Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA) presents
IN THE BLINK OF THE NIGHT: AN EXHIBITION OF CAPTURED DREAMS
Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Northbridge
Dates: Opening Night, 17 Oct, 6pm. Season: 18 Oct–23 Nov Tue–Thu & Sat–Sun 11am–6pm, Fri 11am-9pm
This is a creative cross pollination with six young photographers who worked with artist Poppy van Oorde-Grainger and photographer Michael Ellis to capture images of their dreams.
Supported by Healthway and YMCA, Stereoscope concept and production by Steven Aiton
ANDY CULT CHARACTERS
BREADBOX GALLERY
The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, 233 James St, Northbridge
Dates: 18 Oct, 6pm, 19 Oct–2 Nov, Wed–Sun 12–5pm (exhibition also open during select Silver Club nights)
Candy Cult in a collective exhibition combines over twenty characters that feature graphic design, street art, illustration, paper craft, comics, toy-making and animation.
Cute and fun!
www.candycult.net
IT’S COLD UP THERE
The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, 233 James St, Northbridge
Dates: OPENING: 18 Oct, 6pm. SEASON: 19 Oct–1 Nov | Wed-Sun 12–5pm(exhibition also open during select Silver Club nights).
It’s Cold Up There is designed to engage the viewers in sublime, embodied and beatific works. Digital film artist Kate Faulds produces layered works using synthesized digital video, animation and drawing which are then projected onto multiple surfaces.
WASTELAND & ARTRAGE present
AGAINST THE GRAIN
Level 1, 44 King St, Perth
Dates: OPENING: 22 Oct, 8pm, SEASON: 22 Oct–5 Nov
Wasteland in association with Artrage will illuminate their Wolf Lane wall with a Laser Tag and Schmigloo show by Reka One. See abstract fantasy characters which represent humour, menace, pop icons, love, hate, life, death, greed, charity, folk-lore & fairy-tale.
Supported by Perrier, Redback, Puddle Jumper and Wasteland. \ 
Image: (c) Yann Arthus-Bertrand. FIELDS OF TULIPS NEAR LISSE, NEAR AMSTERDAM, NETHERLANDS (52°06’ N, 4°42’ E))
EARTH FROM ABOVE
Perth Cultural Centre
James St, Northbridge
Dates:15 Oct 2008–end Jan 2009
Earth from Above is an aerial portrait of our beautiful and inspiring planet. This ambitious project was the brainchild of French photographer
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the result a thought-provoking, educational and entertaining exhibition.
See the show 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in an open-air exhibition featuring 120 large-scale images.
This show has been proudly supported by principal sponsors, the Western Australian Department of Environment and Conservation and BHP Billiton, Earth from Above aims to stimulate awareness, discussion and ultimately the adoption of more sustainable practices.
Spectrum Project Space presents
CAMERALESS
221 Beaufort Street, Northbridge
Dates: 25 Oct–16 Nov, Wed–Sun 2–6pm
Cameraless explores photo process without a camera to produce art pieces. The show explores techniques using photosensitive surfaces to capture images.
Go to www.scca.ecu.edu.au/projects/spectrum for more information.
THE BOOTH
Popping up all over the festival The Booth is your mobile confession outlet for festival pleads.
Your priest and her video camera are there for you. Confess as many times as you like. Priest Jen Jamieson has been known to weep, be kind, flirtatious, serious and angry but mainly she listens.
Jen Jamieson’s The Booth first appeared in the festival club in 2002. It returns in 2008 as a mobile unit that pops up all over the festival, so get your confessions ready.
Dates:
17 Oct | Cultural Centre, 18 Oct | The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, Candy, 24 Oct | Cultural Centre31 Oct | The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, 1 Nov | Northbridge Festival, 2 Nov | Northbridge Festival, 7 Nov | The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, 8 Nov | The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex,
LASER TAG
Graffiti has varied views within our community - is it art or vandalism?
Local artist Jerrem Lynch was inspired by new tech graf artist James Powderly’s visit to Perth. Lynch has adapted some of his new technology which you can find in three installations over the festival.
Dates:
17 Oct - Cultural Centre, 22 Oct - Wolf lane outside Wasteland, Wolf Lane Happening8 Nov - The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex.
Image: Keg de Souza
SCHMIGLOO
A giant portable igloo called Schmigloo will become the festival landmark bar. Popping up at various locations over the festival and created by ex-pat Keg de Souza and a team of creatives.
Let the Schmigloo blow you away!
Dates:
17 Oct , Cultural Centre,18 Oct, The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, Openings &22 Oct, Wolf lane outside Wasteland, Wolf Lane Happening, 24 Oct, Cultural Centre 31 Oct, Cultural Centre1 Nov, Northbridge Festival, 2 Nov, Northbridge Festival, 7 Nov, Cultural Centre 8 Nov, The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex.
James Angus Bicycle, Wonderlust
PEOPLE POWER IN THE CULTURAL CENTRE
James St, Northbridge
Dates: 17 Oct - from 6pm, 24 Oct - from 8pm, 31 Oct - from 8pm, 1 Nov - 1–11pm, 2 Nov, 2–5pm7 Nov - from 8pm
The Cultural Centre is the heart of the SILVER ARTRAGE Festival 2008.
Key performances over the festival are at PICA, The Blue Room and The Rechabites Hall, with other programs extending up William Street and James Street to The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex,
In our pursuit to make Perth a livelier cultural city a free program that activates the area is designed to generate good times, generate discussion about issues of sustainability, and generate electricity…
So support Artrage, the environment and Perth’s cultural industries move to bring people into Perth’s cultural area by visit the precinct multiple times over the three weeks.
ARTERIAL COLLECTIVE
GINGER’S GARAGE
Level 1, 267 William Street, Northbridge
Dates: 18 Oct–26 Oct, Mon–Sat 9am–5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Tickets: Free entry
The first exhibition from Cameron Campbell, Pete Long, Jessie Singh and Nisha Ariyaratne an emerging contemporary artistic collective. Their ideas respond to forging bonds between other artists, galleries, art forms and countries, creating relationships outside of genre or geography.
WWW.GINGERSGARAGE.COM.AU , WWW.ARTERIALCOLLECTIVE.COM
Sponsored by Spicers Paper, Supported by Coopers Brewery, Madfish, Advance Press GEON, Cut & Paste, RTR & DIK
SPLIF RETROSPECTIVE
233 James St, Northbridge
Dates: 9 Nov, 6pm for BBQ, films start at 8pm
Tickets: $2
To celebrate this special Artrage year SPLIF (Screening Perth’s Local Independent Films) is presenting a night that celebrates a collection of some of our best short films made in WA from 2001 - 2007.
Ivan Borgnino’s opens his personal vault so bring your beanbag for a bbq and film night, Low Budget! High Adventure!
SymbioticA - The Centre of Excellence in Biological Art presents
SILENT BARRAGE
The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, 233 James St, Northbridge
Dates: 7 Nov, 6–10pm
Walk into a public lab for the exhibition Silent Barrage. The night showcases sixty sculptural robotic objects, all responding to electric activity occurring in a living network of rat neurons.
Silent Barrage culminates six years of research by Phil Gamblen and Guy Ben-Ary with the aim to discover the artistic and philosophical implications of an entity made of a ‘living brain’ controlling a robot body.
Blackbox @ The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex
Supported by the Department of Culture and the Arts, WA and The Australia Council. 
MOBILE WORKS
SILENT DISCO
Get down in your own silent groove which when Artrage present Silent Disco. Grab some head phones, choose your channel and your beat.
Several different RTR DJs will be in charge of the mix your in charge of your grooves.
Dates:
17 Oct - Cultural Centre,18 Oct - The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, Candy, Openings & t - Cultural Centre,31 Oct - Cultural Centre,1 Nov - Northbridge Festival, 2 Nov - Northbridge Festival, 7 Nov - Cultural Centre, 8 Nov - The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex.
BOX
The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex, 233 James St, Northbridge
Dates: SEASON, 7 Nov–23 Nov, Wed-Fri 12-5pm, Sat and Sun 2-6pm
Breadbox is combining their extreme and eclectic past shows in a Silver Artrage exhibition called Box. One box, over seven years, with one hundred plus exhibitions featuring more than thousand artists. The result a large-scale installation made up of 1000’s of boxes.
Look out for the limited run of select box designs that are available for sale. 
Image: Shaun Ferraloro
CONTROLLED RIOT
233 James St, Northbridge
Dates: 8 Nov, The Bakery ARTRAGE Complex,
Experimental crowd control performances will be featured at the closing party and performed by Electro-punk Tomás Ford and his army of minions. Expect frantic DIY spectacle.
Keith + Lottie present
BITTERSWEET NOVEMBER
KEITH + LOTTIE
276 William Street, Northbridge
Dates: 27 Oct–14 Nov, 11am–6pm daily
Bittersweet November is a celebration of the joys of instant photography in the wake of Polaroid deciding to quit photography after sixty years.
WWW.KEITHANDLOTTIE.COM
SILVER CURATORS TALK : 1983–1999
Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Northbridge
Dates: 18 Oct | 2.30–3.30pm
Tickets: Free
Join the curators and friends on the floor as they explain how they shaped past Artrage exhibitions and the period of Perth visual cultural history.
Emerge Art Soace presents
ANNA SABADINI
23 Brisbane Street, Perth
Dates: 15 Oct–2 Nov, Wed–Fri 11am– 4pm, Sun 2–5pm
The first solo exhibition by Anna Sabadini’s which explores her Italian heritage.
Central TAFE Art Gallery presents
REVEALED : EMERGING ARTISTS FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA’S ABORIGINAL ART CENTRES
12 Aberdeen Street, Northbridge
Dates: 27 Oct–8 Nov, Mon–Sat 10am–4.45pm, Sun variable
See the lattest works from regional Aboriginal artists, which will be on sale Saturday November 1 at the Northbridge Festival weekend.
ABD the Gallery presents
BUILDING BLOCKS
240 Lake Street, Northbridge
Dates: 24 Oct–9 Nov, Thu–Sat 10am–5pm, Sun 12–5pm
Building blocks is a three-dimensional exhibition by Leigh Claessen which reflects an urban existance.
