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Your Arts Playground: Festival edition

30 November 2021

It’s a bumper show this month as we dive into the summer festival season!

In the final episode of Your Arts Playground for 2021, we’ve chosen a few highlights from December before plunging into our top picks from Fringe World, Summer Nights and Perth Festival!

This is the last episode of Season 1 of Your Arts Playground but stay tuned for our bonus interviews with movers and shakers from the arts world… and we’ll be back with Season 2 before you know it, ETA mid 2022.

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Show notes

Notes are listed in chronological order, as mentioned in the episode.

December

Carols by Candlelight with the GIovanni Consort @ St Andrew’s Subiaco, 10 December 2021

A Ceremony Carols: Britten & Gardiner @ St George’s Cathedral, 2 December 2021

‘Limen – At the Fence’ @ the State Library of WA until 31 January 2022


Fringe World 14 January – 13 February 2021

State of Play @ the State Theatre Centre of WA, 14-29 January 2022

You Are, OFF-Base Dance 14-16 January 2022

HereNow22: Outside In, @ Spectrum Project Space, 2-11 February 2022

Down Rebound by Acrobatch (Simon Wood and Ben Kotovski Smith) @ The Gold Digger at Girls School, 21-27 January 2022

A Simple Space – Gravity and Other Myths @ The Aurora Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, 28 January – 13 February 2022
Review of 2018 performance of A Simple Space

A Bee Story by Cluster Arts Pty Ltd @ Lotterywest De Parel Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, 15-28 January 2022

Brat Kids Carnival by Briefs Factory, @ Lotterywest De Parel Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, 15 January – 13 February

Summer Nights @ The Blue Room Theatre 21 January – 12 February 2022
Conversations with a Fish, by Helah Milroy, 27 January – 3 February 2022


Perth Festival, 11 February – 6 March 2022

“Take a surf through Perth Festival”: Highlights of Perth Festival

I liked it but…, by Joel Bray, details TBA!

The Ninth Wave by The Farm in association with Co3 Contemporary Dance, @ City Beach Park, 1-5 March 2022

The Sunset Lounge by Tarryn Gill, Benjamin Baretto and Nemo Gandossini Poirier @ Alex Hotel, 18 February – 5 March 2022

Panawathi Girl by David Milroy, presented by Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company @ His Majesty’s Theatre, 8-13 February 2022

Katie Noonan with Strings @ Art Gallery of WA, 18-19 February 2022

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Past Articles

  • Your Arts Playground podcast: November

    This month we’re excited about the re-opening the Art Gallery of WA, the Fremantle Biennale, the Perth International Jazz Festival… and more!

  • Your Arts Playground: October

    Wondering what to SEE in WA in month? From circus to opera, craft to literary fiction, the October episode of Seesaw’s podcast, Your Arts Playground, has you covered!

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