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September’s Last in Perth was a windy affair between friends. There were some new faces, but few passers by. We played Jenga and giant Snakes and Ladders in front of the Library where apparently an Anime convention was taking place. This dissolved into a wild game of marbles that involved cheering, pavement folly and chalk rings on the ground. Sarv whipped everyone! To end the night we folded little paper cranes in the dark on new lovely paper all the way from Japan. Some of us decided that to top this months Last in Perth off, we would go to dinner together. We went to Mela Indian Restaurant on William Street to enjoy some tasty dahl and curry. Dinner as a group might become a nice standing thing that those who are free can do on a Friday night after the event. Nothing like new people, new places and something good to eat to start of a new weekend and a new month!

August’s Last in Perth was on the chilly side but also really well received.

We built a new wetland on the steps in front of the State Library, remembering the way the place used to look. There were rapids, fish and reeds, a little girl drew a veggie patch in there and there were even little men swimming in the water. Half way through the evening the wetland was scattered with paper boats and cranes of all sizes. Towards the end though, all manner or creatures were being created. Godzilla fighting some sumo wrestlers, crocodiles, many different animals, captains of ships and squirrels in trees. We also had some exchange students come and write in their language what the words already written on the pavement meant. We had teachers inspired to teach origami in their classes and people who were out for a quiet night joining in for 20mins for something new to do. It was fun guys! Thanks for coming down and making it awesome! Next month… extreme marbles!!!

Well this Friday is the last Friday of the month! Let's meet up in Perth and make it a bit more colourful. I will bring chalk and tennis balls, you just need to bring yourselves and a little sense of adventure... oh and maybe some childhood recollection of drawing on the pavement, or playing Four Square / Handball.

5pm - 6:30pm The Perth Cultural Centre, outside the State Library, near the Licorice Allsort Sculptures.

As always feel free to forward this any old how.


xx robyn + ness (MIA)

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Well this Friday is the last Friday of June! I'm thinking chalk drawing. I found two old tennis balls while I was tidying up, and I fancy a game of four square. Can anyone remember the rules? I reckon a bit of hopscotch would keep up warm too! And what about a giant and complex rainbow chalk drawing of stick men and zeppelin?

Where: The Perth Cultural Centre, near the library liquorice allsort sculptures.
When: 5pm-6:30pm, Friday, June 24th.

Mmmm liquorice....

x robyn + ness

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May's Last in Perth was full of stockings, jumpers and boats in the water. The Wetland was bustling with activity given the WAMI awards were happening over the weekend, and we were even filmed in the background for the 7pm Project! Happy Birthday to Sarv who chose Last in Perth as her pre-birthday fun event. We had a lot of people come over after work and learn to make origami boats to sail in the water, children, tourists, people passing by and old friends. Some of the more ambitious among us made origami ducks and frogs to hide in the reeds of the Wetland and the following day the colourful displays were still in place. People drank coffee and watched the bands play as little children marvelled at sunken boats and picked up some for their own. It was a lovely event and thank you all to those who made it.

Hey everyone,

It’s that time of the month again!

When: 5pm - 7pm Friday 29 April 2011 (please note the new post-work time!!!)
Where: The Re-invented Wetlands (the old water feature next to the State Art Gallery) The Cultural Centre Perth, Western Australia

A couple of weeks ago I sat on the edge of a canal and made a little boat out of debris. It floated a little way before giving in to wind, water and shoddy construction. It was really fun. Let’s play in the city next Friday after work. Let’s make tiny temporary things and dip our fingers into water. - Robyn

Your friends, family or workmates are welcome. There are plenty of places to go onto after for food or drinks or whatever else you want to do with your Friday evening!

Robyn will be running this event herself as I will be away on holiday, so please take lots of photos and treat her well.

Cheers Ness (in absentee) and Robyn
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Here's a lovely little article about a few different things that people are doing to activate space around the world. It ties in nicely, I think, with what we would like to achieve with this little event and with other events that we would hold in the future.

http://open.abc.net.au/posts/8241/whadyaknow-how-to-surprise-a-stranger

Welcome to another little blogging space for the Perth based event; Last in Perth.

Every month, on the last Friday, we like to do something different with our lunchtime. Sometimes this means blowing giant bubbles while sharing cake with onlookers. Sometimes it's playing a good old game of Hungry Hippos with our workmates. Sometimes it's teaching people in the Urban Orchard how to fold paper cranes.

We'd like to spread the word and have more people who are interested in these events come along. Or maybe people who are interested and want to make suggestions to post. It doesn't matter if you live in Perth or not, we'd love to hear from you and share stories and ideas.

We hope this space will be full of photos, links, and reviews from our events, but also that it will be a space to talk about other great space activation projects going on in Perth and around the world, so please, feel free to comment with links and photos.

We'll do our best to keep bringing you tiny snipets from the space activation world, but more importantly, to show our love for our city.