This week is Love to Read Local Week. From tours and clubs to retail therapy, Ara Jansen offers some creative ways to explore our local tales.

Western Australia’s arts playground
Western Australia’s arts playground
26 May 2022
This week is Love to Read Local Week. From tours and clubs to retail therapy, Ara Jansen offers some creative ways to explore our local tales.
23 February 2020
It takes hours to unfold, but Jan Hallam says ‘the big baggy story’ of Cloudstreet is well worth revisiting.
16 April 2019
Review: Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, Blueback · Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, 10 April · Junior review by Isabel, age 9 · Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s production …
15 April 2019
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre – Blueback ⋅ Spare Parts Puppet Theatre, April 13 ⋅ Review: Rosalind Appleby ⋅ Abel Jackson’s sea-fringed life includes diving for abalone, chores around the …
26 March 2019
As we approach the school holidays the arts scene is cranking up for kids. The West Australian Symphony Orchestra is offering two movie screenings with live …
26 February 2019
13 – 27 April @ Spare Parts Puppet Theatre · Presented by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre · Blueback has been adapted by Peta Murray from the …
18 January 2019
15 Feb – 2 Mar @ Melville Theatre, Palmyra · Presented by Melville Theatre · A deeply moving and sometimes confronting play from Tim Winton comes …
6 June 2018
The film Breath, based on the Tim Winton novel of the same name, opened in cinemas around the country last month. Set in a fictional town in WA’s …