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RAC Arena Crowned Australia’s Best Indoor Arena
RAC Arena named Australia’s Best Indoor Arena in 2025 Western Australia’s home of live entertainment, RAC Arena, has once again cemented its reputation as one of the nation’s leading live entertainment venues, taking out Australia’s Best Indoor Arena at the 2025 Stadium Awards again, as voted by fans across the country.
RAC ARENA ANNOUNCES 2025 LIMELIGHT WINNERS
BOOX KID TO RECEIVE LIMELIGHT MUSIC SUPPORT PACKAGE FOR 2026 In the fourth year of the initiative, indie electronic pop act, Boox Kid, has been chosen by a judging panel of industry professionals to be the recipient of the Limelight Music Support Fund package valued at over $25,000.
How To Host The Ultimate Christmas Feast
Christmas is that magical time of year when loved ones come together — and if you’re the one hosting, it can feel both exciting and a little overwhelming. Regardless of whether you’re throwing a traditional festive roast dinner or a quintessentially Australian BBQ, having a solid Christmas checklist can help make your Christmas day planning simple and stress-free.
RAC Arena’s charity raffle raises over $74,000 for WA community
RAC Arena’s Concert Superpass charity raffle, in support of The Salvation Army, gives one fortunate winner access to an array of events on the venue’s 2026 calendar. Available over a 7-week period, participants could purchase $10 raffle tickets for a chance to win a double pass to events including Good Charlotte, Lorde, Machine Gun Kelly, and a sold out Hilltop Hoods.
RAC Renews Naming Rights Partnership with Perth’s Home of Live Entertainment
Marking the venue’s 13th anniversary, RAC is proud to announce the renewal of its naming rights partnership with RAC Arena, Perth’s premier live entertainment venue managed by Legends Global, securing its association until 2030. RAC has played a pivotal role in the arena’s journey since the beginning, firstly as a founding partner in 2013, before becoming the inaugural naming rights partner in 2018.
WA MUSO’S INVITED TO STEP INTO THE SPOTLIGHT!
RAC Arena’s Limelight supports West Australian musical talent For the fourth consecutive year, RAC Arena is once again giving local musicians the chance to step into the spotlight with the return of Limelight, a hyper local music support fund presented by RAC Arena and supported by West Australian Music (WAM). Continuing the venue’s commitment to nurturing homegrown talent, Limelight supports the winning Western Australian act with financial, performance and promotional opportunities.
Legends Global Charts Bold Path For the Future of Live Sports and Entertainment
Legends and ASM Global have officially united as Legends Global, creating the premier partner to the world’s greatest live events, venues, and brands. Building on Legends’ acquisition of ASM Global in August 2024, the company delivers an unrivaled, fully integrated solution of premium services with a white-label approach.
RAC Arena Welcomes New Community Partners
RAC Arena welcomes new community partners: Binar Futures, WA Wildlife, Inclusion Solutions and 20Talk Western Australia’s home of live entertainment, RAC Arena, is thrilled to announce their community partners for 2025 to 2026 on International Day of Charity.
RAC Arena’s Concert Superpass Charity Raffle is back! - RAC Arena
Want to win a double pass to each concert in 2026? RAC Arena are thrilled to announce their hugely successful Concert Superpass charity raffle is back for another year. For the price of just two barista coffees, one lucky winner will walk away with two tickets to each concert on the 2026 calendar at Western Australia’s home of live entertainment.
Chickenfoot Soup
A scream rises from the bush. One last call to the living: a warning of pain. Katarina’s heard that same sound more times than she’s had hot dinners but still a ribbon of unease unfurls in her gut. She sets her cleaver down for a moment, shifting from one foot to the other until she hears the pop-pop of her hips settling back into place. She stills, head cocked. There’s a man’s voice coming from the front yard. Ruby’s in the front yard, too. There’s her little laugh, high and breathy.
Rearticulations on New Ground: Diaspora Terraforming in The Black God's Drums and Ring Shout
When I read Zora Neale Hurtson’s Their Eyes Were Watching God for the first time last year, I approached it with caution. Much had been made about her use of African American dialect—I did not assume that being a Jamaican reader of African descent would render it any more legible to me than any other non-African American reader. Yet even as I had created distance, there was a countercurrent. Learning Hurston was from Florida made her family to me.
A Few Notes on Paradise
Beautiful things, beautiful places, are not supposed to be complicated. They exist to be dreamt of, and no one wants to have annotations and footnotes on their fantasies. When beautiful places are allowed stories they are simple ones. Paradise is lost or paradise is found, perhaps the world begins in it but certainly does not stay in it. It is a garden, which is not something one lives in; it is a place to visit. Paradise is an idea. You may have heard that the Caribbean is a paradise.
30 October 2023 By Strange Horizons
an introduction to the Caribbean SFF Special Issue an introduction to the Caribbean SFF Special Issue You’d hung suspended between living and unliving when the pastor spewed vitriol off the pulpit against people like you. “Dónde estámos?” Mateo asks, wiping the wetness out of his hair. We’re both sopping wet. Charcos may get you there fast, but it’s not the cleanest way to travel.
Strange Horizons - By Strange Horizons
“Dónde estámos?” Mateo asks, wiping the wetness out of his hair. We’re both sopping wet. Charcos may get you there fast, but it’s not the cleanest way to travel. I tellin’ all yuh the queen must be alien or something not of this earth, because in 1966 she come and visit Trinidad when I was just a schoolgirl My fin cuts through the bioluminescent memories as I bring the mortal freedom seekers to a place of refuge. can an island have ptsd? maybe then, every earthquake is just the land remembering
Escape Pod 781: Seed Vault (Part 2)
Seed Vault (Part 2) By Marika Bailey The desert rain has lulled me and I sleep all the way through the daylight hours. It is only when the light recedes and the temperature of the desolation plummets that I awaken. Minn has gathered close to me, her large musky bulk keeping me warm. Around us, there are ice crystals on the grey earth, gilding the parched shrubgrass. It does not get this cold in the village. Our air and earth are protected by the founding guardian line that rings every settlement.
Escape Pod 780: Seed Vault (Part 1)
Seed Vault (Part 1) By Marika Bailey 1. FIRE I should tell you about the gods, yes? Good setting for it. Here in the desert, hunger and thirst sharpen the soul. Sharpens it enough to poke right through the side of your mind to let in the second sight. They hitched rides like barnacles and weeds on the bellies of our soulships and crossed the dark. Slave ship, starship, no matter to them. Belong is belong, yes? They took root and grew fat in the good red earth. I am surrounded by our gods.
There Will Be a Question and Answer Period After Your Inevitable Demise
[/]PLEASE WAIT. THE MEETING HOST WILL LET YOU IN SOON.[/] . . . [Not_the_voice_of_god] We hope the manner of your death has been pleasing to you. You’re confused, perhaps. Uncomfortable? This period of adjustment is necessary—optimal—for your full post-life experience. Contrary to your expectations, there are no angels here, no mead hall with feasting warriors. Did they tell you fair maidens awaited you? I have not been a maiden in quite some time. And I have never been fair, which you said made me foul.
Mouth By Sasha LaPointe
The crumbling of a De la Rosa candy on the tip of my tongue ranked high among the things I missed the most. So did kissing. If there were a top five, the two might be side by side on the list. Cigarettes and spitting might also have a place. I rarely smoked, usually only on special occasions, because I have asthma. As infrequently as I had them, each cigarette felt special, a small revolution, an uprising against my own body, against my own stupid, dysfunctional lungs. Cigarettes were exciting.
Flash Fiction Archives - Fantasy Magazine
Flash Fiction There Will Be a Question and Answer Period After Your Inevitable Demise by Marika Bailey We hope the manner of your death has been pleasing to you. You’re confused, perhaps. Uncomfortable? This period of adjustment is necessary—optimal—for your full post-life experience. Contrary to your expectations, there are no angels here, no mead hall with feasting warriors. Flash Fiction To My (Final) Girl by Dustin Katz You wanted to buy the house. Could you at least admit that?
Marika Bailey - Fantasy Magazine
Marika Bailey Marika Bailey is an Afro-Caribbean author and illustrator. Her work has previously appeared in FIYAH Magazine, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Apparition Lit. A childhood obsession with mythology led to her current habit of writing stories. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband and the softest cat in the world. You can find her tweeting about drawing and 80’s sitcoms as @Marika_Writes_.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies - Daughters With Bloody Teeth by Marika Bailey
The sun fell in love. My maman always told it that way. The sun fell in love with the goddess of the mountain and he wanted her. In the end he ate her right up. Snap snap snap. I’d always wondered what that felt like. To be eaten. To know that you are being devoured. That’s the problem with wondering, maman told me when I was little. You put small thoughts out into the world, and they are sure to come back and bite you. Now, it’s not the dog’s fault she ate me. Not really. And I’m not mad at her about it.
Beneath Ceaseless Skies Issue #321
Issue #321 of Beneath Ceaseless Skies online magazine, featuring stories by Tegan Moore and Marika Bailey. Posted on Wednesday, January 6th, 2021 at 3:00 am.
Seed Vault By Marika Bailey, Art by Gary Frier
CONTENT WARNING: This page contains: Animal cruelty/death Disregard for personal autonomy Blood Body transformation Death/dying Pregnancy Racism Violence/combat Seed Vault, © 2019 by Gary Frier 1. FIRE I should tell you about the gods, yes? Good setting for it. Here in the desert, hunger and thirst sharpen the soul. Sharpens it enough to poke right through the side of your mind to let in the second sight.
The Smoke by Simon Ings
The key unwritten law for travelling on the London Underground is that you should never interact with fellow passengers, with the possible exception of offering your seat to someone visibly more in need of it. You may, however, people-watch a bit more openly than is usually advisable on the street. At peak times, the proximity of bodies, odours, and hormones leads to a suffused comingling of fear and desire, as the drives of the collective unconsciousness rise uncomfortably close to the surface.
What We Left Behind in Jacksonville
We were on the way to the Jaycees Annual Haunted House. There were seven of us crammed in the car which was okay because it meant there were three of us in the front seat and I was mashed up against Jack and he had one hand on the wheel and one on my knee which was driving us both a little crazy in a good way. We were all wearing those halfway costumes you wear in high school; I was dressed as a gypsy and Jack was some kind of zombie version of Sinatra.
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