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  • A musician with brown curly hair stands behind a microphone, with trees behind her. She is wearing a green top and holding a flute to her mouth. Expect the unexpected
    What to SEE

    Expect the unexpected

    22 June 2023

    What happens when you bring talented musicians together to improvise over one glorious weekend? Julie Hosking talks to two of the curators of a festival where anything goes.

    Reading time • 10 minutesMusic
  • Reading time • 5 minutesFringe World Festival
  • A photo of a woman covering her face with her hands, which are covered in Farsi script. Her shoulder length dark hair blows slightly to the viewer's left. Art draws connection in diaspora
    Q&A

    Art draws connection in diaspora

    21 April 2021

    What happens when the second generation takes the lead?

    Founded by emerging local creatives Elham Eshraghian-Haakansson and Asha Kiani, Second Generation Collective makes space for the stories of migrants who fled to Australia from Iran during the 1979 revolution, and their children who have grown up in Whadjuk Noongar country (Perth).

    Reading time • 10 minutesVisual Art
  • Tragedy at the heart of paradise
    Reviews

    Tragedy at the heart of paradise

    16 February 2021

    Leyla Stevens’ exhibition ‘Dua Dunia’ brings idyllic Bali’s painful and brutal past sharply into focus, Miranda Johnson discovers.

    Reading time • 4 minutesPerth Festival
  • Exhibiting artists: left to right, Lucille Martin, Jo Darbyshire, Dr Kelsey Ashe, Rebecca Paterson (Dr Toni Wilkinson not pictured). Surrealist dreams of imaginary territories
    Features

    Surrealist dreams of imaginary territories

    7 October 2020

    The women of the surrealist movement are back in the spotlight and Ara Jansen discovers a group exhibition in Fremantle that explores where the real and imaginary meet.

    Reading time • 7 minutesVisual Art
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