Perth Events Listings

2012 Centenary Expedition

On Thursday 15 March 2012 there will be a display in Forest Place at 11am of the 44 around 100 years old one or two cylinder veteran motorcycles and automobiles which, on Friday 16th will depart from Government House Perth on a 4,100 kilometre Expedition to Sydney. This will take 20 days with two rest days. The Expedition celebrates "Our Forgotten Heroes" Sid Ferguson’s and Francis Birtle’s 1912 Historic and Heroic First West to East crossing of Australia by a motor vehicle - a 1912 BRUSH , a single cylinder 10 horsepower runabout taking 28 days with virtually no roads, driving from dawn to dusk. It will be a once in a lifetime experience for each Australian who sees the 2012 expedition at the start at Perth, en route and at the finish at the GPO Martin Place, George St. Sydney. For more information please see their website.

2012 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia

Enjoy an evening of superb music presented by one of the world’s most exciting and gifted pianists’ performing repertoire from the great masters. The winner of the 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia will be announced at the Sydney Opera House on Saturday 21 July and Perth audiences have the unique opportunity to hear the latest sensation in the music world only days later. The 2012 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia is one of the world’s most prestigious competitions for up-and-coming young pianists aged between 17 and 30 years. First presented in 1977 and held every four years, globally the competition attracts more applicants than any other piano competition. Thirty six pianists are finally selected from auditions around the world. Follow the action as all stages of the competition will be broadcast live on ABC Classic FM from Wednesday 4 to Saturday 21 July 2012.

A Fringeful of Folkin Country

A Fringeful of Folkin Country is a Fringe World Festival event. Stoney Sound System presents an intimate evening of eclectic folk, country and bluegrass. Rollicking artists of hoedown The Seals are joined by country-electro ramblers Stoney Joe, the silky female harmonies of Simone and Girlfunkle and the distinctive Australian storytelling of Justin Walshe. For lovers of real music, it’ll be folking fantastic. “Warning - this show contains peanuts.” Please refer to the website for more information.

A Magic Flute

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Mozart's enchanting music takes centre stage as a talented ensemble of young singers and a single pianist fill his rich score with new life, energy and colour. Marking the culmination of four decades at the helm of famed Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, legend Peter Brook turns his hand to this comedic and adventurous tale with a light and effervescent touch. Simplicity and intimacy make this an event to savour. Glimpse Mozart's wicked smile, as he plays tricks and catches us unawares in this vivacious new production of a timeless classic. Please refer to the website for more information.

A Summer Night With Olivia Newton-John and WASO

Our Olivia joins the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for a sparkling night of her greatest hits. You’ll be Hopelessly Devoted to her Summer Nights as she ties more than 40 years of greatest hits into a huge orchestral experience at Burswood Theatre. From Xanadu to Grease, Physical to Have You Never Been Mellow, experience on stage the songs that have become the soundtrack of our lives. Please refer to the website for more information.

Adam and Selina - Masters of Illusion

From Europe To Las Vegas, Adam and Selina are the new breed of modern day illusionists that have captivated audiences across the world and millions in sold out theatres and on television. They’ve become widely known for blending their modern showmanship, spectacular illusions and their slick performance style for audiences of the 21st Century. As international illusionists, they continue to share their magic, illusion and spectacle across the world with their sophisticated illusion performance. Please refer to the website for more information.

Ali Mcgregors Jazz Cigarette

Ali Mcgregor’s Jazz Cigarette is a Fringe Festival event. In Jazz Cigarette international cabaret star and errant opera singer Ali McGregor, backed by three of Australia’s finest jazz musicians, sings the songs that made her want to sing. Featuring classic jazz ballads and sassy blues made famous by Billie, Ella and Britney. Ranging from Gershwin’s The Man I Love, to unique interpretations of Eurythmic’s Sweet Dreams and Britney’s Oops I Did It Again. Please refer to the website for more information.

Angelo Street Marketplace

Angelo Street will burst with colour and creativity, when Unwrapped: the marketplace hits the street for the final event of Fiesta 2012. Unwrapped supports local emerging designers and artists to showcase their products to the public and this year will also see gourmet food stalls. Browse the stalls, enjoy live music, watch a fashion parade or visit the classic car display. While you’re there why not grab a coffee or have lunch in one of the many alfresco dining areas. Road closures in effect from 5am-9pm between Coode St and Strickland St. Supported by Transpacific Cleanaway, Lotterywest and Healthway. Please refer to the website for more information.

Australian Short Course Swimming Championships

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

Axis of Awesome World Tour 2006

Axis of Awesome World Tour 2006 is a Fringe Festival event. They’ve had 30 million hits on YouTube and toured to sold out audiences across the world. Now the universe’s most awesomestest musical comedy sensation return to Perth with their finest show ever. There are new songs, classic hits and brand new jokes about Benny’s height! Dingalingdingding. Please refer to the website for more information.

Balam Acab

Balam Acab is a Fringe World Festival event. Balam Acab’s debut album Wander/Wonder has received an amazing reception, winning rave reviews from the likes of Pitchfork and Resident Advisor. It’s an incredibly patient record; there’s an enormous sense of restraint that means that when the record hits, it’s “like an earthquake in fuzzy slippers”. Drawing comparisons to Burial, Balam Acab uses delicate, pitched up vocals and ethereal, echoed melodies combined with deep bass to create a completely enveloping listening experience. Live, expect spellbinding experimental pop music that pushes boundaries both in terms of songcraft and production. Wander/Wonder is reworked in a live setting, with tracks disassembled and rearranged to create an entirely fresh sound. Restricted 18+ Please refer to the website for more information.

Baro Banda

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Get set for a high-energy night with the liveliest force in new Gypsy music. Founded in Istanbul in 2006, these globe-trotting dynamos have perfected a sound that truly bridges East and West. From heavy Turkish Romany grooves to drum'n'bass, dub, funk, jazz and hip hop, Baro Banda (aka GeckoRomanProject) get you up and moving. Please refer to the website for more information.

Barry Morgan's World of Organs

A Fringe World Festival event. The fast becoming-a-celebrity organ salesman Barry Morgan is packing up his Toyota Crown and heading west. He will delight and entertain you with the Golden Syrup sounds of his 1981 Hammond Aurora Classic. Sit back, relax and be swept away by the mesmerising power of Barry’s Zither Arpeggiator, his Fascinating Fingers and his celebrated One Finger Method. Please refer to the website for more information.

Be Active 2012 Dams Challenge

The Be Active 2012 Dams Challenge features two of the toughest challenges in Australia. The Highbury Homes 5 Dams Challenge has become an iconic event for serious bike riders throughout Australia. Participants ride 235 kilometres and undertake over 2,000 metres of vertical climbing. The ride will visit Mundaring Weir, Churchman Brook, Wungong Dam, Canning Dam and Serpentine Dam before descending from the foothills and returning to the city. Riders will need to complete the course within the 12 hour time limit, starting from 5:30am, meaning riders will need to travel at an average of at least 20 kilometres per hour over the course, depending on stoppage time. Held on the same day, the 146 kilometre AvantiPlus Cannington 3 Dams Challenge gives riders a taste of the challenge and visits Mundaring Weir, Canning Dam and Wungong Dam, before teams ride down from the hills and back to Perth to the finish.

Beautiful Burnout

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Written by Bryony Lavery, Directed by Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett. Featuring the music of Underworld. National Theatre of Scotland returns to Perth with an exhilarating Frantic Assembly co-production that draws you into the explosive world of boxing. Cameron Burns is going places. He's going to see his name in lights. He's going to make the world take notice. He's fighting for his club, his mum, his place in the world. And this boy is a natural. He has an affinity with the violence, the balance, the ritual, the grace and the power. Featuring a pulsating soundtrack by electronic heavyweights Underworld, Beautiful Burnout is a play that gets your heart pounding. Supported by the Scottish Government International Touring Fund. Contains strong language. Please refer to the website for more information.

BHP Billiton Aquatic Super Series

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

Big Day Out

For the 20th year Big Day Out organisers have chosen to rebuild the Perth event from the ground up, with a goal to recapturing the magic of early Big Day Out shows. Triggered by the need to change venues and the limited space available at the new site, they have decided to look back to see the future for the Big Day Out. They are not just moving the show to a more suitable venue but changing the entire design. They are excited the bands are into the idea and they know you will be too. There will be one main stage, no D barricade, Skating and Skate stage in the main arena, Green stage, Boiler Room, Giant Water Slide, Show ‘N’ Shine and much, much more! Plus it’s now a little cheaper than the East Coast Shows, with booking fees included. Please refer to the website for further information.

Bio-Rhythmic

Bio-Rhythmic is a Fringe Festival event. Ross Vegas, manic comedian and beat-boxer presents a show like stand-up but funkier, like hip-hop but funnier like a-capella but angrier, all with just a microphone and a loop pedal. This self-confessed word-nerd and compulsive mouth noise maker has spent more than a decade twisting genres in festivals world-wide. Please refer to the website for more information.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Arcadia

Sidley Park, Derbyshire, April 1809. Surrounded by eccentric family members, fastidious house guests and surly staff, tutor Septimus Hodge is in charge of educating Lady Thomasina Coverley, aged thirteen. Beyond the grand windows are the ‘500 acres inclusive of lake’, where Capability Brown’s artificially manicured naturescape is about to give way to the fashionably ‘picturesque’ Gothic style of landscape gardening. 180 years later, garden historian Hannah Jarvis and academic Bernard Nightingale stand in the same room, trying to shed light on the garden’s secrets and uncover the scandal which is said to have taken place when Lord Byron stayed at Sidley Park in Lady Thomasina’s time. Stoppard’s absorbing play jumps back and forth between the centuries and explores the nature of truth and time and the confusing and disruptive influence of sexual attraction on our orbits in life. Please refer to the website for more information.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Boy Gets Girl

Successful journalist Theresa gets talked into a blind date with computer consultant Tony. As blind dates go, this one could have been a lot worse, but Theresa quickly realises that Tony isn’t the man of her dreams. She extricates herself from their second rendezvous as tactfully but firmly as possible. That should have been the end of the story but Tony doesn’t stop calling her at work. He continues to inundate her with flowers. And then he finds out where she lives, and the blind date turns into a living nightmare. In search of help, desperate Theresa finds support where she least expects it, but will she be able to regain control of her life? Please refer to the website for more information.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Managing Carmen

Brent Lyall is a freakish young sporting talent. At the age of 23, the country lad is already captain of one of the most successful football clubs in the land. He is managed by the ruthless and famous sports manager Rohan Swift, a foulmouthed bully of legendary status. Not only is Brent paid a prodigious amount of money to play, he makes three times as much with product endorsements: the advertisers simply love him and his glamorous model girlfriend. But he should be raking in a lot more advertising cash – if only he wasn't so guarded in front of every camera. Rohan is determined not to let Brent’s uptight performance get in the way of rich endorsement earnings and hires a psychologist to unleash Brent’s on-camera talent. But as Rohan finds out, Brent is not quite the simple country boy he seems: He has a secret passion for cross-dressing.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents National Interest

Tony Stewart was just 21 when he was killed in Balibo in October 1975. 32 years after Tony and his television news crew were murdered, the ghosts of the past are awakened again. For Tony’s mother June, these ghosts are real, as tangible as her daughter Jane standing in the kitchen with her. What was a shrewd move in the international power-play of 1975, left a gaping void for each family touched by the tragedy. The coronial inquest into Tony’s death seems too little, too late. His murder, along with those of his colleagues at the hand of the Indonesian military, was officially covered up, but everyone knew the truth. What’s the point of an inquest now? Can the truth heal decade-old pain? The fate of the Balibo Five shocked Australia in 1975 and the issues still reverberate today. Please refer to the website for more information.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Signs of Life

Alone in her farmhouse on the riverbank one night, Georgie hears noises out on the highway – car doors, voices, weeping. She’s recently widowed and a little spooked. It’s not just her – the entire world feels wrong. A figure slowly emerges from the darkness. A man, an Aborigine, seeks help. He says he needs petrol. His sister is out in the car, screaming. They’ve been sleeping in it for days. Can Georgie help? Should she trust them? And what do you do when guests settle in and show no inclination to move on? This is a story about people with uncertain futures navigating with only shreds of the past to guide them. It’s about the mutual incomprehension between white and black – the anxiously safe and the pragmatic dispossessed – in a country where nobody is really sure they belong anymore, and where everyone’s fate seems to have already been determined.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents Signs of Life

Alone in her farmhouse on the riverbank one night, Georgie hears noises out on the highway – car doors, voices, weeping. She’s recently widowed and a little spooked. It’s not just her – the entire world feels wrong. A figure slowly emerges from the darkness. A man, an Aborigine, seeks help. He says he needs petrol. His sister is out in the car, screaming. They’ve been sleeping in it for days. Can Georgie help? Should she trust them? And what do you do when guests settle in and show no inclination to move on? This is a story about people with uncertain futures navigating with only shreds of the past to guide them. It’s about the mutual incomprehension between white and black – the anxiously safe and the pragmatic dispossessed – in a country where nobody is really sure they belong anymore, and where everyone’s fate seems to have already been determined.

Black Swan State Theatre Company presents the White Divers of Broome

A Perth International Arts Festival event. The ‘Fat Years’ of Broome’s pre-WWI pearl-shell industry coincided with the national call to promote a white Australia. Broome owed its wealth to the cheap ‘coloured’ labour that collected mother-of-pearl from the hazardous seas. When the Australian Government discovered this one remaining pocket of racial diversity, they demanded the Asians be replaced with British navy divers. The master pearlers fiercely opposed having to employ white divers and entered into opportunistic alliances with the Asian crews to resist the newcomers. The White Divers of Broome is a fast-paced celebration of boom time Broome, its unique beauty, its exotic mix of cultures and the seductive power of its landscape. It is a stirring account of isolation, nonconformity and survival in a harsh and relentless environment. Please refer to the website for more information.

Bob Slayer will outdrink Australia

A Fringe World Festival event. From England. The ultimate unscripted alternative-comedy hour. It's wild, it's liberating, it's pure anarchy. Hilariously drunk and deranged rock and roll tour-manager turned Award-winning comedian. Wilder than acts he’s toured with (Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, Grinspoon, Steve-O). No rules, no limits, no refunds. Please refer to the website for more information.

Boom

The word ?boom' is wonderfully loaded, an onomatopoeia, to describe a resonant sound of impact ie. a booming voice. Or, it can mean a time of growth and development. Western Australia has been in the grip of a resources boom since 2006. But, what does this mean for the people who live here? What is the individual or collective experience? Utilising sculpture, painting, jewellery and film; eleven artists explore the phenomena of ‘boom times’. This exhibition showcases a diverse and vibrant group of artists who have collaborated on various projects and exhibitions for over ten years. Many are multi-award winning and highly collectable artists. Please refer to the website for more information.

Bunga Bunga Burlesqueconi

Signore and Signori! For over 30 years they’ve been giving pleasure at Silvio Berlusconi’s Bunga Bunga Club. Please give a very warm hand for fabulous originators of Italian burlesque, Le Sorelle Bandiera! Yes, they are (a)live. Yes, they’re still defying gravity and flying high. Please, sir, no cameras! From Roma, and fresh from an intimate cabinet meeting with Berlusconi, Le Sorelle Bandiera are tickled to once more be in Perth, Italy’s most remote outpost. Please refer to the website for more information.

Campari Kid and Siren of the Squeezebox

Campari Kid and Siren of the Squeezebox is a Fringe World Festival event. Sad songs to make you laugh. Funny songs to make you cry. Evocative melodies to make your soul shiver. Cathie Travers’ accordion is the perfect foil for singer-songwriter !an L!lburne’s Spanish guitar. With Phil Bailey (bass), Peter Smith (percussion) and Pete Grandison (frets), they present an evening of original music. Travers and L!lburne are no strangers to the Fringe. Travers has done many fringe shows in an array of fine new-music ensembles, her ‘trademark expressiveness informing every note she plays’. For L!lburne it’s full circle, having jumped the fence from administration into performance. This show follows the successful launch of his debut CD, Ghosts, in 2011. Restricted to ages 18 plus. Please refer to the website for more information.

Cat Commander Is: Falling

Cat Commander Is: Falling is a Fringe World Festival event. Cat Commander is drinking her way through the last memories that are left in the liquor cabinet as she narrates a story of love, loss, disappointment and hope, through a variety of characters, who introduce 13 original songs. Switching seamlessly from to the comedic to the poignant this show will take you on a journey to places far away, and territory that, if you've ever been in love, may very well be familiar. Please refer to the website for more information.

Charles Bradley And His Extraordinaires

Soul man Charles Bradley is making his way to Australia at the balmy end of summer to lay some Brooklyn soul vibes on music lovers across the country. A member of the Dunham Records family, Charles Bradley has been backed by soul supergroups The Bullets and The Menahan Street Band (whose Make The Road By Walking was sampled in Jay Z’s Roc Boys) and now tours Australia in March 2012 with his Extraordinaires, the backing band that owned Europe and the United States on his world tour featuring some of New Yorks finest soul musicians. His unique brand of Soul is of course highlighted by his exceptionally gravelly voice; the sometimes-pained words truly conveying a life well lived, just as soul music should be sung. Look out for Charles Bradley as he brings the classic soul sounds to a city near you. Please refer to the website for more information.

Checkout - The Musical

A Fringe World Festival Event. Welcome to Super Savings, a local supermarket run by six hopeless misfits completely unaware of their own peculiarities. Add a frantic whirlwind of song and dance, a murdered manager, a manic investigator and you have Checkout, a murder-mystery like no other. Please refer to the website for more information.

Chevron City to Surf

Chevron City to Surf for Activ is the largest community sporting event in Western Australia incorporating the marathon, half marathon, 12 kilometre Run/Walk, four kilometre Run/Walk/Wheelchair. The course takes participants on a journey from the City of Perth to City Beach. Boasting Western Australia’s largest field and Australia’s richest prize pool, the City to Surf Marathon takes in some of Perth’s most beautiful sights. Starting from the city centre, runners travel along the Swan River banks before entering Kings Park and finishing at City Beach on the beautiful Indian Ocean. Visit the website to register and for further information.

Chopin and Mendelssohn's Octet

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Combining virtuosity with tender lyricism, Chopin's First Piano Concerto is an ideal vehicle for the unique talents of Polina Leschenko. The carefree exuberance of Mendelssohn's Octet belies its fiendish technical intricacies. The tonal riches of the Australian Chamber Orchestra's three legendary violins - Stradivari, Guarneri and Guadagnini - are revealed in Richard Tognetti's specially created arrangement of Paganini. Paganini (arr Tognetti) Caprice No.17 arr for three violins Morricone Exercises I: Adagio Chopin (arr tognetti) Piano Concerto No.1 Górecki Piano Concerto Mendelssohn Octet Artistic Director and Lead Violin - Richard Tognetti Piano - Polina Leschenko Australian Chamber Orchestra Please refer to the website for more information.

Cirque Appetit

Cirque Appetit is a Fringe World Festival event. Sink your teeth into a world of Circus mastery, Sensuality and Kooky party tricks. Leading Circus Artists and Cabaret performers will entice you in this dark mixture of high skills, comedy and unexpected delights. Cirque Appétit was born at the taster Fringe World 2011, and is back with a brand new show. It is darker, sexier and filled with surprises! The Perth based Professional Performers will entice you into their favourite world of high skills, physical comedy, and crazy antics. Deliciously irresistible... and a little bit rotten Please refer to the website for more information.

City of Perth Twilight Hawkers Markets

Friday nights in the city are set to spice up as the City of Perth launches the summer series of the Twilight Hawkers Markets in Forrest Place. Kicking off on Friday, 28 October 2011 (Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday), the Markets will take place every Friday evening until March 2012, taking a short break for a few weeks over the Christmas period when other events will use the space. Taking advantage of the famous summer climate, the Twilight Hawkers Markets will offer visitors to the city the chance to meander through rows of market stalls sampling cuisine from around the globe including Indonesian satays, Spanish paella, Turkish gozlemes, Moroccan tagines and more. In addition to international street-vendor style foods, visitors to the Markets will be able to kick back and enjoy free live music and roving entertainment. Please refer to the website for more information.

City of South Perth - Fit N Fun Day

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

City of South Perth - Speaking Sustainability

In partnership with Perth Zoo, the City of South Perth is hosting a forum to inspire action towards creating a sustainable future. Three speakers will present on topics relating to sustainable living and highlighting local and global issues. Attend all three sessions or just one. Environmental Sustainability at Perth Zoo. 4.30pm to 5.30pm Presented by Carol Shannon, Perth Zoo Corporate and Commercial Development Director Social Sustainability In Good Urban Design. 5.45pm to 6.45pm Presented by Phillip Gresley, Director of Gresley Abas Architects and Alex Quinn, Architect at Gresley Abas Architects Adopting Clean Tech: How Quickly Will/Can Australia Change. 7.00pm to 8.00pm Presented by Professor Ray Wills, Chief Executive of the Sustainable Energy Association of Australia Sessions are free, however, gold coin donations are appreciated. Proceeds support Wildlife Conservation Action. Light refreshments will be served. Bookings accepted in late February. Seating is limited. Please refer to the website for more information.

City of South Perth - WesTrac Fiesta Concert

Featuring the amazing men of music theatre and the Rat Pack’s back. This spectacular evening is not to be missed, with songs from well known musicals such as; Phantom of the Opera, Cats and Jesus Christ Superstar. This unique combination of performers have all starred in major musicals, both in Australia and overseas. The Amazing Men of Music Theatre will be supported by a fully choreographed show from The Rat Pack’s Back, performing songs made famous by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jnr. Daren Reid and the Soul City Groove will also be making a special appearance. There will be plenty of FREE kids activities, bring a picnic or a delicious selection of food will be available to purchase Supported by WesTrac, Lotterywest and Healthway. Please refer to the website for more information.

Clairy Browne and The Bangin' Rackettes

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Clairy Browne and The Bangin' Rackettes will make their Festival Gardens debut in Seasick Steve’s place as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. The hollers, growls and whisky-drenched tones of Clairy Browne and The Bangin’ Rackettes lure you back to sixties Motown, where the dirty soul sounds of smoky vocals, feverish harmonies and gritty dancehall blues get you shaking and grinding. This nine piece rhythm and blues big band from Melbourne, take you from northern soul, jump blues, doo-wop, gospel to ska, with influences ranging from Etta James and Prince to Arquettes and Salt n' Pepa. Please refer to the website for more information.

Coles Gluten Free Food and Healthy Living Expo

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

Collective - Exhibition and Auction

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

Craft and Quilt Fair

The Craft and Quilt Fair is Australia's favourite craft event. It's all about craft – seeing what's possible, learning new techniques and buying all you need for your craft projects. Whether you are a beginner, or a clever craft goddess, you'll find ideas, inspiration and a huge range of exhibitors selling craft supplies. Under one roof you can shop with craft specialists from all over Australia and find unique products for stamping, scrapbooking, knitting, embroidery, sewing, quiltmaking, jewellery-making and more. Explore the latest products from sewing, embroidery, scrapbooking and patchwork to jewellery making, papercraft, beading, knitting, crochet and much more. Plus, get hints and tips from the experts too. Enjoy the 2012 QuiltWest annual exhibition. Please refer to the website for more information.

Cricket City Perth - Commonwealth Bank One Day International: Australia versus Sri Lanka

Australia, Sri Lanka and India will compete in the Commonwealth Bank One Day International series this summer. Australia will take on Sri Lanka in Perth at the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Ground. The two teams are looking to improve on their recent form so it is sure to be a good contest. Do not miss this one. Please refer to the website for more information.

Cricket City Perth - Commonwealth Bank One Day International: India versus Sri Lanka

Australia, Sri Lanka and India will compete in the Commonwealth Bank One Day International series this summer. India will take on Sri Lanka in Perth at the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) Ground. The two teams are looking to carry on their recent form so it is sure to be a good contest. Do not miss this one. Please refer to the website for more information.

Cut and Paste Collaborations

Cut and Paste Collaborations is a Fringe World Festival event. The Cut and Paste Collaborations Series will see the first live instalment of a forward thinking music and visual project with collaborations between some of Western Australia’s most forward thinking artists. Debuting at the Bakery the event will featuring artists including Abbe May, Naik, Mathas, Hayley Beth. The Weapon of Sound, Felicity Groom, Empty Cup, Diger Rokwell, Ylem, Andrew Ryan, Rachel Dease, Sibalance and Patrick Mclaughlin. Restricted to 18 plus. Please refer to the website for more information.

Daniel O'Donnell

Daniel O'Donnell, Ireland's most popular "easy listening" entertainer, returns to Australia. Daniel has enjoyed tour and chart success in Australia and New Zealand for a number of years and earned himself a loyal following that stretches across both countries. Daniel remains as excited and enthusiastic about his work and his fans as when he first launched his career. Daniel has never forgotten that it was the public who gave him his success in the first place, especially as he struggled long and hard to achieve his ambitions. A native of Kincasslagh, Co. Donegal, Daniel's concert appearances have taken him from London's Royal Albert Hall and Dublin's Point Depot to New York's Carnegie Hall and Sydney's Opera House, but he still continues to set himself fresh ambitions and new worlds to conquer. Please refer to the website for more information.

David Egan: The Unknown by the More Unknown

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

Dickens' Women

Following sellout performances in 2007, BAFTA®-award winning actress Miriam Margolyes returns to Australia for an encore national tour of her one-woman tour-de-force, Dickens' Women. Bringing to life twenty-three of Charles Dickens’ most affecting and colourful female (and male!) characters, Margolyes presents her powerful, comprehensive, and at times hilarious exposé of Dickens, his writing, and the real-life women who found themselves immortalised in his books. This strictly limited season is part of the worldwide celebrations of 200 years of Charles Dickens in 2012. Don't miss your chance to see this acclaimed actor in the roles she was born to play.

Dirk Darrow: NCSSI

A Fringe World Festival Event. Track down a killer through a murky paranormal world in the only one-man comedy film noir magical murder mystery. Part stand up, part mentalism, part theatre, all gritty 1940’s nostalgia. It will have you on the edge of your seat. Please refer to the website for more information.

Driving into Walls

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Pashing, fighting, laughing, dancing and confessing ... drawn from over 500 starkly honest and highly confidential interviews with Western Australian teens, this intimate and confronting play draws back the curtain on what it means to be young in our modern, media-driven society. Five teenagers walk an emotional tightrope of online and offline relationships, colliding with one another and driving into the walls built around them. This daring, immersive production gives you a raw and voyeuristic view of their deepest secrets, rages, anxieties and hopes Please refer to the website for more information.

dusk Bridal Fair

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

Eat Drink Perth

Perth’s biggest food festival, Eat Drink Perth, happens throughout the month of March with a variety of events showcasing Perth’s unique food culture. Brought to you by the City of Perth, the festival invites all foodies to discover the city’s restaurants, cafes, bars and diverse culinary experiences. This month-long celebration includes wine and cheese tastings, hawker markets, master classes, cocktail events, degustations, food tours, coffee making, a butcher’s picnic, parties, book signings, food specials and so much more. Tempt your tastebuds and indulge in the many flavours, sights and smells on offer at Eat Drink Perth. Please refer to the website for more information.

Elektra

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Elektra is arguably the darkest and most gripping 100 minutes in opera, a story of fanatical love and revenge that drives performers and orchestra to their limit. It was the first collaboration between Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, one of the most important composer-librettist partnerships in operatic history, and is as powerful today as at its 1909 Dresden premiere. Director Matthew Lutton's new production brings startling visual intensity to the music, with Danish soprano Eva Johansson in the title role. Enter Elektra's vivid dreams and desires - she has seen her father murdered, the city around her is cursed and she longs for justice. As Strauss's music rises in beauty and falls in horror, Elektra searches for light in the darkness. Please refer to the website for more information.

Enter Through The Window

Enter Through The Window is a Fringe World Festival event. The Exit Stencilists are a street art duo with a penchant for the way out. A wunderkammern of collectable culture, pop art and found object dressed in the window of Peekaboo Gallery. Changing daily, the space will be restocked and reconfigured over the course of the Fringe. You would be a goose, not to swing by for a gander. Please refer to the website for more information.

Eric's Tales of the Sea - A Submariner's Yarn

A Fringe World Festival Event. Award Winning gifted raconteur, Eric has a story to tell; with astonishing visuals you will get an insider's view of the mysterious world beneath the waves in a Royal Navy Nuclear Submarine. It is unique, riveting, funny and poignant. Please refer to the website for more information.

Ethel Chop and Chums

A Fringe World Festival Event. Ethel Chop, Australia’s favourite Polyester clad battleaxe, hosts her very own talk show. With accompaniment from the Ant Farm Orchestra, and trolley assistant Thingamebob (Geraldine Hickey), Ethel sings and charms her way through a jam packed variety hour featuring special guests each night. Book now. Avoid gout. Please refer to the website for more information.

Everything Baking

Everything Baking will be more than sugar and fondant. The exhibition will include a range of companies and operators. The great news is that one of the most famous cake artists himself, Buddy Valastro will be there in his only appearance in Australia as part of three presentations at the beginning of February. Please refer to the website for more information.

Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum

Part of the CHOGM 2011 program of community events. The Western Australian Museum and the British Museum have partnered to bring a unique collection of rare artefacts to Australia for the first time, to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in October 2011. The exhibition will be filled with some of the British Museum’s most important objects, rarely lent to other museums, representing many of the 54 Commonwealth countries. Individually and collectively they tell extraordinary stories about the world's people, who we are and where we've come from - taking visitors on a 1.8 million year journey around the world.

Falsettos

The Old Mill Theatre is opening its 2012 season this February with the WA premiere of an acclaimed, award-winning musical. Directed by the experienced and well-known John Milson with musical direction from Alistair Smith, Falsettos has been described as a production that provokes laughter and tears in equally copious amounts. Written by William Finn, the story follows a warring modern family in an age of liberated sexual choices and shifting social rules. Please refer to the website for more information.

Fat Shan Music Launch

Fat Shan Music Launch is a Fringe World Festival event. Fat Shan Music officially launches at The Bakery as part of the spectacular Fringe World Festival. With Sam Perry, Sugarpuss, The Flower Drums, The Silent World, Our Man in Berlin, Quills and Sean O'Neill. Please refer to the website for more information about this event.

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience

Featuring all the best gags and a great meal, Faulty Towers the Dining Experience is a loosely-scripted, pitch-perfect tribute to the famous television series. The fun starts as the audience wait to be seated, and it hurtles along for the next two hours as Sybil, Basil and Manuel serve the meal. Basil is madly neurotic, Sybil a domineering madam, and Manuel – of course – is hopelessly language-challenged. Everything that can go wrong does - just don’t mention the war. Please refer to the website for more information.

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience

Faulty Towers the Dining Experience is a Fringe World Festival event. Born in Brisbane in 1997, this internationally acclaimed show tours the world non-stop, performing sell-out seasons in London’s West End, Europe and the Middle East, and at top arts festivals in Edinburgh and Brighton, Melbourne and Adelaide. It toured Western Australia too, with sell-out shows and an ongoing reputation that’s ‘outstanding’ (FringeReview, Adelaide Fringe 2011). This loosely-scripted, pitch-perfect tribute to Fawlty Towers features all the best gags and a great meal. In a masterful piece of interactive theatre cunningly disguised as chaos, you, the audience, are the diners with Sybil, Basil and Manuel your fractious waiters. Just don’t mention the war! Please refer to the website for more information.

Feast of Words

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Indulge in a gourmet three-course feast of food and Watershed wines as literary stars complement each dish with specially chosen readings. Set by the Reflection Pond at UWA's beautiful Whitfeld Court, Feast of Words has all the ingredients for a perfect summer night: good friends, great food and some of the world's most intriguing authors. Join UK novelist Barbara Trapido (Sex and Stravinsky), Irish poet Dennis O'Driscoll (Weather Permitting), NZ's 2011 Commonwealth Writers Prize winner Craig Cliff (A Man Melting) and Norwegian sensation Johan Harstad (Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?). Vegetarian and gluten free option available. Please refer to the website for more information.

Festival Gardens

A Perth International Arts Festival venue. In a lush garden setting, the new outdoor summer concert venue sees retro chic Lounge meet the Festival Main Stage, under Perth’s starlit sky. See the best of the world’s emerging and established talent live, or kick back with friends, all in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre – this is your Festival hub. Featuring Little Roy, Dennis Rollins’ Velocity Trio, Faustian Pact, The Medics, Seasick Steve, Death Cab for Cutie, The Suitcase Royale, Cornershop, Sound of Rum, Carnival of Souls, Cut Chemist, Bonnie Prince Billy featuring The Cairo Gang, MEN, Neon Indian and Slow Club, Sway Machinery, Eddie Palmieri, Baro Bands, The Magnets, Staff Benda Bilili and Penguin Café. Enjoy The Main Stage for a unique performance each night, The Lounge for an intimate retro hangout, and The Gardens before and after the show. Please refer to the website for more information.

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

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

Florence and The Machine

Fanning the flames of a fire started just under two years ago, Florence + The Machine are set to ignite stages across the country when they return to Australia for a national arena tour. The phenomenal success story of the debut album 'Lungs' - certified double platinum in Australia, peaking at #3 on the ARIA Album Chart with the much loved singles 'You've Got The Love,' 'Kiss With A Fist' & 'Dog Days Are Over' - has paved the way for her much lauded and highly anticipated sophomore release, 'Ceremonials.' Debuting at #1 on the ARIA charts on the week of release, this stunningly accomplished record is showing no sign of slowing down. Please refer to the website for more information.

Franchising and Business Opportunities Expo

Your success starts at the Franchising and Business Opportunities Expo. Wondering about the best way to start your own business? For many people, the support and structure of a franchise is the key to success. At the Franchising and Business Opportunities Expo you'll be able to meet face-to-face with people behind the franchise systems and businesses for sale, hear real-life experiences from successful franchisees, obtain free legal and financial advice, attend free seminars delivered by experts and more - all under one roof. If a traditional franchise isn't for you, at the Expo you'll be able to compare licensee and distributor opportunities and discover a wide range of other opportunities to earn additional income. The Franchising and Business Opportunities Expo is the perfect place to begin your new business search or finalise your decision making process. Please refer to the website for more information.

Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

With a career spanning more than five decades, 19 top ten hits and over 100 million record sales worldwide, Frankie Valli is an undisputed icon and one of America's greatest performers. Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons will serenade fans with the songs we all know and love including "Sherry", "Let's Hang On", "Bye Bye Baby (Baby Goodbye)", "Big Girls Don't Cry," "Walk Like a Man", "Rag Doll", "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", "Working My Way Back To You", and many more. Don't miss your chance to be wooed by music's master of doo-wop, Frankie Valli together with the Four Seasons. Please refer to the website for more information.

Fringe World Festival

Perth’s first full Fringe World Festival is set to explode in early 2012. Featuring over 150 plus shows brought to you by over 800 local and visiting artists from across the world of Fringe, the festival has a smorgasbord of entertainment on offer to tickle your taste buds. Alongside all the traditional and non-traditional venues that are part of the Fringe, there are three very exciting hubs for you to visit during the festival in 2012. The Treasury and Perth Town Hall hub in the heart of the Perth central business district; and the Perth Cultural Centre hub and the City of Perth Comedy Central hub in Northbridge. Fringe World kicks off on Australia Day with the ‘Four Day Weekend’ featuring special free programs and pop-up treats across the Fringe World hubs and beyond. Please refer to the website for more information.

Frisky and Mannishs Pop Centrelink

Frisky and Mannish’s Pop Centrelink offer a rigorous analysis of your skill set which will reveal your optimum career path in pop music. Are you a Bieber? Are you Cher? Or are just a Ke$ha? If you don't sign up, you will never know. "Such glittering panache". The Telegraph, UK "Wildly talented". The Independent, UK Please refer to the website for more information.

Future World

This is a Fringe World Festival Event. Future World is a 2011 Golden Gibbo Award Nominee. In the bright utopian future, a job surplus means workers are outsourced from the past. This is their story. It is a delightfully silly one-man sci-fi potboiler - an impressive piece of comedy showmanship. Please refer to the website for more information.

Germaine Greer - Eco Feminism Then and Now - Opening Address

Both women and the natural world are subject to a long history of domination, but the stark reality of the environmental challenges we face has brought a new relevance and urgency to eco-feminism's call to restructure the power balance that still dominates our culture. Join one of the world's most influential thinkers as she gives a riveting Opening Address - and be sure to book a place at the Opening Party that follows to meet writers from across the program. Suitable for audiences 16+

Get Physicool

Get Physicool is a Fringe World Festival event. Want to sweat like it’s 1985? Join VJzoo and MC Bonnie Davies for the ultimate fluoro workout faceoff. Follow the moves on the big screen at Northbridge Piazza and compete for titles like “Buns of Steel” and “Does it like Fonda”. Entry by donation, 80’s workout-wear preferred. Please refer to the website for more information.

Glamazonian: New Adventures Of A 50 Foot Woman

Bigger. Better. And now with more sequins! The 50 Foot Woman is crash landing into Perth with her critically acclaimed circus extravaganza, Glamazonian: New Adventures of a 50 Foot Woman! Witness the hilarious and heartbreaking spectacle of this extraordinary woman trying to make her way in an ordinary world. Please refer to the website for more information.

Go Show Gold

The original stars of the Go!! Show, the television show that created so many local stars and transformed the pop music scene in Australia in the sixties, are coming to Perth in the Ultimate Reunion Concert at the Riverside Theatre. Go!! Show Gold will feature every major artist from the 60's and the guest list reads like a Who's Who of Australian pop music. On stage together for the first time in 40 years will be Normie Rowe, Ronnie Burns, MPD Limited, Bobby Bright, Dinah Lee, Darryl Cotton, Tony Worsley, Marcie Jones and the original members of Masters Apprentices who are reforming especially for the event. Johnny Young and Ian Turpie who compered the Go!! Show during its five years on air will host the show. Don't miss this once in a lifetime opportunity to see these major stars all on stage together.

Gold-Digger: The Shags to Riches Story of Australia's Iron 'Ore

Gold-Digger: The Shags to Riches Story of Australia's Iron 'Ore is a Fringe World Festival event. Meet Rosie Portelou*. Love her or hate her, she has taken the world of tabloid magazines by storm. Designed to have you in stitches, this tongue-in-cheek cabaret musical features popular tunes such as It Had to Be You and Madonna’s Material Girl, and original compositions like Pethidine Polka and Poodle Ballet, composed by Perth’s maestro extraordinaire Tim Cunniffe. With its compelling story and hilarious ‘lub tips, darlinks’, Gold-digger is pure entertainment gold! *Please note: Any similarities in character or story to existing people are purely coincidental. This show also contains adult themes. Restricted 18+ Please refer to the website for more information.

Grupo Corpo - Onqoto and Parabelo

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Artistic Director Paulo Pederneiras. Drawing on urban and rural folk styles, this distinctly Brazilian contemporary dance company combines the grace and technique of ballet with the raw vitality of swaying limbs, sexy swagger and pulsating rhythms. For the 2012 Festival they present two strikingly visual and spirited performances. Onqotô is a hypnotic and boisterous creation set to the Latin sounds of Brazilian superstars Caetano Veloso and José Miguel Wisnik. Mixing wit with spectacle, dancers explore the origins of life, society and tribalism - revelling in the sensuality of pure dance. In Parabelo dancers stamp their feet and shake their hips in a fast-paced exploration of Brazil's many traditional communities. Movements evolve and change, ranging from romantic duets to a free-wheeling indulgence in the Carnival spirit. Presented by arrangement with Arts Projects Australia. Contains nudity. Please refer to the website for more information.

Hand Painted Legs

An homage to avant garde, from the waist down. Australia's prized powder-keg performance collective presents the "IT" variety showcase. Voix De La Ville is what Perth's performance scene aspires to embody...and it does so effortlessly. Taboo breakers sure to titillate and intrigue!!! Please refer to the website for more information about Hand Painted Legs.

Heavenly Harmonies

Flautist Emily Gunson is joined by international virtuoso harpist Yinuo Mu for a special concert of rarely heard works for this popular combination of instruments, heard to great advantage in the beautiful resonant acoustics of the newly restored Church of the Resurrection. The programme presents instrumental pieces by two 19th-century Italian composers, better known for their dramatic operas, a sonata by Donizetti, and Rossini’s Andante con Variazioni. These Italian pieces are complemented by two French works, a sparkling sonata by Mozart’s contemporary Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz, and a Nocturne by his pupil François-Joseph Naderman, which features a Tyrolean theme from Rossini’s “William Tell” ballet music. Other works include Carl Nielsen’s evocative miniature, “The Fog is Lifting,” and Jacques Ibert’s thrilling Spanish-inspired “Entr’acte.” Don’t miss this opportunity to experience this unique event. Please refer to the website for more information.

Henry V

A Perth International Arts Festival event. By William Shakespeare. Directed by Edward Hall, Text adaptation by Edward Hall and Roger Warren. Propeller perform Shakespeare's works as dramatic tales. Their approach is shot through with vigour and imagination, reminding us of the thrill and daring at the heart of great theatre. The troupe is led by Edward Hall. As well as being Artistic Director of Propeller, he lends his expertise as Associate Director at the National Theatre, The old Vic and Watermill Theatre. Henry V At the dawning of King Henry V's reign, power and morality collide amid plots of intrigue, duplicity and a perilous turn to France. Outnumbered five to one, the English army faces the Battle of Agincourt, roused from their fears by the lyrical eloquence and raw power of Henry's St Crispin's Day Speech. Please refer to the website for more information.

Heston Blumenthal Live

This enthralling evening will focus on Heston’s unique philosophy and approach to cooking, exploring taste and flavour, and his passion for the multi-sensory experience of eating and drinking. Heston will take us on a journey from humble beginnings to the creation of iconic dishes such as ‘The Sound of the Sea’ with edible sand, logic defying Hot and Iced Tea, his famous Snail Porridge and the epic Mock Turtle Soup that takes three days to make. Get the inside story on Heston’s incredibly moist Christmas puddings with a candied Valencia orange inside which were so popular they sold out in the UK’s Waitrose supermarkets in moments with bidding wars on ebay. Now Heston has created a minced pie that promises to make the house smell like a Christmas tree. There is only one Heston and there is only one night – book now!

Hijacked 3

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Take a trip into the fantastic and foreboding worlds of 30 artists from opposite sides of the globe. From oblique takes on portraiture and collage to snapshots of society at its best and worst, these far reaching photographic practices question what it means to look, catch or construct images for the 21st century. A fleeting glimpse into the life and times of both countries and beyond, Hijacked 3 disrupts the way you think about photography. Please refer to the website for more information.

Hockey in the Summertime - International Series - Hockeyroos Challenge

The world is gearing up for the Olympics and Australia is the country to visit for touring hockey teams. Come and see the TOP hockey Nations in the World in February and March. Number one nation the Kookaburras take on Holland (ranked third) as well as the Argentina men and Australia A. Then women’s teams Korea and Argentina (ranked number one) arrive to play the Hockeyroos. 9 March 2011 - 6.00pm Hockeyroos v Korea PHS 10 March 2011 - 6.00pm Hockeyroos v Korea PHS 23 March 2011 - 5.00pm Hockeyroos v Argentina PHS 24 March 2011- 5.00pm Hockeyroos v Argentina PHS Please refer to the website for more information.

Hockey in the Summertime - International Series - Kookaburras Cup

The world is gearing up for the Olympics and Australia is the country to visit for touring hockey teams. Come and see the TOP hockey Nations in the World in February and March. Number one nation the Kookaburras take on Holland (ranked third) as well as the Argentina men and Australia A. Then women’s teams Korea and Argentina (ranked number one) arrive to play the Hockeyroos. Kookaburras, Australia A, Netherlands and Argentina 10 February 2012 - 5.00pm Australia A v Netherlands, 7.00pm Kookaburras v Argentina 12 February 2011 - 5.00pm Australia A v Argentina, 7.00pm Kookaburras v Netherlands 18 February 2011 - 3.00pm Australia A v Argentina, 5.00pm Kookaburras v Netherlands 19 February 2011 - 5.00pm Australia A v Argentina or Netherlands, 7.00pm Kookaburras v Argentina or Netherlands Please refer to the website for more information.

I do Card Tricks and I'm Funny

A Fringe World Festival Event. This is not just another close up magic show! Jon Armstrong has travelled around the world with just his wit and a pack of cards. Come to this rare public performance and experience the type of magic and humour that has amazed and entertained audiences the world over. Please refer to the website for more information.

I'm High on Life, What are you on?

A Fringe World Festival Event. My upbringing was a wonderful one, but it might not make sense to you. In our house the door wasn’t to keep people out it was to let people in. Let me tell you the stories, and why my mum always had to hide the cornflakes. Please refer to the website for more information.

Icehouse

Though it has had varying personnel, Icehouse is essentially a vehicle for the work of Australian Iva Davies. Davies formed the first version of the band under the name Flowers in 1980 and began scoring hits in Australia with the group's first single, "Can't Help Myself." Icehouse was the name of Flowers' first album, but the group changed its name as it went international, to avoid conflicts with another band. They first reached the United States charts in 1981 with "We Can Get Together" but did not score a substantial hit until 1988, with "Crazy." This was followed by the Top Ten hit "Electric Blue". Please refer to the website for further details.

Il Divo

Fans can look forward to experiencing the emotion, beauty and power of Il Divo's unique vocals and operatic arrangements as they take you on a journey that combines opera, pop and musical theatre. Il Divo will be in Australia to promote their new album, Wicked Game. Il Divo will perform some very special television performances whilst they are in Australia and take part in one-off live performances during Spring Carnival. Please refer to the website for more information.

Improvision

A Fringe World Festival Event. The kitsch of Eurovision meets improv comedy. Each night, two new hopeful contestants sing their way to Improvision glory, with big supporting casts and a glittering live band. A brand new, unscripted show brought to you by the people behind cult hits the big HOO-HAA!, Fuppet and Free Love Impro. Please refer to the website for more information.

Independent Women Part 2

A Fringe World Festival event. In the Spring of 2000 Destiny's Child released the #1 hit Independent Women Part 1. It was the Female Eunuch of the Girl Power Generation. Victoria thought she'd be a Bootlylicious Independent Woman by now, that pays all of her Bills, Bills, Bills. What happened? Please refer to the website for more information.

India and Us

A Perth International Arts Festival event. As the old world order seems to crumble around us, Asia is shaping up as the centre of the new economy. With a growing middle class, tradition of education and burgeoning economy, many believe India's time has come. But can it overcome its problems to reach its potential? Chetan Bhagat is the most-read Indian author in English. Known as the 'Paperback King of India', he was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in 2010. Please refer to the website for more information.

Jason Derulo

Urban-pop, smash hit R&B sensation and ruler of Australia's radio waves, Jason Derulo will play his first Australian arenas shows when he returns as part of his most extensive world tour yet. This September, 21-year-old Miami-raised Derulo unleashed his highly anticipated sophomore, 12-track album 'Future History' (Warner Music), featuring the top five, double-platinum hits 'Don't Wanna Go Home' and 'It Girl', and the up and coming smash hit single 'Breathing'. "I'm excited to perform this album all over the world," says Derulo. Jason Derulo's rapid rise to fame began with the release of his explosive, self-titled debut album. The album, currently edging towards one million sales worldwide, is home to some of the most infectious and biggest hits of 2010 - 'What If', the platinum 'Ridin' Solo', the double platinum 'Whatcha Say' and the double platinum ARIA Number One smash 'In My Head'.

Jessie J

International pop sensation, Jessie J is about to send her devoted Australian fans into a Cha-Ching Cha-Ching and Ba-Bling Ba-Bling frenzy as she announces her first headline tour of Australia! Jessie J's latest single, ‘Domino', produced by Dr Luke, has taken the Australian airwaves by storm and was the Number One Most Added Track At Radio a week before its official service date! The singer who released her debut album ‘Who You Are' in March 2011, featuring the hits, ‘Price Tag', ‘Nobody's Perfect', ‘Do It Like A Dude' and ‘Who You Are', returns to Australia after her much lauded May promo tour where she blew her fans and critics away showcasing her exceptional vocal abilities alongside her unquestionable song writing flair. Please refer to the website for more information.

Johnny Clegg

Lennard promotions present South Africa's Music Legend Johnny Clegg. Johnny Clegg's "human tour" pulsates with rhythms and harmonies unique in every way. His crossover music, a vibrant blend of western pop and African Zulu rhythms has exploded onto the international scene breaking the barriers in South Africa along the way. Johnny Clegg has sold over five million records, won a Grammy and wowed audiences across the world with his infectious sounds and audacious concerts Clegg's history is as bold, colourful and dashing as the rainbow country he has called home for over 40 years.

Jonathan Butler

Jonathan Butler born and raised in Cape Town, South Africa during the Apartheid era where he started singing and playing acoustic guitar as a child. Racial segregation and poverty during Apartheid has been the subject of many of his records. Butler’s first single became the first recording by a black artist to play on the all white radio stations in the racially segregated South Africa. This earned him the highest South African music award. The shows will feature Jonathan in a unique setting providing intimate behind the music stories about his hit songs and also classic gems, performing all the songs you have grown to love. The audience will be treated to a special evening where Jonathan will tell stories about his music, writing experiences and memories growing up in South Africa and eventually settling in Los Angeles.

Josh Earl v's the Australian Women's Weekly Children's Birthday Cake Book

In 1985 Lyn Earl purchased a book that changed the lives of her three sons forever. That book was the Australian Women’s Weekly Children’s Birthday Cake Book and birthdays were never the same again. This is the show of the book of the cakes. Please refer to the website for more information.

Kings Park Festival

DATES TO BE CONFIRMED The Kings Park Festival includes floral displays, live music, exhibitions, workshops, interpretive artworks, guided walks and family activities running throughout the entire month of September. The 2012 Kings Park Festival will be an event not to be missed. Please refer to the website for more information.

Le Petit Cabaret

Enter the world of Le Petit Cabaret where Perth’s smallest, youngest and freshest freaks-of-nature spin, climb and balance their way through a series of circus mini-acts. Be amazed by these tiny-tots as they perform aerial contortions, yoga on rope, hand balancing on canes and other surprisingly grande feats! Please refer to the website for more information.

Lenny Kravitz

Get ready to rock Australia! McManus Entertainment in association with F1 Rocks is thrilled to announce the return of rock icon Lenny Kravitz to Australia. Marking his first concert appearance in the country in 18 years, Lenny will be joined by Irish chart-toppers The Cranberries, and Aussie rockers Wolfmother. In addition to playing Melbourne's Sydney Myer Music Bowl during the Australian Grand Prix weekend, Lenny Kravitz, The Cranberries and Wolfmother will also be playing shows in Sydney, Wollongong, Brisbane and Perth. Please refer to the website for more information.

Light Relief

A Fringe World Festival event. Fast-moving comedy show from London featuring songs. sketches, stand-up and special guests, including James Bond, Sacha Distilled, Terry Johnson and Ricky Punting. Songs include `Vegetarian Blues' and `I'm An Old James Bond' and a caption competition to win a bottle of wine. Please refer to the website for more information.

Lotterywest Festival Films - Somerville

A Perth International Arts Festival Event. See the world’s greatest films on the iconic outdoor screen at Somerville. The following films will be showcased at Somerville: Beloved Happy Happy The Future We have a Pope The First Grader The Kid with a Bike Late Bloomers Le Havre Buck A Separation Goodbye, First Love Romantics Anonymous Tabloid Headhunters In Retrospect Footnote The Deep Blue Sea Medianeras King of Devil's Island Elena Please refer to the website for more information and movie dates.

Lucia Di Lammermoor

This beautifully and traditionally crafted production creates the perfect period atmosphere for this tragic love story. A high point of Romantic opera, based on Sir Walter Scott’s novel Bride of Lammermoor, this bel canto work is a magnificent example of the seamless fusion of poetry and music, forged into melodic expression which speaks so directly to the heart and memory. The famous “mad scene” has been the highlight of this opera and claimed the attention of prima donnas for over 150 years. The story of two feuding families is romantic and tragic. Lucia is in love with Edgardo, her brother Enrico’s enemy. She is tricked into believing Edgardo is unfaithful and she loses her mind and murders the husband she is forced to marry. Edgardo, heartbroken, kills himself. Sung in Italian with English subtitles. Wesfarmers Arts Pre-Performance Talk Guest Speaker Annie Patrick 7pm Exhibition Area, Dress Circle Level

Lucinda Childs: Dance

Australian exclusive/premiere. In 1979, three creative titans pooled their considerable talents to craft what would become one of the great post-modern works of the 20th century. Choreographer Lucida Childs, composer Phillip Glass and artist Sol LeWitt mixed movement, music and film in a way that would transform the world of dance forever. Shift 2012. In this Australian exclusive Lucinda Childs invites a new company of dancers to inject youthful life into this electrifying and simply beautiful work of music and motion. Here is her rarely seen signature piece as stirring today as it was 30 years ago. Suitable for all ages.

Madam Butterfly

Some of the most memorable moments in opera are to be found in this piece. Butterfly is a grand tragic heroine. She begins her relationship with Pinkerton in child-like innocence. This opera is a story of tragic faithfulness against a clash of cultures. A fragile girl is wronged by a man who does not comprehend the consequences of his philandering until it’s too late. This is the ultimate “dramma per musica”, each note in this superbly lyrical score contributes to the development of storytelling and character. From the instantly recognisable hopefulness of “Un bel di” to the anticipation of the famous “humming chorus”, the music pours forth its glorious invention unceasingly. Sung in Italian with English surtitles. Wesfarmers Arts Pre-Performance Talk Guest Speaker Annie Patrick 7pm (before each performance) Exhibition Area, Dress Circle Level of His Majesty’s Theatre Talks are open to the general public and bookings are not required

Madeleine Peyroux

The Frontier Touring Company is delighted to announce American songstress Madeleine Peyroux. Peyroux will be embarking on an Australian tour. Peyroux's last trip to Australia was as the special guest of Diana Krall in March 2010. The success of these shows has prompted her to play a string of headline dates much to the excitement of her Australian fan base. Peyroux is touring in support of her fifth solo album Standing On The Rooftop, released in June 2011. This album showcases a different direction for Peyroux and highlights her ability to successfully reinvent her music; her latest album has elements of American roots sounds as well as her signature jazz inspired tone. Please refer to the website for more information.

Magic Matt and the Naked Assistant

Magic Matt and the Naked Assistant is a Fringe World Festival event. Magic Matt (a cross between Tommy Cooper and Elvis) tests the boundaries of good taste and that old magic adage "look, no sleeves" by having a naked assistant and saying "look, no clothes!" Watch this amazing double act as they perform magic as you've never seen it performed before. Please refer to the website for more information.

Marcel Lucont - Encore

A Fringe World Festival event. This is an award-winning hit show of the Edinburgh Fringe and Melbourne Comedy Festival. France's premier misanthrope and lover delivers wry observations, bawdy chansons and a poem about tits. Sharp wit and wordplay. A brilliantly rendered creation, a must see. Please refer to the website for more information.

Marcel Lucont: Cabaret Fantastique

Marcel Lucont, flaneur, raconteur and bon-viveur, presents the best international comedy and cabaret from the Fringe. Different line-ups every night. The late-night favourite from festivals all over the world. 'Just the sort of thing you hope to discover at the Fringe. Highly recommended!' - The Fix, Adelaide Fringe. Please refer to the website for more information.

Mardi Gras Tease

Come and join the party in the Big Easy at the Mardi Gras Tease! Sugar Blue Burlesque's latest production takes you into the heart of the south to celebrate the music, culture and history of New Orleans from the bright lights of Bourbon Street to dark voodoo of the Bayou. Please refer to the website for more information.

Mary Poppins - The Supercalifragilistic Musical

Disney and Cameron Mackintosh invite you to let your imagination take flight as you step into the magical world of Mary Poppins. Brilliantly adapted from the beloved books by Australia’s own P.L.Travers and the classic Walt Disney film, Mary Poppins arrives at the Burswood Theatre, Perth in March 2012 for a strictly limited season. Mary Poppins has captured the hearts of millions since premiering on the West End and Broadway, and now Australians can experience the unforgettable songs, stunning choreography and unsurpassed stagecraft of this extraordinary theatrical event. Please refer to the website for more information.

Melissa Etheridge

Fans will experience an intimate evening more than two hours of powerful performances from Melissa Etheridge’s extensive catalogue of hits when she returns for her first Australian appearances since 1996. The singer's honest and confessional song writing style paired with her bluesy rock-infused vocals has seen her rise to the top of the musical spectrum since the release of her critically acclaimed 1988 self-titled debut album. Melissa Etheridge reached number three on the ARIA Charts and went on to achieve Triple Platinum status in Australia and Double Platinum in New Zealand, a huge achievement for a debut album. Fan favourites such as 'Bring Me Some Water', 'No Souvenirs' and 'Ain't It Heavy', for which she won her first Grammy for Best Female Rock Vocal, are amongst many of the songs that make Etheridge one of rock music's most exciting performers. Please refer to the website for more information.

Meow Meow in Feline Intimate

Named top ten “Best of Cabaret” by Time Out New York, “cabaret diva of the highest order” by the New York Post and “A phenomenon” by the Australian press, the “Post -post- modern cabaret diva”, Meow Meow has wowed audiences globally with her unique brand of kamikaze cabaret and performance art exotica. Please refer to the website for more information.

Metropolis: Audio Redux

Metropolis: Audio Reduxis a Fringe World Festival event. Electronic musician Miles Philip has taken the challenge to rewrite the soundtrack to remaster a masterpiece. Sweeping electronic strings, synthetic arpeggios and deliciously sharp tech beats drive this cinematic masterpiece at light speed, colliding willingly with the 21st century. For fans of Vangelis and Brian Eno, Orbital, Autechre and Underworld alike; let Miles Philip (aka Miles Cosmo) take you on a musical flight of fancy through Fritz Lang’s filmic genius. Please refer to the website for more information.

Michael Bolton and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra

Grammy legend Michael Bolton fills the Riverside Theatre, Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre with soulful classics, power ballads and arias, accompanied by his band and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Accolades for Michael's artistic achievements include two Grammys for Best Pop Male Vocal Performance, six American Music Awards, twenty four BMI & ASCAP Awards, nine Million-Air Awards, Hitmakers Songwriter of the Year Award and a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Michael's diverse musical interests have produced eight Top Ten studio albums and nine #1 singles across Pop, Jazz & Classical charts, with global sales of more than fifty three million. If your Secret Passion is Michael Bolton, don't miss this sensational night with his band and WASO. Please refer to the website for more information.

Morning Melodies - Feast of Favourites

Come along to Morning Melodies - Feast of Favourites and catch the next batch of stars from WAAPA's acclaimed Classical Voice programme as they perform a popular selection of classic operetta, torch songs and music theatre favourites, delivered with all the pizzazz you've come to expect from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Featuring WAAPA Classical Voice Students Music Director: David Wickham Head of Vocal Studies: Patricia Price Please refer to the website for more information.

Morning Melodies - Opera Concert

Morning Melodies - Opera Concert brightens up your winter with beautiful music performed by the rising stars of the West Australian Opera. A delightful array of opera works will be presented including the most beloved arias, duets and trios. Patrons attending the concerts over the last four years have had the unique opportunity to see artists perfecting their craft on the His Majesty’s Theatre stage, ready for the grandest opera stages of the world. Featuring 2012 Young Artists: Sopranos - Harriet Marshall, Lucy Mervik, Sarah Guilmartin. Mezzo Sopranos - Bernadette Lucarnus, Caitlin Cassidy. Baritone - David Costello. Tickets available from BOCS Ticketing Outlets. Please refer to the website for more information.

Morning Melodies - You've Got That Thing

Morning Melodies - You've Got That Thing features Analisa Bell, Will Groucutt and Pilar Mata Dupont. Musical Director is Tim Cunniffe. Discover Cole Porter: the man who wrote some of the greatest songs of all time! You’ve Got That Thing stars the beautiful Linda Porter (Pilar Mata Dupont), the outrageous Ethel Merman (Analisa Bell), and a young man determined to meet the legendary songwriter (Will Groucutt). This tribute captures the sparkle of Porter’s personality and features over a dozen hits including Anything Goes, Night and Day and I Get a Kick Out Of You. Directed by two-time Equity Award winning actor Michael Loney and written by Izaak Lim and Nick Maclaine, You’ve Got That Thing is a charming new musical well “befitting Cole Porter’s song-writing legacy and has great entertainment value.” Victoria Laurie, Arts Journalist. Tickets available from BOCS Ticketing Outlets. Please refer to the website for more information.

Mr Strong: Acrobatics, Comedy and Fire!

Fresh from the Canadian Fringe circuit and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Mr Strong is a modern twist on traditional circus. Incorporating upbeat comedy, fire eating, fire breathing, juggling and amazing feats of acrobatics. This high energy show inspires awe and wonder, keeping you laughing throughout. Everything is dangerous, nothing is serious! Please refer to the website for more information.

No Shame

No Shame is a Fringe Festival event. No Shame – Perth’s most outrageous BurlesqueBombshells, Divas of Drag, Carnie Kooks and Vibrant Vaudevillians unleash their inhibitions and immerse themselves in the depths of silly. Prizes for the most ridiculously dressed. Feast your senses on an evening of ludicrous entertainment and groin grabbingly good fun. Please refer to the website for more information.

Odette Mercy's Heartbreak Dance

Odette Mercy's Heartbreak Dance is a Fringe World Festival event. “Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds...” Anais Nin …but sometimes it dies because people are just assholes. Odette Mercy Odette Mercy & Her Soul Atomics invite you to The Heartbreak Dance, as they share songs of relationships, love lost and love gained. People confide in her asking for advice. Who best to host a dance about heartbreak? Odette brings guest performers to share their stories, with you the heartbreakers, the heart broken or the heartless. Please refer to the website for more information.

One Night Stand

Arriving in Perth for the first time Captain Ruin presents an exciting mix of cabaret, comedy and circus. Spend a riotous evening with your friendly neighbourhood anarchist, as he takes you through politics, punch lines and prisons with characteristic charm and a ferocious wit. Captain Ruin has entertained and engaged audiences around Australia with his unique style of playfully satirical circus-sideshow, and this promises to be an experience not to be missed from “the Iggy Pop of Circus”. Based on the true tales of his run-ins with the law, and peppered with cutting observations about Australian society, Captain Ruin has been praised for putting on “A wildly punk variety show … funny, irreverent and vaguely unhygienic.” Nowhere else will you find storytelling this real, raw and raunchy, all delivered with the extreme physicality that the Age described as “Slapstick on speed”. Book early to avoid disappointment.

Oraculos

This walk-through encounter has been made for you. This is a show for one person at a time and involves travelling through a series of beautiful and complex environments. Remove your shoes and step into an enchanted labyrinth of sound, smell, taste, touch and feel – a hidden realm where memory, wonder, amazement and chance converge. Navigate a winding path of endless possibility from your earliest memories to now and glimpse a startling window into the future. Oraculos is accessible to those who have hearing or vision loss. However the route is physically challenging and participants will be required to crawl and walk up and down stairs, so the experience may not be suitable to those with mobility constraints, or those who feel uncomfortable in small spaces. Spaces are limited – only 54 tickets per day - book early to avoid disappointment. This event is not suitable for children under 12 years.

Penguin Cafe

A Perth International Arts Festival event. With remarkably fresh and intensely memorable creations like Music for a Found Harmonium and Telephone and Rubber Band Penguin Café Orchestra made a fundamental mark on British popular culture. Now a new generation tenpiece of ukeleles, strings, percussion, electric bass and piano are spinning wonder and whimsy with songs you'll be humming for days. Please refer to the website for more information.

Perth Fashion Festival

***Dates to be confirmed*** Perth is fast becoming a fashion hot spot and with iconic events like Perth Fashion Festival, there’s little wonder why. Now in its 14th year, the Festival sees fashionistas experiencing high fashion events at a range of unique venues. With world-class runway shows, styling workshops and fashion lunches, the Festival’s line-up keeps getting better. For further information visit the Perth Fashion Festival website.

Perth Fashion Week

Perth will be abuzz when West Australian designers showcase their Spring/Summer 2012/2013 wholesale collections at one of Western Australia’s most anticipated, inaugural Fashion Week. It will attract national and international buyers, media, models, designers and the fashion savvy, providing a dynamic array of opportunities to engage with the art of fashion and the promotion of tourism to Western Australia. This unique opportunity enables talented and aspiring designers to debut their collections and provides them with the relevant resources required to put together an outstanding runway show. Perth Fashion Week is unique to the fashion industry, as it opens the door to the public to gain an insight in the behind the scenes of the fashion world. Across five days, there will be onsite collection shows, showrooms, exhibitions, and a VIP Lounge to allow networking in a relaxed, chic environment. Please refer to the website for more information.

Perth Glory - Season 2011/2012

Perth Glory Football Club is one of Australia’s leading football clubs, winning back to back championships in 2003 and 2004, Runners Up in 2000 and 2002, Premiers in 2000, 2002 and 2004, and A-League Pre Season Runners Up 2005 and 2007. Check out some games in the 2011/2012 season, when Perth Glory players cross paths with many more of Australia's finest. This is soccer at its best! Please refer to the website for further details.

Perth Holiday and Travel Expo

Discover the world at the 2012 Perth Holiday & Travel Expo, the only independent travel Expo in Western Australia! The Perth Holiday & Travel Expo is a ‘one-stop shop’ where you can research your next holiday, talk to the experts, find Expo-only deals and book at the same time. Explore cruise, train and coach holidays, skiing and adventure trips and relaxing resorts as well as the latest information on insurance, quarantine, travel accessories and literature. Enjoy free Travel Theatres, free parking (limited) or easy access with public transport. You could even be the lucky winner of a one of many holidays up for grabs!

Perth International Arts Festival

As one of Western Australia’s premier cultural events, the Perth International Arts Festival is a feast of joyous, cutting-edge performances and activities for all ages. Experience some of the world’s best international and contemporary theatre, dance, music, film, visual arts and literature. This international festival is a wonderful display of creativity and talent providing amazing entertainment for all. The 2012 Perth Festival program has been launched. Please refer to the website for more information.

Perth Track Classic

Up to 20 invited international track and field stars will compete alongside Australia’s top athletes at the Western Australia Athletics Stadium. West Australian audiences will have the chance to see home-grown heroes like reigning world, Olympic and Commonwealth pole vault champion Steve Hooker, Commonwealth gold medallist Alana Boyd and world champion hurdler Sally Pearson go head to head with overseas rivals. Please refer to the website for more information.

Perth Wildcats

The Perth Wildcats are an Australian professional basketball team competing in the National Basketball League. The Wildcats are the only team in the league representing the state of Western Australia and are based in the state capital, Perth. They are the most successful team in the league, having achieved five championships (moving ahead of the four championships won by the Adelaide 36ers and more recently by the Melbourne Tigers). Since 1987 the Perth Wildcats have appeared in all 25 NBL finals, including playing in the 1987, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1999-2000, 2002-03 and 2009-10 Grand Finals, an accomplishment matched by no other NBL club. The Wildcats won the NBL Championship in 1990, 1991, 1995, 1999-2000 and 2009-10. Please refer to the website for more information.

Perth Writers Festival

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Featuring: Alex Miller, Barbara Trapido, Germaine Greer, Chetan Bhagat, Janette Turner-Hospital, Jo Nesbø, David Levithan, Justice Michael Kirby, Tom Keneally, Frank Moorhouse, Peter FitzSimons, Stuart Littlemore. Situated on the beautiful grounds of The University of Western Australia, Perth Writers Festival is a celebration of the written word in all its forms. Hear the ideas behind the words as the finest national and international writers engage in readings, talks, debates, workshops and culinary events. And don’t forget the always popular Family Day and Opening Party. Please refer to the website for more information.

Perth Writers Festival Family Day

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Children of all ages can get hands-on with readings, games, workshops and activities that bring the imaginative world of books to life. Authors and illustrators entertain and enlighten in an outdoor carnival atmosphere that has everything from face painting, balloon-twisting and circus skills demonstrations, not to mention A Capella group Coco's Lunch and their dynamic children's show. With so much to do, your day will be jam-packed with excitement! Featuring: Gruen Transfer panellist Jane Caro and her new book for young adults Just a Girl; bestselling American David Levithan (Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist); master illustrator Leigh Hobbs (Old Tom); author Carole Wilkinson (Dragonkeeper series); author Sally Murphy (Pearl versus the World); and many, many more. Please refer to the website for more information.

Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters

Over 100 modern art masterpieces by 12 of the most iconic artists of the 20th century will be on display at the exhibition Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters. Ranging from Picasso to Warhol, the exhibition will also include celebrated works by Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian, Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Giorgio De Chirico, Joan Miro, Alexander Calder, Jasper Johns and Jackson Pollock. The exhibition is part of the Art Gallery of Western Australia's Great Collections of the World series which will see the Museum of Modern Art present six world-class exhibitions over three years. Joan Miró (Spanish, 1893-1983) Person Throwing a Stone at a Bird, 1926 (detail) Oil on canvas 29 x 36 1/4" (73.7 x 92.1 cm) The Museum of Modern Art, New York Purchase © 2011 Successió Miró / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Place Des Agnes

A Perth International Arts Festival Event. Cast your eyes to the skies as heavenly bodies glide, float and careen through the air, leaving a burst of feathers in their wake. Beginning with a single quill, a trickle grows into an incredible cascade, a seemingly endless blizzard of white, showering you in two tonnes of downy bliss. Les Studios de Cirque have been creating unforgettable aerial spectacles around the globe for a decade – and this once-in-a-lifetime event places you in the centre of the action. In this major Festival celebration the Angels land on St Georges Terrace between Council House and St George's Cathedral in a breathtaking display you have to see to believe. Please refer to the website for more information.

Prins Thomas

Prins Thomas' style is often referenced as being space disco though would be better described as a mélange of disco, house, minimal techno, electro, Krautrock, jazz fusion and space rock. In other words, there is no stopping Prins Thomas. And have we mentioned his beard, yet? There you go: the best DJ in the world! Please refer to the website for more information.

Proximity Festival

Australia’s first micro-festival of one-on-one art. Proximity will transform every corner of The Blue Room Theatre building with 12 world premiere performances tailor-made for an audience of one. Get up close and personal with theatre, dance and live-art in a radically intimate way. Please refer to the website for more information.

Raoul

A Perth International Arts Festival Event. La Compagnie du Hanneton. Written and performed by James Thiérrée. James Thiérrée sweeps you into a fantasy world of shape-shifting illusion, slapstick humour, startling beauty and melancholic whimsy that leaves you asking, ‘how did he do that?’ Raoul returns to a home upended, and quite possibly possessed. To keep domestic life from unraveling completely, he goes toe-to-toe with a surreal collection of adversaries – everything from hostile appliances to giant jellyfish to a face in the mirror with plans of its own. Are these manifestations of an untethered mind or something more sinister? James Thiérrée (La Veillée des Abysses) is a performer of rarefied lineage. His Compagnie du Hanneton has won four Moliere Awards, France’s highest achievement in theatre. Please refer to the website for more information.

Raymond Crowe Unusualist - Perth

Raymond Crowe is Australia's only Unusualist. For those not in the know an unusualist is a master of intricate shadow puppetry, dancing jackets, ventriloquism, world class magic and brilliant audience participation. His signature piece 'The Shadows' has become an internet phenomenon with over one million hits worldwide. Raymond's unique brand of light hearted comedy, mischievous ventriloquism and exquisite shadow puppetry will guarantee belly laughs and gasps of amazement to those of any age. Please refer to the website for more information.

RCNA Nursing and Health Expo

Are you thinking about becoming a nurse? Or, are you looking for the next step in your nursing career? Royal College of Nursing, Australia (RCNA) invites you to come along on to the RCNA Nursing and Health Expo at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre and explore all of the options surrounding a nursing career. The Expo is for nurses, nursing students, people considering entering or re-entering the nursing profession and members of the public with an interest in nursing and health. RCNA Nursing and Health Expos are held in seven Australian states and territories each year, attracting over 12,000 visitors annually. Exhibitors include hospitals, aged care providers, universities, professional organisations, specialist nursing groups and medical technology groups. Please refer to the website for more information.

Rod Stewart

With forty years of chart-topping singles and albums under his belt, The Frontier Touring Company are delighted to announce that Rod Stewart will be rocking his incredible ‘The Hits' tour through Australia. Having a phenomenal 62 hit singles in the UK, of which 31 reached the top 10, concert goers can expect to be treated to the likes of Tonight's The Night, Maggie May, You Wear It Well, Stay With Me, The First Cut Is the Deepest, Sailing, Hot Legs, Da Ya Think I'm Sexy...the list of Rod Stewart's chart-toppers goes on and on. And if past tours are anything to go by Rod will smash out hit after hit live with his trademark style and panache, treating fans to a massive trip down memory lane and one hell of a night out.

Ronan Keating

2012 sees Ronan Keating starting his 18th year in the music industry, making him something of an anomaly in the world of pop music. Boasting a lifetime of impressive professional achievements including; dueting with Elton John at Madison Square Garden, singing for the Pope, hosting everything from Miss World, Eurovision Song Contest and MTV Europe Awards and acting as a judge on X Factor in Australia (where in the first year his mentored act, Atilyan Childs, won), recording with Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens), writing an autobiography, travelling the world, guiding Westlife to stardom, winning a prestigious BMI European Song Writing Award, winning an Ivor Novello Award, being appointed as a UN Goodwill Ambassador and too many hits, gigs and awards to keep count, Ronan’s prolific, varied and highly successful career shows no sign of slowing. Please refer to the website for further information.

Ross Noble - Nonsensory Overload

Ross Noble brings a brand new tour, Nonsensory Overload to Australia, following the success of last year's United Kingdom, 160 date, Things tour... "Brilliantly inventive, quirky stand-up... see him and marvel" - The Sun Nonsensory Overload is Noble back fresh from his travels, not to mention his own television show, doing what he does best; spinning forth hilarious nonsense for your amusement. Now is your chance to see one of the best live comics working internationally today. Prepare your brain for a Nonsensory Overload.

Roxette Live with 1927

Roxette have topped the charts three times in Australia with singles It Must Have Been Love, Joyride and The Look. Their albums, Look Sharp, Joyride, Tourism, and Crash! Boom! Bang! all featured highly in the Australian Music Charts, as did their first greatest hits album Don’t Bore Us, Get To The Chorus. Roxette are one of the most successful bands to come out of Sweden, have had more number ones and top 10 hits in America than ABBA and have featured on their very own Swedish postage stamp. Joining Roxette for these special Australian shows are 1927. Their 1989 album …Ish is one of the highest selling debut albums by an Australian band. 1927’s hit singles If I Could, That’s When I Think of You, You’ll Never Know and Compulsory Hero still remain radio favourites more than 20 years after their release. Please refer to the website for more information.

Russell Watson

La Voce Tour Celebrating his new release ninth album La Voce, world renowned tenor Russell Watson returns on tour following a long battle with brain cancer. Don't miss the powerful sounds of one of Australia's finest young singers, together with a full orchestra and special guest soprano Greta Bradman, performing for one night only at Burswood Theatre.

Ryan Adams

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Singer, songwriter, poet and painter, alt-country/rock sensation Ryan Adams is a true Renaissance man. Touring on his critically adored Ashes & Fire album, Adams returns to Australia with his trademark soulful lyrics and low-key melodies to deliver a truly memorable concert. Please refer to the website for more information.

Shakespeare In The Park

Join Shakespeare Western Australia for Shakespeare In The Park, in Kings Park and the Botanic Gardens. The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies. The play uses the hilarious device of two sets of twins in one place but unaware of each other’s company. This production will be set locally in 1980’s Fremantle. Dressed in kilts, mohawks and doc martens, this fast paced, modern, and highly accessible version is guaranteed to delight audiences of all ages. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) is an acclaimed production of the West End’s long running smash-hit parody of all of Shakespeare’s plays. The Tempest is celebrating its 401st anniversary in 2012 and yet the landmark Aboriginal/European production shows how the play is as pertinent today as it was when first written in 1611. Please refer to the website for performance dates and times.

She Dances in the Dark

She Dances in the Dark is a Fringe World Festival event. Aerial imagery meets intimacy and grace meets grotesque in this physically spectacular show about woman and her many faces. Premiered at The Blue Room Theatre, She Dances in the Dark has had rave reviews about the unique style of performance. It is described as “Enthralling, Thrilling and Captivating” as trapeze artist Dawn Pascoe and accordionist Nikki Dagostino create imagery that women can relate to – and men can laugh at. Everyone knows the feeling of trying to choose the right outfit; when desire is followed by rejection; the moment she turns into a monster; or being loved at your worst! These stories are told through a range of aerial displays and original musical compositions as you’re taken on a journey which is not only visually spectacular, but is also captivating with emotions. Please refer to the website for more information.

Sideshow Macabre

Sideshow Macabre lets you peek into the private world of this dark travelling sideshow and see a secret, beautiful side of circus life usually hidden behind the curtains and the lights. Experience the glittery shows of the big top, the twisted freak show tent and the cheeky girly show open for your voyeuristic pleasure... Please refer to the website for more information.

Skills West Expo 2012

Skills West Expo is WA’s premier Careers, Employment, Education and Training event. In 2012, the event will showcase the best tertiary institutions, training colleges, employers, industries and Government initiatives currently in Western Australia. A wide range of industries will be represented including resources and energy, mining, oil and gas, hospitality, construction, healthcare and social assistance, aviation, fitness, manufacturing, retail, ICT, rail, education and training, financial and insurance services plus many many more! This leading event is free entry to the general public and in 2012 will again be held at WA’s leading venue, the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre. Please refer to the website for more information.

Spiegeltent Late Night Variety Hour!

Go along to Spiegeltent Late Night Variety Hour, and see that good things happen when you stay out late. Watch cabaret, music, circus, dance and comedy collide on stage with a surprise line-up of Fringe World favourites. Perth’s first full Fringe World Festival is set to explode. Featuring over 150 plus shows brought to you by over 800 local and visiting artists from across the world of Fringe, the festival has a smorgasbord of entertainment on offer to tickle your taste buds. Please refer to the website for more information.

St Jerome's Laneway Festival

You'll find a heady mix of artists in this, the 2012 St Jerome's Laneway Festival line-up announcement. There's the ground-breaking, the genre-bending, your recent discoveries and your soon-to-be new favourites. But one thing unites them all: they are spine-tinglingly great live. Say that five times. The 2012 Australian event returns to the five venues that have established Laneway as one of the most unique events in the country. Please refer to the website for more information.

St. Vincent

St. Vincent (also known as Annie Clark) has gone from strength to strength since the release of the internationally-acclaimed Strange Mercy in September. While Annie has performed in Australia in a solo capacity at Sydney Festival, this will be the Australian debut of her new full-band show. Please refer to the website for more information.

Staff Benda Bilili

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Expect the unexpected on a night of life-affirming music from the streets of Kinshasa. Filled with raw power, intense joy and delicate beauty, Staff Benda Bilili's music sees Congolese rumba blended with 70s funk, Cuban son and mambo. Discovered by Damon Albarn as part of Africa Express, this unique group is comprised of paraplegic street musicians in suped-up three-wheelers and street kids from around the Kinshasa Zoo, proving good music can never be kept down. Please refer to the website for more information.

Standing bird

A Fringe World Festival event. “I keep falling in and out of myself, just as I fell out of paradise...” - Deborah Levy This dance/theatre/film work explores a woman’s encounter with the Australian landscape – an experience of submersion, dislocation, isolation and transformation. Standing bird is an exciting collaboration between leading independent West Australian artists. Featuring award-winning performer Jacqui Claus (2010 West Australian Dance Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist). Created by: Sally Richardson, Danielle Micich, Ashley de Prazer and Jacqui Claus with contributions from Paea Leach and Shona Erskine Sound: Kingsley Reeve with Kyle Morrison Dramaturgy: Humphrey Bower Lighting: Mike Nanning Costume: Fiona Bruce Producer: Performing Lines WA Please refer to the website for more information.

Stevl Shefn and his Translator Fatima in Dating the World

A Fringe World Festival event. A very silly lecture about love. A colourful man is speaking an unknown language. Through his deadpan translator we hear things never thought possible about relationships. Winner Best Comedy Adelaide Fringe 2010. Golden Gibbo nominee Melbourne Comedy Festival 2010. Please refer to the website for more information.

Sychronised Swimming National Championships 2012

Synchronised Swimming is a growing sport which has a central place in the London 2012 Olympic calendar. Perth is hosting the 2012 Australian Titles & Olympic Trials at Challenge Stadium. This event has free entry for spectators and they will get to see Australia's finest in action, as well as a number of international performers, as they fight to qualify for the Olympic Games. Please refer to the website for further information.

Take to the Court

Take to the Court is a Fringe World Festival event. Straight from Melbourne Fringe, Take to the Court delves into the gritty world of amateur netball and is the only cabaret endorsed by Liz Ellis. Netballers Ruth, Rachel and Caitlin are recruiting for Oz Netball, giving audiences a hilarious and heart-warming look at the sport in all its bitch-faced glory. Please refer to the website for more information.

Taste of Western Australia – Alternative Varieties

Come and enjoy Taste of Western Australia Alternative Varieties premium wine tasting evening being held at the Perth Zoo. Featuring over 20 premium West Australian Wineries from across the nine West Australian wine regions, the event will showcase the regions alternative varieties. What a great opportunity to try wines from a variety of West Australian wine regions all under the one roof. Please refer to the website for more information.

The 14th Tale

A Perth International Arts Festival event. The 14th Tale is a free-flowing narrative that tells the hilarious exploits of a mischief maker who grew up on the clay streets of Nigeria, the rooftops of Dublin and finally landed in London. Inua vividly recreates the characters that punctuated his upbringing in deft and beautiful poetry, while exploring what it is to be a young, black male in London today. Written and performed by Inua Ellams. Please refer to the website for more information.

The Australian Ballet's Romeo and Juliet

Graeme Murphy is famous for bringing new life to classic ballets, and now he's tackled the greatest love story ever told: Romeo and Juliet. Traversing time and place, Murphys ballet follows a feisty girl and a feisty boy who are willing to take a stand for their love. Young passion smoulders at its core, but Murphy also tackles the consequences of greed and war, and asks what happens to humanity when love dies. This grand story is also grandly designed, with costumes by Australian fashion luminary Akira Isogawa and some of The Australian Ballet's most ambitious sets to date. The result is a masterpiece from first blush to final devastation. Please refer to the website for ticketing information.

The Burlesque Garden

The Burlesque Garden is a Fringe World Festival event. Sit back and experience a divine late night seduction as Lady Velvet Cabaret takes you through a beautiful visual feast set in the Burlesque Garden of Eden. Be teased and tantalised by the breathtaking mythical creatures that come out of the fog when the lights are low. Accompanied by beautiful circus arts, sensual burlesque, sweet songbirds, classical violinists, gorgeous dancers and classy comedy, this late night cabaret delight is set to be the perfect dessert to your Fringe World menu. Please refer to the website for more information.

The Castrol Edge Rugby Championship, Australia versus South Africa

The Qantas Wallabies return to Perth when they take on South Africa in a 2011 Rugby World Cup Quarter Finals re-match at Patersons Stadium in 2012. The game will be Perth’s fixture of The Castrol Edge Rugby Championship, to be launched in 2012 when the Rugby’s Tri-Nations becomes the Four Nations as Argentina joins to compete against Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. The Castrol Edge Rugby Championship will involve six Tests for each of the four competing nations as they play each other home and away in the ultimate contest for southern hemisphere heavyweights. Please referto the website for more information.

The Galileo Project - Music of the Spheres

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik take you on an epic space odyssey, performing exquisite period music from memory before stunning images from the Hubble deep space telescope. Combining music, photography and story-telling, The Galileo Project brings to life the brilliant minds of the early astronomers and the music that inspired them, as a large-scale, ever-changing backdrop of stars and planets unfolds. The group's 17 musicians perform music by Vivaldi, Monteverdi, Bach and others with open-hearted energy and vigour. Please refer to the website for more information.

The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?

Theatre with an edge comes to Melville this March with a play exploring social taboos and what types of behaviour are acceptable. Written by Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? author Edward Albee and directed by Jeff Hansen at Melville Theatre, The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia? is a mix of the funny, shocking, absurd, tragic and confronting. The story follows a leading 50-year-old New York architect who suddenly and inexplicably falls in love with a goat, whom he calls Sylvia. His life starts to crumble and, by showing a family in crisis, the play challenges audience members to question their own morality. It won the Tony Award for best play and Drama Desk Award for best new play in 2002. Please refer to the website for more information.

The Laugh Resort Comedy Club

The Laugh Resort Comedy Club is a Fringe World Festival event. This event features a changing weekly line-up of home grown comedy talent plus visiting guest comedians. Dave Callan, Claire Hooper, Rove, and “Hughsey” all started doing stand-up here at The Laugh Resort. You never know who’ll be next! Celebrate their 21st year of making funny with Perth’s best comedians before they become mega-stars. Please refer to the website for more information.

The Magnets

A Perth International Arts Festival event. Prepare to pick your jaw up off the floor when you hear this six-man a Capella sound machine. Armed with nothing more than silky smooth vocal cords, they fashion razorsharp harmonies and beat-boxing to produce covers of Kraftwerk, Beyoncé, Lenny Kravitz and more. Please refer to the website for more information.

The New Conway Explosion

The New Conway Explosion is a Fringe World Festival event. Conway’s new delinquent comedy festival has had audiences entertained the world over. NOMINEE Best Newcomer Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2011 Balancing the well-crafted with the pleasingly bewildering, he generates enough bonhomie to bring hilarity to the masses. Please refer to the website for more information.

The Nutcracker on Ice

The world’s premier theatrical ice skating company, The Imperial Ice Stars, make their triumphant return to Australia next winter with a dazzling new production of The Nutcracker on Ice. Over the last eight years, The Imperial Ice Stars have performed to more than three million people across five continents, with their last four world tours being greeted with standing ovations and five-star reviews. The production features lavish and fantastical new sets from one of Australia’s premier scenic designers, Eamon D’Arcy, whose designs for previous Imperial Ice Stars tours have captured the imaginations of audiences around the world. Together with characteristically sumptuous costumes, magical special effects and arguably Tchaikovsky’s most famous music, The Nutcracker on Ice promises to be a feast for the senses. Please refer to the website for further information.

The Winter's Tale

A Perth International Arts Festival event. By William Shakespeare, Directed by Edward Hall, Text adaptation by Edward Hall and Roger Warren. Propeller perform Shakespeare’s works as dramatic tales that are as current today as when they were penned over 400 years ago. Their approach is shot through with vigour and imagination, reminding us of the thrill and daring at the heart of great theatre. The troupe is led by the indefatigable Edward Hall who brings wit, pace and intelligence to every play he tackles. Poetry and calamity invigorate this brilliantly woven fairy tale for a cold winter's night. Struck by a sudden and strange paranoia, King Leontes imagines plots abounding all around. He sets off a disastrous chain of events that threaten his kingdom, yet receives a miraculous chance at redemption from the Gods. Please refer to the website for more information.

Tim McGraw and Faith Hill

Presented by Rob Potts Entertainment Edge and Chugg Entertainment The Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Australia 2012 Tour, will be the first time the country music superstars have toured together outside of North America. This will be Faith Hill's first time touring Australia and the concert will include the artists performing separately and together. The show will feature their massive hits including McGraw's Live Like You Were Dying, Everywhere, Real Good Man and Hill’s Breathe, This Kiss and The Way You Love Me, as well as duets It's Your Love, Let’s Make Love and I Need You. Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are autonomously amazing, but together they're a partnership powerhouse, particularly when it comes to touring. Please refer to the website for more information.

Tim Minchin versus WASO Round II

Winner 2011 Helpmann Award for Best New Australian Work. Tim Minchin versus The Orchestras returns to Australia after a sold out national tour in March. This epic show has already thrilled 38,000 Australians, and its arena tour of the United Kingdom, which included performances at the O2 and the Royal Albert Hall, was hailed as "a thing of jaw-dropping wonder”. This show is not to be missed. Please refer to the website for further information.

Tizzie Hall ‘Save Our Sleep’ Seminar

Tizzie Hall, the famed international baby whisperer, will visit Perth in February to present the Save our Sleep seminar. Tizzie will talk through her tried and tested approach which teaches parents how to deal with the known and the unknown causes of sleep and behavioural and developmental issues in babies and toddlers all based on her many years of experience with young children. Standing room only. Please refer to the website for more information.

Tom Binns as Ian D Montfort - Spirit Comedium

A Fringe Festival event. Montfort is a spookily skilful, wonderfully observed, and hysterically funny spirit medium who contacts the dead with inexplicable psychic revelations leaving the audience gasping with incredulity and laughter. Tom Binns was nominated as Best Comedian in the Adelaide Fringe Festivals for 2010 and 2011. Please refer to the website for more information.

Tom Malone Prize 2003 to 2012; and Translucence: contemporary glass

This year the Art Gallery of Western Australia celebrates 10 years of the Tom Malone Prize and will be exhibited alongside Translucence: contemporary glass. The combined exhibitions feature work by 2012’s shortlisted makers, all past winners and a selection of glass works from the State Art Collection. Works have been selected to bring to view objects which have been recently purchased, and those works that precede and parallel the works of the Tom Malone Prize acquisitions. Please refer to the website for more information.

Tumble Circus - This is what we do for a living

A Fringe World Festival Event. The human side of circus. No fanfare or sequins, just the extraordinary skill and passion of two carnies on a lifelong adventure through the trials and tribulations of life and relationships, how they fall, land and survive. Nominated Best Circus Show 2011 Adelaide Fringe. 'Funny and flexible, very impressive’- Advertiser Please refer to the website for more information.

U-Ram Choe

A Perth International Arts Festival venue. Step into a world of extraordinary kinetic sculpture that charts a path between art, science and cybernetics in U-Ram Choe's first solo exhibition in Australia. Finely engineered steel and electronics are assembled into captivating forms evoking otherworldly flora and fauna – expanding, contracting and mimicking organic movement. Taking his art into the realm of myth, Choe invites you to read narratives of each sculpture's creation and imagine the evolution of cyber life forms in the future. Please refer to the website for more information.

UCI World Cycling Tour Perth 2012

The UCI World Cycling Tour is a series of sanctioned races that are held all over the world providing amateur cyclists with the change to qualify for the UWCT Final and don the rainbow jersey. Perth won the rights to host a stage of the series in 2011 and over 400 cyclists participated in the Time Trial Event at Rottnest Island and the Road Race Event through Kings Park and the Perth Central Business District. The 2012 event promises to be bigger and better with supporting events such as hosted rides and a celebrity dinner creating a nine-day cycling festival. International, interstate and local cyclists have the opportunity to be part of a professional world qualifying event in the stunning and unique locations of Rottnest Island and Kings Park in the Perth Central Business District. Please refer to the website for more information.

Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain

The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain has seen over 9,000 days of ukulele action and been playing for one 40th of a millennium. The oldest and the best, it unites fans across the globe in celebration of "one plucking thing after another" on "instruments bought for loose change." They have sixteen-handedly turned the world on to the ukulele. The Ukes appear on stage with one ukulele each, no gimmicks, no tricks, no vocal enhancers or overproduced wizardry, then proceed to tear the house down. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll never think about music in the same way again, once you’ve seen and heard the Ukulele Orchestra. For the first time in Australia. One night only! Don’t miss them. Please refer to the website for further information.

Up, Down and Around

Scitech's latest exhibition Up, Down and Around offers you the chance to investigate the concepts of forces, motion and energy and be inspired by the world of physics. Have fun learning as you push, pull, press and play with these exciting full-body experiences including pendulums, pulleys, gyroscopes. A unique 360 degree Bike is the main feature of Up, Down and Around and is already making Scitech the talk of the science world. Not your average ride, this incredible bike allows you to feel the concepts of free-fall, velocity and momentum as you travel in a loop, so you can experience the wild side of physics. Please refer to the website for more information.

V75 Inter Dominion Championship

Regarded as the ‘Melbourne Cup’ of harness racing, the V75 Inter Dominion Championship Final is Australia’s only million dollar pacing event. Perth’s Gloucester Park was the birth place of the Inter Dominion, hosting the initial championship in 1936 and since then the Inter Dominion has developed into one of the world’s great harness racing events. Please refer to the website for more information.

Varie-Trois

Varie-Trios is a Fringe World Festival event. In the best tradition of small, European travelling shows, comes Varie-Trois. Debuting at Fringeworld 2012, Varie-Trois is an eclectic mix of silent comedy, magic, music and street cons all combined into a European style cabaret. As in the pre-war salons of Paris and Berlin, you’ll discover that things are not always as they seem - sometimes they’re better. Please refer to the website for more information.

Vast - North-West Landscapes

The opening up of northern Western Australia to mining exploration in the 1960s also opened up this terrain to artists – both literally by providing easier ways to access it physically by car and air, and imaginatively as a ‘new world’ to discover. Australian artists Russell Drysdale, Guy Grey-Smith, Robert Juniper, Sidney Nolan and many others travelled through the area at this time, and their practice often changed significantly as a result. It is timely to look at the effect of those earlier encounters with a hitherto unfamiliar landscape on the art of non-Indigenous Australian artists, as this region is again in the public eye due to the current mining boom in Western Australia. Vast: North-West landscapes focuses on key works in the State Art Collection which explore the aesthetic outcomes of the challenge to understand the topography of, and experience of being in, a previously alien place.

WASO: Burt Bacharach

Proclaimed The Greatest Living Composer (2008 Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award) when honoured with his eighth Grammy, Burt Bacharach’s illustrious five decade chart run has earned three Academy Awards and over seventy hits including Alfie, What’s New Pussycat?, I Say A Little Prayer, Walk on By, Anyone Who Had A Heart, This Guy’s In Love With You, The Look of Love and Arthur’s Theme. You’ll be entranced with every sophisticated moment that is the ultra cool legend, Burt Bacharach with his magnificent band, singers and WASO in this, his final Perth performance. Burt Bacharach, conductor. Please refer to the website for more information.

WASO: Tina Arena

Pop sensation, legendary songstress Tina Arena makes a triumphant return to Australia in 2012 with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra. Prepare to be enthralled by one of Australia’s brightest stars as she performs favourites you know and love from Chains to Call Me, from Don’t Cry For Me Argentina to I Want to Know What Love is. Please refer to the website for more information.

Weatherly Club presents Saint Valentines Day Concert

You are hereby cordially invited to attend a special presentation by The Weatherly Club, a newly formed society dedicated to the appreciation of the Edwardian Parlour Song. The spirit of these songs is epitomised by the most celebrated and prolific lyricist of the era, Frederic E. Weatherly (1848-1929), best known for penning the immortal words of “Danny Boy”. The programme features songs on themes of love and marriage, including “Mountain Lovers,” “Roses,” “My Dreams,” “Nirvana,” “A Wedding in June,” and “Darby and Joan,” complemented by romantic pieces for flute and piano. Your host for the evening is raconteur and vocalist John Hardy, joined by West Australian soprano Fiona Mariah and pianist Lisa Rowntree, with flautist Emily Gunson. The venue is the beautiful Church of the Resurrection. Seating is limited, so booking is recommended. Door sales available on the day unless sold out. Please refer to the website for more information.

Yes, Prime Minister

The much loved BBC hit television series, Yes, Prime Minister, is now a hilarious new stage play and has become London's biggest hit comedy in decades. It’s 2011. A lot has happened since the Rt Hon. Jim Hacker MP last walked the corridors of Whitehall. There’s the Global Financial Crisis, rising oil prices, minority governments, illegal immigrants and asylum seekers and global warming. If that’s not enough to contend with, the 24 hour news cycle, constant bleating of mobile phones, endless emails and a new generation of spin doctors (scandal managers) means even the most experienced Prime Minister needs solid and supportive advisors. Written by Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay, the creators of the classic BBC comedy, Yes, Prime Minister was a sell out in London’s West End, toured the U.K., and is now back for a return London season. Warning: Adult Themes, not suitable for children.

You am I

They really need no introduction. One of the greatest rock and roll bands Australia has ever seen is finally coming back to town. The combination of the wordsmithery and wildness of rock and roll gentleman Tim Rogers out the front, the rumbling and effortlessly cool bass of Andy Kent, the king of beat-rock drums Russell Hopkinson and the scorching guitar of Davey Lane make music like no other. They are nine albums into their career with a back catalogue so strong and so full of cool memories it’s hard to take it all in at once. However, it’s when they get in the bus and turn on the amps and pull the nuggets from this body of work that YOU AM I are at their best. They are back in Perth…and about time too. For further information, please visit the website.

YouYi Games

YouYi Games brings world-class basketball to Perth as part of an exciting international series, including games in China and Singapore. The on-court action at Challenge Stadium will see the Australian National Men’s Team, the Boomers, take on the Chinese National Men’s Team as they vie for dominance in the Asia Pacific region in the YouYi “Friendship” Games. For information about how you can book your ticket visit the YouYi Games website.

Zack Adams - A Complete History of Zack Adams

A Fringe World Festival Event. A comedic coming-of-age story about an actor’s quest for superstardom and his slow rise to the middle of mediocrity. The creator of Love Songs for Future Girl. Times colonist, Just for Laughs Award for best comedy nomination– Montreal fringe 2011 returns to where it all began. Please refer to the website for more information.