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Two more nights of trees and magic at Kings Park

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If you want to go on a magical, mystery tour you have two more nights to get yourself and the family down to Kings Park.

Despite the unseasonal weather the Perth International Arts Festival is pushing ahead with a spectacular walk-through light and sound spectacular called Boorna Waaginy: The Trees Speak.

Enter Kings Park along Fraser Avenue and you find yourself in an enormous tunnel nearly a kilometre long with startling images projected onto the trees beside and above you - and that's just the start of the show.

"You will suddenly be surrounded by sound,light and rain. Trees will transform to water rushes and a heron will grab a fish. You'll hear a splash," said show director Nigel Jamieson.

The show explains how the Noongar people divided their year into six season.

"The traditional concept of the season is something we brought here hundreds of years ago. Scientists now know the actual cycles of nature in the land and there is a growing confidence in the way Noongar people saw it work.

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"If you measure and watch the seasons as they unfurl, they break down more naturally into this cycle," said Mr Jamieson. 

The walk will take you 45 minutes to walk through and the show loops from 8pm-11pm.

It is just one of the attractions of this year's PIAF in which 700 international artists will put on 180 events inlcuding 11 Australian exclusives and five world premieres.

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