Hours: 7-9pm
Cost: $15 on the door
More Info: http://www.drsketchyperth.com.au

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Dr Sketchy's is a non-intimidating life drawing class that features elaborate costumes and stunning models including burlesque artists, acrobats and contortionists. It's a fantastic opportunity for artists and non-artists alike to hone their skills in addition to winning fun prizes and meeting other local creatives!

This month's masterclass stars the ravishing Sugar Blue Burlesque artiste Cecile Mimieux.

Hours: Friday 6pm onwards
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Rounds is one of the most talked about Western Australian collective art projects recently undertaken in Perth. Since opening in PICA’s central galleries by Lisa Scaffidi The Lord Mayor of Perth, on 25 June, thousands of people have visited the exhibition curated by Sarah Rowbottam and viewed the works that have been created by nine artists via a unique and challenging process.

The exhibition features Neil Aldum, Rebecca Baumann, Tim Carter, George Egerton-Warburton, Elise/Jürgen, Shannon Lyons, Bennett Miller, and Sarah Rowbottam, with each radically engaging with issues of peer influence and authorship through a specific methodology, taking place over seven months. Sarah Rowbottam invited the artists to make multiple new works over four demanding six-week cycles, whereby each artist handed over a work to another artist in the group who in-turn made a new piece in response.

The Rounds project is further extended with the production of the Rounds publication, a 192-page book featuring interviews, essays and insights into the complex Rounds process, which will be launched at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts on Friday 13 August.

The book brings together a carefully selected group of Perth-based curators, academics, writers and artists: Katie Lenanton, Christina Chau, Andrew Nicholls, Andrew Purvis, Andrew Varano, Gemma Weston, Jessyca Hutchens and Matthew Giles. Their essays offer distinct entry points into the practice of each artist that go beyond the usual descriptive, didactic catalogue essay. They also engage with their artists face-to-face in a set of interviews that reveal the personalities behind the artists.

Together, the essays and interviews capture a significant moment of Perth art, investigating what makes this influential group of emerging practitioners tick.

The book will be launched on Friday 13 August in the central space of PICA’s main galleries. Along with the artists and writers, the WA arts community will come together to celebrate the production of such an adventurous project. WA Artist and critic, Ric Spencer, will officially launch the book.

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

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14 Aug to 4 Sept
Ceramic Arts Association of WA - Annual Selective Exhibition
This exhibition showcases the diversity of ceramic work produced across the state from Broome to Kalgoorlie and south to Albany. Selected by AGWA’s Director, Dr Stefano Carboni, award winning members show their latest creations alongside less famous potters.

Hours: 8pm - 2am
Cost: $10
More Info: www.facebook.com/#!/event.php?eid=136370139729304&index=1

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DJ NIght @ Geisha Bar, 135a James Street Northbridge

Featuring:
'Spitfire'
'101'
'Westsyde'
'opo.wan'
'Hykas'
'Dan Dasilva'
'Nik Nak'
'Frankie Button'

There will be door prizes, fun & entertainment. Come along and support Advanced Diploma Photography Students make a bit of dosh for our end of year exhibition.

Hours: 6-8 pm
Cost: Free
More Info: www.artstartgrant.com.au

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Australia Council for the Arts, in association with the Department of Culture and the Arts (DCA), presents

FERTILISER FOR BUDDING ARTISTS AND MORE

PERTH, WA Thursday 12 August 2010, 6-8pm Great Southern Room, State Library of Western Australia Level 4, Alexander Library Building, Perth Cultural Centre

If you are a recent graduate, in your final year studying the creative arts, or an artist or arts worker aged 26 or under, then the Fertiliser for Budding Artists and More information session is for you.

At this session you will have the opportunity to: hear about Australia Councilâs ArtStart and WAâs DCA Young People and the Arts grant programs hear from successful ArtStart grant recipients and how they are using ArtStart to fertilise their careers ask questions and find out what activities ArtStart and DCA could fund speak to funding program staff about your ideas and which grant category suits you find out other ways the Australia Council and/or DCA can support you and your art.

ArtStart Grants
Next closing date: 5 October 2010 (applications available online from 23 August 2010) For more details, check out www.artstartgrant.com.au

DCA Young People and the Arts Grants
Next closing date: 24 September 2010 (plus ongoing closing dates for the Quick Response Fund) For more details, check out www.dca.wa.gov.au/funding/grants

RSVP: Melissa Habjan, ArtStart Administration Officer, on 02 9215 9162 or at m.habjan@australiacouncil.gov.au

The Australia Council and DCA are committed to providing access for all to our programs and services. If you have an access requirement for this event please contact the ArtStart Administration Officer, Melissa Habjan on 02 9215 9162 or at m.habjan@australiacouncil.gov.au and we will endeavor to assist in meeting your access needs.

Hours: 1 hour and 15 minutes (no interval)
Cost: $29.50 - $14.95
More Info: www.bsstc.com.au/yellow-moon/

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Black Swan State Theatre Company and The HotBed Ensemble present:

Yellow Moon: The Ballad of Leila and Lee
By David Greig

Venue: Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)
Director: Adam Mitchell
Featuring: The 2010 HotBed Ensemble - actors Austin Castiglione, Adriane Daff, Melanie Munt and Tim Solly, and creatives Fiona Bruce, Peter Dawson, Mia Holton and Tess Reuvers, and Stage Manager Genevieve Jones.

A gritty contemporary tale of young love, looming tragedy and the unexpected.

Lee is a cocky teenager who seems to attract trouble, Silent Leila's a 17 year-old Muslim girl looking for a way to fit in. She spends her Friday nights lost in the blurry universe of glossy celebrity magazines, Lee stealing booze from the supermarket.

They never meant to get mixed up in a murder, but after Billy Logan is killed, the teenagers are on the run and need a place to hide. As the winter closes in, Leila and Lee take flight to the Scottish Highlands. The caretaker Frank, full of drink and deceit, offers them shelter in a hunting lodge. Just as the pair find refuge, the first guests of the season begin to arrive.

“An engaging journey of self-discovery with a dark heart…an intricate and beautifully paced account of a love affair on the run.” The Guardian

Tickets: Standard $29.50 / Concession $21.50 / Preview $21.50 / Students $17.50

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

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

Cost: 0
More Info: www.themoon.com.au

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GOING SOLO WEDNESDAYS..
8pm til 10pm
4th - Grace Woodroofe, Mike Swann, Will Stoker
11th - James Willing, Wolves at the door, Mitch ( Love Junkies )
18th - Benny Mayhem, Luke Dux, Tim Nelson
25th - Leeroy Lenn (vic), Davey Craddock, Dan Crook

JAZZ THURSDAYS..
8pm til 12am
The Fix

PERTH POETRY SOCIETY SATURDAYS..
2pm til 4pm
7th - Danny Gunzburg
14th - Any Jackson (vic)
21st - Antipoet
28th - WA Spring Poetry Festival
Meg Mooney
Chris Mansell
Roland Leach
Coral Carter

SUNDAYS..
8pm til 10pm
1st - Djs: Sibalance & Arms in Motion (Onetrickpony on holidays)
8th - Co Lab Jam Band
15th - Nancy, Nancy
22nd - The return of Andrew Weir & his loop pedal
29th - To be Confirmed

Hours: Thurs + Fri 12-5pm, Sat + Sun 12-4pm.
Cost: Free
More Info: www.sixthousand.com.au/look/8-days-juha-tolonen-mike-gray-graham-miller-and-kevin-ballantine/

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Group exhibition by local artists Juha Tolonen, Mike Gray, Graham Miller & Kevin Ballantine, exploring their time spent in China.

Hours: 6pm till 12.30am
More Info: www.themoon.com.au

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$11.95 pizza or pasta.
$3 house wine
$2 soft drinks

How could you resist??

For the complete list of entertainment and food specials join our facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=432536205186&ref=ts

Cost: 0
More Info: www.sugarblueburlesque.com

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Sugar Blue Burlesque Academy courses begin from the 5th July in Northbridge!

Sugar Blue Burlesque Dance Classes
New 6 week Courses: 1960's gogo, Dance Like a Showgirl, 1920's Charleston, Burlesque Beginner's Dance Course, Chair Fever, Latin Dancing for Burlesque, Hoola Hooping

Winter Warmer Casual Class Special**
All drop-in classes for a limited time are only $14.00* per class, which can be paid in cash at the class.
*Normally $16.50

Every Monday, Miss Jane & Sapphire Demure take you for a sexy burlesque lesson. Just drop in and have some fun!

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

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Artists: Neil Aldum, Rebecca Baumann, Tim Carter, Elise/Jurgen, Shannon Lyons, Bennett Miller, Sarah Rowbottam, George Egerton-Warburton

Rounds is an exhibition of nine cutting-edge Western Australian artists that radically engage with issues of peer influence through a self-generating exhibition process. Working through a series of four cycles, it started on 5 September 2009 and continues through 27 March 2010. Each artist responds to a work made in the previous cycle by another artist in the group. The fruits of this ambitious and transparent creative process will be brought together and curated in a dynamic installation throughout PICA's central galleries, which will display the 32 artworks created in each of the four cycles.

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

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Bevan Honey will develop an ambitious new body of work for PICA's Westend gallery consisting of futile machines alongside architectural and drawn elements that explore the opposing impulses of excess and restraint. Modernist utopias, failed buildings projects, financial burn outs and economic crashes and recovery are interrogated using scaled up drawings, models, stencils, mark making and inventions. Honey's expanded drawing practice contemplates multiple histories - art histories, as well as the cultural and geo-political histories of the state.

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

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PICA is proud to present the first Australian showing of Berlin-based Ignacio Uriarte's new film entitled The History of the Typewriter Recited by Michael Winslow (2009). Actor/comedian Michael Winslow, famous for his role in the slapstick Police Academy movies and his gifted ability to orally mimic any sound, is seen in a studio recording an oral history of the typewriter. The title of the work dictates the content of the film as the title phrase is typed repeatedly through the keystrokes of 32 different typewriters,each mimicked by Winslow.

Nearly every model of typewriter from the 1880s to the 1980s is sampled, allowing the viewer to contemplate a century of war correspondence, manifestoes, literary classics and private love letters.

Hours: open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week!
Cost: 0
More Info: www.bravenewworldclothing.com

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The ethos of Brave New World has always revolved offering distinctive styles, labels and service that will push the boundaries and create a novel experience for their clients. In keeping true to this, Brave New World presents you with a new addition to their retail world in the form of an online store.

The online store offers a greater range of products and the ease of shopping from anywhere you happen to be… (we fervently endorse shopping on the sly while you pretend to work!) . All items are handpicked and eclectic as ever in the style that Brave New World is renowned for.

Just take yourself to the existing Brave New World website and enter the store by clicking ‘online store’ in the store description, or by pressing the ‘online store’ button located above where you can join our mailing list.

www.bravenewworldclothing.com

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.