Emma Pegrum

The New Zealand-born artist doesn’t like the word “spiritual”, but she enters a “painting trance” to create her ethereal, abstract compositions. Each one is filled with symbolism and a secret language.

Plus, a multi-course dinner by Fervor and native food expert Dale Tilbrook. This year’s largely free program – Crossing 21 – explores the possibilities and problematics of contemporary art programming on sacred and contested land, asking: how do you respond to a site you can scarcely touch?

Get involved in an onstage escape room where actors and audience members are part of the action, take in a series of sound works along the Derbarl Yerrigan (Swan River) and immerse yourself in art under a six-metre, state-of-the-art dome.

After the challenges of 2020, festival director Amber Hasler is calling this one the “Perth pride edition” – with around 85 per cent of the 500-show program by WA artists.

The new store – in a historic sandstone building in Peppermint Grove – is inspired by the colours and romance of Western Australia’s wildflower season.

This bastion of independent theatre in Perth has adapted for the Covid-19 era, with a program of innovative, original performances – many of which you can experience anywhere in the world. Highlights include a virtual choose-your-own-adventure and a binaural performance at a secret outdoor location.

The straight-shooting lunch spot from chef Scott Bridger and Eamon Sullivan completes the duo’s transformation of their northern May Street Larder outpost.

Writers Patricia Cornelius, Andrew Bovell, Christos Tsiolkas and Melissa Reeves reunite two decades after collaborating on an iconic Australian play to explore 21st-century identity politics and inequality in a new work, on at Perth Festival later this month.

We’ve plucked 14 must-see shows from the festival’s diverse program – the first from incoming artistic director Iain Grandage. See Macbeth performed entirely in Noongar; an interactive virtual world made of words; a literary bar crawl; and AC/DC’s greatest hits reimagined on the Canning Highway.

Breeze Furniture aims to break the cycle of short-term disposable furniture ownership.

Launched in Melbourne, Breeze Furniture aims to break the cycle of short-term disposable furniture ownership.

This month at Besk Bar, Fervor’s Paul Iskov is cooking with bush banana and banya nuts and winemaker Nic Peterkin is pouring wine fermented with wildflowers.