Category: Perth+WA

January 15, 2011

Featuring work by a variety of international and Australian artists across a range of mediums, Sentience: an exhibition of life is a thought-provoking and ultimately rewarding display of art exploring the feeling, perception and individuality of animals other than humans. Sentience is an initiative of Animal Rights Advocates Inc. The launch will be held on Saturday 15th Jan, 6pm at Kurb Gallery (310 William Street, Perth).

Big Help Mob is a 100-strong rent-a-crowd of ordinary young guns like you. We get together to do superhuman acts of awesomeness for non-profits and communities in Perth.

One day it’s planting 10 000 trees in a few hours, the next it’s renovating a community centre or cleaning up a place that’s been forgotten and trashed. Nothing is too big for Big Help Mob and we’re not afraid to get our hands dirty… all 200 of them. Once the hands-on mission is accomplished with near-lightning speed, we celebrate with enormous, ridiculous flash mobs in public, using our superpowers to draw attention to good causes that need it.

Indigenous Art Shop Gallery and Community Contributer, promoting ‘change’ through art. Providing resources for Indigenous Elders and Youth, educating and sharing in workshop programs. Through art and stories, healing and enrichment can occur. Location: Shop 4/21 Dance Dve, Middle Swan, Perth.

Charles Landry helps cities transform their thinking so that they look at their potential imaginatively and can plan and act with originality. In 2007 he was part of the ‘Creative Capital Thinker in Residence’ programme in Perth. He produced a rather provocative document, which may be useful for those wishing to assess how a city’s psychology can be shifted in order to maximize its opportunities. Click here to access a copy of the document.

October 20, 2010 to October 29, 2010

David Suzuki, internationally renowned scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster will be touring Australia to promote his new book, The Legacy. A distillation of the wisdom and experience of David Suzuki’s long and passionate love affair with Planet Earth and his legacy for generations to come. Click here for a full list of David’s public appearances.

January 15, 2011 to January 21, 2011

Artists of all persuasions are invited to submit works that express the sentience of animals (their ability to perceive and feel) to be included in ARA‘s inaugural art exhibition, sentience: an exhibition of life.
Artwork will be displayed at the Kurb Gallery at 310 William Street in Perth, Western Australia from 15-21 January 2011.