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Doors Close at Lowdown Magazine posted 30 Sep

You will be aware that Carclew Youth Arts, South Australia’s peak youth arts organisation, has decided it is unable to continue providing t... Continue reading

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Spare Parts Puppet Theatre Celebrates 30th Anniversary posted 1 Sep

Spare Parts wants to hear your favourite memories of the company.

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Terrapin's new show shares the Love in Hobart and Burnie... posted 1 Sep

Join this very brave 10-year-old, as he races against the elements and discovers a whole world of stories

To celebrate its 30th anniversary, Tasmania's Terrapin Puppet Theatre has announced that it will be presenting ...

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Message to Lowdown readers and colleagues posted 1 Sep

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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State Exchange 2011 - travel grants for Australian playwrights. posted 1 Aug

PlayWriting Australia offers travel grants of up to $2,500 to connect playwrights, dramaturgs and theatre companies...

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Registrations are now open for Amplifier: business skills for young artists. posted 1 Aug

Amplifier 2011 gives you the ingredients to crank your creative business up to eleven! Registrations are now open f...

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Travelling with turtles through the eyes of a child: theatrical treasures abound in WA posted 1 Aug

Travelling with turtles through the eyes of a child

The Turtle and the Trade Winds an enchanting story about a sea turtle’s life intertwining puppetry, dance, an...

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Australia's experts in theatre for young audiences catalyse on Indian theatre practices for young people. posted 1 Aug

Riverland Youth Theatre's Artistic Director Olivia Allen at the Delhi Opera House

Australian experts in young people's theatre, Young People and the Arts Australia (YPAA) Executive Director, Ji...

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New funding for artists to build a creative Australia posted 1 Aug

The Australia Council for the Arts is pleased to launch the Creative Australia ArtistsGrants, a five year program o...

1 Aug Dene Olding,Dimity Hall, Irina Morozova, Julian Smiles and Ian Munro.

Musica Viva’s Dream Team, Ian Munro & the Goldner String Quartet, in Concert.

Fresh from a highly successful London Festival, the Goldner String Quartet will join with long ...

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1 Aug

Jump National Artist Mentoring Program - MaKe your match in 2012

Youth Arts Queensland invites young and emerging artists from across Australia to make their ar...

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1 Jul violet moon works - Performing Arts and Makeup Specialists

violet moon works - Performing Arts and Makeup Specialists

For over 16 years violet moon works have supplied performing arts resources to: education autho...

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1 Jul

Latest Lowdown Review - Aleksander and the Robot Maid - Drop Bear Theatre

Read the latest review by Lowdown's Adelaide based reviewer Jane Howard who visited the lat...

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1 Jul Ruth Osborne has devoted her professional life to youth dance, challenging old ideas and developing new methods.

Canberra's QL2 Dance wins two Australian Dance Awards

Canberra-based QL2 Dance and QL2 Dance Artistic Director Ruth Osborne was recognised for excell...

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1 Jul

Take a look Behind the Scenes at WAAPA Open Day 2011

The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, as part of Edith Cowan University’s Mo...

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1 Jul Dont hang around - apply now

NICA announces National Auditions for 2012 Circus degree.

Australia’s centre of excellence in contemporary circus NICA announces National Auditions...

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1 Jun

Lowdown Survey - we need you to give us the lowdown on Lowdown

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

FirstHand Emergent Puppetry Artist Program - 2011 call for applicants

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre (SPPT) and Edith Cowan University (ECU) invite applications from art...

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1 Jun

Naisda - National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Association call for auditions.

Auditions for NAISDA (National Aboriginal and Islander Skills Association) are being held on th...

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1 Jun

Boom! Bap! Pow! The Red Tree has music!

Barking Gecko’s adaptation of Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree started rehearsals this week...

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1 May “Julius Caesar is a play that is never out of date, in fact feels today relentlessly modern.”

Bell Shakespeare presents Julius Caesar directed by Peter Evans.

With performances by Alex Manglet and Kate Mulvany, Peter Evans, Bell Shakespeare’s new A...

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1 May

Youth arts sector builds 'bridges across borders' at global Festival

The 17th ASSITEJ World Congress and Performing Arts Festival for Young Audiences (ASSITEJ 2011)...

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1 May

Barking Gecko need YOU! Be a part of The Red Tree opening night!

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, Australian Theatre Forum 2011 – coming soon!

Convictions + Connections. Urgent conversations, compelling ideas, inspiring vision. Theatre ma...

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1 May

ASQ National Composers’ Forum – Call for Submissions

The Australian String Quartet is currently calling for submissions from emerging composers for ...

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1 May

The National Institute of Circus Arts (NICA) presents CODA

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

Applications are once again open for Realise Your Dream2011.

The British Council have once again called for application for creatives to have a one-of-a-kin...

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1 May

New Artistic Director For Courthouse ARTS

Courthouse ARTS welcomes new Artistic Director, Ross Mueller.  A newly renovated Courthous...

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1 May ASSITEJ Honorary Presidents Award for Artistic Excellence. Teatret Gruppe 38 - Bodil Alling

Great International Award for Danish Teatret Gruppe 38

The Danish theatre, Teatret Gruppe 38, is the first Danish theatre ever to have received one of...

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1 Apr Albert Namatjira's Great-Great Granddaughter Levina learning how to paint with watercolours.

Big hART - Work Continues in N.T. With The Namatjira Family.

Following on from the sell out critical success of Namatjira at Belvoir in Sydney 2010, Big hAR...

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1 Apr

Superheroes and Character Transformation. Be inspired these April School Holidays!

Barking Gecko will run their School Holiday Workshops for young people aged between 7 and 17 ye...

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1 Apr

Bring out your best through BGTC Workshops! Get the Lowdown on Term Two

Term 2 Workshop enrolments are now open at Barking Gecko Theatre Company! The Workshop program ...

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1 Apr Applications close 5pm, Tuesday 5th April 2011.

Sensory Theatre - Call out for Artists

In 2010 UK artist Amber Onat Gregory, approached Barking Gecko Theatre Company, seeking to shar...

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1 Mar

Barking Gecko launch Currency House’s Platform Papers 26 in WA

Barking Gecko Theatre Company hosted the Perth launch of Currency House’s Platform Paper ...

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1 Mar

Barking Gecko Red Tree

Barking Gecko Theatre Company is bringing Academy Award Winner Shaun Tan’s story The Red ...

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1 Mar

Up Close

Theatre in Perth has never been more intimate and tantalizing than at the city’s hub of i...

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1 Mar

ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Competition

Entries for the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize are now open for writers. So get th...

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1 Mar

Independent Producers Initiative

If you are an indpendent producer in a performing arts platform, then you may be interested in ...

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1 Mar

Wild Conversations in Denmark - not to mention the dancing!

This performance is the final work created for Ausdance WA’s Future Landings project, tha...

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1 Feb ...when the world is your oyster, where do you begin? How do you make your way?

Busting a Move in Bunbury - Future Landings ....Grounded!

Grounded is an original contemporary dance work created and presented in Bunbury by professiona...

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1 Feb 2 Dimensional Life of Her by Fleur Elise Noble was one of the four contemporary performance works which hit the road in 2010 with the national touring initiative, Mobile States.

Call For Proposals: Touring Works, 2012 Closing Date: Feb 7, 2011

The Mobile States consortium is now seeking expressions of interest from artists across the per...

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1 Feb The authors show how young people are leading a demand for change in the arts and want to rock the balance of power.

WIN a FREE Copy of Currency Press' Platform Papers No26 - Not Just An Audience: Young People Transforming Our Theatre.

Currency House have released Platform Papers 26, Not Just An Audience: Young People Transformin...

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1 Feb

Barking Gecko Theatre Company hosts What if? A National Conversation about the Future of Theatre...

On Feb 22, Barking Gecko Theatre Company will host the official Perth What If? Forum, launching...

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1 Feb

Dance and Art Mingle in Albany

Future Landings, Albany.... Impressions on the Paper… has been developed by loc...

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1 Feb We have gathered 7 talented SA writers who are prepped and prepared to dive in to this foray, media passes in hand.

Adelaide Fringe 2011 Youth Engagement Program - Reviews, Blogs and more...

What makes a youth show? What defines them as “youth”?  Who can critique these...

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1 Jan It all begins with...click... 'Add as Friend'...

WIN WIN WIN - Tickets to see CATFISH at a cinema near you

Courtesy of Hopscotch Films and Lowdown Magazine Online, WIN tickets to see CATFISH. W...

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1 Jan

Barefaced bring NYC storytelling to Perth

Acclaimed New York storyteller Margot Leitman, along with a plethora of solo raconteurs, will t...

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1 Jan Workshoppers hard at work.

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre have Holiday Workshops for young and old

Spaces are still available for Spare Parts'one-day and two-day holiday puppetry workshops. ...

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1 Jan

Buzz Dance Theatre presents Postcards Home

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 Fancy a cuppa with playwrighting legend & your potential mentor, Will Eno? Better apply then.

Six-week International Residency for Emerging Playwright - Apply now!

The Australian Writers' Guild, together with Inscription is offering one emerging playwrigh...

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1 Jan BGTC - Workshops commence on Saturday, 12th February at the Subiaco Arts Centre.

Bring out your best at WA"S Barking Gecko Theatre Company's Workshops!

An opportunity for children and young people aged 3 - 18 years to work with industry trained pr...

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1 Dec Jessica Machin and Sean Doran Open Their Eyes and say cheese at Visions Launch in Geraldton.

Country Arts WA wants you to OPEN YOUR EYES to a different kind of arts conference

Country Arts WA is currently seeking expressions of interest from individuals and organisations...

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1 Dec Creative Director,

New year to bring creative leadership change

The recent announcement that Founder and Creative Director of Human Ventures, Aleem Ali, will f...

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1 Dec Win a double pass for the Sydney, Adelaide or Perth 2011 shows.

WIN WIN WIN AGAIN - Tickets to the Australian tour of The Red Shoes, 2011

WIN WIN WIN TICKETS to see The Red Shoes in Sydney, Adelaide and Perth, courtesy of Ar...

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1 Dec Flexible seasons greetings from NICA

Seasons Greetings from the Lowdown Team

A Merry Christmas and jolly splendid New Year from all of us here at Lowdown.

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1 Nov

WAAPA presents Killer Kane

Brother against brother in a tale of family, country and native title.

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1 Nov

DIY Disaster Movie

WARNING: A Megashark may inexplicably come from nowhere and eat you while you are watching this...

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1 Nov Some AWESOME new friends for you!

AWESOME International Arts Festival 2010

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1 Nov

WAYTCo: Making Theatre in a different way

Perth's young creative talent complete a 3-year journey.

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1 Nov

Tetrafide & TaikOz band together for one night only!

Power. Precision. Passion. Don't miss this one night only performance!

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1 Nov Carnamah CEO Tony Nottle in Measure Up!, a Country Arts supported project.

Regional WA receives $179,040 for arts projects

$179,040 of funding for arts projects in regional, rural and very remote/isolated Western Austr...

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1 Nov Blue Room 2010 production The Myth of Julian Rose

Perth's home to independent theatre, the Blue Room Theatre sweeps PTT/EGA nominations

The Blue Room Theatre is pleased to congratulate 21 of its members among the 36 artists nominat...

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1 Oct

Digital Culture Fund

Art, roller derby, zines and gaming collide in spectacular fashion!

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1 Oct

The search for a great Australian writer begins

Calling all budding authors!

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1 Oct

Ladyfinger's No Door on her Mouth

She will answer your question with questions. She will ask Are you lonely? and Have you cried, ...

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1 Oct Suitcase action courtesy of dancers Danielle Micich and Jenni Harding. Photo by Michael Hemmings

Youth focused regional dance project in WA

The exciting new project, Future Landings: Four Town Dance Network supports contemporary dance ...

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1 Sep

Calling young artists for JUMP 2011

Get your applications ready for the 2011 round of JUMP artist mentorships.

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1 Sep

Youth Challenge Australia's Indigenous Youth Leadership Program

The hunt is on for staff and volunteers - are you up to the Challenge?

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1 Sep Image from the CYT production of Storm in a Teacup

Calling ALL Emerging Artists! Canberra Youth Theatre OPENS HOUSE for Australian Artists

Canberra Youth Theatre is opening its doors to invite emerging artists from outside the ACT who...

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1 Sep

Barking Gecko presents Aesop and His Fables

Inspire your children’s creativity and imagination by bringing your family to Aesop a...

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1 Sep Festival of Australian Student Theatre

Festival of Australian Student Theatre this weekend!

The Festival of Australian Student Theatre (FAST) is the first national festival of tertiary st...

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1 Sep

Movement for Theatre with Black Swan

Master the art of movement on stage when Black Swan and Claudia Alessi take you through your pa...

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1 Sep

Buru - Broome’s young people experience place, time and culture.

Marrugeku, WA’s leader in contemporary intercultural performance, will premiere its excit...

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23 Aug

Two new State Partners for JUMP

On 17 August, Youth Arts Queensland (YAQ) announced CarriageWorks and Melbourne Fringe as its n...

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1 Aug

Funding opportunities through YPA

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

Barking Gecko appoints new Artistic Director

John Sheedy is the new kid on the Barking Gecko block, gratefully accepting the badge of Artist...

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1 Aug

Join the Blue Room Theatre gang in 2011

Have you got a production for the next Blue Room Theatre season?

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1 Aug

Join the National Conversation and Map the Future with YPAA's Executive Director!

YPAA's Executive Director, Lenine Bourke is traversing the countryside talking all things y...

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1 Jul

YPAA Incubator Program

Lowdown would like to congratulate the three organisations successful in YPAA's Incubator P...

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1 Jul Actual size.

Love Songs for Future Girl

A rock concert / group therapy mash up marks the return of Perth performer Shane Adamczak's...

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1 Jul

Yellow Moon- The Ballad of Leila & Lee

We've all heard of a blue moon, but do you know what happens under a Yellow Moon? ...

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1 Jun Spot the difference?

Arts Management Journal: Call for Papers

Bit of an academic? The Asia Pacific Journal of Arts and Cultural Management is on the hunt for...

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1 Jun It wasn't quite what Bob had in mind when he asked for 'a little off the top'

Launceston set for a creative explosion in Arts

Arts and culture lovers, get ready to immerse yourselves in the best of regional and community ...

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1 Jun Don't bust a move - bust a myth!

Bust a myth about skin cancer

Cancer Council Australia is asking Australians aged 12 to 17 years to get creative and ‘b...

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1 Jun

Foundation needed to support individual artists

Arts Queensland and the Centre for Social Impact have released a discussion paper tackling fund...

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1 May

The votes are IN! Winners of the Blue Room Awards announced

Its official! The winner of Outstanding Solo Show at the 2009 New York Fringe and Best Puppetry...

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1 May New Board member Kate Fielding

New Board members & Executive for Country Arts WA

Country Arts WA recently welcomed four new members to its Board of Management and appointed a n...

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1 May

Personal Political Physical Challenge

Hydra Poesis presents the world premiere of new Western Australian work Personal Political Phys...

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29 Apr

LAST CHANCE!!! Get your entry in for the National Youth Week Talent Competition...

Are you Australia?s next big star? Young people can get creative and "Live It Now? by subm...

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1 Apr Sam Longley's lessons might even help you craft the perfect comeback...

Get Improv-ing with Black Swan and Sam Longley

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 an Australian award winning performer, choreographer, and solo dance artist.

Practicing Performance with Ros Warby

Ros Warby is coming to Perth and expressions of interest for her four-day (11-14 May) workshop ...

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1 Apr

October comes early

Perfect lives driven by love, hunger, greed and above all fear.

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1 Apr Burton (1925-1984) starred in such blockbusters as 'Cleopatra', 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?', 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' and 'Alexander the Great'

Submissions to one of Australia’s richest playwriting prizes now open

The Richard Burton Award for New Plays, created by Sally Burton and her company Onward Producti...

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1 Apr

ArtsCAMP registrations now open!

ArtsCAMP is an exciting week - long creative experience for young people aged 15 – 17 yea...

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1 Apr The totally-ace Tetrafide team (l-r): Marcus, Neville, Carly & Louise

Tetrafide Percussion young artists showcase

Tetrafide Percussion present their Young Artists concert at WAAPA's Music Auditorium this M...

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1 Apr Eve Sussman's '...Sabine Women' reinterprets the Roman myth in the hedonistic 1960's.

Reeldance Australia and New Zealand awards

Reeldance presents Australia and New Zealand's finest examples of dance on screen for 2009....

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4 Mar ACPA is well-respected within the Australian arts industry, with links to some of the countries most recognised performing arts’ professionals.

ACPA Seeking Talented Young Indigenous Performers

The Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts (Brisbane) is seeking young Indigenous performers for...

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1 Mar      “With younger people embracing the arts so eagerly, it’s likely that this is the beginning of a strong trend.

Australian 15-24 year olds are the new creative generation

An Australian Council for the Arts survey of over 3000 Australians has revealed that 15-24 year...

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1 Mar

‘Anything Goes’ for WAAPA’s 30th Anniversary musical

For its 30th Anniversary year, the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts is pulling out...

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1 Mar

Hitler had a Mummy too

If you’ve experienced family drama (and let's be honest - who hasn't?), you&rsquo...

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1 Mar 'A Country Practice's Penny Cook kicks off the first 'Perth Arts on Toast' brekkie...

Forget Vegemite - it's Perth Arts on Toast!

The Multiple Sclerosis Society of Western Australia, in association with the Parmelia Hilton, w...

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1 Mar The Blue Room Theatre has become WA’s leading membership and resource organization for independent performing artists.

Once in a Blue Room

The Blue Room Theatre is celebrating its 21st birthday with two play seasons that exemplify its...

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1 Mar Flex your curatorial muscles and share your favourite dance scenes...

Strut your stuff on screen

Strut on Screen proudly presents a series of evenings dedicated to dance on screen.

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1 Mar

Breaking(s) news

Breakings, a new dance work from Aimee Smith, questions our relationship with the medi...

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1 Mar

Synapse 2010

The Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) is calling for applications from creativ...

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1 Mar The spellbinding marionettes of Spare Parts are being called a landmark in puppetry

Spare Parts will leave you Spellbound

Spellbound is an exotic story of love and friendship, the transforming power of the im...

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1 Mar

WAAPA in the Park

It's time once again for the annual WAPPA in the Park free concert, to be held on ...

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1 Mar

Out of the Box, QPAC's festival for children 8 years & under - program on sale

This is your chance to secure great seats for the fantastic performances and workshops for the ...

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1 Mar

Starts TODAY! Changing Habitats - are children & young people democratising culture?

Starts Today - ENDS THURSDAY - Young People and the Arts Australia (YPAA) pres...

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1 Feb

$30,000 International Scholarship for a young WA artist

The Department of Culture and the Arts offers one $30,000 International Scholarship annually fo...

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1 Feb

Buzz Dance Theatre go Behind the Veneer

Buzz Dance Theatre, WA’s premier dance company for children and young people, presents a ...

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1 Feb

STEPS celebrate 21 years with 'Phoenix'

STEPS Youth Dance Company presents 'Phoenix' - their 21st birthday production at the Pl...

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1 Feb Adam Mitchell

Black Swan stirs up Monologue Mayhem!

Black Swan State Theatre Company offers a varied program of theatre skills development classes ...

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1 Feb

A HotBed of Black Swans

Black Swan State Theatre Company has selected the new HotBed Ensemble members for 2010.

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1 Feb

Arts Management at WAAPA celebrates 25 years of success

Arts managers from around the globe converged on the Western Australian Academy of Performing A...

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1 Feb

The Night Zoo announce new tour dates

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre have announced the March tour dates for their fantastic production o...

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1 Feb

Make your own puppets and marionettes with SPPT

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

Southern Edge Arts silver anniversary year begins!

From its humble beginnings as an artist-in-residence project in 1985, Southern Edge Arts (forme...

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1 Jan Robyn Orlin

News from STRUT Dance

Firstly, STRUT Dance would like to congratulate the three members who were successful in their ...

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1 Jan

The Night Zoo on tour

During March, Spare Parts Puppet Theatre will take its smash hit show of 2009, The Night Zoo on...

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1 Jan

Penny Cook and Julie Anthony to lead WA’s classic musical season

Two of Australia’s favourite performers, Australian singing legend, Julie Anthony and TV ...

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1 Dec Krakouer! cast - touring through Shows on the Go in 2010. Photo Jon Green.

Country Arts WA launches 2010 program

Country Arts WA’s Chief Executive Officer, Jessica Machin, launched the organisation&rsqu...

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1 Dec MarshArt run by DADAA as part of the Derby Boab Festival. Nest installation by artist Jean Conroy. Photo: Matt Scurfield. Photo courtesy DADAA.

Cash injection for regional arts in Western Australia

Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, the Hon Peter Garrett recently announced $...

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1 Nov

The Velveteen Rabbit

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre presents the inaugural summer season in its newly air-conditioned th...

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1 Nov

‘Spin’ delivers a brilliant final turn for WAAPA dancers

Spin, the finale of the 2009 dance season at the Western Australian Academy of Perform...

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1 Nov

And the winners are…

The 10th Perth Theatre Trust & Equity Benevolent Guild Professional Theatre Awards were hel...

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1 Nov

Barking Gecko Theatre Company

Barking Gecko said farewell to Marketing Manager Eleri Evans who returned home to Canada in Nov...

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1 Nov

Black Swan State Theatre Company

Highlights of Black Swan State Theatre Company’s (BSSTC) 2010 season.

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1 Nov

The Richard Burton Award for New Plays

To celebrate the illustrious career of one of the great stars of the silver screen, Sally Burto...

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1 Nov

Blue Room

To coincide with The Blue Room Theatre's 21st birthday in 2010, a new and improved 21 Summe...

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1 Nov

Wild West Comedy Festival

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

Country Arts WA

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

Deckchair Theatre was successful in its grant application to the Australia Council, and will re...

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1 Nov

Department of Culture and the Arts

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

Southern Edge Arts (SEA) is excited to announce its first project for its Silver Jubilee Year! ...

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1 Nov

Total Theatre

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

The WA Youth Theatre Company (WAYTCo) and the City of Perth present Sweat, part 2 of t...

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1 Nov Performing with Puppets for Adults

Performing with Puppets for Adults

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre has another puppetry performance skills workshop, Performing with Pu...

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1 Nov

Community called to apply for grants to host events for youth

Communities across Western Australia are being urged to apply for funding to hold an event duri...

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1 Nov

Lowdown crisis for WA content

13 applications were funded from the WA Young People andthe Arts panel from the July 2009. Amon...

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1 Oct

Awesome

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 Theatre Company

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

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

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

Deckchair Theatre launched the Umbrella Program to assist local artists to present dynamic new ...

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1 Oct

Department of Culture and the Arts

The Department of Culture and the Arts’ Young People and the Arts funding programmes are ...

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1 Oct

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre

From her window high above the city Jamie dreams of making friends with animals, but Mum and Da...

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1 Oct

STEPS Youth Dance

Join STEPS on a kaleidoscopic journey to the land of awake! BHP Billiton Nickel West and STEPS ...

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1 Oct

Total Theatre School of Physical Theatre

Applications for Total Theatre’s 2010 three month physical theatre course are now open to...

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1 Oct

WA Youth Theatre Company (WAYTCo)

Term Four Workshops commence October 18 and WAYTCo is please to announce that they will be expa...

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1 Aug

Young and Creative and Need Funding for Your Art?

The Department of Culture and the Arts has funding for painting, music, sculpture, theatre, con...

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1 Aug

More music in schools

Music Play For Life continues to assist school children around the country to access music educ...

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1 Aug

WAAPA Open Day

On Sunday August 2 The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts opened its doors to showca...

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1 Aug

DramaWest State Conference

DramaWest will hold their state conference on Saturday August 15 at Edith Cowan University. The...

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