Hours: Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri
Cost: Free application for Blue Room members. To read more about Blue Room membership, visit their website.
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au

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The Blue Room is pleased to announce the return of SUMMER NIGHTS.

To coincide with our 21st Birthday in 2010, a new and improved 21 Summer Nights will return, Monday - Friday in February/March.

That's 21 nights of spoken word, monologues, cabaret, theatre, music, games and good times!

During the festival period there are a lot of visiting acts in town, but that doesn't mean Perth's performing artists go underground. 21 Summer Nights is a four week festival-style showcase of independent Western Australian work which gives you the chance to experience a variety of affordable performance - and mingle with Blue Room artists and guests - in a fun festival club style environment.

CALLOUT
If you've got a performance project you're keen to develop, consider our Monday night Studio spot. Develop your 'show' over a six week period at The Blue Room, including two weeks of rehearsal time, leading up to four Monday night performances (ticket price negotiable) 22 Feb - 15 Mar, 2010.

This opportunity is open to Blue Room members, or artists willing to become members, to develop and showcase a performance of any genre (however there will be a separate call out for Thursday night music acts shortly).

To discuss your submission, or get more information, please contact Kerry O'Sullivan: kerry@blueroom.org.au

Submissions close Monday 2 November 2009.

Hours: Tuesday 11am - 6pm
Wednesday 11am - 6pm
Thursday 11am - 6pm
Friday 11am - 8pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 11am - 5pm
Cost: free entry
More Info: www.genericsaccessories.com

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GENERICS ACCESSORIES are back for October with lots of Xmas gift ideas.

Plus find the Little Pop Up Sale - clearance items from WA designers plus vintage finds!

Corner William and James Streets

Hours: 7pm Tuesday - Saturday
Meet the Artists Wed 30 September
Bar and box office open 1 hour prior to show time.
Cost: $22 / $15 conc. Blue Room members $18 / $12. Preview all tix $10
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au

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Bubba and Bubby are on a quest for fulfilment.

Contemporary avenues of satisfaction such as fast food and Real Estate offer limited consolation.

All is overseen by TV. Always there; advertising canning laughter and flattening life, sex and death onto a screen.

“Any on of these people could be a terriblist…”

And who is Rotto? Will they ever meet her? Do they even believe in her?

Melding art, performance and music (and absurd references to quokkas, Madonna, and Hungry Jacks), Waiting for Rotto heralds the return of eclectic duo Simon Gevers and Luke Murphy (sub:URB), in a collaboration based on Beckett’s Waiting for Godot.

“No, they’re not self-indulgent self-abusers” – Lynn Fisher, The West Australian.

Waiting for Rotto is a comedy, tragedy, eulogy, vaudevillogy, Willagee; sure to appeal to anyone who has ever lived in Perth, questioned the meaning of life, or waited for Rotto.

Featuring Simon Geveres and Luke Murphy
Directed by Simon Gevers
Costumes by Reginald Murphy
Dramaturgy by Marcelle Schmitz
Videography by Phil Bo

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.