Fremantle Festival 2016 program by Fremantle Festivals

FREMANTLE FESTIVAL16 28 OCTOBER - 6 NOVEMBER

Welcome to the

2016 FREMANTLE FESTIVAL. Fremantle is known for its spirited culture and thriving arts community and we’re overjoyed to be able to announce a program of fantastic shows over ten days, in key venues across the city. The Fremantle Town Hall is at the heart of our City and the current works will help to ensure it continues to serve as an amazing performance space for many more years to come. Inside the hall this year you can soak up the cool blues of C.W. Stoneking, rock out with The Drones or celebrate the life of Great War soldier and composer Frederick Septimus Kelly and his unique classical music as part of special event Race Against Time. Across Kings Square from the Town Hall is the beautiful St John’s Anglican Church, which will host great music and events across the entire festival. This diverse program spans quality acts such as the thumb piano Mbira Masters of Zimbabwe, local stars Joni in the Moon and the classical chamber music of Songs, Travel and Journeys. The Fremantle Arts Centre plays a pivotal arts role in our community and will this year be an official Fremantle Festival venue, presenting a range of live music, visual art exhibitions and events The festival begins at the Fremantle Arts Centre this year with the vibrant Wardarnji – a celebration of Nyoongar culture through song, dance and stories. This year Fremantle Festival has invited some of the most thought-provoking and well considered public commentators in Australia to our city. Don’t miss highly respected journalist Stan Grant’s free address before the start of Wardarnji. Political observers Waleed Aly and Clementine Ford are also standout contributors to the festival at the Town Hall.

PegLeg2 pop up bar will be returning to Kings Square this year, where a selection of public art installations will be on display and free activities are planned for each of the ten days. Join in or witness the diversity and colour of the Fremantle Festival Street Parade and shake free at the closing party in Kings Square before a final concert by Dan Sultan in the Town Hall. With so many great free and ticketed events, there’s something for everyone at this year’s Fremantle Festival. I hope you get out and about and experience some of the fantastic art and culture Fremantle has to offer.

Dr. Brad Pettitt Fremantle Mayor

Festival Foreword by Julian Tompkin

foghorn betrays the silence. There are things moving out there, beyond the roily black frontier. Living things. A ship pulls in, its souls hungry for wine and song. And another ship pulls out with its cargo and secrets bound tight, back to the immunity of the sea.

Such is the ordinance of a port city – a place of eternal transaction and ferment. A confluence of ideation and imagination. A reservoir of stories from both within and from the furthest known realms. For what are we but parables and potboilers? Civilisations rise and, without exception, civilisations crumble. And all we have left to pick over, amidst the hysterical gulls, are the ruins…ruins and, of course, stories. Stories both long and tall. Stories so pungent even the stubborn Freo Doctor couldn’t chase them to cure. Fremantle is trussed together with such stories – a gritty epoxy, made up of one part limestone, two parts water, three parts ramblin’. It comes with the territory of being a frontier place at the extremities of land, water and imagination. Like Ptolemy’s Alexandria and Jonah’s Jaffa, Fremantle is – by default of this frontier status – a place where time begins and time ends. A city eternally betrothed to mystery and chimera – a pedigree that traces back to time immemorial. To Walyalup, the everlasting ganglion of song and ritual. Of lore and diffusion.

Gone are the days of searching out borrowed myths and second-hand applause – as those that came before. There is gold and bone dust enough strewn here amidst the sonorous streets to fuel an eternity of dreams – and songs plenty enough to rouse us from our reverie. For these streets wear their shadows like skin. Every pockmarked brick the bearer of a secret, every half-drawn curtain witness to an extraordinary tale. The old merchant manors groan heavy with knowing that our time is now. Art, too, resides at life’s very frontiers – frantically searching out hairline cracks in the grandiose illusion. Panning for ultimate truths in that brackish creek of gold dust that eternally leads to no place in particular. Art dares to stare down the loaded barrel of a burning sun – the blinding utopian illusion, the perennial trick of the light – to remind us that salt stings, sun burns, silence deafens and ennui beseeches revolt. And it’s here and now where we find ourselves, at a milepost in this narrative – a moment of reflection, revelry and re-imagination. It’s a thrilling proposition indeed, and fittingly the Fremantle Festival brings us to the cultural precipice with its most ambitious and germane program yet. We invite you to stay a while. To explore and consider. To holler and dance. But, more so, we invite you to join us here upon the spiritous communal stage that is Freo – and be a part of the story.

FESTIVAL INFO

TICKETING ⊲⊲ Visit fremantlefestival.oztix.com.au or Mills Records to book tickets to all Fremantle Festival shows. ⊲⊲ All prices listed in this program include the booking fee and a 2% surcharge for online credit card transactions. ⊲⊲ An additional charge applies to tickets purchased at outlets.

PEGLEG2

ARTS IN THE SQUARE

PegLeg pop-up bar is back in Kings Square every night during the festival! Featuring cool tunes, tasty bites and refreshing beverages, PegLeg2 is the place to soak up the festival atmosphere in the heart of Freo.

Pop along to one of our free art classes, Monday to Friday at 2pm in Kings Square. Check the festival website for details of daily class themes.

PUBLIC ART Building on Fremantle’s exceptional industrial history, an army of artists, woodworkers, welders, mechanics and architects will be on the tools in Kings Square for three weeks as part of the City of Fremantle’s annual Temporary Art Program.

No equipment required, just bring yourself.

ACCESSIBILITY ⊲⊲ Alternative formats of this program available on request. ⊲⊲ Accessibility varies, please check wheelchair access with venues directly.

In the spirit of all good contemporary ephemeral art, this year’s commissions promise maximum exposure to the creative minds of our local artists for a very short time – don’t miss it!

WARDARNJI

FRIDAY 28 OCTOBER ⊳ Wardarnji Kicking off Fremantle Festival this year, Wardarnji is a dynamic and unique celebration of Indigenous Australian culture that you won’t experience anywhere else in Perth. Appreciate our place together through Nyoongar song, dance and storytelling as the fires burn into the evening. Bring your picnic rugs and chairs and get a good spot on the South Lawn to celebrate some of the oldest songs, dances and language in the world.

Stan Grant Talking to my Country

Heavenly Bodies – RTRFM Fundraiser

Drawing on his experiences as a Wiradjuri man and his professional history as a journalist reporting from conflict zones around the world, join us as the highly respected Stan Grant asks crucial questions about our national identity and future.

RTRFM and Cool Perth Nights present an ear pashing evening of stellar music at St John's Anglican Church in Kings Square. Featuring the interplanetary sounds of Felicity Groom, Marley Wynn and The Mei Saraswati a cappella Group, serial swooning is inevitable. Multiinstrumentalist Sam Maher playing the Hang, experimentalist and looper Sean O'Neill (Hang on St. Christopher) and the cosmic WAAPA Gospel Choir complete your astrophysical journey into the outer aural.

Can Australia be a country that will fully enshrine the rights of Indigenous people? Can we positively wrestle with our past and give Indigenous people the opportunity to make decisions about their lives that will lift Indigenous Australian people and our shared communities?

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre Front Garden ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 4pm

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – South Lawn ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 5.30pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 6.30pm

C.W. Stoneking Like a fruit tree sprouting new branches upon an ancient root, C.W. Stoneking welds a blues all of his own into a potent art form. With an authenticity that singes its rhythms into your underwear C.W. writes and performs songs drenched in the skeletal marrow of the blues of yesteryear archived in three albums: King Hokum, Jungle Blues and, his latest, Gon’ Boogaloo. The Fremantle Town Hall, with all its turn-of-thecentury splendour, is the perfect venue for this time blitzin’ troubadour. ⊲⊲ PRICE $44.90

⊲⊲ PRESALE $12.75 RTR FM subscriber / $17.85 general

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall

⊲⊲ DOOR $15 RTR FM subscriber / $20 general

⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 9pm

⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 8pm

⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 7.30pm

⊲⊲ TALK STARTS 5pm

SATURDAY 29 OCTOBER WALEED ALY

Waleed Aly – Fremantle Festival keynote address Waleed Aly is a broadcaster, author, academic, musician, recent Gold Logie winner and one of Australia’s premier public intellectuals. He is co-host of network TEN’s The Project and his writing regularly appears in The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Monthly. Waleed Aly’s opinion is the ‘go-to’ touchstone of our nation’s conscience. Speaking to contemporary issues affecting us all in our own beautiful Fremantle Town Hall don’t miss this opportunity to listen to the well considered and articulate beat of our national pulse. ⊲⊲ PRICE $44.90 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 3.30pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 4pm

Bernard Fanning

Joni in the Moon

Little Italy by The Sea

Bernard Fanning is one of Australia’s finest and most awarded songwriters and lyricists, known for his brilliant solo work and being the lead singer in seminal rock outfit Powderfinger. Fanning has made it his business to write and sing tunes that are emblematic of an intensely Australian psyche: he is a national rock treasure. Fremantle Festival is proud to announce Bernard Fanning in concert to celebrate the release of his third studio solo LP, Civil Dusk at the Fremantle Arts Centre. This special concert will showcase new songs from Civil Dusk for the first time in a live arena, alongside some trusty pearlers from his extensive song book, which spans twenty-five years.

Joni in the Moon’s infinitely layered musical universe sings of a cosmos that’s out of this world. Astro siblings Joni and Josh Hogan have an ethereal spin on folktronica, world beats and poptronica leanings that has seen richly deserved comparisons with pop’s more creative luminaries. They are here amongst us now but for how long before the magnetic tides of stardom carry them away? Fremantle Festival anchors them for us, for now. Don’t miss this special event in the beautifully gothic St Johns Church near the festival hub in Kings Square.

This year’s iconic Blessing of the Fleet will be kissed on both its cheeks by Little Italy by the Sea, a mini festival and celebration of the magnificence, cuisine and piazzas of the Italian seaside.

⊲⊲ PRICE $71.10 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – South Lawn ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 6pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 6.30pm

⊲⊲ PRICE $17.85 ⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church

Explore the feisty and fulsome nature of Italian culture as Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour and Bathers Beach are transformed into bustling piazzas. Experience Australia’s finest baristas competing in the prestigious Australian Specialty Coffee Championships and many fine pop-up restaurants. A spectacular vista of Italian cuisine, music, art, dance, culture and breathtaking fireworks awaits you!

⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 7.30pm

⊲⊲ WHERE Bathers Beach and Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour ⊲⊲ WHEN Saturday 29, 12 - 10pm and Sunday 30, October 12 - 9pm

SUNDAY 30 OCTOBER

Race Against Time Race Against Time presents the poignant times and moving music of a little known Great War soldier composer: Australian Frederick Septimus Kelly. A gold medal Olympian rower, awarded soldier, renowned pianist and brilliant composer – this performance will tell the story of how Kelly persisted with his composing before meeting his demise on the Somme. Letters and diaries sensitively woven with the sublime music Kelly composed at war will be presented at the Fremantle Town Hall at this Western Australian exclusive event. With music performed by ARIA award-winning pianist Tamara-Anna Cislowska, Perthborn soprano Louise Page, mezzo Christina Wilson and Artistic Director of the Gallipoli Symphony, Christopher Latham, the performance expresses the meaning and a narration of life under fire. Narrations by Carrillo Gantner AO. Presented in conjunction with the WA album launch of Kelly’s music by ABC Classics / Universal. ⊲⊲ PRICE $45.90 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 6pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 7pm

Sunday Music – David Craft

Songs, Travel and Journeys

David Craft’s velvety baritone, the detail in his darkly intricate arrangements, and intense storytelling: three good reasons to loll happily on a Sunday arvo in the Freo Arts Centre front garden. David plays with support from playful pop songstress Stella Donnelly.

Mezzo Soprano Linda Barcan and Pianist Chris van Tuinen interlock poetry and music in a deeply moving song cycle of discovery, loss and redemption. Vaughan-William’s Songs of Travel and Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey) are a conjoined atlas of the heart through which these fine artists survey a woman’s perspective on what it means to love. Beautifully backgrounded by the resonant acoustics of St John’s Anglican Church, Songs, Travels and Journeys is a suite of classical music fit for a port town.

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – Front Garden ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 10am ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 2pm

⊲⊲ PRICE $35.70 ⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 2.30pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 3pm

Blessing of the Fleet ⊲ First celebrated by Italian migrant fishermen in 1948, the Blessing of the Fleet is our celebration of fishing traditions and the wider Fremantle community. Enjoy the beauty, history and pageantry of this event as it makes its way from St Patrick’s Basilica to the Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour, where it culminates in a spectacular traditional fireworks display at 8pm. Bask in a delectable array of Italian food

and culture at Little Italy by The Sea at Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour and on Bathers Beach after the procession and join us in celebrating our heritage and culture (see page 9).

⊲⊲ WHERE St Partick’s Basilica Fremantle Fishing Boat Harbour ⊲⊲ PROCESSION STARTS 2pm

BLESSING OF THE FLEET WARDARNJI

FREMANTLE TOWN HALL

MONDAY 31 OCTOBER

The Tonight Show starring Abbe May

Ensemble Vagabond – Cell Room Recital

With special guests!

Ensemble Vagabond smashes the boundaries of chamber music in this unique concert performed for a limited audience of 50 in the heritage ‘cell room’ at the Fremantle Arts Centre. In a program that explores solo pieces alongside ensemble masterpieces, these works will literally challenge our perceptions of time and space. Berio’s Opus Zoo (for speaker and wind quintet) and Latvian composer Peteris Vasks’ 1977 Music for a Deceased Friend, will be amongst the portals that will bridge the aural arcs in this evocative cell room recital.

A triumphant return to the Fremantle Festival program after last year’s raucous low-down and sold-out celebration of Western Australian music The Tonight Show Starring Abbe May is a chance to join Australia’s soul-singing siren as she interviews and plays with her own selection of the best up and coming and established homegrown talent. Stay hawt(!), stay taut! and stay tuned for Abbe’s special guest artist announcements… ⊲⊲ PRICE Early bird: $34.70, Double pass: $56.10, VIP: $66.30 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

Ensemble Vagabond are the Ensemble in Residence at the School of Music UWA and building an impressive national profile. Emily Clements (flute), Peter Fracer (oboe), Ashley Smith (clarinet), Adam Mikulicz (bassoon), Julia Brooke (horn). ⊲⊲ PRICE $28.60 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – Cell Room ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7.30pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

CLEMENTINE FORD

TUESDAY 1 NOVEMBER WARDARNJI

⊳ Clementine Ford – How to Fight Like a Girl Clementine Ford’s tumblr description has her pigeonholed as a “notorious boner killer, bookworm and bon vivant” with a tendency towards Ryan Gosling. Her work has highlighted the backlash that stings fierce women who speak out. Social media allows such women bigger audiences, but it comes with a price – online abuse. Why is there such a drive to silence women and what can be done to stand strong in the face of it? Find out how to fight back as Clementine shares stories from online encounters, unpacking the insecurities that exist within the men who send abuse her way.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see Clementine live and get involved in this vital conversation.

St George’s Cathedral Consort in Eternal Light

Jordie Lane

Eternal Light celebrates the transcendental beauty of the finest works of western sacred choral music across the centuries. Program includes Allegri’s stunning Misere (1616), Aaron Copland’s In The Beginning (1947) and Morten Lauridsen‘s thrilling Lux Aeterna (1997). Presented outdoors in the magical Inner Courtyard, with guest soloist Sara Macliver, Eternal Light will be a transporting experience of rare quality. ⊲⊲ PRICE $38.80 standard / $29.60 Concession ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – Inner Courtyard ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 6.30pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 7.30pm Valid concession card must be presented on entry

⊲⊲ PRICE $20.40 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 7.30pm

Rolling Stone says that Jordie Lane “has a sombre grace that is universal”. He is raw, he’s soulful and he returns to Australia with his first full-length studio album in five years. GLASSELLLAND (pronounced Glas-Hell-Land) is a bold and adventurous record that takes him far beyond his Folk/Alt. Country roots. Accompanied by the multi-talented singer/ songwriter Clare Reynolds on, among other things, a guitar case drum, these two have been hoisting the sails powered by soaring harmonies and crazy instrumentation all over the globe. Now its Fremantle’s turn in the church. ⊲⊲ PRICE $25.50 ⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

WEDNESDAY 2 NOVEMBER ⊲ Songs of the Suburbs, Songs of the Sea You are invited to a revealing musical portrait of a city. Kav Temperley (Eskimo Joe) fetches together some of Perth and Fremantle’s most distinguished tunesmiths and storytellers – amongst them MC Empty, Lucy Peach and legend Steve Parkin – for a profound and intimate night that weaves our streets, landscapes and lives together. Presented in two acts, Songs Of The Suburbs, Songs Of The Sea takes us on a sensorial, multi-platform odyssey that reveals much about these songwriters and the city we all call home. The show features exclusive photographic works by Matsu, video installations by Brendan Hutchens and narration by Sam Longley.

Fremantle Press turns 40 Fremantle Press is 40! Celebrate the anniversary and the announcement of this year’s winner of the City of Fremantle T.A.G. Hungerford Award, WA’s longest running and most prestigious award for unpublished manuscripts. With music by Dave Warner and readings by Craig Silvey, Liz Byrski, Sabrina Hahn, James Foley and Ambelin Kwaymullina this is your invite to a special event marking four decades of great local stories.

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre Front Garden

⊲⊲ PRICE $39.80 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

Bob Log III

Arts Hustle

Bob Log III performs over 150 shows a year in more than 30 countries, playing his old Silvertone archtop guitars, wearing a full body human cannonball suit and a motorcycle helmet wired to a telephone receiver. What more do you need to know? It’s a blues punk guitar dance party!

Arts Hustle is an event that is designed to introduce art enthusiasts or the art curious to the throbbing arts scene in Fremantle.

⊲⊲ PRICE $23.50 ⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

Arts Hustle will tour local art organisations with participants being ‘hustled’ from space to space, spending only 20 minutes in each location. We encourage questions of all kinds, get to know these spaces or artists and think outside the box. Each gallery will take a different approach to the event with exhibitions that are vastly different. Wine and nibbles will be provided at each space, participation is free, but you will have to be quick to secure a place.

⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 6pm ⊲⊲ WHERE Kings Square ⊲⊲ WHEN 6-8pm ⊲⊲ RESERVATIONS emiliag86@hotmail.com

WARDARNJI

SONGS OF THE SUBURBS, SONGS OF THE SEA

THURSDAY 3 NOVEMBER

THE STATE COLLECTION

THE STATE COLLECTION The State Collection is a truly unique celebration of art and community – an exhibition of original artworks by the West Australian public.

The Art is in Your Hands

Exhibition Opening Party

Like to draw, sketch or paint? We invite you to submit an artwork to feature in this unique exhibition, exploring West Australian identity, landscape and our distinct sense of place – in whatever way you imagine it. All works are to be submitted on white A4 paper and be unsigned, as artworks will remain anonymous. Entrants must be 15+.

The exhibition is free and open to all, and will also feature anonymous works from some of WA’s most acclaimed and collectable artists.

Works can be submitted via The State Collection deposit boxes at PS Art Space and the Moores Building, or at reception of the Fremantle Arts Centre and Fremantle Town Hall Centre. Alternatively, works can be posted to: The State Collection, PO Box 807, Fremantle, WA, 6959. ⊲⊲ ENTRY PERIOD Monday, September 12 to COB Friday, October 28.

In the community spirit of the event, the exhibition will culminate in a lively art market. All artworks will go on-sale for $20 from 8pm, with proceeds going to the Community Arts Network – bettering the lives of West Australians through arts projects in vulnerable communities. Visit the PS Art Space Facebook page for all the latest.

⊲⊲ WHERE PS Art Space ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 6pm ⊲⊲ SALE STARTS 8pm

The Drones The Drones play music to witness the end of the civilised world by. They manage this while your ears are being bruised or slaughtered in a beautiful, guitar shredded, intelligent way. Homegrown in Perth, translocated to Melbourne and propagated in venues all over the world, this band are the robber art cousins of Anonymous and their shows are primeval, painful and compelling all at once. Their new album Feelin Kinda Free, is The Drones’ seventh studio album: a treatise which lyrically eviscerates the ethical condition of the Australian psyche. You’ve been warned. ⊲⊲ PRICE $44.90 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 8pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 9pm

From Argentina to Australia – Fremantle Chamber Orchestra

Darren Hanlon & The Grand Magoozi

Virtuoso violinist Alexandre da Costa (soloist and conductor) and the Fremantle Chamber Orchestra present a passionate program for everyone to enjoy, including 4 Seasons by Argentinian Tango and Jazz composer Astor Piazzolla, a new work by WA composer Duncan Gardiner, Australian composer Richard Meale’s magic Cantilena Pacifica and some well-known tunes from the turn of the century.

Darren Hanlon is a truly independent folk singer, widely known for his lyrical poetry, compelling storytelling and engagement with diverse audiences, through the far-flung reaches of this country to international shores. He has drawn comparisons to Evan Dando and Billy Bragg, but is really his own kettle of fish; an idiosyncratically Australian soul with a universal message.

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre - Front Garden ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

The Grand Magoozi is a voice in the lonesome night demanding an earnest and endearing ear, imploring us to see through the haze and make simpler sense of today’s world. Infused with both dark space and languor, Susie Scurry’s smoky vocals deliver songs that honour the likes of Patsy Cline, Karen Dalton and Billy Holiday. ⊲⊲ PRICE $28.60 ⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm ⊲⊲ SALE STARTS 8pm

FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER ⊲ Fremantle Fashion Collective Each spring the Fremantle Fashion Collective presents a runway show within a local creative space showcasing the current collections of six - ten Fremantle based fashion designers.

⊲⊲ PRICE $30.60

The FFC runway show was launched in 2007 by a group of local fashion designers as a means to showcase their collections to local community, businesses and clientele. Over the last nine years the event has evolved into a must-see presentation of the newest ideas from established and emerging designers, set against the industrial-chic backdrop of PS Art Space.

⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

⊲⊲ WHERE PS Art Space ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7.30pm

Designers involved in this year’s Fashion Collective event include Megan Salmon, Empire Rose, Wild Horses and Pekho, with more emerging designers to be announced.

Tijuana Cartel As the cornerstone of Australia’s ‘east meets west’ electronic scene, Tijuana Cartel have a knack for blending layers of rich, intricate atmospheric soundscapes with laid back rhythms and luscious vocals to form an electronic beats tapestry that will cut through to your very soul. Bound together by their mutual love of instrumental, mind-expanding music, Paul George and Carey O’Sullivan are a truly formidable force and have emerged as one of the country’s most exciting acts. ⊲⊲ PRICE $34.70 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall

Last Train to Freo featuring The Stems

Mbira Masters of Zimbabwe

They’re garage, they’re pop THEY ARE… The STEMS! one of Perth’s most popular and iconic rock bands, and they’re making an impressive return to the live scene with rare performances.

Garikayi Tirikoti is a renowned master and innovator of the Zimbabwean thumb piano, the ‘mbira’. Born into a family of traditional Shona healers in Zimbabwe, he began learning at a young age the cultural significance and application of the mbira through participating in all night ‘bira’ ceremonies with his elders.

Catch The Stems as they ride the wave all the way to the shore with a new line-up consisting of founding members Dom Mariani, Julian Matthews and Dave Shaw with Ashley Naylor on guitar and vocals. They’ll be joined in this special event by iconic bands, The Never Never and The Neptunes. ⊲⊲ PRICE $38.80

Garikayi is performing in Australia with his son Reason. Their performances will enthral audiences with the polyrhythmic sounds of the Zimbabwean mbira coupled with personal insights into Zimbabwean culture and spirituality.

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – Front Garden

⊲⊲ PRICE $23.50

⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 8pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 9pm

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⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm

⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 6.30pm

⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church

FREMANTLE FASHION COLLECTIVE WARDARNJI

SATURDAY 5 NOVEMBER Clare Bowditch Clare Bowditch sings, acts, creates, mentors and innovates. She is a well loved ARIA Award-winning songwriting queen, with loads of big hearted love for her subjects. She’s had Top Ten albums, been named Rolling Stone ‘Woman of the Year’, co-written with Gotye, toured with Leonard Cohen and written for Harpers Bazaar. Tonight Clare will present her songs in the grand ol’ Fremantle Town Hall. ⊲⊲ PRICE $44.90 ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 8pm ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 9pm

Children’s Fiesta Fly your family down to Samson Park for this year’s Children’s Fiesta! Flutter your way through a day of ornithological offerings that celebrate the birds that call the park home. Let your imagination take flight as you become a life-size bird and join the Make-Believe Bird Parade! Bring your eagle eyes to the twitching stations to spot birds both real and imagined! For children under 12 and their adults.

⊲⊲ WHERE Sir Frederick Samson Park ⊲⊲ TIME 10am – 2pm

CLARE BOWDITCH

Timothy Nelson Album Launch Timothy Nelson is a ranga ‘fro with talent to burn. And burn he does. He is one of Perth’s most highly regarded musos and plays with acts The Kill Devil Hills and High Horse whilst managing to create pieces for side projects such as the ABC’s award-winning animated series The Shapes. Timothy Nelson has also been hard at work on his debut solo album Words Like Young. The record features JJJ-aired singles ‘Caroline’, and ‘New York (You’ll Never Be Mine)’. With a new band and special guests in tow, Nelson will torch it again by launching the album at Fremantle Arts Centre during this year’s Fremantle Festival.

Freo Truck Eats

Gareth Liddiard

A celebration of Freo and Perth’s finest food truck eats in the heart of Fremantle. Following its spectacular debut at last year’s Festival, we’re delighted to bring you another Freo food truck muster, chock full of locally created street food from around the world. There will be plenty of seating available in our public dining areas, cosily nestled amongst the shady trees for you to relax and enjoy your treats.

Gareth Liddiard is a composer and director of whacked-out rock and roll music that straddles the line between completely outmoded anachronism and soothsayer like vaticinations.

⊲⊲ WHERE Kings Square ⊲⊲ TIME 12pm – late

For his troubles he has been awarded, lauded and applauded. His band The Drones is better than any other band in Australia and seeing as Australia is the best country in the world, the best band in human history. He also sees himself unique in that, thus far life has failed to disprove his immortality. Gareth will be playing solo with an acoustic guitar that is exactly the same age as him.

⊲⊲ PRICE $24.50

⊲⊲ PRICE $34.70

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – Inner Courtyard

⊲⊲ WHERE St John’s Anglican Church

⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 6pm

⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8pm

⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 7pm

⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 6.30pm

NO ZU

SUNDAY 6 NOVEMBER

Sunday Music – Taasha Coates

Fremantle Festival Street Parade

Dan Sultan – Magnetic Tour

Singer-songwriter Taasha Coates is best known as the voice of ARIA Award winning folk-rock darlings The Audreys. The well-loved performer has found a new voice through her solo material. Her new songs are more personal and see her flirt more obviously with alt-country, swinging between the saucy and the sad. Coates performs with her band Her Melancholy Sweethearts.

Ten days of festival fun climaxes in the much-loved Street Parade! A kaleidoscope of colour and movement will make its way along South Terrace and through the city centre to Kings Square, where a dance party will be the grand finale of the festival.

Dan Sultan’s performances are legendary for their energy and the charisma of the man himself! Sultan is back on the road with his band and they’re bringing their powerhouse performances to the Fremantle Festival. Following on from the end of the parade and closing party, Sultan ices the cake -bring what you’ve got to the party because we know he will!

Come along early to add your artistic flair to the chalk drawings that line the parade route before schools and community groups pass by in a celebration of all things Freo.

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Town Hall ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 8pm

⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 10am ⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 2pm

⊲⊲ PRICE $51

⊲⊲ SHOW STARTS 8.30pm ⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle CBD – High Street, South Terrace, Henderson Street and Kings Square. See page 29 for route map. ⊲⊲ STREETS CLOSE 2pm ⊲⊲ PARADE STARTS 4pm

⊳ NO ZU closing party NO ZU are an 8-piece, body-music extravaganza dug up from deep within the Melbourne underground dance world. Fantastic group vocals, wild horns, housey synths, deep groove basslines and Latin percussion are the ingredients that make up their acclaimed and art-damaged sound.

⊲⊲ WHERE Kings Square ⊲⊲ TIME 6pm

Join them in closing out the festival with an all-in dance party in Kings Square following the Fremantle Festival Street Parade.

Throughout the FESTIVAL

The Secret in the Wings Spare Parts Puppet Theatre and Curtin University

Frankenstein: Some Assembly Required

You must love a thing before it is lovable…

Feet First Collective

Funny, fierce and fantastical, The Secret in the Wings is filled with stories of love, cruelty and transformation. Fusing drama, puppetry and live music into a highly visual performance framed by the classic story Beauty and the Beast, this visuallyintriguing performance explores the most profound lesson of fairy tales: that you must love a thing before it is lovable.

Art exhibition by day. Immersive theatre experience by night.

This Australian premiere presentation showcases the emerging artists from Curtin University’s Theatre Arts program and is co-directed by Spare Parts Puppet Theatre’s Philip Mitchell and Curtin’s Leah Mercer. The Secret in the Wings was created by Tony Award-winner and MacArthur Fellow writer/director Mary Zimmerman and is now re-created by this talented collaborative team. Suitable for audiences 13 and above. ⊲⊲ PREVIEW TIX $17.85 all tickets ⊲⊲ STANDARD TIX $23.50 / Concession or student: $17.85 ⊲⊲ WHERE Spare Parts Puppet Theatre ⊲⊲ PREVIEW DATE Wednesday 26 October - 7.30pm ⊲⊲ WHEN Thursday 27 October – 7.30pm Friday 28 October – 7.30pm Saturday 29 October – 7.30pm ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 6.30pm

“God? Monster? Which are you?” Descend into a world of creation and destruction in this reimagining of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Venturing through the haunting rooms of Fremantle’s iconic Moores Building you will become part of an interactive ghost story that brings to life the gods and monsters of this 200 year old classic. Your journey through eerie spaces and intimate encounters will merge the Gothic great with a contemporary experience of the ‘other’. Enter Frankenstein’s laboratory. Become his witness. His conspirator. His creation… ⊲⊲ PREVIEW TIX $17.85 all tickets ⊲⊲ STANDARD TIX $28.60 ⊲⊲ WHERE The Moores Building ⊲⊲ PREVIEW DATE Thursday 27 October – 7pm ⊲⊲ WHEN Friday 28 October – 7pm and 9pm Sunday 30 October - Thursday 3 November - 7pm and 9pm Sunday 6 November – 7pm and 9pm ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 30 minutes prior to performance. ⊲⊲ CASH BAR and complimentary nibbles will be available. ⊲⊲ EXHIBITION OPENING TIMES 10am – 4pm, 7 days from October 20 to November 6. Free entry

Cirquepop Produced by Circus WA Funded by the state government of WA through the Department of Culture and the Arts. Perth’s premiere youth circus troupe, ‘Sliders’, with guest Director Ross Vegas, merge glittering pop glamour and explosive muscular manipulations, to deliver their most exciting performance yet. With acrobatics, trapeze, hip-hop dance, live music, comedy, and youthful madness, this fresh new show will engage and entertain the whole family. Come and let Western Australia’s rising stars of circus charm and astonish you with their death-defying virtuosity. Not to be missed by lovers of fun. ⊲⊲ STANDARD TIX $25.50 ⊲⊲ CONCESSION & STUDENT $20.95 ⊲⊲ CHILDREN 7 AND UNDER $12.75 ⊲⊲ WHERE Old Customs House – 8 Phillimore Street ⊲⊲ WHEN Saturday 29 October – 7pm Sunday 30 Oct – 2pm Sunday 30 October – 6pm ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 30 minutes prior to performance.

Risscht! The Little Match Girl

Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award

The Open Lid Ensemble invite you to journey through their adaptation of The Little Match Girl by Hans Christian Andersen. This visual feast follows a young street girl escaping from her harsh world, reaching into vivid dreams and imagining what could be. Consumed by hope for a better life, her mind propels her toward the grandiose, gluttonous and often grotesque realms that epitomise the cultural divide that she is victim to.

Supported by Little Creatures Brewing

Using their visceral, raw and intimate approach to physical theatre, The Open Lid Ensemble brings a sensory experience ignited by a live soundtrack. This Australian premiere production questions our perceptions of value and invites conversation about the balance of worth in an increasingly divided society.

Australia’s premier showcase of prints and artists’ books returns with a selection of the best works from established, emerging and cross-disciplinary artists from across the nation. In 2016 the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award remains a highlight of FAC’s exhibition calendar and continues to present works that celebrate classical printmaking while simultaneously embracing cutting-edge interpretations of the medium.

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre ⊲⊲ WHEN Friday 23 September – Saturday 12 November 10am - 5pm

⊲⊲ PRICE $25.50 ⊲⊲ WHERE The Red Room – Creatures Next Door ⊲⊲ WHEN Tuesday 1 November – 7pm Wednesday 2 November – 7pm Thursday 3 November – 7pm Friday 4 November – 7pm ⊲⊲ DOORS OPEN 30 minutes prior to performance.

Throughout the FESTIVAL GOSIA WLODARCZAK

Gosia Wlodarczak – A Room Without A View (Extended) See the results of internationally-renowned artist Gosia Wlodarczak’s three-week endurance performance, drawing directly onto the walls of the gallery in a state of sensory deprivation. Born in Poland, Wlodarczak arrived in Australia in 1996. She now lives in Melbourne and works in Australia and internationally. Drawing is the basis of her practice, extending towards performance, interactive situations, installation, sound, photography and moving-collage – a process she refers to as transdisciplinary drawing.

City of Fremantle Art Collection: Gosia Wlodarczak – Many Happy Landings The City of Fremantle Art Collection presents an expansive survey exhibition into the digital print practice of awardwinning artist and 2014 FAC Print Award Winner Gosia Wlodarczak. Featuring Wlodarczak’s ‘process capsules’, these prints, photo collages and an animated sound drawing will be exhibited alongside the photography of Longin Sarnecki whose work visually explains Wlodarczak’s process. Drawing upon works produced over the past nine years, the exhibition will also include a new piece made in response to a Collection print by Polish/Australian printmaker Lidia Groblicka (1933-2012).

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – Kathleen O’Connor Gallery ⊲⊲ POST-PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION EXHIBITION Monday 17 October – Saturday 12 November

⊲⊲ WHERE Fremantle Arts Centre – Collections Gallery ⊲⊲ EXHIBITION Friday 23 September – Saturday 12 November

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COMING UP IN 2017

15-17 FREMANTLE STREET ARTS APRIL

FESTIVAL

Showcasing the world of busking, street theatre, comedy, circus, cabaret and lots more. Get involved in the action and witness world-class acts right on your doorstep.

EVERY THURSDAY IN JULY

HIDDEN TREASURES

Nationally-recognised legends, hype-worthy up and comers and loveable weirdos play side by side in a series of shows programmed in unusual venues in Freo’s West End.

26 MAY5 JUNE

FREMANTLE HERITAGE FESTIVAL Delve into the vintage, retro and historical fabric of Fremantle through 10-days of storytelling and special events.

27 OCTOBER – 5 NOVEMBER

FREMANTLE FESTIVAL An arts festival brimming with ten days of inspirational programming in key venues across the city.

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