Hours: 20:00 until 02:00
Cost: $15+bf
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/221622054589452/

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Hotel California is making it's debut entrance to Western Australia in the form of an art explosion and a truly honoured part of the FRINGEWORLD FESTIVAL in Perth!

Within Hotel California San Diego's own Romantic Rock Designs, a women's couture clothing line with be holding 2 pin up fashion shows featured 20 local PERTH ladies! Also on night Leg Avenue and Hairy Scary Hairclips will be featured with the girls strutting down the rock 'n roll catwalk!

Live music from CHAINSAW HOOKERS + THE DEVIL RIDES OUT, DJ SCOTT INK AND SHANNON FOX all night long and art exhibit from Jamie Oliver of TheLostProphets will also be rocking THE BAKERY at Perth's Hotel California date!

Please check out... facebook.com/romanticrockdesigns
fringeworld.com.au

Hours: 8-10pm
Cost: Standard: $42.50; Friends: $39.50
More Info: www.perthfestival.com.au/en/What%27s-on/Event/Little-Roy-presents-Battle-for-Seattle

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Twenty years after Nevermind wrenched grunge into the mainstream, Rasta pioneer Little Roy pays a reggae tribute to the genius of Nirvana. Filled with dancehall dub and Kingston grooves, the project has been enthusiastically embraced by original members of the Nirvana camp.

Hours: 20:00 until 23:00
Cost: $10 entry
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/171921232913145/

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Tim Gordon w/ band (featuring Mama Boots)
Rachel and Henry Climb a Hill
Patient Little Sister
James Teague

http://www.facebook.com/timgordonmusic
http://www.facebook.com/rachelandhenryclimbahill
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Patient-Little-Sister/179985398716849
http://www.facebook.com/jamesteaguemusic

Hours: 8PM - 11PM
Cost: $10
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/271654366231549/

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Ladies and Gentlemen, strap on your dancing shoes and your best dress, suit or gorilla costume and come watch The Caballeros get our freak on with our friends Hurricane Fighter Plane and new comers Dianas. We will be playing some classy tunes so you can get your twist on.

Hours: 8pm - midnight
Cost: 0
More Info: https://www.facebook.com/events/331450456879149/

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JIMMY THE EXPLODER and YA YA'S present

DTF


JAN THEME = MC HAMMER BANG(ER)S SHANNON DOHERTY

Lets get down. Down to FUCK that is!

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DJ rule$:
1. duo$ and trio$ only
2. 100% banger$
3. mu$t epitomize DTF at all time$

January DJ SUPERSTARZ:
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TOMY SMOKER + JOHNNY MANGO
DOOM + GROOM
L-BOE & COTTON RUNT + BIG MAC
...more TBA...


* WITH HAIR AND MAKE UP AT THE VENUE BY THE INCOMPARABLE H E A D S T U D I O ! ! ! *

http://www.headstudio.com.au/


(cover art by Li$a Terne$)

Ya-Ya's
147 James Street, Northbridge, Perth, wa 6003
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Hours: 6:30pm PICA Performance Space
Cost: $25 - $30
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au/blueroomseasons/hopeisthesaddest

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A bright black comedy about Dolly Parton, Death and Delusion, with “an exciting blend of stylised performance, set in a world of magical eccentricity. It moves, entertains and delights” (Ali Taulbut, The West Australian).

Winner, Best Production - The Blue Room Theatre Awards, 2008.

Hours: 8pm PICA Performance Space
Cost: $25 - $30
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au/blueroomseasons/tiltedfawn

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Contemporary dance artist Melanie Lane and UK electronic musician CLARK join to create a solo dance work that transports you with movement and sound.

An orchestra of low-fi sonic landscapes propels the dancer along a journey that is at times luscious, melancholic, stark and utopian.

Hours: 9:30pm PICA Performance Space
Cost: $25 - $30
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au/blueroomseasons/standingbird

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"I keep falling in and out of myself, just as I fell out of paradise..."

This dance/theatre/film work explores a shipwrecked European woman's encounter with the Australian landscape - an experience of submersion, dislocation, isolation and transformation.

Hours: 7pm
Cost: $20 - $25
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au/blueroomseasons/virgie

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"The future of entertainment was the first appearance in Perth of Miss Virgie Vivienne” - The West Australian, 1897

So it was reported over 100 years ago... and now it begins again.

Facts are stubborn things, and so was Virgie Vivienne, the 19th Century trailblazer who brought Shakespeare to the Australian outback. Direct from premiering at FringeNYC, Renee Newman-Storen’s Virgie tracks a life spanning 70 years of love, tragedy and the bard through Australia and Europe.

Using verbatim material and original writing, Virgie fuses intimate storytelling and a soundtrack ranging from Tchaikovsky to Nick Cave to capture snapshots of an extraordinary life.

This fictionalized account of a remarkable story will be the first chance for Australian audiences to become acquainted with this little known risk-taker.

More info: www.theMOXYcollective.com

Written and performed by Renee Newman-Storen
Directed by Mark Storen and Emily McLean

Hours: 9pm
Cost: $20 - $25
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au/blueroomseasons/sleepyhead

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Fresh from an acclaimed, sold out season in Melbourne, The Blue Room Theatre Summer Nights and Upstart Theatre Company proudly present ‘Sleepyhead’ by award-winning Perth playwright Nathaniel Moncrieff as part of Perth’s FRINGE WORLD Festival from 6 February 2012.

Set on an isolated property somewhere in the woodlands of Western Australia’s southern region, ‘Sleepyhead’ revolves around two young sisters – one crippled, one mercilessly cruel.

When the girls’ father leaves to borrow money from a far-away brother, they are left alone to fend for themselves. This proves the catalyst for a series of unsettling events: a dead chicken, mysterious phone calls, a blood splattered visitor and the spectre of the girls’ dead mother.

Winner of the 2009 Fellowship of Australian Writers’ Di Cranston award, as well as shortlisted for the prestigious Griffin Award in 2010, ‘Sleepyhead’ is a darkly funny, “convincingly exasperating piece of Australian gothic” [Andrew Fuhrmann, Curtain Call].

SLEEPYHEAD
by Nathaniel Moncrieff
Directed by Garreth Bradshaw
Produced by Sam Farringdon

CAST:
Eleanor...................... Amy Murray
Genevieve.................. Louise Cocks
Tom........................... Alex Jones
Donald....................... Adam Shuttleworth
Polly........................... Kirsty Marillier

Hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11-5
Cost: 0
More Info: www.turnergalleries.com.au

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Marion Borgelt is one of Australia’s most eminent artists, well known for her paintings, sculptures and public artworks. Time, space, light and motion are all themes that Marion’s work has examined for several years, and she continues this exploration in her current exhibition; Musical Geometry. She is fascinated by how light behaves in certain environments: how it bends, folds and curls providing sensory encounters. Her artworks often reference notions of sequential movement that calibrates time and change in a universe of perpetual motion. Marion has been exhibiting professionally for over 35 years and has received many significant awards. Her work can be found in more than 40 major public collections and in a further 22 corporate collections.

Hours: Opening Night: Sat Feb 4th @ 6-8:30 pm
Daily: 11am-3.30pm
Cost: Free
More Info: MickeyDraws.tumblr.com

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Paintings and Drawings I've created in my time away from Machines and skin.

Hours: 8pm Wed & Fri
Cost: $20 - $25
More Info: www.blueroom.org.au/blueroomseasons/newtwo

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Two.
The people in a marriage, a tango, a boxing match.
The amount of each animal on the Ark.
The fingers in a peace sign that when turned have a whole other meaning.

The number of performers in each new short work to feature in this mixed bag of original performance with a new line-up each week.

Hours: 8pm Tues & Thurs
Cost: $15 - $20
More Info: www.barefaced.com.au

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Honest, fearless and refreshingly entertaining, Perth’s regular story showcase returns to Summer Nights for six shows only.

Fresh from workshops with Brian Finkelstein (The Moth LA), catch old favourites and some new faces telling true tales.

All Summer Nights tix through The Blue Room $15!
More info: www.barefaced.com.au // www.blueroom.org.au

Tickets also available through www.fringeworld.com.au ($20)

Hours: 3pm, 4pm, 5pm or 3-hour marathon
Cost: $25 (4 shows in an hr) or $66 (full 12 show 3 hr programme)
More Info: www.proximityfestival.com

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12 artists // 12 spaces // 12 performances // 12 minutes // 12 times a day

Australia’s first micro-festival of one-on-one art. Proximity will transform every corner of The Blue Room Theatre building with 12 world premiere performances tailor-made for an audience of one.

Get up close and personal with theatre, dance and live-art in a radically intimate way.

Experience a private tap dance, go on a tandem bike ride, discover how sweet your life is, join THE UNION, test your limits with a game of strip poker, learn how to take a 3 minute shower or help prepare a 3 hour slowfood mini-banquette.

See 4 shows in an hour for $25 or experience all 12 over 3 hours for $66.

Tickets only available through The Blue Room Theatre box office
www.blueroom.org.au | Phone: 9227 7005 | In Person: 53 James St, Northbridge

Curators: James Berlyn and Sarah Rowbottam Provocateur: Kelli Mccluskey Artists: Claudia Alessi, James Berlyn, Janet Carter, Renae Coles, Russya Connor, Jackson Eaton, Jen Jamieson, Nikki Jones, Janette McGinty, Sarah Nelson, Sarah Rowbottam and Hellen Russo.

Hours: Approx 2hrs 30 mins (incl. interval)
Cost: Standard $69.50 / Concession $54.50 / Previews $52.50 / Family Package $158 / Groups 8+ $53.50 (plus 1 free ticket for
More Info: www.bocsticketing.com.au/whats-on/686/white-divers-of-broome/

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents

The White Divers of Broome
By Hilary Bell

28 January - 16 February 2012

World Premiere!

In the boom times of 1912 Broome, Sydney Pigott is a wealthy pearling master looking for a way around the White Australia Policy, anxious to keep his cheap Asian workers – and his high profits.

Webber, Sanders and Beasily are the cream of the British Navy deep sea divers. Hired by Pigott, they arrive in Broome naïvely convinced they’ll prove their skills when they hit the hazardous seas and collect the precious mother-of-pearl. But desperate Asian crews, shadowy alliances and the ruthless environment of Broome are against the white divers from the beginning.

From the brothels to the ballrooms to the deep seas, it’s a cutthroat world and trust is hard to find.

Inspired by the book of the same name by John Bailey, The White Divers of Broome is a celebration of boom time Broome and its exotic clash of cultures. Be captivated by a stirring account of greed, betrayal, loyalty and survival that resonates through the years.

“Hilary Bell will sweep you along in this epic and heartbreaking story, and take you back to a time when the racial and class relations in the exotic frontier town of Broome were watched by the entire country.” Kate Cherry

Venue: Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA
Director: Kate Cherry
Featuring: Caitlin Beresford-Ord, Kylie Farmer [Kaarljilba Kaardn], Michelle Fornasier, Stuart Halusz, Sean Hawkins, Yutaka Izumihara, Miyuki Lotz, Greg McNeill, Kenneth Moraleda, Jo Morris, Tom O’Sullivan, Ian Toyne

Warning: Some coarse language and adult themes.

Bookings: BOCS Ticketing, ph (08) 9484 1133, Groups 8+ ph (08) 9321 6831, www.bocsticketing.com.au/whats-on/686/white-divers-of-broome/

More info: www.bsstc.com.au/the-2012-season/the-white-divers-of-broome/

Hours: 11 am - 5 pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.theconservatoriumproject.com

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The Conservatorium features 80 emerging and established artists, who were given the brief that their work must be contained within a glass, plastic or ceramic jar. The resultant artworks resonate as an industrious investigation into containment, seeing and preserving.

Curated by Renae Coles & Anna Dunnill, The Conservatorium is the first exhibition to take place at Perth's newest artist-run initiative (ARI), Paper Mountain.

EXHIBITION OPENING: Jan 27, 6-9pm

OPEN DAILY 11-5

The Conservatorium is a part of FRINGE WORLD Festival, Perth 2012.

Visit www.theconservatoriumproject.com for information about the exhibition and contributing artists.

Hours: Tues - Fri 12pm - late
Sat 10am - late
Cost: 0
More Info: bivouac.com.au/

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Miles Noel is the feature artist from January - March at Bivouac.
In this, his latest offering, Miles depicts portraits immersed within a fluidly painted semi-abstract landscape. Loosely sweeping brush strokes evocative of flowers and feathers are melded together with lush
semi-photographic realism, creating an arresting combination of styles. Miles employs his skills as a commercial photographer and graphic designer when constructing his paintings.
Be sure to grab a flyer and scan the QR codes with your smart phone to see a time-lapse video of how the work was made. All works are for sale.
Find out more about Miles at http://milesnoel.com.au

Hours: 10am - 5pm, closed Tuesdays
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

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2012 marks a decade of the Tom Malone Prize. This acquisitive award for Australian glass artists has been the platform for the Gallery to collect some of the best work being made in the country today. The combined exhibitions feature work by 2012’s shortlisted makers, all past winners and a selection of glass works from the State Art Collection. Works have been selected to bring to view objects which have been recently purchased, and those works that precede and parallel the works of the Tom Malone Prize acquisitions. The display broadens viewers’ understanding about what is happening in the glass world and what is possible in the medium of glass.
Image credits: Clare Belfrage, Untitled (#291210) 2010. Blown glass with cane drawing,
36 x 50 x 9 cm. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through the Tom Malone Art Prize, Art Gallery of Wsetern Australia Foundation, 2011.
© Clare Belfrage 2010. Photo: Rob Little.