Don't miss these 4 shows | 10 Nights in Port
Walyalup Fremantle Festival: 10 Nights in Port returns during Djilba season. Embrace the unknown. Expand your horizons. Experience new perspectives and people in our port city.
From international sauna rituals, to ceramic workshops lit by open community fires, venture out over 10 magical winter nights from 15-25 August. With an electrifying program of 15 fabulous events, it can be hard to choose. Not sure where to begin? Here are four shows you won’t want to miss.
SWEAT, SOAK, RELEASE
Elemental and intimate sauna on South Beach.
BUY TICKETS | Neighbourhood Sauna, South Beach | 15 - 25 AUG, various times between 5 pm and 11 pm
Join sacred evenings of collective well-being with The Neighbourhood Sauna at South Beach and unlock the power of ceremonial sauna practices from around the world.
Imagine stepping into a serene oasis where the warmth of a Finnish sauna meets the meditative tranquillity of a Japanese onsen. The invigorating steam of a Turkish hammam blends seamlessly with the aromatic birch whisks of an Estonian smoke sauna.
All on South Beach, Fremantle.
Guests indulge in a two-part treatment designed to rejuvenate body and mind. These sessions will transport you to a place where the culture of sauna is sacred and powerful with ritual.
The Neighbourhood Sauna’s practitioners will guide you through the session, each carefully curated to enhance relaxation and well-being.
Part One
Each session is paired with an essential oil derived from the sauna country of origin The Sauna component of the session will be 60 minutes long and involve:
Traditional Sauna, essential oil, salt body scrub, Viht (Sauna whisks made from Birch leaves), Sauna Hats made from felt, ice bath (at 3 degrees), magnesium hot bath (at 42 degrees), hot tea (of the region) or mulled wine.
Part Two
The second part of the session involves a communal ritual led by trained professionals, to foster a spirit of togetherness and shared well-being.
After cleansing in the sauna and the senses are awakened, guests gather by the fire and will be led through a ceremony involving a choice of tea, cacao or mulled wine. Intentions will be set and burned on the open fire. Guests will then be invited to be part of a Primal Therapy session.
Primal Therapy is a somatic technique using screams, shouting, laughter or crying to release stored emotion in the body. Completed by the water’s edge, the ocean carries away and cleanses the soul.
Experience the joyous rage and leave with a full heart.
The fusion of global sauna traditions and the natural beauty of South Beach creates a sanctuary where the senses are ignited, the body: revitalised, and the soul: nourished.
Whether you seek relaxation, rejuvenation or simply a break from the everyday hustle, this experience retreat offers a transformative escape that will stay with you.
CABERGAY
Glitz, glamour and transcendent divas.
BUY TICKETS | Freo.Social | 25 AUG, 7.30 pm - 9.30 pm
Variety is the spice of life, especially on the stage. CaberGAY is bringing a vivid smorgasbord of theatre, cabaret, circus, comedy, leather and kink to Fremantle for 10NIP24. Whatever your favourite flavour, you’ll be spoiled for choice! Hosted by Cougar Morrison this event will have you laughing, thinking and cheering until you’re hoarse.
CARS IN THE KOORT
An ode to South Terrace bog laps.
Cars in the Koort is a series of events honouring the port city's tradition of bog laps down South Terrace with a display of vehicles of many makes and models in the Koort on the Friday and Sunday of the festival.
Road Warriors of Fremantle Exhibition
FREE | Walyalup Civic Centre Foyer | 15 - 25 AUG, 9 am - 5 pm (Mon-Sat), 11 am - 3 pm (Sun)
Local photographer, Ben Reynolds, has spent the past decade capturing Fremantle’s love affair with cars on film. Told through a series of portraits this exhibition reflects the diverse character of Fremantle’s car culture and the stories of the poeple who drive them.
Road Warriors of Fremantle LIVE
FREE | Walyalup Koort | 16 AUG, 6.30 pm - 7.30 pm
Join us as we gather in the Koort to pay homage to the Road Warriors of Fremantle and mark the exhibition opening. We will gather under lights, we will make some noise in celebration of the cars, the people and the stories that reflect Freo’s magnetic attraction to unique cars.
Beach to Koort ‘Bog Lap’
FREE | Walyalup Koort | 25 AUG, 2 pm - 5 pm
Car owners of all makes and models will come together as we close out our Cars in the Koort series with a final magnificent Bog Lap. Tracing the well worn track along the Cappuccino Strip, this convoy of spectacular machines will pull up in and around the Koort for an afternoon devoted to this enduring community and their beautiful cars.
CRACKED
Community fires, history and healing.
FREE | Fremantle Arts Centre | 22 AUG, 6 pm - 8 pm
Hope is a life force that happens through us – it fuels resilience, unites communities and inspires change. Cracked is a participatory ceramic project and free exhibition that explores how communities rally and keep hope alive in even the darkest times.
The activation at Fremantle Art Centre pays homage to this historic site by sharing ancient and contemporary pottery traditions and creating space for guests to work with clay and firing kilns.
The grounds of the FAC will be illuminated by a trail of “community fires”: built and lit by guests, and breathtaking fire sculptures, around which neighbours, friends, and strangers can share stories, space, time and warmth.
Participants of the Alfred Lowe Workshop will also be firing their works as part of this live event.
Image credit: Rebecca Mansell
You can also catch the IOTA24: Indian Ocean Craft Triennial exhibition at Fremantle Arts Centre before experiencing Cracked.
