Hours: Thursday-Saturday, 7.30pm
Cost: $20-$30
More Info: www.pica.org.au

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In his new solo show, choreographer and performer Martin del Amo explores the modern city as an ever-changing organism. Darkly funny and often surreal, the work distils the complexity of the urban experience into a multi-layered performance made of dance, story telling and electronic sound design.

Inspired by a quote from US author Tom Wolfe who once called the modern city 'a billion-footed beast' - wild, bizarre and unpredictable - It's a Jungle Out There contrasts the rigidity of urban architecture and the formality of the street grid with the vibrancy and chaos that pulsates within it.

The work is set to an experimental electronic sound score composed and played live by sound artist Gail Priest.

'Emerging from this performance I am close to wordless... the sensation is dreamlike, but not fuzzy. This dream is ripe with observational truth, clarities born of flesh, rhythm and atmosphere.' REALTIME MAGAZINE

Cost: $40.00 Opening Night | $16.00 Adult | $12.00 Concession
More Info: www.lunapalace.com.au

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The 21st annual Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, presented by Tefal, will screen at Cinema Paradiso and Luna on SX from March 17 to 31. Featuring the best of French Cinema over the past 18 months, this is an event not to be missed!

More details coming soon. Visit the officail website: www.frenchfilmfestival.org

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

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WAR by the °SOUTH Collective
FotoFreo 2010: The City of Fremantle Festival of Photography

Australia’s most creative documentary photographers - Sean Flynn, Tim Page, Stephen Dupont, Jack Picone, Ben Bohane, Michael Coyne, Ashley Gilbertson and WA’s David Dare Parker - have covered conflicts from Vietnam to present day Afghanistan. With the courage of a soldier and the eye of a witness these photographers have created images of power and compassion that continue to influence public opinion.

Incite floor talk: WAR 6pm Thursday 25 March

www.fotofreo.com

Hours: mon to sat 12 to 3pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.gallerycentral.com.au

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Off The Wall
Part of FotoFreo Fringe

On show 15 March - 1 April
Hours: mon to sat 12 to 3pm

Where: Showcase Gallery, Central Institute of Technology, formerly TAFE
Corner of Aberdeen and Beaufort St, Northbridge, WA

Contact: Natalie or Krysia Cant 0434 251 542 and 0403 415 667




Off The Wall is an exhibition showcasing photographic explorations on the theme of The Wall. It features works by a group of driven young photographers of vast vision and variety. Curating this group show is Natalie Blom and Krysia Cant, joint recipients of the Central Monart Scholarship. Natalie's images focus on the gritty textures of urban surfaces while Krysia uses creative lighting techniques for her images with dazzling results.

All participants in this show have been or are currently students at Central Institute of Technology (formerly TAFE). Through their years spent together in studying the art of image taking, delving into new and old techniques, film and digital, the group have grown close, striving to produce new and original works spurred on by the spirit and enthusiasm of their peers. Each view point is completely different and yet are somehow also aligned; something which can be said about both photo artist and their works.

The Wall is sometimes a place to express yourself but can also be a barrier that constrains. Images range from bold black and white prints, traditional cyanotpes through to striking colour digital prints. This show presents to the viewer a myriad of surfaces, textures and experiences.



For more information about FotoFreo 2010, visit www.fotofreo.com

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: 8pm-10pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.themoon.com.au

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A monthly LIVE collaborative hip hop jam with no bravado or bullshit!!
Every month a band of misfits is assembled who improvise with their varied/limited abilities on various instruments. Two hosts freestyle, drop verses and sing. All culminating in a big on the fly jam that may or may not make any sense!
The band plays two half hour sets. In the second set they encourage people from the audience who might be able to rap, sing or bang a drum to stand up and see what happens..
Presented by The Community & Flowlab.

SUNDAY 14th March
CoLab Jam Band
Hosted by Mathas
this night also includes the launch of a month long exhibition by Community artist Jen Garland

SUNDAY 21st March
Echoes of Django

SUNDAY 28th Feb
Abdoujaparov (uk) present iDou
Le Gizzards

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

Hours: Launchs with the CoLab Jam Band // Sunday 14th March 8pm til 10pm
Cost: 0
More Info: www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=351380362035#!/group.php?gid=432536205186

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The courtyard at The Moon Cafe will now feature monthly exhibits by locally grown Perth artists. Launched on the second Sunday of every month between 8pm & 10pm. These exhibits will be born alongside the CoLab Jam Band, 70's kitch and Hip Hop beats.

This month we are very excited to feature Community artist Jenn Garland.

Jenn Garland is apart of the band of Community artists and plays and integral role in The Community art department. Garland will present her newest offerings of mixed media for the whole month of March.
Her work has been featured in MD Limited Editions, at Ezra Pound, Condor Carpark, The Moon Cafe and many more public spaces around Perth.

In two sentences she boiled her newest work down to this.."Jennifer Garland presents a body of work that explores the role of technology and mythology in the urban environment. Using acrylic paint, graphite and printmaking techniques she creates intricate pieces that reflect a sense of alienation whilst contrasting emotions of hope and dread."

Right on we say!

All pieces are for sale.

So come on down and celebrate the new use of this space.

Love, Love, Love
Miss Martha Bones x

The Moon Cafe is now taking expressions of interest from artists
please contact Virginia Ivory at missmarthabones@gmail.com.au

Hours: Various
Cost: FREE!
More Info: www.propel.org.au/projects/twentyten

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Check out our amazing list of FREE hands-on arts workshops especially designed for you! Choose form awesome workshops like fashion, comedy and tattoo illustration. Register today, spots are filling up FAST!

Hours: from 8pm
Cost: free
More Info: www.themoon.com.au

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Different original solo artists playing live each week.Going Solo is a night of original local music.Typically featuring three different songwriters performing solo (although occasionally it becomes Going Duo) the night lends a stage for local musos to test their wares.

Here's the next few line ups...

Wednesday 24th Feb
Dilip
Mitch Becker
Emlyn Johnson

Wednesday 3rd March
Anton McKay
Emlyn Johnson

Wednesday 10th March
Dilip
Kim McDonald

Wednesday 17th March
Simone & Girlfunkle
Amanda Merzden

Wednesday 24th March
Davey Craddock
Geordie James

Wednesday 31 March
Geraldine
Goodnight Tiger

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

Hours: 10am-5pm Wednesday - Monday
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au

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Year 12 Perspectives 2009 pays tribute to the commitment of Western Australia’s young artists through an exciting exhibition of dynamic, colourful and thought provoking artworks. Surveying a selection of the finest works created by Year 12 TEE Art and Art and Design students who studied in 2009, Year 12 Perspectives gives the public access to the concerns, passions and aspirations of some of Western Australia’s finest young artists. Artworks from students living and working in Japan will be on display in Year 12 Perspectives 2009, and in keeping with our commitment to cross-cultural exchange, a selection of works from Year 12 Perspectives 2009 will travel to Japan to be exhibited.
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Year 12 Perspectives 2009 People’s Choice Award
SMS your vote for a chance to WIN!
We’ve made voting for the People’s Choice Award a lot easier, this year you can SMS your vote for your favourite Western Australian student artwork from the Year 12 Perspectives 2009 exhibition. Each SMS vote will contribute to selecting the recipient of the People’s Choice Award, which will be announced on 13 May 2010. Plus there’s the chance to win a great prize.
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Image Credit: Shivali Patel, Happy Birthday, Mrs Wilson! 2009.

Hours: Thursday 8 April 2010.
Doors & Gallery Exhibitions open for viewing 5.30pm.
Performances commence approximately 7pm.
Event closes approximately 9.30pm.
Outdoor event (if raining the event will take place inside the Art Gallery) No refunds.
General A
Cost: $45
More Info: www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/artbar

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Paul Dempsey to Launch the 2010 ARTBAR Season Under the Stars
Thursday 8 April 2010, tickets on sale now.

After a sold out first season in 2009, ARTBAR returns in 2010 with a brand new series of
after-dark events at the Art Gallery of Western Australia.

Critically acclaimed singer songwriter Paul Dempsey will open this year’s ARTBAR season as part of his “Burning Leaves” National Tour. This exclusive ARTBAR event, where exhibitions,
music, food and drink come together, will take place outside the Art Gallery entrance in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge.

Joined onstage by his backing band, Paul will showcase his overwhelmingly successful album Everything is True, as well as ‘Something for Kate’ favourites.

Previous events at ARTBAR have sold out prior to the performance so purchase your tickets early.

In 2010, ARTBAR will present five nights of entertainment over five months, beginning in
April with an event each month until August.

Future 2010 ARTBAR events are soon to be announced,
so be sure to check our website for further details.

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

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PICA collaborates with the Perth International Arts Festival to present the first solo exhibition in Australia of highly acclaimed Danish Artist, Jeppe Hein. An exciting survey of major works by the artist will be brought together and presented both inside the vast galleries of PICA, and outside in the busy Cultural Centre square.

The artist's much celebrated water fountain, Appearing Rooms, will be shown outdoors in front of PICA and will be complemented indoors with a selection of his significant works which illustrate further the breadth of ground-breaking ideas include the mirrored maze, Spiral Labyrinth 1 and Smoking Bench and his neon light installations. For the first time Australian audiences will be able to experience Hein's interactive, playful and critical works that have placed him at the forefront of the contemporary international art scene.

Jeppe Hein was born in 1974 in Copenhagen Denmark. He lives and works in both Copenhagen and Berlin. The artist comes to Perth following an important solo exhibition in ARoS Museum, Denmark. His works have been shown at the Tate Modern and Hayward Gallery, London; The Pompidou Centre, Paris; PS1, New York; and the Mori Museum, Tokyo. Last year Jeppe Hein collaborated on a new project with the artist Dan Graham in Germany.

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

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Previous recipient of the prestigious Samstag scholarship and MFA graduate from the Chelsea College of Art in London, Perth artist Sarah Elson has conceived her most expansive body of work yet for a solo exhibition in PICA's Westend Gallery.

Sarah Elson's practice involves making painstakingly intricate castings of small plant and insects; flower bulbs, leaves, burrs, cicadas and beetles. Her sculptures are often mounted on pins studded directly into the gallery walls like displaced specimens. Her interest in the politics of artifacts and materials and how value is perceived is developed in Elson's laboratory-like use of PICA's gallery by amassing together different metals, delicate casts and organic forms.

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

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PICA presents a trilogy of new video works by Brisbane artist Grant Stevens, in response to his time in Los Angeles. Screened together for the first time, If Things Were Different (2009), Crushing (2009), and Really Really (2007) are three videos in which Stevens exposes the deep ambivalence of the human condition.

The works oscillate between the fanciful and romantic to the abrasively cynical by drawing on tropes of Hollywood film, advertising or bad day-time TV and purposefully mishandle media devices of editing, framing, cropping,and incorporating text or muzak.

The artist, who now lives and works between Queensland and California explains that '...unpacking and testing out those ambiguities and ambivalences are what drive me to make art - to try to make works that draw you in while making you feel uncomfortable or unsure about what you are looking at' (Eyeline, 2008).

Hours: web access
Cost: FREE
More Info: www.slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning

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Wondered who those skeletons in your closet are? Want to know how to find a convict ancestor? Is there a reason the family never talks about one of the relatives? Where do you begin? Try our new website!

The State Library has now made it easier to trace your family history with the launch of 'Dead Reckoning: how to find your way through the genealogical jungle of Western Australia'. The new edition is available online making it available 24 hours a day. It can be accessed by typing in www.slwa.wa.gov.au/dead_reckoning.

Dead Reckoning, by Steve Howell, a Subject Specialist with the Battye Library, has drawn on the Western Australian historical resources within the State Library and the State Records Office to produce the most comprehensive guide available for researching Western Australian topics. As an online resource it can be regularly updated and kept current. Links to forms, Google maps, other websites, etc. are available for a more comprehensive search. With this powerful internet tool at your fingertips family skeletons may not stay in the closet much longer.

For those without their own computer access, you will find computers available at local libraries and Telecentres throughout the State.