Cost: Free
More Info: www.northbridgefestival2009.com.au

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Continuing Northbridge's tradition as the heart and soul of WA culture, the City of Perth Northbridge Festival brings the best in music, theatre, street art, markets and more.

Check the festival website for the full lineup.

Hours: 7pm Saturday - 3am Sunday
Cost: 0
More Info: www.mustangbar.com.au

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Be our guests for this VERY special occasion at The Mustang Bar on Saturday the 31st of October. Get in before the witching hour to be in the running for best/scariest dressed & win a $150 voucher at Red Stripe Clothing. Galliano Black Sambuca prizes to give away all night!

Including a very special early set from The Continentals then The Damien Cripps Band rocking it out until late you'd be a ghoul to miss it.

This is one Halloween party to die for!

Hours: From 8pm
Cost: Free
More Info: www.pridewa.asn.au

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Starts corner of William and Brisbane Streets and travels down William street turning onto James street and ending at Russell Square.
This year's theme is Homecoming.
A good old fashioned street parade is few and far between. Get down to the hood this Saturday night to line the streets as we celebrate the glitz and glamour that is Pride.

Hours: Thurs - Fri 12-5pm, Sat & Sun 12 - 4pm.
Cost: Free entry
More Info: pcp.org.au

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Bringing together the work of Christian Thompson, Dianne Jones and Tony Albert, this exhibition focuses on self-representation which examines, challenges and subverts notions of Indigenous representations.

Image: Artist: Christian Thompson Title: 'untitled' 'Black Gum-2'

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

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Dominic Redfern presents two major new video works at PICA; Stonewall and Mythos. Drawing on traditions of both video and performance art, Redfern uses self-portraiture, fiction and documentary to explore the intersection of site, screen and identity. Shot in 2008 for a solo exhibition at the Centre d' Art Marnay in rural France, Stonewall extends Redfern's investigation of the dynamics of monologue and performance in a selected environment.

For PICA, Stonewall will be presented in an expanded format and accompanied by Mythos, a second multi-screen installation that unifies his filmed landscape studies spanning three years. Dominic Redfern's work has been exhibited and screened nationally and internationally, including in the UK, USA, Germany, Korea, Japan, Thailand and Finland. He is a Senior Lecturer in Video Art and the Studio Coordinator of Media Arts at RMIT, Melbourne.

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

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Guest Curator: Jonah Dames
Artists: Anonymous, Berri Flecke, Tom Freeman, Lee Longley, Louise Morrison & Matt Dickmann, Tony Nathan

To 'show character' or to be a 'person of character' is perhaps meaningless in a world where the thoughts and actions of any individual can be readily uploaded and disseminated at any given moment. One character becomes as ubiquitous as the next.

Guest Curator Jonah Dames has brought together a group of Australian artists at various points in their careers, whose works in the show try to describe the fleeting idea of character. The result is a diverse array of drawings, prints, sculptures, installation and video works that will be shown in PICA's Westend Gallery.

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

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Inbetween is an exploration of the supernatural by Melbourne-based artist Richard Lewer. The work derives three 'case studies' from collected and stories of encounters with ghosts and paranormal activity.

Lewer's hand-drawn pencil animations play on the supernatural as a metaphoric device in movies, plays and books, and comes replete with howling winds, clattering horse hooves and spooky sounds. Inbetween is a dark and playful investigation into representations of the unexplainable.

Focusing on the darker side of human behaviour, place and social identity, Richard Lewer's work also records subjective encounters with family, sport, religious and criminal subjects, leading to insightful and often absurd narrative reflections on ethics and mortality.

Hours: 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Cost: $29.95
More Info: www.comedylounge.com.au

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Girls Stand Up in Perth!

Corinne Grant, Felicty Ward (award winner at Melbourne Festival!) Kehau Jackson plus a stack of locals. Don't miss it!

Rosie O'Grady's - James Street Northbridge

Start your Friday with some of the best comedians Australia and a stack of locals who have funny as their middle name.

Tickets only $29.95 through BOCS or on the door - grab a friend and book in now to start your weekend with one of the funniest shows to hit Perth!

BOOK THROUGH BOCS
www.bocs.com.au

www.comedylounge.com.au

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: 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: 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: 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