EMERGING filmmakers can no longer turn to the Film and Television Institute WA for support, after the not-for-profit closed its doors recently. FTI was responsible for nurturing up-and-coming talent in the screen sector for 45 years, but will now merge with Screenwest who will take up the role. Former FTI chair Mitchell Wells said the…

HAROLD STREET residents have got together for an adorable little project to brighten up their street, installing a micro-library where people can borrow books and trade seeds. Local Katrina Montaut said she heard about Transition Town Vincent holding a workshop and went along to help paint the teeny bibliotheque for her street, emblazoning it with…

IT’S happening more and more. Extremely talented indie filmmakers producing incredible pieces of work with little-to-no financial backing. Plum Loco, a seven-part web series written and directed by actor Harry Quinlan, was shot in his Perth home, which he shares with six others and the film is so low budget he played the two main…

VINCENT CEO Len Kosova will meet with Ink Remedy owner Rachel O’Shea this week to sort out why her bid to open a gallery in Oxford Street is taking so long (“Vincent not in the swing,” Voice, July 15, 2017). Mr Kosova told the Voice this week his council was enforcing state laws when Ms…

THE new Constable Care traffic safety school opened in Mt Lawley this week. But ironically, the well-attended opening of about 150 car-driving adults and only a handful of kids, copped flak from neighbours who say their streets were clogged with dangerously-parked vehicles. The safety school aims to teach primary-aged kids about road, bike and pedestrian…

DELAYS in replacing water pipes in and around Ruth Street in Perth’s inner city have resulted in traffic and parking chaos, claims local Rowland Benjamin. He says workers arrived in mid-April to replace the 100-year-old cast iron piping in the street, but shortly after erecting fencing they left without finishing the job. “Ruth Street is…

THE BIG Blue Head should be a little warmer this cold season, with guerilla knitters yarnbombing him some winter gear. North Perth Knit Natter and Crochet were behind the yarning, and a lot of planning went into the giant knitwear that was slung over the sculpture outside Vincent council last weekend. It started seven months…

NINE-year-old Rebecca Puccini from Dianella completed her 50th parkrun this month, smashing 5km in just 25 minutes. The free weekend parkruns started in Perth a few years back and now there’s about a dozen spread across the suburbs. Rebecca’s dad Alberto says he’d been trying to get her interested in running with him but had…