Live@Woodside 2009

Live music, street art, visual arts, design and fantastic performance come back to the CBD with the live@woodside 2009 program in autumn and spring, plus a community arts event in Karratha.

In its second year this annual innovative arts program includes a number of original works created specifically for live@woodside by local artists.

From March 20 to April 15 in Perth’s West End, live@woodside will feature an artist in residence program bringing the visual arts to life as street art, sculpture and screen culture transform the Woodside building and its surrounds in the area bordered by St Georges Terrace, Hay Street and Milligan Street.

The arts program is being delivered by Steamworks Arts Productions and will profile 20 small to medium companies and 60 artists based in Western Australia. It will include seven new commissions from outstanding and emerging Western Australian artists. Each artist has created a special and innovative work specific to the Woodside building and the workers who inhabit the CBD.

The autumn live@woodside program in Perth will culminate in a family fun day on April 15 when city workers will be encouraged to bring their family to Woodside for a picnic in the garden during the school holidays. With a focus on children and the young at heart, audiences will be entertained with puppetry performances, demonstrations and hands-on workshops transforming the plaza and its surrounds into a truly creative and imaginative space. 

The spring live@woodside program will be officially announced later this year.

The event is also being extended to Karratha with a unique program for local audiences in the regional town in July.

Recently back from directing the critically acclaimed show ‘The Promise’ for Flying Fruit Fly Circus at the Sydney Festival, Steamworks Artistic Director Sally Richardson, said that the Steamworks Arts Production team will transform the environment of the plaza, re-framing different aspects of city life and architecture. 

“It’s great to work with a company with genuine artistic vision and we are happy to be creating something unique and creatively stimulating that both Woodside employees, their families and the wider community can enjoy,” said Sally.

This free, year long program will surprise, catch you unaware, interrupt the mundane and brighten your day as you go about your business. If you are a Woodside employee, work in the surrounding environment, or are a visitor to the West End, come along and see something new and unusual unfold.