Your Week: Mandurah Crab Fest, a Brazilian Carnaval, comedy, music and more all happening this week in Perth

Channel 7 Mandurah Crab Fest Today, 10am to 9pm and tomorrow, 10am to 7pm, Mandurah A two-day celebration of food and entertainment with lots of blue manna crab. There is a music stage, cooking demonstrations and plenty of food. Nat Bass and James Ash from the Rogue Traders are playing a DJ set today. Tomorrow Ricki-Lee will be taking to the stage. The Alcoa Family Zone in Mandjar Square has plenty of free and low cost activities including a stage with lots of kid-friendly performances. There will be fireworks at 8.45pm tonight. Free and ticketed events. For more info visit crabfest.com.au Joondalup Festival Today to April 5, various locations throughout Joondalup There will be more than 30 performances, exhibition installations and experiences throughout the City of Joondalup over the next three weeks. Highlights include Water Dragons, an immersive water performance featuring three colossal dragons snaking their way to the waters of Hillarys Boat Harbour. On Boas Avenue, pop-up performance space The Cube will have live performances every night of the festival. Free and ticketed events. For more info visit joondalupfestival.com.au Gabby’s Dollhouse Live! Today to Sunday, 10am, 1pm and 4pm, Regal Theatre, Subiaco Join Gabby and her friends in this all-Australian production based off the hit TV show. With earworms like Sprinkle Party, Hey Gabby and Music in You, this is a show sure to get kids, and their adults, bobbing along. Tickets $39.90 to $109.90 from Ticketek. Brazilian Beach Carnaval 2025 Today, 1pm to 9pm, Scarborough Beach Amphitheatre Get a slice of Brazil’s iconic carnival celebrations down at Scabs with traditional Brazilian foods, dances, live music, capoeira acrobatics, market stalls and even a street parade. Visitors are encouraged to dress up in their colourful best. Family and dog friendly. Free 30th Anniversary Cambridge Street Festival Today, 3pm to 8pm, Cambridge Street (between Simper and Jersey Streets), Wembley A celebration of local community is at the heart of this long running festival. Expect live music, market stalls, kids activities, rides and game. Free John Grant: The Art Of The Lie Today, 6pm, Fremantle Arts Centre, Fremantle The singer-songwriter best known for fronting The Czars, comes to WA touring his latest solo album, The Art Of The Lie. Mixing humour, tragedy, the personal and political, Grant sets out his own understanding of the “new ethics of America.” Tickets $69 from Oztix Lookout Festival Today, 1pm, Whitfords Nodes Park, Hillarys If you’re fairly sure music peaked in 2003 (you’re probably right), then this is going to be a great show. The line-up includes Jet, Grinspoon, The Veronicas, Spiderbait, Jebediah and Magic Dirt. Get ready for a huge afternoon of rock. Tickets $152.53 to $203.82 from Ticketmaster Ruby Wax: I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was Thursday, 6.45pm, Astor Theatre, Mount Lawley Based on her best selling book of the same name, the UK comedian shares her journey to seek better mental health and happiness with her trademark wit and vulnerability. Wax shares stories about everything from swimming with humpback whales, a silent retreat to a time at a Christian monastery. Tickets $48 from Ticketek