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ARTIST Cim Sears was in her early 50s when she learned of her Aboriginal heritage and her ancestral connection to the western desert. “There’s an enormous amount of stories that haven’t come to the surface about western desert Aboriginal communities,” Sears says. Her latest exhibition draws on practice-led research exploring those connections, creating works and walking…
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WAYJO scores rent deal THE WA Youth Jazz Orchestra will stay put in Maylands after Bayswater council approved a massive rent discount. WAYJO’s been at the historic art deco Maylands Hall since 2015, paying $6,600 a year in rent, another $5,000 in rates and levies, and $11,800 on utilities. Its lease is up for renewal and…
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ANOTHER major redevelopment of the Leederville Hotel site is in the works just six years after the last big revamp rebranded it to “Bill’s Bar and Bites”. Owner FJM Property is seeking approval for what it’s calling a “a new social centre for Leederville”. It’s a $3 million “general uplift” of the hotel’s interior, the…
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THE two-year refurbishment of His Majesty’s Theatre has been completed. The WA government put $6.5 million in the ‘18/19 budget for the works, including a new automated orchestra pit lift, new acoustic treatments, better air-conditioning that won’t interfere with sound quality, new accessible toilets, a new staircase straight from Hay Street rather than the old…
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“RETREAT” has been sounded for parts of the Maylands foreshore which is succumbing to dire erosion. Bayswater council has a new 10-year plan for stabilising the shoreline and retreating some parts, but it’ll need a lot more money; it currently budgets $150,000 per year for the riverbank, but $4.6 million is needed over the next 10…
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THE Perth Festival’s ability to inject millions of dollars into the state’s arts economy will make the next instalment vital to help the creative sector recover from Covid-19. The Festival’s annual report was released this week, around the time Perth council and other sponsors are looking at their own budgets and what they might be…
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A PLACE for “hospitality, sociability, and rational amusement for the people”: The Perth Town Hall has marked 150 years since its official opening on June 1, 1870. Perth city council has marked the date with an online exhibition on the history of the building, the only town hall in Australia built with convict labour. The…
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AS I drove up to Perth on Tuesday lunchtime, the sky was battleship-grey and the wheelie bins were lined up like plastic sentries. Things weren’t much better when I arrived in a moribund Northbridge – most restaurants on James Street were shut and the few that were open had very limited or no seating. There…
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THIS Highgate flat is perfect for someone who wants an exciting inner-city lifestyle. Located in a leafy, secure complex on Beaufort Street, this one-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment is close to a fantastic range of bars, restaurants and cafes. Inside it is compact and bijou, with a crisp white colour scheme and modern fit-out. The living area…
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IT’S the perfect time for seniors to write that best-selling book they’ve always talked about, but never got around to, says award-winning Perth poet Peter Jeffery OAM. Mr Jeffery hopes we’ve had time during lockdown to dust off any half-finished manuscripts or come up with new ideas for novels, poems and plays. “From what I…
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