Hours: 10am-5pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Western Australian artists, media, arts workers, administrators, funding bodies and audiences are invited to participate in a discussion about the future of contemporary performance.

This forum is not about keynote speeches or lectures from visiting academics, you raise the issues you want addressed and then work with your colleagues to find solutions.

This free full day forum is open to anyone interested in self-determining their future in contemporary performance.

'The term Live Art is not a description of an artform or discipline, but a cultural strategy to include experimental processes and experiential practices that might otherwise be excluded from established curatorial, cultural and critical frameworks. Live Art is a framing device for a catalogue of approaches to the possibilities of liveness by artists who chose to work across, in between, and at the edges of more traditional artistic forms' Live Art Development Agency, London

Hours: Fri 11:30am | Sat 11:30am | Sun 1:00pm
Cost: $27 Adult | $24.00 Concession
More Info: www.lunapalace.com.au

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ROYAL OPERA
LA TRAVIATA Mar 12, 13 & 14
This much-anticipated revival of Richard Eyre's sensational 1994 production for The Royal Opera is a striking visual feast creating a gorgeous backdrop for soprano Renée Fleming and company to soar with some of the most poignantly tuneful music in all of opera. The six-performance sold-out run left London spellbound.
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Director: Richard Eyre Conductor: Antonio Pappano Cast: Renée Fleming, Joseph Calleja, Thomas Hampson Approx duration: 139 mins (plus intermission)

Hours: 7.00pm - late.The Bird, 181 William St Northbridge
Cost: Entry: $20: Includes an MD Limited Editions showbag, which includes your copy of MD Limited Editions 5: The Photography Issue
More Info: www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/MD-Limited-Editions/212128929697?ref=ts

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MD Limited Editions 5: The Photography Issue.
This issue features editorials from Esther , Tom Cramond (Six Thousand), Dave Adams, Jake Castledine, Martha Bones, Michael Ellis (Relative Magazine), Jordan Shields (The West Australian), Nicole Norelli and Alberto Sanchez .
They make up eight professional and amateur from Perth, Melbourne and London.
MD Limited Editions 5 will be launched at new music venue The Bird in Northbridge.
The evening will feature a special vinyl only showcase from Naik, Arms In Motion, King Jon Ill, Charlie Bucket and Kit Pop playing a selection of their treasured vinyl.
There will be photographic exhibitions from Jordan Shields, Esther Tetris, and Tom Cramond.
This night is proudly sponsored by OnWilliam, The Moon Cafe, The Community, Cut & Paste & Coopers. Come early to win a $50 gift voucher from OnWilliam

This is now an INVITE ONLY EVENT please email Virginia at missmarthabones@gmail.com for more details

Hours: Various
Cost: FREE!
More Info: www.propel.org.au/projects/twentyten

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Check out our amazing list of FREE hands-on arts workshops especially designed for you! Choose form awesome workshops like fashion, comedy and tattoo illustration. Register today, spots are filling up FAST!

Hours: All hours!
Cost: 25% off!
More Info: skullduggery.net.au

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Everything online is discounted by 25%!

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

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PICA collaborates with the Perth International Arts Festival to present the first solo exhibition in Australia of highly acclaimed Danish Artist, Jeppe Hein. An exciting survey of major works by the artist will be brought together and presented both inside the vast galleries of PICA, and outside in the busy Cultural Centre square.

The artist's much celebrated water fountain, Appearing Rooms, will be shown outdoors in front of PICA and will be complemented indoors with a selection of his significant works which illustrate further the breadth of ground-breaking ideas include the mirrored maze, Spiral Labyrinth 1 and Smoking Bench and his neon light installations. For the first time Australian audiences will be able to experience Hein's interactive, playful and critical works that have placed him at the forefront of the contemporary international art scene.

Jeppe Hein was born in 1974 in Copenhagen Denmark. He lives and works in both Copenhagen and Berlin. The artist comes to Perth following an important solo exhibition in ARoS Museum, Denmark. His works have been shown at the Tate Modern and Hayward Gallery, London; The Pompidou Centre, Paris; PS1, New York; and the Mori Museum, Tokyo. Last year Jeppe Hein collaborated on a new project with the artist Dan Graham in Germany.

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

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Previous recipient of the prestigious Samstag scholarship and MFA graduate from the Chelsea College of Art in London, Perth artist Sarah Elson has conceived her most expansive body of work yet for a solo exhibition in PICA's Westend Gallery.

Sarah Elson's practice involves making painstakingly intricate castings of small plant and insects; flower bulbs, leaves, burrs, cicadas and beetles. Her sculptures are often mounted on pins studded directly into the gallery walls like displaced specimens. Her interest in the politics of artifacts and materials and how value is perceived is developed in Elson's laboratory-like use of PICA's gallery by amassing together different metals, delicate casts and organic forms.

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

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PICA presents a trilogy of new video works by Brisbane artist Grant Stevens, in response to his time in Los Angeles. Screened together for the first time, If Things Were Different (2009), Crushing (2009), and Really Really (2007) are three videos in which Stevens exposes the deep ambivalence of the human condition.

The works oscillate between the fanciful and romantic to the abrasively cynical by drawing on tropes of Hollywood film, advertising or bad day-time TV and purposefully mishandle media devices of editing, framing, cropping,and incorporating text or muzak.

The artist, who now lives and works between Queensland and California explains that '...unpacking and testing out those ambiguities and ambivalences are what drive me to make art - to try to make works that draw you in while making you feel uncomfortable or unsure about what you are looking at' (Eyeline, 2008).

Hours: 6pm to 10pm
Cost: Free
More Info: www.perth.wa.gov.au/piazza

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Pack a picnic and head to the Piazza every Saturday evening this summer to enjoy a series of films that remind us all to look after the world we live in. The program includes;
WALL-E
Sat 23 Jan, 6pm
This is a computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who
travels to outer space in search of a newfound friend. Little
does WALL-E realise that he has recently stumbled onto a
secret that could save planet Earth and make the planet safe
for all humankind.

Seed Hunter
Sat 23 Jan,8pm
This movie takes you on a remarkable journey from the drought
ravaged farms of Australia, to the heart of the Middle East, to
the mountains of Tajikistan. Scientist Dr Ken Street - a real life version of Indiana Jones - and his team of 'gene detectives' hunt for plant genes that will help our food withstand the impact of 21st century global warming.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Sat 30 Jan, 6pm
Earthman Arthur Dent is having a very bad day. His house is
about to be bulldozed, he discovers that his best friend is an
alien and Planet Earth is about to be demolished. Arthur's only
chance for survival is to hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft.

Rivers and Tides
Sat 30 Jan, 8pm
Goldsworthy seeks the "energy this is running through, flowing
through the landscape." Not to capture it, clearly, but to
participate in it. He notes that heat and melted water created
his artistic medium, while the rising sun will destroy it.

Fresh, 2009
Sat 6 Feb, 6pm
This film celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people
across America who are re-inventing our food system.

The Future of Food
Sat 6 Feb, 8pm
Examines the complex view of how market and political forces are seeking to change what we eat and control the world's food system.

Ponyo
Sat 13 Feb, 6pm
Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki returns with a film that
deals with a friendship between a five year old boy and a goldfish princess who yearns to be human.

Flow For Love Of Water
Sat 13 Feb, 8pm
This documentary builds a case against the growing privatisation of the world's dwindling fresh water supply and the emergence of a world water cartel.

The Fox And The Child
Sat 20 Feb, 6pm
A childrens tale of a great friendship between a young girl and a fox. The little girl discovers a wild adventure that will change her life, her vision and ours.

Earth
Sat 20 Feb,8pm
Narrated by James Earl Jones, this movie tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journeys across Earth.

Garbage Warrior
Sat 27 Feb,6pm
A feature-length documentary film telling the epic story of a
maverick architect, fighting to introduce radically new ways of living.

Big River Man
Sat 27 Feb,8pm
An endurance swimmer attempts to be the first person to swim the length of the world's most dangerous river, the mighty Amazon.