“Australian trees have adapted over millions of years to the climate, soil and recurrent bushfires in order to survive and regenerate, giving them their unique characteristics and diversity. These natural cycles have enabled Aboriginal people to survive in all regions of Australia for thousands of years, in environments that would seem inhospitable to the outsider,”…

Nannup Music Festival 1st – 4th March 2019 Nannup Music Festival is an annual event that brings community together to enjoy music, art and nature. People come from near and far to immerse in a weekend of discovery in the beautiful south west. Next year marks the festival’s 30th birthday, and to celebrate, the 2019…

THE Kransky Sisters are bringing their tuba, keyboard, tambourines and even a toilet brush to Perth for a Very Kransky Christmas. The Voice caught up with Mourne Kransky as she and sisters Eve and Dawn were getting ready to leave their hometown of Esk in remote Queensland. Even for these oddball ladies, a toilet brush…

PICA will celebrate the 200th anniversary of Frankenstein with the confronting exhibition HyperPrometheus. Drawn from experimental, contemporary and biological arts, a diverse bunch of artists tackle life and death, reanimation, synthetic biology and the ethics of creation. “The exhibition deals with the fear people have about technology and the future,” says PICA senior curator Eugenio…

WA artists are banding together to raise funds for the Environmental Defender’s Office – the only legal centre in WA providing free, specialist advice on environmental issues. Now in its second year, the EDOWA Art Exhibition is the organisation’s major fundraiser and social event. “As the only community legal centre in WA working exclusively on…

AT the age of 27, Matt Tarrant left a high-end job at one of Australia’s biggest banks to become a magician. “I liked the corporate world, but realised it’s wasn’t for me,” he says. Telling his mum, a school principal, he’d chucked a good job to start a magic act was his first big trick.…

THE title of Aminah Hughes’ new album, Blue Wooden Boat, harks back to a raucous New Year’s eve party in Fremantle. Things were getting feral at the hootenanny bash and the frantic drumming to welcome in the new year was annoying Hughes, so she wandered outside. “There was a beautiful blue wooden boat in the…

A HERALD PROMOTIONAL FEATURE To promote your upcoming gig email advertising@perthvoice.com BUSBY MAROU are flying high after an amazing couple of years. Their latest album Postcards From The Shellhouse debuted at #1 on the National ARIA charts and they sold 3,000 tickets to their first annual One Hot Night festival in Rockhampton. This year, after wrapping up a number of sold out shows down…

THERE’S a raw brutality to Mojo Juju’s songs. Especially the signature track on the singer/songwriter’s new album Native Tongue, which has received rave reviews from critics. In the video for the song she stands defiantly in a feather cloak,  flanked by Aboriginal dancers in bright orange boiler suits. The Pasefika Vitoria Choir, a mix of…