Hours: Starts 8pm
Cost: Free!
More Info: www.goldenturkeyfest.org

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When too much Christmas turkey is not enough the GOLDEN TURKEY FILM FEST may be just the ticket! Join us for a night of cult cinema under the stars in the Perth Cultural Centre.

The Golden Turkey Film Festival serves up a feast of B Grade classics so endearingly terrible that they personify the so-bad-it's-good genre of filmmaking. Four B Grade classics with dialogue and acting so terrible, stories so ridiculous, sets that fall apart and effects so dazzlingly cheesy that you cannot afford to miss out.

These cult gems which have played in relative obscurity on television screens for years have now fallen into the genre of cult classics, fueled by fans of cinema atrocities and critics such as Michael Medved who coined the Golden Turkey Awards in his book of the same name. These Z grade classics are screening in big screen awesomeness on the massive LED screen in the Perth Cultural Centre.

The festival kicks off on Christmas Day with an 8pm 'Orphans Christmas' night screening of SANTA CONQUERS THE MARTIANS (1964). Originally billed as Science-Fun-Fiction at its height!

If you have a penchant for bad costumed alien invading lobsters, shaky and flaky sets coupled with acting and direction so mind-numbingly brilliant in its awfulness then this is the cinematic Holiday Seasons treat for you. If not cover your eyes and run.

Film screens at 8pm and is supported with a classic cartoon short.

Hours: 5pm til the oysters run out!
Cost: 0
More Info: www.399bar.com

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We know that an oyster shucked by Jerry Fraser is one the best treats going. That's why we'll be celebrating Christmas a few days early with him this year. That's right folks, on the last Friday night before the holidays really begin, you'll be able to treat yourself to a little "self gifting". $20 for a dozen oysters, or $10 for a half dozen.

Hours: 3-9pm
Cost: FREE!
More Info: www.foodchainperth.com/realtoreel

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After a successful run in 2009, the Real to Reel Recording Studio returns in 2011 at a new location – the former Angus & Robertson shop in the Perth Train Station.

Foodchain, the City of Perth’s youth projects arm, gives local bands the gift of free recording time this Christmas while local punters receive a leisurely three evenings of free live music.

Between December 21 and 23, seasoned sound engineer Laurie Sinagra and photographer Casey Ayres will capture the action as bands come in, set up, record as many tracks as possible, and bump out.

Real to Reel enables audiences to access the purely physical experience of watching live music while exposing them to the equally important recording process.

The public are invited to come by and watch their favourite bands, then download all the tracks for free from www.foodchainperth.com/realtoreel

Kick off the holiday season in style and check out:

Wednesday December 21
3pm: perth
5pm: Ermine Coat
9pm: Water Temple

Thursday December 22
5pm: Runner
7pm: Cow Parade Cow

Friday December 23
5pm: Salamander
7pm: Golden Staph

Recording sessions are around 90 minutes long.

Real to Reel Recording Studio
Shop 5, Perth Train Station Railway Concourse (former Angus & Robertson shop)

Hours: Sat-Thurs 10am-6pm & Fri 10am-8pm
Cost: free entry
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/create/?eid=122470474531477

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Avoid the crowds this Christmas. Montage collective returns to William St, Northbridge with their unique market style shopping experience with everything locally made by it's members.

Cost: Spaces from $30
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/applicaiton

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OnWilliam are excited to be teaming with Fringe World to create two nights of magical open air late night shopping awesomeness. We are currently on the hunt for small food vendors and creative people wanting to have stalls, exhibitions, performances, workshops or other events. The spaces available start small and very cheap, perfect for emerging and experimental projects.

The markets will take place in Hook and Lock Lanes Northbridge on Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 January 2012.

For more information and to apply please visit: www.onwilliam.com.au/application

Applications close 19 December 2011.

Cost: Free
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/cards

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Visit Northbridge during the Festival of Christmas to collect your free set of OnWilliam Christmas cards.

There are free 14 cards to collect from from Northbridge traders, each featuring a unique design by a local artist.

Visit www.onwilliam.com.au/cards to print your collector map.

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday
10am - 10pm
More Info: www.bivouac.com.au

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Lindsay Dullea is a Graphic Designer whose graphic art works are vibrant in colour and often playful in theme, both aesthetically pleasing and abrasive.

His work is ever evolving and has a heavily symbolic view of contemporary culture, generating bold, humorous and provocative imagery. His work draws on inspiration from sci-fi novels of the 60’s and 70’s, consumer culture, eastern philosophies, western mythologies, pop art, street art and poster art from around the globe.

These works on display at Bivouac are part of the ‘Digital Ink’ series and are available to buy.

Find out more about Lindsay www.lindsaydullea.com

Hours: Tues to Sun, 11am-6pm
Cost: Free
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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Alternating Currents is a major exhibition developed by PICA and the Japan Foundation and sponsored by Allens Arthur Robinson, that presents significant new work by six contemporary Japanese artists, artist collectives and musicians. Spanning a number of generations, the artists in this exhibition have multi and interdisciplinary approaches to their art making that encompass performance, film, installation, sound art and music. Their works interrogate notions of live art practice, involving local artists and communities on different levels and in a number of instances in ways that reflect on the local and global effects of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan earlier this year.

The works in this exhibition will surprise, delight and provoke visitors to PICA and in some cases encourage them to become active participants. Audiences will be prompted to buy and consume a 'local delicacy', experience a giant game, activate musical boxes and contribute to an international 'conference' on the Reconstruction of Japan.

Hours: 2-3pm
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

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Jeff Wall is recognised throughout the world as one of the most innovative and influential artists working today. JEFF WALL Photographs, this first Australian survey of his work brings together 26 mostly large-scale photographs to present an overview of his extraordinary achievements and features major works from over three decades of artistic and photographic innovation. Large and luminous, his photographs have rewritten nearly every convention of photography. Wall’s outstanding body of work has played a decisive role in establishing photography as the major contemporary art
form it is today.

Join artist Jeff Wall and AGWA's Deputy Director | Chief Curator Gary Dufour in an artist’s talk and a question
and answer session, and discover the mind behind these amazing photographs. This is an extraordinary opportunity to learn more about one of the most influential photographers of our time.

Image credit:Jeff Wall, After ‘Invisible Man’ by Ralph Ellison, the Prologue 1999-2000. Transparency in light box, AP.
174 x 250.5 cm. Courtesy of the artist © Jeff Wall.