With fiery passion and heart-wrenching emotion, the intensely expressive musicians in Z.E.N. Trio come together for a rare and unforgettable tour with Musica Viva Australia. Comprised of three internationally acclaimed soloists, the Z.E.N. Trio have made their name through the BBC New Generation scheme, a Deutsche Grammophon recording, and countless Embarking on their first national tour, the Trio premiere a new work from Musica Viva Australia FutureMaker, Matt Laing, a composer of great virtuosity and originality. Alongside this work is Arno Babajanian’s thrilling trio, and Dvorák’s intoxicating ‘Dumky’.

You're invited to come behind the scenes at WAAPA. Speak with staff members about course options and learn about auditions. Marvel at the design work, costumes and props on display. Check out the superbly equipped lighting and sound studios, the music technology labs and the scenery construction workshops. Explore the campus, take a backstage tour and attend information sessions.

This current affair show, live on stage, is a provocative, insightful, and witty evening with international human rights judge and barrister Geoffrey Robertson QC. Geoffrey Robertson will analyse the current Australian and global politics, the current international turmoil, explain how fake news distorts democracy, what is really happening to the royal family, and his calls for Australian constitutional regeneration. He will explain what is happening to Julian Assange, how to stop the rich from inheriting the world, and the thinking behind ‘Bad People – and How to Be Rid of Them.’ The show will give an insight into his life and famous cases and his crusade to restore cultural property from museums around the world to the people from whom it was stolen.

‘Chinoiserie’, the Western appropriation of Asian aesthetics, briefly represented the height of fashion for European aristocracy during the early eighteenth century, before falling out of favour and being variously characterised as effeminate, immoral and transgressive. Today the style remains something of a guilty pleasure, via its undeniable aesthetic charm, but intensely problematic and kitsch appropriation of Asian culture. A Gentle Misinterpretation will transform FAC’s gallery spaces into an opulent, sensual and comedic exploration of one of Western culture’s most fascinating aesthetic curiosities. ARTISTS Abdul Abdullah Casey Ayres Nathan Beard Sandra Black Tanija and Graham Carr David Charles Collins Theo Costantino Susan Flavell Tarryn Gill Pilar Mata Dupont Cherish Marrington Andrew Nicholls And various artisans from Jingdezhen China and residents of Brighton, UK

The two day course starts with a 52 kilometer stretch beginning at the Town of Northam, 100km east of Perth. The course proceeds downriver through the town of Toodyay into the upper reaches of the Darling Range escarpment. The overnight stop is the Boral Campsite located at Cobbler Pool 20km west of Toodyay. Day 2 is 72km long and sees participants tackle the valley containing the major white water obstacles and challenges of the event including Supershoot, Emu Falls, Championship Rapids and Bells Rapids. The rush of the valley leaves participants with the marathon 30km, flat water stretch to Bayswater. While the victorious burst their way over the Finish Line the achievers are happy just to finish. The Avon Descent was first held during 1973 with just 49 competitors, no rules, no officials, no checkpoints and very few spectators. In the years since, more than 35,000 people have participated in the Avon Descent, from novices and families, to World Champions and Olympic competitors.

The Program features relay races and individual events for both Little Athletics, Senior athletes, and non-members to enter. Relay teams can be compromised of athletes of various ages and abilities and there are female, male and mixed categories available. Organiser Athletics West Distances/Events Individual events: 1K (7 yrs +) 2K (10 yrs +) 4K (14 yrs +) Relay events: 3 x 1K (7 yrs +) 3 x 2K (10 yrs +) 3 x 4K (14 yrs +)

Jason is obsessed with making home videos about his family, and their Dutch matriarch, Oma. He and his wife Megan embrace caring for Oma’s dementia in increasingly whimsical ways, accidentally turning her into an online celebrity. . Their unassuming home videos, shot during the pandemic, attract over 100,000,000 views globally. Everybody’s Oma follows in the NSW Central Coast family’s footsteps as they navigate Oma’s failing health under the spotlight of an enthusiastic audience of well-meaning strangers.

Watercolour is a fascinating medium that is often said to be one of the most difficult art forms. In this captivating exhibition, the Watercolour Society of WA uses paintings by its members to unlock secrets that can take years to learn. Exploring Watercolour allows visitors to discover what these talented artists paint with, what they paint on, where they paint, the techniques they use, and the unexpected delights of this fascinating medium.

80 years ago Giovanni Della-Franca (Jack) brought with him traditions and folklore from Northern Italy. This fable was sewn in the soil with the first apple tree planted at Core Cider and through four generations, Jack’s stories live on. Fire Fable & Feast heralds the end of icy frost and long cold nights, welcoming new life to the orchard. Together we bask in the glow of this new season as we release and awaken the trees. From sticks to blossoms, and blossoms to apples, let there be a bountiful harvest ahead! In the dark of night we will awaken the trees with chants and drums, dance and song, bask in the cleansing flames and watch embers carry winter away. So don your pagan finery and join us to worship the seasons on this night of nights – Core’s Fire Fable & Feast.

Freestyle Kings are bringing their live show to Perth in August. Featuring action packed entertainment from world class freestyle motocross athletes including X Games gold medallists Rob Adelberg and Jackson Strong.

## FULL SEASON Mar 20 Fremantle Dockers Vs. Adelaide Mar 27 Fremantle Dockers Vs. St Kilda Apr 3 Fremantle Dockers Vs. West Coast Eagles Apr 9 Fremantle Dockers Vs. GWS Giants Apr 17 Fremantle Dockers Vs. Essendon Apr 23 Fremantle Dockers Vs. Carlton Apr 30 Fremantle Dockers Vs. Geelong Cats May 6 Fremantle Dockers Vs. North Melbourne May 15 Fremantle Dockers Vs Gold Coast Suns May 22 Fremantle Dockers Vs Collingwood May 28 Fremantle Dockers Vs Melbourne Jun 5 Fremantle Dockers Vs Brisbane Lions Jun 11 Fremantle Dockers Vs Hawthorn BYE Jun 25 Fremantle Dockers Vs Carlton Jul 3 Fremantle Dockers Vs Port Adelaide Jul 9 Fremantle Dockers Vs St Kilda Jul 16 Fremantle Dockers Vs Sydney Swans Jul 22 Fremantle Dockers Vs Richmond Jul 29 Fremantle Dockers Vs Melbourne Aug 6 Fremantle Dockers Vs Western Bulldogs Aug 13 Fremantle Dockers Vs West Coast Eagles Following TBC.

This winter, the Fremantle Festival: 10 Nights in Port brings new talent, emerging artists and established acts to the port city for an epic celebration that will enliven the senses and warm the hearts and bodies of festival patrons. Across ten wintery nights and days Fremantle’s streets, venues, and hidden corners will come alive with contemporary music, giant immersive projections, protest exhibitions, roaming performances and stirring cultural experiences. Join us for an annual celebration of people and place which will stretch from the coastline to streetscapes and historic buildings to create amazing stages and backdrops for incredible performances. At the creative heart of this festival is a deep consideration of ways to lighten and brighten each other’s lives, including the return of the popular winter music series Hidden Treasures, which will see 61 local bands perform in sneaky alleyways, byways and Fremantle venues so you can ditch the schedule and explore the party. The festival also incorporates large-scale participatory events and interactive experiences, including the Light Waves audiovisual projection of oceanic forces with giant slow motion waves building to a peak and crashing in high resolution. Join us in 2022 for Walyalup's warming winter festival, which will light up the town with music, sensory splendour, fire, ceremony, and art. Fremantle Festival: 10 Nights in Port will take place across various locations in Fremantle from Thursday 11 – Sunday 21 August 2022. For more information visit 10nightsinport.com.au

Following on from AGWA’s late 2021 project 100 Vandals, which featured 100 black book drawings by Western Australian graffiti artists, Heavens Spot welcomes a select painter from this community of artists to leave their mark directly on the walls of AGWAs rooftop gallery. Its title refers to a graffiti location that is hard to reach and highly visible, and therefore highly prized. Located in AGWA’s uppermost gallery space and speaking out to the city’s high-rise backdrop, Heavens Spot is a dialogue between the cityscape that serves as the stimulus and surface for this artform and the cultural position of graffiti more broadly. Cultivating a layered awareness of the ways graffiti engages with our surroundings, Heavens Spot shifts perceptions in subtle and bold ways. Typical encounters with graffiti are often fleeting; shapes and colours command a moment’s attention, leaving impressions of a maker, a mark, a motif, as we move on to some other place. Equally, both the smallest tag to the largest masterpiece can become comfortably familiar as we recognise the practiced hand of graffiti writers who mark out territory along shared local routes. Though the walls of AGWA have been legalised for this moment, Heavens Spot does not seek to permit the act of painting illegally, rather it observes the significant creative influences that operate in this sphere. Part of an international network of painters, their marks remap cities and suburbs according to alternative feelings towards, and understandings of, the spatial frameworks that normally govern our lives.

Belvoir St Theatre artistic director Eamon Flack adapted Ibsen’s Ghosts for a 2017 Sydney production – and now his second cousin Thomas Dimmick is directing the show in Perth. Regarded as a scathing commentary on 19th-century morality, Ghosts is the story of Helene Alving who is about to open an orphanage in her late husband’s name. Her maid Regine is helping to prepare things, Regine’s carpenter father has been working on the building and Pastor Manders is organising the paperwork. At the same time, Helene’s son has also come back from Paris for the occasion. Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts plays at 8pm August 11, 12, 13, 18, 19 and 20 with a 2pm matinee August 14. Tickets are $23, $18 concession – book at www.TAZTix.com.au. Note: the show contains adult themes. Melville Theatre is at 393A Canning Highway (corner of Stock Road), Palmyra.

Taylor and Pugh have worked together to transform Taylor’s Niminjarra paintings, usually seen on canvas or paper, into highly tactile textile works, animating the important Niminjarra Jukurrpa (Dreaming). “Niminjarra is the two brothers transforming into a snake so they can come back home to Ngayartakujarra (Lake Dora). They were in training for ceremony, those two brothers, but they were kept too long, and nobody was there to release them. They waited then they decided to transform into snakes to travel back to where they came from, because their mother was waiting for them. This is Jukurrpa (Dreaming story).” — Desmond Taylor, 2019 This body of work is born of Taylor’s desire to see his artworks reimagined through a textile medium and is a contemporary crafting of important ancestral stories deeply rooted in Warnman Ngurra (Country). The dynamic intercultural collaboration between Desmond Taylor and textiles practitioner and educator Mariaan Pugh continues the practice of cultural and creative exchange, driven by Taylor and other Martu artists through Martumili Artists, sharing narratives and understandings of the world from the Great Sandy, Little Sandy and Gibson deserts with national and international audiences.

2022 marks the 25th year of the Nannup Flower and Garden Festival. The Nannup Flower and Garden Festival is held every year in August, in the townsite of Nannup. It is coordinated by the Nannup Garden Village and showcases open gardens, the hero flower tulips, bulbs, Town Hall display and associated cultural, artistic and environmental events. The Nannup Tulip Festival started in 1997, evolving from a daffodil weekend run by the Visitor Centre. In 2006 the festival changed focus to incorporate other bulbs and flowers. The festival then became known as the Nannup Flower and Garden Festival.

Oscar winner Jordan Peele disrupted and redefined modern horror with Get Out and then Us. Now, he reimagines the summer movie with a new pop nightmare: the expansive horror epic, Nope. The film reunites Peele with Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya (Get Out, Judas and the Black Messiah), who is joined by Keke Palmer (Hustlers, Alice) and Oscar nominee Steven Yeun (Minari, Okja) as residents in a lonely gulch of inland California who bear witness to an uncanny and chilling discovery. Nope, which co-stars Michael Wincott (Hitchcock, Westworld) and Brandon Perea (The OA, American Insurrection), is written and directed by Jordan Peele and is produced by Ian Cooper (Us, Candyman) and Jordan Peele for Monkeypaw Productions. The film will be released by Universal Pictures worldwide.

Saturday 13 & Sunday 14 August - Shows at 10am & 11:30am Judith Cottier Theatre, Perth College $15 per person (unallocated seating) No booking or processing fee! Peter Moore OAM, presenter I Joel Bass, conductor Returning by popular demand, WA Youth Orchestra brings Prokofiev's timeless classic to life - a tale which entertains and provides a fascinating introduction to music and the instruments of the orchestra. Families will be spellbound by the story of a young boy's adventures with his grandfather, a sly cat, a silly duck and of course - a wolf! With a live full orchestra, a special introduction to the instruments of the orchestra - all in the comfort of a wonderful theatre, it's a family event not to be missed. proudly presented by St John of God Health Care

Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, Ray was accepted to the Curtis Institute of Music at age 15, where he studied with Aaron Rosand and was supported by Young Concert Artists. Ray is the brightest star in the new generation of violinists. His performances ring with the freedom of a master musician unrestrained by technical limitations. On his return to Australia, Ray is joined by the acclaimed pianist Timothy Young. A versatile and sensitive musician, Timothy's musicianship is the perfect accompaniment to Ray’s heartfelt artistry and jaw-dropping violin pyrotechnics. "The tone he gets is almost human in its slight graininess and glow." - The Washington Post “From the first notes there was no doubt of being in the presence of something special.” - The Strad

Be guided by Maggie’s bold signature style or create an original work of your own. You’ll learn the art of stenciling and transferring a design to material using miniature screens, and then embellish your artwork with added details. An exploration of colour, pattern, layering and composition, this workshop is a fun introduction to the endless possibilities of screen printing using eco friendly inks. You’ll have time in this class to print a tote bag, an A3 paper poster and a linen wall hanging/tea towel. You’ll also leave with the knowledge and confidence to work on more projects at home. All tools, materials and morning tea will be provided. You may like to bring your own apron or borrow one. # About Maggie Maggie Johnson is a WA artist living and working in Walyalup/Fremantle. She has studied both Fine Arts and Creative Arts Therapies and now works as an acrylic painter, mural artist and digital illustrator. Developing her fun style across illustration and digital designs, Maggie's now exploring the application of her designs onto usable fabric items. Maggie maintains a focus on the therapeutic nature of creating, and is excited to be producing screen-printed products that are both joyful to look at and practical.

With an incredible 364 Million YouTube views and more than 2 Million subscribers, Superwog are constantly at the top of the YouTube Comedy Charts and one of the hottest names in Australian comedy. Get ready for a night of non-stop laughs as all your favourite characters hit the stage live and uncut in their biggest show yet!

This City of Fremantle Art Collection exhibition presents a series of Ferrier’s new print works and short animated videos alongside a survey of her internationally renowned Angry Underwear project. Continuing Ferrier’s decades-long feminist practice, the new body of digital prints use photo-montage processes to reassemble ‘taboo’ 1980’s Playboy centrefolds. Challenging misogynistic gender ideals and giving voice to feminine authority, Ferrier reimagines women’s bodies from passive, objectified figures into dynamic surrealist forms. The new works featured in Pop Porn were developed while Ferrier was in residence at Fremantle Arts Centre in 2021.

The festival event will offer audiences a range of opportunities to experience the extraordinary cultural diversity and stunning primeval landscape of the region and share its warm country hospitality. BOAB METALS FEASTIVAL Friday 12th August RED RANGE CATTLEMAN'S DINNER Saturday 13th August ORD VALLEY FARM & FOOD TOUR Saturday 13th August

Embodying a quiet confidence and resolve like never before, PGFAGB is a powerful documentation of Teen Jesus figuring out who they are and voicing what they stand for. It’s the result of a band refusing to meet anyone’s projection of who they should be, how they should sound, and what they should say – and that especially goes for sexist dentists. Channelling Riot Grrrl-era energy with a 2022 spin, Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers are the most natural, unapologetic and damn likeable punk-rockers you’ll meet.