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Treating our eyes and delighting our senses, the Summer sun is setting over the fantastic East End of Fremantle for a night of beauty, creativity, music and laughter. The East End will come alive on Friday the 10th of December for Fremantle’s first boutique, late night shopping style market. The Sunset Market will showcase a selection of West Australia’s best Jewellers, Artists, Designers, Vintage & children’s wares. This visually beautiful and family friendly event is free to the public.

Where: Victoria Hall, East End, 179 High St Fremantle

When: Friday 10th December, 4-10pm

The brains behind the ever-growing family of quirky Perth concept stores, Pigeonhole, is spreading its wings this November and opening up a café/gallery space called Cabin Fever. Cabin Fever is a tiny café/gallery space tucked away in Bon Marche Arcade, on Barrack Street. The concept of the space is to inspire and encourage the greater creative community of Perth with small creative projects in the pipeline including art exhibitions, craft workshops, mini acoustic shows and film nights. The café will be launched to the public on Friday November 12th at 6pm with “All of this will be yours, Someday“- an exhibition of young Australian artists including Sean Morris, Kyle Hughes-Odgers, Brooke Bobridge, Eveline Taraunijaja, Anneke De Rooij and Kate-Anna Williams. The cafe will open for general trade the following day on Saturday November 13th.

The special annual Movember Edition of the Make Friend series of exhibitions is back with a great line up featuring one of Australia’s most recognised and controversial pop artists alongside some of Perth’s most acclaimed street artists and photographers in a wonderfully diverse show. Ben Frost’s unlikely collage style pop art has exhibited internationally in Beijing, New York, San Francisco, Amsterdam and London as well as featuring in countless magazines and publications both here and overseas. Joining him is local urban artist Twenty Eleven and photographers Patrick Leonard O’Brian and Jack Searls with his ‘Don’t Call it Frisco’ series. Once again the iconic Norfolk Basement will be transformed for the night into an intimate exhibition space full of art we love. Part proceeds to Movember for CanTeen.

Sat 6 Nov, 8pm–12am

Norfolk Basement Lounge, Norfolk Hotel, Norfolk St, Fremantle (enter via stairs)

phil@norfolkhotel.com, 0411420030

www.myspace.com/norfolkbasementlounge

The Norfolk Lanes Youth Festival will return this year for its second glorious involvement with the Fremantle Festival. Last year was one of the highlights of the week, and this year we expect no less!!

The layout of the day will be essentially the same as last year, with our main stage located in Norfolk Lane and another, more acoustic, stage down in the X-Wray Café. The main stage will host the finest of our local electro and rock n roll protégés, and the café our acoustic darlings. The markets will also be returning to the X-Wray Piazza, with loads of cool treats for you to pick up.

The main addition to this year’s festival will be the closure of half of Essex St for us to extend our frivolities. This area will have a pop-up art gallery from the bods at The Butcher Shop, skating demonstrations, ramps and grinding poles, a whole bunch of live graffiti art happening right before your eyes, and a selection of our favourite DJs spinning the tunes in the sun. As well as this there will be artists painting moustaches on all the moustache-less in aid of Movember.

The inaugural Tweed Run will also be happening during the morning, and as many tweed clad vintage hipsters as we can find will be turning up at 12 to help complete what will surely be a wonderful spectacle. (Check out dismantle.org.au for more details)

Come and support our wonderful city, and the wealth of young artistic talent that are a massive part of it.

Saturday November 13
12noon – 7pm
Norfolk Lane, Essex St and the X-Wray Café and Piazza.

For two weeks the BAKERY and Breadbox gallery will be transformed by Suspended Motion. The show features a series of installations and video works by international and local artists, drawing visitors into the art form that is skateboarding . Through the use of mediums as varied as video, paint, laser technology, light, sculpture and performance the artworks will immerse patrons in the aftermath of motion and a static representation of skateboarding.

With backgrounds in graphic design, photography, sculpture, visual art, construction and industrial design – each of the six artists bring their own, very different, interpretations of the physical performance of skateboarding into the exhibition. Each with an exceptional sense of design and unique style as visual artists, Ben Barretto, Cameron Campbell, Morgan Campbell, Jason Hansma, James Hensby and Tom Mùller will expose skateboarding as worthy of attention, offering a new, often overlooked form of expression and conveying new cultural possibilities.

The installations will feature both large-scale sculptural work and mixed media visual art and, for the opening night only, feature a performance by Ben Barretto utilising local skateboarders, sensors and paint guns. Such a display aims to have viewers consider this practice not as an act of wear and defilement but one of beauty and creative transgression . 

Coupled with the exhibition itself is the documentation of the entire journey and execution of Suspended Motion in both DVD and print form. Documented by Jack Pam, well-known videographer and Art Director for staple magazine, footage of the experience, from concept to performance, will also form a publication, featuring essays by Dr. Robert Cook, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art at the Art Gallery of Western Australia. and staple magazine’s Morgan Campbell, which will accompany the exhibition and will be available at the book launch on the 6th of November in the Bakery. 

Opening & Performance by Ben Barretto: Friday, 22 October, 6 – 8pm
Exhibition Dates: 23 October – 6 November, 2010
Book Launch: 4 November 5pm onwards at the BAKERY
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LAST CHANCE STUDIO’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE marks the first time that the artists of Last Chance have united to bring the full force of their movement across the nullabor. And they are doing it in style – throwing caution and logistical nightmares to the wind, and declaring their intent to put on three completely separate art shows in three cities in two weeks.

The adventure begins on Friday, September 24th at 6pm with Kick It Like Jujitsu – a massive installation painting at The Bakery, on James Street in Northbridge, Last Chance’s home town. The Last Chance boys will be joined by AM crew guest artists and Sydney’s Beastman to paint out the entire gallery for this show, which opens up Semi-Permanent 2010, and will also be the exhibition that re-opens The Bakery after 18 months of renovations.

The gang then heads to Sydney to paint some walls, make some friends and open Face Palm Your Demons – an exhibition of new paintings and drawings and a collaborative installation painting at Oh Really Gallery in Newtown, Sydney. Opening drinks start at 6m, Thursday September 30 and the show runs until October 10.

From there it’s on to Melbourne, for another week of art escapades culminating Why Aren’t You Naked? – Another exhibition of completely new artworks and wall paintings by the collective, at the new No Vacancy Project Space in Federation Square. The show opens at on Thursday, October 7 at 6pm and runs until October 24.

Amplifier is back in 2010 with an array of sessions to get those creative ideas on the move! Hosted by Propel Youth Arts WA, the FREE arts and business workshop and forum program gives you professional development skills, networking opportunities and a chance to explore arts issues with leading industry professionals! 

This year’s workshop series features a impressive collective of local creatives including; the crew behind Dot Dot Dash, Katie Lenanton (Love is My Velocity), Serena Chalker (Anything Is Valid Dance Theatre AIVDT) and Rachael Dease & Tristen Parr (Schvendes). Workshop topics include:

• GETTING STARTED - Develop and plan your arts business
• GETTING THE WORD OUT - Marketing know how
• GROWING MONEY ON TREES -  How to get that grant
• ARTS FINANCE - All the basics, Tax, ABN, GST etc.
• ARTS LAW - What you need to know
• EVENT 101- Make your event happen
• PRICING YOUR PRODUCT - Learn how to price your work and get it out there
  

This year’s forum series features Amanda Premici (Awesome Arts) and William Heery & Sean Morris (Last Chance Studios) and more!

• ART AT THE HEART - A Community Cultural Development forum featuring Lenine Bourke from Young People and the Arts
  

Australia (YPAA)

• BEHIND THE SCENES - An opportunity for emerging arts workers and artists to connect with the industry
• CREATIVE COLLABORATIONS - An informal discussion on the nature of creative collaboration
  

Become a jack-of-all-trades and register now to get your share of insider tips, advice and tricks of the trade from Perth’s own artists! Amplifier is held thoughout September – October. Visit www.propel.org.au

picture show brings two bodies of work by Perth photographer Claire Martin to Wolfe Lane this month – Femme
Fatale a new project showing for the first time and Slab City a mega-hit at FotoFreo 2010.

Claire began her career by pursuing a degree in Social Work changing her focus to Photography when she realised that
influence can also be achieved through this medium. Her ongoing documentation of marginalised communities within
prosperous nations has recently won her the internationally esteemed Magnum Foundation 2010 Inge Morath award
for Female Photographers under 30 years of age – an outstanding achievement.

Since beginning her career pursuing personal projects in 2007 Claire has quickly gained praise for her unique style gaining
support from Getty images as an Emerging Talent in Reportage in 2009 as well as representing Australia’s
Emerging Female Photojournalist for FotoFreo 2010. She has recently joined the renowned Australian documentary
photo collective Oculi and her work is distributed through Agency VU in Europe and Redux in the USA. Claire lives in
Perth where she works as a freelance photojournalist and socially concerned documentary artist.

Femme Fatale is Claire’s most recent work produced close to home in Perth’s Northbridge district. The femme fatale is
not a fictional literary character – across Australia these fatal females are torturing men in asymmetrical relationships,
denying confirmation of affection, driving men to the point of obsession and exhaustion so that they are incapable of
making rational decisions. Their sexual power is so prosaic it is almost supernatural, and in their weakened state these
male victims are easily led into compromising, dangerous, and even deadly situations.

Slab City lies in the Colorado Desert in south eastern California and takes its name from the concrete slabs that remain
from an abandoned World War II base. It has been created by a small but committed squatters community. A truly horrific
and romantic landscape that commands residents to possess the same balance of beauty and beast. Slab City is a place
for the broken and desperate, more than anything else, it is what this small group of people call home.

See Femme Fatale and Slab City at Wolfe Lane from Wednesday 22 September – Wednesday 27 October.

Returning to the Perth Fashion Festival for a third run, Popsicle has become a staple on Perth’s independent fashion calendar. Popsicle is temporary retail space where you can browse, shop, and directly support a selection of Western Australia’s most exciting emerging talent. 

Featuring Lonely 8-Bit Heroes, Kiss Me Quick, Little Gracie, PeppermintMilk, Bo Ra, Heart City Design, Bad Hair Mountain, White Square, Lovers & Dreamers, Leah Tarlo, Prufrock, Ping Pong Diplomacy, Love is My Velocity, Kingbrown Magazine, and Hit & Miss Magazine. 

Produced by the crew at OnWilliam, each year Popsicle reinvents itself in a new environment, delivering a fun and different shopping experience. This year we salute our local designers in style, with Popsicle being housed in two shipping containers in the heart of the Perth Cultural Centre. The pop-up shipping container shop, will be open 10am-5pm daily and packed full of emerging fashion, jewellery, art and other designer goodies!

This Saturday, September 4, sees the second installment of Feast Your Eyes at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Artwork from over 15 artists will be on display as well as live art by Prez Juan, Reboot and Dave Misled. The Sun Orchestra and DJ Klash will be providing the tunes and the girls have coordinated a silent auction with all proceeds going to The Australian Conservation Foundation to keep in line with the events recycling theme. Doors open at 6, $10 entry ~ this will be a standout event so get amongst it!