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  • Reading time • 8 minutesCommunity
  • WAAPA’s shining future takes centre stage
    Spotlight

    WAAPA’s shining future takes centre stage

    31 July 2025

    As arts education faces cutbacks across the globe, WAAPA continues to thrive by expanding, innovating, and preparing the next generation of performers – writes Will Yeoman.

    Reading time • 10 minutesTheatre
  • Take a trip down memory lane
    Reviews

    Take a trip down memory lane

    16 August 2023

    You’ll find plenty to spark memories of your own in Placemarks, an exhibition that sees artists explore far flung places from childhood, former homes and old haunts in the suburbs.

    Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
  • @stephenheathphotography A wedding scene from Much Ado About Nothing Students make much of Shakespearean favourite
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    Students make much of Shakespearean favourite

    31 March 2023

    In WAAPA’s Much Ado About Nothing they all live happily ever after, and David Zampatti says there are plenty of reasons for its audience to be happy too.

    Reading time • 5 minutesTheatre
  • Scene in gallery with a feature image across the wall with the word RETHINK in black and white script Gems in our own backyard
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    Gems in our own backyard

    4 February 2022

    This annual exhibition by ECU Galleries offers an unpretentious, environmentally savvy message, writes Jaimi Wright.

    Reading time • 5 minutesFringe World Festival
  • Thin beams of light shine down on a stage filled with an orchestra, choir, jazz band and singer Birthday extravaganza
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    Birthday extravaganza

    2 August 2021

    Edith Cowan University turns 30 this year, and Rosalind Appleby says the WA Academy of Performing Arts celebrated in style with a performing arts party that looked both backwards and forwards.

    Reading time • 6 minutesMusic
  • Tyrown Waigara HERO SHOT A Nice Place to Hate Yourself (2021) (61 cm W x 51 cm H x 4 cm D) copy 2 An acrylic painting in vibrant yellows, pinks and reds. The work is abstract but images are recognisable, such as a house, a pair of eyes, a ladder. Some objects are on their side, playing with our perspective. Take a walk on the dark side
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    Take a walk on the dark side

    1 June 2021

    Bringing their dark sides into the light, artists provide viewers with a tantalising glimpse inside their creative minds in ‘The Dark Side’ exhibition, writes Craig McKeough.

    Reading time • 6 minutesVisual Art
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Cleaver Street Studio

 

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