Your Week: Strange Festival, Evolution, 24 Hour Play Generator and Mismatched

Strange Festival

Friday to Sunday June 26, 4-10pm, various venues throughout Perth City

Perth’s newest arts festival celebrates the misfits and misunderstood, while encouraging an exploration of the City’s unique and unused spaces.

With more than 20 spaces throughout the city hosting 35 artists from around the country, works will include paintings, sculpture, projections, video and performance art.

Taking place over 10 days, it will culminate in the ceremonial burning of Cor Novis – The Feast, a large-scale sculpture collaboration with artist Hana Priest, in Forrest Place on the final day of the program.

An invitation to spark your curiosity about the weird and wonderful, Strange allows audiences to explore the forgotten places of Perth through unique and wildly strange experiences.

For more information and the full list of artworks, go to strangefestival.com.au/art/

Evolution: Torres Strait Masks

Now until Sunday August 21, WA Maritime Museum, Victoria Quay Road, Fremantle

Experience a special insight into the role of masks in Torres Strait Islander culture, the reaction of the early maritime explorers to this cultural practice, and the rituals that brought these amazing masks to life in this exhibition.

Taking visitors on a journey from time immemorial when masks were used in ceremonial rituals throughout the 274 islands that spread across some 48,000sqkm, there are 12 striking masks, objects and other related cultural materials on show here which celebrate the rich history of mask-making in the region.

For more information go to visit.museum.wa.gov.au/maritime/evolution

24Hour Play Generator

Saturday June 18, 7.30pm, Subiaco Arts Centre, Main Auditorium

For the sixth year running, WA Youth Theatre Company takes participants to their creative edge across two days, with emerging writers working for 12 hours straight to create fresh-out-of-the-oven 10-minute plays.

The next day, six will be handed to directors, who will work intensively with WAYTCo-member casts for the next 12 hours to bring the works to life.

That night they will all premiere in front of an audience, who should snap up tickets now to see WA’s best emerging artists at work and how they have managed to pull off these productions in just one day.

Tickets start at $15 and are available from ptt.wa.gov.au/

Mismatched

Saturday June 18, 6pm-8.15pm, Government House Ballroom

Cabaret veterans Penny Shaw and award-winning baritone Robert Hofmann combine their creative forces to explore the rich repertoire of songs inspired by love in its less-than-romantic forms in this one-night-only show.

With music by some of the greatest songwriters for the stage including Stephen Sondheim, Leonard Bernstein and Andrew Lloyd-Webber, and accompanied by pianist and musical director Tommaso Pollio, Mismatched will make singles glad to be single and couples think they’re doing just fine.

Tickets start at $49.50 and are available from trybooking.com/events/landing/883047