2017 Perth International Arts Festival

10 February–5 March perthfestival.com.au

JOHN BARRINGTON

COLIN BARNETT MLA

LISA SCAFFIDI

MICHAEL CHANEY AO

CHAIR, PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

PREMIER OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD MAYOR

CHANCELLOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Our premium summer arts Festival is an annual ritual of celebration and innovation that inspires and enriches lives.

Perth International Arts Festival sees the city come alive with art and culture from the world’s leading artists.

The 2017 Perth International Arts Festival is once again set to deliver on its mission of stimulating cultural life in Western Australia.

The 2017 Festival marks the 25th anniversary of the State Government’s principal partnership with PIAF through Lotterywest.

The University of Western Australia is proud to have founded, and to continue to support and organise, the longest-running, most diverse multi-arts festival in the country.

With Artistic Director Wendy Martin’s second Festival, we will unlock deeply personal connections with one another, our city, our State and our place in the world.

In 2016, nearly 360,000 people attended PIAF, with 200,000 people enjoying a free Festival event. The State Government is proud to continue to support the 2017 Festival because it offers Western Australians such a diverse range of accessible and unforgettable experiences.

As another superb Perth summer approaches, we realise after a record cold winter how much we have to look forward to. We eagerly await the countless opportunities to enjoy the great outdoors and vibrant city spaces enhanced by the annual allure of the Perth International Arts Festival.

On behalf of the PIAF Board, I extend thanks to the wonderful Festival team, our principal partner Lotterywest, our founder The University of Western Australia and the many supporters who have made this Festival possible.

After such a tremendous response to Wendy’s first Festival in 2016, I want to thank everyone for embracing our vision of excellence and inclusion, and encourage people to explore this 2017 program.

This is a Festival to share with other people – to better understand ourselves and each other, wherever we have come from. I invite you to bring along your family and friends, and perhaps make some new ones, as we all share the Festival’s season of inspiration.

Matching community engagement with a global reach, PIAF champions local artists through industry development, international exchanges and co-commissioning opportunities under the year-round PIAF Connect program supported by the State Government.

With support from Tourism WA, the 2017 Festival will showcase key attractions in Perth and regional Western Australia, making our State even more attractive for visitors, generating extra economic activity and enhancing our global reputation as a place to live.

I look forward to seeing the creative results of Artistic Director Wendy Martin’s vision as it rolls out over the 24 days and nights of PIAF.

The City of Perth is again the very proud Civic Partner of PIAF. Through this enduring partnership we stand for community engagement at its best.

The Festival gives our City a truly distinct voice and connection to world-class artists from throughout Australia and overseas.

We create a strong sense of place and share in the commitment to culturally enrich people’s lives.

The extensive program of performances across our City’s parks, theatres, galleries, halls and some new alternative spaces offers something for everyone.

The Festival never fails to inspire and inform. Be sure to book early from this exceptional program to ensure your 2017 summer is one to remember.

The 65th Festival is a testament to the power of art to bring together people from all walks of life and to reach across the generations. Many of those who attended the Festival in its early years have made life-long connections and would now be attending with their children and grandchildren.

The Festival exemplifies the University’s values of international excellence and inclusion. Community engagement is a primary role of our institution.

Since its foundation under the guidance of UWA Professor Fred Alexander in 1953, the Festival has had enduring value as an enabler for international engagement and as an outlet for creativity of the highest quality.

Our beautiful university campus hosts several key events, including the Perth Writers Festival, which is always highly anticipated as a robust, welcoming forum for new ideas and challenging encounters.

As we bid welcome to artists from around the world, I encourage you to make the most of what promises to be a Festival infused with the vision and courage of its founding father.

WENDY MARTIN

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

WELCOME

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

Imagination knows no borders.

This has been the heartbeat of Perth International Arts Festival for more than six decades.

In 2017, we once again invite you to travel to extraordinary places with the world’s most brilliant artists as your guides.

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

In a world where we’re constantly communicating but not truly connecting, an arts festival brings us together to share exceptional experiences.

My first Festival in 2016 was inspired by a sense of place and 2017 PIAF will embed all of us even deeper into our special part of the world.

Image: Frances Andrijich

Over the opening three nights of the Festival, Kings Park will be transformed by a sound and light spectacular into a magical canvas that celebrates the incredible flora and fauna of South West Australia and the wisdom and knowledge of the Noongar people, who have been its caretakers for 50,000 years.

This unique experience of wonder and interconnectedness will be the start of a Festival journey that will see big-picture stories played out through personal perspectives.

Together, we will take a head-trip deep into the Amazon, experience Vietnamese village life through astonishing circus feats and enter the ritual world of South African song and dance.

We will see the world from the perspective of artists with disability, share our stories of precious water, spend a year in the life of an American family confounded by the changing world, enter the tortured mind of Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and join an unruly music class in a far-off Indian village.

It’s time to plan your 2017 PIAF big, bold adventure and immerse yourself in art without borders.

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GETTING STARTED HOW TO BOOK

TIX FOR $36

ONLINE perthfestival.com.au

We want everyone to be able to see the exceptional work in our 2017 program, so we have tickets for selected events at $36. Tix for $36 means you can be fearless with your choices.

PHONE 08 6488 5555 Mon–Fri 9am–5pm, Sat 9am–1pm Extended hours during Festival time.

IN PERSON Various events on sale through Ticketek agencies and venue box offices. See page 97 for more details.

FILM TICKETS Can be purchased online, by phone and at both film venues.

See page 75 for more details or go to perthfestival.com.au RICING KEY P A–Adult F–Friends of the Festival C–Concession S–Full time student

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BECOME A FRIEND OF THE FESTIVAL Sign up to the Friends of the Festival and take advantage of exclusive benefits. For your $85 membership fee you will be the first in line to book tickets and will gain access to the best seats in the house. There are also ticket discounts and invitations to special events and talks. To join, phone 08 6488 5555, email friends@perthfestival.com.au or go online.

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Post Show Discussions are free and open to the public.

STAY IN THE KNOW Immerse yourself in this year’s Festival experience with our exclusive content. Get inside the head of our creatives, catch up on the latest reviews, trailers and Festival news. Keep up-to-date via our blogs and eNews or follow us on social media.

FESTIVAL SCENT Scent creates life-long memories. In 2017 Lemon Myrtle, with its distinctive aroma of lemon and lime, will enhance the PIAF experience. Used for thousands of years by Indigenous Australians, it will be the essence of the Festival in surprising ways.

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SEE THREE OR MORE AND SAVE Book and pay for tickets to three or more events before 23 December to receive a 15% discount on Premium and A Reserve Adult ticket prices. Most discounts can only be applied on phone orders placed through the Festival Info Centre. Call 08 6488 5555 for more information.

VISIT WESTERN AUSTRALIA What better time to explore Western Australia than during Festival season? We can help you make the most of your trip. Visit perthfestival.com.au to plan a memorable visit.

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CONTENTS BOORNA WAANGINY: THE TREES SPEAK

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MUSEUM OF WATER A O LANG PHO

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AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET & ARCADIA WINDS

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EIGHTH BLACKBIRD

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SOFT SOFT LOUD

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VUYANI ENSEMBLE

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CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

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PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL

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THE DARK MIRROR: ZENDER’S WINTERREISE

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THE GABRIELS

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OPUS NO. 7

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THE ENCOUNTER

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THE YEAR I WAS BORN

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COURTYARD SESSIONS

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LADY EATS APPLE

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PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL FAMILY DAY

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FLIT

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PIAF CONNECT

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BETROFFENHEIT

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PIAF CONVERSATIONS

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MEETING

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VISUAL ARTS

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EXIT/EXIST

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COLLISIONS

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TAKUTO: BALLET AT THE QUARRY

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ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: INUA ELLAMS

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LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS

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AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT

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TRACKING COUNTRY: ROLF DE HEER & MOLLY REYNOLDS

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THE MIDNIGHT RUN

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PIAF GREAT SOUTHERN

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SMALL VOICES LOUDER BEFORE THE SIREN

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RECOMMENDED RESTAURANTS

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THE MANGANIYAR CLASSROOM

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PIAF ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES

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MAPS AND VENUES

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BRODSKY & CALDER QUARTETS

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ACCESS

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BRODSKY QUARTET

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BOOKING DETAILS

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CALDER QUARTET

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SCHEDULE

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BUY TICKETS ONLINE perthfestival.com.au | BY PHONE 08 6488 5555 | IN PERSON Various outlets SEE PAGE 97 FOR MORE DETAILS

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WESTERN AUSTRALIA

An evocative assertion of WA identity.

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN (FOR HOME)

Lotterywest Festival Opening

BOORNA WAANGINY

THE TREES SPEAK Celebrate this land we share.

Over three extraordinary nights Kings Park transforms into a cathedral of light, sound and imagery to explore the biodiversity and beauty of the six seasons of South Western Australia.

State of the art technology and the natural world come together for this spectacular walkthrough experience – where trees come to life, great flocks of birds fly overhead and animals dance and play. The event culminates with a collective artwork dedicated to the protection of the beautiful but fragile world we share – made in collaboration with thousands of young people across WA. Nigel Jamieson reunites with the team that created 2016’s Home, Noongar storytellers and artists, botanists and scientists to create this magical opening event.

A PIAF commission Director Nigel Jamieson Artistic Associate Zoe Atkinson Media Artist Sohan Ariel Hayes Kings Park, enter Fraser Avenue via Kings Park Road Fri 10–Sun 12 Feb, any time between 8–10.30pm This is a walkthrough event running continuously from 8–10.30pm.

You are welcome to arrive at any time during the session.

We recommend you take the bus to Kings Park. No parking will be available in Kings Park.

FREE

Image: Toni Wilkinson

Supported by

Family and Education Program Partner

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Lotterywest Festival Opening, Home. PIAF 2016.

Image credit: Rachael Barrett

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UK/WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Amy Sharrocks

MUSEUM OF WATER

What water will you keep ?

A vial of tears, melted ice from Antarctica and a plastic bottle of billabong water – every drop tells a story.

Choose your water, find something to put it in and tell us why you brought it. PIAF Artist-in-Residence Amy Sharrocks invites you to consider your relationship with the world’s most indispensable liquid as she builds the WA edition of the award-winning Museum of Water.

Surfing, swimming, desalination, irrigation and thirst – the pleasures and politics of water affect us all.

Set to open in PIAF 2018 before becoming part of the Western Australian Museum’s permanent collection, Museum of Water is a radically different kind of museum.

Produced by Artsadmin

TO DONATE YOUR WATER

Bring your water to the following sites during PIAF: Leighton Beach Sat 18 and Sun 19 Feb, 8–11am and 4–7pm Perth CBD Tue 21–Thur 23 Feb, 11am–6pm

Supported by

Reflection Pond, UWA Sat 25 and Sun 26 Feb, 11am–6pm Albany Sat 4 and Sun 5 Mar, 10am–4pm Visit perthfestival.com.au for details of a free program of pop-up events.

Presented in association with WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM

Image: Ruth Corney

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VIETNAM/FRANCE

Will leave you spellbound.

TIME OUT PARIS

Nouveau Cirque du Vietnam

A O LANG PHO

Circus turns tradition on its head.

The Nouveau Cirque du Vietnam make their Australian debut with a production set to amaze and delight the whole family. Accompanied by live music, a cast of 15 acrobats and five musicians whisk us away to a village in Vietnam with a dazzling array of juggling, balancing, contortion and daring feats.

In A O Lang Pho, the serenity of rural life is dashed by progress and a once quiet hamlet becomes a bustling city where traditional Vietnamese music (Cai Luong) gives way to hip hop. Bamboo baskets are ingeniously repurposed to create peculiar creatures and spectacular stunts.

Thrilling, funny and surprising, A O Lang Pho celebrates the cultural traditions of Vietnam with breathtaking contemporary circus.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE A Lune Entertainment production A Théâtre Sénart, Scène nationale, Cirque-Théâtre d’Elbeuf, Pôle national des Arts du cirque – Haute Normandie co-production Regal Theatre Thur 16–Sat 18 Feb and Tue 21–Sat 25 Feb, 7pm Sat 18 and Sat 25 Feb, 2pm Sun 19 Feb, 1pm and 5pm 60mins no interval

Tickets Premium A $65 / F $58 A Reserve A $55 / F $49 / C $52 B Reserve A $45 / F $40 / C $42 / S $25 C Reserve A $36 Recommended for ages six and above.

Image: Nguyen The Duong

Post Show Discussion Sun 19 Feb, 6pm

Supported by Institut Français International Excellence Partner Family and Education Program Partner

Supported by

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UNITED KINGDOM

Elegant and inventive.

FINANCIAL TIMES (UK)

Ian Bostridge & Netia Jones

THE DARK MIRROR

ZENDER’S WINTERREISE

An enthralling reimagining of Schubert’s iconic song cycle.

Sublime singing, haunting visuals and Hans Zender’s startling orchestration combine for this stunning music-theatre experience.

In the cabaret style of post-Weimar Germany, Schubert’s Die Winterreise is delivered by Ian Bostridge – the world’s most accomplished performer of this classic song cycle.

Plunged into a stark wintry landscape, a wanderer embarks on an intense dramatic journey – his reflections on life alternating between young male angst and well-worn nostalgia.

Theatrically realised with surreal video and imagery by acclaimed opera director Netia Jones, Zender’s Winterreise is a rare contemporary reworking of Schubert’s evocation of lost love.

Performed by members of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Baldur Brönnimann.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE A Barbican London production with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra Perth Concert Hall Fri 10 and Sat 11 Feb, 7.30pm 90mins no interval No latecomers admitted.

Image: Hugo Glendinning

Post Show Discussion Sat 11 Feb, 9pm

Tickets Premium A $160 / F $144 A Reserve A $145 / F $130 / C $137 B Reserve A $90 / F $81 / C $85 / S $25 C Reserve A $36 Sung in German with surtitles.

International Excellence Partner

Co-produced by Britten Sinfonia, Cal Performances at the University of California and National Taichung Theater

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USA

The most resonantly topical and emotionally engaging play of this election year.

NEW YORK TIMES

Richard Nelson

THE GABRIELS

ELECTION YEAR IN THE LIFE OF ONE FAMILY

HUNGRY • WHAT DID YOU EXPECT? • WOMEN OF A CERTAIN AGE

Three courses of classic drama.

Join the Gabriels for the ultimate theatre experience, as Tony Awardwinning playwright and director Richard Nelson presents his strikingly relevant and fiercely human trilogy in this quintessential Festival event.

Over the course of three plays (experienced as one marathon event) we meet the Gabriels – upstate New Yorkers trying to make sense of a fast changing world. To the rhythm of their peeling, chopping and mixing, we are offered a fly on the wall look at American family life.

Exquisitely performed, The Gabriels is an insightful and fresh reflection on life in the USA in this tumultuous election year. A new American classic.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE A Public Theater production Subiaco Arts Centre Sat 11, Sun 12, Tue 14, Thur 16 and Sat 18 Feb, 1.30pm 8hrs 15mins including breaks 1.30pm Part 1: Hungry 3.15pm break 4.15pm Part 2: What Did You Expect?

Post Show Discussion Tue 14 and Sat 18 Feb, 6pm Tickets Marathon (three plays) A $195 / F $174 / C $186 / S $75 Marathon + Dinner Package Includes three-course gourmet hamper and glass of wine

A $235 / F $214 / C $226 / S $115

6pm dinner break

Image: Joan Marcus

8pm Part 3: Women of a Certain Age

Audio Described performance Sat 18 Feb Captioned performance Sat 18 Feb

International Excellence Partner

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Dmitry Krymov Laboratory

OPUS NO. 7

A vivid, visceral experience.

One of the most influential voices of Russian theatre, Dmitry Krymov and his collaborators devise deeply moving, visually majestic experiences – conjuring up beguiling images of epic proportion from simple materials.

Enter a world of transformation, where objects, sounds and people change in the blink of an eye. Depicting the oppression of Soviet Jews and the censorship of Shostakovich under Stalin, Opus No. 7 uses larger-than-life puppets, duelling pianos, living walls and blizzards of newsprint to create a genre-defying double bill.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE ABC Perth Studios Tue 21, Wed 22, Fri 24–Sun 26 Feb, 7.30pm 2hrs 40mins including interval

Tickets A $85 / F $76 / C $80 / S $25 Russian with surtitles.

International Excellence Partner

Supported by the Moscow Department of Culture

Supported by

MEDICI DONORS

Image: Natalia Cheban

Post Show Discussion Wed 22 Feb, 10.15pm

RUSSIA

Thrillingly inventive.

NEW YORK TIMES

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UNITED KINGDOM

A captivating piece of high-definition storytelling ... sensational.

VARIETY

Complicite

THE ENCOUNTER

Lose yourself in the depths of the Amazon.

Put on a set of headphones and let your guide – performer Richard Katz – take you into a world where the ear sees more than the eye. You’ll soon discover why this thrilling production has heads around the world spinning.

In 1969, National Geographic photographer Loren McIntyre became hopelessly lost in a remote part of the Brazilian rainforest while searching for the Mayoruna people. His encounter was to test his perception of the world, bringing the limits of human consciousness into startling focus.

Directed by Simon McBurney, this tour-de-force performance traces McIntyre’s journey into the rainforest, using 3D audio technology to build an intimate and shifting world of sound. The result is a fully immersive theatrical experience exploring interconnectedness, perception and time.

Image: Tristram Kenton and Gianmarco Bresadola

Inspired by the book Amazon Beaming by Petru Popescu.

His Majesty’s Theatre Thur 16–Sat 18 Feb, Tue 21–Sat 25 Feb, 8pm Sat 18 and Wed 22 Feb, 2pm Sun 19 Feb, 5pm 2hrs no interval

Tickets A $85 / F $76 / C $80 / S $25

No latecomers admitted.

Audio Described performance Wed 22 Feb, 2pm Captioned performance Wed 22 Feb, 8pm

Please note headphones are supplied and will need to be worn throughout this performance.

Post Show Discussion Sun 19 Feb

Supported by A co-production with Edinburgh International Festival, the Barbican, London, Onassis Cultural Centre Athens, Schaubühne Berlin, Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and Warwick Arts Centre

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THE WORLD’S BEST ON OUR DOORSTEP PIAF’s annual three week cultural celebration lights up a city, ignites creative passion and fosters a sense of community. It also creates deep personal connections between Western Australians and extraordinary stories told through dance, music, theatre, film, visual art and more.

As we strive to achieve our mission to enrich cultural life in Western Australia, our International Excellence Partnership with Chevron Australia provides us with the confidence to be ambitious with the exclusive international commissions and presentations we bring to Perth. This year the international program presents artists from Australia, Canada, United Kingdom, Russia, USA, India, South Africa, Vietnam, Spain, Ireland, Chile, France, Taiwan, South Korea, Nigeria, Cuba, Argentina, New Zealand, Malaysia, Germany, Indonesia, China, Colombia and Syria who will entertain, challenge and inspire.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS A O Lang Pho p8 The Dark Mirror: Zender’s Winterreise p10 The Gabriels: Election Year In the Life of One Family p12 Lady Eats Apple p22 Flit p24 Betroffenheit p26 Brodsky & Calder Quartets

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Chevron Festival Gardens

p49 International Excellence Partner

Image: A O Lang Pho, Nguyen The Duong

Opus No. 7 p14

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BRAND UWAM0804

Perth International Arts Festival.

Founded and brought to you by UWA. In 1953, UWA professor Fred Alexander brought to life his vision of a ‘festival for the people,’ and the Perth International Arts Festival was born. Just like our involvement with the community, PIAF has been growing ever since, and now attracts amazing artists and performers from all over the world.

From its humble beginnings as a community arts experiment to becoming the largest celebration of culture and creativity in the Southern Hemisphere, the Festival has always been a pride and joy of our university.

Share our passion at uwa.edu.au/perthfestival

Lola Arias

THE YEAR I WAS BORN

CHILE/ARGENTINA

How many versions of the past exist?

Argentinian director Lola Arias’ riveting documentary theatre work The Year I Was Born explores a nation’s complex history through the eyes of a resilient and hopeful generation.

Amid bursts of exuberant rock music and deceptively playful scenarios, performers born during Pinochet’s dictatorship in Chile reconstruct their family histories using photographs, letters, anecdotes and elusive recollections. Like stunt doubles, the actors don their parents’ clothes to tell their powerful stories.

Playful and political, real and surreal, The Year I was Born reveals the unsteady balance between private lives and national identity.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA Wed 15–Sat 18 Feb, 7.30pm 1hr 50mins no interval

Tickets A Reserve A $59 / F $53 / C $56 / S $25 B Reserve $36

Post Show Discussion Fri 17 Feb, 9.30pm

Spanish with surtitles.

Audio Described performance Fri 17 Feb Image: David Alarc

Gracefully composed, compelling docudrama.

SEATTLE TIMES

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Back to Back Theatre

LADY EATS APPLE Leave your preconceptions of theatre at the door.

We are finite in an infinite world – the punchline of existence is how little of it we’re given.

Join us on a journey of mythical proportions with Back to Back Theatre’s new major work, Lady Eats Apple.

Set inside a vast, awe-inspiring inflatable, Lady Eats Apple is a story about the inevitability of death, our fragility and the myths and illusions we create to fortify ourselves.

One of the world’s most important contemporary theatre companies working today, Back to Back Theatre charts new trails deeper into the landscape of the unconscious with their most epic work to date.

WORLD PREMIERE SEASON A PIAF co-commission Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA Thur 2–Sun 5 Mar, 8pm Fri 3–Sun 5 Mar, 3pm 75mins no interval

Tickets A $80 / F $72 / C $76 / S $25 Adult themes.

Please note headphones are supplied and will need to be worn throughout this performance.

No latecomers admitted.

Audio Described performance Sat 4 Mar, 3pm Captioned performance Sat 4 Mar, 8pm

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Major Festivals Initiative, in association with the Confederation of Australian International Arts Festival Inc., Melbourne Festival, Adelaide Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, Carriageworks, Wiener Festwochen and with support from the Keir Foundation and Thyne Reid Foundation

International Excellence Partner

Supported by

FESTIVAL CIRCLE DONORS

Image: Jeff Busby

Post Show Discussion Sat 4 Mar, 4.15pm

AUSTRALIA

A vital sense-sharpening tonic for theatregoers who feel they’ve seen it all.

NEW YORK TIMES (FOR GANESH VERSUS THE THIRD REICH)

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UNITED KINGDOM

Martin Green

FLIT An atmospheric song cycle on migration.

Martin Green – award-winning composer and experimental accordionist from contemporary folk band Lau – brings together a supergroup of collaborators for the extraordinary live music and animation event, Flit.

Inspired by first-hand stories of migration, Becky Unthank from The Unthanks, Mogwai’s Dominic Aitchison and folk singer-songwriter Adam Holmes join Green to perform their exquisite songs.

Set within a world of breathtaking stop-motion animation created by BAFTAwinning duo whiterobot, Flit is an intimate, visually rich production that is both heart-warming and heart-breaking.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE A PIAF co-commission A Lepus production Perth Concert Hall Fri 17 and Sat 18 Feb, 8pm 75mins no interval Tickets Premium A $90 / F $81 A Reserve A $80 / F $72 B Reserve A $36

International Excellence Partner Co-commissioned by Perth International Arts Festival, Edinburgh International Festival, Barbican Centre & Sage Gateshead Co-produced by Opera North Projects Funded by Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Beyond Borders

Image: Rowland Thomas

Strobe lighting.

A work of incandescent beauty and timely relevance. fROOTS (UK)

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CANADA

A stunning testament to what can happen when life turns into art.

THE GLOBE AND MAIL (CANADA)

Crystal Pite & Jonathon Young

BETROFFENHEIT Raw and riveting dance drama.

Two of Canada’s most adventurous artists, award-winning choreographer Crystal Pite and playwright/performer Jonathon Young, join forces in this dance work of raw human emotion and heroic theatrical brilliance.

‘Betroffenheit’ is the state of shock and bewilderment that encompasses you in the wake of a disaster. In Betroffenheit, a crisis-management team is keeping your emergency situation alive and present, a trusted voice is urging you to come to terms with the past, and ‘The Show’ delivers you a steady supply of the distraction, escapism and pleasure you crave.

In one sense, you are a survivor and this is your refuge. In another, you’re the disaster waiting to happen. Either way, the show must go on.

Pite and Young have created a rich spectacle exploring universal themes of loss, trauma, addiction and recovery. Featuring six virtuosic performers, Betroffenheit combines comedy and drama, poetry and movement for a production that’s as thrilling and entertaining as it is profoundly moving.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Image: Michael Slobodian

A Kidd Pivot and Electric Company Theatre production Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA Thur 23–Sat 25 Feb, 7.30pm Sun 26 Feb, 5pm 2hrs including interval

Tickets Premium A $80 / F $72 A Reserve A $70 / F $63 / C $66 B Reserve A $45 / F $40 / C $43 / S $25 C Reserve A $36

Post Show Discussion Fri 24 Feb, 9.30pm

Adult themes and strobe lighting.

International Excellence Partner

Supported by the Canada Council for the Arts

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AUSTRALIA

Hypnotic.

THE STAGE (UK)

Image: Gregory Lorenzutti

Antony Hamilton & Alisdair Macindoe

MEETING

A synchronised meeting of minds and machines.

The compulsive choreography of Antony Hamilton combines with Alisdair Macindoe’s obsessive machine-making practice in MEETING. In a circle of 64 wirelessly controlled robotic percussion instruments – each tapping a pencil to create a mesmerising sound – are two dancers. Moving in perfect synchronicity, they’re slaves to the fascinating rhythm of taps, clinks, clanks, rattles and whirs.

This dynamic and choreographic sound installation reveals a fascination with the body and mind in motion.

An Antony Hamilton Projects production Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA Wed 1–Sat 4 Mar, 7pm Thur 2 and Sat 4 Mar, 2pm 50mins no interval

Tickets $36

No latecomers admitted.

Post Show Discussion Fri 3 Mar, 8pm

Family and Education Program Partner

Supported by Department of Culture and the Arts

Gregory Maqoma

SOUTH AFRICA

EXIT/EXIST Dance and music in a ritual embrace.

Leading South African choreographer and gifted dancer Gregory Maqoma pays homage to his ancestry in this celebration of spirit and resilience. Embodying the forgotten history of a revered Xhosa warrior chief, Maqoma performs a transformational solo that combines traditional African and contemporary dance.

The divine harmonies and lamentations of the Vuyani Ensemble – with guitarist Giuliano Modarelli – weave through Maqoma’s vibrant kinetic world to bring this story of race, politics, cultural tradition and personal legacy to life.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE A Vuyani Dance Theatre production Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA Fri 10–Sun 12 Feb, 7.30pm 60mins no interval Post Show Discussion Sun 12 Feb, 8.30pm

Tickets Premium A $60 / F $54 A Reserve A $50 / F $45 / C $47 B Reserve A $36 / S $25

Supported by

Image: John Hogg

An offering of transcendent power.

SEATTLE TIMES

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AUSTRALIA

Image: Robert Johnson

West Australian Ballet

TAKUTO

BALLET AT THE QUARRY Bring your friends and a picnic for an evening of ballet under the summer stars.

West Australian Ballet’s summer staple Ballet at the Quarry is back with a program of Australian and world premieres from three distinctive choreographers. Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s In Transit is an intriguing piece of people watching. Canadian born Eric Gauthier brings his short, sharp solo Ballet 101 alongside Takuto, which fuses dance and traditional Japanese drumming. The Clearest Light from WAB’s very own Christopher Hill features musical compositions by the choreographer himself.

Quarry Amphitheatre, City Beach Fri 3, Sat 4, Tue 7–Sat 11, Tue 14–Sat 18 Feb and Wed 22–Sat 25 Feb, 8pm Gates open 6.30pm 2hrs including interval

Tickets A Reserve A $79 / C $69 / Youth (U26) $62 Child (U16) $59 B Reserve A $59 / C $54 / Youth (U26) $50 Child (U16) $48

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NIGERIA/UK

Ellams’ poetry gleams with a dusty, worn, deeply original beauty.

METRO (UK)

PIAF ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE

INUA ELLAMS Nigerian-born, UK-based Inua Ellams is an award-winning poet, playwright and performer, graphic artist and designer. Identity, displacement and destiny are recurring themes in his work, which mixes the old with the new – traditional African storytelling with contemporary poetry, pencil with pixel, texture with vector images.

As PIAF’s 2017 Artist-in-Residence, Ellams brings his acclaimed autobiographical solo show An Evening with an Immigrant to Perth and invites adventurous art lovers on a nocturnal urban excursion as part of The Midnight Run. Ellams also combines his passion for basketball and poetry to lead a series of workshops with young people across the city.

Inua Ellams & Fuel

AN EVENING WITH AN IMMIGRANT

Stateless, unpapered, in limbo.

Born in Nigeria to a Muslim father and Christian mother, Inua Ellams fled with his family to England at age 12.

An Evening with an Immigrant is his potent personal account of life as an immigrant told through poetry and music. A charismatic and engaging performer, Ellams tells his ridiculous, fantastic, poignant story – escaping fundamentalist Islam, experiencing prejudice and friendship in Dublin, performing solo at the National Theatre and drinking wine with the Queen of England – all the while without a country to belong to or place to call home.

Littered with vivid hip hop inflected poems and amusing anecdotes, this captivating evening is a hilarious and heartbreaking triumph of storytelling.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE Studio Underground, State Theatre Centre of WA Fri 24 and Sat 25 Feb, 8pm 90mins including interval Post Show Discussion Sat 25 Feb, 9.30pm

Tickets $36

Captioned performance Sat 25 Feb

Inua Ellams & The Last Great Hunt

THE MIDNIGHT RUN

An inventive, arts-filled night time walking tour.

Join the The Midnight Run and explore the streets of Perth.

Inua Ellams teams up with Western Australia’s own playful theatre innovators, The Last Great Hunt, to create an interactive tour of discovery.

To become a Midnight Runner™ is to return to simplicity, to be entertained by real experiences of the city you never knew existed. Trust in your fellow travellers and the art of conversation to move through the city as a child moves through a maze – with natural play and wonderment.

Streets of Perth Fri 3 and Sat 4 Mar, 6pm–midnight

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Add more colour.

Family and Education Program Partner

Step into a world of colour with Perth International Arts Festival

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Image: Ben Landau

Alex Desebrock

SMALL VOICES LOUDER Little people have big ideas.

A show in two parts where youngsters get to explore a fun and interactive installation of cupboards and cubby holes that encourage them to have their say on some of life’s big questions. What does the world look like today?

What makes you angry? What does the future look like?

Part two sees their playful, insightful and refreshingly honest responses broadcast across the airwaves and in unexpected spaces around the Festival – for everyone to hear.

Sometimes children’s voices are exactly what the world needs to hear.

This is a kids-only event.

WORLD PREMIERE A Maybe ( ) Together production. Produced by Performing Lines WA Upstairs, State Theatre Centre of WA Fri 10 Feb–Sun 5 Mar Thur and Fri, 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm and 5.30pm Sat and Sun, 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm. 1.15pm, 2.15pm and 3pm 30mins Recommended for ages 7–12 (or reading age). No latecomers admitted.

Tickets $16 Family and Education Program Partner

Please contact PIAF for more information

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AUSTRALIA

Image: Snapcat

Lara Thoms & Snapcat

BEFORE THE SIREN Feminist footy frenzy in Freo.

Melbourne artist Lara Thoms and Perth collaborative duo Snapcat celebrate women and belonging with a large-scale public artwork culminating in a huge party at Fremantle Oval.

With the Freo Dockers being one of only eight teams selected for the inaugural AFL National Women’s League in 2017, Before the Siren is a timely exploration of how women gather socially, politically and recreationally across generations.

Community activism, art and sport combine to capture the spirit of women’s sports teams, girl gangs, social clubs and business groups.

Before the Siren concludes with a feel-good finale that is part half-time entertainment and part political rally – an event not to be missed.

WORLD PREMIERE A PIAF Commission Fremantle Oval Sun 19 Feb, 6pm

FREE Supported by Fremantle Arts Centre

Visual Arts Program Partner

Roysten Abel

THE MANGANIYAR CLASSROOM

INDIA

School of Rock, Indian folk style.

From the creator of the international sensation The Manganiyar Seduction (2011 PIAF) comes another exuberant and uplifting music-theatre experience to shine a spotlight on the Manganiyar musical tradition. This time the younger members of this tribal community are the stars of the high energy show.

With sublime voices matched by their onstage attitude, the children of The Manganiyar Classroom rebel against their teacher, spontaneously creating beautiful music before your eyes. The result is a joyous theatrical experience that will captivate and delight.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE A Can & Abel Theatres Production, Co-production Bhoomija Trust Regal Theatre Fri 3 and Sat 4 Mar, 7pm 60mins no interval Post Show Discussion Sat 4 Mar, 8pm

Tickets Premium A $65 / F $58 A Reserve A $58 / F $52 / C $55 B Reserve A $45 / F $40 / C $42 / S $25 C Reserve A $36 Sung in Hindi.

Family and Education Program Partner

Presented by arrangement with Arts Projects Australia Image: Virginia Rodrigues

This one will stay with us for a long time … yet another genius production.

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CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES In the presence of master musicians.

PIAF’s Chamber Music Series returns with a program of sublime and intimate music.

Inside Winthrop Hall and outside in the surrounding gardens, as well as in Government House Ballroom, you will sample some of the greatest string quartet music ever written, performed by some of the greatest string quartets of today, in a series of free events and ticketed concerts.

From Fri 17–Sun 19 Feb you will be serenaded by world-class artists in a weekend of free concerts.

Meet our artists while you picnic in the lush surrounds of UWA and enhance your experience with free talks.

THUR 16 FEB 7pm

Brodsky & Calder Quartets (Government House Ballroom)

FRI 17 FEB 5pm & 9pm

Eastwinds & guests FREE

6pm

Calder Quartet: Program 1

8.30pm

Brodsky Quartet: Program 1

SAT 18 FEB 12.30pm

Australian String Quartet & Arcadia Winds: Program 1

2.30pm

Brodsky Quartet: Program 2

5pm

Calder Quartet: Program 2

6pm

Tamara-Anna Cislowska: Sculthorpe works for solo piano FREE

7.30pm

Brodsky Quartet: Program 3

8.45pm

Elena Kats-Chernin & Tamara-Anna Cislowska: Butterflying FREE

SUN 19 FEB 12.30pm

Australian String Quartet & Arcadia Winds: Program 2

2.30pm

Making music together – how does an ensemble survive FREE

2.30pm

Brodsky Quartet: Program 4

5pm

Calder Quartet: Program 3

7.30pm

Brodsky Quartet: Program 5

Individual concerts from $60.

Buy three or more and save.

For our full program of free events go to perthfestival.com.au

Supported by

UK/USA

Octête-à-tête

BRODSKY & CALDER QUARTETS A one-off collaboration between musical greats.

The Brodsky and Calder Quartets are the epitome of the modern-day ensemble – versatile yet seasoned, collaborative yet fiercely distinctive. For the first time ever, these two exceptional international string quartets join forces to showcase perennial favourites – as arranged by Brodsky’s multi-talented violist Paul Cassidy – alongside Mendelssohn’s masterwork Octet in E-flat major. Written when the composer was only 16, its youthful verve and brilliance make it one of the miracles of 19th century music.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE Government House Ballroom Thur 16 Feb, 7pm SHOSTAKOVICH Two Pieces for String Octet Op. 11, Prelude & Scherzo PROKOFIEV March (arr. Paul Cassidy) BARBER Adagio for Strings (arr. Paul Cassidy) KHATCHATURIAN Sabre Dance (arr. Paul Cassidy) MENDELSSOHN Octet for strings in E flat major, Op. 20 Image: Eric Richmond

Tickets A $105 / F $94 / C $100 / S $25 International Excellence Partner

Supported by

Image: Autumn de Wilde

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Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets

BRODSKY QUARTET Spellbinding, intense and powerful.

Performed with absolute precision by fearless musicians, Shostakovich: The Complete String Quartets is a rare and indulgent treat.

Join the legendary Brodsky Quartet over five concerts for an acoustic journey like no other as they perform the complete 15 string quartets that make up the ‘Shostakovich Cycle’. As the Quartet traverse each movement, Shostakovich’s music paints a vivid picture of the brilliant and tortured composer’s life behind the Iron Curtain.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE

Program 2 Sat 18 Feb, 2.30pm Quartet No. 6 in G major, Op. 101 Quartet No. 4 in D major, Op. 83 Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92 Program 3 Sat 18 Feb, 7.30pm Quartet No. 7 in F sharp minor, Op. 108 Quartet No. 8 in C minor, Op. 110 Quartet No. 9 in E flat major, Op. 117 Tickets A $60 / F $54 / S $25 Five Program Package A $240 / F $216

Program 4 Sun 19 Feb, 2.30pm Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Op. 122 Quartet No. 12 in D flat major, Op. 133 Quartet No. 13 in B flat minor, Op. 138 Quartet No. 14 in F sharp major, Op. 142 Program 5 Sun 19 Feb, 7.30pm Quartet No. 10 in A flat major, Op. 118 Quartet No. 15 in E flat minor, Op. 144

Image: Eric Richmond

Winthrop Hall Program 1 Fri 17 Feb, 8.30pm Quartet No. 1 in C major, Op. 49 Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68 Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op. 73

UNITED KINGDOM

An awesome musical experience.

THE HERALD (UK)

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Imaginative, skilful creators.

NEW YORK TIMES

USA

Beethoven and Beyond

CALDER QUARTET Shining new light on string classics.

The LA-based Calder Quartet are in demand all over the world, collaborating with artists across genres – from classical, contemporary and rock music to visual arts. The Calder’s fresh take on string music makes the familiar seem new.

Over three concerts at Winthrop Hall, this innovative ensemble explore a new frontier of the string quartet, performing Beethoven’s profoundly beautiful compositions alongside new and unexpected works. Doing justice to the iconic Beethoven repertoire is a feat for any seasoned ensemble, but the Quartet’s seamless transition to contemporary works is pure genius.

Winthrop Hall Program 1 Fri 17 Feb, 6pm BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 3, Op. 18 ADES The Four Quarters BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 12, Op. 127

Image: Autumn de Wilde

Program 2 Sat 18 Feb, 5pm BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 4, Op. 18 SALONEN Homunculus BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 11, Op. 95 BRAHMS Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115 featuring Ashley Smith, clarinet

Tickets A $60 / F $54 / S $25 Three Program Package A $144 / F $132

Calder Quartet also playing at the Albany Entertainment Centre, Tue 21 Feb, 8pm

Program 3 Sun 19 Feb, 5pm BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 6, Op. 18 HILLBORG Kongsgaard Variations BEETHOVEN String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131

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AUSTRALIA

Image: Jacqui Way

Image: Keith Saunders

AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET & ARCADIA WINDS A rich mix of strings and winds.

In a refreshing pairing that links some of Australia’s greatest chamber music talent, the renowned Australian String Quartet (ASQ) team up with the award-winning Arcadia Winds for two unique concerts.

For over 30 years the ASQ has brought their experience, vibrancy and distinct sound to unforgettable string quartet performances. Arcadia Winds, 2015-17 Musica Viva FutureMakers, are the new kids on the block, but already this young ensemble has been making a mark with its energetic, spontaneous and joyful performances.

Now these nine accomplished musicians come together to perform attention-grabbing repertoire that is rare and full of fun – from the beloved Britten Sinfonietta and Mozart Flute Quartet to works by Françaix, Smalley and Martinu˚.

Winthrop Hall Program 1 Sat 18 Feb, 12.30pm MARTINU Nonetto H.374 HAYDN String Quartet Op. 33 No. 4 in B flat major LIGETI Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet BRITTEN Sinfonietta Op. 1

Program 2 Sun 19 Feb, 12.30pm MOZART Flute Quartet in D Major K.285 WIDMANN Oktett SMALLEY Toccata SKIPWORTH New work for wind quintet FRANÇAIX Dixtour

Tickets A $60 / F $54 / S $25 Two Program Package A $ 96 / F $87

EIGHTH BLACKBIRD

USA

Rock stars of the classical world.

Described by the LA Times as a band of ‘super-musicians’, America’s Eighth Blackbird combines the finesse of a string quartet with the energy of a rock band.

This four-time Grammy Award-winning sextet revels in the works of contemporary classical music composers – played with love, virtuosity and a sense of adventure. This dynamic program features contemporary gems by Muhly, Dessner, Hearne and Andres, and a world premiere by Australian composer Holly Harrison.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE Presented by Musica Viva Commissioned for Musica Viva Australia with support from Geoff Stearn and the Hildegard Project Tour supported by the Musica Viva Amadeus Society

Perth Concert Hall Mon 20 Feb, 7.30pm 2hrs including interval

Tickets A Reserve A $92 / F $82.80 / C $80 B Reserve A $64 / F $57.60 / C $56 C Reserve A $43 / F $38.70 / C $37 Image: Keith Saunders

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USA/AUSTRALIA

Images: Paley Fairman and Stephen Taylor

William Brittelle & Jenn Wasner

SOFT SOFT LOUD

FUTURE SHOCK

US musician and renowned electro-acoustic composer William Brittelle bridges the gap between pop music and New York’s downtown classical scene. He brings his latest album Loving the Chambered Nautilus to Fremantle Arts Centre for Soft Soft Loud’s annual program of unexpected cross-genre collaborations, led by artistic director Matthew Hoy. Future Shock also features the otherworldly vocals of Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes, alongside an ensemble of WA’s finest musicians, for a show that transcends the classical concert experience.

Fremantle Arts Centre, Courtyard Sat 11 Feb, 8pm 70mins no interval

Tickets A $49 / F $44 / C $44 Supported by

Presented by Fremantle Arts Centre and Perth International Arts Festival

SOUTH AFRICA

VUYANI ENSEMBLE Vocal harmonies to stir the soul.

The sounds and spirit of South Africa will reverberate around St George’s Cathedral in this uplifting concert.

The Vuyani Ensemble are a group of four stunning singers whose eclectic musical backgrounds are deeply rooted in tradition. Accompanied by fusion guitarist Giuliano Modarelli, the ensemble deftly cross genres of world music, from traditional South African songs to Afro-reggae, with West African and Latin influences.

Intricate rhythms, infectious harmonies and soaring vocals combine for a celebration of South African culture that is positively divine.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE St George’s Cathedral Thur 16 Feb, 8pm 60mins no interval

Tickets A $45 / F $40 / C $42 / S $25

Image: Vuyani Dance Theatre

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CHEVRON FESTIVAL GARDENS

For 21 nights international headliners, local heroes and guest DJs take you on a musical journey of epic proportions – from AfroCuban jazz to South Korean experimental post-rock, hip hop, soul, folk-pop, electronica, chillwave and straight to the heart of Brooklyn indie.

THE GARDENS (FREE ENTRY)

THE MAINSTAGE

Tue–Thur, 6.30pm–late Fri, 5pm–late Sat and Sun, 4pm–late

Ticketed events nightly (except Mondays).

Doors open 7.30pm.

Kick back and soak up the Festival atmosphere with live music on The Gardens Stage.

Limited seating available unless otherwise indicated.

Elizabeth Quay Fri 10 Feb–Sun 5 Mar, Tue–Sun

BUY TICKETS ONLINE perthfestival.com.au | BY PHONE 08 6488 5555 | IN PERSON Various outlets Conditions of entry are available online, and subject to capacity and licensing restrictions. 18+ ID required.

Children permitted with parent or legal guardian. Entry is at venue management’s discretion.

International Excellence Partner

Supported by

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LADY LESHURR + NGAIIRE UK/AUSTRALIA

Fri 10 Feb, 8pm Adult $40 Friends $36 [Her] name throbs like a Belisha beacon in the world of UK grime and beyond.

THE GUARDIAN (ON LADY LESHURR)

BLACKALICIOUS

With special guests POW NEGRO USA

Sat 11 Feb, 8pm Adult $35 Friends $31 The duo invigorated hip hop’s conscience with ... lyrical dexterity and philosophical prowess.

NME (ON BLACKALICIOUS)

SKYE & ROSS UK

Sun 12 Feb, 8pm Adult $55 Friends $49

Elegant, lean and perfectly primed.

THE MIRROR

Bold, brash and unapologetic, this diminutive Birmingham-born rapper has clearly been raised on a steady diet of Eminem – her first inspiration. A true product of the internet revolution, Lady Leshurr was catapulted into fame when her blazing freestyle series Queen’s Speeches went viral. Join her for a night of pulsating beats and rapid fire rap.

Igniting the stage before the lady herself, our very own queen of neo-soul and R&B flow, Ngaiire, will kick the PIAF opening weekend into overdrive.

It’s an old school block party as PIAF welcomes hip hop deluxe duo Blackalicious to the stage. Favouring uplifting lyrical jams, these West Coast legends – rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel – have earned their stripes the old-fashioned way, building a worldwide community of fans.

Formed in the early 90s, the pair blend spirituality with tongue-twisting rhymes and classic beats.

Perth’s hottest new hip hop fusion stars POW Negro are set to get this soulful Saturday night party started right.

Skye Edwards has one of the most recognisable voices on the planet. Her honeyed, downtempo soul put Morcheeba on the radar for lovers of smooth, effortless trip hop. Now she’s back with fellow Morcheeba founding member Ross Godfrey – he of the spellbinding psychedelic guitar flourishes.

Less of a departure, more of an expansion, Skye & Ross take the Morcheeba flavours to sparkly new horizons – all the while drenching your ears with decadence and warmth.

ARCHIE ROACH AUSTRALIA

Tue 14 Feb, 8pm Adult $45 Friends $40 Seated event.

At his best, he has the strength and gravitas of an outback Johnny Cash.

THE GUARDIAN

One of our most important songmen, Archie Roach possesses a unique ability to tap into humanity and reach straight for the heart via his music and storytelling.

To hear him perform live with his trademark soul, passion and vulnerability is a rare musical experience.

Roach’s recent years have been marred by unimaginable setbacks, but after emerging from the darkness with the triumphant Into the Bloodstream, he has now released Let Love Rule, a concept album exploring the willingness to love all people.

OMAR SOSA QUARTETO AFROCUBANO

Expressive, passionate and fuelled by Latin rhythms and folkloric traditions, Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano breathe new life into jazz fusion.

CUBA

Adventurous and virtuosic, Sosa blends traditional Afro-Cuban influences with modern jazz harmonies. This composer-pianist-band leader has graced the prestigious stages of Carnegie Hall, Monterey Jazz Festival, the Getty Center and beyond – and his energetic performances are legendary. Sosa reaches new heights with his Quarteto AfroCubano, creating a brilliantly joyous and thoroughly contemporary global sound.

Wed 15 Feb, 8pm Adult $66 Friends $59 Seated event.

One of Sosa’s great gifts is an ability to cherry-pick from the world’s musics and make them his own with ease. JAZZTIMES

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY USA

Thur 16 Feb, 8pm Adult $50 Friends $45

Quietly masterful, emotionally rich work.

Explosions in the Sky are a band of epic proportions. From the immensity of their instrumentation to the sheer intensity of their songs, their tracks are swirling with grandeur and evocative imagery – no mean feat for a rock band without a vocalist.

Celebrated globally for their ambitious cinematic soundscapes, an evening with Explosions promises to be a kaleidoscopic landslide of blazing guitars, distorted drums, shoegaze and indie-rock.

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PERTH INTERNATIONAL ARTS FESTIVAL

www.perth.wa.gov.au

KISHI BASHI + TEETH & TONGUE USA/AUSTRALIA

Fri 17 Feb, 8pm Adult $37 Friends $33 Sparkling avant-pop that simultaneously draws from classical, 70s prog, and Top 40 radio.

UNDER THE RADAR (ON KISHI BASHI)

EL GUINCHO + SKINNYFISH SOUND SYSTEM SPAIN/AUSTRALIA

Sat 18 Feb, 8pm Adult $35 Friends $31 Gleeful, manic ... deliriously carefree.

CONSEQUENCE OF SOUND (ON EL GUINCHO)

WARPAINT

With special guest GABRIELLA COHEN USA

Sun 19 Feb, 8pm Adult $45 Friends $40

Artistically decisive and intoxicating.

Honing his skills as a touring violinist with the likes of Regina Spektor and Of Montreal, Kishi Bashi is a multi-instrumentalist for fans of Grizzly Bear and Sufjan Stevens.

Weaving soundscapes that are as fantastical as they are quirky, Kishi Bashi is a bubble of joy, bursting with classical fusions and soaring vocals.

Joining Kishi Bashi are Melbourne party starters Teeth & Tongue. Led by suave songstress Jess Cornelius, these guys put 80s synth-pop and cracking drums at the forefront of their catchy tunes.

Self-described purveyor of ‘space-age exotica’ El Guincho incorporates Afrobeat, dub, rock and tropicalia to create a sound that screams piña coladas, sunsets and summer abandon. A Spaniard with a penchant for beats as intoxicating as they are danceable, El Guincho provides the ideal soundtrack for a sultry Saturday of bossa nova pomp and calypso shimmer.

Northern Territory mob Skinnyfish Sound System warm the stage with their remixed Indigenous tunes, featuring live MCs, didgeridoo and James Mangohig of Sietta fame throwing the beats.

Their calling card is atmospheric art rock, but LA-based quartet Warpaint also push the boundaries of musical experimentation and sass. Their latest release Heads Up overflows with haunting vocal harmonies, driving bass and bewitching sensuality.

One of Australia’s slickest drummers, Stella Mozgawa, is now a full-time Warpainter, joining Jenny Lee Lindberg on bass and guitarist/vocalists Emily Kokal and Therese Wayman.

FACT (ON WARPAINT)

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BIG THIEF + KATY STEELE

Big Thief’s debut album Masterpiece could not be more aptly titled. With the songwriting prowess of singer/guitarist Adrianne Lenker at the core of its unique sound, this Brooklyn band’s folk-tinged indie rock is destined for greatness – with the likes of Wilco and Sharon Van Etten among the first to join the fan club.

USA/AUSTRALIA

Wed 22 Feb, 8pm Adult $40 Friends $36

Masterpiece speaks true to its moniker.

PASTE MAGAZINE (ON BIG THIEF)

JAMBINAI + GOLD CLASS SOUTH KOREA/AUSTRALIA

Thur 23 Feb, 8pm Adult $37 Friends $33

Genuinely experimental …

Jambinai are proof that it is better to be brave.

Sharing the stage with Big Thief is WA’s own Katy Steele – launching her pop-infused new album – in a night of exquisite songwriting and folk-pop bliss.

An assault of post-rock thunder, South Korean outfit Jambinai bring traditional Korean instrumentation into the realms of unorthodox heaviness. With howls and bursts of power underpinned by a menacing geomungo, a Korean string instrument, this band rewards the risk-taker.

Melbourne’s Gold Class kick off proceedings with their guitar-driven energy and Adam Curley’s intoxicating vocals front and centre.

RECORD COLLECTOR

ARISTOPHANES + L-FRESH THE LION >

With special guest KUCKA TAIWAN/AUSTRALIA

Fri 24 Feb, 8pm Adult $35 Friends $31

HOWL & ECHOES (ON ARISTOPHANES)

Suave hip hop prince L-FRESH The LION and local wunderkind KUCKA get the party started. >

The range and rhythm of her wordplay is an otherworldly thing to experience.

Taiwanese rapper Aristophanes packs a feisty hip hop punch. After blowing minds collaborating with Canadian queen Grimes, she rocketed to the top of international critics’ choice lists. With a sultry flow underpinned by dirty beats, Aristophanes’ unique sound combines slam poetry with soul, electronica and jazz. Be one of the first to experience her distinctive brand of Taiwanese rap.

A young drummer who knows how to get people breaking it down.

USA

THE VILLAGE VOICE (ON EVAN SHERMAN)

EVAN SHERMAN BIG BAND

With special guests DANIEL SUSNJAR AFRO-PERUVIAN JAZZ GROUP

Evan Sherman Big Band is quite simply one of the hottest jazz ensembles around. Hitting Perth for his Australian debut, Sherman brings his core band direct from New York City, featuring players who have shared the stage with the likes of Wynton Marsalis, D’Angelo and Harry Connick Jr. Drummer, bandleader, composer and arranger extraordinaire, Sherman joins forces with the sharpest talents from the West Australian Youth Jazz Orchestra with one mission – to get you dancing.

Dedicated to reigniting jazz fans with the flair of the swinging 20s, our weekend jazz extravaganza features a lively line-up of special guests in The Gardens – including the Daniel Susnjar Afro-Peruvian Jazz Group celebrating the release of their new album.

Chevron Festival Gardens Sat 25 and Sun 26 Feb, 8pm

Tickets Adult $50 Friends $45

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KURT VILE USA

Tue 28 Feb, 8pm Adult $74 Friends $66 Seated event.

He’s best known as the leader of Kurt Vile & The Violators, but this time Kurt Vile is hitting the Festival stage alone. It is rare to experience the influential indie-rock artist in solo mode but, as folklore tells it, this is where the magic happens.

SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

A young man with an old soul, Vile’s moody and melodic music cuts to the very heart of the human condition, exposing compelling stories of vulnerability and imperfection.

Don’t miss this opportunity for an intimate Vile encounter.

JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW

Dublin-born singer-songwriter James Vincent McMorrow possesses an unearthly voice that is both heartbreaking and lofty.

Songs flush with imagery, sardonic poetry, and [a] rich, warm, folk-rock sound.

IRELAND

Wed 1 Mar, 8pm Adult $56 Friends $50

Sonically audacious, visually stunning and meticulously modern.

An artist who celebrates mental fragility with lyrical tenderness, McMorrow’s canon of soulful, funk-infused tunes soars from folk to electronica. Be prepared to be engulfed in masterfully layered vocals, synths and soft percussion from an artist who is quite simply bewitching.

THE TIMES

MARGARET GLASPY + FRANKIE COSMOS With special guests MOSQUITO COAST USA

Thur 2 Mar, 8pm Adult $40 Friends $36 She’s pure American muscle.

Guitars snarl and spit, stares are deep and wise.

NME (ON MARGARET GLASPY)

Two of the hottest young indie-pop artists to emerge from the USA in recent times, Margaret Glaspy and Frankie Cosmos, are headed to Perth with their irresistible blend of poetic pop.

A goddess of wistful articulation, Margaret Glaspy bares all with her stellar vocals, honest lyrics and low-slung electric guitar. With her debut record, Emotions and Math, Glaspy has taken her rightful place on the world’s hippest playlists.

Cut from a similar cloth, Frankie Cosmos combines observational witticisms with low-fi, yet bouncy pop. Her 90s-inspired gems – fusing Brooklyn swagger with Courtney Barnett-esque flair – will leave you swooning.

NATHANIEL RATELIFF AND THE NIGHT SWEATS

From a place where rock ’n’ roll meets gospel, soul and blues, comes the denim-clad, whiskey-soaked Nathaniel Rateliff and his Night Sweats.

USA

A formidable live act, these champions of Americana enjoy a world-renowned reputation for stage-quaking shows that dare you to try and stay still. Their music practically explodes with a deep, primal soulfulness – and they’ll break your heart just as quickly as they light a fire in your belly.

With special guests ALL OUR EXES LIVE IN TEXAS Fri 3 Mar, 8pm Adult $50 Friends $45 A force of nature … Rateliff channels the earthiness and funk of the American experience.

NPR

LA MAMBANEGRA COLOMBIA

Sat 4 Mar, 8pm Adult $60 Friends $54

A purely hedonistic experience: it is the sound of pleasure.

RHYTHM PASSPORT

Embodying the very essence of salsa, La Mambanegra throbs with Latin verve.

This electrifying nine-piece orchestra combines funk, hip hop and the salsa of 1970s New York with percussive beats that are as hot as the Cali nightclubs they light up on a regular basis.

La Mambanegra ooze sensuality and joy with their sophisticated instrumentation, spicy rhythms and a pulsing energy that will inspire you to burn the floor.

Presented by arrangement with Arts Projects Australia

TORO Y MOI

With special guests LANKS USA

Sun 5 Mar, 8pm Adult $40 Friends $36

His catalogue is pretty much bulletproof.

From jangly indie-pop to disco house party, Toro y Moi, aka Chazwick Bradley Bundick, is the bedroom producer who shifts seamlessly from genre to genre.

Identified with the rise of chillwave, this whizz kid is a musical chameleon who cites a kaleidoscope of influences, including 90s R&B, horror movie soundtracks and space disco. Eclecticism reigns as he spectacularly blends electronica, Americana and freak folk in a rambunctious live show not to be missed.

This is a killer way to close out your Festival.

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CHINELO OKPARANTA

LINDY WEST

SEBASTIAN BARRY

JULIE KOH

CLEMENTINE FORD

RAJITH SAVANADASA

MEI FONG

ARMANDO LUCAS CORREA

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL Join us for a great gathering of writers, artists and activists from across the globe as they provoke, inspire and offer their unique insights and perspectives on the world.

Journey through big ideas and brilliant literature at this year’s Perth Writers Festival with a hugely diverse program of events to engage, delight and surprise.

Don’t miss the Courtyard Sessions – our exciting new platform celebrating spoken word, music and performance at the State Theatre Centre.

M A D E L E I N E T H I E N • PAT R I C K C O C K B U R N • P E A DA R O ’ G U I L I N A L E J A N D R O Z A M B R A • A L B E R T O M A N G U E L • K AT E S U M M E R S C A L E I A N M C G U I R E • A N N A N O R T H • W I L L I A M M C I N N E S • N AT H A N H I L L C A R M E L B I R D • J AY K R I S T O F F • J E S S I E B U R T O N • H A N N A H K E N T H O L LY T H R O S B Y • G A R T H N I X • J A N E S M I L E Y • A N D M A N Y M O R E . . .

The full Perth Writers Festival program will be released on Wednesday 11 January.

Register at perthfestival.com.au to receive your free copy.

Perth Writers Festival Precinct, UWA Thur 23–Sun 26 Feb

Tickets available from PIAF perthfestival.com.au

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UNITED KINGDOM

SYRIA

OPENING ADDRESS

CLOSING ADDRESS

BEN RAWLENCE

MARWA AL-SABOUNI

OCTAGON THEATRE Thur 23 Feb, 7pm

OCTAGON THEATRE Sun 26 Feb, 7pm

City of Thorns (or Dadaab) in Northern Kenya is the world’s largest refugee camp and home to half a million people. To the charity workers it is a humanitarian crisis, to the Kenyan government it is a ‘nursery for terrorists’ and to the western media it is a dangerous no-go area.

But to the many that call it home – it is their last resort.

Syrian architect Marwa al-Sabouni has watched her homeland be torn apart by civil war. How did this beautiful country turn from its tolerant past, with churches and mosques built side by side, to its current state of violence and displacement?

Ben Rawlence first visited Dadaab Refugee Camp as a researcher for Human Rights Watch. Over four years he came to know many of the inhabitants, from new arrivals to those born and raised in the camp. In City of Thorns Rawlence takes us beyond the headlines to explore the morally urgent issue of refugees and displacement through the reality of the daily lives of nine individuals.

As bombs fell around her, al-Sabouni stayed in Homs, making plans to build hope from carnage. Her memoir The Battle for Home looks at how the built environment directly affects the community that inhabits it.

She argues that architecture has an important role to play in understanding the past, rebuilding the country and reversing the damage war has inflicted on the Syrian people.

Tickets A $40 / F $36.50 / S $25

Tickets A $40 / F $36.50 / S $25

Rawlence has written a book that just might change the world … A tour de force.

A visionary memoir.

BOOKLIST (USA)

THE GUARDIAN (UK)

NAKKIAH LUI

ADRIAN TODD ZUNIGA

OMAR MUSA

WOMEN OF LETTERS

NICK EARLS

SUKHJIT KAUR KHALSA

COURTYARD SESSIONS A party to celebrate the power of words.

Words and ideas come off the page and onto the stage for the exciting new Courtyard Sessions. Grab a drink and join us for two nights of spoken word, music, hip hop and comedy from a range of brilliant writers, performers and RTRFM 92.1 DJs. On Friday we hear from three of the hottest spoken word artists – Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa, Omar Musa and Ziggy, before USA’s Adrian Todd Zuniga hosts Literary Death Match. Touted as Def Poetry Jam meets American Idol, this hilarious competition sees four authors perform a short excerpt of their most electric work before a panel of all-star judges.

From 5–7pm, guests from the night will join RTRFM 92.1 for a special live broadcast of Drivetime, direct from the Courtyard.

On Saturday we bring to life Nick Earls’ extraordinary series of linked novellas, Wisdom Tree, through music and readings with local performers. Then Marieke Hardy and Michaela McGuire bring you a special Perth Writers Festival edition of their smash-hit show Women of Letters – a captivating tribute to the lost art of letter writing.

Full details announced in the Perth Writers Festival program in January.

Hosted by Black Comedy writer and star Nakkiah Lui. Courtyard, State Theatre Centre of WA Fri 24 Feb Sat 25 Feb 5pm–late 6pm–late Spoken Word performances Nick Earls’ Wisdom Tree RTRFM 92.1 DJs RTRFM 92.1 DJs Literary Death Match Women of Letters

Presented in association with RTRFM 92.1

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PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL

FAMILY DAY

Inspiring book lovers big and small, Family Day returns in 2017 with a jam-packed day of storytelling, art, performance, workshops and conversation.

Highly acclaimed international author of the Inkheart Trilogy, Cornelia Funke, shares her timeless tales, Lance Balchin brings his Mechanica creatures to life through steampunk-inspired illustrations and Chris Owen invites you to create ‘pandamonia’. Other guests include Garth Nix, Kylie Howarth, Oliver Phommavanh and Bruce Pascoe.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the publication of the Harry Potter books, you’re invited to come dressed as your favourite Harry Potter character and take part in a series of Hogwarts themed events.

For the first time our Family Day features young guest curators selecting authors and topics – creating programming for the young, by the young. And the Better Beginnings Tent will be buzzing with bookish fun.

Many more exciting names and events are still to be announced, with the full Perth Writers Festival program released on Wednesday 11 January. Register at perthfestival.com.au to receive your free copy.

Perth Writers Festival Precinct, UWA Sun 26 Feb, 9am–3pm

FREE Image: Jessica Wyld

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PIAF CONNECT Creating artistic opportunities for our community.

Whether you’re a local artist or simply a lover of the arts, PIAF Connect offers an extensive program of workshops, masterclasses and opportunities to engage and collaborate with our visiting artists.

PIAF Lab returns in 2017. This immersive development program provides emerging arts practitioners the opportunity to connect with some of the world’s most exciting creative minds and provides a space for them to consider their work in the context of our international arts festival.

We continue our commitment to fostering the development of disability arts with a range of inspiring events – and invite everyone to learn some hot swing dance steps or join in with some soulful singing.

To be the first to hear about PIAF Connect announcements, or to find out how you can get involved, visit perthfestival.com.au

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PIAF CONVERSATIONS Exploring big ideas and the stories that connect us.

PIAF Conversations are your opportunity to engage more deeply with our Festival artists as they reflect on their work and the challenges, questions and propositions they are presenting at 2017 PIAF. Writer and dramaturg Ruth Little returns as our Festival Navigator to lead you through artist discussions and forums and to explore the Festival’s themes via her regular blog on our website.

Sun 12 Feb, 5.30pm

Fri 24 Feb, 1pm

Sun 5 Mar, 4.30pm

FRASER’S AT KINGS PARK

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL PRECINCT, UWA

STATE THEATRE CENTRE

Ecology into Art Nigel Jamieson, Zoe Atkinson, Dr Noel Nannup, Stephen Hopper and Mandy Bamford Can art save the planet?

The 2017 PIAF opening event is focused on the richness and interdependency of the flora and fauna of South Western Australia and our need to take responsibility for this land we share. Meet some of the artists, storytellers and scientists who have brought Boorna Waanginy to life.

Facilitated by Ruth Little.

Sun 19 Feb, 4pm OUTSIDE STAGE, WINTHROP HALL GARDENS, UWA Making Music Together – How does an ensemble survive?

Join members of US sextet Eighth Blackbird, the Australian String Quartet and Arcadia Winds in a conversation exploring the intensity of performing chamber music as a group.

Facilitated by Yarmila Alfonzetti.

Reflections on Grief Dmitry Krymov (Russia), Jonathon Young (Canada), Marwa Al-Sabouni (Syria) and Jacobus Capone (WA) How do artists process unfathomable public and private grief and reflect it back to us in their art?

Facilitated by Ruth Little.

Sun 26 Feb, 2.30pm PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL PRECINCT, UWA Pondering Our Most Precious Liquid PIAF Artist-in-Residence and creator of the Museum of Water Amy Sharrocks (UK) joins a panel of writers, artists and activists to consider our relationship with the pleasures, politics and future of water.

Facilitated by Ruth Little.

Sun 26 Feb, 7.30pm STATE LIBRARY THEATRE Tracking Country Directors Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds discuss making films in Ramingining with and about the Yolngu people of Arnhem Land.

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Celebrating Other Voices Bruce Gladwin (Australia), Inua Ellams (Nigeria/UK) and Alex Desebrock (Australia) Join a panel discussion with artists who create space for other voices to be heard – the voices of those that may be ignored, marginalised or overwhelmed by the chatter of the mainstream.

POST SHOW DISCUSSIONS Whether you’ve been in the audience or just want to find out more about what drives our Festival artists, you’re invited to join our post show discussions

A O Lang Pho p8 The Dark Mirror: Zender’s Winterreise p10 The Gabriels p12 Opus No. 7 p14 The Encounter p16 The Year I Was Born p21 Lady Eats Apple p22 Betroffenheit p26 MEETING p28 Exit/Exist p29 An Evening with an Immigrant p33 The Manganiyar Classroom p37

PIAF Conversations are free events.

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VISUAL ARTS The hottest international contemporary art is presented alongside celebrated local talent in our 2017 PIAF Visual Arts program.

Renowned local artists working in film, jewellery, performance and installation are on show at PICA, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and Fremantle Arts Centre. At the John Curtin Gallery, ambitious projects by a leading international artist have their Australian premiere, while at Moana a prominent Australian artist invites you to take a break in a hi-vis TV lounge.

Experience the city, turned upside down and inside out, get involved in a project on desalination and celebrate the Fremantle Dockers inclusion in the inaugural AFL Women’s League at a Freo art party.

JOHN AKOMFRAH Vertigo Sea, 2015 Three channel HD colour video installation, 7.1 sound, 48:30 © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy the Artist; Lisson Gallery, London

Visual Arts Program Partner

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UNITED KINGDOM

JOHN AKOMFRAH Leading British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah brings Perth two new major film installations – Vertigo Sea and Auto Da Fé.

Vertigo Sea is an immersive and poetic meditation on our relationship with the ocean and its role in the history of humankind. In a captivating film experience, sublime images of sea life segue into powerful footage of the whaling industry and migrants making dangerous sea crossings. Acclaimed as one of the standout works at the 2015 Venice Biennale, Vertigo Sea fuses archive material, original footage and readings from classical sources for a sweeping portrayal of the sea.

In its Australian premiere, Auto Da Fé is a fictional narrative that looks at migration over four centuries. Presented as a poetic period drama, this emotive film highlights the connections between religion, persecution and migration.

AUSTRALIAN EXCLUSIVE John Curtin Gallery Thur 9 Feb–Sun 30 Apr Mon–Fri, 11am–5pm Sun, 1–5pm

FREE

JOHN AKOMFRAH Untitled, 2016 C-type print mounted on Dibond Framed: 101.6 x 152.4 cm / 40 x 60 in © Smoking Dogs Films; Courtesy the Artist; Lisson Gallery, London

Loren Kronemyer & Mike Bianco

BRACKISH RISING

STREETS OF KWINANA See perthfestival.com.au In Brackish Rising interdisciplinary arts practitioners Loren Kronemyer and Mike Bianco collaborate to explore the issue of salinity and the importance of the Kwinana water desalination plant through art, science and community engagement.

AUSTRALIA MIKE BIANCO Salt, 2015 Courtesy the Artist

Presented by International Art Space, as part of the Know Thy Neighbour program, this immersive project – which includes a series of long-table dinners and a new exhibition of video installations and sound recordings – delves into the broader social, economic and environmental implications of salinity within the Perth ecosystem.

FREE

Helen Britton

INTERSTICES

LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY Sat 11 Feb–Sat 15 Apr Tue–Sat, 11am–5pm

WESTERN AUSTRALIA HELEN BRITTON Detail: Dough Devil, 2015 Gold, diamond Courtesy the Artist

Interstices is a 25-year survey of the work of renowned jeweller Helen Britton, including new works that draw inspiration from Western Australia’s coastline. Britton has developed an international reputation as a contemporary artist, sourcing metal and found materials from around the globe and reconfiguring them into spectacular objects of adornment. Now a resident in Munich, she regularly returns to scour the local landscape, from beaches to the desert interior, in search of shells, seeds and found materials for her creations.

FREE

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SPAN FREMANTLE ARTS CENTRE Sat 4 Feb–Sun 26 Mar 10am–5pm daily

WESTERN AUSTRALIA SUSANNA CASTLEDEN 1:1 Gangway (detail), 2016, Rubbing on gesso on paper maps, 3.2 x 15.4m Photo by Robert Firth, Acorn Photography Courtesy the Artist

SPAN brings together Western Australian artists whose work in a range of media crosses divides that are personal and global, political and geographical. A life-size print of a cruise ship gangway, a series of sculptured industrial engine parts, human hair weaved on a loom, neighbours grooming each other over the fence and a musical performance based on asylum seekers – these works from Susanna Castleden, Olga Cironis, Tanya Lee, Clyde McGill and Andrew Sunley Smith enter personal space and consider where and how we live.

FREE

Joan Ross THE ART OF TRYING TO CONTROL FLOWERS MOANA PROJECT SPACE Sat 11 Feb–Sat 25 Mar Mon–Fri 7am–4pm Sat 10am–3pm, Sun 11am–4pm Take a seat in a crazily handcrafted, high-visibility living room.

Switch on the TV and watch the cartoons – they’ll make you smile, squirm and re-think your understanding of Australian history.

Scottish-born, NSW-based artist Joan Ross works across a range of media including wallpaper, sculpture and animation. Her bold and experimental practice investigates the legacy of colonialism in Australia, particularly its effect on Indigenous Australians.

AUSTRALIA JOAN ROSS Not a $tone unturned, 2015 Handpainted digital print Courtesy the Artist and Michael Reid Gallery

FREE

WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Jacobus Capone

FORGIVING NIGHT FOR DAY In the video installation Forgiving Night for Day, Perth artist Jacobus Capone contemplates the poetic Portuguese word ‘saudade’, an expression of deep nostalgia and longing for people, places and times irrevocably lost.

Capone wrote lyrics inspired by the emotive registers of Fado music and his wanderings through the empty early morning streets of Lisbon. His song was filmed over seven consecutive days at dawn, each time performed by a different Fado singer, from seven viewpoints overlooking the city. The resulting film is an evocative meditation on how we process and express emotional states.

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre Sat 18 Feb–Sun 16 Apr Tue–Sun, 10am–5pm

FREE

JACOBUS CAPONE Forgiving Night for Day, 2016 (Video still) 7-channel video installation Courtesy the Artist

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Robyn Stacey

MAGIC MIRROR SECRET LOCATION Fri 3–Sun 5 Mar See perthfestival.com.au In a topsy-turvy photographic experience of Perth, one of Australia’s most acclaimed photographers brings the outside in.

AUSTRALIA ROBYN STACEY Room 1306 Mercure Potts Point, Jodi, 2013 from Guest Relations Type C print 100 x 133cm, edition of 5 + 3 AP Courtesy the Artist

Robyn Stacey has been creating spectacular and sumptuous images since the mid-1980s and for PIAF she transforms an entire hotel room into a walk-in camera obscura. Translated as ‘dark room’, the camera obscura is an optical device that captures the external world and projects it within the room. As if by magic, the view outside spreads over the room’s interior – but upside down and in reverse. The camera obscura is dependant on the weather and the position of the sun, which makes every viewing of Magic Mirror a unique experience.

FREE

EVERYBODY HAS A HISTORY

PART 1: PLAIN SPEAK ART GALLERY OF WA Sat 25 Feb–Sun 13 Aug Wed–Mon, 10am–5pm

Some artists just have to speak. Some stories just need to be told. Plain Speak launches a new annual series at AGWA that presents compelling personal stories told through art. The inaugural show puts Indigenous artists in the spotlight – with 50 powerfully personal video, painting, photography, sculpture and textile works.

Whether it’s a grand tale or something more intimate, these stories and histories will resonate.

AUSTRALIA TONY ALBERT No place warrior, 2009 Watercolour on arches paper 76x57cm Courtesy the Artist, State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia; Purchased through the TommorrowFund, Art Gallery of Western Australia Foundation, 2010

FREE

AUSTRALIA

Virtual reality pioneer Lynette Wallworth tells this Indigenous story in explosive detail.

THE GUARDIAN (UK)

Image: Piers Mussared

Lynnette Wallworth

COLLISIONS A virtual journey to sacred land.

Martu elder Nyarri Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with Western culture came in the 1950s when he witnessed a secret atomic bomb testing in the South Australian desert.

Now with the advance of virtual reality technology you will be transported back to this desert community with Morgan as your guide.

Collisions is a short, personal film experience like no other. Lynette Wallworth’s pioneering work offers us the true potential of technology, to transport us to a different time and place. With Morgan we experience the dramatic collision between his traditional world view and the cutting edge of science at this confounding, profoundly emotional moment of unfathomable destruction.

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre Tue 21 Feb–Sun 5 Mar Tue and Wed, 10am-5pm Thur–Sun, 10am–8.30pm

FREE Advance bookings for groups only, contact 08 6488 8616 Please note headsets are supplied and will need to be worn throughout this film.

Sessions run every 30mins Limited capacity.

Co-presented with Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts

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LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS SEASON ONE Our outdoor cinema UWA Somerville – birthplace of Lotterywest Festival Films – has been an evergreen favourite of summer in Perth since the very first Festival in 1953.

We added a second beautiful cinema at ECU Joondalup Pines in 2000, and to these two wondrous screens we bring you the very best of today’s cinema from around the globe.

In this year’s selection of new films you’ll see vivid re-imaginings of the world in The Red Turtle, Neruda and Julieta, the amusements of family in Little Men and After the Storm, soul-stirring creations in Paterson, Monsieur Chocolat, The Rehearsal and The Dancer and absorbing characters in The Teacher, Like Crazy and Toni Erdmann. Most of all, you will see the world through the eyes of others.

This year our film program expands to new horizons with virtual reality film Collisions, and a retrospective dedicated to two of Australia’s finest filmmakers Rolf de Heer and Molly Reynolds.

Look out for a further nine films, to be announced on Monday 16 January.

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Image: Jason Eshraghian; film: Like Crazy

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS SEASON ONE DATES & TIMES

UWA SOMERVILLE Mon–Sun

ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue–Sun

28 Nov–4 Dec, 8pm

Little Men

The Teacher

5–11 Dec, 8pm

The Teacher

Little Men

12–18 Dec, 8pm

After the Storm

The Rehearsal

19–24 Dec, 8pm

Julieta

After the Storm

26 Dec–1 Jan, 8pm

The Red Turtle

Julieta

2–8 Jan, 8pm

Paterson

The Red Turtle

9–15 Jan, 8pm

The Dancer

Paterson

16–22 Jan, 8pm

Neruda

The Dancer

23–29 Jan, 8pm*

Monsieur Chocolat

Neruda

30 Jan–5 Feb, 8pm

Toni Erdmann

Monsieur Chocolat

6–12 Feb, 8pm

Like Crazy

Toni Erdmann

No screenings Christmas Day (Sun 25 Dec), or Good Friday (Fri 14 Apr). *On Australia Day at UWA Somerville screening starts at 8.30pm ECU Joondalup Pines closed Fri 3 Mar and Fri 7 Apr. UWA carpark 23 (cnr Mounts Bay Road and Hackett Drive) is now unavailable. For alternative parking at UWA visit parking.uwa.edu.au Films will usually go ahead in the event of rain. Any cancellations will be announced at 4.30pm on the day of screening.

CTC: check the classification.

LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS SEASON TWO Announced Mon 16 Jan 2017

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USA

LITTLE MEN

Cast: Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri, Greg Kinnear, Alfred Molina

DIRECTOR IRA SACHS 85mins, CTC UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 28 Nov–Sun 4 Dec, 8pm

A sweet slice of New York life in which two teenage friends try to be the best ‘little men’ they can be. When his family moves from Manhattan to Brooklyn, thoughtful art student Jake is happy to meet funny, outgoing new neighbour Tony. But Jake’s family has just become landlord to Tony’s mother, who is struggling to pay the bills.

Jake and Tony just want to be friends, but their parents sure are making that hard.

Another beautifully bittersweet drama by Ira Sachs (Love is Strange, 2015 PIAF).

ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 6–Sun 11 Dec, 8pm

SLOVAKIA

THE TEACHER

Cast: Zuzana Mauréry, Csongor Kassai ^

DIRECTOR JAN HREBEJK 102mins, CTC ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 29 Nov–Sun 4 Dec, 8pm UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 5–Sun 11 Dec, 8pm AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

Slovak with English subtitles.

JAPAN

AFTER THE STORM

Cast: Hiroshi Abe, Kirin Kiki, Satomi Kobayashi

DIRECTOR HIROKAZU KOREEDA 117mins, CTC UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 12–Sun 18 Dec, 8pm ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 20–Sat 24 Dec, 8pm

Japanese with English subtitles.

This audience favourite casts a wickedly humorous eye over the recent European past. It’s 1983, the era of Communist control in central Europe. In a Bratislava classroom stern new teacher Mrs Drazdechova asks what each of the students’ parents does for a living. As those wary adults soon realise, this teacher likes to call in favours from them in exchange for good grades for their kids.

The parents convene – should they deal with her corruption? Featuring an enthralling performance from Zuzana Mauréry as the imposing instructor, this is wry, prize-winning entertainment.

The joys and tensions of family are laid bare in the latest film by Japan’s greatest director Hirokazu Koreeda (Our Little Sister, 2016 PIAF). Forty-something Ryota is a wayward son and an absent dad. A once-promising novelist, he’s now a shabby private detective and hopeless gambler – whose ex-wife has moved on with a new relationship. Forced to shelter together at the house of Ryota’s mischievous mother during a typhoon, this complex family questions whether they can ever reconcile? – And do they even want to?

NEW ZEALAND

THE REHEARSAL

Cast: James Rolleston, Kerry Fox, Alice Englert

DIRECTOR ALISON MACLEAN 102mins, CTC

At a prestigious Auckland drama school, a class of nervous first-year students meet their intimidating new teacher, Hannah (Kerry Fox).

Stanley (James Rolleston; The Dark Horse, 2016 PIAF) is the least confident of the bunch, but comes to life when the class is told to devise an end-of-year play. He suggests they adapt a real-life scandal involving a tennis teacher and Victoria, a girl they all know.

Stanley’s classmates are energised, but what he doesn’t reveal is that he’s dating Victoria’s sister… Spiky, funny and with a gripping finale, The Rehearsal is a class Kiwi act.

ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 13–Sun 18 Dec, 8pm

SPAIN

JULIETA

Cast: Adriana Ugarte, Emma Suárez, Rossy de Palma

DIRECTOR PEDRO ALMODÓVAR 99mins, CTC UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 19–Sat 24 Dec, 8pm ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 27 Dec–Sun 1 Jan, 8pm

About to leave Madrid for a fresh start in Portugal, Julieta’s world is rocked when she hears news of her estranged daughter Antía. Abandoning plans, and with her bemused lover in pursuit, she is consumed with reconciling her past and with reaching out to Antía. As we flash back to the sexually liberated Spain of 1989, Julieta’s life seems evermore complex and mysterious.

Exuding colour and gorgeous design, Julieta casts a sensuous spell that is part Alfred Hitchcock, part Alice Munro (it’s adapted from her stories) – and 100% Pedro Almodóvar (Volver, All About My Mother).

Spanish with English subtitles.

JAPAN/FRANCE

THE RED TURTLE DIRECTOR MICHAËL DUDOK DE WIT 80mins, PG UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 26 Dec–Sun 1 Jan, 8pm ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 3–Sun 8 Jan, 8pm

A man washes up on a sun-kissed desert island that teems with colourful nature. He is preoccupied with leaving, yet finds that each time he tries, a large, powerful turtle urges him to remain on the island’s shores. What can this mysterious creature want from its human companion? This latest animated classic from Studio Ghibli (My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away) was ten years in the making with Oscar-winning director Michaël Dudok de Wit. A vivid and moving fable, told through gorgeous imagery and a stirring score.

No dialogue.

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PATERSON

Cast: Adam Driver, Golshifteh Farahani, Method Man

DIRECTOR JIM JARMUSCH 118mins, M UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 2–Sun 8 Jan, 8pm

Each day in a New Jersey town, Paterson gets up and writes a short, sweet poem before beginning work as a bus driver. In the evenings he returns to his loving wife and dog, all the while paying attention to the people who make up his richly patterned world. Adam Driver (Girls, Star Wars: The Force Awakens) plays our laconic hero, through whom we observe the quirks and joys of life. Directed by indie hero Jim Jarmusch (Stranger Than Paradise, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai, 1986 PIAF), this is a cool, droll stopover in everyday America.

ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 10–Sun 15 Jan, 8pm

FRANCE

THE DANCER

Cast: Soko, Lily-Rose Depp

DIRECTOR STÉPHANIE DI GIUSTO 108mins, CTC UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 9–Sun 15 Jan, 8pm ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 17–Sun 22 Jan, 8pm AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

French with English subtitles.

CHILE

NERUDA

Cast: Luis Gnecco, Gael García Bernal

DIRECTOR PABLO LARRAÍN 107mins, MA UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 16–Sun 22 Jan, 8pm ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 24–Sun 29 Jan, 8pm

Spanish with English subtitles.

From humble beginnings in the American Midwest to the toast of decadent Paris, dancer Loïe Fuller was driven by a singular passion for her art. Her ‘Serpentine Dance’ was a whirlwind of silk and coloured lights – a dazzling new style for modern, sensual times. Fuller’s fierce dedication makes her vulnerable to self-destruction and blind to rivalry; as her candle burns, a beautiful and talented protégé waits to steal the limelight. The Dancer brings early 1900s Parisian society vibrantly to life, with searing performances from Soko and Lily-Rose Depp lighting up this tale of creation and abandon.

‘You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.’ This sexy, witty and highly entertaining film has the poise and energy of its subject’s own words.

It is Santiago in 1948 and Pablo Neruda, Chile’s adored, charismatic poet, is sent into hiding when right-wing President Videla demands his arrest. Concealed by a network of sympathisers – and with a clueless but dogged cop in pursuit – Neruda flees toward the Argentine mountains whilst covertly publishing his rousing verse. Playfully brilliant cinema from director Pablo Larraín starring Gael García Bernal (The Motorcycle Diaries, No, 2013 PIAF).

FRANCE

MONSIEUR CHOCOLAT

Cast: Omar Sy, James Thiérrée DIRECTOR ROSCHDY ZEM 110mins, CTC UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 23–Sun 29 Jan, 8pm (Thur 26 Jan, 8.30pm) ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 31 Jan–Sun 5 Feb, 8pm

In rural French circuses in 1897, Cuban Rafael Padilla startles audiences as the clown ‘Chocolat’. A wickedly skilled performer, he makes easy money as the butt of jokes, playing to the crowd as the stereotypical ‘wild savage’ of the colonies. But Padilla is so much more than a willing fall-guy. Seizing the chance to make it big in Paris as one half of groundbreaking duo ‘Foottit and Chocolat’, Padilla becomes a pioneering black star, but grows conscious of the racism surrounding him.

A vibrant film that enlightens as it entertains.

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

French with English subtitles.

GERMANY

TONI ERDMANN

Cast: Sandra Hüller, Peter Simonischek

DIRECTOR MAREN ADE 162mins, M UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 30 Jan–Sun 5 Feb, 8pm ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 7–Sun 12 Feb, 8pm

German and Romanian with English subtitles.

ITALY

LIKE CRAZY

Cast: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Micaela Ramazzotti

DIRECTOR PAOLO VIRZÌ 118mins, M UWA SOMERVILLE Mon 6–Sun 12 Feb, 8pm ECU JOONDALUP PINES Tue 14–Sun 19 Feb, 8pm

A joyous, laugh-out-loud film so continually surprising that it has become the talk of film festivals from Cannes to Melbourne.

‘Toni Erdmann’ is the embarrassingly tactless buck-toothed alter-ego of Winfried Conradi, a recently retired schoolteacher with a penchant for ridiculous stunts. At a loose end and eager to reconnect with his serious and career-driven daughter Ines, Winfried decides to tag along on her important business trip in Bucharest and win her over with a relentless series of daft practical jokes. Full of rich detail and unexpected joy, Toni Erdmann is a constant, head-spinning delight.

Resident at a villa in secluded Tuscany, elegant Beatrice entertains her neighbours with lively tales of unlikely celebrity friends.

She’s a charming fantasist and good company at this care home for the emotionally unwell. When Donatella, a new introverted guest arrives, Beatrice takes the younger woman under her wing and embarks on a freewheeling, big-spending escapade to a nearby town in the name of fun. After Human Capital (2015 PIAF), this is another delightful partnership between director Virzì and actress Tedeschi. A marvellous balance of humour and pathos.

Italian with English subtitles.

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AUSTRALIA

TRACKING COUNTRY

ROLF DE HEER & MOLLY REYNOLDS Join us to celebrate the work of two of the most vital filmmakers in Australia in a world-first retrospective.

Over 30 years Rolf de Heer has created a constantly surprising, hugely varied body of work that frequently sides with ‘outsiders’. This selection focuses on those films made in remote rural Australia that trace an increasingly deep connection with Indigenous Australia.

Documentary artist Molly Reynolds began working with de Heer on 2005’s Ten Canoes, a film brilliantly devised with the Yolngu people of Ramingining in Arnhem Land. Finding rich layers of meaning in Ramingining and its favourite son David Gulpilil, Reynolds and de Heer went on to produce a suite of three outstanding works – each one standing alone, yet also creating a fascinating sequence.

Film lovers will revel in this chance to discover or revisit these extraordinary films and to hear the makers discuss their work.

State Library Theatre, State Library of Western Australia Session Times Thur 23 Feb

Fri 24 Feb

Sat 25 Feb

Sun 26 Feb

7.30pm Dingo: Dir. Rolf de Heer, 1991, 109mins, M, 35mm

7.30pm The Tracker: Dir. Rolf de Heer, 2002, 94mins, M, 35mm

4.30pm Ten Canoes: Dir. Rolf de Heer, 2006, 91mins, M, 35mm

4.30pm Another Country: Dir. Molly Reynolds, 2015, 75mins, G

7.30pm Charlie’s Country: Dir. Rolf de Heer, 2013, 108mins, M

9pm Still Our Country – Reflections on a Culture: Dir. Molly Reynolds, 2015, 88mins, unclassified 15+

Rolf De Heer & Molly Reynolds In Conversation* Sun 26 Feb, 7.30pm 60mins Tickets A $18 / F $16 / C $17 / S $13.50

Image: Ten Canoes

*Free entry to In Conversation for film ticket holders All sessions will be introduced by Rolf de Heer and/or Molly Reynolds Family and Education Program Partner Dingo, The Tracker and Ten Canoes courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia

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Image: Ben Reynolds Photography

PIAF GREAT SOUTHERN PIAF Great Southern brings leading artists from across the globe to the stunning surrounds of the south coast for a program of evocative string and classical piano music, visual art, film and a project celebrating our connection to water. Join us in the Great Southern as PIAF takes to the road.

Tickets on sale Thur 10 Nov. Great Southern Festival Founding Partner

Supported by

Family and Education Program Partner

SOUTHERN LIGHTS DONORS

MUSEUM OF WATER

TO DONATE YOUR WATER: Come and see us in Albany Sat 4 and Sun 5 Mar, 10am–4pm Visit perthfestival.com.au for details of a free program of pop-up events.

FREE

A vial of tears, melted ice from Antarctica and a plastic bottle of billabong water – every drop tells a story.

Choose your water, find something to put it in and tell us why you brought it.

PIAF Artist-in-Residence Amy Sharrocks invites you to consider your relationship with the world’s most indispensable liquid as she builds the WA edition of the award-winning Museum of Water.

CALDER QUARTET

ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Tue 21 Feb, 8pm Tickets A $60 / F $54 / S $25

Elena Kats-Chernin & Tamara-Anna Cislowska THE MUSICAL WORLDS OF ELENA KATS-CHERNIN ALBANY ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE Thur 16 Feb, 8pm Tickets A $40 / F $36 / S $25

MIX Artists TROPHY

The LA-based Calder Quartet are in demand all over the world, collaborating with artists across genres – from classical, contemporary and rock music to visual arts. This innovative and skilful ensemble bring their fresh take on string music to the Great Southern with a performance of Beethoven’s quartets (including the masterful Opus 131) and Hillborg’s Kongsgaard Variations.

Four hands are better than two in this intimate tête-à-tête between acclaimed Australian composer and pianist Elena Kats-Chernin and her long-time collaborator, and one of Australia’s leading pianists, Tamara- Anna Cislowska. The resulting program offers a glimpse at some of Kats-Chernin’s favourite classical composers and influences, including Rachmaninov, Bach and Chopin.

Trophies have symbolised victory since ancient times. In the hands of 18 contemporary artists from the Great Southern, the idea of the trophy evokes some fascinating responses and re-inventions. Across a range of media, the talented MIX Artists once again present an intriguing and thought provoking exhibition.

ALBANY TOWN HALL Sat 18 Feb–Sun 12 Mar, 10am-4pm

FREE LOTTERYWEST FESTIVAL FILMS IN THE GREAT SOUTHERN ORANA CINEMA Sessions at 6pm and 8.30/9pm, every Tue and Thur, 7 Feb–16 Mar DENMARK CIVIC CENTRE Sessions at 7pm, Fri 10 and Sat 11 Feb

From Brooklyn to Bratislava, Tokyo to Tuscany, and from snowy mountaintops to the wide open sea, our program of 12 new films from around the world represents the very best of the past year in international cinema. See pages 76–79 for full film details.

Visit perthfestival.com.au for details.

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GOOD THINGS COME FROM WORKING TOGETHER Water Corporation are proud to be a 2017 PIAF Premier Partner We’re thrilled to be working with PIAF 2017 as a Premier Partner, to help bring exciting cultural family activities to the communities of WA. And we’re just as proud to be working with the communities of WA, to help keep our state waterwise.

For information, visit watercorporation.com.au/waterwisewa

Let us entertain you A proud sponsor of Lotterywest Festival Films, as part of the Perth International Arts Festival, ECU is also home to the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

Together, ECU and WAAPA, have brought over 300 public performances to life and many of their talented graduates are involved on-stage or backstage at the festival this year.

For more information on performing and creative arts at ECU, visit ecugetready.com.au or call 134 328.

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P E RT H T H E AT R E T R U S T Proudly partnering with Perth International Arts Festival

State The atre Ce ntre of WA. Photo by Eva Fe rnande z .

We play an important supporting role.

Cedar Woods proudly support the 2017 Perth International Arts Festival www.cedarwoods.com.au

ARTISTS. ART LOVERS. ART INFLUENCERS.

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Great Southern Development Commission Founding Partner of the Great Southern Festival, connecting regional WA with world-class Perth Festival events since 2003 Proud to support the 2017 Great Southern Festival

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RECOMMENDED RESTAURANTS PIAF EXCLUSIVE MENUS We’ve partnered with the best restaurants near our venues to give you a VIP experience.

Simply book a table before or after your performance at one of our participating restaurants and you will have access to a special á la carte menu priced between $35 and $55 per person.

AQUA BAR

Barrack Street Jetty Barrack Square PERTH WA 6000 08 9325 3700 aqua-bar.com.au

LITTLE WAY

161 Broadway NEDLANDS WA 6009 08 9386 3639 littleway.com.au

MUST WINEBAR

519 Beaufort Street HIGHGATE WA 6003 08 9328 8255 must.com.au

SAUMA

200 William Street NORTHBRIDGE WA 6003 08 9227 8682 sauma.com.au

These menus are designed to fit our performance schedule, and the restaurants will gladly advise a booking time to suit your chosen performance.

All menus are available to view and download at perthfestival.com.au

HALFORD

The State Buildings Cnr Hay Street & Cathedral Avenue PERTH WA 6000 08 9325 4006 halfordbar.com.au

LONG CHIM PERTH

The State Buildings Cnr St Georges Terrace & Barrack Street PERTH WA 6000 08 6168 7775 longchimperth.com

PETITION

The State Buildings Cnr St Georges Terrace & Barrack Street PERTH WA 6000 08 6168 7772 petitionperth.com

WILDFLOWER

The State Buildings Cnr St Georges Terrace & Barrack Street PERTH WA 6000 08 6168 7772 petitionperth.com

LALLA ROOKH

Lower Ground 77 St Georges Terrace PERTH WA 6000 08 9325 7077 lallarookh.com.au

LOT TWENTY

198-206 William Street PERTH WA 6000 08 6162 1195 lot20.co

POST

The State Buildings Cnr St Georges Terrace & Barrack Street PERTH WA 6000 08 6168 7822 postperth.com

THE FESTIVAL THANKS INNOVATOR Michael and Margrete Chaney The Clayton Family Eureka Legacy Warwick Hemsley & The Honourable Melissa Parke Joan Retallack and Peter Mallabone Fiona Stanley David Wallace and Jamelia Gubgub Anonymous Donors CREATOR Joanne Cruickshank Delys and Alan Newman Linda Savage and Stephen Davis Peter Smith and Alexandrea Thompson Gene Tilbrook DISCOVERER Katrina Chisholm Dane Etheridge and Brooke Fowles Gerie and Ole Hansen Megan Lowe Lynn Murray Rosemary Pratt Margaret and Roger Seares Bonney Tulloch Diana Warnock and the late Bill Warnock Kate and Richard Wilson Anonymous Donors EXPLORER Bernard and Jackie Barnwell Deborah Brady and Stephen Boyle Andrew Doyle Emma Fletcher The Goodlad Family Mary Ellen in memory of Kerensa Joss Gray and Tim Leaver Janet King Vincent and Fiona Lau Gaye and John McMath Nigel and Dr Heather Rogers Margaret Whitter Anonymous Donors

SOUTHERN LIGHTS DONORS David and Nan Anderson The Bowles Family The Dawes Family The Grist Family Paula and John Phillips Dot and Jon Price Peter Watson MLA Anonymous Donors MEDICI DONORS Neil Archibald and Alan Dodge AM Zelinda Bafile and Robert de la Motte Amanda Bahen and Graeme Wright John Barrington and Fiona Harris Robert Bayliss and Simon Dufall John and Linda Bond Michael and Elizabeth Carrick Mark Clapham and Dr Andrew Mulcahy Marco D’Orsogna and Terry Scott Megan Enders and Tony Dale Adrian and Michela Fini Paul and Susanne Finn Andrew and Mandy Friars Griffiths Architects David and Julanne Griffiths Terry Grose and Rosemary Sayer Mack and Evelyn Hall Sue and Peter Harley Dr Sandy and David Heldsinger Kathryn Hogan and Graham Droppert Jon and Tracey Horton Jim and Freda Irenic Gillian and Stewart Johnson Janet and Rob Kirkby Greg Lewis and Sue Robertson John and Elizabeth Mair Richard Matias and Martin Kavanagh The McClements Foundation Sandra and Malachy McCloskey

Ian McCubbing Ian and Jayne Middlemas Morris -Johnson Family Craig Merrey and Michael Murphy Dr Fred and Georgina Nagle Dr Walter Ong & Mr Graeme Marshall Zahra Peggs and Anthony Maguire Mark and Ingrid Puzey Véronique Ramén Joakim Ramén Sam and Dee Rogers Gary and Jacqueline Steinepreis Tim and Chris Ungar Jimmy and Karen Wilson Michael Wise and Kathryn Teale Brigid and Ronald Woss Melvin Yeo Anonymous Donors

LEGACY CIRCLE DONORS Anita Clayton Nigel and Dr Heather Rogers Anonymous Donors

AN INVESTMENT IN PIAF IS AN INVESTMENT IN WA ARTS

Image: Opus No. 7 cr. Natalia Cheban

FESTIVAL CIRCLE DONORS

SUPPORT YOUR FESTIVAL Through the generosity of our supporters, PIAF provides professional development programs for emerging artists and arts practitioners. Your support of PIAF allows our community to experience and be inspired by some of the world’s best performances.

Without your support, we simply could not achieve what we do. For more information go to perthfestival.com.au

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THE FESTIVAL THANKS FOUNDER

PRINCIPAL PARTNER

INTERNATIONAL EXCELLENCE PARTNER

CIVIC PARTNER

FAMILY AND EDUCATION PROGRAM PARTNER

FESTIVAL PARTNER

LEADERSHIP PARTNERS

STATE THEATRE CENTRE OF WA PROGRAM PARTNER

PREMIER PARTNERS

MAJOR DONORS

To support the Festival, please contact: Dana Henderson, Development Director on 08 6488 8677 | dhenderson@perthfestival.com.au

MAJOR PARTNERS

PUBLIC FUNDING PARTNERS

Department of Education Department of Culture and the Arts Tourism Western Australia GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

Major Festivals Initiative

SUPPORTING PARTNERS Advance Press Albany Chamber of Commerce & Industry Inc. Albany Entertainment Centre Arthouse Dine Bunn Wine Burch Family Wines Community Newspaper Group Green Man Media Productions H+H Architects King Living Kings Park and Botanic Garden

RECOMMENDED RESTAURANTS Lincolns BEYOND NUMB3RS Oranje Tractor Wines Paperbark Merchants Poacher’s Ridge RTRFM 92.1 Southern Ports Authority-Port of Albany Tanqueray The Backlot Perth The Rocks Albany Trevelen Farm – Great Southern Wine Western Australian Museum

Aqua Bar Halford Bar Lalla Rookh Little Way Long Chim Perth Lot Twenty

Must Winebar Petition Post Sauma Wildflower

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FESTIVAL STAFF EXECUTIVE

PIAF BOARD

Wendy Martin Artistic Director

John Barrington: Chair Tim Ungar Tania Chambers Mary Ellen King Adrian Fini Joss Gray (Until September 2016) Prof Philip Mead Grant Robinson Prof Kent Anderson

Philip Rolfe Executive Director

PROGRAMMING

Anna Reece Head of Programming Jessica Darlow Program Manager Hilary McKenna Program Administrator Tom Vincent Program Manager: Film Katherine Dorrington Program Manager: Perth Writers Festival Maria Alessandrino Program Coordinator: Perth Writers Festival Clara Iaccarino Program Associate: Contemporary Music Yarmila Alfonzetti Program Associate: Classical Music Felicity Fenner & Anne Loxley Program Associate: Visual Arts Rod Vervest Program Manager: Great Southern Emma Hewitt Education Manager Megan Roberts Associate Producer Sarah Rowbottam Creative Producer: Museum of Water Anjea Travers Program Coordinator: Contemporary Music

BOORNA WAANGINY Anna Kosky Project Manager

Steven Floyd Finance Director Sue Aston Finance Manager Greg Apps Accountant Beck Nouraei Finance Officer Jessica Blackwell HR and Support Services Manager Justin Cheek IT Coordinator and Systems Administrator Peter Liacopoulos Executive Assistant: Administration and Videographer

Paul Andrew

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL Shirene Varendorff: Chair Judy Reid: Executive Officer

Frank Cooper Philip Rolfe Wendy Martin

Amy Miller Program Coordinator CORPORATE SERVICES

PIAF BOARD INVITEES

MARKETING Brad Martin Marketing Director

DEVELOPMENT Dana Henderson Development Director

Michelle Goldblatt Marketing Manager

Jennifer Turner Development Manager

Lisa Wallace Marketing Coordinator

Dani Ryder Development Coordinator

Annie Loo Digital Marketing Coordinator

Shelley Farrell Events and Sponsorship Executive

Margot Strasburger Audience Development Coordinator Andi Lawson-Moore Publications Writer Sarah Pope Publications Editor Danielle Fernandes Signage Coordinator Sarah Hamilton Senior Graphic Designer Liz Currie Graphic Designer Jenny Hong Ticketing and CRM Administrator

Ellie Murray-Yong Executive Administrator

Stephanie Forrow Ticketing Assistant

Jessica Laing Naidine Rintel Travel Beyond Consultants

Ben Mathews Ticketing Assistant

Perth International Arts Festival M418, The University of Western Australia | 3 Crawley Avenue, Crawley WA, 6009 P +61 8 6488 2000 | perthfestival.com.au

COMMUNICATIONS Stephen Bevis Communications Manager

Adrienne Downes Communications Coordinator PRODUCTION Drew Dymond Technical Director Elliot Chambers Production Manager Fiona Smith Audience Services Manager Sinead Swords Front of House Manager ECU Joondalup Pines

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

4 State Theatre Centre of WA Cnr Roe and William St, Northbridge

8 His Majesty’s Theatre 825 Hay St, Perth

2 Perth Concert Hall 5 St Georges Tce, Perth

5 Art Gallery of WA Perth Cultural Centre

9 State Library of WA 25 Francis St, Perth

6 St George’s Cathedral 38 St Georges Tce, Perth

10 Moana Project Space 1st floor, 618 Hay St, Perth

3 Perth Institute of Contemporary

Art (PICA) Perth Cultural Centre, James St, Northbridge

7 Government House Ballroom Government House, St Georges Tce, Perth

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SUBIACO FESTIVAL VENUES SUBIACO 11 Regal Theatre 474 Hay St, Subiaco 12 Subiaco Arts Centre 180 Hamersley Rd, Subiaco

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OTHER FESTIVAL VENUES John Curtin Gallery Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley

13 Octagon Theatre

16 UWA Somerville

14 Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

17 Winthrop Hall

15 Perth Writers Festival

18 Dolphin Theatre

Precinct

ECU Joondalup Pines 270 Joondalup Dr, Joondalup ABC Studios 30 Fielder St, East Perth

Fremantle Arts Centre 1 Finnerty St, Fremantle

19 Sunken Garden

Kings Park Fraser Ave, Perth

Quarry Amphitheatre 1 Waldrow Dr, City Beach

SUNKEN GARDEN 19 LAWRENCE 14 WILSON ART GALLERY PARKING

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ACCESS PIAF is committed to making our events and performances accessible.

We encourage you to call or email us if you have any questions about accessibility or would like to discuss your requirements with us.

Please contact us on 08 6488 8616 or access@perthfestival.com.au and we will be happy to assist.

ACCESS GUIDE PIAF’s Access Guide is available now at perthfestival.com.au/access or by calling 08 6488 5555

ACCESS SYMBOLS Wheelchair accessible

Touch tour Touch tours are free but must be booked in advance

SURTITLED PERFORMANCES

BOOKING TICKETS

PIAF also presents performances in foreign languages that are surtitled, with the translation of dialogue displayed on a screen above or to the side of the stage.

To enable us to determine your requirements and assist you fully, accessible booking services are only available in person or by phone.

When booking tickets please inform staff of any access requirements to ensure suitable seating is allocated or equipment such as captioning devices are reserved.

BRAILLE PIAF can provide Braille programs for specific events on request.

Please order by Fri 13 Jan 2017.

COMPANION CARD PIAF supports the Companion Card program. For patrons who require the assistance of a companion or carer, a second ticket is issued at no cost to the Companion Card holder. Please contact PIAF directly on 08 6488 8616 to assist with your booking.

Perth Festival Info Centre: Access and Companion Card booking on 08 6488 8616

NATIONAL RELAY SERVICE

Ticketek: Access and Companion Card bookings on 1300 665 915

Audio description Closed captioning Assistive listening No music or dialogue

Fully surtitled or have minimal dialogue Some background music and/or sounds Partially surtitled or includes dialogue Background music and/or sounds

Please contact PIAF to book a captioned performance, Audio Described performance or Touch Tour by Fri 13 Jan 2017.

Please refer to the Booking Details page for Booking Conditions.

You can contact PIAF through

the National Relay Service TTY users phone 133 677 Speak and Listen user phone 1300 555 727 Or via relayservice.gov.au

FESTIVAL INFORMATION Did you know you can get Festival information in alternative formats?

This program is also available: • Online at perthfestival.com.au • Large print PDF, RTF and Word files of the program • Audio versions of every event page at perthfestival.com.au Please refer to the PIAF Access Guide for detailed information about performance venues.

Alternatively, email your accessible seating request to boxoffice@perthfestival.com.au.

Please ensure you include the Event Name, Venue, Date and Time along with your contact details and our Ticketing staff will call you to process the payment.

Perth Concert Hall 08 9231 9999 (events at Perth Concert Hall only) Ticketmaster: Access and Companion Card bookings on 1300 446 925 (Ballet at the Quarry and Perth Concert Hall only)

BOOKING DETAILS BOOKINGS OPEN

GROUPS AND SCHOOL BOOKINGS

GIFT CERTIFICATES

Friends of the Festival preferential booking period available from 6.30pm, Wed 2 Nov to 9am, Mon 7 Nov. General Public on sale 9am, Mon 7 Nov. PIAF Great Southern on sale 9am, Thur 10 Nov. Patrons may join the Friends of the Festival at any time online or by calling the Festival Info Centre on 08 6488 5555.

Buy 10+ tickets to any one Festival event and one ticket booker will go FREE. All ticket sales are subject to availability on Standard, A and B Reserve seats and apply to selected events only.

Gift certificates are available for purchase online at perthfestival.com.au or by calling the Festival Info Centre on 08 6488 5555.

Certificates can only be used to purchase tickets to events sold via the 2017 PIAF website and expire at the end of the Festival season on Mon 17 Apr 2017.

ONLINE perthfestival.com.au Standard and Friends of the Festival tickets are available.

BY TELEPHONE Bookings and Festival Information 08 6488 5555 Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm and Sat, 9am–1pm Additional hours during the Festival (10 Feb–5 March) Authorised Ticketing Agents: PIAF Info Centre: 08 6488 5555 Ticketek: 1300 795 012 Perth Concert Hall: 08 9231 9999 (events at Perth Concert Hall only) Ticketmaster: 136 100 (Ballet at the Quarry and Perth Concert Hall tickets only) OVER THE COUNTER PURCHASES Events held at the State Theatre Centre of WA, Regal Theatre, Subiaco Arts Centre, His Majesty’s Theatre and Albany Entertainment Centre can be purchased at any Ticketek outlet.

Film tickets at UWA Somerville and ECU Joondalup Pines can be purchased at the door prior to the start of the film, subject to availability.

Tickets to events at Perth Concert Hall can be purchased from the venue box office.

Tickets can also be purchased from the venue box office on day of the event prior to doors opening, subject to availability.

Ticketek Group Bookings: 1300 364 001 To receive information about the PIAF Schools Program, email schools@perthfestival.com.au or contact Festival Info Centre on 08 6488 5555.

OFFICIAL SALES CHANNELS Patrons are strongly advised to only purchase tickets directly through PIAF (website or Info Centre) or through the venue’s official ticketing provider in order to prevent ticket scalping and to guarantee entry into the event.

Please ensure you have read the terms and conditions on the back of your ticket.

PERFORMANCE LIMITATIONS All programs and artists are subject to change without notice. PIAF reserves the right to exclude latecomers at certain events or to admit only at a suitable point in the performance. Film screenings at UWA Somerville and ECU Joondalup Pines are subject to weather conditions.

Updates on any changes to the film schedule are broadcast at 4.30pm via the PIAF website and on Facebook/Twitter.

FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL Friends are entitled to discounts on two tickets for most Festival events and further tickets at full price. An unlimited number of discounted tickets to the Lotterywest Festival Films are available if purchased in advance through the Festival. A limit of two discounted tickets per membership is available for purchase at the door on the night (per screening) at UWA Somerville or ECU Joondalup Pines. Discounted film packs are available for purchase. Prices are subject to change without notice. All special offers are subject to availability.

BOOKING CONDITIONS Fees and Charges: Tickets to Festival events may be sold through a variety of ticketing agents, each with differing booking fees and ticket processing charges. Where tickets are booked by telephone, mail or online a transaction fee from $6.95 to $10.30 will apply.

For Ticketek Groups a service/delivery fee of $9.95 per transaction applies.

For Ticketmaster a handling fee applies to all bookings. If you choose to purchase tickets at Festival venues, transaction fees for events in that venue will not apply.

All telephone and online bookings can be made by credit card at an additional charge of up to 1.75% of the total purchase price.

If you choose to have your tickets delivered

by Registered Post (recommended for general admission events) additional fees will apply. Fees are non-refundable.

Lost or stolen tickets purchased for events that have unreserved or general admission seating will not be replaced.

Tickets with a seat allocation can be replaced. You will incur a fee for the replacement or any lost ticket.

Fees vary across ticketing agencies.

Tickets shall not be refunded or exchanged except as provided in the LPA Code of Practice.

CONCESSIONS Concessions apply to Full-time students, Student Rush, Pensioners, Seniors and Unemployed as advertised.

When booking, a concession number must be provided and identification shown at the door.

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FRI 10 FEB Various Venues

Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak Kings Park, 8–10.30pm, p4

SAT 11 FEB Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak Kings Park, 8–10.30pm, p4

SUN 12 FEB

MON 13 FEB

TUE 14 FEB

WED 15 FEB

Boorna Waanginy: The Trees Speak Kings Park, 8–10.30pm, p4 Ecology into Art 5.30pm, p65

Fraser’s at Kings Park His Majesty’s Theatre

The Dark Mirror Zender’s Winterreise 7.30pm, p10

The Dark Mirror Zender’s Winterreise 7.30pm, p10

Heath Ledger Theatre, State Theatre Centre of WA

Exit/Exist 7.30pm, p29

Exit/Exist 7.30pm, p29

Exit/Exist 7.30pm, p29

Upstairs, State Theatre Centre of WA

Small Voices Louder 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm & 5.30pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm. 1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm. 1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35

The Gabriels 1.30pm, p12

The Gabriels 1.30pm, p12

The Gabriels 1.30pm, p12

Skye & Ross 8pm, p50

Archie Roach 8pm, p51

Perth Concert Hall ABC Studios

The Year I Was Born 7.30pm, p21

Regal Theatre Government House Ballroom St George’s Cathedral Subiaco Arts Centre Winthrop Hall Winthrop Hall Winthrop Hall Winthrop Hall gardens

Omar Sosa Quarteto AfroCubano 8pm, p51

Chevron Festival Gardens

Lady Leshurr + Ngaiire 8pm, p50

Blackalicious 8pm, p50

Quarry Amphitheatre

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

Ballet at the Quarry Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31 8pm, p31

Helen Britton–Interstices p69

Helen Britton–Interstices p69

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre PICA, Perth Cultural Centre Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Fremantle Oval

Soft Soft Loud 8pm, p46

Fremantle Arts Centre, courtyard

SPAN p70

Fremantle Arts Centre John Curtin Gallery

John Akomfrah p68

John Akomfrah p68 Joan Ross–The Art of Trying to Control Flowers p70

Moana Project Space

Lotterywest Festival Films p74

UWA Somerville ECU Joondalup Pines

Lotterywest Festival Films p74

Lotterywest Festival Films p74

Great Southern

PIAF Great Southern p82

PIAF Great Southern p82

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THUR 16 FEB

The Encounter 8pm, p16

FRI 17 FEB

SAT 18 FEB

SUN 19 FEB

MON 20 FEB

TUE 21 FEB

Museum of Water Leighton Beach, 8–11am & 4–7pm, p7

Museum of Water Leighton Beach, 8–11am & 4–7pm, p7

Museum of Water CBD, 11am–6pm, p7

The Encounter 8pm, p16

The Encounter 2 & 8pm, p16

The Encounter 5pm, p16

The Encounter 8pm, p16

Flit 8pm, p24

Flit 8pm, p24

Eighth Blackbird 7.30pm, p45 Opus No. 7 7.30pm, p14

The Year I Was Born 7.30pm, p21

The Year I Was Born 7.30pm, p21

The Year I Was Born 7.30pm, p21

Small Voices Louder 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm & 5.30pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm & 5.30pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm.

1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm.

1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35

A O Lang Pho 7pm, p8

A O Lang Pho 7pm, p8

A O Lang Pho 2 & 7pm, p8

A O Lang Pho 1 & 5pm, p8

7.30pm, p10

A O Lang Pho 7pm, p8

Brodsky & Calder Quartets 7pm, p39 Vuyani Ensemble 8pm, p47 The Gabriels 1.30pm, p12

The Gabriels 1.30pm, p12 ASQ & Arcadia Winds 12.30pm, p44

ASQ & Arcadia Winds 12.30pm, p44

Calder Quartet 6pm, p42

Calder Quartet 5pm, p42

Calder Quartet 5pm, p42

Brodsky Quartet 8.30pm, p40

Brodsky Quartet 2.30 & 7.30pm, p40

Brodsky Quartet 2.30 & 7.30pm, p40

Chamber Music Series Free Events, p38

Chamber Music Series Free Events, p38

Making Music Together 4pm, p65

Explosions in the Sky 8pm, p51

Kishi Bashi + Teeth & Tongue 8pm, p53

El Guincho + Skinnyfish Sound System 8pm, p53

Warpaint 8pm, p53

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31 Jacobus Capone–Forgiving Night for Day p71

Jacobus Capone– Forgiving Night for Day p71 Lynnette Wallworth– Collisions p73 Helen Britton–Interstices p69

Helen Britton–Interstices p69 Before the Siren 6pm, p36

SPAN p70 John Akomfrah p68

John Akomfrah p68 Joan Ross–The Art of Trying to Control Flowers p70 Lotterywest Festival Films p74 Lotterywest Festival Films p74

Lotterywest Festival Films p74 PIAF Great Southern p82

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WED 22 FEB

THUR 23 FEB

Perth CBD and Various Venues

Museum of Water CBD, 11am–6pm, p7

Museum of Water CBD, 11am–6pm, p7

His Majesty’s Theatre

The Encounter 2 & 8pm, p16

The Encounter 8pm, p16

ABC Studios

Opus No. 7 7.30pm, p14

FRI 24 FEB

Betroffenheit 7.30pm, p26

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

Small Voices Louder 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm & 5.30pm, p35

Upstairs, State Theatre Centre of WA

SAT 25 FEB

SUN 26 FEB

MON 27 FEB

Museum of Water Museum of Water Reflection Pond, UWA Reflection Pond, UWA 11am–6pm, p7 11am–6pm, p7 The Encounter 8pm, p16

The Encounter 8pm, p16

Opus No. 7 7.30pm, p14

Opus No. 7 7.30pm, p14

Opus No. 7 7.30pm, p14

Betroffenheit 7.30pm, p26

Betroffenheit 7.30pm, p26

Betroffenheit 5pm, p26

An Evening with an Immigrant 8pm, p33

An Evening with an Immigrant 8pm, p33

Small Voices Louder 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm & 5.30pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm. 1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35

Courtyard Sessions 5pm, p61

Courtyard Sessions 6pm, p61

A O Lang Pho 7pm, p8

A O Lang Pho 2 & 7pm, p8

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm. 1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35

State Theatre Centre of WA Courtyard, State Theatre Centre of WA Secret Location, Streets of Perth Regal Theatre

A O Lang Pho 7pm, p8

A O Lang Pho 7pm, p8

Octagon Theatre

Ben Rawlence 7pm, p60

Marwa Al-Sabouni 7pm, p60

Perth Writers Festival Precinct, UWA

Perth Writers Festival p59

Perth Writers Festival Family Day p62

Reflections on Grief Pondering Our Most 1pm, p65 Precious Liquid 2.30pm, p65

Perth Writers Festival Precinct, UWA State Library Theatre, State Library of WA

Tracking Country 7.30pm, p80

Tracking Country 7.30pm, p80

Tracking Country 4.30 & 7.30pm, p80

Tracking Country 4.30, 7.30 & 9pm, p80 Evan Sherman Big Band 8pm, p55

Chevron Festival Gardens

Big Thief + Katy Steele 8pm, p54

Jambinai + Gold Class 8pm, p54

Aristophanes + L-Fresh the Lion 8pm, 54

Evan Sherman Big Band 8pm, p55

Quarry Amphitheatre

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

Ballet at the Quarry 8pm, p31

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre

Jacobus Capone–Forgiving Night for Day p71

PICA, Perth Cultural Centre

Lynnette Wallworth–Collisions p73

Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Helen Britton–Interstices p69 SPAN p70

Fremantle Arts Centre John Curtin Gallery

John Akomfrah p68

John Akomfrah p68

Secret Location

Everybody has a History Part 1: Plain Speak p72

Art Gallery of WA

Joan Ross–The Art of Trying to Control Flowers p70

Moana Project Space UWA Somerville

Lotterywest Festival Films p74

ECU Joondalup Pines

Lotterywest Festival Films p74 PIAF Great Southern p82

Great Southern

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DANCE

THEATRE

MUSIC

PERTH WRITERS FESTIVAL

VISUAL ARTS

TUE 28 FEB

WED 1 MAR

MEETING 7pm, p28

THUR 2 MAR

FRI 3 MAR

SAT 4 MAR

Lady Eats Apple 8pm, p22

Lady Eats Apple 3 & 8pm, p22

Lady Eats Apple 3 & 8pm, p22

MEETING 2 & 7pm, p28

MEETING 7pm, p28

MEETING 2 & 7pm, p28

Small Voices Louder 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm & 5.30pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10.45am, 11.30am, 3pm, 3.45pm, 4.45pm & 5.30pm, p35

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm.

1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35

SUN 5 MAR

Lady Eats Apple 3 & 8pm, p22

Small Voices Louder 10am, 10.45am, 12.30pm.

1.15pm, 2.15pm & 3pm, p35 Celebrating Other Voices 4.30pm, p65

James Vincent McMorrow 8pm, p56

Kurt Vile 8pm, p56

Margaret Glaspy + Frankie Cosmos 8pm, p56

The Midnight Run 6pm, p33

The Midnight Run 6pm, p33

The Manganiyar Classroom 7pm, p37

The Manganiyar Classroom 7pm, p37

Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats 8pm, p57

La Mambanegra 8pm, p57

Toro Y Moi 8pm, p57

Jacobus Capone–Forgiving Night for Day p71 Lynnette Wallworth–Collisions p73 Helen Britton–Interstices p69 SPAN p70 John Akomfrah p68

John Akomfrah p68 Robyn Stacey–Magic Mirror p72 Everybody has a History Part 1: Plain Speak p72

Joan Ross–The Art of Trying to Control Flowers p70 Lotterywest Festival Films p74 Lotterywest Festival Films p74

Lotterywest Festival Films p74 PIAF Great Southern p82

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