What’s on at the 2017 Perth Writers Festival
Ben Rawlence spent four years in Dadaab Refugee Camp which has been in Northern Kenya for 25 years. At the University of WA’s Octagon Theatre on Thursday 25 February, he will talk about his book City of Thorns and open the 2017 Perth Writers Festival. The PIAF Writers Festival brings over 100 celebrated writers from […]
PIAF Film Festival: ‘The Teacher’ and ‘Little Men’
The Teacher (M) | Directed by Jan Hrebejk The teacher in this Slovak language film by Czech director Jan Hrebejk is Comrade Drazdechova (Zuzana Maurey) who is also the head of the local communist party. At the beginning of the 1983 school year, she asks her students to introduce themselves and notes down in her […]
Creative choreography on display at WAAPA
At the end of every year, the WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) shines a light on the choreographic talents of its graduating dancers in a series of public performances of their original dance works. This year’s show, ‘Hatch’, features the contemporary dance pieces of ten 3rd Year Dance students, set to original music composed by […]
A Brand New Testament – an unforgettable film
What if God didn’t live in Heaven? What if he wasn’t such a nice guy, what if he was just a guy with a lot of power? What if he just lived in a hard-to-reach section of Brussels? ‘A Brand New Testament’ is the new work from Belgian Director Jaco Van Dormael, best known for […]
Australia’s Top 20 LGBTI Employers Announced
LGBTI inclusivity organisation Pride in Diversity have announced their top national 20 LGBTI Employers of 2015. The winners were determined using Pride in Diversity’s Australian Workplace Equality Index, the organisation’s annual service that evaluates and benchmarks LGBTI inclusiveness in the workplace. PricewaterhouseCoopers was named Australia’s number one LGBTI employer, making it the first organisation to […]
In The Pines Returns
Venture back In(to) The Pines with RTRFM and enjoy a hand-picked selection of the freshest and ripest musical talent, all grown right here in Western Australia. The Perth institution returns to UWA’s verdant campus grounds for its 22nd year of celebrating Western Australian music. The Somerville Auditorium will feature two stages of local bands fit […]
UWA Displays True Colours
Rainbow flags are flying high at the University of Western Australia this week. A new initiative titled ‘True Colours’ has encouraged students living in the Universities residential colleges to hang rainbow flags to show their support for diversity in sexuality. Through the project rainbow flags are being supplied for free to any student who wants […]
CoLAB Festival to Bring the Music to UWA
CoLAB Festival is a new collaborative music and arts event coming to UWA’s Oak Lawn this November. The festival will bring some of Australia’s leading music acts alongside local creatives, food innovators and UWA clubs. Presenting the event is street publication The Music and youth radio station Triple J as well as the University of […]
Prosh Fun Takes Over City
UWA’s annual satirical newspaper Prosh was released this morning with hundreds of students dressed in comical costumes handing out the free newspaper across the city. The 26 page spoof publication raises money for local charities and in previous years has raised over $150,000. This year’s publication takes aim at everything from North Korea, Taylor Swift, […]
Is Religious Influence Growing in our Government?
Is growing conservatism in Australia linked to a spread of religious influence amongst our government? Speaking to Sean Faircloth from the Richard Dawkins Foundation – he believes so. Touring Australia with his book ‘Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All – And What We Can Do About It’, he warns that a […]
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