Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 7.30pm
Cost: $18-$26
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Presented by Hold Your Horses in association with PICA and Side Pony Productions

Written by Thea Costantino

Westralia shall be free.

Heart of Gold is a new, darkly comic musical featuring a family unravelled by secrets, a haunted landscape and one boy's fantasy of 'Westralia' forever at war with the Eastern states.

Iris Brown and her children Angus and Violet live in isolation on the outskirts of Paucity. Their solitude is broken by the entrance of Constable Irving Saddle. As Irving's control gradually infects the household, Angus's unhinged perception of reality reaches dangerous proportions. He retreats into a nationalistic fantasy world - 'Westralia' - defended by a Ziegfeld follies-esque army which embodies the family's dark past. Angus's waking and dreaming lives merge into one another, and Irving uncovers the horrible secret beneath the house.

Director Zoe Pepper flavours the work with a bittersweet mixture of horror and delight, while composer Ash Gibson Greig presents dark and dissonant orchestrations.

Choreography and set design are by contemporary art duo Tarryn Gill and Pilar Mata Dupont, whose work recently featured in national exhibitions Primavera and Optimism. Production is by Hold Your Horses, a new WA company who facilitates collaboration between theatre and visual artists.

Preview:
28 October 7:30pm

Opening:
29 October 7:30pm

Season:
30 October - 14 November 2009
Tuesday - Saturday, 7:30pm

Matinees:
Saturday 7 & 14 November, 2 pm

Venue:
PICA's Performance Space

Tickets:
$26 full / $20 Art Addicts / $18 concession
Preview all tickets $18

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

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

$10 entry - Last Monday of every month.

COMEDY GONG NIGHT!

Up to 15 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 elephant-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

Hours: 11am to 7pm : Tues / Wed / Thurs
11am to 8pm : Friday
11am to 6pm : Saturday
Cost: P.O.A.
More Info: www.bravenewworldclothing.com

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Two photographic images by Emma Van Dordrecht are on show from Saturday 24th of October at Brave New World. The images were taken during a break from her regular commissioned work during an around the world holiday.

Determined to travel light, without the distraction of choice of lenses, choice of film or even choice of exposure, Emma opted for light point and shoot type cameras to get back to the art of seeing. The resultant images were shot on a plastic Holga camera; this type of camera allowed Emma to step back from the highly technical demands of commercial photography and embrace the low-fi attributes a Holga presents.

Setting out each day on a 6 week journey, she rediscovered the joy of capturing things the eye and heart responded to quickly, without thought. Not being one for exacting perfection or great at verbalising her images, Emma finds she can't be rational about what she sees and likes to snap… her hope is that some else will see them in same way and also enjoy her irreverent view.

Emma reiterates that the wing shot was amusing. “ I was aware I was really just shooting someone else's brilliance (as so much of photography can be) but liked it enough to want to remember and take it home with me.”

Cost: 0
More Info: www.territorytwelve.com

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Territory Twelve: Volume 2 is the second exhibition of emerging twenty-seven year old artist Martin E Wills. Territory Twelve: Volume 2 is another trip into the same world of last years Territory Twelve, an apocalyptic mash-up of science fiction disaster and comic book kitsch. Territory Twelve: Volume 2 opens October 24 and runs until November 2 at Kurb Gallery, William St, Northbridge.

After the unexpected success of his first solo show, Martin spent 2009 participating in group shows with other emerging and established artists like Jodee Knowles, Sean Morris and Creepy, and participating in prominent projects like the Condor Tower Carpark project - the southern hemisphere's largest single collection of street art and graffiti in a single location! Most recently he took part in the touring Clothespeg project, which toured Sydney and performed live art at the Perth edition of the show.

As the end of year approached, Martin couldn't contain his love for machines of unrelenting alien death, so exploring the world of Territory Twelve a second time became inevitable. The result is an explosion of colourful city-crushing machines battling jelly-headed warriors and putrid pink blobs absorbing entire neighbourhoods, while pompadoured scientists watch the terror unfold.

Territory Twelve is just another of a string of exhibitions from emerging Perth artists who are beginning to give the likes of Melbourne a run for their money - but it almost didn't happen. Kurb Gallery was granted a reprieve from EPRA, who are currently looking to renovate and upgrade properties along William St. Territory Twelve: Volume 2 will be one of the last exhibitions at Kurb Gallery before the space is closed for renovations. The exhibition kicks off with opening night on Saturday October 24 and runs until Monday November 2. For more information please visit the artists blog at www.territorytwelve.com

Hours: Monday to Saturday 10am - 6pm
Sunday 12pm - 5pm
Cost: free

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A Photographic Exhibition from New York and Abroad

This exhibition is a culmination of Jack's love of city travels and getting into places where he is probably not meant to be.

In New York he was pulled up by undercover cops as his camera guided him down the ever so intriguing train tracks, which lead him to be in neighborhoods the policemen really didn't think he should be. Stockholm, Amsterdam and Rotterdam all see Jack's camera again lurking in tunnels, ditches and on tracksides.

What's come from it all is an fascinating collection of gritty city images, capturing the delicate balance between the man made and nature as it reclaims its crumbling surrounds. No doubt it will make us all dream of visiting greener (or perhaps grottier) pastures.

Join us for opening drinks at The Butcher Shop 6pm Wednesday 21 October. This is an 18+ Event.

The exhibition runs daily until 27 October.

Hours: 2-5pm, closed Sun

Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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An annual show of the best Australian caricatures will make you laugh and cry
Hours: 17-24 Oct

Hours: Mon-Fri 10am-4.45pm
Sat 2-4.45pm

Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Ten life size figures that explore our humanity with regard to individual internal and external realities. The works reference popular culture, art history, religious and political imagery and propaganda to take the form of monuments of unknown protagonists. The figures provoke and encourage questions about the dilemmas of contemporary life by exploring traditional and contemporary interpretations of figurative sculpture and monuments.
The work was commissioned by a syndicate of 10 patrons allowing the artist, TAFE Graduate Simon Gilby, to spend one full year uninterrupted on the project. Each syndicate member effectively commissioned one of the ten works, without any creative control or input.

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: 5.15pm
Cost: $15
More Info: www.futureshorts.com/index.php?site=45

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Future Shorts Perth + 1UP Microcinema have joined forces and have one fab weekly gig for you, now every Sunday start Aug 7th.

Pre sale tickets are a must! Pre buy your ticket for FS and get free entry for any other film that day!

Sundance to Cannes, Berlin to New York. FS is a global monthly short film festival which screens the world's freshest content. This is fresh cinema and we want you to be a part of it!

Buy tickets: http://www.insertcoins.com.au/microcinema/
More on FS: http://www.futureshorts.com/index.php?site=45