VISUAL ARTS

Sofles & Fintan Magee, Hole In The Wall Gallery, 64 Adelaide Street, Fremantle.
During December and January, Freo’s Hole In The Wall Gallery will host a new exhibition featuring works from notorious graffiti figure Sofles and renowned street, mural and installation artist Fintan Magee. Beginning his career as a graffiti artist in Brisbane, ten years later Sofles now has his fingers in many pies, spreading his work across illustration, tattoo, canvas and any markable surface he can get his hands on. Hailing from similar roots, it was in Brisbane that Fintan Magee was first exposed to graffiti culture and began scrawling his name across the city with large vibrant letterforms. Having since moved away from traditional graffiti, his bold guerilla mural works often combine still life paintings of found objects with installation elements. Runs ’til Jan 8. For opening hours hit up hitw.com.au.

Alternating Currents: PICA, Northbridge
Spanning a number of generations, the Japanese artists in this exhibition have multi and interdisciplinary approaches to their art making that encompass performance, film, installation, sound art and music. Runs ’til Dec 31.


Princely Treasures: Art Gallery Of WA, Perth
The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, has one of the greatest collections of European decorative art of the 17th and 18th centuries, from the miniature to the monumental. The exhibition presents a series of themes encapsulating important aspects of courtly life in Europe. Runs ’til Jan 9.


MHF 20: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
Curated by Andrew Gaynor, MHF20 is an expansive exhibition of new works by 12 MHF recipients and acclaimed WA artists: Penny Bovell, Mary Dudin, Susan Flavell, George Haynes, Giles Hohnen, Bevan Honey, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward, Theo Koning, Eveline Kotai, Jane Martin, Trevor Richards and Trevor Vickers. Runs ’til Jan 22.


Extraordinary Stories From The British Museum: WA Museum, Perth
The Western Australian Museum and the British Museum have partnered to bring a unique collection of rare artefacts to Australia for the first time - telling extraordinary stories about the world’s people, who we are and where we’ve come from – taking visitors on a 1.8 million year journey around the world. Runs ’til Feb 5.


U-Ram Choe: John Curtin Gallery, Bentley
Step into a world of extraordinary kinetic sculpture that charts a path between art, science and cybernetics in U-Ram Choe’s first solo exhibition in Australia, on display as part of the Perth Festival. Finely engineered steel and electronics are assembled into captivating forms evoking otherworldly flora and fauna – expanding, contracting and mimicking organic movement. Runs Feb 3-Mar 2.


Choi Jeong Hwa: various locations – Whitfeld Court, Barrack Square and Gallery Central
Renowned for his inventive and spectacular use of mass-produced plastics and synthetics in large scale installations, acclaimed artist Choi Jeong Hwa invites you to celebrate art that exudes abundance, colour and joy while provoking reflections upon social consumption and harmony in life. Runs Feb 10-Mar 3.


Spaced: Art Out Of Place: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
Explore the relationship between globalisation and local identity with imaginative and stimulating works in sculpture, photography, painting, installation and multi-media. The culmination of a two-year cycle of residencies, this ground-breaking project involved 24 Australian and international artists spending time in 16 regional WA communities to consider their social and physical environments. Runs Feb 4-Mar 11.


RedBall Project: Various locations across the city
Appearing in entranceways, basking beneath bridges or wedged into alleyways, the irresistible RedBall sneaks into well-known places and half-noticed spaces, transforming the City into an unexpected canvas of possibilities. Photograph it, touch it or bounce against its slick soft surface. This award-winning project from New York artist Kurt Perschke pops up in 15 locations throughout the Perth Festival, in Perth and the Great Southern. Keep your eyes peeled and your camera ready. Runs Feb 10-Mar 3.


Vast: North-West Landscapes: Art Gallery Of WA, Northbridge
The opening up of northern Western Australia to mining exploration in the 1960s also opened up this terrain to artists – both literally by providing easier ways to access it physically by car and air, and imaginatively as a ‘new world’ to discover. Runs ’til Mar 18.

Inside The Little Kingdom: Kurb Gallery, Northbridge
On show as part of the Fringe World Festival 2012, Inside The Little Kingdom, a solo exhibition of recent work by Abdul-Rahman Abdullah explores a search for identity, sorting through the cultural baggage of a childhood buried in faded memories and family lore that resonates from a time of absolutes. Runs from Jan 29-Feb 3.

The Tom Malone Prize: Art Gallery of WA, Perth
This year the Art Gallery of Western Australia celebrates 10 years of the Tom Malone Prize. An acquisitive award, the Tom Malone Prize has strengthened the Gallery’s engagement with the contemporary Australian glass scene. This year’s exhibition will showcase work by 14 shortlisted finalists including Alexandra Chambers, Aseem Pereira, Ben Sewell, Brian Corr, Christine Chlowea, Gerry King, Jason Sims, Jeremy Lepisto, Jessica Loughlin, Kayo Yokoyama, Nick Mount, Tim Edwards, Tom Moore and Tom Rowney. Runs ’til Apr 2.

THEATRE/DANCE

The White Divers Of Broome, Heath Ledger Theatre, Perth
The ‘Fat Years’ of Broome’s pre-WWI pearl-shell industry coincided with the national call to promote a white Australia. Broome owed its wealth to the cheap ‘coloured’ labour that collected mother-of-pearl from the hazardous seas. When the Australian Government discovered this one remaining pocket of racial diversity, they demanded the Asians be replaced with British navy divers. The master pearlers fiercely opposed having to employ white divers and entered into opportunistic alliances with the Asian crews to resist the newcomers. The White Divers Of Broome is a fast-paced celebration of boom time Broome, its unique beauty, its exotic mix of cultures and the seductive power of its landscape. It is a stirring account of isolation, nonconformity and survival in a harsh and relentless environment. Season runs from Jan 28-Feb 16. Bookings through BOCS.

Virgie: Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge
Direct from the New York International Fringe Festival, Renee Newman-Storen’s Virgie centers around a stubborn 19th Century trailblazer who brought Shakespeare to the harsh Australian outback. Spanning 70 years, Virgie tracks her story through Australia and Europe, her loves and tragedies, using verbatim material, original writing, and a soundtrack ranging from Tchaikovsky to Nick Cave to capture snapshots of an extraordinary life. Runs Feb 6-11. Bookings can be made via blueroom.org.au or fringeworld.com.au.

Sculpture By The Sea, Cottesloe Beach, Cottesloe
Featuring over 70 sculptures by artists from across the world set on beautiful Cottesloe beach overlooking the Indian Ocean, Sculpture By The Sea returns in 2012, transforming the popular beach into a stunning sculpture park. Runs March 1-19.

Hummingbird: Midland Junction Arts Centre, Midland
A contemporary dance work performed by Dawn Jackson and Lee West, Hummingbird is an intercultural performance that weaves a tale with music and dance. Runs Jan 19-22. Bookings via kulcha.com.au.

Shakespeare In The Park: Kings Park and Botanic Garden, Perth
Shakespeare WA will give local lovers of the Bard a triple treat this summer with three productions being presented during Shakespeare In The Park: The Comedy Of Errors, The Tempest and The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare. Runs Jan 6-Feb 4. Bookings via shakespearewa.com.

Super Night Shot: Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Perth
Romance, action, strange men in rabbit masks, Super Night Shot has it all. This Perth Festival production proves that all the world’s a stage, as renegade theatre making collective Gob Squad sync their watches, pick up their video cameras and take to the streets of Northbridge exactly one hour before start time to make your show. Runs Feb 10-13. Bookings via perthfestival.com.au.

Place Des Anges: St Georges Terrace (outside Council House), Perth
Cast your eyes to the skies as heavenly bodies glide, float and careen through the air, leaving a burst of feathers in their wake. Beginning with a single quill, a trickle grows into an incredible cascade, a seemingly endless blizzard of white, showering you in two tonnes of downy bliss. Les Studios de Cirque have been creating unforgettable aerial spectacles around the globe for a decade - and this once-in-a-lifetime event on show as part of the Perth Festival places you in the centre of the action. Performance on Feb 11. Free event.

Beautiful Burnout: ABC Perth Studios, 30 Fielder Street, East Perth
National Theatre of Scotland returns to Perth with an exhilarating Frantic Assembly co-production that draws you into the explosive world of boxing. Cameron Burns is going places. He’s going to see his name in lights. He’s going to make the world take notice. He’s fighting for his club, his mum, his place in the world. And this boy is a natural. He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. Runs Feb 10-25. Bookings via perthfestival.com.au.

Ballet At The Quarry: Quarry Amphitheatre, Floreat
Bring a picnic, relax under a starry sky and be immersed in four superbly choreographed works from around the globe as part of the Perth Festival. Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s music, Serenade was created by the great George Balanchine upon arriving in America and is now a signature work for the New York Ballet. Runs Feb 10-29. Bookings via perthfestival.com.au.

Occupied: The Blue Room Theatre, Northbridge
Artists from around Australia will join local independent dance artist Ashleigh Berry to present her edgy new dance theatre work Occupied. In a nightclub bathroom, we meet a group of young women. Strangers at first, they become linked only for one night. The interactions between these drunk, bold and brazen ladies are often hilarious and all too familiar - you can’t help but wonder about the risks being taken and the unforeseen consequences of this ‘harmless’ night out. Runs from Jan 31-Feb 4. Bookings can be made via blueroom.org.au or fringeworld.com.au.

COMEDY

Shapiro Tuesday: Lazy Susan’s Comedy Den, Brisbane Hotel, Highgate
Every Tuesday night, doors open 8pm. Tickets available on the door.

An Evening With David Sedaris: Astor Theatre, Mt Lawley
Performance Jan 14. Bookings via BOCS.

FESTIVALS

Fantastic Asia Film Festival: Luna Outdoor, Leederville
The Fantastic Asian Film Festival (or FAFF) aims to bring the best and brightest shining stars of Asian cinema direct to Perth, straight from the world’s most prolific film festivals. Runs Jan 2-7.

Yallingup Surfilm Festival: Clancy’s Fish Pub, Dunsborough
The Yallingup Surfilm Festival aims to inspire exploration into surf culture. The festival creates a meeting place for the wider surf culture community, providing passionate filmmakers and artists from around the world with a forum for sharing their creativity in the exploration and celebration of surf culture. Runs Jan 20-22. Bookings via yallingupsurfilm.com.

Summer Nights: Blue Room Theatre, Perth
The Blue Room Theatre’s annual summer program of short and feature-length works, packing over 80 performances of 18 shows into as many days, Summer Nights is well-established as a hub for independent theatre during festival season and is proud to be officially part of Fringe World in 2012. Runs Jan 29-Feb 19. Bookings through blueroom.org.au.

Perth Festival: numerous locations across Perth
Bringing together the best in visual arts, theatre, dance, classic and contemporary music, films, opera and more, the Perth Festival is an all encompassing celebration of art. Runs Feb 10-Mar 3.

MUSIC

Soft Soft Loud - The Americas: Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle
Performance Feb 12. Bookings via BOCS.

Dennis Rollins’ Velocity Trio: Festival Gardens, Perth
Performance Feb 13. Bookings via
PerthFestival.com.au.

Ronan Keating & Sharon Corr: Kings Park & Botanic Gardens, Perth
Performance Feb 16. Bookings via Ticketmaster.

The Pearlfishers: Supreme Court Gardens, Perth
Performance Feb 18. Free event.

Il Divo: Kings Park & Botanic Garden, Perth
Performance Feb 23. Bookings via Ticketmaster.

A Magic Flute: Octagon Theatre, Nedlands
Season runs Feb 18-25. Bookings via
PerthFestival.com.au.

Ennio Morricone: Sandalford Estate Winery, Swan Valley
Performance Feb 26. Bookings via
PerthFestival.com.au.

VISUAL ARTS

The National Photographic Portrait Prize, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, 64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury.
The Bunbury Regional Art Galleries will be one of only four regional venues to play host to the nation’s most prestigious photographic exhibition this June. The National Photographic Portrait Prize attracts over 1200 entries from both professional and amateur photographers across Australia. Fifty-five of the most outstanding portrait photographs are then selected by a prestigious panel of curators and gallery directors, and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, July 3.

Clip Award, Perth Centre For Photography, 91 Brisbane Street, Perth.
The Clip Award is an international prize recognising contemporary landscapes in photo-based media. The criteria for selection focuses on images that are original and stimulating whilst challenging traditional notions of landscape photography.
Exhibition opens runs ’til Sunday, July 3.

Celebrations And Gold, Linton & Kay Contemporary, 123 Hay Street, Subiaco.
Adorning the subjects of his works in gold or showering them in ticker tape, Celebrations And Gold is a commemoration of the friends and enriching friendships that have made Perth an idyllic home for local artist Abdul Abdullah. With his spirited outlook on life, viewers can’t help but be drawn into the jubilant nature of his works while his technical skill as a portrait painter belies his tender age.
Exhibition opens on Thursday, June 30, and runs ’til Thursday, July 14.

Australia’s Greatest Hits, Venn Gallery, Queen Street, Perth.
A solo exhibition by Australian photographer Joel Wynn Rees, Australia’s Greatest Hits showcases a series of photographs taken on a recent journey through the North-West of the country. Originally from Broome, he returned there to re-connect with landscapes and people that continue to inspire his practice. The photographs explore representations of Australian identity and seek to uncover a unique vision of the characters and life found in the isolated terrain of the outback.
Exhibition runs ’til Friday, July 15.

Squared, Greenhill Galleries, 6 Gugeri Street, Claremont.
A fascinating collection of small scale works, each 40 x 40 cm in size, Squared is Greenhill Galleries annual showcase of new, miniature works offering a diverse assortment of styles, artists and mediums. This year, many of Australia’s most sought after artists have been invited to contribute, including some new names to Greenhill Galleries. The artist list includes Robert Juniper, Jason Benjamin, Crispin Akerman, Peter Boggs, Jasper Knight, Marcella Kaspar, Christine Johnson, Angus McDonald, Jim Thalassoudis, Richard Dunlop and Katarina Vesterberg.
Exhibition opens on Friday, July 1, and runs ’til Saturday, July 16.

remix, Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge.
Like the mixtape exhibitions in 2003 and 2006, remix brings together a diverse group of works that offer an opportunity to experience what some of Western Australia’s artists are doing in their practice. The works selected are not limited by a single theme but instead are orchestrated around approaches to making art, materiality or the experience of place. The exhibition includes a broad mix of media with painting, sculpture, design, photography, textile and filmic work, most of it new or recently created and representing some of the most compelling examples of contemporary practice by Western Australian artists.

Exhibition runs ’til Monday, August 15.
Pool, Kurb, 310 William Street, Northbridge.
Pool sees nine West Australian illustrators present an exhibition of new works - a shared exploration of the drawn image through a variety of mediums. Featuring the artwork of Gavin Williamson, George Cooke, Elizabeth Chisholm, K. E. Short, Shay Colley, Katherine Jago, Michael Day, Cael McGann and Larni Luxuria.
Exhibition opens on Saturday, June 25, at 7pm and runs ’til Friday, July 1.

Never Wanna Come Back Down, The Secret Garden, 7/329 Murray Street, Perth.
An exhibition of new works by Karen Djordjevic, Never Wanna Come Back Down features large scale abstract paintings that are brilliantly bold, whilst intuitively balanced. Djordjevic’s innate sense of colour and space has established a style that is dynamic and free-spirited. 
Exhibition runs ’til Friday, July 22.

Faces Of Yoyogi, Linton and Kay Contemporary, 123 Hay Street, Subiaco.
Entitled Faces Of Yoyogi, the latest exhibition at Linton and Kay Contemporary highlights the diversity within Japanese youth subculture as captured by emerging Perth artist Alia Leadabrand. Leadabrand has spent much time in what she affectionately terms ‘the wild heart of Tokyo’ in Japan. Her observation of the bizarre and diverse young faces within the Harajuku district, in particular the famous Yoyogi Park, quickly shifted from curiosity to fixation with the outrageous spectacle of costume and personal expression that enfolded on a weekly basis every Sunday.
Exhibition opens on Thursday, July 7, and runs ’til Thursday, July 21.

PERFORMANCE

Ninety, Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Northbridge.
Ninety minutes can feel like an eternity or pass in a heartbeat. Isabel has exactly 90 minutes – no more, no less – to persuade William, her ex-husband, to come back to her instead of marrying a younger woman on Sunday. Are 90 minutes enough to get past the recriminations and disappointments of ruined love and reignite the tender bonds? Can Isabel, an art conservator, restore love the way she restores paintings? Can she bring William and their marriage back to life? The clock is ticking.
Season opens on Friday, July 1, and runs ’til Sunday, July 16. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

VISUAL ARTS

Verisimilitude, The Oats Factory, 69 Oats Street, Carlisle.
Verisimilitude is the culmination of Roxanne Cox’s investigation into the language of images. The resulting paintings are atmospheric and richly layered depictions of everyday scenarios plucked from Roxanne’s collection of found photographic images; through the artistic process these images become imbued with new meaning and a new significance.
Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, June 19.

Opened Space, Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle.
For the past decade, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward’s paintings have been primarily concerned with the abstract qualities of natural phenomena – ocean, sky and weather. Opened Space moves further away from the literal signs of nature and closer to evoking the sensations that the natural world elicits.
Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, June 26.

The National Photographic Portrait Prize, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, 64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury.
The Bunbury Regional Art Galleries will be one of only four regional venues to play host to the
nation’s most prestigious photographic exhibition this June. The National Photographic Portrait Prize attracts over 1200 entries from both professional and amateur photographers across Australia. Fifty-five of the most outstanding portrait photographs are then selected by a prestigious panel of curators and gallery directors, and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, July 3.

Clip Award, Perth Centre For Photography, 91 Brisbane Street, Perth.
The Clip Award is an international prize recognising contemporary landscapes in photo-based media. The criteria for selection focuses on images that are original and stimulating whilst challenging traditional notions of landscape photography.
Exhibition opens on Thursday, June 9, and runs ’til Sunday, July 3.

Never Wanna Come Back Down, The Secret Garden, 7/329 Murray Street, Perth.
An exhibition of new works by Karen Djordjevic, Never Wanna Come Back Down features large scale abstract paintings that are brilliantly bold, whilst intuitively balanced. Djordjevic’s innate sense of colour and space has established a style that is dynamic and free-spirited. 
Exhibition opens on Friday, June 10, and runs ’til Friday, July 22.

remix, Art Gallery Of Western Australia, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge.
Like the mixtape exhibitions in 2003 and 2006, remix brings together a diverse group of works that offer an opportunity to experience what some of Western Australia’s artists are doing in their practice. The works selected are not limited by a single theme but instead are orchestrated around approaches to making art, materiality or the experience of place. The exhibition includes a broad mix of media with painting, sculpture, design, photography, textile and filmic work, most of it new or recently created and representing some of the most compelling examples of contemporary practice by Western Australian artists.
Exhibition runs ’til Monday, August 15.

PERFORMANCE

Ruben Guthrie, Roundhouse Theatre, WAAPA, 2 Bradford Street, Mt Lawley.
Ad man extraordinaire Ruben Guthrie has got it all. He’s young, brilliant, wildly successful, highly paid and has a supermodel girlfriend. He’s also a hopeless alcoholic. He pours himself a drink to celebrate, a drink to work and a drink to sleep, but thanks to an epiphany, brought on by a spectacular accident while off his head on an outlandish bender, that’s all about to change. Featuring an electric, rapid-fire script that fizzes with wit and intelligence that is both uproariously funny and insightful, Cowell lines up the shots in a heady cocktail of fizzy humour and touching revelation. It’s a sparkling play about spiraling high, crashing hard and going to AA with your mum.
Season opens on Friday, June 17, and runs ’til Thursday, June 23. Bookings can be made via (08) 9370 6895.

A Germ Of An Idea, Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street, Northbridge.
Direct from the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival, actor/comedian Monica Main roars back into town, putting germs under the comic microscope in the West Australian premiere of her scintillating new character-filled one-woman show A Germ Of An Idea: a dirty comedy by Monica Main. From an historical and often hysterical perspective, A Germ Of An Idea explores our obsessive relationship with germs through characters such as The Doctor, The Cleaner, and The Housewife - all played by Main, whose family background of scientists has informed her self-devised work exploring evolution, navigation and exploration.
Season opens on Tuesday, June 7, and runs ’til Saturday, June 25. Bookings can be made via blueroom.org.au or (08) 9227 7005.

Ninety, Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Northbridge.
Ninety minutes can feel like an eternity or pass in a heartbeat. Isabel has exactly 90 minutes – no more, no less – to persuade William, her ex-husband, to come back to her instead of marrying a younger woman on Sunday. Are 90 minutes enough to get past the recriminations and disappointments of ruined love and reignite the tender bonds? Can Isabel, an art conservator, restore love the way she restores paintings? Can she bring William and their marriage back to life? The clock is ticking.
Season opens on Friday, July 1, and runs ’til Sunday, July 16. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

MUSIC

Hammer & Tongues, June 18
John Inverarity Music Centre, Hale School; bookings via BOCS.

Club Zho, June 27
The Bakery; bookings via nowbaking.com.au..

VISUAL ARTS

The National Photographic Portrait Prize, Bunbury Regional Art Galleries, 64 Wittenoom Street, Bunbury.
The Bunbury Regional Art Galleries will be one of only four regional venues to play host to the nation’s most prestigious photographic exhibition this June. The National Photographic Portrait Prize attracts over 1200 entries from both professional and amateur photographers across Australia. Fifty-five of the most outstanding portrait photographs are then selected by a prestigious panel of curators and gallery directors, and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in Canberra.
Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, July 3.

Cloudscapes: Meditations On The Mystical, Elements Art Gallery, 131A Waratah Avenue, Dalkeith
Multi award winning Perth based artist, David Giles, began painting 18 years ago after nearly drowning in the Southern Ocean near Walpole. This life changing near death experience consolidated his aspirations of an artist’s life and strongly influences the imagery of his paintings even to this day.
Exhibition runs ’til Sunday, June 12.

Zhao Qing, Perth Centre For Photography, 91 Brisbane Street, Perth.
Coinciding with the third anniversary of the Sichuan Earthquake, PCP will exhibit the work of Zhao Qing, an award winning photojournalist from Shenzhen. This work highlights the impact of the tragedy on the ordinary citizens of Sichuan province and the dramatic rescue efforts undertaken by the Chinese Army, medical teams and volunteers in response to the earthquake.
Exhibition runs ’til Wednesday, June 15.

The Botany Of Beauty, Greenhill Galleries, 6 Gugeri Street, Claremont.
With an artistic career spanning more than three decades, an impressive list of exhibitions and awards under her belt and a loyal following in Sydney and Melbourne, Christine Johnson will head to Perth in June for her debut solo exhibition. The Botany Of Beauty is the first of a new series of paintings by this remarkable artist in which Johnson transports the viewer into the intimate space of the artist’s garden. Capturing luminous imagery of both exotic and native flora, Johnson’s oil paintings beautifully imagine the details of the floral landscape while almost dissolving into abstraction.
Exhibition opens on Friday, June 3, and runs ’til Saturday, June 18.

Verisimilitude, The Oats Factory, 69 Oats Street, Carlisle.
Verisimilitude is the culmination of Roxanne Cox’s investigation into the language of images. The resulting paintings are atmospheric and richly layered depictions of everyday scenarios plucked from Roxanne’s collection of found photographic images; through the artistic process these images become imbued with new meaning and a new significance.
Exhibition opens on Saturday, June 4, and runs ’til Sunday, June 19.

Opened Space, Perth Galleries, 92 Stirling Highway, North Fremantle.
For the past decade, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward’s paintings have been primarily concerned with the abstract qualities of natural phenomena – ocean, sky and weather. Opened Space moves further away from the literal signs of nature and closer to evoking the sensations that the natural world elicits.
Exhibition opens on Friday, June 3, and runs ’til Sunday, June 26.

PERFORMANCE

Laryngectomy: Homilies And Parables On The Freedom of Speech, The Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street, Northbridge.
It is said that without freedom of speech and expression, any freedom is an illusion. It is in this spirit that Renegade Productions proudly presents the world premiere of Laryngectomy: Homilies And Parables On The Freedom Of Speech, a celebration of this most fundamental freedom. Laryngectomy is a unique hybrid of lecture and performance that extends the boundaries of Renegade Productions’ capacity for experimental theatre, incorporating physical imagery and storytelling with performance.
Season runs from Wednesday, June 1, ’til Saturday, June 18. Bookings can be made via (08) 9227 7005 or blueroom.org.au.

A Germ Of An Idea, Blue Room Theatre, 53 James Street, Northbridge.
Direct from the 2010 Sydney Fringe Festival, actor/comedian Monica Main roars back into town, putting germs under the comic microscope in the West Australian premiere of her scintillating new character-filled one-woman show A Germ Of An Idea: a dirty comedy by Monica Main. From an historical and often hysterical perspective, A Germ Of An Idea explores our obsessive relationship with germs through characters such as The Doctor, The Cleaner, and The Housewife - all played by Main, whose family background of scientists has informed her self-devised work exploring evolution, navigation and exploration.
Season opens on Tuesday, June 7, and runs ’til Saturday, June 25. Bookings can be made via blueroom.org.au or (08) 9227 7005.

Ninety, Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA, Northbridge.
Ninety minutes can feel like an eternity or pass in a heartbeat. Isabel has exactly 90 minutes – no more, no less – to persuade William, her ex-husband, to come back to her instead of marrying a younger woman on Sunday. Are 90 minutes enough to get past the recriminations and disappointments of ruined love and reignite the tender bonds? Can Isabel, an art conservator, restore love the way she restores paintings? Can she bring William and their marriage back to life? The clock is ticking.
Season opens on Friday, July 1, and runs ’til Sunday, July 16. Bookings can be made through BOCS.

MUSIC

Ari Hoenig, June 4
Ellington Jazz Club; bookings via ellingtonjazz.com.au.

Hammer & Tongues, June 18
John Inverarity Music Centre, Hale School; bookings via BOCS.

Club Zho, June 27
The Bakery; bookings via nowbaking.com.au.