Good afternoon readers, and thanks for following along this week. What are you up to this weekend? There’s certainly no shortage of events. Here are some to inspire you as we sign off – the live blog will be back on Monday.
Sport
The Town of East Fremantle is welcoming the first home games for season 2025 at the East Fremantle Community Park. Following a multi-year absence for the East Fremantle FC while the oval was redeveloped and multi-use facility completed, three games will be played tomorrow: Rogers Cup playing Peel Thunder at 10.05am; WAFLW playing Peel Thunder at 12pm and WAFL playing West Coast Eagles at 2.30pm. Entry is free, with a full day of family-friendly activations planned, including food trucks, bouncy castles, Rick the Rock, handball activities and more.
Neta Knapp is among the artists exhibiting in Hamilton Hill this weekend. Credit: Nic Duncan
Arts
Sculpture at Bathers returns for its sixth event at the Bathers Beach Art Precinct from today until April 21.
The City of Cockburn’s 20th Show Off Art exhibition is beginning at Memorial Hall in Hamilton Hill. It will be open daily from 10am to 3pm from tomorrow until April 13. A true celebration of art in the community, it is open to all artists in the area, from novice to emerging to highly experienced. Standout exhibitors include Trevor Vickers and Neta Knapp.
The Art Gallery of WA has just opened a new exhibition that explores the evolution of Modernist bronze sculpture, tracing its journey from the mid-to-late nineteenth century to the mid-to-late twentieth century. Featuring iconic works from renowned artists like Auguste Rodin, Marino Marini and their contemporaries. Cast in bronze runs until September 28. The gallery has also just opened Revivification, an immersive exhibition combining sound and cutting-edge biological innovation to bring to life the musical genius of a deceased composer. Four years in the making, Revivification delivers a historic first: the in-vitro (external) ‘brain’ of the late composer Alvin Lucier, creating a new work in real time, as a live performance over the duration of the exhibition.
And for the northerners, critically acclaimed exhibition The Antipodean Manifesto has arrived in Wanneroo, presenting a visionary dialogue of art, identity and culture in 1950s Australia, featuring a selection of representational paintings, prints and ceramics by the seven artists who formed the Antipodean group. It’ll be on show at the Wanneroo Regional Gallery is free and open to the public May 3.
Cast in Bronze is open now at AGWA, as is groundbreaking biotechnology exhibition Revivification.Credit: AGWA
History and heritage
It’s the first weekend of the Lotterywest Boorloo Heritage Festival. Here are just some events that are on offer tomorrow: Perth Italian Festival at Langley Park; Perth Indonesian Festival at Forrest Place; Celebrating the Country Women’s Association at 1176 Hay Street; Two Centuries of Chinese Heritage in WA at 45 Francis Street and The Human Library Book Cafe at the City of Perth Library. On Sunday, there’s Music in the Rotunda with the City of Perth Band at Queens Gardens.
Finally, the State Library of Western Australia has just launched Hello, this is Sam Lovell, an exhibition almost seven years in the making, celebrating the exceptional life journey and significant contributions of Sam Lovell OAM, a trailblazer in Indigenous tourism and a respected Kimberley icon. One of only two Aboriginal people known to have a box brownie camera in WA in the 1950s onwards, he was able to document his life from a young age and provide a unique lens and perspective on life in the North West. The exhibition runs until July 31. Admission is free.
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