PUNTERS could experience strange intergalactic noises and images when they venture through the back streets of West Perth next month. As part of the The Pickle District After Dark Art Crawl, audiovisual artist Roly Skender is creating a bespoke projection with all sorts of weird sounds and lights. Skender’s award-winning public artworks including the interactive…

DESPITE Covid and the stuttering Aussie economy, Perth Comedy Lounge has enjoyed the last laugh by opening a new venue in Fremantle. Situated upstairs in the Sailing For Oranges restaurant on the Cappuccino Strip, Comedy Lounge Fremantle opened its doors in late February with Saturday night shows. Over the years the Perth venue has played…

AS people get older and enter middle age, they often look back at their teenage musical heroes with a sense of embarrassment. Maybe the music or questionable lyrics haven’t aged well, the artist’s flaws are now painfully obvious or the songs that moved that hormonal teenager no longer connect. Nirvana are the exception to that…

TEN-YEAR-OLD Perth rap sensation Inkabee and cult artist Mo’Ju are some of the amazing acts performing at Yagan Square as part of this year’s Boorloo Heritage Festival. Now in its 13th year, the Festival shines a light on Perth’s diverse heritage including the Whadjuk Nyoongar peoples of Boorloo. Held throughout April, it features 90 family-friendly…

THE streets of Freo will be full of chaos and entertainment when the Fremantle International Street Arts Festival is held over the long Easter weekend.  After a three year covid hiatus, the Festival is back with dozens of acts from around the world including those from Japan, Scotland, Zimbabwe, Northern Ireland, Ethiopia, Germany and the…

16-YEAR-OLD violinist Aaron Ooi is one of the gifted musicians taking to the stage next month when the Australian Youth Orchestra play Perth for the first time in more than a decade. Featuring some of the best classical musicians aged 12 to 25 from across Australia, the orchestra is a hotbed of future stars and…

by RAHUL K GAIROLA: NEW Fortune Theatre’s production of William Shakespeare’s Richard III is a dark yet entertaining tour de force that yokes the great bard into a contemporary context. The production assembles a talented cast from The Graduate Dramatic Society of WA to deliver a contemporary take on Shakespeare’s most reviled villain, Richard III…

AFTER years of relentless suicide bombings in his hometown of Kabul in Afghanistan, Aziz Hazara decided to honour the city’s resilient children in his exhibition Bow Echo at John Curtin Gallery. Originally born in Wardak in Afghanistan, Hazara now divides his time between Ghent in Belgium and Afghanistan’s capital city Kabul, where suicide bombings have…

IMAGINE Spock was into basket weaving and landscape painting. Well, not really, but the intersection between science and art is explored in spectacular fashion by Italian artist Rosa Barba in her debut solo Aussie exhibition Emanations. Barba has exhibited extensively in Europe and her work is currently on show at the famous Tate Modern in…

IF you’re walking through the Perth Cultural Centre at night, you might see a giant projection of folk doing strange things inside a sea container. Don’t worry, it’s not a dodgy stream from Fremantle Ports, but a performance by The Blue Room Theatre.  Throughout late February and early March they will be performing five shows…