Perth Voice Interactive

WHAT could you do for Beaufort Street for a thousand bucks? Plenty, the Beaufort Street Network reckons.

The network’s made up of local businesses and residents and they’ve reached into their own pockets for the Better Beaufort competition, asking people to come up with ideas to make the street better for humans.

While it’s not the art world’s richest prize, the network reckons there’s plenty you can do with a wee bit of cash, from stencil art projects, a street busker competition, guerilla gardening or a pop up loungeroom in the street, and last year the cashed helped finance the murals by local artists in the Mount Lawley carpark near Fresh Provisions.

The network wants all ideas in by August 31 and there’s info at http://www.beaufortstreet.com.au/grant-competition/

by DAVID BELL