Tangentyere and Yarrenyty Arltere
These Tangentyere artists capture living in the town camps in Central Australia and are breaking with tradition, creating experimental art works that are innovative microcosms of the world they live in. The exhibition includes paintings on recycled metal from the Tangentyere artists and recycled soft toy sculpture from Yarrenyty Arltere, Alice Springs. These artists work on canvas as well as recycled materials from the desert, transforming disused objects into contemporary works of art. A once useless object gets doused with lashings of bright acrylic, transforming the wonky surface in a potent visual pun. The exhibition encourages viewers to listen to the artists stories and engage with their histories.

Aboriginal/Noongar Cultural Workshops and Storytelling
Aboriginal/Noongar cultural workshops and storytelling with respected elder Noel Nannup. Beautiful fireside experience set amongst ancient Grasstrees.

City of Fremantle art collection: Everything Old is New Again
City of Fremantle celebrates the opening of a new and dedicated Collection gallery in the newly refurbished North Wing. The new Collection Gallery is a larger ground floor space directly adjacent to FAC’s reception. Everything Old Is New Again presents for the first time recently donated early ‘en plein air’ paintings by Kathleen O’Connor alongside other iconic historical and contemporary works by Fremantle artists George Haynes, Jane Martin, Alex Spremberg, Jeremy Kirwan-Ward and Helen Smith.

On Their Own Child Migration Exhibition
During the late 19th century Britain sent over a hundred thousand child migrants across the British Empire. This exhibition reveals a largely untold chapter of migration history – that of British children who were sent to Australia and other Commonwealth countries under government-endorsed child migration schemes.

Projektet Ola Johansson and Amanda Newall (Sweden)
Projektet draws on the notion of the immune system as a bio-artistic blueprint of personal and cultural changes. In a joint residency with SymbioticA, Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson conduct lab-based research along with applied performance work in local communities in the metropolitan Perth area. SymbioticA is an artistic laboratory at UWA dedicated to the research, learning, critique and hands-on engagement with the life sciences. The exhibition will involve a variety of media, such as lab results, costume, physical objects, video and performative actions. Experiments with our most outreaching and personal site of identity, the corporeal immune system, will provoke graphic, material, conceptual and live reactions that applies to site-specific circumstances where social actors will ultimately come up against the limits of their own identities/communities. Bio-artistic game concepts will incite personal and collective (inter)actions toward future communal relations beyond biological determinism and cultural utopias.

Shaun Tan: Suburban Odyssey
Academy Award winner and favourite local son Shaun Tan comes to FAC with a collection of never before seen large scale paintings, small oil sketches, drawings, preparatory video work and personal sketchbooks. For the first time Shaun Tan: Suburban Odyssey charts the journey of Shaun Tan’s work from carefully observed yet lyrical paintings of Perth’s suburbs to oil studies and drawings that develop characters and narratives which inhabit these vast landscapes. Shaun Tan: Suburban Odyssey highlights the poignant relationship between Tan’s suburban observations, often drawn and painted while on walks, and the place they create for his universally popular book illustrations and short stories. Shaun Tan is the illustrator and author of award-winning books such as The Red Tree, The Lost Thing, Tales of Outer Suburbia and The Arrival. In 2011 he won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for The Lost Thing and the world’s premier prize for children’s literature, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Tan was born in Fremantle in 1974, grew up in Hillarys and now lives and works in Melbourne.

17th Annual Croatian Food Festival
Experience the taste of Croatia at the Esplanade Hotel Fremantle’s 17th annual Croatian Food Festival. From 10 June, renowned celebrity Croatian Executive Chef Dennis Valcich, from Sydney, will prepare all of his famous signature dishes. It is an occasion for families to get together and sample delicious authentic dishes and see what surprises Dennis will serve as he prepares cuisine from all over Croatia. Relax and enjoy Croatia’s finest cuisine in Fremantle’s finest hotel - The Esplanade Hotel Fremantle. The festival launches Opening Night on Friday 1 June in the Atrium Garden Restaurant, so reserve your table for this wonderful evening featuring great food and live entertainment. From 2–10 June 2012 (inclusive), the Atrium Garden Restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner, with live entertainment on the weekends. Throughout the buffet festival, diners can enter the draw to win a Fremantle Explorer two night accommodation package and a Croatian cookbook written by Executive Chef Dennis Valcich.

Come And Try - Organic Gardening Group
It's never to late to try something new...Organic gardening Have some Friday afternoon fun on the Terrace gardens. Come along and share your gardening tips, exchange plants, seeds or play in the garden. All welcome.

Exhibiiton–Shirley Clancy
Shirley Clancy’s clear and magical realism style takes the viewer into a consciousness of universal myths and stories. In these altered realities, highly detailed settings are invaded by things too strange for the rational mind to acknowledge, but all too familiar in the world of dreams. With a seductive charm, and allusions to iconic paintings and figures of the past, they invite the viewer to interpret his or her own individual fantasies.

Intermix | Group Exhibition
This painting exhibition features the work of five WA artists; Ann Land, Elisabeth Ribul, Louise Paul, Angela Carter and Maxine Murray and represents each artist’s search for their own point of view. There is a sense of freedom as each in their own way explores the emotional possibilities of light, colour, texture, point of view and form. Curated by Marianna Atkins.

Still Me Exhibition
The exhibition has grown from a project developed by Fremantle based visual artist Christine Gosfield in association with the City of Fremantle's ‘Age Friendly Plan.’ It aims to recognise older people in the community, their remarkable abilities and substantial life achievements. Still Me celebrates the lives of ten people drawn from all walks of life who live in and around Fremantle. The composite photographic portraits capture each person as they are today with an image of their youthful selves. The images speak of the preciousness of an individual life; drawing our attention to contemplate the inevitable march of time, the richness of life’s experience and our own mortality. For a reflective journey from another time and place this exhibtion is not to be missed.

Come and Try Sahaja Yoga Meditation
It's never to late to try something new...come along to relax and learn meditation skills.

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot
In Purgatory a trial begins. A catatonic Judas Iscariot stands accused. Witnesses take the stand and lawyers argue. Still there is no sign of Jesus. Will he come to the rescue? Only heaven knows! Upstart Theatre Company Presents The Last Days of Judas Iscariot By Stephen Adly Guirgis Directed by Patrick Downes A new production at PS Art Studios Fremantle by Upstart Theatre Company.

Come and Try - Be handy at the Fremantle Men's Shed
It's never to late to try something new... Get your hands and your brain working. Take part in creating woodwork projects for you to keep or give away. Instruction will be given and materials provided.

Acting Master Class Workshop
A two-day intensive for everyone interested in extending their skills as an actor. Participants will develop contemporary monologues and scene studies, with particular focus on voice, movement and stagecraft.

Desert Psychedelic: Jimmy Pike Exhibition
When Jimmy Pike was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 no one could have guessed that a global design icon would be the result. Serving time in Fremantle Prison, Jimmy began taking the art classes on offer, and it was not long before Prison art teachers Steve Culley and David Wroth recognised his eye for colour and design. It was from this that the Desert Designs brand was born. This exhibition, created by artisan and supported by Museums and Gallery Services Queensland, celebrates the creative achievements of Jimmy Pike, one of Australia’s great Indigenous artists and the designer of some of the most extraordinary Australian textiles of the twentieth century. Pike’s prints and paintings can be found in major national and international gallery collections. His book illustrations and innumerable textile designs cement his place as a versatile and visionary artist.

Jazz Fremantle June 2012
A program of modern and mainstream jazz each Sunday afternoon. 10 June. To celebrate the anniversary of the death of super sax man Jim Cook, we are holding a special charity concert in aid of the Balya Cancer Retreat. We are featuring three contrasting groups that Jim played with, ie The Lazy River Jazz Band, Mike Nelson’s Bluesology and a reunion of the Will Upson Allstars with Will on piano, Ray Walker guitar, Murray Wilkins bass, Bruno Pizzata drums and Roger Garrood sax, plus mystery guest vocalists. Note: Entry prices will be $15 members and $20 non-members. Early booking is advised for this special event. 17 June "BEATLE JAZZ" Making a welcome return is Kim Anning’s Blue Monk which features Kim on guitar and vocals, Phil Hatton reeds, Manoli Vouyoucalos bass, Toby Anning drums Blue Monk will feature Melissa Skinner, a versatile instrumentalist and vocalist and also self confessed Beatles nut! 24 June. Another regular visitor to the club is the twenty-piece Oz Big Band. Boasting three engaging vocalists plus an Andrews Sisters-type vocal trio, the band offers plenty of variety. Both for listening and swing dancers the band’s repertoire of classics from the Golden Era of Big Bands is sure to entertain.

Magic of the Guitar
Presented by the WA Classical Guitar Society Orchestra including solo and duet performances from Daniel Christoffersen (Semi Finalist in Adelaide Guitar Festival), Christopher Kotchie, Jane Darcey and John Karrol. Conducted by Mathew Laurenson. Featuring music by Richard Charlton, J Compton, Paul Svoboda, Eythor Thorlaksson and others.

Stage Fright, Open Mic in The Fly Trap
If you would like the chance to perform in front of a crowd, then look no further than Stage Fright, Open Mic in The Fly Trap Open to all musical styles, solo, duos & bands, Stage Fright is sure to be the freshest open mic in Fremantle. Places will fill up fast, so be sure to register now!

Tusif Ahmad Exhibition
The intricate beauty of the ancient art of paper cutting is brought to life by the energy and creative joy of Pakistani self-taught artist, jeweller, and 3D CAD/CAM designer Tusif Ahmad. Each delicately hand-cut from a single sheet of paper, his artworks are influenced by traditional Islamic patterns and symbols. Yet Tusif takes a unique and personal path in his storytelling imagery, exploring the dynamic opposing forces that shape our personal trials and triumphs in life, love and beauty.