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2012 Centenary Expedition

On Thursday 15 March 2012 there will be a display in Forest Place at 11am of the 44 around 100 years old one or two cylinder veteran motorcycles and automobiles which, on Friday 16th will depart from Government House Perth on a 4,100 kilometre Expedition to Sydney. This will take 20 days with two rest days. The Expedition celebrates 'Our Forgotten Heroes' Sid Ferguson’s and Francis Birtle’s 1912 Historic and Heroic First West to East crossing of Australia by a motor vehicle - a 1912 BRUSH , a ...

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2012 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia

Enjoy an evening of superb music presented by one of the world’s most exciting and gifted pianists’ performing repertoire from the great masters. The winner of the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia will be announced at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 21 July and Perth audiences have the unique opportunity to hear the latest sensation in the music world only days later. The 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is one of the world’s most prestigious ...

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Alight

Alight is an exhibition that explores the transformation of identity in the globalised, post-national world. Six artists – Hoda Afshar, Darryn Ansted, Nathan Beard, Ogi Naidansuren, Hitesh Natalwala and Fran Rhodes – install artworks that respond to the pressing contemporary questions of migratory experiences, diasporic identities and postcolonial and post-communist legacies. Utilising a variety of contemporary approaches to painting, photography and installation, this geographically diverse col...

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Amarcord

If you could fuse together the Backstreet Boys and an East German Lutheran boys’ choir, you’d probably end up with something like Amarcord. This internationally acclaimed a cappella group owes much of its success, and its rich, engrossing sound, to Bach. They first met as choirboys at his old stomping ground in Leipzig and you can hear the influence manifest in a beautifully romantic sound that’s unique to the city: warm, deep and layered. Hear resounding and powerful interpretations of Rena...

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Angelo Street Marketplace

Angelo Street will burst with colour and creativity, when Unwrapped: the marketplace hits the street for the final event of Fiesta 2012. Unwrapped supports local emerging designers and artists to showcase their products to the public and this year will also see gourmet food stalls. Browse the stalls, enjoy live music, watch a fashion parade or visit the classic car display. While you’re there why not grab a coffee or have lunch in one of the many alfresco dining areas. Road closures in effec...

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ANZAC Day Perth

The annual dawn service will be held in the State War Memorial precinct, Kings Park. The Spirit of Anzac archival footage will be screened, followed by the service. A free shuttle will operate from the Vietnam Memorial Pavilion at Western Power Parkland on May Drive, returning at the conclusion of the Service. A gunfire breakfast will take place in Stirling Gardens, after the Service. The annual Anzac Day march from Langley Park to The Esplanade will be followed by the main service in the Es...

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Artistry Three - Innovation

With a thriving community of composers and celebrated staff mentoring their progress, aural portraits by some of the finest young composers in Western Australia are revealed amongst two inimitable treasures of the orchestral repertoire in the renowned acoustic of Winthrop hall. You are sure to enjoy this! Please refer to the website for more information.

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Artistry Two - Collaboration

In an incredible synergy of sound, the University of Western Australia Symphonic Chorus and Symphony Orchestra blend strengths in the renowned acoustic of Winthrop hall. Under the direction of resident conductor Alan Lourens, experience the depths of emotion of these remarkable works. Please refer to the website for more information.

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Australian Short Course Swimming Championships

The 2012 Australian Short Course Championships will be held in Perth and will attract many of the nation's best swimmers. The Championships is a qualifying event for the FINA World Short Course Championships and the action will happen at Challenge Stadium. Bring your family and friends along and don’t miss the excitement.

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Autumn River Festival

The City of Bayswater is proud to support the Annual Autumn River Festival. Held at Riverside Gardens in Bayswater, this is a family fun day not to be missed. Patrons are encouraged to invite their friends and families down to this great free event. There is something for everyone from community stalls, arts and crafts, live entertainment and loads of children's activities and entertainment. With a new theme this year, Flight - there are plenty of new and exciting activities and demonstrations!...

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Banff Mountain Film Festival 2012

Hot on the heels of the largest, and one of the most prestigious, mountain festivals in the world, the Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour has hit the road, with stops planned in more than 390 communities and 35 countries across the globe. The festival is held the first week of November in Banff, Canada before it hits the road. Over 300 films enter the annual competition; award-winning films and audience favourites are among the films chosen to travel the globe. This year’s tour features ...

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Bankwest Gallipoli Run

The Bankwest Gallipoli Run is a special event held annually in recognition of the ANZAC spirit. Held in Kings Park starting and finishing in the Outdoor Cinema Site, this event caters to both runners and walkers alike with three options available – an eight kilometre (five mile) run, a four kilometre run and a four kilometre walk. Take part and also improve your health and fitness as you raise money for Athletics WA and the RSL. All races start together at 9am. Timing chip and bib collection w...

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Be Active 2012 Dams Challenge

The Be Active 2012 Dams Challenge features two of the toughest challenges in Australia. The Highbury Homes 5 Dams Challenge has become an iconic event for serious bike riders throughout Australia. Participants ride 235 kilometres and undertake over 2,000 metres of vertical climbing. The ride will visit Mundaring Weir, Churchman Brook, Wungong Dam, Canning Dam and Serpentine Dam before descending from the foothills and returning to the city. Riders will need to complete the course within the 12 ...

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Bell Shakespeare - The School for Wives

Falling in love is never easy. Take our hero for instance. Now here’s a guy who wants desperately to get married but is afraid that a smart woman will cheat on him. His ingenious solution? Enlist the help of a local convent to raise a girl so stupidly innocent that she won’t know the first thing about cheating - let alone the last. In his mind she will be ever-faithful. The perfect wife. Or is she? Following on from her success with Twelfth Night, Lee Lewis directs this fresh new translation ...

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Bethany Marchman (USA) - Panem et Circense

This is the very first exhibition in Australia by the American lowbrow artist. Using traditional oils to create parallels between innocence and influence/history and popular culture, the series pulls imagery from old fashioned (largely depression era) Americana entertainment. Bethany’s paintings pull pictures of giant-eyed children out of the kitsch yard sale pile. One painting in the series, ‘The Snake Oil Salesgirl’, is based on traveling ‘medicine shows’ where con artists would pull into town...

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BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series

The inaugural BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series comes to Perth in 2013. The event will combine a festival of elite competition and mass participation of aquatic sport, headlined by the Australian Swim Team taking on the might of China and South Africa. The world-class program of pool events will be held at Challenge Stadium and complemented by two international water polo matches as well as a series of open-water races. Please refer to the website for more information.

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Black As Michael Jackson... And Other Identity Monologues

A City of Perth Winter Arts Season event. “I’m not racist but…” If us blackfellas had a dollar for every time we heard that…. We’d be rich unna?!?!?! This series of monologues is the first collaboration between emerging writer Michelle White and Deadly Award winning co-writer/performer Karla Hart, drawing from the pair’s own real life experiences. A raw, emotional and at times irreverent look at race, identity and what it’s like to actually want to be proud of identifying as Aboriginal. Plea...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Arcadia

Sidley Park, Derbyshire, April 1809. Surrounded by eccentric family members, fastidious house guests and surly staff, tutor Septimus Hodge is in charge of educating Lady Thomasina Coverley, aged thirteen. Beyond the grand windows are the ‘500 acres inclusive of lake’, where Capability Brown’s artificially manicured naturescape is about to give way to the fashionably ‘picturesque’ Gothic style of landscape gardening. 180 years later, garden historian Hannah Jarvis and academic Bernard Nightingal...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Boy Gets Girl

Successful journalist Theresa gets talked into a blind date with computer consultant Tony. As blind dates go, this one could have been a lot worse, but Theresa quickly realises that Tony isn’t the man of her dreams. She extricates herself from their second rendezvous as tactfully but firmly as possible. That should have been the end of the story but Tony doesn’t stop calling her at work. He continues to inundate her with flowers. And then he finds out where she lives, and the blind date turns i...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Managing Carmen

Brent Lyall is a freakish young sporting talent. At the age of 23, the country lad is already captain of one of the most successful football clubs in the land. He is managed by the ruthless and famous sports manager Rohan Swift, a foulmouthed bully of legendary status. Not only is Brent paid a prodigious amount of money to play, he makes three times as much with product endorsements: the advertisers simply love him and his glamorous model girlfriend. But he should be raking in a lot more advert...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents National Interest

Tony Stewart was just 21 when he was killed in Balibo in October 1975. 32 years after Tony and his television news crew were murdered, the ghosts of the past are awakened again. For Tony’s mother June, these ghosts are real, as tangible as her daughter Jane standing in the kitchen with her. What was a shrewd move in the international power-play of 1975, left a gaping void for each family touched by the tragedy. The coronial inquest into Tony’s death seems too little, too late. His murder, along...

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Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Signs of Life

Alone in her farmhouse on the riverbank one night, Georgie hears noises out on the highway – car doors, voices, weeping. She’s recently widowed and a little spooked. It’s not just her – the entire world feels wrong. A figure slowly emerges from the darkness. A man, an Aborigine, seeks help. He says he needs petrol. His sister is out in the car, screaming. They’ve been sleeping in it for days. Can Georgie help? Should she trust them? And what do you do when guests settle in and show no inclinat...

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Book Signing With Claudia Gray

For hundreds of years, the vampire Balthazar has been alone – without allies, without love. When Balthazar emerges from his isolation to help Skye Tierney, a human girl who once attended Evernight Academy, he has no idea how dangerous it will be. Skye’s newfound psychic powers have caught the attention of Redgrave, the vampire responsible for murdering Balthazar and his family four centuries ago. Now Redgrave plans to use Skye’s powers for his own evil purposes. In a story filled with forbidd...

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Boom

The word ʻboomʼ is wonderfully loaded, an onomatopoeia, to describe a resonant sound of impact ie. a booming voice. Or, it can mean a time of growth and development. Western Australia has been in the grip of a resources boom since 2006. But, what does this mean for the people who live here? What is the individual or collective experience? Utilising sculpture, painting, jewellery and film; eleven artists explore the phenomena of ‘boom times’. This exhibition showcases a diverse and vibrant grou...

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Brownes EveryWoman Expo

This is your opportunity to touch, smell, taste, hear and discover the latest in cosmetics, fashion, health and beauty, wine and food. There's also experts on hand to assist you with investment options, style and makeup tips, aromatherapy, nutritional advice, weight management programs, lifestyle and fitness, personal enlightenment, spiritual guidance and heaps more. There are more than 300 exhibitors to titillate your senses, and to leave you walking away feeling energised, revitalised and tra...

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Calling All Cars With Special Guests Arts Marshall

With the starter's flag unfurled Calling All Cars are set to roll out The Delirium Tour, and in their continuing efforts in the war against the jive have invited co-conspirators Strangers and Arts Martial along for the fun. Named after the barn storming, live favourite ‘She's Delirious’ and with a new video by the same creative team that made their ‘Reptile’ and ‘World's Collide’ clips, this 12 show victory lap around the country will be their last national headline tour before taking a well-e...

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Charles Bradley And His Extraordinaires

Soul man Charles Bradley is making his way to Australia at the balmy end of summer to lay some Brooklyn soul vibes on music lovers across the country. A member of the Dunham Records family, Charles Bradley has been backed by soul supergroups The Bullets and The Menahan Street Band (whose Make The Road By Walking was sampled in Jay Z’s Roc Boys) and now tours Australia in March 2012 with his Extraordinaires, the backing band that owned Europe and the United States on his world tour featuring so...

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Chevron City to Surf

Chevron City to Surf for Activ is the largest community sporting event in Western Australia incorporating the marathon, half marathon, 12 kilometre Run/Walk, four kilometre Run/Walk/Wheelchair. The course takes participants on a journey from the City of Perth to City Beach. Boasting Western Australia’s largest field and Australia’s richest prize pool, the City to Surf Marathon takes in some of Perth’s most beautiful sights. Starting from the city centre, runners travel along the Swan River bank...

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City of Belmont`s Autumn River Festival

Treat the family to a day of lively entertainment and activities at the Autumn River Festival in Belmont. The fun day of events includes the Annual Fish Fest with Kailis' famous fish and chips; water activities including water ski shows, gondola rides and kayaking; live music, art and craft stalls and wine tasting; and children's entertainment and activities. Please refer to the website for more information.

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City of Perth Winter Arts Season

The City of Perth Winter Arts Season is a three month program designed to warm the souls of Western Australians over the cooler months. Immerse yourself in the city, as the artistic and creative offerings from Western Australia's leading arts organisations are unveiled. This annual season celebrates the finest performances, exhibitions and events on offer in Perth. Ignite your senses and warm your mind this winter. Keep an eye out closer to the date for information on all the events that will ...

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City of South Perth - Fit N Fun Day

A huge day for the whole family to enjoy with energetic games, rides, urban art workshops, sport activities, skate and bmx competitions and demonstrations, there’s something to interest everyone. See an urban art mural being painted, have a go at a new sport or find out about clubs and organisations in the area. There will be loads of kid’s activities and rides throughout the day. Bring a picnic or food and refreshments will be available to purchase. Supported by Lotterywest and Healthway. P...

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City of South Perth - Speaking Sustainability

In partnership with Perth Zoo, the City of South Perth is hosting a forum to inspire action towards creating a sustainable future. Three speakers will present on topics relating to sustainable living and highlighting local and global issues. Attend all three sessions or just one. Environmental Sustainability at Perth Zoo. 4.30pm to 5.30pm Presented by Carol Shannon, Perth Zoo Corporate and Commercial Development Director Social Sustainability In Good Urban Design. 5.45pm to 6.45pm Presented ...

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City of South Perth - WesTrac Fiesta Concert

Featuring the amazing men of music theatre and the Rat Pack’s back. This spectacular evening is not to be missed, with songs from well known musicals such as; Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Jesus Christ Superstar. This unique combination of performers have all starred in major musicals, both in Australia and overseas. The Amazing Men of Music Theatre will be supported by a fully choreographed show from The Rat Pack’s Back, performing songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Da...

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Claisebrook Carnivale and Duck Derby for Telethon

An Eat Drink Perth event. Presented by The Rotary Club of Heirisson and the City of Perth as part of Eat Drink Perth, The Claisebrook Carnivale and Duck Derby is a free community event. There will be loads of free activities for the kids, live entertainment, fabulous food, arts and crafts, market stalls, animals, rides, face painting and much more! There will be no ducking the fun when thousands of rubber duckies fight it out to be crowned king of the cove with the big race commencing at 2.00p...

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Coles Gluten Free Food and Healthy Living Expo

The Coles Gluten Free Food and Healthy Living Expo will include displays, cooking demonstrations, seminars and information to support both individuals who have these specialised dietary requirements and those that provide them, including caterers, restaurateurs, families and friends. An event not to be missed for the gluten intolerant and health conscious. Please refer to the website for more information.

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Collective - Exhibition and Auction

Collective - Exhibition and Auction is a Fringe World event. Collective is a photography exhibition and auction showcasing an eclectic mix of collectable work by local emerging and established, national and international photographic artists. All photographic artists are invited to participate by submitting original work for exhibition and auction. Participating artists may opt to donate either part or full sales proceeds towards the gallery program fund. Please refer to the website for more...

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Coonawarra Wine Tasting Roadshow

They're hitting the road again. Get up close and personal with your favourite Coonawarra winemakers during the month of August at the 2012 Annual Coonawarra Wine Tasting Roadshow. Coming to a capital city near you, this is your chance to see, smell and taste an impressive range of Coonawarra wines. Please refer to the website for more information.

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Craft and Quilt Fair

The Craft and Quilt Fair is Australia's favourite craft event. It's all about craft – seeing what's possible, learning new techniques and buying all you need for your craft projects. Whether you are a beginner, or a clever craft goddess, you'll find ideas, inspiration and a huge range of exhibitors selling craft supplies. Under one roof you can shop with craft specialists from all over Australia and find unique products for stamping, scrapbooking, knitting, embroidery, sewing, quiltmaking, jew...

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Daniel O`Donnell

Daniel O'Donnell, Ireland's most popular 'easy listening' entertainer, returns to Australia. Daniel has enjoyed tour and chart success in Australia and New Zealand for a number of years and earned himself a loyal following that stretches across both countries. Daniel remains as excited and enthusiastic about his work and his fans as when he first launched his career. Daniel has never forgotten that it was the public who gave him his success in the first place, especially as he struggled long a...

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David Egan: The Unknown by the More Unknown

David Egan: The Unknown by the More Unknown is a Fringe World Festival event. David Egan (1989) processes the uncomfortable mysteries of small scale, vernacular pop culture theories and histories into a considered set of beguiling, mysterious objects. His paintings, textiles and sculptures hint at an unnamed energy coursing beneath a known surface, defying attempts at understanding and organisation. OK Gallery is pleased to launch their 2012 program with The Unknown by the More Unknown, Davi...

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Debt of Honour

Debt of Honour: Australia’s First Commandos and East Timor is a free exhibition highlighting the exceptional war effort of Australia’s first guerrilla commandos and their life long endeavour to repay a ‘debt of honour’, to the people of Timor-Leste. Explore an outstanding collection of rare wartime artifacts, photos, film footage and interviews with the participants. The exhibition tells the remarkable story of how during the ten month campaign, the 2/2nd owed their lives to the people of East...

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Dickens` Women

Following sellout performances in 2007, BAFTA®-award winning actress Miriam Margolyes returns to Australia for an encore national tour of her one-woman tour-de-force, Dickens' Women. Bringing to life twenty-three of Charles Dickens’ most affecting and colourful female (and male!) characters, Margolyes presents her powerful, comprehensive, and at times hilarious exposé of Dickens, his writing, and the real-life women who found themselves immortalised in his books. This strictly limited season...

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dusk Bridal Fair

At the dusk Bridal Fair discover everything you will need to make your wedding day the most successful and enjoyable ever. The Bridal Fair is considered to be one of Western Australia’s largest and most successful bridal events of the year. Over 200 exhibitors, glamourous Fashion Parades daily and fantastic prizes to be won. Entry is $16 per person. Opening times 9.30am to 5pm .

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Eat Drink Perth

Perth’s biggest food festival, Eat Drink Perth, happens throughout the month of March with a variety of events showcasing Perth’s unique food culture. Brought to you by the City of Perth, the festival invites all foodies to discover the city’s restaurants, cafes, bars and diverse culinary experiences. This month-long celebration includes wine and cheese tastings, hawker markets, master classes, cocktail events, degustations, food tours, coffee making, a butcher’s picnic, parties, book signings, ...

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eBridal Wedding and Limousine Expo

Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre (PCEC) transforms into a wedding haven with the complete A to Z of wedding services with more than 100 local businesses offering more variety and less repetition than some other wedding expos in Perth. The expo features Perth's largest indoor display of limousines and chauffeur driven vehicles. eBridal Wedding Expos are uniquely known for the innovation of allowing the audience to try on and buy fashion from Perth's leading boutiques, all fashion houses c...

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Exploring Opera

West Australian Opera invites school students to a performance that unpacks opera. Join a theatre full of students on an exploration into opera’s history and conventions. Discover the voice types, languages and training that is involved in developing a career in singing. Journey with the conductor and orchestra and learn about their role within opera. Experience the effects of makeup, wardrobe, sets and lighting, and see the various layers of opera come together to create the story. This event...

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Feature at the Park

Grab your friends and family, pack your low chairs, picnic rugs and dancing shoes for a night of amazing jazz under the stars! James Flynn and the Little Big Band will perform classics from the likes of Sinatra, Bobby Darin, Dean Martin and Michael Buble. Please refer to the website for more information.

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FINA World Junior Men`s and Junior Women`s Water Polo Championships U18

The FINA World Youth Water Polo Championships is the premier under 18 water polo competition in the world. The nine-day tournament will see men and women play for gold in the same city for the first time at this level. Watch this highly skilled, super tough sport with up to 16 games scheduled per day at Perth's Challenge Stadium. Please refer to the website for more information.

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Flesh Wounds

Sometimes we feel damaged beyond repair – but is it just a flesh wound? It’s a question pondered in the latest play written and directed by Jessica Messenger, with assistance from Stages WA, premiering at the Old Mill Theatre this March. Flesh Wounds follows the interconnecting lives and relationships of six characters as they struggle to grow up and deal with their baggage. From alcoholic buskers, aspiring singer-songwriters, pregnant waitresses and traumatised post office clerks through ...

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Florence and The Machine

Fanning the flames of a fire started just under two years ago, Florence + The Machine are set to ignite stages across the country when they return to Australia for a national arena tour. The phenomenal success story of the debut album 'Lungs' - certified double platinum in Australia, peaking at #3 on the ARIA Album Chart with the much loved singles 'You've Got The Love,' 'Kiss With A Fist' and 'Dog Days Are Over' - has paved the way for her much lauded and highly anticipated sophomore release, ...

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