Art Karavan

Western Australia 20–28 Nov State Library of Western Australia / Northbridge Piazza

In 2010, Perth filmmaker Mat de Koning traveled to Kashmir, northwest India to participate in the Art Karavan project. Art Karavan gathers artists from all art forms to undertake experimental collaborations in various destinations across India, creating exciting and diverse works, sharing skills and cultural learnings. Mat’s film also entitled, Art Karavan is a welcome inclusion in the AWESOME Festival program as an amazing example of what can be achieved with passion, energy and few resources.
Whilst geographically beautiful, Kashmir is a territory under border dispute – where machine guns are a familiar sight on city streets and bombs in the distant hills create an eerie soundtrack to daily life. Mat has created a film for the 2010 AWESOME Festival that captures a range of artists performing and the reactions of the local people. “I was compelled to turn the camera away from the artists and capture the influence they had on the local people. Young people were mimicking the dance moves they were seeing in their streets and I realised our presence was having an impact”. [more]

Levity III

United Kingdom 20–28 Nov Forrest Place

Prepare to be amazed as you lose yourself in coloured bliss! Levity III is an inflatable ‘luminarium’ designed by Alan Parkinson, consisting of labyrinthine tunnels and soaring domes. A walk-through sculpture inspired by natural geometry, this architectural marvel is a chill-out zone of the most unusual kind. [more]

Untrained

Australia 25–27 Nov PICA

Untrained is a humorous theatrical exploration that offers its performers and its audience a very different dance experience.

Four men take to the stage. Two of these men are highly skilled, professional dancers and two are ordinary guys with no movement training whatsoever… [more]

Crocosmia

United Kingdom 20–27 Nov Blue Room Theatre

In a family that is shrinking and a world that is growing bigger, three precocious children attempt to carve out a unique space for themselves and the memory of their parents.

Crocosmia is an explosion of fast-paced, visual storytelling following… [more]

Big Picture, Small People

Various international artists 20–27 Nov State Library of Western Australia / Northbridge Piazza

In 2010, AWESOME has teamed up with the Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival to bring you the latest and greatest films and animations for young people from all over the world.

The selection is beautiful, funny, thought provoking a [more]

Track

Netherlands 20–28 Nov Perth Cultural Centre

Track is the third in a series of short films created right in front of your eyes in real time [more]

Suitcase

Australia 22–28 Nov The Bosco Theatre Tent, Perth Cultural Centre

Delve into the world of a paper clad homeless family. A mother, father and a cheeky puppet child travel from place to place, shoe-shining their way into the hearts of the audience. A light-hearted and touching show about poverty, Suitcase blends beautifully animated puppetry and compelling storytelling to follow the family’s life, living out of one suitcase and communicating by drawing pictures in rice. [more]

Dream it! Make it! Play it!

Queensland, Australia 20–25 Nov The Bosco Theatre Tent, Perth Cultural Centre

Dream it! Make it! Play it! playfully looks at how wind instruments work and can be invented using unexpected materials. Watch in awe as Linsey creates wacky instruments by turning rubber-gloves into bagpipes and turning carrots into clarinets.

Live sound looping is used to build funky tunes by recording different layers of sound, featuring clarinets made from irrigation pipe, feather dusters and watering cans… [more]

HOME GROUND Installation

Western Australia 20–28 Nov one40william centre

HOME GROUND is a showcase of Western Australia’s young people and their home-inspired creations. Throughout 2010, AWESOME’s Creative Challenge program visited eleven regional and remote communities asking the young people to explore the idea of ‘home’, ‘shelters’ and ‘dwellings’. The outcomes were diverse and wonderful, with each residency artist approaching the theme differently bringing their unique skills and technologies to the young people. The ideas of ‘home’ have been explored through film, sound recordings, photographs, performances and visual artworks. Each artwork offers experiences particular to each regional community and highlights the unique cultural and environmental landscape of WA. [more]

Absence of Light

Western Australia 20–28 Nov The Blue Room

Absence of light examines hidden things in dark places… Mysterious objects are placed in sealed containers patiently awaiting discovery.

Curious bits and pieces inside the containers are revealed when you gently shake rock, and roll the contents of the containers… [more]

The library of nearly lost moments

Western Australia 20–28 Nov State Library of Western Australia

Ever kept a concert ticket, a birthday card or bus pass? They’re only meant to last a day, but when kept, they create a memory.

The Library of Nearly Lost Moments is a collection of ephemeral items that reveal inside stories not recorded in history… [more]

HOME GROUND Faces

Western Australia 20–28 Nov Western Australian Museum Foyer

This photographic exhibition showcases the creative kids behind HOME GROUND, giving you a taste of what its like to live in regional and remote Western Australia. The photographs in this exhibition were taken during the creative journey through eleven communities. [more]

Cup-Rock Perth!

Western Australia 20–28 Nov Perth Cultural Centre

Ever thought a boring wire fence could be transformed into a wondrous work of art? Cup-rocking is a new(ish) street art form in which colourful plastic cups are placed into wire-mesh fences to create urban murals.

The designs created can be as simple as writing words with plain white cups or more complex, creating patterns and characters out of painted cups… [more]

City Creatures

Western Australia 19–28 Oct

During the City of Perth’s October School Holiday Program, Western Australian artists Minaxi May, Michael Wise and Louise Snook worked with young people to create a collection of fantastical ‘city creatures’ from papier-mâché, fabric, stencils and cane. [more]

AWESOME Workshops

20–28 Oct

All workshops are $15 per person. Bookings are essential- Contact AWESOME on 9328 9666

Schools
An extensive workshops program specifically for schools is available during the week Monday 22 – Friday 26 November. If you would like your school… [more]