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: Thursday - Saturday, 8pm
Sunday,6pm
Cost: $20-$27
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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'A sharp, confronting and reflective look at today's mediated world'

Amongst a pile of out-of-tune television sets, walls converge and a body is caught between hope and fear. Breakings questions our relationship with the media and how it influences our perception of the world.

Hailed by the West Australian as 'one of Perth's most promising emerging choreographers', Aimee Smith is known for her cutting edge political work.

Breakings is an intense intersection between body, sound, screen and movement.

'Smith's performance itself masterfully affected a form of mediation.' RealTime magazine

After the performance join Aimee and guests from the fields of media, performance and cultural theory, as they unpack her work.

Co-produced by Performing Lines WA & STRUT Dance

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

Hours: Tues - Fri : 11am - 7pm
Saturday : 11am - 6pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.bravenewworldclothing.com

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The Going Away and the Coming Back : Karen Djordjevic

This exhibition features a collection of black and white scapes from Karen Djordjevic's journeys around the globe. Using a 35mm SLR camera and shooting with black and white film, these resonant images are in the tradition of Magnum Photography. Karen's style of photography is about taking the time to look and then re-look, as she finds quite often you see things differently, whilst also allowing for amazing moments to naturally unfold before her eyes.

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!