An experimental creative project conceived as one of the programs for TAB Family’s debut Art & Community Exhibition – TAB Family: This is Family at Cool Change Contemporary…

Writing WA and the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival are thrilled to announce the return of our partnership festival - the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Perth - for its second year…

The National Young Writers’ Festival is Australia’s largest gathering of young writers. Celebrating 25 years in 2022, we will be returning to our hometown in Newcastle, NSW and retaining a digital program also. This hybrid festival will feature over 60 events both in person and online, hosting workshops, performances, readings, panels, special events and more…

A series of FREE poetry workshops with Maddie Godfrey, held online throughout November. Suitable for anyone aged 16+ who is enthusiastic about storytelling, these workshops (held via Zoom) embrace a playful approach to writing poetry. Selected participant poems will be curated and displayed in the Beaufort Street Lightbox Gallery.

CAN has partnered with Lotterywest and the City of Canning to provide free access to storytelling skills and cultural expression for individuals from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Click World is a series of three workshops designed for anyone who is new to coding and would like a gentle introduction to the discipline.

Quantum Words Perth is Western Australia’s first writers festival dedicated specifically to writing about science, creativity and the spaces in which they intersect.

CAN's Embodied is an invitation to inhabit your body, express yourself through movement and have fun! Join Sete Tele in Blower Vac Hacky Sac. Participants will be asked to write a story on paper and then use blower vacs to propel the story into the universe. It will be noisy, colourful, visually festive experience while our respective narratives will be shared through the intimate environment of soulful dancing.

Express Media, in partnership with Propel Youth Arts WA, is delighted to present Making Tracks: Perth, a travelling pop-up workshop series and zine publication aimed at developing the work of young writers in Australia. Over four workshops every fortnight, 10 young writers will meet with an Express Media writer and editor to hone their writing skills and workshop a piece for publication.

Take your story from the page to the stage in this two part workshop, focusing on how to write your story into a poem. Internationally renowned performance poet and educator Zainab Syed will lead you through writing exercises to find a story you want to tell, guide you on how to tell it best, ending with performance techniques on how to perform your story on a stage to share with everyone.

Disrupted Festival of Ideas is on again this year! Happening at the State Library of Western Australia 29 – 30 July, join leading big thinkers Tara Moss, Tiernan Brady , Kon Karapanagiotidis of Asylum Seeker Resource Centre (ASRC) and more than 20 other agents of change in over 30 FREE events.

heARTlines celebrates the artistic process of book creation, inviting local authors and illustrators to facilitate workshops, presentations and demonstrations for school children and the general public.

Each night a new script is brought to life and you are invited behind the scenes into a working theatre space. Sit back and watch the show, or get involved in the process. EDGE is an immersive theatre experience. EDGE is theatre with a difference.