Cultural Industries

After a number of years in the wilderness, Perth jazz lovers turned out in their thousands for the inaugural running of the Perth International Jazz Festival.

After a quarter of a century in the city, Perth’s science education centre is on the move.

Mining contractor Redpath has painted a 60-tonne truck blue to raise awareness about depression and anxiety in the mining industry.

MORE than 100 pieces of indigenous art will return to Western Australia after Curtin University and New York's Colgate University signed a memorandum of agreement to return the works from the US.

Camp Quality Supper Club is celebrating its 10th year of operation with an Alice in Wonderland themed event.

THE booming Western Australian economy of the past decade has fuelled a rise in philanthropic activity of all kinds in Perth.

The Chamber of Arts and Culture WA has appointed its inaugural executive director, with the recruitment of experienced arts administrator Henry Boston.

The Heart Foundation has launched a government-funded scheme designed to help Western Australian businesses promote healthy lifestyles among their employees.

The Chamber of Arts and Culture WA has appointed its inaugural executive director, with the recruitment of experienced arts administrator Henry Boston.

The lines are becoming increasingly blurred between not-for-profit groups and business.

Low-income earners' prospects of finding affordable housing in Western Australia continue to decline, with Perth's median rent price up 16 per cent from 2012.

The Heart Foundation has launched a government-funded scheme designed to help Western Australian businesses promote healthy lifestyles among their employees.

Mixing sport and fundraising has proved a winner for not-for-profit groups but the Peter Hughes Burn Foundation has taken the formula past the post to also inspire and motivate beneficiaries of its

From major rides that take over freeways, to smaller, more intimate groups keeping to selected cycle routes, it seems more people are getting on to their bikes to support health-related charities.

Department of Culture and the Arts director general Allanah Lucas has announced she will step down and pursue a different role in the public sector.

Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has shown how you do philanthropy at the big end of town: put a million bucks on the table and challenge everyone in the room to match it.

In the constant battle faced by not-for-profit organisations to raise funds it seems more and more are turning to sporting events as the answer.

THE combination of healthy, sports-based pursuits and worthy causes has proved to be a winning formula for the community sector and not for profits in terms of publicity and fund raising.

One of Western Australia’s most prolific residential builders, Dale Alcock, is the latest high-profile CEO to help tackle the issue of homelessness by committing to the St Vincent de Paul Society’s

THOUSANDS of children and parents have helped Western Australians living with multiple sclerosis by participating in the Premier's Summer Reading Challenge.

FOUR story ideas have been selected from the pool of applications from Western Australian indigenous filmmakers for production and broadcast on ABC1.

THE state’s classical musicians are thinking outside the orchestra pit in an effort to take their art form to a new generation of admirers.

The Town of Port Hedland’s Youth Space program has received a grant of $650,000 from Lotterywest to support the development of the project. 

The Fremantle Street Arts Festival will take place over the Easter break, with 30 street performers headlining the entertainment.

The Australian Red Cross wants to engage businesses and corporations across Western Australia as the organisation changes its operating platform to support vulnerable communities across the state m

NINE out of 10 not-for-profit organisations are concerned they will be worse off if the federal government replaced the sector's income tax exemptions with grants.

WESFARMERS and the University of Western Australia are joining forces in a new multi-million dollar project to boost the study of Australian history at both tertiary and secondary levels.

THREE Perth-based engineers are going back to basics to deliver infrastructure solutions for farming communities in Africa.

The West Australian Ballet and Black Swan State Theatre Company are among six arts companies across Australia to win extra funding in the federal government’s new cultural policy.

Music charity Strike A Chord has lost its operating license after regulators found a lack of seperation between its charitable activities and profit making companies supplying services.

SCULPTURE by the Sea has opened for its ninth year at Cottesloe Beach this week, and for the first time visitors will be asked to donate a gold coin to keep the free event viable.

The City of Fremantle has hit back at suggestions it was responsible for the demise of photographic competition FotoFreo.