always been the eclectic mix of sounds that the Becks Verandah bar produced.

It’s back but this year has a new home on the Esplanade in a big top. It will have to pull out all the stops to impress me as I rated the verandah bar, at the concert hall, the best temporary bar in Perth.

Here’s the Becks Music Box’s line up, starting Feb 9th.

9 February 2008: LABJACD (Aus) plus special guest DJ Dexter (Aus) WA PREMIERE

10 February 2008: Gretchen Parlato (USA) WA PREMIERE

11-12 February 2008: Meow Meow (France/Germany) WA PREMIERE

13 February 2008: Scientists (Australia) performing Blood Red River

14 February 2008: That1Guy (USA) WA PREMIERE

15-16 February 2008: Lawrence Leung (Aus) with The Bedroom Philosopher (Aus) (After-Party) WA

17 February 2008: Explosions In The Sky (USA) WA PREMIERE

18-19 February 2008: Yasmin Levy (Israel) WA PREMIERE

20 February 2008: A Hawk And A Hacksaw (USA/Hungary) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

21 February 2008: 2008 WAMi Awards

22 February 2008: RTRFM 92.1 Music Quiz

23 February 2008: Sonic Youth (USA) performing Daydream Nation

24 February 2008: Martin Hayes and Dennis Cahill (Ireland)

25 February 2008: Brodsky Quartet (UK) with Craig Ogden, Jamie Ohlers and Fiona Campbell (Aus)

26 February 2008: The Bad Plus (USA) AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

27 February 2008: Feist (Canada) with Dan Deacon (USA) (After-Party) WA PREMIERE

28 February 2008: Nouvelle Vague (France) with Solal (France) (After-Party) WA PREMIERE

29 February 2008: Okkervil River (USA)1 March 2008: Soul Jazz Sound System (UK)

2 March 2008: Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (USA)

Venue: Beck’s Music Box, The Esplanade, Perth

 

Sonic Youth

 

Other festival highlights include 

 

Meow Meow

DANCE: Metadance in resonant light 

DANCE: Borrowing Light 

The Turning

THEATRE: Black Watch

THEATRE: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

JAZZ: Chris Potter

To find out more or book online www.perthfestival.com.au or (08) 9484 1133