Your Arts Playground Seesaw Magazine

Meri Fatin hosts a compelling debate between Professor Peter Newman, Dr Renee Newman and Oron Catts about whether the arts can dream the world we need.

Meri Fatin is joined by specialists in the fields of the arts and mental health to discuss the mental health crisis for artists.

How can the relationship between tourism and the arts be strengthened now and into the future? Meri Fatin talks with Di Bain, Mark Howett and Helen Curtis about exciting new directions unfolding for the arts and tourism sectors.

It’s a bumper show this month as we dive into the summer festival season!In the final episode of Your Arts Playground for 2021, we’ve chosen a few highlights from December before plunging into our top picks from Fringe World, Summer Nights and Perth Festival!This is the last episode of Season 1 of Your Arts Playground but stay tuned for our bonus interviews with movers and shakers from the arts world… and we’ll be back with Season 2 before you know it, ETA mid 2022.Notes are listed in chronological order, as mentioned in the episode.
DecemberCarols by Candlelight with the GIovanni Consort @ St Andrew’s Subiaco, 10 December 2021
A Ceremony Carols: Britten & Gardiner @ St George’s Cathedral, 2 December 2021
‘Limen – At the Fence’ @ the State Library of WA until 31 January 2022
Fringe World 14 January – 13 February 2021State of Play @ the State Theatre Centre of WA, 14-29 January 2022
Impro Musical Bangtown, 20-25 January 2022Jamie Mykaela: Devil’s Advocate, 14-19 January 2022.Review of Jamie Mykaela: Daddy (2021)The Dirty Mother by Michelle Hall, 27-29 January 2022Review of development of The Dirty Mother at Winter Nights (2019)
You Are, OFF-Base Dance 14-16 January 2022
HereNow22: Outside In, @ Spectrum Project Space, 2-11 February 2022
Down Rebound by Acrobatch (Simon Wood and Ben Kotovski Smith) @ The Gold Digger at Girls School, 21-27 January 2022
A Simple Space – Gravity and Other Myths @ The Aurora Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, 28 January – 13 February 2022
Review of 2018 performance of A Simple Space
A Bee Story by Cluster Arts Pty Ltd @ Lotterywest De Parel Spiegeltent at The Pleasure Garden, 15-28 January 2022
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On the eve of the reopening of the Art Gallery of WA, Director Colin Walker gives us a peek behind the scenes: what to expect, why there were delays and how the new-look gallery has put WA artists front and centre.
The transformation of the Art Gallery of WA includes over 100 new commissions plus a $10 million new rooftop bar area with an interior gallery, an outdoor sculpture walk, and a 34 metre contemporary Aboriginal art piece. Colin Walker talks us through what to expect as the Gallery reopens, and how the vision to make the building more welcoming has gone deeper than just bricks and mortar.

The Honourable Kim Beazley AC, Governor of Western Australia, is a relatively recent convert to the arts. He chats with Rosalind Appleby about his advocacy work, his “crazy blokes” icon collection, and why a vibrant arts culture is the heart of a healthy democracy.