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 work by Yuka and Kentaro Shimura, a Japanese brother and sister artistic duo that work together as SHIMURABROS.

Their award winning multi-screen video installation Sekilala will open in the PICA Screen Space on Friday 10 September.

SHIMURABROS are well known in Japan and across Asia and Europe for their inventive and pioneering approach to the motion picture. In the past they have created high-tech installations that allow viewers to imagine what it might have been like to experience the first moving picture over a century ago. Their much-celebrated work X-Ray Train – Lumiere Bros. to Shimurabros. (2008), which references both the Lumiere Brothers Arrival of a Train at La Coitat and the invention of the x-ray, saw them scan a model locomotive through a medical CT scanner and project the slices onto multiple parallel screens.

With Sekilala (2006-2008), the work to be shown at PICA, 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.

The SHIMURABROS recently received the Excellence prize for this work at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival 2009. Sekilala has also been shown this year at the The National Arts Center Tokyo and at Transgenesis (Czech Academy of Science) as well as at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2007.

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

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The Perth Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present Objects to Live By: The Art of John Meade, the first major survey exhibition of one of Australia’s leading sculptors.

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.

This is an important and timely exhibition that will allow visitors to experience Meade’s unique creative processes and ideas, including his experimentation with conventional sculptural materials and newer synthetic industrial materials (such as polymer resin composites and synthetic concrete). It provides valuable insights into the private development of his sculptural practice over more than a decade and his significant contribution to Australian art.

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 and how they are re-negotiating these strategies often associated with minimalism are the focus of this critical new exhibition at the Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts.

A diagram is defined as a two-dimensional or three-dimensional pictorial representation of information which often has its beginning in a sketch or line drawing. Many of the artists’ work in the show evolves in long-running, explorative series which tend to be characterised by two seemingly opposed processes: the geometric and mathematical on the one hand, and the organic and unpredictable on the other.

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, including Peruvian artist Armando Andrade Tudela, Bosnian/French artist Bojan Šarčević and American artist Bradford Bailey. The work of Jose Damsceno from Brazil was last seen at the Sydney Biennale in 2006, but on this occasion a hanging text work from his ongoing ‘Organagramma’ series will be suspended from the Westend gallery ceiling and accompanied by a suite of seminal letraset and ink drawings on graph paper. A significant new interactive work by established Australian artist Joyce Hinterding,’ Aura’ will also be presented – graphite and gold drawings which take the form of fractal antennas and are connected to a sound system that emits audible signals and energy emitted from the local environment.

The objects or materials in the exhibition have often undergone a permutational change at the hand of the artists, involve repetition or unfold as a series, scheme or algorithm that allow the artists to invent complex personal combinations of objects,materials and ideas. Love of Diagrams features a diverse range of systemic but extremely idiosychratic ways of making from Marita Fraser’s varied ‘Diagram’ works that include Rorschach paintings, molecular Styrofoam and resin sculptures, Armando Andrade Tudela’s ‘Triangolos’ watercolours on graph paper; David Thomson’s typed text works, collages and photographs of home-made models, a brass and thread wall installation by Bojan Šarčević, to Bradford Bailey’s ‘Empathy equation’ and ‘Rorschach’ paintings, as well as ink and typewriter concertina drawings by Natasha Dusenkjo.

This major group exhibition shows a range of recent and early work from important series by each artist and in doing so considers a constellelation of complex practices from emerging artists to more senior established artists, whose practices are driven by a love of diagrams. 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.

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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: 10am - 5pm daily.
Perth Cultural Centre, James Street, Northbridge
Cost: Free entry!
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/popsicle

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Returning to the Perth Fashion Festival for a third run, Popsicle has become a staple on Perth's independent fashion calendar. Popsicle is temporary retail space where you can browse, shop, and directly support a selection of our state's most exciting emerging talent.

Produced by the crew at OnWilliam, each year Popsicle reinvents itself in a new environment, delivering a fun and different shopping experience every time. This year we salute our local designers in style, with Popsicle being housed in two shipping containers in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre.

Visit Popsicle and enter the draw to win a $500 OnWilliam Shopping Spree!

While you're visiting, pick up your free Popsicle magnet illustrated by feature artist Sean Morris, and follow the map to collect the whole set from seventeen of your favourite OnWilliam haunts!

Enjoy! x The OnWilliam Gang

Hours: Various
Cost: Free!
More Info: www.onwilliam.com.au/news

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We are pleased to announce the launch of the 2010 OnWilliam Magnet Set. This years set features 17 free collectable magnets by Northbridge artist Sean Morris.

Download your printable map here and start collecting!

Magnet collecting starts 9 September, until stocks last. Be sure to grab your Popsicle magnet before the pop up store closes on 15 September.

Hours:
OPEN NOW!!!

TUE-FRI 11-6
SAT 11-5
SUN 11-4


Cost: FREE
More Info: www.facebook.com/scrapstore

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SCRAPS HAS BEEN UNVEILED IN CHINATOWN NORTHBRIDGE. COME DOWN AND SEE WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT.

411 WILLIAM STREET NORTHBRIDGE (CHINATOWN)

MENS//WOMENS CLOTHING
ART//PRINTS//BOOKS

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Hours: Tues-Fri 10.30-5.30; Sat+Sun 10-5.
Cost: Free
More Info: www.amyvinicombe.carbonmade.com

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Becoming Hockney is the first exhibition by Perth photographer Amy Vinicombe. The series is a collection of photographic collages inspired by British Artist 'David Hockney' and his work in photography in the early 80's. The collection is a continuation of Hockney's work but from the perspective of a young Western Australian female in the twenty first century.
Image: 'CameraWorks'

Hours: Thursday & Friday, 6.30pm
Saturday & Sunday, 4.30 & 6.30pm
Cost: $20
More Info: www.pica.org.au/feast

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Fraudulent Behaviour uses prose, invisible friends, a decoy duck and cardboard cut-outs to create a witty and thoughtful performance in response to Nietzsche's assertion 'We need lies in order to live...'

The narrative unfolds using spoken word, movement and a series of objects that play with notions of what may be perceivedas real. Inherent in the work is a humorous use of language, both in delivery and writing style. Ideas, themes and content loop back on themselves to create a dense and evocative theatrical experience. Rosie plays with notions of time and space, interweaving real and imagined worlds to create a compelling and insightful performance about the illusory nature of life

Hours: Thursday & Friday, 5.30 & 7.30pm
Saturday & Sunday, 1pm, 5.30pm & 7.30pm
Cost: $20
More Info: www.pica.org.au/feast

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2 Dimensional Life of Her is a visual performance made of drawing, animation, puppetry, projection and paper. A richly imagined parallel world is awoken where drawings reproduce themselves, drift between surfaces and move in and out of three dimensions. You will be immersed in a world of floor to ceiling projections, mesmerising animations and walls that simply peel away. Standing at the centre of this world of light and shadows, your sense of reality will be teased and blurred.

Hours: Thursday & Friday, 8.15pm
Saturday & Sunday, 2pm & 8.15pm
Cost: $20
More Info: www.pica.org.au/feast

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Writer, academic and performer Paul Dwyer retraces three journeys made by his father Dr Allan Dwyer, a world-renowned orthopaedic surgeon, to Bougainville (PNG) during the 1960s, in which he healed dozens of crippled children.

Family stories become entwined with the larger narrative of Australia's colonial enterprise over the years following the opening of the giant Panguna copper mine, environmental devastation, a brutal civil war funded by Australia that cost the lives of up to 20,000 people, and finally, the post-war reconciliation process.

This one-man performance is politics and performance at its most personal.

Hours: Thursday & Friday 6.15pm & 9.45pm
Saturday & Sunday 3.30pm, 6.15pm & 9.45pm
Cost: $20
More Info: www.pica.org.au/feast

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Hand built by the artists out of scrap metal and old oil-stained canvas, The Tent sits at the crossroads of installation art, puppetry, video and performance. Led by Michael, an audience of 25 is invited to step inside the story of an unlikely male friendship. Brett, a modern day bush philosopher, finds Michael stuck in a hole, still in his pyjamas, in the middle of the bush. Brett takes the twenty-something city kid under his wing and they live together in his tentuntil their friendship falters over what to do with a lost cow.

Created by a young group of Sydney based theatre makers, led by Matt Prest, The Tent is a unique theatrical experience, a strange journey to the muddy crossroads of self- sufficiency and prolonged adolescence. The Tent sets up camp in PICA's main gallery. Come in, get warm, Brett should be back soon.

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

Hours: Moon Opening Times..
Mon 6pm - 12.30am
Tue 6pm - 12.30am
Wed 11am - 1.30am
Thurs 11am - 1.30am
Fri 11am - 3.30am
Sat 11am - 3.30am
Sun 11am - 12.30am
Cost: 0
More Info: www.themoon.com.au

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GOING SOLO WEDNESDAYS..
8pm til 10pm
Danni Ammon, James Teague and Tim Gordon.

JAZZ THURSDAYS..
8pm til 12am
The Fix

PERTH POETRY SOCIETY SATURDAYS..
2pm til 4pm
National Poetry Week with Sue Clennell & Phil McNamara

SUNDAYS..
8pm til 10pm
OTP presents Campfire Dreamscapes
featuring Kvlt Elk, Craig McElhinney & Royal Vomit performing tales of Magic & Mystery.

Hours: 6pm Launch Saturday.

The 9am to 3pm for the next two weeks.
Cost: 0
More Info: www.timothyrollin.wordpress.com

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An exhibition of 24 new Timothy Rollin illustrations at The Secret Garden Cafe.

Shop 7/329 Murray Street/Murray Mews.

Opening night 7 - 9 pm on the 28th of August.
Featuring Dj Beni Chill, booze and canopes
Wine, Beer and Sangria available.
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Showing till the 11th of September.

You can find Secret Garden next to Tiger Tiger Cafe between Murray st and Wolfe lane

Hours: Daily apart from Mondays, see our profile or website for up to date info on opening hours!
Cost: 0
More Info: www.outregallery.com

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Outré Gallery is excited to be bringing US artist Josh SHAG Agle back down-under for another three city tour of Australia in August 2010. With exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney and Perth we will be presenting original paintings, super-sized giclee prints on canvas (in especially small editions), new serigraph prints and rare prints.
The Perth exhibition will be the inaugural opening of the new Outré Gallery space in Northbridge. Having been selling and exhibiting artwork in Melbourne for the past 16 years, Sydney for the past 5, Outré Gallery is enthused to be opening a third location in Western Australia.

This exhibition is set to embrace Shag's new direction towards a darker mood, more surreal subject matter and more complex compositions.
Shag takes an artistic sidestep away from the retro iconography and lifestyle that has marked his career, with a whole new realm of crisply rendered dream-scenes, perfectly balanced hues and amazing narratives. These new style works will sit next to a collection of older prints and rare editions from the past.

The name of the exhibition refers to an exclusive (and mysterious) book that the artist has produced to accompany the paintings.

"Inscrutable Mystery Guide" is actually the little book that accompanies each small tiki painting. It's my hope that the books won't be seen by anyone except the person who owns one of those paintings. I want to bring them into my own little cult and tell them some secrets. - Josh Agle aka Shag

Outré will be hosting a series of gala openings across the three cities with the artist out from Los Angeles for the events.

There will be book signings with the artist on the first Saturdays in each city for his title "Autumn's Come Undone".

This exhibition will mark our first major international exhibition at our brand-new Perth Gallery in the freshly revitalised area of William Street, Northbridge.

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.

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

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The Moon will be CLOSING from Monday 6th September for about 2 weeks due to some much needed maintenance.

We will potentially open again on Saturday 18th September (if the work is finished in time).

Check our facebook & website for the re-opening date closer to the 18th.

Sorry for any late night inconvenience
♥ The Moon

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
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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.