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HIGHLIGHTS: Fremantle Heritage Festival | City Wine at Urban Orchard | Men in Black Ball | Antartica: Night at the Museum | Jazz By The Bay | Fremantle Arts Centre | Final Week of HIR | Jean Sher
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Jun 8-9, Perth Cultural Centre
City Wine is the place to taste and enjoy amazing wines, share a tapas style meal with friends and enjoy live local music all while overlooking the Perth skyline. Featuring some of WA’s leading boutique wine producers, a range food vendors and a selection of craft brewers, ciders and spirits for you to try and buy.
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Jun 16, Pan Pacific Hotel
Celebrating its 11th anniversary in 2018, the Men in Black Ball is a black-tie event raising awareness in support of men’s mental health and suicide prevention through Momentum for Australia charity. With special guest speakers Daniel Kerr and Sean Thomsen.
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May 25 - Jun 4, Fremantle
The City of Fremantle will honour its rich history of custodians, makers and creators at this year’s Fremantle Heritage Festival. The ten-day Festival brings together a reflective and entertaining array of contributors from story tellers and artists, as we appreciate the living history of Fremantle.
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Jun 10, Perth Concert Hall
The perfect event for kids and families and one show only, so if you have kids, get your tickets early. Feel the magic of a live symphony orchestra, puppetry by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre and poetry by Nick Enright in a performance that will delight children and parents!
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Jazz by The Bay Tickets Still for Sale
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Get down to the south west for hot jazz, sultry soul and foot stomping funk this June long weekend. Jazz by the Bay happens across Dunsborough, Busselton and Margaret River with the festival hub at Lions Park, Dunsborough where there are free community concerts on Saturday and Sunday from 10am. The event comprises an eclectic mix of free and ticketed live soul, rhythm & blues, big band, bebop and swing events at a range of great venues including wineries, pubs, theatres and galleries.
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The stunning gardens of Amelia Park Lodge lawn will set the scene for a gorgeous evening of superb music and premium shiraz, food and more.
You’ll be entertained by the gorgeous Penny King Quartet. Penny is one of Australia's most loved jazz vocalists and a veteran of the music festival scene.
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The Piano Box Jazz Bar brings you international vocal sensation, Richard Jackson (USA) and trombone powerhouse Q SOUND (USA) teaming up with Perth favourites Adam Hall and the Soul/Velvet Playboys for a night of soul music at its best. Food by the award-winning Supper Road.
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Elle Deslandes with Danny Moss Jnr. and Chris Foster will bring sassy jazz to The Studio Gallery and Bistro Yallingup .
Dinner is held in the beautiful art gallery so guests can enjoy art in all its forms, accompanied by sassy and sultry jazz songstress Elle Deslandes, who will be supported by the acclaimed Danny Moss Jnr and Chris Foster.
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Step into the old barrel room bar at the gorgeous Clairault Streicker Estate for a live jazz performance by the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra Quartet and enjoy and a delicious paired tasting of 5 canapes with 5 wines, served during the first hour of the performance.
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The Euro Jazz Club returns with the fabulous Ali Bodycoat Trio. Relax for dinner to the sounds of the best of WA’s jazz talent while enjoying shared grazing plates, a choice of main courses and a dessert tasting plate. A full bar will be open for purchases plus a gin-inspired cocktail bar.
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The warm and welcoming Happs Pottery and Gallery becomes a performance space when the UWA Guitar Studio performs a range of beautiful solo and ensemble pieces. Includes a complimentary glass of wine from a selection of six Happs favourites, plus shared tasting plates.
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Fremantle Arts Centre: 4 New Exhibitions
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Fremantle Arts Centre is one of the leading multidisciplinary arts organisations in the country, presenting world class contemporary art exhibitions, and stocks the largest range of WA-designed, handcrafted products by local artisans. On Saturday 26 May, FAC launches its next round of 4 new exhibitions spanning video installations, soundscapes, contemporary paintings and traditional prints.
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Two video works by Semiconductor are on display - both extending our experience of the natural world, delving into and creating visual interpretations of unseen worlds by transforming and stitching together images of scientific data. Brilliant Noise offers a glimpse of solar astronomy and Black Rain utilises satellite data to observe the space between the sun and the earth.
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Like Embracing Ice is a new audio work by accomplished WA sound artist and composer Rachael Dease. Following a month in the Arctic Circle, she has scored a work with audio captured from the depths of the Arctic Sea, using hydrophones floating under drifting icebergs and microphones lowered into glacial cracks.
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The suite of large paintings on display is conceived as a meditation on the nature of the landscape and our place in geological time. Caspar Fairhall’s paintings draw upon the often complex spatial structures of late Renaissance and Baroque art and are characterised by crisp, vibrant colour and rich surfaces.
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An exhibition which recognises a generous donation of 17 artworks by longstanding Fremantle resident and art collector Mary Harrison Hill in recognition of her late husband Chris. The gift of prints and paintings by senior WA and Fremantle-based artists makes a lasting contribution to the City of Fremantle Art Collection.
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Hir (a gender-neutral pronoun of “his” and “her,” pronounced “here”) is an audacious dive into the dysfunctional-family playpen of American theatre. Taylor Mac’s subversive comedy about a middle-class family in transition is fresh, feisty and emotionally gripping – it’s like ‘The American Dream’ is stuck in the American reality.
“The jaw-dropping brilliance of Taylor Mac’s script, an exercise in take-no-prisoners imagination and hilarious writing.” Huffington Post
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To Jean Sher, trees link earth and sky and she has always been struck by the shape of our elegant trees found in the paddocks of our South West wine region and the bold sculptural shapes of Rottnest Island trees.
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Lacey enjoys capturing what’s in front of him, which is evident in several impressionistic pieces, however it’s the expression and simplification, the feeling and emotion that one gathers that he finds most rewarding as an artist.
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Renowned for his wood-fired pottery, see his new body of work, Fragment, a striking assembly of large-scale sculptural forms and murals. Inspired by the natural land and the intense light of WA.
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KISS Club is a performance event for ideas, for emerging and established artists across live and experimental arts practice. Selected artists will present work in progress, along with a guest speaker providing expertise beyond the arts.
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Walk the red carpet into a world of mystery and mythology at AGWA’s annual flagship event. Enjoy, art activations, immersive installations and live music, cocktails, wine and beer all night.
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Tijuana Cartel are nationally loved for their east meets west, fat, bass-fuelled electronica. A truly unique act that have been mesmerising their ever-growing audience for well over a decade, they continue to set an exceptionally high standard in live music and sound production.
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After stunning, sold-out concerts across the US, Jason Bonham’s to Australia for the first time. After 7 years, the concert is celebrating the life and music of his father, the legendary Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham.
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One Fine Day is a refreshing alternative to the traditional bridal fair, showcasing a handpicked collection of sought after vendors in the wedding field. It is a perfect outlet for creative couples to gain inspiration from unique vendors also a fun way to spend a Sunday.
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Walk the red carpet into a world of mystery and mythology at AGWA’s annual flagship event. Artistic activations, immersive installations, live music and Italian fare, Mumm champagne, cocktails, wine and beer all night.
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East Perth v Swan Districts
Leederville Oval, Sat May 26, 1.40pm
South Fremantle v Claremont
Fremantle Community Bank Oval, Sat May 26, 2.15pm
East Fremantle v Peel Thunder
East Fremantle Oval, Sat May 26, 2.15pm
Perth v Subiaco
Lathlain Park, Sat May 26, 2.15pm
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Subiaco v Peel Thunderbirds
Altone Park, Sun May 27, 2.00pm
Perth Angels v South Fremantle
Harmony Fields, Sun May 27, 2.00pm
West Perth v Claremont
HBF Arena, Sun May 27, 2.00pm
Swan Districts v East Fremantle
Steel Blue Oval, Sun May 27, 2.00pm
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Fonty's Pool Chalet & Caravan Park, Margaret River
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Pan Pacific Hotel,
Perth CBD
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