Hours: Sat 15 - Sat 29 May 8pm (no Sun or Mon performances)
Thu 20 May 11am
Sat 29 May 2.15pm
Sun 30 May 5pm
Cost: Standard $29.50, Concession $21.50, Students $17.50
More Info: www.bsstc.com.au/the-shape-of-things/

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The 2010 HotBed Ensemble present:

The Shape of Things
By Neil LaBute

Season:14 – 30 May 2010
Venue:Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
Director:Adam Mitchell
Featuring:The 2010 HotBed Ensemble

A chance meeting between Evelyn, a renegade art student and Adam, a nerdy English Lit Major, sets in motion a cautionary tale of deceit and manipulation.

Evelyn offers Adam the tools to dramatically reinvent himself both physically and psychologically. Though how far should you go for the one you love?

A shocking dissection of cruelty, seduction and the artistic process, The Shape of Things has a startling twist, which has made this work a modern American classic. Adding to the HotBed Ensemble's list of outstanding collective projects, Neil LaBute's most successful and savage work.

“The most legitimately provocative and polarizing playwright at work today.” New York Magazine

“…The Shape of Things…is chilling and has much to say about a society in which an increasing number of young people suffer from anorexia and parents give their children cosmetic surgery for their sixteenth birthday. Bravo LaBute!” CurtainUp

Bookings: BOCS Ticketing, ph (08) 9484 1133, www.bocsticketing.com.au/events/shape_things.shtml.

OR PICA, 9228 6300 or http://sa2.seatadvisor.com/sabo/servlets/EventSearch?presenter=AUPICA

More info: www.bsstc.com.au/the-shape-of-things/

Hours: 10am-4.45pm Mon-Fri\2-4.45pm Saturday
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Susan Flavell is a talented WA sculptor whose work, in a variety of forms, often deals with animals or creatures including the real, the hybrid, the fantastic and even the monstrous. Known for her series of large cardboard men, she also works in cast bronze, including public art works. In this exhibition for the Mark Howlett Foundation, the focus is on domestic and mythic imagery.
The MHF is the premier visual art patronage association based in WA which has generated close to $1 million in artist commissions since 1991, supporting artists by a subscription program.

Hours: lunapalace.com.au for screening times
Cost: Two for One!
More Info: lunapalace.com.au

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New York, I Love You; from the directors of Paris Je T'aime is being released at Cinema Paradiso on May 13th, 2010.

If you would like a free ticket all you have to do is pick one up instore at The Butcher Shop or Red Stripe Clothing! Get in quick, they won't last long.

Passes are valid at Luna Leederville and SX cinemas from May 13th.

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.

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!

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