Pulse Fest 2024 | Opening Weekend
Friday 5 April
EXHIBITION LAUNCH
Be one of the first the visit The West Australian Pulse exhibition when it opens to the public. Join us on the AGWA Rooftop and then enter the exhibition from 7.30pm to celebrate the work and the 2024 artists.
Saturday 6 April
MEET THE ARTISTS
Enjoy meeting a selection of our visual arts Pulse finalists. Our audience is invited to ask questions of how the students created their works and, now that Year 12 is done, what the future looks like for them.
RUNWAY ART – INDUSTRY FIRST
For the first time, WA’s fashion students collaborate to deliver the very best that emerging fashion can offer. This spectacular catwalk event features a combination of fashion and design talent from ECU and Curtin Universities, North Metro TAFE, South Metro TAFE. It is a rare occasion that these tertiary providers join forces. In this one spectacular evening young creatives will work alongside industry mentors to create an unforgettable runway show.
WAM-BAM PULSE AFTER PARTY
The Rooftop goes live, as we throw the spotlight on WA grassroots music. Great emerging WA fashion is met with talented next gen muscians.
Line-up
5-6pm: Doors Open | DJ Connor Gibbons
6.15pm: Pulse Fashion Show
7.15pm: AGWA Design Store X Second Life Markets Fashion Show
8-9.30pm: Afterparty | Performance by: Adrian Dzvuke & Conor Lawson
Sunday 7 April
MEET THE MAKERS: AGWA DESIGN STORE
We meet the makers and launch the exclusive products of our Enfant Terribles at AGWA Design Store.
MAKERS MARKET
An AGWA Rooftop festival. AGWA partners with Second Life Markets to bring aspiring designers to showcase their wares. Working alongside former North Metro TAFE student Meg Charnaud, co-founder of Second Life Markets, AGWA Design Store curators, Leith Groves and Rob Marshall, are coaching Fashion and Textile design students about marketing second hand fashion, up-cycling design, sourcing materials and branding. The students will be creating their own up-cycled design with materials provided by Good Sammys. The class will host their own stall at the Second Life Markets on the AGWA Rooftop.
