Events on 22nd May 2024

Opening hours

• Wednesday to Sunday // 10am to 4pm
• Closed Monday, Tuesday, Sunday and public holidays

The City of Wanneroo Community Art Awards and Exhibition has been a highly-regarded annual event on the City's cultural calendar since 2001. 

It is returning for yet another year with more than 100 artworks on show featuring a diversity of talent in the categories of Painting, Works on Paper, Sculpture and Photo, Film and Digital Media. 

Visitors will be able to vote for their favourite artwork in the ‘People’s Choice’ award and artists will be in the running to take home a share of the $18,700 prize pool.  

See Wanneroo Gallery for details.

Dates and times

• Monday // 10am to 4pm
• Tuesday // 10am to 4pm
• Wednesday // 10am to 4pm
• Thursday // 10am to 4pm
• Friday // 10am to 4pm
• Saturday // 12pm to 4pm
• Sunday - CLOSED

Explore fascinating photographs, memorabilia and artefacts including wool boots and vests sent overseas for the war effort, and you can view old membership lists to see if your mother, aunty, or grandmother’s name is included. City libraries will also be displaying cookbooks and photographs during this time to celebrate the occasion. 

Known for top notch scones, the CWA also has a long history of building and strengthening communities through advocacy, education, service and belonging – from starting the Land Girls to keep providing food to the war effort to advocating for the importance of seatbelts in cars.

The late Margaret Cockman, Freeman of the City, helped form the Wanneroo CWA branch in the 1960s, and won the title of CWA Cash Queen for raising the most money in the state to build the CWA building in Perth.

Dates and times

• Monday - CLOSED
• Tuesday - CLOSED
• Wednesday // 10am to 4pm
• Thursday // 10am to 4pm
• Friday // 10am to 4pm
• Saturday // 10am to 4pm
• Sunday - CLOSED

This exhibition shows how ‘crafting’ – traditionally considered women’s work – can be used for political expression and social change.

Changemakers consists of eight textile banners that represent a range of historical and contemporary activist movements including the women’s suffrage campaign, as well as banners displayed in town halls and churches. 

Many of the social issues raised by early activists remain vitally relevant today, including equal pay, sexual harassment, family violence, and female representation in Parliament and business.