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You will be aware that Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia’s peak youth arts organisation, has decided it is unable to continue providing t...
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Spare Parts wants to hear your favourite memories of the company.
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1 Sep
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To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Tasmania's Terrapin Puppet Theatre has announced that it will be presenting ...
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You will be aware that Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia’s peak youth arts organisation, has decided it is ...
1 Aug
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PlayWriting Australia offers travel grants of up to $2,500 to connect playwrights, dramaturgs and theatre companies...
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1 Aug
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Amplifier 2011 gives you the ingredients to crank your creative business up to eleven! Registrations are now open f...
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The Turtle and the Trade Winds an enchanting story about a sea turtle’s life intertwining puppetry, dance, an...
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Australian experts in young people's theatre, Young People and the Arts Australia (YPAA) Executive Director, Ji...
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The Australia Council for the Arts is pleased to launch the Creative Australia ArtistsGrants, a five year program o...
1 Aug
Fresh from a highly successful London Festival, the Goldner String Quartet will join with long ...
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1 Aug
Youth Arts Queensland invites young and emerging artists from across Australia to make their ar...
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1 Jul
For over 16 years violet moon works have supplied performing arts resources to: education autho...
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1 Jul
Read the latest review by Lowdown's Adelaide based reviewer Jane Howard who visited the lat...
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1 Jul
Canberra-based QL2 Dance and QL2 Dance Artistic Director Ruth Osborne was recognised for excell...
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1 Jul
The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, as part of Edith Cowan University’s Mo...
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1 Jul
Australia’s centre of excellence in contemporary circus NICA announces National Auditions...
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1 Jun
Its crunch time for Lowdown and we need your help. We would like to know what you value in the ...
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1 Jun
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (SPPT) and Edith Cowan University (ECU) invite applications from art...
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1 Jun
Auditions for NAISDA (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Association) are being held on th...
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1 Jun
Barking Gecko’s adaptation of Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree started rehearsals this week...
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1 May
With performances by Alex Manglet and Kate Mulvany, Peter Evans, Bell Shakespeare’s new A...
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1 May
The 17th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young Audiences (ASSITEJ 2011)...
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1 May
To celebrate the first public performance of Shaun Tan's The Red Tree the team at Barking g...
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1 May
Convictions + Connections. Urgent conversations, compelling ideas, inspiring vision. Theatre ma...
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1 May
The Australian String Quartet is currently calling for submissions from emerging composers for ...
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1 May
How far would you go to be truly free? Step across the line with these 23 breathtaking young ar...
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1 May
The British Council have once again called for application for creatives to have a one-of-a-kin...
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1 May
Courthouse ARTS welcomes new Artistic Director, Ross Mueller. A newly renovated Courthous...
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1 May
The Danish theatre, Teatret Gruppe 38, is the first Danish theatre ever to have received one of...
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1 Apr
Following on from the sell out critical success of Namatjira at Belvoir in Sydney 2010, Big hAR...
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1 Apr
Barking Gecko will run their School Holiday Workshops for young people aged between 7 and 17 ye...
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1 Apr
Term 2 Workshop enrolments are now open at Barking Gecko Theatre Company! The Workshop program ...
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1 Apr
In 2010 UK artist Amber Onat Gregory, approached Barking Gecko Theatre Company, seeking to shar...
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1 Mar
Barking Gecko Theatre Company hosted the Perth launch of Currency House’s Platform Paper ...
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1 Mar
Barking Gecko Theatre Company is bringing Academy Award Winner Shaun Tan’s story The Red ...
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1 Mar
Theatre in Perth has never been more intimate and tantalizing than at the city’s hub of i...
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1 Mar
Entries for the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize are now open for writers. So get th...
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1 Mar
If you are an indpendent producer in a performing arts platform, then you may be interested in ...
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1 Mar
This performance is the final work created for Ausdance WA’s Future Landings project, tha...
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1 Feb
Grounded is an original contemporary dance work created and presented in Bunbury by professiona...
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1 Feb
The Mobile States consortium is now seeking expressions of interest from artists across the per...
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1 Feb
Currency House have released Platform Papers 26, Not Just An Audience: Young People Transformin...
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1 Feb
On Feb 22, Barking Gecko Theatre Company will host the official Perth What If? Forum, launching...
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1 Feb
Future Landings, Albany.... Impressions on the Paper… has been developed by loc...
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1 Feb
What makes a youth show? What defines them as “youth”? Who can critique these...
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1 Jan
Courtesy of Hopscotch Films and Lowdown Magazine Online, WIN tickets to see CATFISH. W...
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1 Jan
Acclaimed New York storyteller Margot Leitman, along with a plethora of solo raconteurs, will t...
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1 Jan
Spaces are still available for Spare Parts'one-day and two-day holiday puppetry workshops. ...
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1 Jan
What do you do when you are seven years old and your family is too noisy? Do you have anywhere ...
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1 Jan
The Australian Writers' Guild, together with Inscription is offering one emerging playwrigh...
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1 Jan
An opportunity for children and young people aged 3 - 18 years to work with industry trained pr...
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1 Dec
Country Arts WA is currently seeking expressions of interest from individuals and organisations...
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1 Dec
The recent announcement that Founder and Creative Director of Human Ventures, Aleem Ali, will f...
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1 Dec
WIN WIN WIN TICKETS to see The Red Shoes in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, courtesy of Ar...
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1 Dec
A Merry Christmas and jolly splendid New Year from all of us here at Lowdown.
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1 Nov
Brother against brother in a tale of family, country and native title.
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1 Nov
WARNING: A Megashark may inexplicably come from nowhere and eat you while you are watching this...
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1 Nov
Calling all Bright Young Things - Perth's AWESOME Festival was made for you (literally!)
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1 Nov
Perth's young creative talent complete a 3-year journey.
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1 Nov
Power. Precision. Passion. Don't miss this one night only performance!
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1 Nov
$179,040 of funding for arts projects in regional, rural and very remote/isolated Western Austr...
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1 Nov
The Blue Room Theatre is pleased to congratulate 21 of its members among the 36 artists nominat...
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1 Oct
Art, roller derby, zines and gaming collide in spectacular fashion!
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1 Oct
Calling all budding authors!
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1 Oct
She will answer your question with questions. She will ask Are you lonely? and Have you cried, ...
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1 Oct
The exciting new project, Future Landings: Four Town Dance Network supports contemporary dance ...
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1 Sep
Get your applications ready for the 2011 round of JUMP artist mentorships.
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1 Sep
The hunt is on for staff and volunteers - are you up to the Challenge?
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1 Sep
Canberra Youth Theatre is opening its doors to invite emerging artists from outside the ACT who...
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1 Sep
Inspire your children’s creativity and imagination by bringing your family to Aesop a...
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1 Sep
The Festival of Australian Student Theatre (FAST) is the first national festival of tertiary st...
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1 Sep
Master the art of movement on stage when Black Swan and Claudia Alessi take you through your pa...
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1 Sep
Marrugeku, WA’s leader in contemporary intercultural performance, will premiere its excit...
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23 Aug
On 17 August, Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ) announced CarriageWorks and Melbourne Fringe as its n...
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1 Aug
Sing it with me: "We love the grants you get from Y-PA, we love the grants you get from Y-...
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1 Aug
John Sheedy is the new kid on the Barking Gecko block, gratefully accepting the badge of Artist...
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1 Aug
Have you got a production for the next Blue Room Theatre season?
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1 Aug
YPAA's Executive Director, Lenine Bourke is traversing the countryside talking all things y...
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1 Jul
Lowdown would like to congratulate the three organisations successful in YPAA's Incubator P...
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1 Jul
A rock concert / group therapy mash up marks the return of Perth performer Shane Adamczak's...
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1 Jul
We've all heard of a blue moon, but do you know what happens under a Yellow Moon? ...
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1 Jun
Bit of an academic? The Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management is on the hunt for...
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1 Jun
Arts and culture lovers, get ready to immerse yourselves in the best of regional and community ...
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1 Jun
Cancer Council Australia is asking Australians aged 12 to 17 years to get creative and ‘b...
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1 Jun
Arts Queensland and the Centre for Social Impact have released a discussion paper tackling fund...
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1 May
Its official! The winner of Outstanding Solo Show at the 2009 New York Fringe and Best Puppetry...
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1 May
Country Arts WA recently welcomed four new members to its Board of Management and appointed a n...
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1 May
Hydra Poesis presents the world premiere of new Western Australian work Personal Political Phys...
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29 Apr
Are you Australia?s next big star? Young people can get creative and "Live It Now? by subm...
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1 Apr
Think on your feet and laugh while you do it when Black Swan and Sam Longley take you on the Im...
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1 Apr
Ros Warby is coming to Perth and expressions of interest for her four-day (11-14 May) workshop ...
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1 Apr
Perfect lives driven by love, hunger, greed and above all fear.
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1 Apr
The Richard Burton Award for New Plays, created by Sally Burton and her company Onward Producti...
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1 Apr
ArtsCAMP is an exciting week - long creative experience for young people aged 15 – 17 yea...
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1 Apr
Tetrafide Percussion present their Young Artists concert at WAAPA's Music Auditorium this M...
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1 Apr
Reeldance presents Australia and New Zealand's finest examples of dance on screen for 2009....
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4 Mar
The Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts (Brisbane) is seeking young Indigenous performers for...
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1 Mar
An Australian Council for the Arts survey of over 3000 Australians has revealed that 15-24 year...
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1 Mar
For its 30th Anniversary year, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts is pulling out...
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1 Mar
If you’ve experienced family drama (and let's be honest - who hasn't?), you&rsquo...
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1 Mar
The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Western Australia, in association with the Parmelia Hilton, w...
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1 Mar
The Blue Room Theatre is celebrating its 21st birthday with two play seasons that exemplify its...
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1 Mar
Strut on Screen proudly presents a series of evenings dedicated to dance on screen.
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1 Mar
Breakings, a new dance work from Aimee Smith, questions our relationship with the medi...
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1 Mar
The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creativ...
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1 Mar
Spellbound is an exotic story of love and friendship, the transforming power of the im...
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1 Mar
It's time once again for the annual WAPPA in the Park free concert, to be held on ...
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1 Mar
This is your chance to secure great seats for the fantastic performances and workshops for the ...
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1 Mar
Starts Today - ENDS THURSDAY - Young People and the Arts Australia (YPAA) pres...
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1 Feb
The Department of Culture and the Arts offers one $30,000 International Scholarship annually fo...
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1 Feb
Buzz Dance Theatre, WA’s premier dance company for children and young people, presents a ...
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1 Feb
STEPS Youth Dance Company presents 'Phoenix' - their 21st birthday production at the Pl...
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1 Feb
Black Swan State Theatre Company offers a varied program of theatre skills development classes ...
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1 Feb
Black Swan State Theatre Company has selected the new HotBed Ensemble members for 2010.
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1 Feb
Arts managers from around the globe converged on the Western Australian Academy of Performing A...
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1 Feb
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre have announced the March tour dates for their fantastic production o...
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1 Feb
Got some spare time on your hands? Why not put your digits to use in one of Spare Parts Puppet ...
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1 Jan
From its humble beginnings as an artist-in-residence project in 1985, Southern Edge Arts (forme...
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1 Jan
Firstly, STRUT Dance would like to congratulate the three members who were successful in their ...
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1 Jan
During March, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre will take its smash hit show of 2009, The Night Zoo on...
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1 Jan
Two of Australia’s favourite performers, Australian singing legend, Julie Anthony and TV ...
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1 Dec
Country Arts WA’s Chief Executive Officer, Jessica Machin, launched the organisation&rsqu...
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1 Dec
Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett recently announced $...
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1 Nov
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre presents the inaugural summer season in its newly air-conditioned th...
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1 Nov
Spin, the finale of the 2009 dance season at the Western Australian Academy of Perform...
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1 Nov
The 10th Perth Theatre Trust & Equity Benevolent Guild Professional Theatre Awards were hel...
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1 Nov
Barking Gecko said farewell to Marketing Manager Eleri Evans who returned home to Canada in Nov...
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1 Nov
Highlights of Black Swan State Theatre Company’s (BSSTC) 2010 season.
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1 Nov
To celebrate the illustrious career of one of the great stars of the silver screen, Sally Burto...
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1 Nov
To coincide with The Blue Room Theatre's 21st birthday in 2010, a new and improved 21 Summe...
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1 Nov
Jo Marsh has been appointed the new co-director of the Wild West Comedy Festival for 2010. As a...
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1 Nov
Paul MacPhail has been appointed as Country Arts WA’s new General Manager. He is one of W...
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1 Nov
Deckchair Theatre was successful in its grant application to the Australia Council, and will re...
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1 Nov
The Department of Culture and the Arts’ $30,000 Young People and the Arts International S...
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1 Nov
Southern Edge Arts (SEA) is excited to announce its first project for its Silver Jubilee Year! ...
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1 Nov
Applications for Total Theatre School of Physical Theatre’s 2010 three-month physical the...
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1 Nov
The WA Youth Theatre Company (WAYTCo) and the City of Perth present Sweat, part 2 of t...
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1 Nov
Spare Parts Puppet Theatre has another puppetry performance skills workshop, Performing with Pu...
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1 Nov
Communities across Western Australia are being urged to apply for funding to hold an event duri...
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1 Nov
13 applications were funded from the WA Young People andthe Arts panel from the July 2009. Amon...
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1 Oct
The 2009 AWESOME Festival is set to be bigger and better than ever, showcasing the latest and g...
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1 Oct
Barking Gecko and Rosalie Primary School have teamed up for an exciting new education project. ...
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1 Oct
Black Swan State Theatre Company and HotHouse Theatre present The Web by Kate Mulvany, at the P...
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1 Oct
The Blue Room (a trading name of the Performing Arts Centre Society), WA’s hub for indepe...
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1 Oct
Deckchair Theatre launched the Umbrella Program to assist local artists to present dynamic new ...
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1 Oct
The Department of Culture and the Arts’ Young People and the Arts funding programmes are ...
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1 Oct
From her window high above the city Jamie dreams of making friends with animals, but Mum and Da...
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1 Oct
Join STEPS on a kaleidoscopic journey to the land of awake! BHP Billiton Nickel West and STEPS ...
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1 Oct
Applications for Total Theatre’s 2010 three month physical theatre course are now open to...
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1 Oct
Term Four Workshops commence October 18 and WAYTCo is please to announce that they will be expa...
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1 Aug
The Department of Culture and the Arts has funding for painting, music, sculpture, theatre, con...
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1 Aug
Music Play For Life continues to assist school children around the country to access music educ...
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1 Aug
On Sunday August 2 The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts opened its doors to showca...
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1 Aug
DramaWest will hold their state conference on Saturday August 15 at Edith Cowan University. The...
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