City of Perth News News and events around the City of Perth

SPRING 2018

What's on in the city THIS SPRINGPage 4

Discover Perth's FORGOTTEN SPACESPage 6

From the archives ARTISTS OF PERTHPage 10

Thriving small businessesFind out more on page 3

Keigo Tachi of Hifumiya

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For part two of the project, attendees were shown Optus Stadium TAFE and UWA in August.

The third stage will include a tour of Kings Park this September and an art workshop at UWA for attendees to paint their favourite part of the project.

Ms De Silva said the City of Perth Community Enhancement Grant was essential to the success of the project.

“It is great the City of Perth gave us support to implement this innovative project and to assist young people to be linked with their new city.”

To find out more about Community Enhancement Grants, head to perth.wa.gov.au/council/grants-and-sponsorships

The City of Perth’s Community Enhancement Grants program offers up to $10,000 to community groups to help facilitate a diverse range of programs, create new partnerships and deliver practical outcomes.

Recently, $8000 was committed to the Association for Services to Torture and Trauma Survivors (ASeTTS) for the City I Belong To project.

Providing holistic services for survivors of torture and trauma, The City I Belong To supports immigrant children and young people from war-torn Syria and Iraq.

In collaboration with student volunteers from the University of Western Australia (UWA)'s Student Guild, the project supports these children and

their families through a series of activities promoting positive wellbeing.

Featuring four main activities over a period of seven months, each activity involves a total of 40 young people.

In April, ASeTTS ran their first activity – a city tour of Burswood Park, South Perth and Parliament House.

ASeTTS Community Development Coordinator Tharanga De Silva said the 38 young people who joined the first activity shared a lot of positive comments.

“They asked us whether they could come again next weekend. The project is connecting young people with significant places in Perth – their new city. At the same time, this project helps young people connect with other young people," she said.

The City I Belong ToYoung participants of The City I Belong To with their ASeTTS leader.

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Small businesses make a huge contribution to the vibrancy and energy of a city and Perth is no exception.

With an overwhelming 88 per cent of businesses classified as small business in its boundary, the City of Perth recognises the importance of these, encouraging them to thrive and developing initiatives for them to grow.

As such, the City offers Small Business Grants to inspire businesses within the boundary to invest in their premises and build resilience and sustainability.

The recently launched 2018/19 Small Business Grants program invites applicants with sound business ideas and a demonstrated capacity to implement them.

Perth’s first traditional udon noodle house, Hifumiya, opened

on 15 May and was a recipient of a Small Business Grant for 2017/18.

Approximately $3000 was given to the business to go towards the authentic Japanese fit-out.

“Thanks to the grant, we were able to build our signature wall. Customers often take photos by the wall and it has become one of the main attractions. It really helped the shop stand out,” Hifumiya Business Coordinator Keigo Tachi said.

On average, Hifumiya sells around 1500 bowls of freshly made udon a week.

Over the train line in Northbridge, Lion Oriental Foods’ Sandra Gwee said the City of Perth’s Small Business Grant helped to positively change the circumstances of her business.

“Our business in Northbridge

was struggling. The location was always dark and unsafe for customers to come to our location. City of Perth staff were a delight and introduced us to the Perth Small Business Grant to benefit our business,” she said.

“We used the grant to have LED lights installed on our store front. This was firstly to showcase our business front and secondly to provide safety and security for residents.

“Our business has been progressing ever since.”

In addition to ratepayer and community services, the City of Perth delivered more than $3.3 million in donations and sponsorship during 2017/18.

The additional programs on offer include the Business Improvement Grant, Business Event Sponsorship and Industry/Sector Development Sponsorship.

To find out more about the City's grants, head to perth.wa.gov.au/council/grants-and-sponsorships

Small butpowerfulPerth's first udon noodle house, Hifumiya.

Kings Park Festival1 to 30 September | Kings Park | All day | Free | bgpa.wa.gov.au

To celebrate the beginning of spring, witness Kings Park bloom as it showcases some of the most beautiful and unusual botanical plants in the world. Free guided walks, exhibitions, live music, science talks and other activities will take place amongst a sea of wildflowers.

There’s no denying it – spring has well and truly sprung. Flowers are appearing, the bees are buzzing and there’s a certain warm, earthy quality to the air.

And as the temperature warms up, so does our city.

From Aboriginal walking tours and fashion parades to wildflower festivals, children’s fairs and historic exhibitions, the city is in full bloom.

Plus, there are endless parks and gardens to explore, stylish boutiques and must-see restaurants to discover.

With something for the whole family, experience the city as it bursts into life this September and October.

Here are our picks for ways to enjoy Spring in the City:

Go Cultural Aboriginal ToursEvery Wednesday to Sunday | Elizabeth Quay | 10am and 2pm | $60 | gocultural.com.au

Join Nyoongar tour guide Walter for an insightful journey into Perth's cultural past. Hear ancient Dreaming stories passed down through generations and learn about the traditional Whadjuk way of life.

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Fashion Central at Telstra Perth Fashion Festival.

THIS SPRINGWHAT’S ON

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Fashion Central at Telstra Perth Fashion Festival7 to 9 September | Perth Fashion Central, Forrest Place | Various times | Free | telstraperthfashionfestival.com.au

Telstra Perth Fashion Festival’s Fashion Central will feature three days of free fashion parades showcasing local retailer designs, street art, music and entertainment pop-ups.

Spring Flower Bloom15 September to 16 October | Cathedral Square Lawn | All day and night | Free | visitperthcity.com

Perfectly indicative of spring, visit Cathedral Square lawn to see giant, illuminated flowers with your friends and family.

Awesome International Arts Festival28 September to 7 October | Perth Cultural Centre | Various times | Free and ticketed | awesomearts.com

Head to the Perth Cultural Centre during the October school holidays to witness a spectacular array of events from theatre to dance, kids activities, music, film and hands-on crafts.

Perth Heritage Days20 to 21 October | Throughout Perth | All day | Free | heritageperth.com.au

Showcasing Perth’s stunning heritage buildings and bringing the city's history alive, Perth Heritage Days is a weekend filled with historical exhibitions, talks, walks, family activities, workshops and behind the scenes tours.

Twilight Hawkers MarketEvery Friday, 16 November to 29 March | Forrest Place From 4.30pm | Free | twilighthawkersmarket.com

Experience food from around the globe as you immerse yourself in this market setting. With live local music adding to the rich cultural atmosphere, it’s the perfect Friday night out.

The city will be alive and buzzing with a full school holiday calendar filled with movies, bouncy castles and crafty experiences.

Spring Family Fun Days22, 23, 29 and 30 September | Forrest Place | 10am to 4pm | Free | visitperthcity.com

Featuring inflatable obstacle courses, slides, bouncy castles and spring-themed workshops, celebrate springtime in the city with some family fun.

Spring Family Film Festival 24 September to 5 October | Palace Raine Square Cinemas | Times vary | Free, tickets required | visitperthcity.com

During the spring school holidays,

the City of Perth and Palace Raine Square Cinemas will be offering free entry to a selection of new release family films. Head to visitperthcity.com for details on the movies, session times and how to obtain your free tickets.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

30 September to 7 October | Cathedral Square Lawn | 10am to 3pm | Free | visitperthcity.com

As part of the 2018 AWESOME Festival, visit Cathedral Square and get crafty in the beautiful spring garden. Using various materials, children aged 4+ are invited to dream up their own spring feature and add it to the growing garden in Cathedral Square.

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Japanese udon noodle house, while you’re there.

Prince LaneConnecting Wellington and Murray Streets, Prince Lane features a series of artworks created during 2013. Weaving the length of the laneway, the main mural features

Since 2008, the City of Perth has embarked on a long-term plan to revitalise the city’s laneways and forgotten spaces.

Entitled Forgotten Spaces – Revitalising Perth’s Laneways 2007 – 2017, significant upgrades made over the last ten years have improved the physical form of City-owned laneways in the CBD.

With a multitude of street art, striking lighting and blossoming small businesses, each distinctive laneway works to enhance the city’s spaces, intriguing and enticing passers-by.

We’ve handpicked five you should discover today…

McLean LaneThe City of Perth’s urban renewal of McLean Lane earlier this year saw several artistic treatments added to

the thoroughfare running between Wellington and Hay streets behind the Pier Street Car Park. Drawing on its rich history, the laneway enhancement includes colourful artworks, decorative elements, original cobblestones and stunning feature lighting. Plus, don’t forget to check out Hifumiya, Perth’s first

Perth’s Forgotten SpacesTAKE 5

Wolf Lane, 2017.

McLean Lane, 2018.

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intersecting artworks drawing on the fashion history of the King Street area. The mural was commissioned from six well-known Western Australian artists: Clare McFarlane, Denise Brown, Stephen Genovese, Jae Criddle, Paul Caporn, Leanne Bray and renowned Perth artist Stormie Mills.

Wolf LaneConnecting King Street to Murray Street in the CBD, Wolf Lane is one of Perth’s most famous laneways. Featuring a mixture of quirky small bars such as Wolf Lane Bar and daytime cafés like the Secret Garden Cafe, the lane is well known for its large mural art displays. Take a glimpse at a towering seahorse composite by Alexis Diaz or gaze at the commanding patchwork mural by New York artist Maya Hayuk.

Grand LaneSteeped in the history of its namesake, the Grand Theatre, urban destination Grand Lane is now a burgeoning food and beverage scene. You’ll find deliciously good toasties at Toastface Grillah as well as mouth-watering fish and chips at Grand Lane Fish House. The urban amenity of the lane is underpinned by mural artwork from Bonsai and

Two-One, with Timothy Rollin’s piece on the eastern wall and a mural by Chris Nixon. The festoon lights at the Barrack Street end of the laneway reference the old theatre that used to sit there.

Howard LaneOne of the first lanes to be upgraded by the City of Perth in

2009, Howard Lane continues to thrive with the likes of Helvetica Bar and Andaluz. The lane features a series of artworks commissioned by the City of Perth including Stormie Mills' The Swing and The Conversation and Yok’s Night Forest. The chandeliers at either end of the laneway reference the historic grand ballroom that once existed on the site.

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Take a glimpse at a towering seahorse composite by Alexis Diaz or gaze at the commanding patchwork mural by New York artist Maya Hayuk.

McLean Lane, 2018.

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two days in March. Of this, almost 30 tonnes of material was diverted from landfill.

Green waste was collected separately during the collection and taken to a

In this increasingly sustainable society, it is very important that City of Perth residents, businesses, visitors and event attendees use the City of Perth waste services correctly to ensure we reach a target of 65 per cent diversion from landfill by 2020.

With the City of Perth currently recovering 20 per cent of municipal waste, the City is continuing to work with residents and ratepayers in an effort to educate and cut down on recyclable and reusable material going to landfill.

City-supported recycling is a simple, yet effective, step in the right direction towards sustainability.

Following a concerted effort

between the City and residents to

recycle household waste, a verge

collection by the City’s Waste and

Cleansing Unit removed almost 100

tonnes of unwanted goods over

City of Perth Targets Waste

Face Your Waste bins outside Kingsway Gardens, West Perth.

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green waste recycling facility, while the remaining bulk waste was taken to a bulk waste sorting facility. There, metal, cardboard, plastic and wood products made up the majority of the recyclable material diverted from landfill.

The City’s next biannual verge collection is scheduled for Monday 17 September so please look out for details in the mail.

This special residential verge collection will remove garden waste, lawn clippings and leaves in boxes or bags; electronic waste, televisions, computers, printers, mobile phones and DVD players; refrigerators and freezers; stoves and other whitegoods; mattresses and old furniture. Items should be of a maximum weight that is easily handled by two people.

Please assess all items for recycling and reuse options before putting them out for verge collection.

To find out more, head to perth.wa.gov.au/living-community/waste-and-recycling-services

• Make sure to reuse as much as possible by finding a second life for items.

• Use two bins in your kitchen, office or restaurant – one for comingled recycling and one for general waste.

• Ensure you have a comingled recycling bin (yellow lid) and a waste bin (red lid) outside. Contact the City if you need more bins.

• Recycle all glass (including broken glass), cardboard, paper, metal, aluminium cans and hard plastic. Do not place other material in your yellow-lidded bin.

• Rinse containers thoroughly and remove their lids before recycling.

• Flatten cardboard boxes.

• Leave items loose in your recycling bin, not tied in bags.

• If you live in an apartment, check with your strata manager on where your bulk recycling bins are located.

• Avoid contaminating your recycling bin with food waste.

• Soft plastics cannot go in your yellow recycling bin. This includes cling wrap, soft plastic bags and film. To dispose of these, head to Coles or Woolworths to access your local REDcycle drop off bins. Please make sure your plastic is dry and as empty as possible.

HOW TO EXCEL AT RECYCLING:

Meet Pam, a West Perth caretaker whose efforts to reduce waste have halved the amount of waste sent to landfill from her 76-apartment complex.

Pam volunteered for the Mindarie Regional Council’s Face Your Waste campaign and more recently featured in the ABC’s War on Waste newsletter.

The City of Perth was the first Local Government in WA to trial clear waste and recycling bins in May.

PAM’S WAR ON WASTE

Did you know? The glass you recycle

in the City of Perth can be re-purposed to

make road base.

West Perth resident, Pam.

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1900s and taught many emerging china painters from that time.

In 1910, May’s cousin Helen, also a china painter, came to Perth and they practised from the same studio.

Ms Creeth exhibited her works at the Perth Town Hall during the late 1800s and early 1900s.

As part of the Perth Town Hall 2020 cultural heritage program, works by both May and Helen Creeth will be displayed for the first time in the upper foyer of the Town Hall.

At the turn of the 20th century, there were many art studios and practitioners in the Perth CBD who were involved in the creation of the city’s cultural identity.

Perth’s geographic isolation was no excuse for cultural seclusion and artists took on the responsibility of providing a forum for social exchange.

At the time, artist groups gravitated towards affordable studio spaces within walking distance of the heart of Perth including those in

Howard Street, London Court and Royal Arcade Perth.

Western Australian Artist May Creeth had studios on St Georges Terrace and Hay Street in the early

FROM THE ARCHIVES

Artists of Perth

To commemorate 150 years of Perth Town Hall, the City of Perth will display

May and Helen Creeth’s work, including a Western Australian Hand Painted

Brooch, c1920 – 1930 (May Creeth) and a Western Australian Hand Painted Jug,

c1930 (Helen Creeth). Image courtesy: City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Throughout the 20th century there were numerous small, but influential galleries that were a catalyst for creative talent and cultural identity.

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City of Perth’s Arts, Culture and

Heritage team on (08) 9461 3597

or complete a collection offer form

available from the Perth Town Hall.

While usage of Perth Town Hall has evolved over time, the land was a meeting place long before colonisation, when the Traditional Custodians of the land used it as a campsite. Officially opened in 1870, the Perth Town Hall is an important site in Perth’s history and continues to be an important community meeting place.

To commemorate 150 years, the City of Perth is curating an exhibition of items related to the Perth Town Hall site.

Displayed in 2020, the exhibition will feature historic and contemporary photographs, artworks, objects, oral memories and ephemera from the City of Perth’s Cultural Collections.

You can help shape this future

exhibition by sharing your items and stories related to the Town Hall.

To offer an item for donation or temporary loan, please contact the

(Above ) St Georges Terrace and William Street Corner, 1930s. (Below) Perth Town Hall Under Construction, 1869. Images courtesy: City of Perth Cultural Collections.

Council meetings25 September 2018

30 October 2018

27 November 2018

Spring FAQWhere can I find more information about what's on in the city?

Head to visitperthcity.com or visit the iCity Kiosk in Forrest Place where helpful volunteers will point you in the right direction. Once there, pick up the City of Perth's monthly What's On Guide for more event ideas.

Goodbye GraffitiYou can help reduce the amount of graffiti in the city by reporting it to the Goodbye Graffiti hotline or website. Call 1800 442 255 or head to goodbyegraffiti.wa.gov.au

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The City of Perth is working to improve and provide exceptional customer service – ensuring residents, ratepayers and visitors have a positive experience when interacting with staff.

Since the inception of the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Pilot in December 2017, data collected shows the community is sharing constructive improvement opportunities with the City.

Since providing greater support for customer interactions, it now takes the City of Perth just over one day to resolve each customer complaint, with 53 per cent of cases closed the same day they are received.

In the past year, contact points

for customers have been streamlined by diverting calls to one central customer service number – 9461 3333.

Ninety per cent of calls are answered in 15 seconds and where previously it took up to 12 hours to register an email, the City of Perth now averages five hours to respond, register and close out a case. Responses to direct social media enquiries have also jumped almost 450 per cent.

Additionally, with the installation of the new Customer Service Experience Centre on the Ground Floor of Council House, another step has been taken towards further improving customer service levels.

Greater support at the City

The City of Perth acknowledges the Whadjuk Nyoongar people as the Traditional Owners of the lands and waters where Perth city is situated today, and pay our respect to Elders past and present.

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General enquiries 9461 3333

City of Perth Library 9461 3500

City of Perth Surveillance Centre (After hours) 9461 6611