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PRESS RELEASE Light up your senses, reconnect with Country and rediscover nature over one weekend of celebration with EverNow. This spectacular new festival is set to inspire locals and visitors dur…
PRESS RELEASE The stunning original soundtrack of Perth Festival’s 2023 special opening spectacle Djoondal is now available on all streaming platforms. The six-track collection of brand-new Noongar…
On the 6th of October 2022, Perth Festival announced that its 18-year association with fossil fuel company Chevron was coming to an end after the 2023 season. Chevron stood as a long-term partner for…
The Curb is proudly part of the Auscast Network. Subscribe via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Direct download of this episode is available via this link. The Blue…
PRESS RELEASE High Voltage, the free homegrown community celebration of music and the spirit of WA rock legend Bon Scott, is set to be the ultimate Sunday afternoon out in the streets of Fremantle.…
The purpose and power of words is explored to pitch perfect comedic effect in Cyrano, Virginia Gay’s gender-flipped reimagining of the story of Cyrano de Bergerac. Produced by the Melbourne Theatre Co…
Lukas Dhont’s second feature Close has been shortlisted as a Best International Film competitor at the 2023 Academy Awards. It was also in competition for the Palme d’Or at Cannes. It is a vast improv…
As I walked into His Majesty's Theatre to see the Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, I was presented with an anomaly. The grand red curtain that ushers in the ‘theatre experience’ was nowhere…
The symbiotic relationship between one man and the Tasmanian landscape is tenderly explored in Rachel Antony and Laurence Billiet’s expansive documentary The Giants. It’s a title that carries a dual m…
There’s an instant familiarity with Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda’s South Korean drama Broker that creates a supremely comfortable affair. Broker sees Kore-eda working with regular themes that…
Jeanne (Blanche Gardin) is having a very bad year. Her pivotal marine-cleaning invention is an instant-disaster, failing at launch and sinking to the bottom of the ocean. Jeanne turns into a social me…
Cambodian-French filmmaker Davy Chou continues to pull at the thematic thread of familial reconnection that he started picking at in Diamond Island in his latest film Return to Seoul. Where Diamond Is…