Hours: Fri & Sat 11:30am | Sun 1:00pm
Cost: Adult: $27.00 | Concession: $24.00 | Priv Card (Max 2): $24.00 | Senior (60+): $22.00
More Info: www.palaceoperaandballet.com.au/

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GLYNDEBOURNE OPERA
FALSTAFF - Apr 30, May 1 & 2

"Verdi's score explodes with comic invention! Exceptional singing!" - Daily Express

Verdi's final opera, Falstaff is a mercurial, nimble-footed, darkly-funny and profusely tuneful portrait of Shakespeare's Fat Knight. An international cast is led by the exciting British baritone Christopher Purves in the larger-than-life role of the corpulent Falstaff, whose profilgate presence both outrages and inspires the leaner, meaner citizens of Windsor.

Director: Richard Jones / Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski
Cast: Christopher Purves, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Jennifer Holloway, Dina Kutznetsova, Tassis Christoyannis, Adriana Kucerova. Approx duration: 133 mins

Cost: $40.00 Opening Night | $16.00 Adult | $14.00 Concession
More Info: www.lunapalace.com.au

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In its 9th year, the Audi Festival of German Films will again bring the most outstanding German film productions to Australia.

Audiences are invited to join us for the 2010 edition and to participate in the Golden Gnome Audience Award where you can vote for your favourite film and win a trip to Germany! Visit the official website for more details: www.goethe.de

Screening at Cinema Paradiso from April 22 - 26, the 2010 Audi Festival of German Films kicks of with the uproarious and highly entertaining comedy, WHISKEY WITH VODKA, followed by an after party at PICA. All tickets are $40.00 and available at the Cinema Paradiso Box Office and online.

Cost: Registration is free
More Info: www.propel.org.au/projects/artsCAMP

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Propel is very excited to announce to return of ArtsCAMP after a huge success last year.

ArtsCAMP is an exciting week - long creative experience for young people aged 15 – 17 years to explore and contribute to Perth’s art community.

Held in the first week of the July school holidays, ArtsCAMP provides an excellent platform for young people to learn about the cultural opportunities Perth has to offer, engage, participate and learn about the creative industries as well as express their own ideas. The innovative camp will be packed with creative hands-on workshops with practising artists, tours of arts spaces in and around Perth, events including gigs, theatre, exhibitions and art industry talks.

Applications for ArtsCAMP are now open online at http://www.propel.org.au and close 5pm Friday 14 May 2010. All young Western Australians aged 15 – 17 years are encouraged to apply. For those regional and remote participants Propel is offering 10 full financial bursaries to pay for travel to and from ArtsCAMP. Propel is also offering 5 full financial bursaries to metro participants. Propel acknowledges young people with disabilities may require extra support to engage in ArtsCAMP and is happy to accommodate learning, physical and intellectual needs. For further information about ArtsCAMP contact Susannah Day, Projects Co-ordinator on (08) 9328 5855 or email suzy@propel.org.au.

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

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Hatched is Australia's most significant survey of emerging artists.

Heading into its 19th year, this landmark exhibition continues to provide an unparalleled opportunity for talented art school graduates to present their work in a professional gallery context alongside that of their national peers. It offers an all-important stepping-stone from the realm of education to the beginnings of a professional career as an artist.

This year 39 artists from 20 art schools across the country were selected to grace the vast galleries of PICA. Bear witness to these contemporary pioneers as they head into new artistic territory with their extreme mix of expanded drawing and painting practices, soft architecture and aural environments - amongst other eye, mind and ear-bending aesthetic experiments!

Hatched expands further in 2010 with the launch of the Doctor Harold Schenberg Art Prize, an annual award of $20,000 that will be presented to one Hatched artist each year. The Prize has been set up to allow an outstanding art school graduate to invest in the development of their practice through travel, research or production support.

Hours: 11am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday during exhibitions
Cost: 0
More Info: www.turnergalleries.com.au

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Olga’s work addresses identity and memory and how we link it to notions of place, tradition, culture and customs. She has a personal history as a migrant and this informs her investigations of how people (and in this case women) are defined and labelled by local language and its hidden and double meanings.

Hours: 11am to 5pm Tuesday to Saturday during exhibitions
Cost: 0
More Info: www.turnergalleries.com.au

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Theo has wrapped domestic objects in brown paper, giving them new life and identities. A boxing glove is transformed into a ‘paper punch’, a pepper grinder into a ‘paper mill’, and a toy wooden plane becomes a ‘paper plane’. The simplicity of the brown paper strips the objects of individuality, almost like home-brand objects, yet their distinctive shapes still place them from specific periods of time. Theo has grouped the pieces so that they form a narrative; relationships give rise to new interpretations.

Hours: All shows 8:30pm, plus 2pm matinee Sat 24 Apr
Cost: Full $25 / Conc. $20 Blue Room Theatre Members: $20 / $15 Groups 8+ $15
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au

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“Lots of children are…adopted, Betty. Lots of children are… unwanted by their parents… thrown away like old pieces of garbage because they’re ugly… or plain.”

Tantrums, death threats, sugar coated guilt trips… Welcome to the household of Mummy and Betty.

We want to believe a mother/daughter relationship is full of lollipops and heart shaped chocolates. In something a little closer to the truth, award-winning writer Suzanne Hawley smashes the fairy tale to reveal a world full of lies and blame.

Mummy Loves You Betty Ann Jewel raises the question we all dread: can we escape our conditioning, or are we destined to become like our parents?

Take a seat, take sides and watch as Mummy and Betty battle each other for supremacy in this deliciously dark musical comedy.

Directed by Sarah Fay
Featuring Whitney Richards and Jenny McCann
Produced by Simone Ruggiero
Original music by Steve Hearne
Musical direction by Rhoda Lopez
Lighting design by Stephen Warren

Hours: vary - see more info
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Four exhibitions of contemporary jewellery as part of re-Source - 14th Jewellers and Metalsmiths Group of Australia Biennial Conference.

Graduate Metal XII 2010
National Survey Exhibition of Graduates from Australia, Asia and South Africa
On show: 10 April to 1 May
view 11- 2pm Sat and Sunday 10 and 11 April
and from 12 April -1 May weekdays 10-4.45 & Sat 2-4.45
closed Monday Anzac Day and other Sundays
Return
Five WA trained jewellers return to explore an enduring connection to place.
Artists - Melissa Cameron, Michelle Kelly, Regina Middleton, Belinda Newick, Robin Wells
On show: 10 - 29 April
weekdays 11-4.45 and Saturday 2-4.45. Sat/Sun 10/11 April 11-2
closed Monday Anzac Day and other Sundays

Also on show:
Metal on the Map
Exploring ideas of mapping and collecting by seven Jewellers from Adelaide’s JamFactory Metal Design Studio
Hannah Carlyle, Sorcha Flett, Christian Hall, Erin Keys, Peta Kruger, Jessamy Pollock, Leonie Westbrook,
Vanessa Williams
View Friday 9 April 12-6, and Sat/Sun 10/11 April 10-4

Profile 2010
The second JMGA NSW Award Exhibition of Jewellery, Objects and Metalsmithing.
View Friday 9 April 12-6, and Sat/Sun 10/11 April 10-4

Hours: Tu - F 11 - 6, Sat 11 - 5, Sun 11 - 4
Cost: 0
More Info: www.williamtopp.com

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William Topp is excited to have linocuts and hand coloured collagraphs from Magali Dincher in store. We are welcoming her work with an opening on Friday 9th April at 6pm. Come and see.

Hours: 7pm Tuesday - Saturday, plus 2pm matinee Sat 17 Apr
Cost: Full $25 / Conc. $20 Blue Room Theatre Members: $20 / $15
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au

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The producers of the award-winning Motortown (Blue Room Theatre, 2008) join with multi-award winning Perth playwright Ian Wilding for a humorous vivisection of the mighty modern condition.

Meet Tim and Angela. Successful, bright young things - living in a beautiful, happy home with all the comforts one could beg.

Until a stranger punctures the pretty complacency of their lives. The miasmic seeds sewn into their love by his soft suggestions are explosive, undermining all they hold dear. Once the fuse is lit, question turns to doubt; doubt to suspicion; and suspicion to hateful conviction.

As desperation mounts and self-preservation kicks in, fear sets them on a slippery road of moral compromise and we learn just how far a couple will go to reclaim their piece of peace.

This is social-domestic terrorism at its best.

“There is an uncomfortable edge to the laughter in this work...a dark parody of domestic familiarity turned sinister” – Sydney Morning Herald

Written by Ian Wilding
Produced and directed by Renato Fabretti
Featuring Samantha Murray, Steve Turner, Matt Penny and Ben Sutton
Lighting design by Karen Cook

WA Premiere

Cost: 0
More Info: www.propel.org.au/projects/yculture

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YCulture Metro is a funding program that provides arts grants of up to $3,000 for young people aged between 12-26. YCulture Metro targets young metropolitan artists who are at an entry level in their arts practice and have had limited experience in grant application writing as well as initiating and coordinating projects.

YCulture can provide funds for projects (such as all-ages gigs) and skills development initiatives (such as workshops and creative developments).

Applications are open all year with a guaranteed 10 day turn around.

Contact Propel Youth Arts WA (08) 9328 5855 suzy@propel.org.au or Visit: www.propel.org.au/projects/yculture

YCulture is proudly supported by Healthway to promote the Drug Aware message.

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!