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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
