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Local artists to transform Central Park benches at Benchmark

Local artists to transform Central Park benches at Benchmark

Central Park is hosting their successful Benchmark event on 28-29 September with local artists showcasing their work in the iconic building’s gardens. Benchmark provides a unique platform for WA artists to showcase their work to the community, with the event featuring the live painting of garden benches. This month WA artists Kevin Bynder, Sioux Tempestt, […]

‘Democracy Repair Services’ asks explosive questions about change

‘Democracy Repair Services’ asks explosive questions about change

Follow a group of four teenagers wrestling with how to make a difference, what constitutes democratic process… and whether or not to blow up a pipeline. Do we change the system from within or blast it open to create something entirely different? Writer and activist Noemie Huttner-Koros (Mother of Compost, The Lion Never Sleeps) alongside […]

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Finnish alternative pop artist shares ‘Blonde’ ahead of new EP

Finnish alternative pop artist shares ‘Blonde’ ahead of new EP

Finnish alternative pop artist Lxandra has announced their raw new EP Might Night Wanna Wake Up. Lxandra’s formative years were spent on the picturesque island of Suomenlinna in Finland, a place that nurtured their artistic spirit. Their daily journey to school either involved taking the ferry or their parents’ boat to the mainland, “I can drive […]

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Review | ‘The Eight Mountains’ tells intimate story of friendship

Review | ‘The Eight Mountains’ tells intimate story of friendship

The Eight Mountains | Dir: Charlotte Vandermeersch and Felix van Groeningen | ★ ★ ★ ★ This adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s novel about a life-long friendship is set in the scenic northwest Italian Alps from the mid-eighties until 2014. It is an intimate story but it takes place with the backdrop of a mountainous panorama and the […]

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Bite into the long weekend at HOT FRUIT with DJ Prosumer

Bite into the long weekend at HOT FRUIT with DJ Prosumer

The self-described ageing queens of The Monarchy have forged an alliance with the party people behind Snack Shack (Malibu Stacy Social Club) to bring an all-new queer party to Boorloo/Perth. HOT FRUIT is taking over Old Habits Neighbourhood Bar in West Perth for a sundowner with a very special guest DJ from the UK, Prosumer. […]

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Connect with community at this year’s Stand Bi Us forum

Connect with community at this year’s Stand Bi Us forum

This week is Bisexual Awareness Week, an extension of celebrations leading up to Bi Visibility Day (23 September) each year. Bi+ Collective Australia, a coalition of Bi+ groups across the country, are once again marking the occasion with Australia’s largest bi-centred event, Stand Bi Us. We caught up with Bi+ Community Perth member Duc Dau […]

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Stand Bi Us: Bi+ forum celebrates the pink, purple & royal blue

Stand Bi Us: Bi+ forum celebrates the pink, purple & royal blue

This week is Bisexual Awareness Week, an extension of celebrations leading up to Bi Visibility Day (23 September) each year. Bi+ Collective Australia are once again marking the occasion with Australia’s largest bi-centred event, Stand Bi Us. Paying homage to the recent smash-hit romcom Red, White & Royal Blue, this year’s conference is about celebrating the pink, […]

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Review | Truth-telling cuts to the core in ‘Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk]’

Review | Truth-telling cuts to the core in ‘Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk]’

Jurrungu Ngan-ga [Straight Talk] | State Theatre Centre of WA | til 23 Sept | ★ ★ ★ ★ Warning: This story contains details of police violence and deaths in custody, which might be distressing to some readers. For 24-hour crisis support and suicide prevention call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For Australia-wide LGBTQI peer support call QLife […]

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Review | ‘Mary Poppins’ at Crown Theatre is delightfully camp

Review | ‘Mary Poppins’ at Crown Theatre is delightfully camp

Mary Poppins | Crown Theatre | til 22 Oct | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Everybody knows Mary Poppins. Whether your first point of reference is Julie Andrews’ iconic role in Disney’s classic 1964 film, the original books of PL Travers, The Simpsons one-time nanny Shary Bobbins, or BenDeLaCreme-as-Andrews-as-Poppins’ rendition of Call Me Mother on RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 3, the character […]

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Review | Tribute to cinema ‘The Last Film Show’ is a visual delight

Review | Tribute to cinema ‘The Last Film Show’ is a visual delight

The Last Film Show | Dir: Pan Nilan | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  Writer-director Pan Nalin’s homage to movies and a child’s discovery of their magic will be compared to Giuseppe Tornatore’s 1988 film Cinema Paradiso. Set in Gujarat, an isolated part of India where Tornatore spent his childhood, nine year-old Samay (Bhavin Rabari) lives near a […]

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