04 August 2026
Beachside jazz, all weekend long
After attracting a record 2,700 attendees last year, JazzConnect returns to Scarborough Beach from 28 to 30 August 2026 with an expanded program.
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Welcome to the July edition of Stirling Scene
Caption: City of Stirling Mayor Mark Irwin AM shares a laugh at last month's Mirrabooka Refugee Week Freedom Cup and Family Fun Day.
The winter school holidays start this weekend and if you’re looking for ways to entertain the kids, we’re here to help. From children’s markets in Dianella and Yokine to all the colour and culture of Mirrabooka NAIDOC, we’re supporting a range of family-friendly events. Community planting days in Scarborough and Trigg will give your children the chance to get their hands dirty while contributing to local conservation. If you want to keep the action indoors, our leisure centres and libraries have all the usual activities, plus some school holiday extras. You’ll find some of these events listed at the bottom of this month’s edition of Stirling Scene.
On a more serious note, the school holidays are also a time when there are more families on our roads. The state’s road toll for 2026 is on track to be the worst in many years, with 111 lives lost in just six months. Regardless of how much effort and funding goes into road safety, the main factor will always be driver behaviour. Please take care behind the wheel.
The City was proud to win its 12th consecutive Gold Award at the 2026 Australasian Reporting Awards last month. I’ll always give us a shout-out for winning one of these awards because it recognises our transparency and accountability with the community. While I’m at it, I’d also like to congratulate Councillors Tony Krsticevic, Andrea Creado and Teresa Olow for receiving a Merit Award for their service to local government at the WA Local Government Association’s 2026 Local Government Awards.
Mark Irwin
Mayor
What's on in the City
Djilba — season of conception
Local Aboriginal-owned graphic design agency, Norlap Creative, partnered with artist Teresa Miller to create six original artworks for the City of Stirling that share the story of the Nyoongar seasons and Mooro Country native flora and fauna. The above artwork represents Djilba or first spring.
Djilba is a transitional time of the year, with some very cold and clear days combining with warmer, rainy and windy days mixing with the occasional sunny day or two.
As the days start to warm up, we start to see and hear the first of the newborns with their proud parents out and about providing them food, guiding them through foraging tasks and protecting their family units from much bigger animals, including people.
