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  • Georgia Malone: an arts superhero
    Features

    Georgia Malone: an arts superhero

    8 April 2026

    As Georgia Malone’s legacy is honoured with a new Performing Arts WA Award, her many colleagues and friends are reflecting on her immeasurable contribution to the arts sector, writes Nina Levy.

    Reading time • 10 minutesCommunity
  • Reading time • 10 minutesTheatre
  • 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
  • Tara Gower scoops major Minderoo prize
    Features

    Tara Gower scoops major Minderoo prize

    27 July 2023

    The winner of Minderoo Foundation’s $50, 000 Artist Fund prize has been announced, along with the organisation’s 2023 Artist Fund cohort.

    Reading time • 5 minutesMulti-arts
  • Tara Gower. A portrait of a woman with long brown hair wearing a black top. She is smiling and standing in front of a big white-trunked tree Bringing music and movement home
    Spotlight

    Bringing music and movement home

    14 August 2022

    A Yawuru woman from Broome, Tara Gower has had a rich and varied career in the cultural sector nationally and internationally and she brings it home in a new role based in the Kimberley.

    Reading time • 6 minutesMusic
  • Toast actor Anna Lindstedt is in rehearsal. She sits on a floral armchair, with her legs flopped over one of its arms. She wears overear headphones and is holding open a copy of Stephanie Meyer's 'New Moon'. She looks annoyed. What to SEE: Toast
    What to SEE

    What to SEE: Toast

    3 May 2022

    Liz Newell’s Toast charmed audiences when it premiered at The Blue Room Theatre in 2017. Now it’s taking to the State Theatre stage, thanks to a collaboration between The Blue Room and Black Swan State Theatre Company.

    Reading time • 10 minutesTheatre
  • Amy Perejuan-Capone, Parenthesis (Four Movements at the Hard Border), digital video still, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist. A bird's eye view of four hang gliders on an airfield. The wings are brightly coloured with geometric stripes. Paying life-sized homage to flying machines
    Features

    Paying life-sized homage to flying machines

    21 October 2021

    We may not be able to leave the country yet but local artist Amy Perejuan-Capone is finding other ways to take flight. Ahead of the opening of her latest exhibition, ‘Sky Cave’, she told Nina Levy about the projects that are seeing her fly into family history.

    Reading time • 10 minutesVisual Art
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