The Nannup Music Festival 28 Feb – 2 March 2020 The much-loved Nannup Music Festival is back for 2020, with an incredible line up of amazing music acts, set in the stunning bushland backdrop of the south west. To be held on the weekend of 28 February-2 March 2020, the eclectic program highlights the best…

TWO exhibitions showing alongside each other – one by award-winning children’s author Shaun Tan – at the Fremantle Arts Centre provoke some interesting reflections on the state of modern society. Tan’s Tales from the Inner City primarily explores the relationship between humans and animals. The paintings, sculptures and sketches were the raw material from his…

DYLAN didn’t get to know her dad, but her “memories” of him have inspired a book of poems helping children to deal with loss. Memories Are Forever was written by Kylie Wilkie, after her 34-year-old husband Dave died when their daughter Dylan was just six months old. “The circumstances that led me to write this…

YUCK CIRCUS will deconstruct male stereotypes with acrobatics and comedy at next year’s Fringe World. It’s been a great year for the all-women troupe, who were voted best emerging artist at the Adelaide Fringe, got rave reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, and won Fringe’s highest accolade, the Martin Sims award. YUCK director Georgia Deguara says…

HE introduced American automobiles to WA, sold the state’s first petrol-driven car and helped found what is now the RAC, but not many people will have heard of Claude Deane. Inglewood author Graeme Cocks’ new biography Claude Deane: Western Australia’s Motor Dealer Extraordinaire, shines an overdue light on the man who was WA’s biggest car…

by CHRISTINE MIN THEIN IT’S A Wonderful Life will be performed as a live radio play at His Majesty’s to help poor families at Christmas. All proceeds from ticket sales will go to the charity Anglicare WA, and the cast are performing for free. Reworking the Christmas classic as a live radio play was the…

DO I frighten you?” asks the 13-year-old Lucy in Playthings.  The tiny teenager (Courtney Henri) often backs up her words with a sharp box knife. Written by Scott McArdle, the play is a dark look at growing up in suburban WA and centres around Lucy and another 13-year-old Arnold (Daniel Buckle). They both struggle to…

WITH modern families increasingly disappearing behind computer screens, the US Civil War classic Little Women has lessons about the importance of meaningful human interaction, says the director of a new version of the stage adaptation. Little Women is dramatised from the famous Loise May Alcott story of the same name and will be presented by…

FANCY some Bach and a cold beer? New Perth group Australian Baroque hope their informal, fun concerts will attract a wider and younger audience to classical music. The innovative orchestra are holding several unique concerts, including one where you can you enjoy 18th century music while cuddling RSPCA kittens up for adoption. Helen Kruger (violins),…

GUI SHU explores the cultures of Taiwan and Australia through reflective dance and music. Perth’s Sally Richardson was inspired to create the show after a four-month creative residency in Taipei, but it’s taken four years for the writer/director/producer to bring her idea to fruition. “This creative process of exchange and collaboration has been a journey…