A CITY OF FREMANTLE FESTIVAL
Fremantle Street Arts Festival APRIL 23-26, 2011 ADVERTISING FEATURE PUBLISHED APRIL 9 AND 10, 2011
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Be free on the streets of Freo Having made the transition from street performer to inaugural festival coordinator once upon a time when the big event was Fremantle Buskers Festival, City of Fremantle Coordinator Cultural Development Alex Marshall knows the ins and outs of his home city and is determined to grow and add variety to the festival.
Dr Kim Hames MLA Deputy Premier Minister for Tourism
Welcome from the Minister for Tourism
As well as boasting a strong contingent of talented Australian performers, the festival features some of the world’s best street artists from the US, Canada, UK, Argentina, New Zealand and Japan. The festival truly has an international flavour. The popularity of the Fremantle Street Arts Festival continues to grow, attracting local, national and international visitors. There have been exciting additions to its dynamic program of events, including performances from pre-eminent physical theatre company Stalker Stilt Theatre and an assortment of ‘walkabout acts’.
Fremantle is an extraordinary city, boasting impressive heritage buildings and a fascinating maritime and convict history. As part of the festival, I hope all visitors experience its rich culture, laid-back ambience and local charm. The State Government, through Eventscorp, is committed to supporting a variety of events across the state, such as the Fremantle Streets Arts Festival, to attract visitors and deliver social and economic benefits. I would also like to acknowledge all of the other sponsors for their support. I congratulate the festival organisers for their hard work in putting together an exciting program of events and encourage everyone to experience this great weekend of entertainment.
Deputy Premier Minister for Tourism
Having also done a lot of community art and theatre, including visits to youth groups in lower socio-economic neighbourhoods, the festival is Alex’s first step into an administration role.
“The festival works well and the performers are well-received. Fremantle really lends itself to this sort of entertainment as a weekend destination with people down here for the pubs, the markets, to enjoy the beautiful weather and the buskers.
“It’s great to be making these festivals and Fremantle has a magic that makes it something special,” he said. “I love my efforts contribute to creating a great festival in my home town.
“People flocked down last year – the police estimated 100,000 people throughout the festival. “Now we have performers from all over the world, Fremantle Street Arts Festival really cements itself as a landmark event in Western Australia.”
“The performers are all excited – it’s not hard for us to get people to come here now, we have more difficulty having to knock them back. Fremantle Street Arts Festival is well-known in the performing community.” After a show, find yourself in Fremantle – shopping city.
Dr Brad Pettitt Mayor City of Fremantle
Mayor’s message Welcome to the 2011 Fremantle Street Arts Festival. Now in its 13th year, the festival has become an eagerly anticipated annual fixture on our calendars, enlivening and invigorating our streets over the Easter long weekend.
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“The format has remained the same until now, with more coordinators and directors on-board and the standards of the artists much higher.
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Each day of the festival, Nova 93.7 will be on the sidewalk near Gino’s Café. The team will give away prizes, play games and broadcast great music. The inflatable Nova 93.7 man will be there, towering 3.5 metres. Nova Integration and Marketing Manager Andy Milne said the station loved the event. “Apart from being so wonderful for Fremantle, the Street Arts Festival is a fantastic world event – not many festivals boast this level of street performers.”
Alex has been a street performer in Fremantle and around the world, so it is no surprise the City of Fremantle snatched him up to start something locally after he returned home from working in Europe at Austria’s big festival, Linz.
While the festival is based on the vaudeville/ circus vibe, Alex wants to branch out and is going to France this summer searching for new elements to take it beyond buskers into more literal street theatre so ambient, odd things are scattered throughout the streets.
This year, the celebration is bigger than ever, running for four days and featuring a wide range of free events, family friendly shows, astonishing physical feats and surprises where you least expect them. I’m pleased to note the festival is growing from strength to strength in 2011, including the Stalker Stilt Theatre on the arena stage at Fremantle Esplanade – a real showstopper – and the addition of a
Little Creature Cabaret for families. I’m also pleased home-grown talent takes a bow with Fremantle-based WA Circus School and the Funkarillaz. Our festival owes much to the generous support of local businesses and government bodies, including Eventscorp and Healthway, media partners The West Australian, X-Press Magazine and Nova 93.7, cabaret sponsor Little Creatures, pitch sponsors Sail & Anchor, Cicerellos, Woolstores Shopping Centre, Fremantle Prison, as well as supporting sponsors Fremantle Markets, Viva Photography, Old Shanghai, Howling Wolves and Benny’s Bar and Café. This is your festival and I encourage you to enjoy it with friends and family as the best street entertainment from here and abroad descend on our great city for four great days. I hope to see you there!
Dr Brad Pettitt Mayor, City of Fremantle
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Since its inception in 1998, the Fremantle Street Arts Festival has evolved from a grassroots busking festival to become an acclaimed annual event in Western Australia’s cultural fabric.
“The model worked really well over there so I looked at basing ours on that,” Alex said. “I had a lot of contacts in the street performing industry at the time, especially around Covent Garden in London, so I put the word out and got really good performers for the first festival.
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Literally one night only Meeting just days before the festival for a one-off collaboration, seasoned improvisers Glenn Hall and Derek Flores are pairing together for ‘Spontaneous Combustion’ showing at the Little Creatures Red Room Loft on Monday April 25. The duo has bragging rights including Glenn’s national theatresport championship, Derek’s German World Cup improv championship and back-up from Western Australia’s own Spontanous Insanity ensemble. Glenn describes the performance as a night of stories and laughter with a science fiction theme, exploring the concept of online
laughing and that’s a valuable lesson – just because you try to make your audience laugh doesn’t mean they will and vice versa…
spaces and interactions and how it affects people’s day-to-day lives. However, because the performance is improvised, he literally cannot give much information. As he and Derek have not yet met, they haven’t even settled on a structure for the piece, which could end up as anything from a combination of short stories to an epic. “The concept is for it to be spooky science fiction, like Ray Bradbury’s Illustrated Man, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits,” Glenn said. Glenn, who has been improvising and teaching for approximately 20 years, describes the show as similar to Whose Line is it Anyway, but rather than connecting a series of improv games it is an extended performance – without the option of editing. “Rather than getting up and doing gags, we are conceptualising a theme – the spooky tales of humanity, as well as the
technological aspects, really appeal to Derek and I,” Glenn said. “Interesting things like how Facebook is going to affect our relationships in 20 years time; we want to peek into the future.
“In New York Minute, which showed at Subiaco Arts Centre, we did five shows in one week and that really tests your capacity to remember. Some nights I would have a sense of déjà vu but nothing was scripted and nothing was planned.
“It will all be entirely improvised. We may have an idea of how we want to open and talk to the audience at the start, but all of the content of the show is improvised.
“Spontaneous Combustion won’t just be Derek and I, there will be a few members and we are looking at musicians as well. It is a hard thing collaborating, particularly as we are not in the same city at the moment, but we will come together with our experience and it will be a fantastic night.
“We may know three opening scenes and then the second chapter of each scene, so we will have a structure or format in mind. “We don’t rely on anything that works, we create it new every time.”
“We guarantee laughs and to freak you out a bit.”
Having just finished unscripted, twoact show New York Minute, Glenn has discovered improv is not just about comedy.
Glenn has been inspired by Derek’s work in Melbourne, which has included Spooky Tales of McCabe. “To continue that in Fremantle for the carnival, sideshow feel will be something different and something no one in Perth has seen before,” Glenn said.
“There’s an exercise in the classes I teach where I send half the students out of the room and keep half in – when they do the improv they are not to make each other laugh. But in a minute the group will be
Take a deep breath and enjoy the show!
While Glenn has been aware of Fremantle Festival, the timing has not been appropriate to participate before, but this time Derek, whom he had struck up a friendship with on the comedy circuit, contacted him with the idea to perform the one-night only show. “It’s ephemeral, you will never see the show again, it is unique to that performance,” Glenn said. “That’s why people get a real kick out of improvisation. We will respond to the audience and each other in the moment – it will be unscripted theatre with laughter, tears and everything good theatre should have. “Who knows what is going to happen.”
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Get more from your festival as artists reveal their highlights on stage in two gala variety performances. If you missed any of the street acts, or just can’t get enough incredible comedy and physicality, don’t miss Saturday’s family-friendly show (under 18 requires adult supervision) or Sunday’s 18+ extravaganza. Bar open, so please no BYO. Doors open 30 minutes before the show. Proudly supported by Little Creatures.
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This is one of the many things audiences will learn during ‘Elevate’, performed twice daily throughout the duration of the Fremantle Street Arts Festival. “Several years ago I was in the USA watching breakdancing and noticed similarities in the art forms – so I have developed street works in a style looking at the fusion of breakdancing and stilt acrobatics,” David said. “Ours is a hell-for-leather stilt acrobatics, which is very physical, but there is a lot of crossover with breakdancing.
“We do tumbles on stilts, dive rolls, we fall back with stilts on – there are outstanding things we can do in the work, so when you see it, there will be more crossover between the styles than you would think.” Beginning primarily as an outdoor street theatre company 21 years ago, Stalker has appeared at a number of festivals in Western Australia. This is its first appearance at the Fremantle Street Arts Festival. David is glad to have to opportunity to get back to the core street work. “I conceived the genre, the fusion of breakdancing and stilt acrobatics, but we are also using a director, Nick Power (Korean B Boy Rely) who won the title of best breakdancer in the world last year – he is a phenomenon,” David said. “From hip hop, tumblers and acrobatics, there’s a great range amongst our performers.” The performance is set to a soundtrack varying hugely between each show, but David
said the piece primarily used a range of Australian hip hop artists. Stilt performance may seem like an unusual choice of work – David remembered starting out with stilts while at university. “I was doing a degree in astrophysics and was a bit bored with it,” he said.“I remember walking through the university quadrangle thinking, ‘whatever is on the noticeboard, I’ll give it a go’ and there was a class in mask, mime and movement. “After a couple of classes, they said I was really good and sent me to an audition for a stilt company. I did think stilts were dumb, but I had committed to trying new things – and 30 years on, my career is still going strong. “Saying that, though, my two uncles had a flying trapeze company that used to tour around New Zealand.”
EL Jaguar Funny Bones Leapin’ Louie The Married Men The Lady Bugs Hardy Ha Ha VJ Zoo Victor Rubilar
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EL Jaguar USA Breakdancers Carnies with Candy Funny Bones Ayres Rock Surf Lifesaving Club Ross Tralia VJ Zoo Sharon Mahoney
Natural Wings WHEN Family-friendly Sat 23 Apr, 7pm & 18+ Sun 24 Apr, 8:30pm. 2hr including interval. WHERE Fremantle Town Hall, 8 William St, Fremantle. PRICE Adults $25, Children $10. BOOKINGS Fremantle Town Hall Centre 8 William St, Fremantle, (08) 9432 9803. Door sales pending availability from 30 minutes before the show.
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Join three very different ladies for a night on the town as Sex and the City meets circus. Fresh off a knock-out season in Europe, our riotous trio whisk you onto a rollercoaster ride of trapeze, rope, tissue and cloudswing combined with a tale of frivolous folly, laughter and intoxicating humiliation – all topped off by a rocking soundtrack! Bar open, so please no BYO. Doors open 30 minutes before the show. WHEN Sun 24 Apr, 7pm. 45min no interval. WHERE Fremantle Town Hall, 8 William St, Fremantle. PRICE $15. Capacity limited. BOOKINGS Fremantle Town Hall Centre, 8 William St, Fremantle, (08) 9432 9803. Door sales pending availability from 6:30pm.
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Strap yourself in for a jet-fuelled, anything-goes night of hilarious improv as three acts collide.
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USA BREAKDANCERS
THE MARRIED MEN
Catch former Street Performers World Champions busting out contagious high-energy hijinks.
See WA’s very own Spontaneous Insanity ensemble, National Theatresports Champion Glenn Hall and rogue Canadian comedy assassin Derek Flores (German World Cup Improv Champion) as they team up for an unpredictable night of stories and laughter. Bar open, so please no BYO. Doors open 30 minutes before the show. WHEN Mon 25 Apr, 8pm. 1hr 30min including interval. WHERE Little Creatures Loft, Red Room, 40 Mews Rd, Fremantle. PRICE $18. Capacity limited. BOOKINGS BOCS 9484 1133 or www.bocsticketing.com.au. Door sales pending availability from 7:30pm, cash only.
STALKER STILT THEATRE ELEVATE AUSTRALIA
Get set for high-voltage action that defies your notion of contemporary street performance. Since 1989, Stalker Stilt Theatre has been astonishing audiences around the world with its innovative and daring brand of physical theatre. Conceived by David Clarkson and directed by Nick Power (aka B Boy Rely), explosive new work Elevate fuses hip-hop and breakdance with Stalker’s trademark stilt acrobatics and a five-metre high catapult.
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With quirky acrobatic stunts, tales of romance and fluffy yellow shorts, who wouldn’t love Shirlee Sunflower?
Notorious for acrobatic stunts, hilarious antics and the hottest dance moves around, these superstars have performed for millions, from NBA halftime shows to top music videos.
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SHIRLEE SUNFLOWER
Combining everything from amazing giant puppetry to voice percussion, circus skills and magic, this dynamically ad-libbing duo have won over even the world’s most cynical crowds!
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Now, David is performing, directing and teaching, with 25 years of experience as a physical performer and creator under his belt.
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Stilt acrobatics and breakdancing may not seem to be from the same family, but according to Stalker Stilt Theatre Co-Director David Clarkson, the two arts have many similarities.
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SO, THERE’S A FUNNY BONES BLONDE, A BRUNETTE JAPAN / UK Marvel as a unique Japanese-English act dip into their toy box of creative street tricks. AND A RED HEAD...
From a five-foot dive into a bucket of water to her search for romantic love, Shirlee Sunflower takes you places other street performers dare not go.
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Step up to a smorgasbord of juggling, comedy and endless bickering from England’s domestic duo. Honing their skills for two decades in Covent Garden, Dave Evans and Mat Ricardo transfix with quick-fire wit, superb characterisation and the astonishing reverse tablecloth trick.
AYERS ROCK SURF LIFESAVING CLUB
LUCKY DIAMOND RICH
Dive into a rollicking 1920s seaside romance from a uniquely Australian group.
When you’ve performed to over one million people worldwide, they call you a legend.
Inspired by the golden age of silent film, this lighthearted tale of diabolic villains, damsels in distress and, um, surf lifesavers is a slapstick delight.
Catch a 20-year superstar of the street performing world who is also the Guinness World Record holder as Most Tattooed Person (with only one tattoo!)
LEAPIN’ LOUIE
DARIAN LE PAGE
Meet the most explosive Lithuanian Jewish cowboy comedian ever to come out of Oregon, USA!
With his pocketful of mime illusions, Darian Le Page is not your typical living statue.
Australia, your time has come. After touring 23 countries with amazing lasso tricks and stunning physical comedy, America’s craziest cowboy is finally moseying to Freo’s shores.
Interact if you dare with a man who puts a cool twist on a traditional art form. He’s cheeky and surprising but impossible not to love.
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STREET ARTS WRAP PARTY If they’re eccentric when working, just imagine street performers when they let their hair down. Chill out on the balcony of the Sail & Anchor for a last goodbye to the artists. Joining the party are the dark and delicious girls from Carnies with Candy and Freo’s own street party band, the Crux. Proudly supported by Sail & Anchor. WHEN Tue 26 Apr, 7–9pm. WHERE Upstairs at Sail and Anchor, 64 South Tce, Fremantle. PRICE Free entry.
HOMOCATODICUS FRANCE
Experience nomadic theatre at its finest with France’s most sublime and absurd collective. On a Quixotic quest of video and live performance, Maestro Salvatore and his squire Gianni set out to find the illusive Isabella ... on South Terrace.
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MORE INFORMATION Connect with the festival on Facebook VISIT www.fremantle.wa.gov.au EMAIL festivals@fremantle.wa.gov.au CALL Fre-info on 9432 9888 Information tent, lost children collection point and first aid facilities are located on the corner South Tce and Essex St, Fremantle. In wet weather, street shows may be interrupted. All programs and artists are subject to change without notice. Evening events: please turn mobile phones off. Festival staff reserve the right to admit latecomers at a suitable point in the performance if appropriate. The use of cameras and other recording equipment is prohibited.
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HOMOCATODICUS Roaming South Tce and Fremantle Markets, starting at the Sail & Anchor at 2pm and 4pm.
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Roaming South Tce and Fremantle Markets, starting at the Sail & Anchor at 2pm and 4pm.
Look out for Ulla Taylor on South Tce/Essex St. Look out for Punch and Judy on South Tce at 1pm and 3pm.
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HOMOCATODICUS Roaming South Tce and Fremantle Markets, starting at the Sail & Anchor at 1pm and 3pm.
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All hail the return of Melbourne’s street mural Michelangelo. See Fremantle’s pavements with a fresh perspective as award-winning screever (street artist) Ulla Taylor enlivens the local asphalt with her stunningly original chalk artwork.
PUNCH AND JUDY
NATURAL WINGS
Round up the family for an entertainer who’s been plying his trade for almost 350 years.
Natural Wings combine amazing strength, bold contortion and hard core tricks on trapeze and rope while wearing delightful flowing dresses. Stunning. Beautiful. Magic.
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Yell, shout and bust a gut as Mr Punch and Professor Tim let loose on a side-splitting, highly interactive show for young and old.
COPPERMAN
EL JAGUAR
Meet the 2.5 metre living statue who ipped Pauline Hanson the two-ďŹ nger salute.
Former WWF intercontinental tag-team champion El Jaguar is here to rock your world.
Children are suspicious, grandmothers think he’s adorable and grown men believe he’s a good laugh until he tries to kiss them. There’s no one quite like Copperman.
Demonstrating skills learned in a decade of pro wrestling, this pint-sized masked Mexican warrior pile-drives his train wreck of a life straight to your laugh hole.
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Be awed by aerial routines and stunts that have taken years to master.
WA CIRCUS SCHOOL FREMANTLE
The freshest young talent from WA Circus School present ‘So You Think You Can Circus’. Witness daring feats of strength, clever object manipulations and incredible tricks, as entrants perform the audition of their lives. Who will make the cut?
BURUNDI PEACE CHOIR BURUNDI / AUSTRALIA
Hear the joyous voices of a choir originally formed in a Tanzanian refugee camp. Led by Jean Philip Irambona, the Burundi Peace Choir’s mission is ‘to overcome the trauma of war and create new, happy memories for all’.
JUNKADELIC AUSTRALIA
Perth’s very own junk music and percussion band has grown into a brass big-band ensemble. Having toured WA and China, Junkadelic is at the top of its game, combining self-made percussion, horns, vocals and anything else it can find to make stunning music.
What really happens on a girls’ night out? It’s a girls’ night on the town with a twist. Having debuted in Norway as part of a circus festival, ‘So, There’s a Blonde, a Brunette and a Red Head‌’ is coming to Fremantle in a performance billed as “Sex and the City meets circusâ€?. The three performers Dawn Pascoe, Kristina Dzelmanis and Beth Sheldon are naturally blonde, brunette and red, but according to Dawn, don’t live up to the stereotypes, each with their own distinct personality in the show.
the three met on the festival circuit. While Dawn and Kristina are based in Perth, Beth is based in Italy, which makes it difďŹ cult to devise a show. “We correspond on content and individual scenes and polish all the acts, so when we do get together it’s just character and transition we need to work on,â€? Dawn said. “We rehearsed outdoors in Norway in the rain, which wasn’t the ideal space, but you have to make use of what you’ve got. “It will be lovely to perform to a home crowd.â€? Despite the challenges, Dawn said once the group got started the show came together quite easily and naturally. The three ladies devised acts they always wanted to do and then integrated them into the storyline.
“The blonde is not typically ditzy, but a bit uncomfortable and uncoordinated – I’m the blonde,� Dawn laughed.
While the performance is scripted, there is room for improvisation in the series of ďŹ ve-minute acts, with the movement set as transitions in between the dialogue, depicting emotions such as loneliness, to emotive music.
With extensive backgrounds in aerial performance, theatre and dance between them,
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He’s a clown in a world of fools, sometimes funny, sometimes poignant and very often strange. Delve into clown logic in a rolling improvisation from the multi-faceted Hardy Ha Ha, who unfurls music, sound, circus props and stories to amaze and enchant.
CARNIES WITH CANDY AUSTRALIA
Be tantalised as this dark and delicious troupe of ladies create carnival entertainment with an edge. Perth’s sexiest performance troupe put the risk in risquĂŠ as they tease and delight with grotesque burlesque, ďŹ re manipulation, swords, stilt walking, snake dancing and more.
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FUNKARILLAZ AUSTRALIA
Back by popular demand, South America’s freestyler/extreme acrobat extraordinaire unveils a soap opera of hilarity.
It’s gonna get loud as junk music band Junkadelic joins forces with 30 Hamilton Senior High School musos.
See the charismatic showman who has astonished audiences in over 30 countries and earned four Guinness World Records for his jaw-dropping soccer ball manipulation.
Our favourite, unique and ‘green’ percussion, horn and junk collective takes on some serious 12 to 17-year-old high school firepower to funk up Freo.
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THE BADPIPER
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SHARON MAHONEY LEE HAYES CANADA
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Believe it or not, The Badpiper is the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only ďŹ&#x201A;ame-throwing, punk rock piper.
Meet a dynamic girly duo armed with aerial acrobatics, circus, live music and comedy.
Help a friendly, apologetic and slightly repressed Canadian ďŹ nd her inner vamp.
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Despite being very different women, The Ladybugs always put on a sequin-studded event of sheer brilliance â&#x20AC;&#x201C; while trying not to strangle one another.
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In A Bottle Too Far, Lee shares drinks and thoughts on whisky while the juggling stakes climb. Find out which is stronger, gravity or glass.
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drive a simple story through the show,â&#x20AC;? Dawn explained. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The acts are features to spellbind everyone, create a mood and show what the characters are feeling. The theatre in between is really just to link the themes.â&#x20AC;? Dawn also runs aerial performance company Natural Wings, performing separately at the Fremantle Street Arts Festival. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Natural Wings performance is completely different â&#x20AC;&#x201C; that will be showing beautiful trapeze acts and rope work with big, ďŹ&#x201A;owing dresses and stunning, intricate choreography high in the air with visually spectacular stunts. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s our favourite stuff, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a trick with a clap. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am hoping people see the unique work and realise that is what I do.â&#x20AC;? Dawn participated in the Fremantle Street Arts Festival a few years ago and really enjoyed it. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It is really accessible so everyone can see gorgeous work,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun; I really enjoy getting our rig out on the street in Fremantle.â&#x20AC;?
Little Creatures has supported the Fremantle Street Arts Festival for nine years. The local brewery will host the Little Creatures Buskers Cabarets, with two gala variety performances at the Fremantle Town Hall and Spontaneous Combustion at the Little Creatures Red Room Loft this year.
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The Subliminal Men
Easter weekend trading hours
Straight from France, Homocatodicus or les Subliminaux, French for ‘the subliminal men’, take a look at the emblematic object of the 21st century – the television monitor – through video itinerant theatre.
Find yourself in Fremantle – shopping city, open for business over the Easter weekend.
One of the key elements is how difficult it is to “crack the performance” and know if the
Excuse formed 20 years ago, beginning with three clowns and mime artists after going through the Marcel Marceau International School of Mimodrame Paris and has performed at the Main Street Festival in Europe, Humor Price in Rochefort and Festival for Comics in Belgium, as well as taking out the comic award of the Chalon dans la Rue, the main French Festival. After the Fremantle Street Arts Festival, next on the list is a summer show in France, ‘Silly Windows’, a video show for two windows and a busker statue.
This year the Fremantle Street Arts Festival coincides with Anzac Day commemorative services over Easter. The ANZAC Day commemorative services will commence with the dawn service at Monument Hill Memorial Reserve and continue throughout the day to the traditional ANZAC Day Derby match between the East Fremantle and South Fremantle Football Clubs at Fremantle Oval commencing at 1.30pm. The Fremantle Street Arts Festival runs over four days this year – Saturday April 23, Sunday April 24, Monday April 25 (from 1pm) and Tuesday April 26. As a special trading precinct, Fremantle will be open for business as usual on Saturday
Whilst the major retail stores will be closed on Good Friday April 22 and Easter Monday April 25, restaurants, cafés and small retail stores are able to open.
Sail & Anchor isn’t just hosting the closing wrap party for all performers and festival-goers, it will celebrate all things street arts with a unique brew created especially for the festival, to capture and bottle the essence of Fremantle. According to Sail & Anchor Venue Manager Matt Marinich, the brew came up in passing conversation with City of Fremantle Coordinator of Cultural
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“We love the Street Arts Festival – it brings such great colour to Fremantle and we are really pleased to be able to celebrate the festival with this delicious ale.” Matt said Sail & Anchor enjoyed supporting the local community through sponsoring the calendar of festivals each year. “There is real value in being able to relate to the local community.”
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Effective: From the evening of Thursday 21 April until last service Sunday 24 April 2011 Transperth train services between Daglish and Fremantle will be cancelled from the evening of Thursday 21 April until last service Sunday 24 April 2011 due to the Shenton Road Bridge replacement. The last Fremantle full-line services will be: • to Fremantle departing Perth at 7.00pm • to Perth departing Fremantle at 7.45pm Train replacement bus service 906 will pick up passengers between Daglish and Fremantle at train replacement stops near stations. Passengers attending the Fremantle Street Arts Festival are advised that in addition to train replacement services there will be a 10-minute shuttle bus service travelling to Fremantle from Wilson Park in South Beach (Fremantle CAT stop 19). Timetabled services will resume as normal from first service Monday 25 April 2011. Passengers should allow extra travelling time and be aware that train replacement buses may not connect with timetabled bus and train services. Surfboards and bicycles are not permitted on Transperth buses, including train replacement services. For more information regarding these service disruptions, please call the Transperth InfoLine on 13 62 13 (TTY: 9428 1999, TIS: 13 14 50) or use the JourneyPlanner at www.transperth.wa.gov.au to plan an alternate route during the disruptions.
Development Alex Marshall, a former street art performer and inaugural festival director. “I was speaking with Alex and he said, ‘there should be a special beer for the buskers’,” Matt said. “And that is exactly what we have brewed. “It is a five per cent dry summer lager named ‘buskers brew’, perfect to sip while on our balcony watching all the great shows.
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“It is difficult to escape this cathodical world when you’re pulled from inside by some distracted puppet-masters.”
Dominique said since the beginning, l’Excuse Compagnie has explored the comical trickery where movie images, burlesque video and live shows interfere in people’s lives. “When a Don Quijote of modern times sets out in the pursuit of an impossible love, his dreams and pictures come up to his head,” he said.
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According to part of the duo Dominique Lajoux, it is difficult to label the two characters in the piece of work being performed at the Fremantle Street Arts Festival. “Their heads are so inflated when facing the screens which are invading our world,” Dominique said.
two characters, “walking video monitor head men”, Gianni and Il Maestro are playing live or not.
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Temporary, contemporary art The only visual artist taking part in this year’s Fremantle Street Arts Festival, Ulla Taylor creates chalk masterpieces on the pavement.
“Most of my artworks are created over many hours and days and they can also last many months on the pavement,” Ulla said.
Having been part of the festival many times, Ulla has had much success and appreciation shown for her work in Fremantle. Ulla said one of the best individual pieces she had ever created in terms of public response, ‘Bon Scott on the Highway to Heaven with the high voltage angel and whiskey devil’ was during the Fremantle Street Arts Festival a few years ago.
While Ulla does find it demanding to complete a large mural piece on the pavement in the time available during an event, she finds it a great advantage to return to the same location. “Locals will have seen finished artworks, carry them in their memory and thus appreciate the work I am doing to a fuller extent,” Ulla said.
Ulla believes the piece demonstrates exactly what she attempts to do with each artwork – create images relating to the location she is working in, topical issues, or to provide the viewer with a sense of levity.
“As a visual artist, I found a niche for myself early in my career – rather than exhibiting permanent works in galleries, I started working at festivals and events creating a process-based performance. Many festival goers will only see the in-progress image.”
“My works at Fremantle include ‘Freo-Lisa, ‘Black Cockatoo’, ‘Flying Dragon’ and ‘Freo Rockpool’. These were all created outside Fremantle TAFE, opposite the markets – this year I will be working at Woolstores shopping centre for most of the festival.”
Loopy lassos Taught to spin a lasso at 11 years old by his “atheist, pacifist, socialist grandmother”, Leapin’ Louie: The Roping Fool star David Lichtenstein brings improvisation meets Western with a difference to Fremantle Street Arts Festival.
During her first year at art school in the late 1980s, Ulla went to a small local pavement art competition and was chosen to be part of a project with other artists, drawing a large Christimas decoration for City of Melbourne. “A few of us formed a group and started touring festivals and generating our own events at a time when pavement art was a virtually unknown artform in Australia,” she said. “It has been many years of ‘hard graft’ – since then, the ancient artform has enjoyed a renaissance, largely due to the increased popularity of cameras to record the temporary art form and the ease with which work can be shared over the internet.”
“My show features high-energy physical comedy, improvisation and plays with the audience – and a lot of cowboy tricks,” David said.
Having travelled extensively through Australia, New Zealand and also England, Germany, Holland, Japan, Canada and Hong Kong with her work, Ulla is now focussing on remaining employed doing what she loves, creating artworks and running workshops.
“There’s fancy lasso spinning, jumping through it every way possible, spinning a 24 metre lasso around myself. There’s fancy whip cracking, a six foot unicyle and possibly me setting my head on fire.”
After a while lassoing, David said it took over his life. “I have performed in 23 different countries, can do the show in seven languages, five tours of Japan, some years of living in Europe and now am based back where I was born, Oregon, USA. “The biggest applause of my life was my first street show in Florence, performing in front of Michelangelo’s David. It’s a full sized replica now but is where the original spent its first 200 years before being pulled indoors because of air pollution. “I have done a 33 city tour with country stars Brooks and Dunn; I love touring the festivals in Europe and went to a comedy festival in South Africa last year.” Excited about his appearance in Fremantle, David believes performing only on the moon
Fremantle will be open for business over Easter Saturday, Sunday, Monday* and Tuesday. * As a special trading precinct restaurants, cafes and small shops are able to open on Easter Monday, major retail stores will be closed. Check websites for individual opening hours.
Pop in to San Churros on the cappuccino strip for a chocolate experience not to be beaten while in Fremantle for the Street Arts Festival. Whether you feel like something hot, cold, coffee or cake, San Churros adds just the right amount of chocolate to every option on the menu.
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