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Model and crew backstage for the Melbourne Fashion Festival. A tall female model with pale skin and red lips is wearing a red satin dress with a large floral feature over her chest, while the crew adjusts something around her ear.
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Fashion, craft and design calendar 2025

What’s on in fashion, craft and design this year, including exhibitions, fashion festivals, design weeks and makers' markets.

A woman is peeping through the folds of a large, oversized puppet. The light on them both is golden in a production of 'Hometown.'
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Theatre review: Hometown, Claremont Showground

A new puppet musical inspired by the work of Shaun Tan.

More international concerts will tour to Australia in 2025 thanks to the success of Taylor Swift's Eras Tour. A photo of the concert with a massive crowd as Swift is pictured standing on top of an elevated stage and a big screen showing her singing up close.
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Concerts touring to Australia January to March 2025: Billie Eilish, Cigarettes After Sex, Dua Lipa and more big names

Major international artists will tour Australia this year following last year's Swiftie effect – here is a go-to list of…

A man dressed in a tartan black and red Father Christmas costume.
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Theatre review: A Christmas Carol, Subiaco Arts Centre

Yet another iteration of this classic novel, but one with a distinct bogan flavour.

‘Spinifex People: art and stories of Pila Nguru’ at WA Museum Boola Bardip. A kid high fiving an adult inside an exhibition with orange and white Aboriginal dot paintings.
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All 7 WA Museum sites free for the summer

For 107 days straight, visitors can check out all seven WA Museum sites with no fee or pre-booking.

Sculpture by the Sea: a crowded beach at sunset where people are walking around a large metal sculpture in the shape of a giant wine/ goon bag which is installed by the water's edge.
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Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe saved with overnight $1.5 million federal rescue grant

One week after a wave of local outcry about the cancellation of this popular exhibition due to lack of funding,…

Sculpture by the Sea, Cottesloe paused due to lack of federal funding

Perth's event has been paused, despite strong support from artists and the public.

WASO's Principal 3rd Horn Robert Gladstones and Associate Principal Oboe Liz Chee.
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WASO embraces new venues and new programs in its 2025 season

Despite the temporary closure of Perth Concert Hall, the West Australian Symphony Orchestra shows no sign of slowing down in…

Four performers are barely visible as they overlaid by a scramble of letters.
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Theatre review: The Comprehensive A-Z of Missing Persons Australia, The Liberty Theatre

A multimedia exploration into the plight of the missing.

Jesse Homes (as the Prince) is holding onto Chihiro Nomura (Princess Aurora) as she lays almost horizontal to the ground. A ballet ensemble surrounds them. The Sleeping Beauty.
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Ballet review: The Sleeping Beauty, His Majesty's Theatre

A classic story performed in the traditional style marks WA Ballet's final show for the year.

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