Perth Festival 2023 Writers Weekend

Fri 24 Feb 2023 — Sun 26 Feb 2023  |  Front Garden Special Event
Special Event

FAC Yeah! Fremantle Arts Centre Community Choir

Wed 01 Mar 2023  |  7:00pm — 8:30pm  |  Inner Courtyard

If you need a midweek feel-good boost, look no further than FAC Yeah! Fremantle Arts Centre’s popular new choir is a wholesome high point in the week. Singing with a group of like-minded friends, new and old, makes you feel great. Led by local music sensation Natalie Gillespie, FAC Yeah! is a fun drop-in group where you can fill your lungs, and your heart, and have a ball singing.
Music

Emily Lubitz

Fri 03 Mar 2023  |  6:00pm — 10:00pm  |  Fremantle Arts Centre Front Garden

Music

Sunday Music: Nannup Festival presents Krui3ers + Nelson Oreeri

Sun 05 Mar 2023  |  2:00pm — 4:00pm  |  Front Garden

This special edition of Sunday Music is presented in association with Nannup Festival, and features celebrated Indigenous musical acts The Krui3ers and Nelson O'Reeri. The Krui3ers are an original four-piece rock band from the Mowanjum Community in the Kimberley with a high energy country rock style combining melodic chorus lines and distinctive guitar riffs. A proud Ngarinyin Man, Nelson O'Reeri's songs are about his connection to Country, spirituality, language, law and culture.

Talks

Curator Tour: Other Horizons

Thu 09 Mar 2023  |  11:00am — 12:00pm  |  Meet in the Inner Courtyard

Join FAC Curator Glenn Iseger-Pilkington for a tour of the three exhibitions that comprise Other Horizons, presented in association with Perth Festival.


Music

Sunday Music: Big Orange + The Mackerels

Sun 12 Mar 2023  |  2:00pm — 4:00pm  |  Front Garden

The brainchild of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Daniel Davis, Big Orange evolves into a full band onstage, with Davis’ vocals, piano and guitar work complemented by life-long friends David Jago on bass, Emma Adams on synths and percussion, Jamie Gallacher on drums and Brother Chris Davis on guitar. They are joined on the bill by The Mackerels, a talented group of muso-friends, whose jangly indie-pop sounds and authentic storytelling reels you in from the first line.

Special Event

Other Horizons: Tactile Tour

Mon 13 Mar 2023  |  10:15am — 12:15pm  |  FAC Galleries

A Tactile Tour group Co-designed with DADAA for people living with disability, their friends and carers.
Talks

Disclosure: Ask the Sea | Jasmine Togo-Brisby in conversation with Sisonke Msimang

Tue 14 Mar 2023  |  6:00pm — 8:30pm  |  Fremantle Art Centre Inner Courtyard

In this edition of Disclosure for Other Horizons exhibiting artist Jasmine Togo Brisby (Te Whanganui-a-Tara / Wellington ) joins writer, activist and Curator of Ideas for the Perth Festival, Sisonke Msimang (Western Australia / South Africa) in a captivating dialogue which charts identity, the body politic, migration and belonging in what we call Australia.
Special Event

FAC Yeah! Fremantle Arts Centre Community Choir

Wed 15 Mar 2023  |  7:00pm — 8:30pm  |  Inner Courtyard

If you need a midweek feel-good boost, look no further than FAC Yeah! Fremantle Arts Centre’s popular new choir is a wholesome high point in the week. Singing with a group of like-minded friends, new and old, makes you feel great. Led by local music sensation Natalie Gillespie, FAC Yeah! is a fun drop-in group where you can fill your lungs, and your heart, and have a ball singing.