Your Week: The best events happening this week in Perth

WA Day Festival

Saturday, November 22 and Sunday, November 23, 10am-9pm, Burswood Park, Burswood

Celebrate wonderful WA with this free festival that shows off some of the many things our great State has to offer. From BMX stunts to the RAC Rescue experience to performances by the Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company, there is a huge range of entertainment. The highlight is the free concerts on both days. On Saturday, Ullah, Boox Kid, Smol Fish, Orchxtra, Voyager, South Summit and Drapht, take to the stage. On Sunday, Dolce Blue, Mariae Cassandra, Flewnt, Orchxtra, Little Birdy and Jebediah perform.

Free

Doja Cat Ma Vie World Tour

Saturday November 22, 8pm, RAC Arena, Perth

Global superstar Doja Cat is doing her first Australian arena tour, hot on the back of her new single, Jealous Type. She is known for the mega hits Attention, Paint The Town Red, and Agora Hills. Expect to be up and dancing.

Tickets $136.25 to $849.05

Carol

Saturday November 22-December 14, State Theatre Centre of WA, Perth

Carol loves Christmas. Born on December 25, each year she goes all out with festive cheer. That is, until this year when life has thrown her a curve ball and she finds herself living in her car. This funny and heartbreaking new work is from the pen of local playwright Andrea Gibbs, and stars Sally-Anne Upton.

Tickets $35 to $119 from artsculturetrust.wa.gov.au

Lucky Oceans and Louis Rebeiro and Jack Carroll Band

Saturday November 22, 4.30pm-7pm, Atwell House and Gallery Lawn, Alfred Cove

Pack a picnic or grab dinner from one of the onsite food trucks and settle in for a great night of music. Expect an evening of soulful blues and rock‘n’roll featuring Grammy Award-winning slide guitar virtuoso Lucky Oceans, blues storyteller Louis Rebeiro, and the high-energy Jack Carroll Band. Part of the city of Melville summer concert series.

Free

Stop Making Sense Dance Party

Sunday November 23, 8.30pm, Luna Cinema, Leederville

What’s the greatest concert movie of all time? There is only one correct answer, and it is 1984’s Stop Making Sense with Talking Heads. Watch the film and dance the night away at this fun screening of the film which doubles as a dance party. This is the fourth time this event has been held in Perth, and it always promises a good time.

Tickets $25 from movietkts.com.au

Mates: The Musical

Thursday, November 27 to Saturday, December 13, 7.30pm, Old Mill Theatre, South Perth

Local musician and composer Rod Christian has turned the story of his parents’ wartime experiences into a musical. Set in Perth, Syria, and the Kokoda Track, it features 19 original songs and a local cast.

Tickets $39 to $44 from Trybooking

Franz Ferdinand

Wednesday, November 26, 6.45pm, ICF: Warehouse, Northbridge

The band that gave us dance floor fillers like This Fire, Take Me Out and Do You Want To land in Perth promising a night of slick rock’n’roll. They are supported by Teenage Dads and Delivery.

Tickets $109.90 from tickets.axs.com.au