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Tjyllyungoo Lance Chadd, Ngoorlark, 2020. Acrylic on Belgian linen. City of Joondalup Art Collection. Photo Christophe Canato. What to SEE: For Our Elders
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What to SEE: For Our Elders

21 June 2023

Emerging artist and curator Zali Morgan wants to shake up audience expectations of First Nations art. Curating the City of Joondalup’s NAIDOC exhibition For Our Elders is giving her the chance to do just that.

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Brighten July with the arts
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Brighten July with the arts

20 June 2023

Waiting for the days to get longer again? Our July gig guide is packed with shows and exhibitions to lighten up those dark Makuru nights.

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Sid Pattni Two portraits by Sid Pattni. On the right is a man of colour, perhaps of African descent, on the left a woman in a hijab. Both are painted against vibrant orange backgrounds, with colourful squiggly lines over their faces. Stitching the stories of refugees
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Stitching the stories of refugees

12 June 2023

While refugees are visible in the media, their individual stories are often unheard. This paradox drove artist Sid Pattni to create a new immersive exhibition that brings the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers to light.

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Khashayar Salmanzadeh (WA), Love Beyond Emotion, installation view, Hatched National Graduate Show, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2023, photo Dan McCabe_01 Painting an open love letter
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Painting an open love letter

2 June 2023

Vibrant and vital, Khashayar Salmanzadeh’s large scale portraits of members of Perth’s Bahá’í community both explore and radiate love.

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A scene from Beneath the Music: two men stand looking in the same direction and smiling. One holds the other and rests his chin on his shoulder from behind. Queer tale dances through time and space
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Queer tale dances through time and space

30 May 2023

Local theatre maker Jay Emmanuel’s latest work is a rich and heart-warming queer story that transports us across oceans of space and time, writes Nina Levy.

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A scene from a previous iteration of 24hour Play Generator, in which a young woman stands on stage, mid speech, script in hand From go to whoa in 24 hours
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From go to whoa in 24 hours

24 May 2023

Imagine writing, rehearsing and presenting a play in just 24 hours. It sounds impossible, but that’s exactly what young members of WA Youth Theatre Company will be doing this June.

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Ludovico Di Ubaldo and Dayana Hardy Acuna in Melanie Lane’s Slow Haunt. Photo by Bradbury Photography A male dancer holds a female dancer -she is in a full split and he has one hand under her extended leg and the other under her shoulders Warm your heart with the arts this June
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Warm your heart with the arts this June

17 May 2023

As the days get shorter and the nights get colder, it’s the perfect time to head indoors and enjoy all the arts on offer at Perth’s theatres, galleries and museums. Need some ideas? Our June gig guide is here to help.

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The cast of Hell is Other People. Photo: BSP A scene from Hell is Other People: Four cast members dancing like zombies on stage. The man in front is singing into a mic in Hell is Other People. The cast of Hell is Other People. Photo: BSP Meanwhile, somewhere in hell
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Meanwhile, somewhere in hell

12 May 2023

We’ve all been stuck in waiting room hell, but would you want to watch a play about it? After seeing Hell is Other People, Nina Levy says yes.

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