WINTER ARTS SEASON 2012 THE HOTTEST GUIDE TO THE COOLEST SHOWS IN TOWN FEATURES EDITOR CLIMATE Helen Winterton [email protected] of culture ARTS EDITOR (acting) William Yeoman [email protected] he temperatures outside are DESIGN Scott Cain dropping but the City of Perth WRITERS Winter Arts Season is ascending Rosalind Appleby, Ron Banks, Simon Collins, T to new highs for 2012. This Lyn DiCiero, Lucy Gibson, Nina Levy, year will see our biggest Winter Rob Payne, William Yeoman, Heather Zubek Arts Season ever with over 150 events from more than 60 participating arts organisations, cosy restaurants or a drink at one of the many MAGAZINE SALES MANAGER businesses and independent artists. ¿QHVPDOOEDUV Amy Harper It is an exciting time for arts and culture The Winter Supper Club at the Perth [email protected] in the city with new cultural experiences Town Hall undercroft is a new event for 2012, COVER ILLUSTRATION Cam Campbell around every corner. This year’s program offering the opportunity to sample a range of THE WEST AUSTRALIAN combines world-class home-grown talent with traditional European dishes and to meet some 50 Hasler Road, Osborne Park, 6017 WA VRPHH[FLWLQJLQWHUQDWLRQDOÀDYRXUVIURP of the talented performers taking to the stages 08 9482 3158 the Museum of Modern Art and the Banff of Perth during this winter season. Mountain Film Festival. Winter Arts Season is the perfect Our eighth Winter Arts Season promises opportunity to explore our new venues, cutting-edge concepts and world-class artists galleries and boutiques that have chosen to be SHOWMEPERTH.COM.AU who will impress Perth audiences across all here. So resist the urge to stay at home every JHQUHVRIWKHDWUH¿OPFRPHG\RSHUDOLWHUDWXUH night this coming winter! dance, visual arts, poetry and cabaret. I encourage everyone to come into the city The program features talented locals such to be entertained and inspired by the artists as Tim Winton, Lucy Durack and the WA and performers that will make this year’s For full details of all Symphony Orchestra alongside emerging Winter Arts Season one to remember. Support events, pick up your talent from the Western Australian Academy of our culture and arts and engage with your free Winter Arts Performing Arts and our WA Youth Orchestra. city and feel the love while experiencing the Season brochure Why not combine all Perth has to offer warmth of the 2012 season! at participating into a fabulous night out with Friday night venues. shopping, a pre-show meal at one of the city’s LORD MAYOR LISA SCAFFIDI We’d like to thank these supporters who have helped make the City of Perth Winter Arts Season possible. Thank you to these organisations for helping present the City of Perth Winter Arts Season. 1UP Microcinema • Art Gallery of Western Australia • ArtBank • Ausdance WA • Australian Chamber Orchestra • Australian Performing Arts Network Australian String Quartet • Barefaced Stories • Bell Shakespeare • Black Swan State Theatre Co. • Buzz Dance Theatre • CDP Theatre Producers Celebrate WA • Chinese Consulate Perth • Chuckles Comedy • Cinema Paradiso • Comedy Lounge • Creative Connections • Downstairs at The Maj Duet Entertainment • Ellington Jazz Club • Foodchain • FORM • Fremantle Chamber Orchestra • Gallery Central • Government House Foundation of WA His Majesty’s Theatre • Janus Entertainment • Japanese Consulate Perth • Laugh Resort Comedy Club • Made on the Left • Museum of Performing Arts Musica Viva • NAIDOC Perth • Northbridge Piazza • Perth Centre for Photography • Perth Concert Hall • Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts • Perth Jazz Society Perth Theatre Company • Perth Theatre Trust • Scitech • St George’s Cathedral • State Library of Western Australia • State Theatre Centre of WA STRUT Dance • Sugar Blue Burlesque • Sydney Theatre Company • The Army Museum of WA Foundation • The Bakery Artrage Complex • The Blue Room Theatre The Comedy Shack • Theatreworks • Tura New Music • Underground Cabaret • UWA Cultural Precint • Venn Gallery • Voyces Inc • WA Poets Inc WA Youth Jazz Orchestra • WA Youth Orchestra • WA Youth Theatre Company • West Australian Academy of Performing Arts • West Australian Museum West Australian Music Industry Association • West Australian Opera • West Australian Symphony Orchestra • World Expeditions • Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company WHAT'S INSIDE MUSIC VISUAL ART FILM THEATRE From the hot bands of If it’s blockbuster art Jemima Robinson has Moliere is the French the WAMi Festival and exhibitions you’re after, a word of warning for Shakespeare and his the cool blues of the the hot ticket this winter audience members at this plays are just as rich a Ellington Jazz Fest to the is most definitely at year’s Banff Mountain combination of comedy sophisticated cabaret the Art Gallery of WA Film Festival — what you and tragedy. Australian of Lucy Durack and the where, direct from The are about to see could thespian superstars the surf-inspired classical of Museum of Modern Art in bring on a severe bout Bell Shakespeare Company the Australian Chamber New York, the 140-work of wanderlust. Of course bring Moliere’s School for Orchestra, this winter survey Picasso to Warhol: festival director Robinson Wives to Perth this year Perth will ring with a range Fourteen Modern Masters doesn’t expect everyone in a rare outing, making of music to suit every taste will add some pizzazz to to hurtle themselves down a nice contrast with local and pocket. the dreary season. a crocodile-infested river outfit Black Swan Theatre’s in a kayak or paraglide production of Tim Winton’s off Everest… new play, Signs of Life. 4-8 10-11 12-13 14-15 COMEDY DANCE FAMILY LITERATURE They say laughter’s the This winter Perth explodes Forget baby chicks or Winter is traditionally best medicine. So if you’re in a frenzy of dance as the cuddly lambs — during the a time for curling up suffering a cold this inaugural MoveMe dance July school holidays the with a good book. But winter forget the cough festival, incorporating WA Museum will be home performance can bring medicine and head out to the Australian Dance to the world’s most unusual words alive like nothing some of Perth's hottest Awards, presents a mix of petting zoo. You’ll be able else — especially when it’s comedy venues to catch reinterpreted classics such to feed a baby dinosaur acclaimed travel writer a comedian or three. as STRUT dance’s sensual, and even pat a meat-eating and novelist Stephen International comedy sexual The Afternoon of giant. Just don’t forget to Scourfield reading sensations include Gavin a Faun and vibrant new count your fingers when from his latest book Webster, Ian Coppinger works like Buzz Dance you’re done! Or maybe the Unaccountable Hours as and Vladimir McTavish Theatre’s emotionally delightful new children’s violinist Sophie Edelman in An Englishman, an fraught Fragile. play The Gruffalo’s Child performs the timeless Irishman and a Scotsman. will be more to your tastes? music of JS Bach. 16-17 18-19 20-21 22 MAP Page 23 CALENDAR Page 24-31 CITY OF PERTH WINTER ARTS SEASONł3 Wendy Were has high hopes and big plans for the future of Perth’s live music scene. Simon Collins spoke to the new chief of the West Australian Music Industry Association. CONTEMPORARY rom pulling beers in the Perth pubs where John Butler and Jebediah cut their teeth to sharing her F three-year-old daughter’s love of Fremantle pop tyros San Cisco, Wendy Were will bring a fan’s eye view to her new position as chief executive MUSIC of the West Australian Music Industry Association, or WAM. Taking over from Paul Bodlovich, who was chief executive for a decade, Were also comes armed with invaluable knowledge of the creative industries, thanks to her previous roles directing the Perth and Sydney writers’ festivals as well as the University of WA’s Institute of Advanced Studies and the federally funded Creative Industries Innovation Centre. It’s moving beyond grassroots,” she said. “It’s a case of looking beyond a local community of music and looking globally. There’s glorious potential.” WENDY WERE 2QWKHHYHRIKHU¿UVW:$0L)HVWLYDOLQ charge, the UWA graduate made the bold assertion that WAM aims to transform Perth into the “live music capital of Australia”. “It’s an aspiration and I think there’s a lot of work to be done there, but it’s an important thing because it does cross the entire industry, not just the musicians,” Were said during a chat at Northbridge venue the Bakery, which will host several festival events including the 2012 WAMi Awards on June 2. An impressive line-up starring Eskimo Joe, John Butler, Mama Kin and Dom Mariani will perform at the annual gongs, where winners in industry and public voted categories take home the traditional WAMington cake instead of an inedible trophy. San Cisco, Split WENDY WERE PICTURE: IAIN GILLESPIE Seconds, the Voltaire Twins and the Growl lead the nominations this year. 4łCITY OF PERTH WINTER ARTS SEASON 2012 WAMI FESTIVAL AT A GLANCE OPENING PARTY — Tomas Ford, Ben Witt, MmHmmm, Cow Parade Cow, Felicity Groom and Rainy Day Women, the Bakery, May 26 SUNDAY LIVE AND THE CRUSTACEAN CUP — Grace Barbe, Odette Mercy and Her Banding Soul Atomics, Minute 36, Datura and more, Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge Piazza, Forrest Place and Russell Square, May 27 MUSIC FILM SCREENING, Northbridge Piazza, May 27 THE COMMUNITY BEAT CANTEEN — TOGETHER Diger Rockwell, the Empty Cup, Naik, Wisdom 2th and YELM, Northbridge Piazza, May 28-June 1 THE BIRD SUNDOWNER SERIES — James Teague, Simone & Girfunkle, In addition to giving our best musicians Pareles gushed over Woodroofe’s debut). Cameron Avery and Anton Franc, a sugar high each year, the WAMi Festival The new chief executive recalls working the Bird, May 28-June 1 features eight days of gigs, an industry at the Swanbourne and Grosvenor Hotels, conference and even a star-studded soccer where she saw early gigs from Jebediah LUNCHTIME MALL SESSIONS, match, the Crustacean Cup.