Midland Junction Arts Centre is excited to host a variety of Fringe Festival shows in 2026. From musical performances to comedy and theatre, there is something for everyone.
We welcome you to explore our curated program.
Each Thursday the MJAC Drawing studio welcomes artists and beginners to hone their life drawing skills. These self-directed sessions feature a professional model and follow a traditional life drawing structure of timed poses in a supportive environment. Whether you are a beginner or looking to refine your skills, these flexible sessions provide the perfect opportunity to unlock your potential and deepen your understanding of the human figure.
Thurs | 10am - 1pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+ I Term 1 commences 5 Feb
$22 | $20 MAC Inc. Members | Bring preferred materials
Places are limited to 12 people, bookings essential.
Join Jenny and Kaitlyn at the Midland Junction Arts Centre tent to print a tote bag or create your own lantern from recycled materials.
Look out for Bob, our giant lizard who wants to fly, help transform him into a dragon as you soak up a wonderful summer evening enjoying the sound of live music.
Fri 20 Feb 2026 | 5.30 -8pm | All Ages
Free Event with Live Music and Lanterns
Locale Event Space 37 The Crescent, Midland
Photo by Kia Bako Kirkpatrick
Do you find watercolour difficult to control and confusing to use?
Join professional watercolour artist, Sheree Dohnt, as she walks you through everything you need to know when starting out on your watercolour journey.
Sat 21 Feb 2026 I 9am - 1pm I Suitable for Adults
$85 I $76.50 MAC Inc Members I Midland Junction Arts Centre CoLab
Materials: Please bring your own brushes - Flat 25mm and 50 mm (nylon); Round size 6,2,0 (nylon or natural hair); Mop brush size 2 (squirrel hair or imitation) and A5 or A4 watercolour or mixed media journal, minimum 200gsm sheets (for taking notes, optional). Paints, easel, board and paper are provided.
This session is a great lead into the portrait session held on the following Saturday.
Gain confidence in painting with watercolour, as award winning watercolour portrait artist, Sheree Dohnt, shares her process and top tips for painting portraits.
Sat 28 Feb 2026 I 10am – 4pm I Suitable for adults
$135 I $121.50 MAC Inc. Members
Materials: Please bring your own brushes - Flat 25mm and 50 mm (nylon); Round size 6,2,0 (nylon or natural hair); Mop brush size 2 (squirrel hair or imitation) and A5 or A4 watercolour or mixed media journal, minimum 200gsm sheets (for taking notes, optional). Paints, easel, board and paper are provided.
Learn the foundations of relief printmaking with a focus on colour, layering, and process. Participants will carve and print a relief block (either lino or wood), exploring both press and hand-printing techniques.
In this one-day workshop, participants, led by exhibiting artist Matt Perrin carve and print a lino block while learning inking, basic registration, and colour layering using the etching press alongside hand-printing methods. Techniques discussed are transferable to woodblock printmaking.
Sat 28 Feb 2026 | 10am – 4pm | Suitable for ages 18+
$165 | $148.50 Members | Booking Essential | Print Studio | Midland Junction Arts Centre
Join us at Midland Junction Arts Centre for an afternoon of poetry and music in ode to the sun, performed by Margaret D. Jones and Yamuna Daw, to celebrate the launch of Una Bell’s new poetry book You See the Shadows.
Sun 8 Mar 2026 | 12.30 – 2.30pm | Suitable for 16 years+
12.30pm | Studio 1 open
1pm – 2.30pm | Performance in Function Room (incl. 20 min interval, with light refreshments provided)
$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Booking Essential
In this beginner workshop you will learn basic lino printing techniques for home and studio practice. Explore effective linocut block usage, image reversal, hand burnishing and how to use a printing press. Create your own designs and delve into key printmaking concepts.
Sat 14 and Sat 21 Mar 2026 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+
$165 | $148.50 Mac Inc. members | Materials included.
Learn basic jewellery skills to upcycle copper cable and plastic bottle tops into wearables and ornaments with jewellery artist Melissa Cameron.
Sat 21 & Sun 22 Mar 2026 | 11am - 3pm | Suitable for 16yrs+
$165 | $148.50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials Provided
Join exhibiting artist Rachelle Dusting for a 90-minute Charcoal Portrait Workshop. This guided session invites all levels of experience to explore expressive mark-making, tonal relationships, and refine your skills in observation through charcoal.
Sun 29 Mar 2026 | 11am - 12:30pm | Suitable for 13yrs+
$60 | $54 MAC Inc. Members | All materials provided.
Photo by Henri Pham.
Join exhibiting artist Rachelle Dusting for a live oil painting demonstration exploring her observational approach to portraiture. Watch a work unfold in real time as she discusses palette, process, and decision-making, offering insight into how contemporary figurative paintings are built through light, restraint, and sustained attention.
Sun 12 Apr 2026 | 11am - 12:30pm | Suitable for 13 yrs+
$30 | $27 MAC Inc. Members | Materials Included
Join Curator, Candice Nannup on the closing of Djoowak Moordidjabiny, as she discusses the exhibition’s curatorial vision, themes and stories.
Gain a deeper understanding of how the works came together and how each artist's practice contributes to the underlying concept of Generations Becoming Stronger, while enjoying a celebratory afternoon of connection to arts and Culture at MJAC.
Sun 8 Feb | 3.30 – 4.30pm | Light refreshments provided
$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Bookings Essential - First Nations People exempt from fee
Join exhibiting artist Sultana Shamshi as she discusses her story, passion for making jewellery and the themes she explores in Revisiting the Mughal Gardens.
Revisiting the Mughal Gardens is a retrospective of jewellery and sculptural forms translating identity, history and culture into Western Australian materials while exploring a personal response to injustices around the world.
Sun 8 Feb | 2.15 - 2.45pm | Light refreshments provided
$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Bookings Essential
Join Jenny and Kaitlyn at the Midland Junction Arts Centre tent to create your own sea themed musical instrument from recycled materials.
Look out for visits by mermaids and pirates as you soak up a wonderful summer evening enjoying the sound of live Disney Tunes played by the Chamber Collective.
Fri 23 Jan | 5.30 -8pm | Ages 3-10 years (families)
FREE EVENT
Locale Event Space 37 The Crescent, Midland
Photo by Kia Bako Kirkpatrick
Get ready to turn gaming into growth! Join Mind Buzz in Midland for a full day of "screen time with purpose" where we use Java Minecraft to teach leadership, teamwork, and creative problem-solving.
Thu 15 Jan 2026 | 9:30am - 3:30pm | Suitable for ages 7-14
Tickets: $79.00 | Midland Junction Arts Centre
Drop in and visit Artist in Resident Clive Ryder in Studio 1 as he works on his painting, adding to the collection on display for his first solo exhibition.
Sun 14 Dec 2025 | 11.30am - 1.30pm | Suitable for all ages
All artworks available for sale.
Clive Ryder is Artist in Resident at MJAC from 22 NOV - 21 DEC
This performance brings together four of Perth’s finest singers, Sue Bluck, Kerry Byrom-Carter, Annie Neil and Jenny Wrenn, to create a new group, Vocal 4. Refurbishing and rearranging some old favourites and new discoveries, these remarkable women will move easily through Swing, Latin, Pop and Soul, demonstrating the diversity of popular music. Denis Follington: Musical Director.
Sun 7 Dec 2025 | 2 - 3pm or 6-7pm
$35 general admission | Midland Junction Arts Centre
Create a wildflower textile while learning the art of collage, applique and stitch in this half day workshop with costume designer Angela Ferolla.
Sat 6 Dec | 10.30am - 2.30pm | Suitable for 15+ yrs
$65 | $58.50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials provided
Join hills artist Ric Burkitt for a short session to loosen up and explore landscape painting using acrylic. Ric will explain his process of capturing mood as you create a painting study of ‘where the land meets the sky’.
Sun 30 Nov | 1.30 - 3pm | 18yrs+
$70 | $63 MAC Inc. Members
Enjoy a free Sunday of arts and music at Midland Junction Arts Centre as we celebrate our annual Open Day. Explore the centre’s exhibitions, studios, shop, demonstrations and workshops and then relax in the leafy courtyard to the sounds of chamber music from across the ages as the Community Chamber Collective presents Simply Strings, a free concert featuring classic and contemporary pieces.
Sun 30 Nov | 1 - 2.30pm
Free Event | Booking Essential
Join Una Bell, environmental enthusiast and WA Herbarium Research Associate, as she discusses the importance of the native grasses of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth hills.
Sun 30 Nov | 12.15 - 12.45pm | 16+ yrs
Free | Registrations essential
Join hills artist Ric Burkitt for a short session to loosen up and explore landscape painting using acrylic. Ric will explain his process of capturing mood as you create a painting study of ‘where the land meets the sky’.
Sun 30 Nov | 11am - 12.30pm | 18yrs+
$70 | $63 MAC Inc. Members
Visit Midland Junction Arts Centre on Sunday 30 November to explore free exhibitions and get creative with local artists in drop-in sessions, demonstrations and workshops.
Sun 30 Nov 2025 | 11am - 2:30pm | All Ages
Free Event | Midland Junction Arts Centre
In this one-day workshop, be guided by renowned fibre artist Fiona Gavino who will teach you an intuitive approach to creating sculptural forms and vessels using cane and random weaving. No prior basketry experience or creative practice experience necessary. After your weaving session, explore what is on offer as part of MJAC’s annual Open Day.
Sun 30 Nov 2025 | 11am - 2pm | Suitable for 18+
$65 | $58.50 MAC Inc. Members | Materials provided
Visit Midland Junction Arts Centre’s ceramic studio and learn the art of large pot throwing as you watch local ceramist Lee Woodcock create a form using the coil and throw method.
Sun 30 Nov | 11am - 2.30pm
Free Drop-in | No booking required
Drop in and see ‘’What’s in Store’’ at Midland Junction Arts Centre. New retail supplier and emerging artist Josi Svendsen will be demonstrating her painting techniques on the Veranda, inviting people to have a chat while she creates a painting of the endangered Red-Tailed Cockatoo.
Sun 30 Nov | 11am - 2pm | All Ages
Free drop-in | No booking required
Learn about the importance of creating habitats for native species as environmentalist Cathy Levett shows you how to create a bee hotel to take home to add to your garden.
Sun 30 Nov | 11am - 2.30pm
Free Drop-in | No booking required
The Perth Hills is home to plants of prey and special rocky environments found nowhere else in the world. Join artists Kaitlyn Elsegood and Leanne Bray to create a paper Sundew and add to the sculptural granite outcrop installation.
Sun 30 Nov | 11am - 2.30pm | All ages | Front Garden
Free Drop-in | No Bookings Required
Join MAC Inc. Artistic Program Manager Jess Knight for a curatorial tour of Vessels, featuring artists Fiona Gavino, Philip Noakes FIPG and Martien van Zuilen as they discuss their processes and works in Vessels.
Sun 9 Nov | 11am - 12pm | Suitable for 16yrs+
$5 | $4.50 MAC Inc. Members | Bookings Essential
Image: Philip Noakes, 2020. Photo by Acorn Photo.
Enjoy a free Sunday of arts and music at Midland Junction Arts Centre.
Explore Vessels on show in the gallery, then immerse yourself in an afternoon of chamber music from across the ages as the Community Chamber Collective presents Chronology, a free concert featuring classic and contemporary music-through-time.
Sun 9 Nov | 1 - 2.30pm
Free Event | Booking Essential
Get creative and join the Open Day festivities with a fun and interactive screen-printing workshop. Print your very own tote bag to take home. Celebrate Open Day by adding your unique touch to our building’s image and logo and enjoy this hands-on opportunity to explore your artistic side.
Sun 30 Nov | 11am - 2.30pm
Free drop-in | No booking required
Papalote Australia, is pleased to present the theatrical adaptation of the classic Mexican novel "Macario" written by Bruno Traven (1913).
Macario is a humble woodcutter and street sweeper, who lives obsessed with the hardships of his poverty and the fear of death. Due to the precarious situation always on the verge of hunger that he and his family live, he begins to yearn to be able to enjoy just eating without having to share it with anyone. This performance will be spoken in Spanish with English subtitles.
Sun 2 Nov 2025 | 4:30pm - 6:15pm
$38 general admission | Midland Junction Arts Centre
Unleash your creativity in this hands-on school holiday workshop to design a stencil of your favourite animal and bring it to life with drawing fluid and screen filler. Print your own t-shirt or tote bag and experiment printing your design on paper Bring a clean, prewashed cotton t-shirt and an A4 animal printout.
Wed 8 Oct 2025 | 10am - 1:30pm | Suitable for 10 -18yrs
$40 | $36 MAC Inc. Members | Materials provided, participants to bring a clean, prewashed cotton t-shirt and an A4 animal printout.
Midland Junction Arts Centre presents Ripairian, an immersive exhibition and performance led by Vahri McKenzie and Gemma Ben-Ary celebrating Mandoon Bilya (Helena River) through riverwork, performance and community connection.
Experience the Ripairian installation, followed by live music with Michael Terren in the Auditorium, as he accompanies a live-streamed performance from the river.
Sun 28 Sep 2025 OR Sun 5 Oct 2025
1pm - 2:30pm | All ages welcome
$20 | $18 MAC Inc. Members
Explore low relief plaster casting using everyday objects. This workshop for beginners introduces mould-making basics and casting techniques to create sculptural forms that capture surface texture, detail, and the tactile qualities of materials.
Thu 2 Oct 2025 | 10:30am - 2pm | Suitable for 10 - 18 yrs
$45 | $40.50 MAC Inc. Members
Join WA printmaker Odile Bell for a 3hour workshop to master the art of screen printing with hand-cut stencils, transferring designs onto textiles, paper, and tote bags. Elevate your creative practice as you learn essential techniques like heat-setting, tips for professional results, and setting up a home workspace. A detailed booklet is provided.
Sun 28 Sep 2025 | 11am-2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+
$110 | $100 MAC Inc. Members
Immerse yourself in an engaging workshop sure to prepare you to deliver fun, engaging, and empowering drama sessions. This workshop provides hours of practical application for creating original theatre scenes with youth or community. Learn by playing with the 4U team! We will also discuss how to link these scene creation to any educational subject or community issue you would like to explore as well as social emotional learning, confidence, and creativity building.
Thu 25 Sep 2025 | 9am - 2:30pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+
$250 per person | Midland Junction Arts Centre
Immerse yourself in an engaging workshop that will prepare you to deliver fun, engaging, and empowering drama sessions. Experience practical application for using theatre games, brain breaks, and creative prompts with groups. Learn by playing with the 4U team! We will also discuss how to link these activities to social emotional learning, confidence, and creativity building, as well as Theatre in Education situations.
Wed 24 Sep 2025 | 9am - 2:30pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+
$250 per person | Midland Junction Arts Centre
Learn the art of creative portrait photography from Award Winning Photographer Josh Wells. In this workshop learn to build rapport with your sitter all while managing camera settings, framing, and exposure.
This offering focuses on portraiture that captures the uniqueness of the subject and develops the distinct voice of the photographer. Gain the tools to photograph everyday people, not just models, balancing both the pragmatic aspects of camera settings with the creative vision.
In order to understand and experience both sides of a portrait sitting, participants will experience being both photographer and subject.
Participants are to bring their own camera of any brand or model, including phone cameras.
Sun 21 Sep 2025 | 11am – 2 pm | Suitable for ages 16+
$65 | $58.50 MAC Inc. Members
Join guest speakers, exhibiting artists and our International Artist-in-residence for a feast of food, conversation and ideas. MAC Inc.’s Who’s Coming to Dinner? event brings together artists and community to celebrate the work presented in four major MAC Inc. exhibitions curated to complement the Australian Ceramics Triennale.
Sat 20 Sep | 6-8:30pm | Suitable for ages 18+
$55 | $50 MAC Inc. Members | Bookings essential
Explore the art of rhythmic grids in this hands-on masterclass with international artist in residence Sakshi Agarwal. Using your own leather-hard vessel, learn to design and carve precise, flowing patterns that bring depth, movement, and visual harmony. This workshop is for early to mid-career ceramic artists eager to expand their surface design vocabulary and explore meditative mark-making. Participants need to bring a leather-hard vessel in any mid to high-fire clay body.
Sat 20 Sep | 11am-2pm | Suitable for 18 yrs+
$110 | $100 MAC Inc. Members
MJAC is a heritage listed building with access limitations. If you have any special requirements please contact us 9250 8062 before enrolling in a course.
Did you know that Midland Junction Arts Centre is managed by Mundaring Arts Centre (MAC)? If you are looking for even more arts and cultural experiences in the region visit the MAC website for details.
