Hours: 10am to 5pm
Cost: Free!
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/outskirts

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The creative hub of Northbridge will come alive for Outskirts, a precinct wide festival celebrating emerging fashion and design. Pop up stores, artist studios, performance, street stalls, designer sales, fashion shoots and more will take to the streets, in the Perth Fashion Festival's fullest fringe program to date.

Hours: open 7 days
Cost: 0
More Info: www.redstripeclothing.com

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An instore exhibition of original tattoo inspired artwork by 11 Western Australian Tattoo Artists.

Hours: MON-SAT 10am - 6pm
SUN 12pm - 5pm
Cost: free

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Fluid shapes, natural lines, fictional characters, patterns and colour come to life in Claire's fist solo exhibition, Monster, at The Butcher Shop.

Since childhood, Clare has experimented with drawing and illustration, leading her to interior design, fine arts and finally to graphic design where she has discovered her passion. Here she learnt to integrate her love for illustration with logo design and type treatment, t-shirt designs, music artwork, fabric design and many other applications.

Graduating Graphic Design in 2008, Claire received Keith + Lottie's Beaumont Award, recognising the development of her own artistic style within her design practice. It is these artistic tendencies which have surfaced in the form of Monster.

Hours: 10am - 3pm Daily
Cost: free entry
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/popsicle

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POPSICLE! showcases a selection of WA's hottest emerging designers, providing a temporary retail space in which to peruse their wares.

Each year POPSICLE! reincarnates in a new space - 2009 sees POPSICLE! get mobile, with the store being housed inside a vintage bus.

Visit the website page for all the info including locations and featured designers.

Hours: Tues-Friday 11-6pm
Saturday 11-5pm
Cost: Free
More Info: www.lalaorange.com.au

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Roller-Coaster is a new collaborative exhibition between One Trick Pony, Lala Orange and six WA artists. Each artists has been asked to craft an eyecatching design which will be etched into wood to create a limited edition series of super-duper drink coasters. The walls of Lala Orange will be decked with one-off large-scale coasters by artists;
Sean Morris
Yolanda Stapleton
Brook Bobridge
Lee Ingram
The Yok

Hours: 8.30pm - 10.30pm
Cost: $10
More Info: www.chucklestheelephant.com

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Chuckles Comedy Co is a comedy night like Perth has never seen before.

MC - Werzel (comedy legend)
$10 entry
Last Monday of every month.


SIGN UP - for the Mailing List
and get reminders of when it's on - www.chucklestheelephant.com OR
Facebook www.facebook.com/chucklescomedy

Up to 20 comedians will throw one liners, characters, audience heckles and more to try and make it past the 5 minute mark.

YOU DECIDE what's funny and what's not by cheering/booing for 3 randomly-chosen audience judges (which may rotate) to make their decision.

The judges can vote the comedian OFFSTAGE by holding up their card.
Once all THREE judge cards go up the comedian is GONGED off stage.

Any comedians who make it to 5 minutes will get to the final 1 minute show-down for the first prize of $100 CASH (!!).

Bring your heckles, grab a beer and join your friends every fortnight for a comedy night to remember.

For more information please go to www.chucklestheelephant.com
OR to register to go on stage please email hey@chucklestheelephant.com

Hours: 10am - 5pm
Cost: $5 solo entry / $10 group entry
More Info: http://www.onwilliam.com.au/competitions

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Start planning your outfit now!!

Visit David Woolley's studio at The Burlesque Lounge (upstairs 267 William Street, Northbridge) during Outskirts to get snapped in your favourite outfit. The studio is open from 10am-5pm, no appointments necessary.

Solo = $5 entry free
Group = $10 entry fee - group entries are limited to 3 people

David Woolley will professionally photograph each entrant against a white backdrop. The best shot from each entrant's photoshoot will be selected by David Woolley and uploaded to http://www.onwilliam.com.au/competitions page for voting.

$1500 in prizes to be won!

BEST SOLO SHOT
Gift Vouchers to the value of $750
-Brave New World: $100 voucher
-Harry Highpants: $50 voucher
-Red Stripe Clothing: $75 voucher
-David Woolley: $150 gift voucher
-Chilli Couture: $200 Voucher
-Sugar Blue Burlesque: $100 voucher
-Lala Orange: $50 voucher
-The Butcher Shop: $25 voucher

BEST GROUP SHOT
Gift Vouchers to the value of $750
-Brave New World: $100 voucher
-Harry Highpants: $50 voucher
-Lala Orange: $50 voucher
-David Woolley: $150 gift voucher
-Red Stripe Clothing: $75 voucher
-The Butcher Shop: $100 voucher
-Chilli Couture: $225 Voucher

PURCHASE PRINTS
All participants will be able to purchase their photos from David Woolley Photography for a reduced price in web copy and/or print form.

Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Artists: Aleks Danko (VIC), Emily Floyd (VIC), Kirsty Hulm (VIC), Anastasia Klose (VIC), Andrew McQualter (VIC), Rose Nolan (VIC), Mark Parfitt (WA), Tom Polo (NSW), Rachel Scott (NSW)

A rare glimpse into the artistic process, this exhibition offers an insight into the decisions artists make when developing their work, and their hopes and fears about how it will be received by their audience.

Presenting work by eminent senior artists such as Aleks Danko and Rose Nolan alongside work by recent graduates such as Tom Polo and Kirsty Hulm, the exhibition highlights that the aspirations and anxieties that accompany the making of an artwork remain constant throughout an artist's career. The approach taken to the subject ranges widely, from Andrew McQualter's poetic and earnest wall drawings about the role of the artist in society, to the bitingly funny videos by Rachel Scott about the pitfalls of working from her parents' garage.

Ultimately, what these frank and deeply personal works reveal is that the desire of the artist to communicate and connect with the viewer is the driving force in why they do the things they do.

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Sydney based artist Izabela Pluta's practice explores the psychological connection (or disconnection) between places. Featuring a new series of large format photographs and a wallpaper mural this exhibition highlights work specially developed for PICA focusing on Western Australia's resource industries.

Examining the semi-permanent, fly-in-fly out lifestyles of regions such as the Pilbara, Gestures of the Landscape delves into the impermanence and transience of WA's mining towns.

Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 11am-6pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Janet Biggs' video, Anana Dream examines the role of free will in the lives of polar bears in captivity. Anana Dream is the dream of things that can never be and the loss of things unknown. Now on the endangered list due to their shrinking sea ice habitat, polar bears face the prospect of survival in captivity or extinction.

Biggs' video takes its name from the Inuit word for pretty, which is also the name of one of the bears she filmed. Anana and her brother Lee swim in perfect synchronisation. On initial viewing, their movement, grace, and power is awe inspiring.

The music, a love song from the 1982 film Blade Runner, presents a romantic relationship between the two bears, and by extension examines an overly romanticised relationship between humans and animals of prey.

Upon continued looking, the polar bears synchronised swimming reveals itself as the mind-numbing, repetitive behavior of animals in captivity.

Hours: 11am-4pm Wed-Sat
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Necromancing: predicting the future by communicating with the dead

These powerful iconic images taken from history and contemporary culture form combinations that will intrigue and fascinate the viewer.

Hummerston plays individual elements off against each other to create paradoxes which pose questions as to the nature of representation and its application in our daily lives.

The elements are layered and juxtaposed in order to evoke responses that are contradictory and paradoxical.

A guillotine meets a bonsai, a squid meets an atom bomb and Fidel meets Felix. In a world of registered trademarks, is everything symbolic due to its familiarity and its context?

Harry is a well know WA artist and arts educator.

Hours: Opening Night: 6pm Friday 7th August
Thurs-Fri 12-5pm
Sat-Sun 12-4pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.pcp.org.au

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PERTH CENTRE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
91 BRISBANE ST, PERTH

In 2003, during the first housing boom of the new millennium, Stacy Mehrfar set out to photograph the spate of new suburban developments throughout the continental United States. Mehrfar turnedher camera on the older communities that were often left to neglect in the wake of their newer counterparts.

Many of the new communities Mehrfar photographed emptied amid the first bust of the new millennium, leaving behind incomplete developments and heavily altered landscapes. American Palimpsests | This Was What There Was is a photographic reckoning of several cycles of growth and contraction that reflect the American way of life today.

Opening Night
6pm Friday 7th August

Hours: Mon - Fri 10am-4.45pm
Sat 2-4.45pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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STUDIO - Australian Painters Photographed by R. Ian Lloyd
A book and set of portraits showcasing 61 important Australian painters including WA’s Robert Juniper, Julie Dowling and Michael Iwanoff, depicted in their studios, amongst their work.

Hours: Thurs-Fri 12-5pm
Sat-Sun 12-4pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.pcp.org.au

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Juha Tolonen | Alistair Dickinson
Selected new work from 2008 & 2009 CLIP Award winners.

Opening Night
6pm Friday 7th August

Hours: 10am - 3pm Daily
Cost: free entry
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/popsicle

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Visit POPSICLE! during the Perth Fashion Festival to win a $1000.00 OnWilliam Shopping Spree