2016 Perth International Arts Festival by Perth Festival

11 Februaryâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;6 March 2016 perthfestival.com.au

PROF. PAUL JOHNSON

JOHN BARRINGTON

COLIN BARNETT MLA

LISA SCAFFIDI

CHAIR, PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

PREMIER OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR

VICE-CHANCELLOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

The 2016 Perth International Arts Festival heralds a new vision of excellence and engagement led by Artistic Director Wendy Martin. It is a celebration of the work of the world’s great artists for our enjoyment.

The 64th Perth International Arts Festival delivers work presented and commissioned from the world’s leading visionary artists. Once again, this summer will see the city come alive with unforgettable experiences that connect us to our Western Australian identity and take us on a global adventure.

Perth is setting the stage for another exhilarating summer.

The University of Western Australia founded Perth International Arts Festival in 1953 and, 63 years later, we continue to support and organise this outstanding annual event. Community engagement is a pillar of UWA’s mission and, through a celebration of the arts, the Festival encompasses this spirit by providing the community with the highest quality international performances.

This program offers an eclectic mix of renowned performances and PIAF-commissioned work that will delight and inspire. Importantly, this Festival reaches into new domains of our individual and collective minds, enabling us to understand more of ourselves, our community and the world. I invite you to bring others along to the many Festival performances so that they too enjoy the rich program. On behalf of the Board I extend thanks to the wonderful Festival team, our principal partner Lotterywest and our founder The University of Western Australia along with the many supporters who have made this Festival possible. I look forward to seeing you at performances and enjoying the all new Chevron Festival Gardens at Elizabeth Quay.

The State Government, through Lotterywest, has been a principal partner of the Festival for 24 years. We are proud to support an event that offers a diverse range of experiences that are accessible to all Western Australians. In 2016 the Festival will further champion our local artists through the year round PIAF Connect program, providing industry development, international exchange, co-commissioning and presenting opportunities. This program has been supported by the State Government through Lotterywest. This year we welcome new Artistic Director Wendy Martin. We look forward to her creative vision taking us on an exciting new journey over the next four years across Perth, Western Australia and the new home for the Festival at Elizabeth Quay.

Each year Perth International Arts Festival prepares a feast for the mind and soul. It’s a time to be moved and inspired by some of the world’s great artists. Perth International Arts Festival and the City of Perth enjoy a long standing partnership and a shared vision for enriching the lives of the people of Perth. Over 25 thrilling days and nights, PIAF transforms moments from the ‘everyday’ into the ‘once in a lifetime’. Perth is a unique city and we are very proud of our diverse cultural identity and the exceptional Western Australian artists who are very much a part of the Festival each year. The City warmly welcomes Artistic Director Wendy Martin, and looks forward to the adventures ahead, as a new era of PIAF takes shape. Festivals aren’t about sitting back and watching something happen; festival time is a time to contribute and to share – with colleagues, friends, family, and the soon to be acquainted.

Each Festival has brought an impressive selection of arts events to Perth’s social calendar. In 2016, we will be dazzled by a series of widely acclaimed and extraordinary shows sourced from around the world, and I encourage you to experience the huge variety of talent on offer. Under the innovative leadership of our new Artistic Director, Wendy Martin, I have no doubt that 2016 will be a bold and unforgettable year of incredible artistic expression and performance.

Perth’s festival is one for all, so please join us in the city to experience, enjoy and celebrate it. Image: Toni Wilkinson

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

WELCOME

Perth International Arts Festival acknowledges that our events take place on the traditional lands of the Noongar people and we wish to pay our respects to the traditional custodians of this Country.

It’s a great privilege to be the artistic director of Australia’s longest running international arts festival. Perth International Arts Festival provides a unique moment in our year to engage with artists from across the globe. Visionaries, mavericks and dreamers – it is through the lens of their imaginations that we get to see, understand and re-imagine our world.

As we celebrate the work of contemporary artists from around the world, we also acknowledge and respect the continuing culture of the Whadjuk people and the contribution they make to the life of this city and this region.

Image: Frances Andrijich

Inspired by a sense of place, the opening weekend events in 2016 are big in scale and ambition. The roll call of Western Australia’s musicians and writers is extraordinary. In Perth, some of WA’s most evocative and imaginative artists will reflect on what the landscape and the notion of ‘home’ means to them. In Albany, a unique spectacle celebrates the world’s oldest surviving skateboard park, a pilgrimage site for skaters from around the world.

We have a new festival hub that we will grow and develop over the next four years. Located on the north west corner of Elizabeth Quay, Chevron Festival Gardens is the place to hear great music and to eat, drink and share stories every night of the Festival. It is exciting to be in the orbit of the artists who inhabit our city at Festival time. It gives us the opportunity to gather together and explore big ideas and the stories that connect us. Dive into the program and discover daring projects made by some of the world’s brilliant creative minds. We invite you to join us on a big, bold adventure. Wendy Martin

GETTING STARTED HOW TO BOOK

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CONTENTS HOME

REASON FOR BEING

PIAF CONNECT

SPEAR

SKATE

BALLET AT THE QUARRY

CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

A FILETTA

BRINGING BRILLIANCE TO OUR CITY

MONTEVERDI: VESPERS OF 1610

RIO TINTO FAMILY PROGRAM

14 15

CHAMBER MUSIC WEEKEND

THE GREAT ESCAPE (A BORROWER’S TALE)

REFUSE THE HOUR

SOFT SOFT LOUD

APOCRIFU

CONTEMPORARY MUSIC

JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER ORCHESTRA

HOUSE GOSPEL CHOIR

THE TIGER LILLIES PERFORM HAMLET

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL

THE WILD DUCK

FROM PADDOCK TO PRINT

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL FAMILY DAY

GUIDE GODS AND GIVE ME A REASON TO LIVE

CONVERSATIONS

27 28

VISUAL ARTS

THE OBJECT LESSON

MEOW MEOW’S LITTLE MERMAID

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS

EVERY BRILLIANT THING

SCREENKIDS

I KNOW YOU’RE THERE

GREAT SOUTHERN FESTIVAL

NO GUTS, NO HEART, NO GLORY

THANKS

BLACKMARKET

RECOMMENDED RESTAURANTS

A MILE IN MY SHOES

MAPS AND VENUES

WITHIN

STAFF

100

PLEXUS

BOOKINGS

101

PINDORAMA

SCHEDULE

102

BUY TICKETS ONLINE perthfestival.com.au | BY PHONE 08 6488 5555 | IN PERSON Various outlets SEE PAGE 101 FOR MORE DETAILS

AUSTRALIA

HOME

Lotterywest Festival Opening Our place. Our songs. Our stories.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Massive in scale and ambition, our 2016 Opening Event, Home, is a gathering of Western Australia’s most renowned artists for an epic celebration of landscape, culture and community.

LANGLEY PARK

This outdoor spectacle reflects on what the Western Australian landscape and concept of ‘home’ means to its most evocative and imaginative artists, from the suburbs to the sea and from our backyards to the bush. Director Nigel Jamieson is a master builder of grand public performance that combines scale, emotion and meaning. For Home Jamieson has collaborated with Noongar elder and artist, Dr Richard Walley, to create a testament to our artists through the powerful sense of place in their work. Presented on Langley Park, Home is a concert spectacular, with a dynamic visual backdrop. Join us for this one-off live performance.

Sat 13 Feb, 7.30pm, 90mins no interval Picnicking from 6pm.

FREE We highly recommend you take the train to Langley Park, alighting at Esplanade Station. Limited paid parking will be available at the east end of Langley Park. Following the performance, the celebrations continue at Elizabeth Quay.

Director

Nigel Jamieson

Associate Director

Richard Walley

Artistic Associate: Design Zoe Atkinson Sohan Ariel Hayes

Media Artist

Musical Direction and Iain Grandage, Lucky Oceans Original Composition and Wayne Freer A PIAF commission

Supported by

International Excellence Partner

Family and Education Program Partner

Supported by

Grace Barbé • John Butler • The Drones • Robert Drewe Wayne Freer • Guy Ghouse • Gina Williams • Iain Grandage Kavisha Mazzella • Lucky Oceans • The Panics Pigram Brothers • Kim Scott • Shaun Tan • The Triffids Voyces • The Waifs • Richard Walley • Western Australian Youth Orchestra • Tim Winton and more ...

PIAF CONNECT We love the arts for their capacity to nourish and connect us. PIAF Connect is about conversations, learning and participation and bringing big ideas to life. We are creating projects with the community that will resonate with the lives of Western Australians and behind the scenes we are connecting local and international artists, enabling them to explore ideas and share their practice.

In 2016, for example, you might want to see the WA Youth Jazz Orchestra take a masterclass with members of the great Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, or perhaps you’d like the uplifting experience of singing with London’s House Gospel Choir on our closing weekend. Go to perthfestival.com.au to find out how you can be involved.

Supported by

FESTIVAL CIRCLE DONORS

Image: House Gospel Choir, Dave Pearce

Whether you’re a patron, a volunteer, a workshop participant, read our blog or work with artists, PIAF Connect enables myriad possibilities for you to join the Festival on this big, bold adventure.

AUSTRALIA

Image: Jenna Russo

SKATE Spotlight on skateboarding. Albany’s gnarly downhill skate park, The Snake Run, is the world’s oldest community funded skate park. It’s a pilgrimage site for skateboarders from around the world. February 2016 marks the 40th anniversary of its opening, when American skating legend Russ Howell first rode its winding curves.

Family and Education Program Partner

To celebrate this iconic site, our opening event in the Great Southern is a thrilling collision of skateboarding, dance, parkour and street art all driven by an extraordinary soundscape.

Original footage from Howell’s time in Albany in the 1970s will be accompanied by ambient sounds from DJ Rok Riley in a one-off event at The Astor on Tuesday 16 February from 6pm.

Russ Howell returns to Australia to be part of the celebrations and to share his enduring passion for skateboarding with Perth through Art & Motion.

THE ASTOR Tue 16 Feb, 6pm

Howell joins highly regarded Australian visual artist and passionate skater Shaun Gladwell, whose hypnotic and poetic work often combines sport and art, for a discussion on the mechanics, evolutions and joy of riding a skateboard.

ART & MOTION

FREE THE SNAKE RUN PROJECT ALBANY Sat 13 Feb, 5.30pm

FREE See page 88 for details

Supported by Department of Culture and the Arts

SOUTHERN LIGHTS DONORS

CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

International Excellence Partner

OUR NEW HOME AT ELIZABETH QUAY Elizabeth Quay lights up for 25 nights of live beats and sumptuous eats as we open the new Festival hub and our city bursts into life. A celebration of art, architecture and entertainment, the all new Chevron Festival Gardens is an exciting venture for Perth. And it’s just the beginning … A dynamic line-up of artists from Australia and around the world will light up The Mainstage with jazz, world music, rock, pop, folk and gospel, while the garden setting provides a place to sit back and relax as you enjoy international food made from locally sourced produce. Meet Festival artists, catch up with friends, or dance the night away – this is the Festival’s new home and yours to enjoy.

THE GARDEN (FREE ENTRY) Wed–Sat 4.30pm–late Sun–Tue 6.30pm–late

THE MAINSTAGE Limited seating for all events unless otherwise indicated on individual event page. Entry is by general admission.

CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS, ELIZABETH QUAY Enter via The Esplanade, corner of William Street.

GETTING THERE We recommend you take the train or bus and alight at Esplanade Station. Parking available at Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.

Image: Jarrad Seng

Conditions of entry, available online, are subject to capacity and licensing restrictions. 18+ ID required. Children 10+ permitted with parent or legal guardian. Entry is at venue management’s discretion.

Supported by

BRINGING BRILLIANCE TO OUR CITY People and stories to illuminate our world. For an intense and thrilling three weeks in summer, we get to explore ideas through music, theatre, dance, film, words and visual art that bring an intense burst of energy to our city.

Image: The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet, Miklos Szabo

Explore the Festival program and see the world through the eyes of inspired artists from India, USA, Belgium, France, Japan, UK, Brazil, Denmark, Australia and beyond. Artists are at the heart of our Festival and our International Excellence partnership with Chevron Australia enables a dynamic exchange between our audience and some of the great creative minds in the world, including Wynton Marsalis, Roman Krznaric, Aditi Mangaldas, Nigel Jamieson, William Kentridge, Geoff Sobelle, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Seun Keuti, Claire Cunningham and Simon Stone.

Apocrifu

p18

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra featuring Wynton Marsalis

p20

The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet

p22

The Wild Duck

p24

Claire Cunningham’s Guide Gods

p27

Within

p38

Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 p49

International Excellence Partner

RIO TINTO FAMILY PROGRAM Festival experiences for all ages.

Family and Education Program Partner

Here is a guide to our family-friendly Festival events:

Home p4 The Great Escape p15 Perth Writers Festival Family Day

p69

The Crow’s Egg p83 Screenkids p84 The Snake Run Project

p88

Image: Jessica Wyld

Is there anything more heart warming than seeing the ones you love utterly captivated and absorbed in the moment? That is what art can do and there are many experiences in this Festival for your family to enjoy together.

Your children are likely to remember it for years.

UNITED KINGDOM

THE GUARDIAN (UK)

Image: James Allan Photography

Kazuko Hohki and Andy Cox

THE GREAT ESCAPE

(A BORROWER’S TALE) Can you help find the Borrowers?

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Calling all explorers! A secret agency needs your help for an important mission. Use your super sleuth skills to uncover evidence that Borrowers exist. Journey through interactive installations, storytelling and a concert performed on miniature handmade instruments to discover the clues and help Borrower Bob escape the evil clutches of the KBD movement (Keep Borrower’s Down).

GEOGRAPHY BUILDING, UWA 10am & 2pm, *10am, 1 & 4pm,

The Great Escape (A Borrower’s Tale) is a magical theatrical adventure for ages 6–11 inspired by Mary Norton’s much-loved children’s novel, The Borrowers. This is a children only event.

Conceived and Created by Kazuko Hohki

75mins no interval FEB F

S *

TICKETS $20

21*

Family and Education Program Partner

Written and Designed by Kazuko Hohki and Andy Cox A Battersea Arts Centre production 15

SOUTH AFRICA

William Kentridge Philip Miller Dada Masilo Catherine Meyburgh Peter Galison

REFUSE THE HOUR A phantasmagoric chamber opera investigating time.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Tick tock. ‘Can we hold our breath against time?’ Speaking backwards and forwards, to the unsynced ticking of giant metronomes, inimitable South African artist William Kentridge invites you on a journey to the edge of science, theatre and art.

PERTH CONCERT HALL 7.30pm, 5pm*, 80mins no interval

14*

TICKETS Premium Adult $79 Friends $71 A Reserve Adult $69 Friends $62 Conc $66 B Reserve Adult $54 Friends $49 Conc $52 Full Time Students $35 William Kentridge

With Kentridge centre stage, the various elements swirl around him: dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo enters into a tight physical interaction with the artist and set, singers and musicians perform Philip Miller’s riveting score, an array of musical machines clatter intermittently into life and Catherine Meyburgh’s video design animates the proceedings.

Conception and Libretto

Entirely original in its conception and presentation, Refuse the Hour is a spectacular multimedia work.

A Holland Festival, Festival d’Avignon, RomaEuropa Festival, Teatro di Roma, Onassis Cultural Center, Marian Goodman Gallery, Lia rumma Gallery and Goodman Gallery co-production

Supported by

Music and Co-orchestration Philip Miller Choreography

Dada Masilo

Video Construction William Kentridge and Catherine Meyburgh Dramaturg

Peter Galison

Image: John Hodgkiss

An epic theatrical companion piece to Kentridge’s video installation, The Refusal of Time (PIAF 2014), Refuse the Hour interweaves an astonishing array of visual and sound languages, dance, live music, projections, drama and dynamic scenic design. Kentridge acts as a contemporary storyteller, recounting a tale that begins with the myth of Perseus and ends with Einstein’s visionary findings.

FEB

Mesmerising. DESIGN INDABA (SOUTH AFRICA)

BELGIUM/FRANCE

Astonishing. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

APOCRIFU Dance ignites the beauty of language. All the major ideologies and world religions, from Marx to Mao, and from Christianity to Islam, refer to (and swear by) a holy scripture. In Apocrifu, Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui uses the language of the body to explore the truth of religious texts. Extraordinary dance, heavenly harmonies and a set strewn with books come together in a creation full of mystery and invention. Performing with Yasuyuki Shuto, a classical dancer from the Ballet of Tokyo, and Dimitri Jourde, a contemporary dancer and circus artist, Cherkaoui brings together distinct universes and opposing dance languages in a performance about the power of words and language to antagonise and divide. The remarkable polyphonic singing of all-male Corsican vocal ensemble A Filetta provides a beautiful choral backdrop to the movement. While their music celebrates the migrations of language, Cherkaoui’s choreography throws up image after image of the divisions that words create.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE HEATH LEDGER THEATRE, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA 7.30pm, 75mins no interval, CCaptioned FEB T

27C

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Fri 26 Feb

TICKETS Premium Adult $75 Friends $67 A Reserve Adult $67 Friends $58 Conc $62 B Reserve Adult $50 Conc $47 Full Time Students $25

Image: Herman Sorgeloos

English and Japanese with surtitles

Choreographer

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui

Music

A Filetta

Set Designer

Herman Sorgeloos

Lighting Designer

Luc Schaltin

Costume Designer

Dries Van Noten

International Excellence Partner

A Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie production in co-operation with Eastman 19

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis West Australian Symphony Orchestra

WYNTON MARSALIS’ SWING SYMPHONY A rare audience with a jazz icon.

PERTH CONCERT HALL

Join us for a journey through jazz history, as virtuoso trumpeter, composer and bandleader, Wynton Marsalis, brings his renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to the Festival. This big band features some of the top musicians from the American jazz scene and their expert take on jazz classics has filled concert halls around the world.

Thur 3 and Fri 4 Mar, 7.30pm, 2hrs 20mins including interval

Marsalis and his band share the stage with our own West Australian Symphony Orchestra as they perform Marsalis’ homage to the evolution of swing. Marsalis’ third symphonic composition, Swing Symphony has been performed with the world’s great orchestras. Now the West Australian Symphony Orchestra is added to this list, joining Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for one huge musical celebration.

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Fri 4 Mar

TICKETS Premium Adult $145 Friends $130 A Reserve Adult $125 Friends $112 Conc $118 B Reserve Adult $80 Friends $73 Conc $76 Full Time Students $25 C Reserve Adult $50 Full Time Students $25

From ragtime and mambo to bebop and African-American church music, this is virtuosic jazz on a grand scale.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis also playing at the Albany Entertainment Centre, Mon 29 Feb, 8pm.

Music Director and Trumpet Wynton Marsalis

FREE MASTERCLASS

Tue 1 Mar, masterclass with the Orchestras Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra West Australian Symphony Orchestra WA Youth Jazz Orchestra. Register at perthfestival.com.au to be in the audience. Conductor Christopher Dragon

Jazz Standards announced from the stage

Various

Symphony No. 3 (Swing Symphony) Marsalis

International Excellence Partner

Great Southern Presentation Supported by

Image: Frank Stewart

PROGRAM

USA

The energy and invention were amazing â&#x20AC;Ś one could hear the sounds of America itself. THE TELEGRAPH (UK)

Innovative, imaginative and incredible. THE COPENHAGEN POST

UNITED KINGDOM/DENMARK

THE TIGER LILLIES PERFORM HAMLET An anarchic take on Shakespeare’s classic. Shakespeare’s most revered tragedy is plunged into a world of Weimar cabaret as celebrated cult band The Tiger Lillies present their ‘opera grotesque’ version of Hamlet. A suite of new songs and a cast of actors, circus acts and giant puppets transform this iconic tragedy into a display of musical and visual fireworks. British musical trio, The Tiger Lillies, bring their punk cabaret style to Shakespeare’s classic tale of love and betrayal, murder and revenge. These post-modern jesters tell the story of the anguished prince Hamlet with their own macabre twist, punctuated by the hauntingly beautiful falsetto and dark, edgy songwriting of frontman Martyn Jacques.

Image: Martin Tulinius

After opening to wild acclaim in Denmark, and touring across Europe, The Tiger Lillies deliver Hamlet in a spectacular blast of theatrical seduction, deception, death and dark humour.

International Excellence Partner

Supported by

Stage Director and Set Designer Martin Tulinius Lyrics and Compositions

Martyn Jacques

Concept Martin Tulinius, Hans Christian Gimbel and Martyn Jacques A Theatre Republique production

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE REGAL THEATRE 7.30pm, *2pm, 2hrs 30mins including interval C Captioned FEB W

21*C

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Fri 19 Feb

TICKETS Premium Adult $79 Friends $71 A Reserve Adult $69 Friends $62 Conc $65 B Reserve Adult $55 Friends $50 Conc $53 Full Time Students $25 C Reserve Adult $36 Full Time Students $25

Simon Stone

THE WILD DUCK Ibsen reimagined. Australia’s Simon Stone is one of the most in demand directors on the international scene and his fearless adaptations of classic plays have taken the theatre world by storm. Commissioned by Sydney’s Belvoir, Stone’s radical remake of Ibsen’s bittersweet portrayal of family dysfunction and deception was first seen in Australia in 2011 and still has people talking about its incredible emotional impact. Since then it has toured the world and now for the first time in Perth you have a chance to experience its devastating power. In this refreshingly modern version of The Wild Duck, Stone goes straight for the jugular, stripping back Ibsen’s text and firing the action in rapid, unpredictable scenes. The superb ensemble of actors are put behind glass, turning the audience into voyeurs. From our seats we watch the characters as they struggle with unbearable truths, in a glass box from which no escape seems possible. The Wild Duck is must-see theatre – a fierce work of immediacy and emotive power.

By Simon Stone and Chris Ryan after Henrik Ibsen Designer

Ralph Myers

Costume Designer

Tess Schofield

Lighting Designer

Niklas Pajanti

Composer and Sound Designer

Stefan Gregory

A Belvoir Sydney production

HEATH LEDGER THEATRE, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA 7.30pm, *2 & 7.30pm, #11am & 7.30pm, + 5pm, 75mins no interval, A Audio Description, CCaptioned MAR S

6*AC

12*

13+

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Sat 5 Mar

TICKETS

International Excellence Partner

Image: Heidrun Löhr

Premium Adult $79 Friends $71 A Reserve Adult $69 Friends $62 Conc $65 B Reserve Adult $54 Full Time Students $25

AUSTRALIA

Simon Stone’s production is as devastating as it is dazzling. Never has Ibsen felt more relevant or more heartbreaking. THE STAGE (UK) ★★★★★

UNITED KINGDOM

PIAF ARTIST IN RESIDENCE:

CLAIRE CUNNINGHAM Embracing difference and defying definitions of dance. Glasgow-based artist Claire Cunningham brings her work to Australia for the first time as PIAFâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2016 Artist in Residence. A self-identifying disabled artist, Cunninghamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unique work consciously rejects traditional dance techniques in its exploration of her physicality, incorporating the crutches that have been a part of her life since age 14. Her acclaimed shows Guide Gods and Give Me A Reason To Live are two related perspectives on disability and faith. A PIAF project presentated in association with DADAA

Unique and completely beautiful. THE SCOTSMAN

Image: Colin Mearns

GUIDE GODS Is disability the will of a higher power?

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Claire Cunningham undertakes a perilous quest to explore how the major world faiths view deafness and disability. Is she paying for the mistakes of a past life? Is it a test for her? Or a punishment for her parents? Could she, should she, be healed?

VICTORIA HALL, FREMANTLE 7.30pm, *2 & 7.30pm, 2pm Auslan Interpretation,

BURT HALL, ST GEORGES CATHEDRAL 7.30pm, #2 & 7.30pm, +2pm, 2pm Auslan Interpretation,

60mins no interval

Guide Gods is a witty, warm and illuminating piece of dance theatre featuring live music and interviews with religious leaders, academics and deaf and disabled people. Afterwards you are invited to stay for some tea, a chat and to ponder your own beliefs. (Will Karma catch up with you if you help yourself to too many biscuits?) Creator and Performer

Claire Cunningham

Composer and Musician Derek Nisbet Designer

Karen Tennent

Lighting Designer

Brian Gorman

FEB

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION

Fri 12 Feb evening performance

Fri 19 Feb evening performance

TICKETS Adult $36 Friends $32 Conc $34 Full Time Students $25

International Excellence Partner

Supported by

Audio Description and Captioning services available for all performances.

GIVE ME A REASON TO LIVE Taking the form of a series of tests, of body and of faith, Give Me a Reason to Live is a stark solo inspired by the work and world of Medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch. A study in the notion of empathy, the work explores issues of religion - in particular Western religious art, the judgement of bodies and quality of life. Set to a mesmerising sound score crafted by Zoë Irvine, Give Me a Reason to Live is choreographed and performed by Cunningham and features her own haunting version of one of J.S. Bach’s chorale cantatas. The work exists both as a live memorial to the disabled victims of the Nazi euthanasia program and to the current victims of the present UK governments so-called ‘welfare reform’. Choreographer and Performer

Claire Cunningham

Lighting Designer

Karsten Tinapp

Sound Designer

Zoë Irvine

Co-presented by Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE PICA, PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE 8pm, 60mins no interval MAR W

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Thur 3 Mar

TICKETS Adult $36 Friends $32 Conc $34 Full Time Students $25 27

USA

Geoff Sobelle

THE OBJECT LESSON The stuff that defines us.

With boxes stacked to the ceiling, actor-illusionist-inventor Geoff Sobelle unpacks our relationship to everyday objects in this hilarious and heartbreaking solo performance/ junk-pile-installation. Sobelle’s expedition into a miscellany of memory leads him to break, bury, fix, steal, store, chop, drop and toss through trash and treasure alike. You are encouraged to roam the giant storage facility, browsing, poking and playing in this immaculately detailed world, where intimate theatre and art installation combine for one breathtaking and unforgettable experience. The Object Lesson is a whimsical, one-of-a-kind meditation on the stuff we cling to and what we choose to leave behind.

Creator and Performer

Geoff Sobelle

Director

David Neumann

Scenic Installation

Steven Dufala

Lighting Designer

Christopher Kuhl

Sound Designer Nick Kourtides

STUDIO UNDERGROUND, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA 8pm, *2 & 8pm, #2pm, A Audio Description 2pm, 90mins no interval FEB S

13 *

20*A

21#

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Wed 17 Feb

Supported by

TICKETS Adult $36 Friends $32 Conc $34 Full Time Students $25 Latecomers will not be admitted.

Image: Max Gordon Photography

Do you have what you need? Do you need what you have?

Funny, sweet and meticulously crafted production. THE NEW YORK TIMES

AUSTRALIA

MEOW MEOW’S LITTLE MERMAID A big splash from this cabaret sensation.

WORLD PREMIERE SEASON

Hans Christian Andersen’s bittersweet fable of teen self-sacrifice, salvation and seduction is given the subversive Meow Meow treatment. The result is a sexy spectacle and a modern cabaret take on love and other catastrophes.

OCTAGON THEATRE, UWA 7pm, * 7 & 9pm, 75mins no interval, CCaptioned

Forget the story you thought you knew, this Little Mermaid is a fairy tale gone rogue. A world of sea shanties gives way to a glittering array of contemporary music by the likes of Amanda Palmer, Kate Miller-Heidke and Megan Washington in this operatic and outrageous sea ride. In part two of the Little trilogy that began with Meow Meow’s Little Match Girl, the cat is back and she’s not afraid to go in the water!

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28*C

TICKETS Premium Adult $55 Friends $50 A Reserve Adult $45 Friends $40 Conc $42 Full Time Students $25 B Reserve Adult $36 Full Time Students $25 Created and Performed by Meow Meow Director

Michael Kantor

Set and Costume Designer Anna Cordingley Lighting Designer

Paul Jackson

Musical Director

Jethro Woodward

Compositions Amanda Palmer, Jherek Bischoff, Megan Washington and Kate Miller-Heidke A Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Festival production

Supported by

MEDICI DONORS

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festivals, Sydney Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Malthouse Theatre and Auckland Arts Festival.

Image: Andrew Gough

A PIAF co-commission

Fierce intelligence, genuine heart and a heady recklessness. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

Chevron is proud to be the International Excellence Partner of the 2016 Perth Festival. Every community needs inspiration. And the arts have the ability to truly inspire. Chevron is committed to supporting world-class cultural experiences wherever we operate. Because an inspired community is a great place to call home. Learn more at chevronaustralia.com CHEVRON, the CHEVRON Hallmark and HUMAN ENERGY are registered trademarks of Chevron Intellectual Property LLC. ÂŠ 2015 Chevron U.S.A. Inc. All rights reserved.

UNITED KINGDOM

One of the funniest plays you’ll ever see about depression – and possibly one of the funniest plays you’ll ever see, full stop. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

Duncan Macmillan Jonny Donahoe

EVERY BRILLIANT THING The lengths we go to for those we love.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Every Brilliant Thing is a touching and life-affirming play about depression.

STATE THEATRE CENTRE, DOWNSTAIRS 7.30pm, * 11am & 7.30pm, # 2 & 7.30pm, +2 & 5pm, 60mins no interval A Audio Description, CCaptioned 2pm

You’re six years old. Mum’s in hospital. Dad says she’s ‘done something stupid’. She finds it hard to be happy. So you start to make a list of everything that’s brilliant about the world – everything that’s worth living for. 1. Ice Cream 2. Kung Fu Movies 3. Laughing so hard you shoot milk out your nose 4. Construction Cranes 5. Me Twenty years and thousands of entries later, the list takes on a life of its own.

ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE 8pm, * 11am & 2pm, 60mins no interval FEB

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+AC

TICKETS Adult $36 Friends $32 Conc $34 Full Time Students $25 Themes of depression and suicide. Age recommendation 14+

Performer Jonny Donahoe Writers Duncan Macmillan with Jonny Donahoe Director

Supported by

George Perrin

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Image: Simon Pynt

James Berlyn

I KNOW YOU’RE THERE How do our family secrets define us?

WORLD PREMIERE

Every family has its secrets. And James Berlyn is ready to share a few of his.

STATE THEATRE CENTRE, UPSTAIRS 7pm, *2 & 7pm, #2pm, 90mins no interval

Pull up a chair and join him around the table for an intimate investigation into the stories we tell and the things that remain unspoken. I Know You’re There is a very personal reflection on depression and suicide touching three generations. It subtly exposes the consequences and far-reaching impact of the decisions we make. Through storytelling, dance and conversation with each of the audience of just 16, this incredibly moving and poignant journey invites discussion, reflection and personal transformation. Western Australian artist James Berlyn is a master performance maker, renowned for creating intimate experiences that investigate the dynamics of the performer-audience relationship. I Know You’re There is his most personal work to date, inviting you to be immersed in a tender and uplifting artistic exchange. Creator and Performer

James Berlyn

Director

Jim Hughes

Sound Designers

Late Night Shopping

A Performing Lines WA production

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TICKETS Adult $45 Friends $40 Conc $42 Full Time Students $25 Latecomers will not be admitted. Developed with assistance from Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts, Koorliny Arts Centre, The Blue Room Theatre and Perth International Arts Festival. Supported by

UNITED KINGDOM

COMMON WEALTH

NO GUTS, NO HEART, NO GLORY AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

They are young. They are powerful. They are Muslim. Courage and resilience collide in No Guts, No Heart, No Glory, a play about young Muslim women … and boxing.

for young Muslim women to represent themselves, to dance, to box, to swear, to get angry, to enjoy it, to be champions.

‘We are sick of it, being ignored. We are sick of it, being indoors.’

With a live electronic sound score, epic visual design, cinematic lighting and the raw energy of the Queen Street Gym, this immersive show explores what it is to be young, fearless and doing the unexpected. It’s a powerful reminder to be brave, proud of who you are and where you come from.

Determined to make something brilliant of their lives, five boxers pummel their way through a battered punching bag to obliterate convention. Based on interviews with female boxers, and written by Aisha Zia and devised in collaboration with five 16–23 year-old Muslim women and the former UK national champion Ambreen Sadiq, this provocative production is a chance

Writer

Aisha Zia

Director

Evie Manning

Associate Director Rhiannon White Composer

QUEEN STREET GYM 8pm, *2 & 8pm, #5pm, 60mins FEB T

26*

28#

TICKETS Adult $36 Friends $32 Conc $34 Full Time Students $25 This is a standing show.

Supported by

Wojtek Rusin

Image: Christopher Nunn

Full of sweaty, sweary joy at the sheer possibilities of life. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

AUSTRALIA

A bold and playful intervention. REALTIME

Image: James Brown

pvi collective

BLACKMARKET Join the fight for survival. Perth’s own tactical media art renegades, pvi collective, have created with blackmarket a participatory site-specific work that takes place on the streets of our city at night. Part roaming artwork, part real-life video game, blackmarket invites you into a dark underworld of unlicensed street selling and entrepreneurial trading. In the fictional world of pvi’s urban role-playing game, the global financial crisis has arrived and you are forced to fight for survival as a ‘hustler’ within a black market economy. Exposed to an underground economic structure where goods and services are available but cash has no value, you must trade your possessions in return for survival skills and services. From psychological coping mechanisms to physical training, urban survival skills to weaponising garbage, pvi’s blackmarket is highly immersive, instruction based and perversely fun. Co-presented by City of Subiaco and Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts A Performance Space Sydney commission

THE STREETS OF SUBIACO Ticket holders will be notified of their departure point. 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, 90mins FEB T

TICKETS Adult $79 Friends $71 18+

Supported by

AUSTRALIA/UNITED KINGDOM

The Empathy Museum

A MILE IN MY SHOES

Try someone else’s life on for size.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

A Mile in My Shoes is an empathy shoe shop, where visitors are invited to walk a mile in the shoes of a stranger – literally. Housed in a giant shoebox, this interactive exhibition contains a collection of shoes and audio stories that offers a snapshot into the breadth and diversity of who we are in Western Australia. You simply choose a pair of shoes – that may belong to a refugee, a sex worker or a FIFO operator – and walk a mile listening to the personal story of the shoe owner’s life.

STIRLING GARDENS Tue–Fri 4–7pm, Sat–Sun 11am–7pm

In partnership with PIAF, The Empathy Museum and Centre for Stories are creating an extraordinary collection of stories that will give us a glimpse into the lives of Western Australians from all walks of life.

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FREE Curated by artistic team Clare Patey and Kitty Ross in collaboration with cultural thinker Roman Krznaric Stories commissioned by Perth International Arts Festival Stories collected and produced by Centre for Stories

Supported by

Remarkable … danced to perfection. THE STATESMAN (INDIA)

INDIA

Aditi Mangaldas

WITHIN AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

The phenomenal speed and technique of Kathak. One of India’s most celebrated dance makers, Aditi Mangaldas is a maverick in her country, consistently breaking new ground with her combination of contemporary and classical choreography. Her intricately percussive footwork and wheeling spins are astonishing. Within is a breathtaking group dance work in two parts. The first, Knotted, is richly layered contemporary Kathak, cinematic in scale and brimming with raw emotion from brutal events that have rocked contemporary India. The second, Unwrapped, is a stunning display of classical Kathak, driven by a live score featuring harmonium and vocals. Revered by dance stars Akram Khan and his protégé, Aakash Odedra, Mangaldas is celebrated for the eloquence and energy she brings to the stage.

HEATH LEDGER THEATRE, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA 7.30pm, *1pm & 7.30pm, 1hr 40mins including interval FEB T

13*

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Fri 12 Feb

TICKETS Premium Adult $85 Friends $76 A Reserve Adult $75 Friends $67 Conc $71 B Reserve Adult $59 Conc $56 Full Time Students $25

Creator and Choreographer

Aditi Mangaldas

Mentor

Morag Deyes

Stage Designer

Manish Kansara

Lighting Designer

Fabiana Piccioli

Special Mentor and Dramaturg

Farooq Chaudhry

Music Composition Ish Shehrawat + diffused beats (Sound Reason) for Knotted and Mahesh Vinayakram for Unwrapped Image: Dinesh Khanna

An Aditi Mangaldas Dance Company – The Drishtikon Dance Foundation production International Excellence Partner

Supported by

FRANCE/JAPAN

Aurélien Bory

PLEXUS Sheer spectacle.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Entrapped by 5,000 cords that create a forest of brilliantly lit strings, a warrior-woman conquers her environment and floats, like a black angel, in a spectacular cage. She can only leave by vanishing completely. In time to the beat of her heart she slowly moves through the strings like a puppet, striving towards freedom in a sequence of movements that defy the laws of gravity.

HEATH LEDGER THEATRE, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA 7.30pm, 60mins no interval

This is Plexus, a stunning visual feast that brings together impressive artistry, dance and visual arts.

FEB W

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Thur 18 Feb

TICKETS Premium Adult $59 Friends $54 A Reserve Adult $49 Friends $44 Conc $47 B Reserve Adult $25

Aurélien Bory is renowned for making breathtaking visual theatre at the intersection between dance, puppetry and visual art. The sensory spectacular Plexus is his portrait of a remarkable dancer, Japan’s Kaori Ito.

A Compagnie 111 production

Image: Aglae Bory

Created by Aurélien Bory for Kaori Ito

A stunning production. EVENING STANDARD (UK)

BRAZIL

Spectacular. LE MONDE (FRANCE)

Lia Rodrigues

PINDORAMA A visceral and sensory dance experience.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

In a bare room, with a plastic tarp, naked bodies and water, Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues draws her audience into a torrent of evocative images. The waves of the tarp are transformed into a fierce, raging ocean, in which bodies are caught up like vacuum-packed detritus, becoming flotsam.

STUDIO UNDERGROUND, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA 8.30pm, *6 & 9pm,

From the favelas of Rio De Janiero comes Pindorama, an intense and immersive dance experience. Eleven dancers move between vulnerability and violence. From solitary individuals, they evolve into a teeming crowd, a collective body shielding itself against the fury of the elements.

Image: Sammi Landweer

In the language of the Tupí, ‘Pindorama’ is the original name of Brazil before its colonisation. For Rodrigues, Pindorama is the expression of a physical and spiritual world in constant transformation, and in her choreography it is an attempt to make contact: directly in front of the audience the dancers seek out a physical equivalent for the natural landscape.

80mins no interval MAR W

POST-SHOW DISCUSSION Wed 2 Mar

TICKETS Adult $49 Friends $45 Conc $46 Full Time Students $25 Contains nudity. A promenade performance. No seating provided.

At times disarming, at others comforting, Pindorama is all-consuming. A Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças production

Add more Add more colour. colour. Family and Education Program Partner

Step into a world of colour with Perthinto International Festival Step a world of Arts colour with Perth International Arts Festival

Family and Education Program Partner

AUSTRALIA

RAEWYN HILL

STEPHEN PAGE

Work in Development

SPEAR

ART GALLERY OF WA, PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE Wed 17–Sun 21 Feb, 10am–4pm

STUDIO UNDERGROUND, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA Fri 26–Sat 27 Feb, 7pm, 84mins

Experience a new contemporary dance work being created before your eyes.

A foot in each world. A heart in none.

REASON FOR BEING

In an innovative cross-arts partnership between AGWA and Co3, gallery visitors will experience their State Art Collection re-interpreted through contemporary dance and collaborative performance. Co3 artistic director Raewyn Hill will work with company dancers and collaborators to create a new work, Reason for Being, in the gallery’s spaces. From first conceptual conversations through to a final performance of the week’s work, Hill unpacks her creative practice in the unusual live studio environment of AGWA.

FREE A Co3 Australia development Image: Ferry Photography

Acclaimed choreographer, Stephen Page, brings Bangarra Dance Theatre’s outstanding dance work Spear to the screen. Striking and original, Page weaves story through dance to deliver an extraordinary cinematic experience in his feature film debut. Using gesture and dance, with minimal dialogue, Spear follows a young Aboriginal man named Djali (Hunter Page-Lochard) from the outback to the streets of Sydney on his quest to understand what it means to be a man with ancient traditions in a modern world. Featuring brilliant Bangarra dancers and an evocative David Page score that combines traditional and contemporary music, Spear is an intimate journey with one of Australia’s most celebrated artists and one of the most affecting and spiritually resonant films of the year. A unique experience in urgent storytelling through movement. VARIETY Director Stephen Page Cast Hunter Page-Lochard, Aaron Pedersen Adult $17 Friends $15 Conc $16 Full Time Students $13 Pre-screening talk by Stephen Page on Fri 26 Feb.

ENGAGE CHALLENGE EXCITE SURPRISE REFLECT

City of Perth Grand Lane Light Locker Art Space. Artists: Jacqueline Ball, Tom Freeman, Nathan Brooker. Photo by Thomas Rowe. Grand Lane Mural 2010 (Detail). Artists: Bonsai (Scott Neoh) and Hiroyasu Tsuri (Twoone).

Proud civic partner of

PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

AUSTRALIA

Image: Reika Sato. Photo by Robert Johnson.

West Australian Ballet

ALLET AT THE QUARRY: B FIVE BY NIGHT A night of dance under the stars. West Australian Ballet’s Ballet at the Quarry season features five works to excite and inspire. Headlining the program is acclaimed British choreographer, David Dawson, with On the Nature of Daylight, a rapturous pas de deux to the music of Max Richter and 5, a tour-de-force for five dancers. Andre Santos presents his captivating work, In Black, and Australian choreographer, Craig Davidson, fresh from success in Europe, will create a new work for the season. The sensational To the Pointe, a hip hop/ballet fusion from WAB dancers and Australia’s three-time Bboy Champion, Pepito, completes the night.

QUARRY AMPHITHEATRE 8pm, gates open 6.30pm, 2hrs including interval

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A Reserve Adult $67 Conc $56 Youth (U26) $52 Junior (U16) $50 B Reserve Adult $49 Conc $44 Youth (U26) $39 Junior (U16) $39 Bookings through waballet.com.au or Ticketmaster 136 100

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FRANCE

A stirring, gently edgy reminder that Corsica produces some of the most subtle and remarkable vocal music in Europe. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

Image: Didier D. Daarwin

A FILETTA AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Sublime vocals to soothe the soul. Corsican vocal ensemble A Filetta are unafraid to blend the traditional and the innovative. Their compelling repertoire includes a wide array of music, old and new, and for this special Festival performance they introduce music lovers to the compelling sounds of their recent album, Castelli. The Mediterranean island of Corsica is renowned for its stunning vocal music and the six members of A Filetta have long been an Great Southern Presentation Supported by

important part of this musical tradition. This extraordinarily creative group originally formed to preserve the music of their region, but have since forged an international reputation with their sublime original compositions influenced by the island’s oral traditions. This promises to be an evening of soaring vocals, heavenly harmonies and complex, three-part polyphonic songs exploring themes of memory, nostalgia and the meaning of life.

ST GEORGE’S CATHEDRAL Sat 20 Feb, 8pm, 70mins no interval

ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Sun 21 Feb, 8pm, 70mins no interval

TICKETS Adult $49 Friends $44 Conc $46 Full Time Students $25

ITALY

Flawless in structure, presentation and performance. HERALD SCOTLAND

Concerto Italiano

MONTEVERDI: VESPERS OF 1610 Exceptional Baroque ensemble performs Monteverdi’s masterpiece.

PERTH CONCERT HALL

The musicians and choir of Concerto Italiano are one of the world’s most celebrated early music ensembles. Performing on 17thcentury instruments, they vividly recreate the brilliant colours of Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610 (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), a masterpiece of voices and instruments.

Mon 29 Feb, 7.30pm, 1hr 45mins including interval

Blending Baroque operatic theatricality with the hallowed traditions of sacred music, the Vespers are a soaring and sublime evocation of heavenly power and the glory of 17th-century Venice. For 400 years their

contrasting thrilling choruses and delicate instrumental music have entranced music lovers. There are few performers who know Moneteverdi’s music as intimately as Concerto Italiano. Directed by Rinaldo Alessandrini, their recordings of Italian Baroque music have earned them international acclaim, and their vibrant performances of Baroque masterpieces have moved audiences around the world. Director

Rinaldo Alessandrini

Sung in Latin

TICKETS Premium Adult $135 Friends $121 A Reserve Adult $115 Friends $103 Conc $109 B Reserve Adult $70 Friends $63 Conc $66 Full Time Students $25 C Reserve Adult $38 Full Time Students $25 International Excellence Partner

CHAMBER MUSIC WEEKEND Festival chamber music has a new home at UWA for a weekend celebrating some of the finest music written for intimate performance. Over three days we bring you 18 events performed on a purpose-built stage inside the beautiful acoustic of Winthrop Hall and in the gardens outside. Sample the full breadth of style and expression, from Mozart to Messiaen, Bach to Bartok, Liszt to Ligeti and indulge your every chamber music whim in a program performed by the finest soloists and ensembles from Australia and abroad. Highlights of this special weekend include a free complete performance of the Bach Suites for Solo Cello by acclaimed soloist Michael Goldschlager and a marathon performance of Satie’s mythical Vexations going through the night from Saturday evening. You’re also invited to a masterclass on keyboard music, as well as the ‘Haydn Lottery’ where you, the audience, select a work for Tinalley String Quartet to rehearse and prepare for the very first time. Sunday is set aside for Schubertiade, with six performances dedicated to the works of one of the great romantics.

Join us for a single concert or settle in for the day and bring a picnic or take advantage of the food and wine available while you hang out under the trees or snooze on the grass between concerts. Weekend passes are also available to ensure you get your fill of this musical feast.

WINTHROP HALL Fri 26–Sun 28 Feb

TICKETS Single Sessions Adult $22 Friends $20 Full Time Students $18 Friday Package Adult $54 Friends $51 Saturday Package Adult $90 Friends $85 Sunday Package Adult $105 Friends $99 Weekend Package Adult $203 Friends $189 All sessions general admission.

Image: The University of Western Australia

PROGRAM FRI 26 FEB

SAT 27 FEB

SUN 28 FEB

6–7pm

10–11.30am

10–11am

Mozart at the Fortepiano Mozart Sonata No. 10 in C major Mozart Sonata No. 11 in A major Mozart Sonata No. 12 in F major Geoffrey Lancaster (fortepiano)

8–9pm

The World in Song Wigmore Hall International Song Competition Prize Winner Works by Schubert, Strauss, Faure, Brahms and Butterworth James Newby (baritone) Amir Farid (piano)

10–11pm

Bach at the Organ Bach, J.S. Toccata and Fugue in D minor Bach, J.S. Chorale Prelude on Nun Komm Der Heiden Heiland Bach, J.S. Partita No. 2 in D minor for Solo Violin, Chaconne (arr. Messerer) Bach, J.S. Passacaglia in C minor Bach, J.S. Partita Sei gegrüßet Jesu gütig Joseph Nolan (organ)

Keyboard Masterclass–FREE UWA and WAAPA Students

12–1pm

The Haydn Lottery–FREE (Open Rehearsal) Tinalley String Quartet

2–3pm

Beethoven to Barber Beethoven Quintet in E-flat major for Piano and Winds Ligeti Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet Barber Summer Music for Wind Quintet Ensemble Vagabond

4–5pm

Haydn and Ravel Haydn String Quartet Opus 20, No. 5 Ravel String Quartet Tinalley String Quartet

6–7pm

For the End of Time Messiaen Quatuor pour la fin du temps (Quartet for the End of Time) Benaud Trio and Ashley Smith (clarinet)

8–9pm

OTHER EVENTS FRI 26 FEB 7pm, 9pm, 11pm

Bach Suites for Solo Cello Michael Goldschlager (cello)

SAT 27 FEB 6pm–Sunday 12pm Satie Vexations

Piano Masterpieces Beethoven Sonata No. 21 in C major Waldstein Bartok Suite Opus. 14 Liszt Funérailles Chopin Polonaise in A-flat major Jayson Gillham (piano)

10–11pm

French Organ Feast Widor Symphony for Organ No. 5 in F minor Duruflé Suite, for organ Joseph Nolan (organ)

Schubert’s Octet Octet in F major Margaret Blades (violin 1) Zak Rowentree (violin 2) Sally Boud (viola) Michael Goldshlager (cello) Andrew Sinclair (bass) Ashley Smith (clarinet) Adam Mikulicz (bassoon) Julia Brooke (horn)

12–1pm

Schubert’s Mighty E flat Trio Nocturne for Piano Trio Piano Trio in E-flat major Benaud Trio

2–3pm

Schubert’s Lieder Die schöne Müllerin James Newby (baritone) Amir Farid (piano)

4–5pm

Schubert and the String Quartet String Quartet No. 13 Mvt II Rosamunde String Quartet No. 14, Death and the Maiden Tinalley String Quartet

6–7pm

Schubert in A Sonata in A minor for Arpeggione and Piano Piano Sonata in A major, D. 664 Sally Boud (viola), Gladys Chua (piano) Jayson Gillham (piano)

8–9pm

Schubert’s Shepherd and The Trout The Shepherd on the Rock Sara Macliver (soprano) Ashley Smith (clarinet) Gladys Chua (piano)

Piano Quintet in A major The Trout Jayson Gillham (piano) Lerida Delbridge (violin) Justin Williams (viola) Michelle Wood (cello) Andrew Sinclair (bass)

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Perth International Arts Festival. Founded and brought to you by UWA. In 1953, UWA professor Fred Alexander brought to life his vision of a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;festival for the people,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; and the Perth International Arts Festival was born. Just like our involvement with the community, PIAF has been growing ever since, and now attracts amazing artists and performers from all over the world. From its humble beginnings as a community arts experiment to becoming the largest celebration of culture and creativity in the Southern Hemisphere, the Festival has always been a pride and joy of our university. Share our passion at uwa.edu.au/perthfestival

CHAMBER MUSIC WEEKEND

FEATURED ARTISTS BENAUD TRIO The Benaud Trio is one of Australia’s finest young ensembles. Together Amir Farid (piano), Lachlan Bramble (violin) and Ewen Bramble (cello) have established themselves as formidable performers of the major piano trio repertoire. They also regularly commission new music from prominent Australian composers and are well known for their outrageous pop-inspired encores. The Benauds were recipients of the 2013 Contemporary Masters Performance Award at Melbourne Recital Centre and regularly perform at this venue and around the country.

JAYSON GILLHAM London-based Australian pianist Jayson Gillham has emerged as one of the world’s top young musicians. Since winning both the First Prize and Audience Prize in the 2014 Montreal International Music Competition, his career has flourished – from the threealbum record deal with ABC Classics, to performing with the Jerusalem Quartet at the Verbier Festival, to multiple recitals at the Louvre Auditorium Paris and to recognition from conductors including Jeffrey Tate and Sir Mark Elder.

TINALLEY STRING QUARTET Australia’s Tinalley String Quartet has established itself as one of the finest string quartets of its generation. Awarded First Prize at the 9th Banff International String Quartet Competition and Grand Prize at the 2005 Australian Chamber Music Competition, Adam Chalabi (violin), Lerida Delbridge (violin), Justin Williams (viola) and Michelle Wood (cello) have performed to critical acclaim throughout Europe, the USA, Canada and Australia at some of the most prestigious venues and in premier festivals.

ENSEMBLE VAGABOND Ensemble Vagabond brings together Emily Clements (flute), Liz Chee (oboe), Ashley Smith (clarinet), Adam Mikulicz (bassoon), Julia Brooke (horn) and Glaelup Chua (piano) for Australia’s newest chamber music ensemble. Fast garnering an impressive national profile for its exploration of the masterworks and hidden gems of the chamber music repertoire, the group delivers a vibrant artistic program as Ensemble in Residence at The University of Western Australia School of Music.

FREMANTLE STREET ARTS FESTIVAL Fremantle / Apr

ARGYLE DIAMONDS ORD VALLEY MUSTER Kununurra / May SCULPTURE BY THE SEA Perth / Mar

Wendi Zhang, Mi no 5. Image: Clyde Yee

DRUG AWARE MARGARET RIVER PRO Margaret River / Apr

MARGARET RIVER GOURMET ESCAPE Margaret River Region / Nov

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SOFT SOFT LOUD: MARK-ANTHONY TURNAGE’S BLOOD ON THE FLOOR Soft Soft Loud, Fremantle Art Centre’s annual program of intriguing cross-genre collaborations, presents Mark-Anthony Turnage’s 1996 work, Blood on the Floor, in a world premiere, 20th anniversary chamber-ensemble version.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Turnage is considered one of the most gifted composers of his generation. Inspired by the loss of his brother to a drug overdose, this seminal work harnesses a powerful, high-octane meld of jazz and classical elements.

Thur 25 Feb, 8pm, 85mins no interval

A solo jazz quartet unites with a hand-picked ensemble of dynamic Western Australian musicians for this one-off collaboration tackling Turnage’s complex yet lucid instrumental textures and artful union of notated and improvised material.

FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE, CITY OF FREMANTLE

TICKETS Adult $49 Friends $44 Conc $44

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Blood on the Floor remains an elegant and deeply moving masterpiece of genuine contemporary sensibilities. Artistic Director Matthew Hoy 55

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CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

For 25 nights we’ll take you on a journey through poetic folk, contemporary classical, African rhythms, high energy Balkan and gypsy swing, Indian fusion, jazz, electronica, and good old fashioned rock and roll with some of the biggest indie names in music today.

WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS (USA) • DUB PISTOLS (UK) NIG HTMARES ON WA X (UK /ESP) • LIT TLE S IMZ (UK ) ´ (S R B) J O S É G O N Z Á L E Z (S W E ) • G O R A N B R E G OV I C B A N D O F B R O T H E R S ( AU S ) • N ATA L I E P R A S S ( U S A ) DARK MIRROR WHITE NOISE (AUS/DNK) • IBEYI (FRA/CUB) TIM ROGERS & THE BAMBOOS (AUS) • THE TRIFFIDS (AUS) M A R LO N W I L L I A M S (N Z ) • S L E AT E R - K I N N E Y (U S A ) JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON (ISL) • KEV CARMODY (AUS) SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80 (NGA) • MARU TARANG (IND/AUS) THE NECKS & HAUSCHKA (AUS/GER) • JOSÉ JAMES (USA) HOUSE GOSPEL CHOIR (UK) • WA X AHATCHEE (USA)

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Supported by International Excellence Partner Chevron Australia, City of Perth, Government of Western Australia, HASSELL, Coopers Brewery and Yalumba.

UK/ESP

SWE

USA

NIGHTMARES ON WAX

JOSÉ GONZÁLEZ

WILLIAM FITZSIMMONS

Thur 11 Feb, 9pm

Fri 12 Feb, 9pm

Sun 14 Feb, 8pm

Signed to Warp Records, downtempo producer George Evelyn’s long-standing electronica project, Nightmares on Wax, satisfies post-rave desires for a sound fusing hip-hop breakbeats with low-end, brooding electro. Based in Ibiza, his music oozes a sunny Balearic vibe and classic soul lushness. Nightmares on Wax is back and his sets feel organic and breezy – it’s all about fun and feelin’ good.

Known for his gentle vocals and complex melodies, Grammy Award-winner José González gives his beautiful tunes a whole new dimension from the moment he steps on stage.

William Fitzsimmons is equal parts songwriter and philosopher, creating utterly captivating music that melds honesty, depravity and autobiography into a seamless whole.

Smoothes the edges between Jamaican sound-system bass, calypso rhythm, Middle Eastern melody and vintage soul.

His poetic lyrics and mastery of the classical guitar combine to make a package as soothing as an iced drink on a hot summer’s day.

UNCUT

If there’s one person on Earth who can serenade their way into your soul, it would be José González.

A true pioneer of electronic music. ROLLING STONE

All Tickets $20 Limited tickets available

With his celebrated third studio album, Vestiges and Claws, González cemented his reputation for creating deceptively simple, thought-provoking songs, all with an acoustic undercurrent.

UIC RADIO

Adult $65 Friends $58

His unassuming stage presence, incredible acoustic guitar skills and eagerness to tell stories between songs makes each live show engaging and unique. His seventh and most personal album yet, Pittsburgh, memorialises his late grandmother and pays homage to his beloved hometown with a catalogue of intimate and profound folk tunes. In his presence you’ll suspect Fitzsimmons is speaking to you alone, and by the time the night is over you’ll feel all the better for it. The perfect blend of bittersweet lyrics and masterful musicianship. MASSLIVE

Adult $40 Friends $36

CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

AUS

USA

THE TRIFFIDS

WAXAHATCHEE

DUB PISTOLS

Mon 15 Feb, 8pm

Tue 16 Feb, 8pm

Wed 17 Feb, 8pm

In 1978, Perth teenagers David McComb, Alsy Macdonald and Phil Kakulas formed a band that became known as The Triffids. They wrote evocative songs, penned mostly by McComb, and delivered a confident live show that saw them gain cult status at home and overseas. The band’s original members played their last show in 1989 and McComb passed away a decade later.

Katie Crutchfield – better known as Waxahatchee – takes her band name from a river that runs through her home state of Alabama and her wailing angst from her roots in lo-fi acoustic recordings.

UK export Dub Pistols have infectious rhythms and a breezy swagger down to a fine art. It’s a sound that’ll have you decked out in a floral shirt and looking for the nearest beach in no time.

Following on from the success of her acclaimed early releases, Waxahatchee has released her third album Ivy Tripp, a term she coined in an attempt to name the sometimes directionless, always baffling feelings attached to growing up.

Founded by charismatic London DJ Barry Ashworth, the Dub Pistols present a sound-clash of ska and punk, dub and hip-hop all combined to make big beats, big breaks, big bass and a big smile.

Now, five years since they last performed together, The Triffids are back. For this special one-off Festival gig, all five remaining members take to the stage with carefully selected special guest vocalists to celebrate the life of David McComb and the legacy of an adored Australian band. Adult $50 Friends $45 Seated show

A commanding vocalist with a rocking sound that’s equal parts measured and maelstrom, Waxahatchee’s songs are frank, confident and memorable. Teaming up with a backing band of trusted friends and collaborators, you can be guaranteed a live set that’s as breathless as it is breathtaking. Adult $45 Friends $41

No band maintains a rabid following for 20 years unless they can lay claim to something truly special, and the return of Ashworth and his crew to Australian shores is your chance to find out exactly why this is one such act. Adult $48 Friends $43

AUS

USA

KEV CARMODY

BAND OF BROTHERS

JOSÉ JAMES

Thur 18 Feb, 9pm

Fri 19 Feb, 9pm

Sat 20 Feb, 9pm

One of Australia’s pre-eminent singer-songwriters, Kev Carmody is a living legend.

Four internationally acclaimed musicians, two sets of siblings and one superb quartet. That’s Band of Brothers.

José James has always been on the quest for new musical horizons, constantly evolving and blurring the lines between genres in the process.

A storyteller of Aboriginal and Irish heritage, Carmody is best known for 1991’s politically-charged anthem, written with Paul Kelly, ‘From Little Things Big Things Grow’, and his impressive body of work was covered by the likes of Archie Roach, John Butler, Missy Higgins and Dan Kelly for the 2007 tribute album Cannot Buy My Soul. This special Festival appearance also features a screening of Brendan Fletcher’s Songman, a documentary exploring Carmody’s unique philosophy on music and recording, making this a truly memorable night. He’s powerful and scary and beautiful. Like something you’d see in nature … Awesome in the truest sense. DAN SULTAN

Adult $35 Friends $32 Seated show

ARIA award-winning guitarist Slava Grigoryan, his equally gifted brother Leonard and the extraordinarily talented Joseph and James Tawadros team up for a musically adventurous collaboration. As a quartet, theirs is group artistry of the highest order, utilising a repertoire crossing countless cultural and stylistic lines, from jazz to world, classical to traditional. Together, they will take you on a captivating musical journey. Accomplished artists with solid pedigrees and a flair for energising the familiar. THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Adult $50 Friends $45

On the heels of his critically acclaimed Blue Note Records debut No Beginning No End, James returns with his dynamic and daring fifth album While You Were Sleeping. While keeping his trademark soulful baritone at the forefront, he adeptly weaves elements of indie rock, folk, funk, blues, hip-hop and R&B into an experience journeying from desire to introspection and spiritual epiphany. His delivery is gentle and cool, dreamy and ecstatic. LONDON JAZZ NEWS

Adult $45 Friends $41

Seated show Also playing at the Albany Entertainment Centre, Sat 20 Feb, 8pm. See page 87

CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

SRB

DK/AUS

AUS/GER

´ GORAN BREGOVIC

DARK MIRROR WHITE NOISE

THE NECKS & HAUSCHKA

Sun 21 Feb, 8pm

Mon 22 Feb, 8pm

Wed 24 Feb, 8pm

A Balkan rock star, Goran Bregovic´ delivers the exhilaration of Gypsy swings infectious energy like no other. An accomplished film composer and an eclectic collaborator, you can rely on Bregovic´ to present music that refuses to be calm and never conforms to any one label.

Sound becomes visual, dimensional and sensuous in a premiere event created by multi-disciplined artist Jon Tarry in collaboration with co-creatives, including celebrated composer, trumpeter and sound artist, Peter Knight, Artistic Director of the Australian Art Orchestra, distinguished Australian artist and musician Cameron Robbins, and vocalist and songwriter, Esther Maria (Denmark).

Cult Australian improv trio, The Necks’ live shows have been described as religious experiences. Celebrated for creating immersive sets with sensitivity, intelligence and stamina, blending jazz, ambient and avantgarde, their music gradually changes as the narrative fades and drifts – and no two shows are ever the same.

With his newest album Champagne For Gypsies, Bregovic´ has penned a series of incredibly energetic tunes that pay homage to a unique genre.

MUSIC OMH

These talented artists delve into deep energetic forces of performance that blend a visceral sensibility while amplifying the threshold of sonic expansion, combined with film, drawing, light and music while searching for a convergence of shared and individual human experience. This is a perfectly poised transitional evening by the Swan River resonant with an installation by Tarry, part of the Face to Face exhibition at the John Curtin Gallery.

Adult $65 Friends $58.50

All tickets $20

You can try to fight the urge to get on your feet, but Bregovic´ and his band will win you over every single time. He left people on a real high, one generated not just by adrenaline … but by his sheer musical exuberance and invention.

JON TARRY Detail: Luminate, 2015 Digital graphic, Courtesy the Artist

Minimalist but elaborate, Volker Bertelmann (alias Hauschka) has made a career out of jamming all sorts of things into his piano. His techno, drum and bass background gives his prepared piano improvisations a clean, filtered sound that exists somewhere between classical, electronic and pop. Live on stage together The Necks & Hauschka promise to deliver an exquisite evening of avant-garde piano works and experimental jazz. One of the greatest bands in the world. THE NEW YORK TIMES

Adult $55 Friends $50

IND/AUS

AUS

MARU TARANG

LITTLE SIMZ

TIM ROGERS & THE BAMBOOS

Thur 25 Feb, 9pm

Fri 26 Feb, 9pm

Sat 27 Feb, 9pm

On the border of India and Pakistan, deep in the Rajasthani desert, the lives and works of Australian artists Jeff Lang and Bobby Singh collided fatefully with that of Asin Langa and Bhungar Manganiyar. Maru Tarang – or Ripples of the Desert – is the result.

A technically astonishing MC, phenomenal UK rapper Simbi Ajikawo – that’s Little Simz to you – has the backing of hip-hop sensation Kendrick Lamar as ‘the illest doing it right now’. You won’t get a better indication of great things to come from an emerging musical talent than that.

A three-year love affair between You Am I’s Tim Rogers and Melbourne band The Bamboos has just gone to the next level, with the group binding their union by giving birth to a debut album. Their latest heady brew of groovy Australian funk-rock and technicolour treats, entitled The Rules of Attraction, has been followed up with a huge national tour.

A unique collaboration between two hemispheres, cultures and musical histories, Maru Tarang perform a repertoire spanning ancient Rajasthani folk songs reimagined through Australian roots music, seminal blues by Robert Johnson enriched with Indian flavours and soulful expressions through deep, original and fiery improvisations. Australian roots music tinged with classical Indian rhythms … and the effect is mesmerising. FOLK RADIO UK

Adult $50 Friends $45

With a series of mixtapes and five EPs to her name, Little Simz released her first full-length album in 2015 and the wide world of rap, hip-hop and R&B stood up and took notice. Blending frank lyrics dropped in a smooth vocal delivery as hot and quick as lightning, with unrelenting club-ready beats and a ceaseless youthful energy, this rapper from Islington is on a oneway trip to the big time. If it’s a live show with a ton of attitude and some seriously slick raps you’re after, look no further.

Explosive chemistry and charisma meet a musical sweet spot, with a side of nostalgic warmth, when these Festival favourites return for a raucous, delightful summertime show. Life and love purified into eargasm form … A blast for everyone involved. THE AU REVIEW

Adult $55 Friends $49

Adult $43 Friends $39

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ISL

USA

MARLON WILLIAMS

JÓHANN JÓHANNSSON

NATALIE PRASS

Sun 28 Feb, 8pm

Mon 29 Feb, 8pm

Tue 1 Mar, 8pm

If you’re looking for a chance to be ahead of the curve and discover an artist right before he reaches the big time, this is it. One-of-a-kind New Zealand singer-songwriter Marlon Williams is a star at the beginning of its rise and no music lover should resist the opportunity to catch the glow he throws when the light hits.

An award-winning composer with diverse interests and a back catalogue to prove it, Jóhann Jóhannsson is Iceland’s answer to Ludovico Einaudi or Philip Glass and he’s leading the charge to bring contemporary classical music to the masses.

Time declared her ‘one of the 15 artists to watch in 2015’ and Rolling Stone agreed: Natalie Prass is a musician you need on your radar.

His self-titled debut album arrived in 2015 to a flurry of critical acclaim and revealed a gifted songwriter who deals solely in the sounds of a bygone era. He writes slow, wistful tunes just like Johnny Cash did, rocking three-minute tracks The Beatles might have penned and heartfelt ballads that would have made Elvis jealous, all performed with what Billboard Magazine called ‘the voice of an angel’. Adult $40 Friends $36

His stunning score for the 2014 Stephen Hawking biopic The Theory of Everything earned him an Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe award, while his work on the recent drug cartel thriller Sicario saw him move into an entirely different, intensely menacing soundscape that critics adored. By turns as delicate as a glass figurine and as rich as a Renaissance tapestry.

Her self-titled debut was described by The Guardian as ‘a gem of a heartbreak album’. Her easy rhythms and painfully honest lyrics will ring true to anyone familiar with the highs and lows of falling in and out of love, and her warm, self-effacing persona will have you humming and swaying along with her. In a quiet blaze of vulnerable vocals, Prass will sweep you up with the gentle momentum of a set built on new songs that sound instantly timeless.

Adult $55 Friends $49

She’s at the centre of a powerful, swelling swirl of instrumentation, her voice soaring into absolute gorgeousness.

Seated show

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VARIETY

Adult $40 Friends $35

USA

NGA

FRA/CUB

SLEATER-KINNEY

SEUN KUTI & EGYPT 80

IBEYI

Wed 2 Mar, 8pm

Thur 3 Mar, 9pm

Fri 4 Mar, 9pm

Continuing the legacy of punk rockers like The Runaways and Blondie, Sleater-Kinney revived an entire genre in the ‘90s with their edgy, unapologetic, good oldfashioned rock and roll. Alternating between a ruckus and a whisper, they built a reputation for creating controlled chaos with a conscience. In 2001, Time called them ‘the best rock band in America’. But seven albums and a dedicated following later, the trio called it quits. Until now.

He’s one of the most exciting musicians you’ll see live, and as the youngest son of Afrobeat pioneer and fierce human rights activist Fela Kuti, Seun Kuti is a man whose name carries plenty of weight. Since inheriting the Egypt 80 orchestra after his father’s passing in 1997, Kuti has proven he’s the man to continue this significant musical legacy, while adding a distinct twist all of his own.

The ability to package arresting vocals, cosmopolitan lyrics and diverse arrangements doesn’t come often, but with Ibeyi – comprised of twins Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz – that’s exactly what you get.

After a decade of silence Sleater-Kinney are back with a live show like a runaway train. On full display are the raw vocals, furious riffs and intense drumming ability of Corin Tucker, Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss, back together as if they never separated. The fiercest, most passionate, just plain greatest of American bands.

Fusing jazz, funk and soul with African rhythms and with Kuti’s occasionally political, sometimes biting and always powerful lyrics, this is music to have you dancing, clapping and stomping your feet.

Any Ibeyi experience is a mystical delight with the duo’s ritual chants – sung in English and Yoruba – melding with synths and samplers, jazz vocals with a distinctly pop undercurrent and a slow-burn intensity with an energetic crackle. If FKA Twigs turned down the bass and found herself a sister, Ibeyi would be the result.

Pure talent, a great band and impressive songs.

Ibeyi live is a truly spiritual experience.

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Adult $55 Friends $49

Adult $43 Friends $39

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PROUD PARTNER OF THE PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL The Western Australian Government is a proud partner of the Perth International Arts Festival. Join us in celebrating the biggest ever HOME grown event to be held on the foreshore of the Swan River at Langley Park and Elizabeth Quay.

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It was always going to be a good night, but the choir’s mix of house, gospel, and garage music lifted them even higher.

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HOUSE GOSPEL CHOIR The late, great Frankie Knuckles called it ‘church for people who have fallen from grace’, and anyone who has been caught up in the rapture of true house music can testify to its power to unify and uplift. This is the House Gospel Choir guarantee. Performing house hits in true gospel choir style, House Gospel Choir bring together outstanding voices and musicians and take them to a place where spirituality and euphoria meet. Since first hitting the stage at the 2014 Glastonbury Festival they’ve worked with

everyone from The Kooks to Labrinth and Gorgon City. House Gospel Choir are famous for delivering a live show that’s epic in every sense of the word, singing the biggest house tunes including many ‘90s classics amped up to the max by a mass of voices, a live DJ, percussion and keys.

CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS Sat 5 and Sun 6 Mar, 9pm

TICKETS Adult $45 Friends $40

We invite you to be our ‘house guests’ for the closing weekend of the Festival, to meet, sing and dance with the choir that house built in their first Australian appearances. 65

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL Bringing together writers, artists, activists and campaigners from around the globe, the 2016 Perth Writers Festival will have you thinking about the world and our place in it. Over three days in the beautiful Perth Writers Festival precinct we travel the world through stories, connect with fellow readers and celebrate a shared love of writing and literature.

Fine-Tuning series curated by Jae Laffer of The Panics. Celebrate the tradition of great food writing in a number of events that focus on storytelling, empathy and family.

The full Perth Writers Festival program will be released on Wednesday 13 January. Register at perthfestival.com.au to receive your free copy or find it in the West Weekend Magazine on Saturday 16 January 2016.

Explore the relationship between film and literature with film screenings chosen by Festival guests. Discover the connection between music and literature with our

Guests include Simon Winchester, Magda Szubanski, Iain Pears, Don Watson, Paolo Bacigalupi, Masha Gessen, Simon Sebag Montefiore and many more.

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL PRECINCT, UWA Thur 18–Sun 21 Feb Tickets available from PIAF

PATRICK GALE

MASHA GESSEN

VALLI LITTLE

JASPER FFORDE

PATRICK DEWITT

LAUREN GROFF

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AUS/UK

USA

OPENING ADDRESS

CLOSING ADDRESS

SPECIAL EVENT

OCTAGON THEATRE Thur 18 Feb, 7pm

OCTAGON THEATRE Sun 21 Feb, 7pm

PERTH CONCERT HALL Mon 22 Feb, 7pm, Captioned

Cultural thinker and founder of The Empathy Museum, Roman Krznaric has been named by the Observer as one of Britain’s leading popular philosophers. An internationally recognised expert on empathy, he advises organisations, as well as Britain’s top judges, on using empathy and conversation to create social change.

Drawing on her PhD in Neuroscience from Harvard University, Lisa Genova vividly depicts the heartbreaking impact of neurological disease on an individual’s life. Her novel Still Alice spent 59 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, touching the hearts of readers with its beautiful and empathic account of life with early-onset Alzheimer’s.

One of the most influential thinkers of our times, Richard Dawkins has spent his intellectual life kickstarting new conversations about science, culture and religion. From his iconic work The Selfish Gene published in 1976 to the worldwide bestseller The God Delusion, Dawkins’ infectious sense of wonder at the natural world and bracing awareness of life’s brevity has left a deep imprint on our culture.

ROMAN KRZNARIC

His book Empathy has been widely influential among political and ecological campaigners, education reformers, social entrepreneurs, and designers. In it he proposes empathy has the power both to transform our own lives and to bring about fundamental social change. Join us for an illuminating opening of the 2016 Perth Writers Festival. Adult $39.50 Friends $35.50 Full Time Students $25 Adult & Party $88 Friends & Party $79 Perth Writers Festival opening party commences 8.15pm

LISA GENOVA

Her recent literary work, Inside the O’Brien’s, became an instant bestseller on its release and was described by The Washington Post as ‘an unsparing, heart-piercing portrait’. In this Closing Address, Genova speaks about the artist’s role in finding moments of light, hope and connection when writing about issues central to our humanity. Adult $39.50 Friends $35.50 Full Time Students $25

RICHARD DAWKINS

Join him for a reflection on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure as he discusses his new memoir, Brief Candle In The Dark: My Life In Science. Adult $29.50 Friends $26.50 Full Time Student $22.50 Tickets also available through Perth Concert Hall Presented in association with the Law Society of Western Australia.

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FROM PADDOCK TO PRINT The demand for cookbooks, food blogs and cooking programs shows no signs of abating; instead our desire and interest in all things food related is insatiable. What is it about food that inspires such passion? More than just simple nourishment for the body, it provides us with enjoyment, inspires creativity, is charged with political meaning, laden with memory and is a way to find social connection. It helps us to build family, and a sense of home and identity. Thanks to social media, we now have new ways to share our love of food, with an explosion of food blogging and photography. From Paddock to Print celebrates the storytelling around food and the tradition of great food writing, while examining these new platforms for sharing our passion. Connect with fellow food lovers including Valli Little, Michelle Crawford, Paul West, Anna Jones, Sophie Zakolar, Damon Gameau, Indira Naidoo and many more. Join us for a cultural feast made with the freshest ingredients – the best food writing, photography, tastings, conversations and workshops.

OCTAGON THEATRE, UWA Sat 20 Feb See perthfestival.com.au for more details. Full line-up to be announced in January

TICKETS General Admission $13.50 Friends $12.50 Full Time Students $10.50

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL

FAMILY DAY

The Perth Writers Festival Family Day continues to bring Australian and international children’s book creators together to celebrate the wonder of storytelling. Join Lucy Cousins and Maisy the mouse for story time, help our artist in residence Sean E Avery create a public artwork and experience a live game show atmosphere as freestyle group Sketch the Rhyme infuse art and hip-hop in a fun, interactive performance. Other attending authors include storyteller extraordinaire Katherine Rundell, man of action and adventure Jack Heath, Australian favourites Sally Rippin and Andy Griffiths, queens of fantasy Emily Rodda and Carole Wilkinson, plus many more.

Every child who attends Family Day will receive their very own Perth Writers Festival passport, giving them the opportunity to actively engage with the day’s activities and have a keepsake to take home. The full Perth Writers Festival program will be released on Wednesday 13 January. Register at perthfestival.com.au to receive your free copy or find it in the West Weekend Magazine on Saturday 16 January 2016.

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL PRECINCT, UWA

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Sunday 21 Feb, all day

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CONVERSATIONS Delve deeper into the Festival program. Conversations is our series of talks and encounters that offer Festival lovers a space for reflection on the challenges, questions, stories, desires and themes proposed by this year’s artists. Ruth Little is your navigator and we invite you to join her to engage more deeply with the Festival ideas and artists. The associate director of pioneering climate change and expedition organisation Cape Farewell, Little is also a writer, teacher and literary manager of new writing theatres in Australia and the UK. As a theatre and dance dramaturg she works with artists including Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

THE SUNDAY SERIES Visionaries, mavericks, dreamers. This is your opportunity to hear the unique perspectives of Festival artists as they discuss big ideas and what compels them to create. UPSTAIRS, STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA

SUN 14 FEB 2pm

SUN 28 FEB 4pm

SUN 6 MAR 5pm

Aditi Mangaldas (India) Philip Miller (South Africa) Dada Masilo (South Africa)

James Berlyn (Australia) Stephen Page (Australia) Evie Manning (UK)

Indian choreographer Aditi Mangaldas, South African dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo and South African composer Philip Miller discuss creating work that explores challenging political and cultural issues and addresses taboos.

Australian intimate performance maker James Berlyn, Indigenous choreographer and filmmaker Stephen Page and British director Evie Manning discuss creating work that brings the stories of the marginalised into the mainstream.

Claire Cunningham (UK) Natalie Maddix (UK) Lia Rodrigues (Brazil) Co-hosted by Wendy Martin

POST-SHOW DISCUSSIONS

PIAF Artist in Residence Claire Cunningham joins Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues and House Gospel Choir founder Natalie Maddix to discuss the power of art to unify, uplift and affect social change. Ruth Little’s artist conversations will be extended through regular blogging on our website, with audio, image and video contributions from Festival artists and audiences.

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Apocrifu p18 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra p20 The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet p22 The Wild Duck p24 Give Me A Reason To Live p27 Guide Gods p27 The Object Lesson p28 Within p38 Plexus p40 Pindorama p42

YOUNG CREATIVES

The next generation of inquiring young artists join the Festival team in 2016. Follow their blog online. Conversations supported by

INDIA

Bharti Kher

IN HER OWN LANGUAGE In her first solo exhibition in Australia, internationally acclaimed artist Bharti Kher offers a window into her richly textured practice. Her distinctive signature application of saris, bindis and moulded forms is on display in a selection of wall works and sculptures that imply a narrative. Kher’s elegant yet diverse work is part visceral and part allegory, stemming from the pulse of her New Delhi studio and informed by a curious and cognisant imperative. Figurative sculptures resist definition, dancing between mythical goddess and contemporary portraits. Cell-like orbs and ellipses of layered bindis float in fields of colour, suggesting bodily association. Inscribed rice grains invite reflection upon cultural and physical sustenance, social and linguistic attribution. Kher’s language is her own and it has brought her global recognition in the contemporary art world.

LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY, UWA Thur 18 Feb–Sat 16 April, Tue–Sat, 11am–5pm

FREE

BHARTI KHER Detail: Warrior with cloak and shield, 2008 Courtesy the Artist and Hauser & Wirth

SPAIN/AUSTRALIA

Dani Marti

BLACK SUN Dani Marti’s first solo show in Western Australia is set to take over Fremantle Arts Centre’s galleries. Including a generous offering of new and previously unshown hand-woven canvases, audio and video works, Black Sun is both seductive and confronting. Marti uniquely combines video and textiles to create portraits reflecting encounters with family, lovers and strangers. His works are intense in their scrutiny, alive in their passion and ask poignant questions about sexuality, intimacy and the efficacy of relationships. Black Sun is a special opportunity to see the work of one of Australia’s most challenging and exciting contemporary artists.

FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Sun 7 Feb–Mon 28 Mar, 10am–5pm daily

FREE

DANI MARTI Prelude (Purple), 2015 Corner cube reflectors, glass beads on aluminium frame Courtesy the Artist, GAGPROJECTS | Greenaway Art Gallery, Adelaide; and ARC ONE GALLERY, Melbourne

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body

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SWEDEN

Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg

THE SECRET GARDEN

Surreal and ultra-sensory, The Secret Garden by Swedish artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg opens up a netherworld of strange delights and encounters. In this immersive landscape, sculpture, light, sound and film combine to dazzling effect, as gallery visitors are thrust into a mysterious world of feverish dreams, psychedelic sunsets and expanding universes. This is a secret garden fit for Alice in Wonderland, filled with giant leaves, bluebells and golden-capped acorns, gelato coloured cushions and dripping icecreams. A shaman rabbit presides over a playground of the subconscious that can only be fully activated by each audience member’s internal direction.

PICA, PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE Thur 11 Feb–Sun 24 Apr, Tue–Sun, 10am–5pm

FREE NATHALIE DJURBERG AND HANS BERG Detail: The Secret Garden, 2015 Stop motion animation 1:53mins. Courtesy the Artists and Lisson Gallery London.

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The Secret Garden exhibition also features a survey of the savagely humorous claymation films that first brought Djurberg and Berg into the international spotlight. 75

RYAN TRECARTIN

6 MOVIES ART GALLERY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, PERTH CULTURAL CENTRE Sun 31 Jan–Tue 8 May, Wed–Mon 10am–5pm

FREE Ryan Trecartin is widely considered to be the artist of our time. Calvin Tompkins of The New Yorker recently dubbed him ‘a video art visionary’ whose work is full of ‘breaking news from the future’.

USA RYAN TRECARTIN Detail: CENTER JENNY, 2013 (still). HD video, duration: 53 minutes, 15 seconds. State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia. Purchased through the TomorrowFund, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2014. © Ryan Trecartin. Image courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

This Perth debut of Trecartin’s work features AGWA’s major new acquisitions, Sibling Topics (section a) (2009) and CENTER JENNY (2013). These incredibly intense and inventive works will be presented alongside four additional movies: K-CorealNC.K (section a) (2009), P.opular S.ky (section ish) (2009), Items Falls (2013) and Junior War (2013). Screened daily, back to back, these six movies will immerse you in the ecstatic poetics of Trecartin’s practice.

SHAUN GLADWELL, CARSTEN HÖLLER, JON TARRY

FACE TO FACE JOHN CURTIN GALLERY, CURTIN UNIVERSITY Sun 14 Feb–Sun 1 May, Mon–Fri 11am–5pm, Sun 1–5pm

FREE

BELGIUM/AUSTRALIA CARSTEN HÖLLER AND MÅNS MÅNSSON Detail: Fara Fara, 2014 HD, colour, sound 13:26 mins Courtesy the Artists.

Face to Face juxtaposes multi-faceted works by three distinguished artists: Shaun Gladwell, Carsten Höller and Jon Tarry. It is the first time Höller has exhibited work in Western Australia, and it also premieres new work from Gladwell and Tarry. In dedicated gallery spaces the work of each artist provides a dialogue between sound, image and the viewer. Featuring film shot in diverse situations in the Congo, Paris and Perth, the artists unravel the intoxicating power of performance be it solitary or to a mass crowd, competitively or in private. Face to Face is a mesmerising experience where the intensity of three distinct works is amplified by their engagement with each other and their enticement to share in their energy.

NO CONFIDENCE SUCCESS, 2 NEWMAN COURT, FREMANTLE Sat 20 Feb–Sun 10 Apr, Wed–Sun 10am–5pm

FREE

INTERNATIONAL STEFANOS TSIVOPOULOS Detail: Geometry of Fear, (2012) Video still. Single-channel video installation, 7:00mins Courtesy the Artist and Kalfayan Galleries, Athens – Thessaloniki

Success – Perth’s newest contemporary art gallery – transforms the basement of an abandoned department store in Fremantle into a large-scale exhibition space. For the Festival, Success presents No Confidence, a timely examination of the conditions of democracy today through a selection of international contemporary video art. Worldwide, democracy is in crisis. From Athens to Ferguson, the Occupy movement to the Arab Spring, the failures of the Eurozone, and Australia’s own revolving-door leadership, people are questioning the fundamental competency, capacities, and organisation of their political representation. No Confidence presents the work of leading international and Australian artists exploring issues of contemporary democracy, its failures, its new forms, and its possible futures.

GURLGAMA – REMEMBER ME FORM GALLERY, 357 MURRAY STREET, PERTH Fri 26 Feb–Mon 30 May, Mon–Fri 9am–5pm, Sat 10am–5pm

FREE Gurlgama – Remember Me is a multi-art exhibition created in collaboration with FORM, Yinhawangka, Banyjima and Nyiyaparli people of the Pilbara and one of Australia’s foremost contemporary artist’s, Fiona Foley. It responds to Foley’s time spent with traditional owners in the Pilbara and uses Indigenous plant knowledge to explore the subtleties of what it means to belong to Country. AUSTRALIA Detail: Project Participant, 2015 Photograph by Rhianna Pezzaniti, image courtesy of FORM

The exhibition urges a reflection on the impact of race relations and colonisation on the intimate and complex understanding of place held by Indigenous people, and asks what the future could look like as time and knowledge passes on.

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Every summer, we gather under the stars to fall in love with cinema all over again. In 2015/16 our Lotterywest Festival Films program transports you to Paris, Chennai, Rome, Sicily, Georgia, England, Wales, and 17th-century Tuscany. And with a selection of new Australian short films preceding features (see perthfestival.com.au for details), we also see the outstanding beauty of Arnhem Land, Alice Springs, Broome, and Western Australia’s own Yawuru and Pibelmen Countries. We’re bringing you the highest quality range of films available from around the world in two outstanding

seasons. All the details for Season One (12 films) are included in this brochure, with Season Two (9 films) to be announced on Monday 18 January 2016. We’re making it even easier to join us with flexible 6- and 12-pack vouchers now able to be scanned directly into the venue. This means faster entry and more time to picnic. Single tickets are still available, with e-tickets delivered straight to your phone or to print at home. Whether you’re joining us for the first time or returning as an old friend, this summer at Lotterywest Festival Films we will share in the very best that cinema can be.

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS SEASON ONE DATES & TIMES

UWA SOMERVILLE Mon–Sun

ECU JOONDALUP Tue–Sun

23–29 Nov, 8pm

In Harmony

A Perfect Day

30 Nov–6 Dec, 8pm

A Perfect Day

In Harmony

7–13 Dec, 8pm

Tangerines

Queen and Country

14–20 Dec, 8pm

The Crow’s Egg

Tangerines

21–27 Dec, 8pm

Blind Date

The Crow’s Egg

28 Dec–3 Jan, 8pm

Dark Horse

Blind Date

4–10 Jan, 8pm

Tale of Tales

Dark Horse

11–17 Jan, 8pm

Mia Madre

Tale of Tales

18–24 Jan, 8pm

The Brand New Testament

Mia Madre

25–31 Jan, 8pm

Dheepan

The Brand New Testament

1–7 Feb, 8pm

The Wait

Dheepan

No screenings Christmas Day (Fri 25 Dec), Australia Day (Tue 26 Jan) or Good Friday (Fri 25 Mar). ECU Joondalup closed Sat 28 Nov and Fri 8 Apr. CTC: Check the classification.

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS SEASON TWO Announced Mon 18 Jan 2016

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UWA SOMERVILLE

$17/Friends $15*/Conc $15.50/ Full Time Student $12.50

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* Friends discount also available at the door; limit two tickets per night.

Box Office UWA Somerville and ECU Joondalup Pines

The University of Western Australia Info 08 6488 1732 Open 6pm nightly 0410 699 075 Lost property 08 6488 2691 Door sales from 6pm Picnics and BYO drinks welcome

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Image: The Crow’s Egg

VENUE DETAILS

DOOR PRICE

Standard 12-Ticket Pack $175.80 (save $28.20) Friends 12-Ticket Pack $165.60 (save $14.40) Standard 6-Ticket Pack $91.20 (save $10.80) Lotto Players 6-Ticket Pack $88.20* (save $13.80) * Available to Lotterywest Players Card holders only. Film pack vouchers are available for Season One and Season Two inclusive.

Flexible 6- and 12-pack vouchers are not date-stamped and may be used for entry on any one night to any film at either venue throughout both seasons. Ticket redemption at the gate is no longer required. Entry is subject to venue capacity. Venues include entry by general admission. Saving seats for friends does not guarantee them entry unless they hold a valid ticket for that evening’s screening. Tickets purchased over the phone or online will incur a booking fee. See perthfestival.com.au for food options.

ECU JOONDALUP PINES

Edith Cowan University, Joondalup Info 08 6304 5888 Lost property 13 43 28 Open Tue–Sun, 6.30pm 0407 420 503 Door sales from 6.30pm Picnics and BYO drinks welcome Selected films also showing in the Great Southern.

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FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

IN HARMONY

Cast: Albert Dupontel, Cécile de France

DIRECTOR DENIS DERCOURT 90mins, CTC SOMERVILLE 23–29 Nov, 8pm JOONDALUP 1–6 Dec, 8pm

French with English subtitles

This simmering romantic drama set in the golden fields of rural northern France is the ninth feature by writer-director Denis Dercourt (The Page Turner, 2007 PIAF). It reunites French acting luminaries and Orchestra Seats (2007 PIAF) co-stars Albert Dupontel (A Very Long Engagement) and Cécile De France (The Kid with a Bike). They play Marc, a taciturn stunt actor hurt in a riding accident, and Florence, who works for Marc’s insurer. This is classic French drama with a terrific script, great music and exceptional acting.

SPAIN

A PERFECT DAY

Cast: Benicio del Toro, Tim Robbins, Mélanie Thierry

DIRECTOR FERNANDO LEÓN DE ARANOA 106mins, CTC JOONDALUP 24–27 & 29 Nov, 8pm SOMERVILLE 30 Nov–6 Dec, 8pm

Oscar-winners Benicio del Toro (The Usual Suspects, Sicario) and Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption) shine in this witty Balkans-set comedic drama that has proved a hit with audiences worldwide. The year is 1995 and a group of humanitarian aid workers, led by world-weary veterans del Toro and Robbins, are nearing the end of their tour in mountainous Bosnia. A village’s water supply has been contaminated and amid the mayhem the workers’ seemingly straightforward quest for a rope soon becomes quite the ordeal.

ESTONIA

TANGERINES

Cast: Lembit Ulfsak, Elmo Nüganen

DIRECTOR ZAZA URUSHADZE 87mins, MA SOMERVILLE 7–13 Dec, 8pm JOONDALUP 15–20 Dec, 8pm

Estonian, Russian and Georgian with English subtitles

In the deep-rooted tangerine orchards of western Georgia, a war between ethnic Georgians and separatist mercenaries encroaches. It is the summer of 1992 and farmers Ivo and Margus are harvesting their crop of tangerines, nervous at the rising tensions nearby. Suddenly, a battle on their land leaves two enemy soldiers injured. As Ivo pledges to care for both men, he makes them promise not to harm one another while they are in his home. A tense parable, this moving anti-war film is the first from the region to be nominated for an Oscar.

UK/IRELAND

QUEEN AND COUNTRY

Cast: Callum Turner, Caleb Landry Jones, Pat Shortt, David Thewlis

DIRECTOR JOHN BOORMAN 114mins, CTC JOONDALUP 8–13 Dec, 8pm

This wistfully mocking drama by British film luminary John Boorman (Hope and Glory, Deliverance) transports us to sun-dappled south-east England in 1952. In a boot camp for young troops heading to Korea, Bill begins to discover worldly pleasures. The camp officers are officious and pompous, and for questioning young men like our hero Bill and his pals they are ripe for derision. This is intelligent nostalgia by a world-class filmmaker. Immediately we’re at home in this world … every scene is rendered with such authenticity that it’s riveting, almost like it’s a privilege to be stepping back in time. SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE

INDIA

THE CROW’S EGG

Cast: Ramesh, J. Vignesh, T.R. Silambarasan

DIRECTOR M. MANIKANDAN 99mins, PG SOMERVILLE 14–20 Dec, 8pm JOONDALUP 22–24 & 26–27 Dec, 8pm

Tamil with English subtitles

Cheeky and street-smart, young brothers, Big Crow’s Egg (aged 8) and Little Crow’s Egg (aged 6) are the masters of mischief in their hectic Chennai neighbourhood. When a pizza restaurant opens in the smart part of town they become desperate to taste this exotic new dish, trying every trick in the book to raise money to buy a slice. But even if they have the cash, will this snooty pizzeria tolerate kids from the ‘wrong’ part of town? A hit with audiences from Sydney to Mumbai, this colourful, music-laden film has bundles of energy, joy and charm.

FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

BLIND DATE

Cast: Mélanie Bernier, Clovis Cornillac

DIRECTOR CLOVIS CORNILLAC 90mins, CTC SOMERVILLE 21–24 & 26–27 Dec, 8pm JOONDALUP 29 Dec–3 Jan, 8pm

French with English subtitles

Blind Date is a clever Parisian comedy to delight anyone who’s ever played the dating game. When a young pianist moves in to a new apartment, she discovers that the walls are so thin, she and her neighbour can hear everything the other does. A battle ensues on both sides of the wall, each party trying to annoy the other into silence. Yet before long, these noisy lonely hearts start to enjoy each other’s quirks, despite having never seen each other. Stylish and laugh-out-loud funny, this audience award-winner is thoroughly charming entertainment.

DARK HORSE: THE STORY OF DREAM ALLIANCE

DIRECTOR LOUISE OSMOND 85mins, PG SOMERVILLE 28 Dec–3 Jan, 8pm JOONDALUP 5–10 Jan, 8pm

Fifteen years ago in a lush but poor village in the South Wales Valleys, a group of pub mates each paid £10 a week to own a racehorse. The colt showed remarkable early promise and began to turn heads in the notoriously elitist ‘sport of kings’. Full of heart-in-mouth thrills and blessed with unforgettable characters, this documentary is a riveting, us-against-the-world delight you will cheer on right to the finishing post. A heartwarming true story that … celebrates the triumph of the underdog. SCREEN INTERNATIONAL

ITALY/FRANCE/UK

TALE OF TALES

Cast: John C. Reilly, Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, Toby Jones, Shirley Henderson

DIRECTOR MATTEO GARRONE 134mins, MA SOMERVILLE 4–10 Jan, 8pm JOONDALUP 12–17 Jan, 8pm

Three classical Italian fairy tales are told with mad abandon by an all-star cast in luscious Baroque surroundings. These magical, feverish stories, drawn from the original 400-year-old The Tale of Tales by Giambattista Basile, weave the surreal into a parable of desire. Full of humour, mythical beasts, bawdiness and dark power, and exuding Neapolitan style, this is an evocative, full-blooded film, born for the big screen. Fabulous in every sense … gloriously mad, rigorously imagined, visually wonderful. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

ITALY

MIA MADRE

Cast: Margherita Buy, John Turturro, Nanni Moretti

DIRECTOR NANNI MORETTI 106mins, M SOMERVILLE 11–17 Jan, 8pm JOONDALUP 19–24 Jan, 8pm

Italian with English subtitles

A beautifully moving film, Mia Madre (My Mother) introduces us to a woman trying to hold things together while dealing with work, grief and a prize idiot. Margherita is a director immersed in her latest production, which stars riotously inept actor Barry Huggins, (played by John Turturro, in scenestealing form). Meanwhile her mother is gravely ill, so she must try to juggle the chaos at work while adapting to upheavals in her life. One of the finest films from Italy in recent years, Mia Madre shows a deep understanding of life that few movies manage.

BELGIUM/FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

THE BRAND NEW TESTAMENT

Cast: Pili Groyne, Benoît Poelvoorde, Catherine Deneuve DIRECTOR JACO VAN DORMAEL 113mins, MA SOMERVILLE 18–24 Jan, 8pm JOONDALUP 26–31 Jan, 8pm

French with English subtitles

What if God were an angry family man from Brussels? What if he sat at his computer in his dressing gown, dreaming up commandments to amuse himself and annoy everyone else? And what if his daughter, in a fit of childish pique, decided to change the rules and write a brand new Testament? This gloriously imaginative comedy answers all these questions with a series of affectionately funny twists on religion and society. Bible stories with a thick coat of satire … a peppy, original and (importantly) very sweet story. THE GUARDIAN (UK)

FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

DHEEPAN

Cast: Antonythasan Jesuthasan, Kalieaswari Srinivasan DIRECTOR JACQUES AUDIARD 109mins, CTC SOMERVILLE 25 & 27–31 Jan, 8pm JOONDALUP 2–7 Feb, 8pm

French and Tamil with English subtitles

Winner of the top prize at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, Dheepan is the latest masterpiece by director Jacques Audiard (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, 2006 PIAF). In the aftermath of civil war in Sri Lanka, Dheepan flees to make a new life in France. He arranges with two strong women to pose as a family in their Paris apartment, but outside, trouble is brewing. An utterly absorbing drama, Dheepan is one of the year’s most important films. An empathetic snapshot of the current immigrant experience in France … compelling right through. THE TELEGRAPH (UK)

ITALY/FRANCE

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

THE WAIT

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Lou de Laâge DIRECTOR PIERO MESSINA 98mins CTC SOMERVILLE 1–7 Feb, 8pm JOONDALUP 9–14 Feb, 8pm

Italian and French with English subtitles Piero Messina will attend select screenings

Single mother Anna (Oscar-winning actress Juliette Binoche, The English Patient, Chocolat, Three Colours: Blue) is in shock following the death of her teenage son Giuseppe. Shuttered up in a villa in mourning, she is visited by Giuseppe’s girlfriend Jeanne, who is unaware of recent events. And Anna is in no hurry to reveal the truth. The Wait is a calm, stylish and atmospheric tale, with a spine-tingling central performance from Binoche as a woman in denial. Cinematically dazzling debut. VARIETY

INTERNATIONAL

SCREENKIDS Create magic in a digital playground. Discover the wonderful world of digital innovation made especially for children. Bring the family and spend the day in the beautiful grounds of the Subiaco Arts Centre exploring incredible interactive installations before settling in for a bite to eat. Sydney Opera House presents two fantastic works developed through their Creative Play program. Play with light and colour with the magical Shadow Tables, by Australian Toby Knyvett, and make your mark with the amazing Digital Drawing Wall. Or get physical in a race through a virtual world with Headrush, from award-winning Dutch artist Lieven van Velthoven. Check out two superb short film programs jam-packed with the very latest and greatest in animation, direct from our partners at Cinekid (The Netherlands), Europe’s premier new media festival for children. Titles include The Mods (Italy), The Present (Germany) and Tik-Tak (Estonia). At Screenkids there’s something amazing to hear, see and play around every corner.

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GREAT SOUTHERN FESTIVAL The 2016 Great Southern Festival bursts into life for three weeks of visual arts, theatre, jazz, classical music, film and literary events. It opens with the biggest ever Festival commission to be presented in Albany celebrating the much loved Snake Run and the art of skateboarding. Great Southern Festival is your opportunity to uncover a local treasure trove of art, culture and fresh produce with an exclusive selection of some of the world’s great artists in one of the most beautiful parts of the planet. Full program announced in December. Go to perthfestival.com.au for more details.

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Sat 13 Feb

Fri 26–Sun 28 Feb

The Snake Run Project celebrates one of the world’s oldest skate parks, the Snake Run in Albany, and its local legends with an event combining cuttingedge contemporary performance, freestyle skating, bands and more.

Get involved in instrument making demonstrations and enjoy concerts across the weekend as Playmakers returns to the Great Southern.

SNAKE RUN Sat 13 Feb 5.30pm Highly-skilled skateboarding meets contemporary dance in a dynamic performance that explores the relationship between the snake, skin and the history of the Snake Run site. This high-octane event features surprising moments of beauty amongst the daring and unexpected.

INKING THE SKIN As part of this urban art project, the designs of more than 100 people are laid onto the concrete sides of the Snake Run. Each design represents its creator’s connection to this legendary place – the skin lost, the fear conquered and the love found. Director and Choreographer Sound Designer Costume Designer Urban Art

Annette Carmichael James Gentle Lynda Moylan Chad Marwick

A PIAF commission Presented in association with the City of Albany through the Vancouver Arts Centre

FREE Supported by: Family and Education Program Partner Rio Tinto, Department of Culture and the Arts, City of Albany, Great Southern Development Commission, Southern Lights Donors

Meet and Greet, Albany Entertainment Centre, Harbour Side Foyer Join the opening party featuring a ‘cast’ of Playmakers in a laid-back jam session. Fri 26 Feb, 7pm, $35 Make it, Play It, Albany Entertainment Centre, Kalyenup Studio Make It – see instruments being made and hear the very first joyful tones of the specially commissioned Great Southern Ukulele. Play It – Strum, pick, handle or simply marvel at fine locally handmade instruments. Sat 27 Feb, 10am–4pm, FREE Home Played 1: Acoustic Blues and Vintage Swing An intimate ‘house concert’ of acoustic music with food from our guest Playmaker chefs. Sat 27 Feb, $49 (location advised at point of sale) The Luthiers Forum Discover more about the inner world of stringed instrument making and the stories of these fine Western Australian craftsmen. Sun 28 Feb, FREE Home Played 2: Sunset Guitar Classics at The Rocks Enjoy classical guitar music from local and Western Australian musicians and hand-crafted local produce. Sun 28 Feb, $49 Supported by

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS IN THE GREAT SOUTHERN ORANA CINEMA Sessions at 6pm and 8.30pm, every Tue and Thur, 2 Feb–17 Mar (excluding 23 and 25 Feb) DENMARK CIVIC CENTRE Sessions at 7pm, Fri 4–Sat 5 Mar Go to perthfestival.com.au for details.

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL IN THE GREAT SOUTHERN

VARIOUS LOCATIONS Sun 21–Tue 23 Feb Full line-up of writers will be released in December. Go to perthfestival.com.au for details.

MIX Artists

SQUARE

ALBANY TOWN HALL

Twelve feature films and five Australian shorts will travel to Albany. From around the world we bring you yearning romance (In Harmony, Blind Date), thoughtful real-world drama (A Perfect Day, Tangerines, Queen and Country, Dheepan), and lively kids (The Crow’s Egg). Dreamy fantasy comes courtesy of Tale of Tales and The Brand New Testament, and Mia Madre is a beautiful film about family. Finally, seek out Dark Horse for an exhilarating true story. See pages 78–83 for full film details.

Perth Writers Festival in the Great Southern brings a selection of leading international and Australian authors and performers to Albany and Denmark. Join us for readings, performances, workshops, debates and conversations. Authors include Simon Winchester, Patrick deWitt, Jasper Fforde and Paul West, along with dynamic performance group Sketch the Rhyme.

MIX Artists are renowned for presenting engaging and thought provoking exhibitions. In 2016, 23 artists from the Great Southern take on the theme of ‘square’ for an exhibition of paintings, photography, works on paper, sculpture and installations. Responding to Albany’s newly revamped city square, the artists plan to be inside, outside and out of the box.

Fri 19 Feb–Mon 7 Mar, 10am–4pm

MAMANG KOORT – HEART OF THE WHALE

VANCOUVER ARTS CENTRE

For the art exhibition Mamang Koort – Heart of the Whale, five visual artists have placed materials around Albany’s Princess Royal Harbour and allowed the wind, water and objects to produce markings. This automative creative process leads to fascinating works on canvas and paper that speak of the tides, weather, colours, textures, and sounds found in the harbour.

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FESTIVAL VENUES PERTH CITY 1 Chevron Festival Gardens – Elizabeth Quay Cnr William St & The Esplanade

PARKING

2 Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Tce, Perth

SUBIACO RAILWAY STATION

3 Perth Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA) Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Northbridge 4 State Theatre Centre of WA Cnr Roe and William St, Northbridge

ROBERTS RD

PARKING

REGAL 10 THEATRE

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PARKING

ROKEBY RD

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HAY ST

SUBIACO 11 THEATRE CENTRE

HAMERSLEY RD

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Langley Park Cnr Victoria Ave & Terrace Rd, Perth Art Gallery of WA Perth Cultural Centre St George’s Cathedral & Burt Hall 38 St Georges Tce, Perth Queen Street Gym 20 Queen St, Perth Stirling Gardens Cnr St Georges Tce & Barrack St

SUBIACO 10 11

UWA

Regal Theatre 474 Hay St, Subiaco Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco

THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA (UWA) 12 Octagon Theatre

WINTHROP 16 HALL

LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY 18 GEOGRAPHY BUILDING

14 Perth Writers Festival Precinct TS MOUN

UNDERPASS

PARKING

DOLPHIN 17 THEATRE

BAY RD HACKETT D RIV E

WINTHROP AVE WINTHROP ENTRANCE

13 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

UWA SOMERVILLE OCTAGON THEATRE 12

14 PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL PRECINCT

WALKWAY PATHWAYS

PARKING

HACKETT ENTRANCE 1

15 UWA Somerville PARKING

16 Winthrop Hall 17 Dolphin Theatre 18 Geography Building

OTHER John Curtin Gallery Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley Fremantle Arts Centre 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle Quarry Amphitheatre 1 Waldrow Drive ECU Joondalup Pines 270 Joondalup Dr, Joondalup Victoria Hall 179 High St, Fremantle Astor Theatre 659 Beaufort St, Mount Lawley

PIAF EXECUTIVE

FESTIVAL BOARD

BOARD INVITEES

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL

Wendy Martin Artistic Director

John Barrington: Chair Suzanne Ardagh Tania Chambers Joss Gray Mary-Ellen King Prof Philip Mead Gaye McMath Grant Robinson Tim Ungar

Paul Andrew Dr Michael Chaney AO Frank Cooper AO Julian Donaldson Wendy Martin The Right Honourable The Lord Mayor, Ms Lisa Scaffidi Prof Kent Anderson

Chair: Zelinda Bafile Executive Officer: Judy Reid

PROGRAMMIMG

CORPORATE SERVICES

MARKETING

DEVELOPMENT

Anna Reece Head of Programming

Elvina Florenca Finance and Corporate Services Director

Brad Martin Marketing Director

Rebecca Kais Development Manager

Michelle Goldblatt Marketing Executive

Dana Henderson Development Director

Rhys Hyatt Marketing Campaign Coordinator

Acil Tayba Development Executive

Julian Donaldson General Manager

Hilary McKenna Program Administrator Tom Vincent Program Manager: Film Margaret Moore Program Manager: Visual Arts Chris van Tuinen Program Manager: Classical Music Katherine Dorrington Program Manager: Perth Writers Festival Maria Alessandrino Program Coordinator: Perth Writers Festival Sarah Dennehy Program Manager: Contemporary Culture Liz Newell Program Coordinator: Contemporary Culture Rod Vervest Program Manager: Great Southern Jemma Gurney Learning and Participation Manager Sarah Rowbottam Associate Producer Rick Heath (until Jul 15) Executive Producer Liz Sideris (until Jul 15) Digital Producer

Jessica Blackwell HR & Support Services Manager (Parental Leave) Toni Black HR & Support Services Manager Justin Cheek IT Coordinator & Systems Administrator Sue Aston Senior Financial Officer Greg Apps Accountant Beck Nouraei Aurore Chambon Finance Officers Stacie Standen Executive Assistant to the Artistic Director and General Manager

Scott Weir Graphic Designer Madeleine Drewe Assistant Graphic Designer

Nicole LaBianca Development Coordinator Dani Ryder Development Assistant

Annie Loo Digital Marketing Assistant

Fiona Smith Function and Catering Coordinator

Natasha Pawlowski Digital Content Assistant

MEDIA RELATIONS

Danielle Fernandes Signage Coordinator Tim Chandler Ticketing & CRM Administrator Margot Lane Strasburger Ticketing Assistant

Peter Liacopoulos Executive Assistant: Administration & Videographer

Jacinta Bydder Publications Editor

Jessica Laing Naidine Rintel Travel Beyond Consultants

Danielle Morache Education Officer

Andi Lawson-Moore Publications Editor

Rania Ghandour Media and Communications Manager Lucy Gibson Media Relations Coordinator PRODUCTION Drew Dymond Technical Director Elliot Chambers Production Manager Genevieve Jones Logistics Coordinator Jason Thelwell Technical Coordinator

BOOKING DETAILS BOOKINGS OPEN

OFFICIAL SALES CHANNELS

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL

Friends of the Festival preferential booking period starts Wed 4 Nov (10pm)– Mon 9 Nov (9am).

Patrons are advised to only purchase tickets from the Festival or official sales channels (left or online).

General Public Mon 9 Nov, 9am.

Please check your tickets carefully and read the terms and conditions.

Friends are entitled to discounts on two tickets for most Festival events and further tickets at full price. Ticket discounts to Lotterywest Festival Films are available on an unlimited number of tickets purchased in advance through the Festival. At the door at UWA Somerville or ECUJoondalup Pines a limit of two discounted single tickets per entry applies. Discounted film packs are available. Prices are subject to change without notice. Special offers subject to availability.

Patrons may join the Friends of the Festival at any time online or by calling the Festival Info Centre 08 6488 5555. ONLINE perthfestival.com.au Standard and Friends of the Festival tickets available. BY TELEPHONE Bookings and Festival Information: 08 6488 5555 Mon–Fri 9am–6pm and Sat 9am–1pm Additional hours during the Festival (11 Feb–6 March) Authorised Ticketing Agents: Perth Festival Info Centre: 08 6488 5555 Ticketek: 1300 795 012 Ticketmaster: 136 100 (Ballet at the Quarry and Perth Concert Hall tickets only) Perth Concert Hall 08 9231 9999 (events at Perth Concert Hall only) OVER THE COUNTER Events held at the State Theatre Centre, Regal Theatre and Subiaco Arts Centre can be purchased at any Ticketek outlet. Film tickets at UWA Somerville and ECU Joondalup Pines can be purchased at the door prior to the start of the film, subject to availability. Tickets to events at Perth Concert Hall can be purchased from the box office or through Ticketmaster Outlets. Albany Ticket Sellers: Paperbark Merchants and Ticketek (Albany Entertainment Centre events only) GROUPS AND SCHOOL BOOKINGS Buy 10+ tickets to any one Festival event and one ticket booker will go FREE. All ticket sales are subject to availability on Standard, A and B Reserve seats and apply to selected events only. Ticketek Group Bookings: 1300 364 001 To receive information about the Rio Tino Education Program, email schools@perthfestival.com.au or contact Festival Info on 08 6488 5555.

PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS All programs and artists are subject to change without notice. The Festival reserves the right to exclude latecomers at certain events or to admit only at a suitable point in the performance, if appropriate. Film screenings at UWA Somerville and ECU Joondalup Pines are subject to weather conditions. Updates on any changes to the schedule are broadcast 4.30pm online. BOOKING CONDITIONS Fees and Charges: Tickets to Festival events may be sold through a variety of ticketing agents, each with differing booking fees and ticket processing charges. Where tickets are booked by telephone, mail or online a transaction fee from $6.95 to $10.30 will apply. For Ticketek Groups a service/delivery fee of $9.95 per transaction applies. If you choose to purchase tickets at Festival venues for events in that venue, transaction fees will not apply. All telephone and online bookings can be made by credit card at an additional charge of up to 2% of the total purchase price. If you choose to have your tickets delivered by Registered Post by the Festival or Ticketek an additional fee of $2.25 will apply. The transaction fee is non-refundable. For Ticketmaster a handling fee applies to all bookings. Additional charges apply if you choose registered post. Please check at time of booking. Lost or stolen tickets purchased for events that have unreserved or general admission seating will not be replaced. Tickets with a seat allocation can be replaced. You will incur a fee for your lost ticket to be replaced; fees vary across ticketing agencies.

Concessions apply to Full-time students, Student Rush, Pensioners, Seniors and Unemployed (P/S/U) as advertised. When booking, a concession number must be provided and identification shown at the door. Tickets shall not be refunded or exchanged except as provided in the Entertainment Industry Code of Practice. CAPTIONED PERFORMANCES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED The captioning service is now provided via personal handheld devices and these must be booked with your tickets. For patrons wishing to use the captioning service for shows below, please inform our staff at the Festival Info Centre 08 6488 5555. Tickets are subject to availability. Apocrifu (page 18), Sat 27 Feb, 7.30pm Every Brilliant Thing (page 33), Sun 14 Feb, 2pm Guide Gods (page 27), all performances Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid (page 30), Sun 28 Feb, 7pm Richard Dawkins (page 67), Mon 22 Feb, 7pm The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet (page 22), Sun 21 Feb, 2pm The Wild Duck (page 24), Sun 6 Mar, 7.30pm AUDIO DESCRIPTION FOR THE SIGHT IMPAIRED Please advise if an audio description is required when booking, or if you need to be seated outside the reserved Audio Description area due to your vision impairment. Booking must be made seven days in advance. Every Brilliant Thing (page 33), Sun 14 Feb, 2pm Guide Gods (page 27), all performances The Object Lesson (page 28), Sat 20 Feb, 2pm The Wild Duck (page 24), Sun 6 Mar, 7.30pm

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THUR 11 FEB

FRI 12 FEB

SAT 13 FEB

SUN 14 FEB

MON 15 FEB

TUE 16 FEB

Home 7.30pm, p5

Langley Park Perth Concert Hall

Refuse The Hour 7.30pm, p16

Refuse The Hour 5pm, p16

Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA

Within 7.30pm, p38

Within 7.30pmT, p38

Within 1 & 7.30pm, p38

Within 7.30pm, p38

Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA

The Object Lesson 8pm, p28

The Object Lesson 2 & 8pm, p28

The Object Lesson 8pm, p28

Downstairs, State Theatre Centre of WA

Every Brilliant Thing Every Brilliant Thing Every Brilliant Thing Every Brilliant Thing Every Brilliant Thing 7.30pm, p33 11am & 7.30pm, p33 2 & 7.30pm, p33 2AC & 5pm, p33 7.30pm, p33

The Object Lesson 8pm, p28

The Sunday Series 2pm, p71

Upstairs, State Theatre Centre of WA

Blackmarket 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, p36

Secret Location, Streets of Subiaco

Regal Theatre

Queen Street Gym

Octagon Theatre Perth Writers Festival Precinct Geography Building, UWA St George’s Cathedral Burt Hall, St George’s Cathedral Subiaco Arts Centre Victoria Hall

Guide Gods 7.30pm, p27

Guide Gods 2 & 7.30pmT, p27

Guide Gods 7.30pm, p27

Quarry Amphitheatre

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p47

Guide Gods 2 & 7.30pm, p27

REST Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p47 Art & Motion 6pm, p9

The Astor Stirling Gardens

Go to perthfestival.com.au for details

Chevron Festival Gardens

Nightmares on Wax José González 9pm, p57 9pm, p57

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg–The Secret Garden p75

BUMP IN

William Fitzsimmons 8pm, p57

The Triffids 8pm, p58

Waxahatchee 8pm, p58

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Dani Marti–Black Sun p73

Fremantle Arts Centre

Shaun Gladwell, Carsten Höller, Jon Tarry–Face to Face p76

John Curtin Gallery Art Gallery of WA

Ryan Trecartin–6 Movies p76

Success UWA Somerville

Lotterywest Festival Films p78

ECU Joondalup

Lotterywest Festival Films p78

Great Southern

The Great Southern Festival p87

FREE

DANCE

THEATRE

MUSIC

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL

VISUAL ARTS

WED 17 FEB

THUR 18 FEB

FRI 19 FEB

SAT 20 FEB

SUN 21 FEB

MON 22 FEB

TUE 23 FEB

Richard Dawkins 7pmC, p67 Plexus 7.30pm, p40

Plexus 7.30pmT, p40

Plexus 7.30pm, p40

The Object Lesson 8pmT, p28

The Object Lesson 8pm, p28

The Object Lesson 2A & 8pm, p28

The Object Lesson 2pm, p28

I Know You’re There 7pm, p34

I Know You’re There 2 & 7pm, p34

Blackmarket Blackmarket Blackmarket Blackmarket 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, REST p36 p36 p36 p36 The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet 7.30pm, p22

The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet 7.30pm, p22

The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet 7.30pmT, p22

The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet 7.30pm, p22

REST

Blackmarket 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, p36

The Tiger Lillies Perform Hamlet 2pmC, p22 No Guts, No Heart, No Glory 8pm, p35

Roman Krznaric 7pm, p67

Perth Writers Festival p66

From Paddock to Print p68

Perth Writers Festival Family Day p69

Perth Writers Festival Weekend p66 The Great Escape 10am & 2pm, p15

Lisa Genova 7pm, p67

The Great Escape 10am, 1 & 4pm, p15

A Filetta 8pm, p48 Guide Gods 7.30pm, p27

Guide Gods 7.30pm, p27

Guide Gods 7.30pmT, p27

Guide Gods 2 & 7.30pm, p27

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p47

BUMP IN

A Mile in My Shoes 4–7pm, p37

A Mile in My Shoes 11am–7pm, p37

REST

A Mile in My Shoes 4–7pm, p37

Dub Pistols 8pm, p58

Kev Carmody 9pm, p59

Band Of Brothers 9pm, p59

Jóse James 9pm, p59

Goran Bregovi´c 8pm, p60

Dark Mirror White Noise 8pm, p60

Go to perthfestival.com.au for details

Guide Gods 2pm, p27

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg–The Secret Garden p75 Bharti Kher–In Her Own Language p72 Dani Marti–Black Sun p73 Shaun Gladwell, Carsten Höller, Jon Tarry–Face to Face p76

Shaun Gladwell, Carsten Höller, Jon Tarry–Face to Face p76

Ryan Trecartin–6 Movies p76 No Confidence p77 Lotterywest Festival Films p78 Lotterywest Festival Films p78 The Great Southern Festival p87

FILM

THE SUNDAY SERIES

GREAT SOUTHERN FESTIVAL

ARTIST TALK CAPTIONED

AUDIO DESCRIPTION/TACTILE TOUR AUSLAN INTERPRETED

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WED 24 FEB

THUR 25 FEB

FRI 26 FEB

SAT 27 FEB

SUN 28 FEB

MON 29 FEB Monteverdi: Vespers of 1610 7.30pm, p49

Perth Concert Hall

Apocrifu 7.30pm, p18

Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA

Apocrifu 7.30pmT, p18

Apocrifu 7.30pmC, p18

Spear 7pm, p45

BUMP IN

BUMP IN I Know You’re There 2 & 7pm, p34

Upstairs, State Theatre Centre of WA

I Know You’re There 7pm, p34

I Know You’re There 2 & 7pm, p34

Secret Location, Streets of Subiaco

Blackmarket 7.30, 7.45, 8 & 8.15pm, p36

Queen Street Gym

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory 2 & 8pm, p35

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory 8pm, p35

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory 2 & 8pm, p35

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory 8pm, p35

No Guts, No Heart, No Glory 5pm, p35

Octagon Theatre

Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid 7pm, p30

Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid 7 & 9pm, p30

Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid 7pm, p30

Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid 7 & 9pm, p30

Meow Meow’s Little Mermaid 7C & 9pm, p30

The Sunday Series 4pm, p71

REST

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre

Winthrop Hall

Chamber Music Weekend p50

Subiaco Arts Centre

Screenkids 4pm and 5.30pm, p84

Screenkids 10am, 1 & 4pm and 11.30am, 2.30 & 5.30pm, p84

Quarry Amphitheatre

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p47

Stirling Gardens

A Mile in My Shoes 4–7pm, p37

A Mile in My Shoes 11am–7pm, p37

REST

Chevron Festival Gardens

The Necks & Maru Tarang Hauschka, 8pm, p60 9pm, p61

Little Simz 9pm, p61

Tim Rogers & The Bamboos, 9pm, p61

Marlon Williams 8pm, p62

Jóhann Jóhannsson 8pm, p62

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg–The Secret Garden p75

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Bharti Kher–In Her Own Language p72 Dani Marti–Black Sun p73

Fremantle Arts Centre John Curtin Gallery

Shaun Gladwell, Carsten Höller, Jon Tarry–Face to Face p76 Ryan Trecartin–6 Movies p76

Art Gallery of WA

No Confidence p76

Success UWA Somerville

Lotterywest Festival Films p78

ECU Joondalup

Lotterywest Festival Films p78

Great Southern

The Great Southern Festival p87

FREE

DANCE

THEATRE

MUSIC

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL

VISUAL ARTS

TUE 1 MAR

WED 2 MAR

THUR 3 MAR

FRI 4 MAR

SAT 5 MAR

SUN 6 MAR

Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Wynton Marsalis’ Swing Symphony 7.30pm, p20 Symphony 7.30pmT, p20 BUMP IN

The Wild Duck 7.30pm, p24

The Wild Duck 2 & 7.30pm, p24

The Wild Duck 7.30pmT, p24

The Wild Duck 2AC & 7.30pm, season continues until 13 Mar, p24 Pindorama 6 & 9pm, p42

BUMP IN

Pindorama 8.30pmT, p42

Pindorama 6 & 9pm, p42

Pindorama 8.30pm, p42

Pindorama 6 & 9pm, p42

REST

I Know You’re There 7pm, p34

I Know You’re There 2 & 7pm, p34

BUMP IN & REHEARSAL

Give Me A Reason To Live 8pm, p27

Give Me A Reason To Live 8pmT, p27

Give Me A Reason To Live 8pm, p27

A Mile in My Shoes 4–7pm, p37

A Mile in My Shoes 11am–7pm, p37

Natalie Prass 8pm, p62

Sleater-Kinney 8pm, p63

Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 9pm, p63

Ibeyi 9pm, p63

House Gospel Choir 9pm, p65

I Know You’re There 2pm, p34 The Sunday Series 5pm, p71

Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg–The Secret Garden p75 Bharti Kher–In Her Own Language p72 Dani Marti–Black Sun p73 Shaun Gladwell, Carsten Höller, Jon Tarry–Face to Face p76 Ryan Trecartin–6 Movies p76 No Confidence p76 Lotterywest Festival Films p78 Lotterywest Festival Films p78 The Great Southern Festival p87

FILM

THE SUNDAY SERIES

GREAT SOUTHERN FESTIVAL

ARTIST TALK CAPTIONED

AUDIO DESCRIPTION/TACTILE TOUR AUSLAN INTERPRETED

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