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

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What:
Watch 10 WA artists create a 40 meter mural live over the Northbridge Festival weekend. Featuring Northbridge art collective Last Chance and Graphite.

Where:
In the alley way heading North from the James Street cul de sac - near Alexander Library car park entrance.

When:
Saturday 7 November, 10am - 5pm
Sunday 8 November, 10am - 5pm

Hours: 7.30pm
Cost: $18-$25
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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It's Karaoke night, Broome style, where country meets hip hop meets Japanese love song. Closing time and they take it outside. A lone cowboy blows into town, stirring its ghosts for a long and wild night, as past and present dance it out on the street.

This is explosive yet haunting dance theatre from Broome-based indigenous and intercultural company Marrugeku; choreographed by Serge Aimé Coulibaly (ex Les Ballets C de la B) with Marrugeku's Dalisa Pigram, featuring film by Warwick Thornton (Samson & Delilah), with a cast including Trevor Jamieson (Ngapartji Ngapartji) & Sermsah Bin Saad (So You Think You Can Dance).

Director: Rachael Swain
Choreographer: Serge Aimé Coulibaly
Assistant Choreographer: Dalisa Pigram
Designer: Joey Ruigrok van der Werven
Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton
Dramaturgy: Josephine Wilson & David Pledger
Costume Designer: Stephen Curtis
Lighting Designer: Geoff Cobham
Musical Director: Matthew Fargher With songs by: Amanda Brown

Performers/ Devisers: Trevor Jamieson, Dalisa Pigram, Owen Maher, Sermsah Bin Saad, Antonia Djiagween, Yumi Umiumare, Kathy Cogill
Musicians / Composers: Dazastah, Lorrae Coffin & Justin Gray

Season:
4-7 November, 2009

Duration:
70 minutes

Venue:
Russell Square
James Street, Northbridge

Bookings:

Through PICA on 9228 6300 or online at pica.org.au

Hours: Opening night: Wednesday 4th November, 6-9pm. On display until 10th November.
Cost: free to view
More Info: www.onWilliam.com.au

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Take a walk down William Street to discover a treasure trove of colourful activity within store windows created by Curtin University Fashion Merchandising Students.
Colour the rainbow with collectable pencils from each location to reveal the colours of Northbridge.

Colour Me opening night across all venues from 6-9pm Wednesday 4th November, exhibition runs until 10th November.

Participating venues are Red Stripe Clothing, Harry Highpants, Fi + Co, Lala Orange, Last Chance Studios, Mixtape Gallery, William Topp and The Butcher Shop.

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: 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: 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.”

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