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    Fremantle Arts Centre

    Dec 02, 2016 3 minutes
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    In 1976, the Fremantle Print Award, now the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award supported by Little Creatures Brewing, was established, placing the Arts Centre on the national stage.

    The imposing neo-gothic building in which the Arts Centre is housed has a fascinating and varied history spanning more than 150 years. Starting its life in the 1860s as a convict-built lunatic asylum, this evocative limestone building has also served as a US Navy submarine depot during WWII, a Women’s Home, a technical college and a museum. The building was also the

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