Hours: Monday, September 27
Cost: At the door, $10 per person
More Info: www.chucklestheelephant.com

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Up to 20 comedians take the stage to win a cash prize. If you don't like their schtick, vote for them to be gonged off. If only Australian politics was that easy!

Now running for almost 2 years, the punch lines are still fresh as newcomers, seasoned comics and a pro MC take you through a rollercoaster of comedy. The full lineup will be on www.chucklestheelephant.com soon, or join the Facebook group to see who's up closer to the date.

Wanna get on stage to win the prize or have a laugh? We can make that happen too, just get in contact through the Chuckles Comedy website. Audience bookings are recommended for larger groups.

All guests who sign the emailing list on the night could win a bottle of wine and dinner on the house! (Not my house, the bar)

And no... the dad-joke-writing event-lister will not be performing, so it will definitely be a killer night.

Hours: 12pm - 5pm
Cost: $65/$70
More Info: www.semipermanent.com/perth

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The 5th Semi-Permanent Perth Conference returns to The Bakery with a new format and killer line-up of speakers.

This years speakers include graphic designer Leif Podhajsky, super cool creative agency Tin & Ed, stylin urban creative Beastman, renowned photographer Claire Martin plus more speakers and side events to be announced shortly.

Each ticket purchase to Semi-Permanent include a copy if the 2010 Semi-Permanent Publication and entry to the Official After Party feat. Chico Mann & guests.

For more information on Semi-Permanent speakers & side events, log onto www.semipermanent.com

Hours: Thursday - Sunday 12pm -5pm
Cost: Free

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Daek, Kid Zoom, Creepy, Sean Morris, Ryan Boserio and Tim Rollin are the primary members of Last Chance Studio - a growing band of hungry young artists bringing national focus back to Perth, a city that has suffered from a frustrating talent drain in the last decade.

The adventure begins on Friday, September 24th at 6pm with Kick It Like Jujitsu - a massive installation painting at The Bakery.

The Last Chance boys will be joined by AM crew guest artists and Sydney's Beastman to paint out the entire gallery for this show, which opens up Semi-Permanent 2010, and will also be the exhibition that re-opens The Bakery after 18 months of renovations.

Kick It Like Jujitsu opens on Friday 24th September at 6pm, following Semi-Permanent.

Exhibition runs until the 3rd October.

Hours: Opening night 24 of September 6pm-9pm
Saturay 11am - 6.30pm
Sunday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday & Thursday 10.30am - 6pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.thesedaysgallery.com

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The revealing nature of this body of work comes from near discarded scribbles. Examining the revelatory nature of the final work, the artist explains the Glam-Pop imagery as an ambiguous yet exciting visual era of escapism. As a self diagnosed victim of technological obsolescence, the electro fuzz music, gloved superheroes and cinematic puppetry transports him to the way back when.

The symbolic patterns of noise Adrian writes with, are an accessible process to describe an exhausting absorption rate of information, suffered in the now.

Some of that noise is explained by the weight of statistics numbers translated as collateral manipulated realities. Layered amongst the works are statistical depths of field generated by 911; the ongoing moment for the artist.

Adrian recognises these factors ...fragments and fractures combine in his work to indicate and reiterate the growing atmosphere of potential cultural and structural collapse or the perhaps the reluctance to accept change .

Changelings is the collective name given to the scribbles that have received the opportunity for longevity which in turn give the Adrian the luxury of introspection and refinement.

Hours: Mon - Fri 10am - 4.45pm
Sat 12 - 2.45pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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A Collection of Organised Spaces Part Two is the second exhibition in an ongoing investigation into constructed architectural spaces, geometric forms, light and materiality. Jacqueline's ideas are executed as photographic images and the content of the images is physically built on various scales, using common materials. Paint and light are used to conceal and expose information, highlight surface texture, generate reflection and create repetition.

The majority of the images are angular in shape and printed on a large scale.

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

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PICA is pleased to present the first Australian showing of award winning multi-screen video installation Sekilala by Yuka and Kentaro Shimura, a Japanese brother and sister artistic duo that work together as SHIMURABROS.

SHIMURABROS are well known in Japan and across Asia and Europe for their inventive and pioneering approach to the motion picture. With Sekilala (2006-2008) the SHIMRABROS have taken their interest in the motion picture into a new realm by extending film beyond its two-dimensional limitations and employing advanced 3D technology and virtual reality programming.

Sekilala, is a three-screen immersive video installation, shot on super 16mm, filmed in Prague and with a storyline inspired by the controversial image of a mouse with what appears to be a human ear growing on its back. A family drama in which the father is obsessed with bio-furniture erratically unfolds in multiple, fractured stories. Projected onto three screens and randomly configured in twenty-six short sequences, the same story is never experienced twice, and the viewer becomes the editor of an infinite and complex film.

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

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Objects to Live By: The Art of John Meade is the first major survey exhibition of one of Australia’s leading sculptors and is currently on display PICA.

Featuring more than 17 sculptural works ranging in scale from intimate objects on table tops to architecturally scaled wall works, this exhibition brings together Meade’s larger floor-based and suspended forms, smaller 'table sculptures', and an ensemble from a collaborative installation.

Often employing geometry and soft organic forms, John Meade works in an intuitive way to materialise his ideas, creating tightly orchestrated pieces that explore the metaphysical, the surreal and the fetishistic. Tapping into the real and the subconscious, playing with scale and expectation, Meade uses minimalism and messiness, the deliberate and the accidental, to explore extremes of form and intensities of emotion.

John Meade is a critically acclaimed Melbourne-based artist who has exhibited in many solo and group exhibitions since 1995. His work is also held in numerous collections, including those of Monash University; the Museum of Contemporary Art; Heide Museum of Modern Art and the National Gallery of Victoria.

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

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An interest in diagrams, patterns, series and systems by eight influential contemporary artists are the focus of this critical new exhibition at PICA.

Love of Diagrams brings together over 50 key works by leading and emerging international and Australian artists, many of whom who will be exhibited for the first time this country.

This major group exhibition shows a range of recent and early work from each artist and in doing so considers a constellelation of complex practices. Embracing drawing, collage, painting, photography, sculpture, sound art and installation, this exhibition questions the origins of these artists' obsessions with all things diagrammatic and what this signals as a means of representing, mapping and articulating current ideas.

Artists: Armando Andrade Tudela (Peru), Bradford Bailey (USA/UK), Jose Damasceno (Brazil) Natasha Dusenjko (Vic), Marita Fraser (Australia/Austria), Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Bojan Sarcevic (Bosnia/France), David Thomson (WA)

Curator: Leigh Robb

Hours: OPENING NIGHT 10th SEPT 7.00PM TILL LATE
Wednesday & Thursday 10.30am - 6.00pm
Friday & Saturday 10.00am - 6.30pm
Sunday 10.00am - 5.00pm
Cost: free
More Info: www.thesedaysgallery.com

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THESE DAYS PROUDLY PRESENTS THE OPENING EXHIBITION FEATURING TEN INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS OF THE HIGHEST CALIBER

DAVID BRAY London

TWOONE Melbourne

BRIDGE STEHLI Sydney

JONI KEIFT Perth

DIXON Barcelona

ESJAY Sydney

NATASHA SIM Melbourne

DEATHBOT Perth

JESSIE DOUGLAS Plymouth

MISO Melbourne

Hours: 2-4pm every Saturday
Cost: Contribute according to your means
More Info: www.perthpoetryclub.com

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Perth Poetry Club -- where slams meet sonnets. Every Saturday at The
Moon, 323 William Street. Guest poets, short open stage slots, time to
chat. Everyone's welcome. Come and listen. Maybe share some poems.

COMING UP AT PERTH POETRY CLUB

4 September: National Poetry Week with Sue Clennell & Phil McNamara

11 September: nothing, The Moon being closed

18 September: Open Mike if The Moon is open

25 September: Dick Alderson + Ken Hudson

2 October: Flora Smith (TBC) + Chris Arnold

9 October: Annamaria Weldon

16 October: INTERNATIONAL GUEST - DON'T MISS! African-American Jazz Poet L E SCOTT


Plus 3-minute open mike spots, professional sound, interesting company, and food and drink of various strengths. 2-4pm at The Moon, 323 William Street, Northbridge.

More info on artists and Perth Poetry Club: www.perthpoetryclub.com
Email: perthpoetryclub@gmail.com Phone: Janet 0406 624 578

Cost: FREE!
More Info: www.propel.org.au/projects/amplifier

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Amplifier is back in 2010 with an array of sessions to get those creative ideas on the move! Covering topics such as Marketing know-how, Growing Money on Trees – How to get that Grant, Arts Finance, Event 101 and much more.

Forums on Creative Collaborations and Community Cultural Development will also be a part of this years jam packed program.

Registrations are open online now @ www.propel.org.au – register early to avoid missing out, as places are limited!

Amplifier is a FREE arts business workshop and forum program designed to sharpen the arts business skills of emerging Perth metro artists and arts workers Amplifer workshops are open to young people aged 18-30 years and Amplifier forums are open to all ages. The program is aimed to provide professional skills development, networking opportunities and the chance to explore current arts issues with leading industry professionals.

Amplifier 2010 is proudly supported by Foundation for Young Australians, Central Institute of Technology and the Department for Communities’ Office for Youth.

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

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.

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