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Immersive, dark and sometimes hopeful, Fremantle Arts Centre will be transformed into a dystopic doomsday den for the exhibition Preppers, opening Friday 15 November. With global protests, diplomatic unrest and natural disasters reported daily, it seems now more than ever that the plight of humanity is at the forefront of many people’s minds.

Get lost in an endless wormhole, board a spaceship of desire, take in sweeping space landscapes and experience a monumental echo at Fremantle Arts Centre when the exhibition Other Suns: Cult Sci-fi Cinema and Art opens on Friday 26 July. In partnership with Revelation Perth International Film Festival, Other Suns features a line-up of 20 local, national and international artists.

Renowned Australian artist James Angus will present his very first papier mâché sculptures in the upcoming exhibition Papier Mâché for Beginners. Opening 6:30pm Friday 7 June at Fremantle Art Centre, this is Angus’ first solo show in WA in over a decade and will debut 12 never before seen works.

Don’t miss the opportunity to view a collection of recently unearthed artworks by one of Fremantle’s most fascinating and unheralded maritime figures, 19th Century Harbour Master, Captain George A.D. Forsyth. Opening 6:30pm Friday 7 June at Fremantle Arts Centre, Pilot Painter unveils 14 rarely-seen paintings and drawings created between 1870 and 1893, offering a glimpse of Fremantle Port and Rottnest as they were in the late-1800s.

Revealed, the biggest and best annual event for sharing, supporting and experiencing new Aboriginal art from Western Australia returns to Fremantle Arts Centre from Friday 12 April. Across a program of public talks, art market and exhibition, Revealed explores the rich and diverse creative practices of Aboriginal artists from across the state.

Analogue, digital, acoustic and synthetic sounds are transformed into a spiritual soundscape as vocalist and composer Hanna Benn (US) and percussionist, composer and producer Deantoni Parks (US) come together to perform the Australian premiere of Procession at Fremantle Arts Centre. Presented as part of Perth Festival, this one-night-only event will see FAC’s Inner Courtyard radiate as the celestial song cycle evolves over the course of the evening. Benn and Parks will be joined onstage by a chamber ensemble of Australia’s finest players.

For the first time Fremantle Arts Centre is putting kids front and centre with Animaze: Amazing Animals for Kids, a fun and accessible exhibition specifically for kids. Opening Saturday 17 November and running through the summer holidays, this free exhibition will immerse 5–12 year olds into the world of art and animals.

Fremantle-based artist Dan McCabe has been selected as the WA participant in the 2018 FAC-Art Ichol Artist in Residence Exchange Program. He will travel to India for a month long residency at the esteemed multi-arts organisation Art Ichol in September.

Almost 25 years ago, Fremantle Arts Centre presented the ground breaking exhibition Bush Women: Fresh Art from Remote WA, the first showcase of works by WA Aboriginal artists from the Kimberley region and the Ngaanyatjarra Lands of the Western Desert. Now Bush Women: 25 Years On reassembles the works of Paji Honeychild Yankkarr, Daisy Andrews, Queenie McKenzie (Gara-Gara), Tjapartji Kanytjuri Bates, Tjingapa Davies and Pantjiti Mary McLean a quarter of a century later.

In Fremantle Arts Centre’s exhibition I WAS HERE the world is flipped upside down, long held beliefs are disproved and fact replaces fiction as seven artists grapple with what’s real, imagined or forgotten over time. Comprising photographic and sculptural works, I WAS HERE is a fascinating commentary on history itself and our relationship to the past.