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ART BALL returns on Saturday 9 November and she’s transitioned into queer heaven for PrideFEST 2024.
The Art Gallery of Western Australia (AGWA) launches its first Met Gala-style ball happening across all floors of the Gallery for one incredible night!
AGWA is taken over with non-stop music, dance, art and extravagance. For one unforgettable night of glam, we come Together to experience some of the world’s most talented LGBTQIA+ artists in what will be a celebration of art and culture in all its diversity.
The AGWA Rooftop plays host to a lineup of diverse international and local performers that celebrates and promotes the very best of entertainment, music, dance, cabaret and drag-opera.
Your outfit is invited to channel your inner creative, for a night of celebration as we search for our inaugural AGWA GLAMBASSADOR 2024.
The AGWA Design Store, designated Queer HQ, will become an eclectic treasure trove of LGBTQIA+ design from near and abroad.
Art and an outrageous celebration of Peace, Love, Unity.
At ART BALL x PrideFEST we will all come Together for one night. Just what the world needs.
Hosted by Channel 7's Matt Tinney | ONLY AT AGWA.
6.30pm-1am Saturday 9 November 2024 | After-party: Connections Nightclub
Bookings essential
DATE/TIME:
Saturday 9 November 2024
6.30pm for rainbow carpet arrivals
7pm official start until 1am
After-party at Connections Nightclub (free entry)
ENTERTAINMENT:
The dynamic camp spectacle duo The Huxleys and hitting the high notes heard from the AGWA Rooftop, UK’s Le Gateau Chocolat.
REFRESHMENTS:
Gala welcome drink on arrival
Canapes served throughout the evening
COST:
Early bird tickets $220+bf (available 19 Sep- 3 Oct)
Full price: $250+bf
Will and Garrett Huxley (Aus/Gumbaynggirr/Yorta Yorta) are Melbourne-based collaborative performance and visual artists. Who work together as The Huxleys.
The Huxleys are a dynamic duo of cataclysmic proportion who present camp commentary and spectacle across the visual art, performance and entertainment sectors. Their photography and performance art traverses the classifications of costume, film and recording. A visual assault of sparkle, surrealism and the absurd, The Huxleys saturate their practice and projects with a glamorous, androgynous freedom which sets out to bring some escapism and magic to everyday life.
Since 2014 The Huxleys have performed, exhibited and participated in numerous exhibitions, projects and events in Australia, and internationally in London, Berlin, Moscow and Hong Kong. Solo presentations, performances and commissions include the Melbourne International Arts Festival; Melbourne Fashion Week; Sydney Contemporary; Hong Kong Design Week; Heide Museum of Modern Art; Art Bank, Melbourne; NGV; AGNSW; QAGOMA; AGSA; AGWA and the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra; The Huxleys first came to prominence during the early years of MONA FOMA and Dark Mofo in Tasmania.
Le Gateau Chocolat’s work traverses genre and format. He’s trodden Bark of Millions with Taylor Mac at Sydney Opera House, and BAM New York, performances at Royal Festival Hall and Royal Albert Hall, Barbican with Basement Jaxx and Metropole Orkest, Glyndebourne, The Globe Theatre, Edinburgh Festivals and Bayreuth. He performs the likes of Wagner to Whitney Houston, Purcell to Radiohead and continues to subvert what it means to be a true icon in the post-genre era.
The six-and-half foot tall, six-inch heeled, wig-clad wonder swings wildly from one end of the musical spectrum to another, from disco, opera, musicals and pop. His recent production ICONS has toured to Sydney Festival, Wales Millennium Centre, Soho Theatre, Underbelly Southbank and elsewhere. ICONS has also been presented with accompaniment from the Little Coco Orchestra, a Le Gateau Chocolat initiative to support diverse musicians through the creation of an ensemble formed entirely of women of colour.
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GALLERY OPEN
Wed to Mon 10am-5pm
Closed Tuesdays, Good Friday and Christmas Day
Entry is free, donations welcomed. Special exhibitions may incur a ticket fee.