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✧✧ Project Partner Spotlight: City of Belmont

As part of SPACED’s Know Thy Neighbour #4, Blue Joy Theatre Company is working with the City of Belmont for their site-responsive residency. The City of Belmont is nestled between the CBD and the Perth Hills, with the Swan River and Perth Airport in its borders. Where cultures blend and creativity thrives, the Blue Joy team engages in research focused on liminal everyday sites within the Belmont community.

Read more on City of Belmont and Blue Joy Theatre Company here: https://www.spaced.org.au/know-thy-neighbour-4/blue-joy-theatre-company-with-city-of-belmont.

Image: City of Belmont Let’s Celebrate Festival at Faulkner Park, 2023 courtesy of City of Belmont.
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✧✧ It’s GAME TIME ⋆｡𖦹°⚽︎⋆｡𖦹° with Cassandra Tytler

Are you fit for public assembly?

Join Cassandra’s participatory performance games for her Know Thy Neighbour #4 residency, coming up on June 13th! ‘Soft Assembly: Public Training Session #1’ is an experimental public game session exploring cooperation, maintenance, rest, and minor public absurdities through a series of short rotating activities.

Register and read more details here: https://www.spaced.org.au/spaced-latest/workshop-soft-assembly-public-training-session-1-with-cassandra-tytler

📍 Junior Activity Room at LeisureLife Centre | 34 Kent St, East Victoria Park
🗓️ Saturday 13 June, 11am-12:30pm
🎟️ FREE event | no prior skills required

Images: Cassandra Tytler ‘Pass It On’ event, by Town of Victoria Park.
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✧✧ This Boodja serves as a vessel.

Circular Economies artist Zali Morgan returns to Carnamah for the final leg of her residency, reflecting on stolen land and its memories.

“Now a barren landscape, used many times over and over again to fulfil the Crown’s needs.
Left to dry out, depleted and exhausted, this Boodja continues to serve as a vessel.
A vessel to carry resources for crops, farms, mines.
But also a vessel to carry story, truth, and culture.”

More on Zali’s blog here: www.spaced.org.au/spaced-latest/circular-economies-residency-zali-morgan-carnamah-5

Images courtesy of the artist.
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Circular Economies is produced as a joint partnership by PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and SPACED. PICA and SPACED thank our community host partners.
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North Midlands Project
Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport
Creative Australia

✧✧ OPEN SPACE: Professional Development Online Workshop Series 🖥️

〰️ Interested in production for socially engaged art making? And want to create better connections with communities and artists? 〰️

We are excited to present six FREE weekly online workshops as part of the OPEN SPACE professional development program. Although these workshops have been designed for emerging producers attached to the Circular Economies program, we invite independent creatives, and arts workers from other organisations including local government to attend.

️🗓️ Fridays 3:00pm – 4:00pm (starting 29 May 2026) | FREE event.

Register and read more here: https://www.spaced.org.au/spaced-latest/open-space-online-workshop-series-2026.

Image: HONF Narrogin Showcase, Irene & Haryo, by Danielle Halford.
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OPEN SPACE is a professional development program run in partnership with UWA School of Design.

✧✧ Artist Spotlight: Blue Joy Theatre Company 🌀

The Blue Joy crew is kicking off strong in their first week of Know Thy Neighbour #4 residency! Made up of Mohammed ‘Ayo Busari’, Shelby McKenzie and Ken Meyer, Blue Joy Theatre Company aims to amplify underrepresented voices, foster cultural exchange and challenge norms on stages.

They have partnered up with City of Belmont on their project that is rooted in community storytelling. Across their site-responsive residency, they will engage in research focused on liminal everyday sites, footpaths, bus stops, laundromats, and street corners, where people pause, pass, and persist.

Attend Blue Joy’s storytelling workshop THIS SUNDAY, where participants will explore on everyday interactions with familiar public spaces through guided creative prompts and writing activities; for a space to pause, observe and write.

📍Ruth Faulkner Library - Innovation Lab
🗓️ Sunday 24 May, 1:30pm - 3:30pm
FREE event | 18+

Register for workshop here: https://www.spaced.org.au/spaced-latest/workshop-blue-joy-theatre-company-and-city-of-belmont.
Read more about Blue Joy Theatre Company here: https://www.spaced.org.au/know-thy-neighbour-4/blue-joy-theatre-company-with-city-of-belmont.

Image 1: Where The Light Rests, Ken Meyer, 2025, Fremantle, Fremantle Biennale, spatial sound, light, water, raku ceramic. Photo by Ricky Gestro.
Image 2: Shelby McKenzie, photo by Leigh Brennan.
Image 3: Home Frequencies by Ayo Busari. Image by Aaron Claringbold, courtesy of Goolugatup Heathcote.
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✧✧ Sarsby Martin’s Reflection as an OPEN SPACE Emerging Producer

Sarsby shares their most memorable takeaway from participating in the OPEN SPACE emerging producer mentorship, working with Circular Economies artist Loren Kronemyer in Kepa Kurl/Esperance:

“It was most rewarding to witness the quality of conversation between [a local collector] and Loren, observing the respect she brought to his knowledge, and the fluency with which she articulated her ideas and project. I miss being around that kind of seriousness towards art, where things were beyond hobbies. Artwork and craftsmanship are treated seriously because they are serious.”

Read more on Sarsby's reflection here: /spaced-latest/open-space-spotlight-emerging-producer-sarsby-martin.

Image courtesy of the artist.
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Circular Economies is produced as a joint partnership by PICA - Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts and SPACED. PICA and SPACED thank our community host partners.
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Cannery Arts Centre
Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport
Creative Australia

✧✧ Meet our Know Thy Neighbour #4: Gestures artists! ⭐

Behold ~ the faces of Know Thy Neighbour #4!
Our artists will be working in collaboration with their host communities to develop concepts and respond to the social, environmental and historical contexts they encounter during their residency.

We will be sharing more information about the artists, host communities and projects as they unfold. Head here for more details: www.spaced.org.au/spaced-latest/know-thyneighbour4-gestures.

Images by:
Blue Joy - Logan Griffiths, Ricky Gestro, Jarrad Palmer
Tom C – Shuling Wong
Makaela RF – courtesy of the artist
Eduardo C – Stirling Kain
Cassandra T – courtesy of the artist
Zali M – Martine Perrit
Cara GT - Will Ek Uvelius
Jack M – courtesy of the artist
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City of Canning
City of Belmont, WA
City of Vincent
City of Stirling
City of Swan
Town of Victoria Park
Centre for Stories
Vessel Contemporary Fremantle Buffalo Club Inc.
Walyalup Fremantle Arts Centre Skateboarding WA