Circus Quirkus
2025-05-25 08:00 - 2025-05-26 17:00 (Asia/Shanghai)
This event provides relaxed performances for children through to adults who need a specific environment to attend such events. This means that the event provides wheelchair access, Auslan interpreters, and other accessibilities so you can feel free to be yourself without any restrictions or judgement.

This event is suitable for schools, community groups, and family excursions.

Tickets are free, including parents, siblings, and carers.

Where: Astor Theatre Perth, Mount Lawley
Dates: Sunday 25th May (11:30am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm), and Monday 26th May (10am, 12pm)

Email meredithnewman@showintent.com.au or call/text 0404 367 782 with the following:

Your name
Preferred show time/s
Ticket numbers

Mosaic Workshop
2025-05-25 11:00 - 15:00
Everyone is welcome. Come and join for a fun and creative day!
Stepping stones will become part of art installation at Perth City Farm for Deafblind Awareness Week
Please book your comm guide/support worker

Mosaic Workshop – Come and Join Us with DBWA!
When: Sunday, 25th May 2025
Time: 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Where: Lake Monger Recreation Club
144 Gregory Street, Wembley

Lunch: Pizza

Contact us
info@dbwa.org.au
erika@dbwa.org.au

Consultative Workshops
2025-05-26 09:30 - 14:30
Public Skills Australia is delivering an important initiative on behalf of the Australian Government to review and update the Auslan, Interpreting, and Translating Training Qualifications. Join them for consultative workshops in Auslan and English.
Workshop Agenda
• Current State of Auslan Interpreting in Australia & Global Best Practices.
• Perspectives on Current Qualifications.
• Identifying Areas for Improvement.
• Building a Pathway for Action. The workshop will be held in person, with refreshments provided, including morning tea and lunch for all attendees. To ensure accessibility and inclusivity, Auslan Interpreters will be available to support the discussions.
Community Workshop
When: Monday 26th May
Time: 9:30am to 2:30pm
Location: Novotel Perth
Cost: Free
Spaces are limited
To Register click this link- https://events.humanitix.com/public-skills-australia-auslan-interpreting-and-translating-qualification-review-project-community-consultative-workshop-perth

DBWA Connect
2025-06-04 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-06-18 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-07-02 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-07-16 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-07-30 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-08-13 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-08-27 12:30 - 15:00, 2025-09-10 12:30 - 15:00
Deafblind West Australians has created an opportunity for people who are deafblind to “connect” at our DBWA Connect Drop In Centre.
The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is open on Wednesday (fortnightly), We are a drop in centre focused on assistive and adaptive technology literacy in the Deafblind Community. The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is where people who are deafblind can help each other.
The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is located at The Rise, 28 Eighth Avenue Maylands from 12:30PM to 3:00PM

Inclusive Sports Symposium
2025-06-12 10:00 - 14:00
Inclusive Sports Symposium

Join us for an interactive Inclusive Sports Symposium, open to all coaches, umpires, volunteers, and staff, proudly supported by
DLGSC.

Hosted by Paralympian , Priya Cooper OAM.
Keynote speakers include:
Tegan Reder – Paralympian
Denise McMillan – Bowls WA
Zara Cavalot – Tennis West

In collaboration with State Sporting Associations, we aim to create more inclusive clubs, enhance coaching skills, and expand participation opportunities for people with disabilities in sport
and recreation throughout WA.

Thursday 12th June 2025
Willetton Basketball Stadium
function room
10am to 2pm
FREE EVENT

Registrations are essential, and can be made through this link : https://www.trybooking.com/CWGCG

DEAFBLIND AWARENESS WEEK 2025
2025-06-24 09:00 - 11:30
Deafblind West Australians invite you to join us in celebrating Deafblind Awareness Week, held internationally each year during the week of Helen Keller’s birthday to honour her life and legacy.

Come along to hear inspiring stories, enjoy tactile art, and connect with the community.

DATE: Tuesday 24 June 2025
TIME: 9:00am-11.30am
WHERE: Perth City Farm
1 City Farm Place, East Perth WA 6004

PROGRAM
9.00am: Registration
9.30am: Presentations by people with lived experience of Deafblindness:
– Peer Support & Self-Advocacy
– Leadership & Achievements
– Deafblind Awareness
– Launch of the DBWA Young Leaders Program
11.00am: MORNING TEA
– Unveiling of a new tactile art collaboration, to be featured alongside our permanent mosaic totem created by the Deafblind Community during Deafblind Awareness Week 2023.

AUSLAN INTERPRETERS ON SITE
MORNING TEA PROVIDED

COME JOIN US TO CELEBRATE, EVERYONE IS WELCOME:

PLEASE REGISTER BY 11 JUNE:
linni.oliver@senses.org.au
Any enquiries please contact Linni on 0400186968

Social in the Valley
2025-07-05 11:00 - 14:00
Join ASLITA for an afternoon of networking and connection with interpreters, Deaf community members, students, and support workers. It’s a great chance to build relationships, share experiences, and strengthen professional and community links in Perth with a relaxed, social setting.
They’ll also be running a cash raffle fundraiser to support a Perth attendee’s trip to the WFDYS Children’s Camp — any cash contributions are appreciated!
Come along, expand your network, and support a great cause!
Date: Saturday 5th July 2025
Time: 11am – 2pm
Venue: Valley Social, 8731 West Swan Rd, Henley Brook WA
Please register by 1st July

2025 World Festival of Magic
2025-08-31 08:00 - 17:00
The World Festival of Magic provides relaxed theatre performances for
children and young adults.
– with diverse abilities and backgrounds
(wheelchair seating and an Auslan Interpreter at all shows).
– who might require a more flexible and inclusive environment when attending the theatre.
– those who are facing hardship.
– without access or opportunity to live theatre.
Enjoy the “live performance” experience with a casual attitude to audience noise and movement in an accessible and inclusive environment, where you are welcomed and free to be yourself without restriction or judgement.
Scan the QR Code to visit the shows website and watch highlights from previous shows.
Featuring a brand new show host and performer, along with some old favourites.
*With moving and occasional flashing lights, and upbeat music.
One-hour show, no interval. Suitable for all ages.
Ideal for School, Community/Social Group and Family Excursions.
ALL TICKETS ARE COMPLIMENTARY, including staff, parent, sibling and carer tickets. Thanks to sponsorship from local businesses.
*Bookings from schools, organisations, carers and families are all welcome.
ASTOR THEATRE PERTH, MOUNT LAWLEY, WA
SHOW DATES
SUNDAY, 31ST AUGUST 2025 at 11.30 AM, 1.30 PM & 3.30 PM
MONDAY, 1ST SEPTEMBER 2025 at 10.30 AM & 12.30 PM
To book tickets, please email your name, preferred showtimes, and the number of tickets required to
meredithnewman@showintent.com.au
or call/text 0404 367 782

Beauty and the Beast: The Musical
2025-09-13 14:00 - 17:00
Please email Jacqueline@dadaa.org.au if interested.

Beauty and the Beast the musical has arrived in Perth for the very first time!

Audiences and reviewers are raving about this ‘5 star blooming beautiful does of musical nostalgia’ (The West Australian) calling it ‘the best thing to grace the stage at Crown’ (Magazine 6000).

Limited seats available:
$80 restricted view
$115 Standard seat
$140 Standard seat
$170 Standard seat

Auslan Fitness Group
2025-09-21 08:00 - 12:00
CID Foundation – Autism, ARFID & Auslan

Come join the Auslan Fitness Group
Sunday 21st September from 8am
Meeting at the Surfing Lizard Café carpark at Coogee Beach

To RSVP follow the below link and comment on CID Foundation’s post:
https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1DFAUNzX1e/

DBWA Connect - Ceramics
2025-09-24 12:30 - 15:00
Deafblind West Australians has created an opportunity for people who are deafblind to “connect” at our DBWA Connect Drop In Centre. The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is where people who are deafblind can help each other.
Ceramics with Tate, Grace, and the Valued Lives team
Afternoon tea will be provided
Auslan interpreter will be at onsite
Please book your comm guide / support worker
Location: The Rise, 28 Eighth Avenue Maylands from 12:30PM to 3:00PM
To book a CommGuide, CLICK HERE

Auslan Day at Scitech
2025-09-30 08:00 - 17:00
To celebrate National Week of Deaf People, Scitech is making Tuesday 30th September accessible for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing Community.
For more information CLICK HERE
Too book a CommGuide CLICK HERE

DeafBlind West Australians Annual General Meeting
2025-10-05 11:00 - 15:00
When: Sunday, 5th October 2025 at 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Where: Lake Monger Recreation Club (LMRC), 144 Gregory Street, Wembley, WA

Program
• Short Training Workshop
• Annual General Meeting (AGM)
• Ballroom Fit session
Catering
• Lunch and afternoon tea will be provided.

Accessibility
• Auslan interpreters will be onsite.

More Info
For further details, you can email: info@dbwa.org.au

Auslan Video: https://www.facebook.com/kirstylim85/videos/705670549146025?idorvanity=853509891955326

DBWA Connect - Disability Discrimination Act 1992 Review & Self Advocacy Workshop
2025-10-08 12:30 - 15:00
Deafblind West Australians has created an opportunity for people who are deafblind to “connect” at our DBWA Connect Drop In Centre. The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is where people who are deafblind can help each other.
Disability Discrimination Act 1992 Review & Self Advocacy Workshop with Rita Kleinfeld-Fowell
Afternoon tea will be provided
Auslan interpreter will be at onsite
Please book your comm guide / support worker
Location: The Rise, 28 Eighth Avenue Maylands from 12:30PM to 3:00PM
To book a CommGuide, CLICK HERE

The Gala Extravaganza - Side Splitters
2025-10-18 23:30
The Gala Extravaganza is a must see event of the festival, featuring a line-up of hilarious comedians doing their very best material such as Luke Joseph Ryan, Chris Pucillo, Gill Cordiner, David Hughes, Xavier Michelides and more.
The Gala’s sell out every year, so get in early to avoid missing out!
(FEATURES AN AUSLAN INTERPRETER)
*Doors are 8.15pm and seating is on a first come first served basis. This event is held in the Main Hall. Garden bar with food and drinks options open from 6pm
Side Splitter Comedy Festival celebrates 10 years of laughter in 2025
Presented by City of Cockburn and Produced by WA Comedy
https://www.facebook.com/events/1272172484195926

To purchase tickets, CLICK HERE
To book a CommGuide, CLICK HERE

International White Cane Day Group Walk
2025-10-19 10:00 - 14:00
Deafblind West Australians invite you to join us on Sunday 19 October at Tomato Lake Reserve for our Annual White Cane Day Sponsored Walk to raise funds for our peer support group and to celebrate International White Cane Day 2025.

WHAT IS A SPONSORED WALK ?
A sponsored walk is a fundraising event where many people walk together to raise money to support their charity by collecting donations of money from people they know.

HOW CAN YOU HELP ?
You can help DBWA fundraise money by asking your friends, family, neighbours and colleagues to fill in the DBWA White Cane Day Sponsored Walk Form to say they will donate money for you to walk around Tomato Lake.

MONEY CAN BE PAID THE FOLLOWING WAYS:
CASH payment
DBWA Square Reader Tap-and-Go payment at the event

Everyone is welcome to participate in the walk with our Deafblind Community and help raise funds for DBWA.
We welcome.
Deafblind.
Deaf. Hard of hearing. Hearing.
Blind. Low Vision.
Communication Guides.
Sighted Guides.
Support Workers.
Sign Guides.
Auslan students.
Auslan Interpreters.
CODA’s.
Family. Friends. Old and new.
Colleagues.
Supporters. Volunteers.
The more people who join our walk, the more money we can raise.

You can walk around the lake as many times as you want to or as many times as you can.
Every step you take will help raise deafblind awareness and every dollar you raise will help DBWA to continue to support our Deafblind Community in WA.

Did you know that you don’t have to walk to help raise money for DBWA ?
If you are unable to walk (or walking is not your thing) you can still support us by collecting sponsorship donations and a DBWA Community member will do the walk for you.
You can still come along on the day and cheer our walkers on and join us for a sausage sizzle lunch.

When: Sunday 19 October
Where: Tomato Lake Reserve 19-31 Oats Street Kewdale
Time: 9.30am – 3pm
Group walk kicks off at 10am followed by a Sausage Sizzle Lunch or you can buy something yummy from the Tomato Lake Cafe.

Please let us know if you are coming so we can make sure we have enough sausages to feed our hungry walkers and their supporters.

Contact Linni if you would like a Sponsorship Form for DBWA White Cane Day Sponsored Walk or if you would like any more information about the walk.
Mobile:0400186968
Email: linni@dbwa.org.au
Sponsorship Forms can also be picked up from DBWA Connect Hub.

DBWA Connect - Diabetes Care
2025-10-22 12:30 - 15:00
Deafblind West Australians has created an opportunity for people who are deafblind to “connect” at our DBWA Connect Drop In Centre. The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is where people who are deafblind can help each other.
Diabetes Care with Lauren Cusack (Perth Diabetes Care Health Hub)
Afternoon tea will be provided
Auslan interpreter will be at onsite
Please book your comm guide / support worker
Location: The Rise, 28 Eighth Avenue Maylands from 12:30PM to 3:00PM
To book a CommGuide, CLICK HERE

Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan
2025-11-01 09:30 - 17:00
As part of the “Stronger Together” Mental Health Project, this workshop will explore grief and loss across the lifespan through a deafblind lens, with a focus on the Deafblind, Deaf, and Blind/Low Vision communities.
PRESENTERS:
Dr Annmaree Watharow
As a Deafblind person with lived experience of Usher Syndrome, Annmaree is an author with qualifications in both medicine and psychology. She presents nationally and internationally and is a lead disability researcher focusing on dual sensory loss.
Ramas McRae,
Lecturer, Tutor, Deaf Consultant, Deaf Interpreter; Ramas has contributed to the Deaf Community both nationally and internationally. He is currently completing his PhD in deafness, language acquisition, and mental health.
Dr Alana (Lani) Roy
Psychologist, social worker, and therapist, Lani is dedicated to ensuring accessible, culturally sensitive mental health services for the Deaf, Blind, and Deafblind communities.
Shelly Skinner
Clinical Social Worker, CEO and Founder of Lionheart Camp for Kids, Shelly is committed to building a community where grief is seen as a healthy and normal response to death and life.

EVENT DETAILS:
WHEN: Saturday 1 November 2025
WHERE: Technology Park HUB Building 2 Brodie-Hall Drive, Bentley
TIME: 9.30am – 5pm
Registration 9.00am – The Workshop will start promptly at 9.30am

COST: There is no cost to attend this workshop. Lunch, Morning and Afternoon Tea provided

PLATFORM INTERPRETERS WILL BE PROVIDED

PLEASE BOOK YOUR COMMUNICATION GUIDE/SUPPORT WORKER ASAP

ALL COMMUNICATION MODES WILL BE SUPPORTED. PLEASE ADVISE PROMPTLY IF YOU HAVE SPECIFIC COMMUNICATION REQUIREMENTS

PLEASE RSVP NO LATER MONDAY 20 OCTOBER:
Linni Oliver: linni@dbwa.org.au Mobile: 0400186968
Karen Wickham-Grey: karen@dbwa.org.au Mobile: 0424900788

DEAFBLIND/DEAF/HOH HEARING/BLIND/LOW VISION ARE ALL WELCOME

DBWA Connect - Auslan and Haptics
2025-11-05 12:30 - 15:00
Deafblind West Australians has created an opportunity for people who are deafblind to “connect” at our DBWA Connect Drop In Centre. The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is where people who are deafblind can help each other.
Auslan and Haptics
Afternoon tea will be provided
Auslan interpreter will be at onsite
Please book your comm guide / support worker
Location: The Rise, 28 Eighth Avenue Maylands from 12:30PM to 3:00PM
To book a CommGuide, CLICK HERE

Deaf Craft Class - Painting & Mosaics
2025-11-07 11:00 - 16:30
When: Friday 7 November 2025 at 11:00AM to 4:30PM

Where: Lake Monger Recreational Club – Wembley

BYO Lunch or order at the bar
RSVP by 24th October 2025 (deafcraftclass@gmail.com)

Mosaic Kit
Heart bird tray or photo frame – $14 each

Painting Kit
Wood round mirror or vinyl record – $9 each
CLICK HERE to book a CommGuide

West Australian Symphony Orchestra presents CONNECT
2025-11-11 13:30 - 15:30
Tailored musical experiences for the disability sector

Our Connect program provides accessible intimate chamber concerts and open rehearsals for adults registered with disability support organisations tailored to individuals who are unable to attend a full symphony orchestra concert due to accessibility requirements. With musicians joining guests for morning tea and a chat after the concert, the events are very popular, with some repeat attendees joining us for several years at every event

Connect Chamber Concert
1.30pm, Tuesday 11 November
South Perth Community Hall
Our musicians have put together an exciting selection of music you know and love for this relaxed concert in the heart of the Southern suburbs. Join us for this free concert followed by an afternoon tea.
Registration essential

https://www.waso.com.au/education-community/community/connect/

Fremantle Biennale presents Microfictions
2025-11-14 16:00 - 18:00
Date: 14 November at 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
Location: Naval Store -141 Queen Victoria St, Fremantle
Duration: 60 minutes, looped
Event Information: This event is held indoors and undercover. The performance can be entered at any time during opening hours.

Step into an unfurling cosmos of sound, movement and poetry in Microfictions — a major new commission by internationally acclaimed duo Hylozoic/Desires (Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappeser), in collaboration with Vessel Contemporary. Occupying Fremantle’s iconic Naval Store, this live performance installation is a slowly shifting meditation on land, love and deep time.

Audiences are invited to recline in suspended hammocks — floating, as if in the ocean — while a sand mandala in the form of a topographical map morphs slowly beneath them. Charting a course from the ancient supercontinent Pangea to the speculative future of Pangea Ultima, performers trace the outlines of the evolving continents with materials native and invasive — white sand, crushed limestone, salt, even flecks of gold, camel hair and cuttlefish— shaping and reshaping borders in an eternal drama of impermanence.

Tapping into planetary turbulence, Microfictions is a poetic and sonic meditation on weight — what anchors us — and lightness — what defies gravity and how we drift. Accompanied by a score for upright bass, electric harp and percussion, recalling the tectonic rhythms and rumbles of the Earth, Microfictions traverses oceans, continents and hemispheres imagining futures of intermingling cultures and languages, ecological entanglements and human-nonhuman dependencies. This is a powerful call to the intimacy of deep memory and land both as displacement and reconciliation.

Hylozoic/Desires’ expansive and celebrated practice has been presented at leading institutions including the Serpentine (London), Desert X (California), Shanghai Biennale, Venice Biennale, Sharjah Biennale and the Swiss Institute (New York). Microfictions marks their much-anticipated Australian premiere.

https://fremantlebiennale.com.au/event/microfictions/?fbclid=IwY2xjawNuQK5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjfM-YZKjZs0QVEkWPzFTc-FtbOkp6vMWGfu-8n8zAuWunLgFyN-WkVDfDL2_aem_2-Av-HP7C1-B_HYZZ7Iafw

DBWA Connect - Craft Day
2025-11-19 12:30 - 15:00
Deafblind West Australians has created an opportunity for people who are deafblind to “connect” at our DBWA Connect Drop In Centre. The DBWA Connect Drop In centre is where people who are deafblind can help each other.
Craft Day
Afternoon tea will be provided
Auslan interpreter will be at onsite
Please book your comm guide / support worker
Location: The Rise, 28 Eighth Avenue Maylands from 12:30PM to 3:00PM
To book a CommGuide, CLICK HERE
