Perth Festival

Concerns over COVID-19 have led to the cancellation or postponement of more events in the state, including Australia’s largest annual mining conference Diggers & Dealers, along with the Anzac Day services. The virus has also led to more businesses changing their working arrangements.

The 2020 Perth Festival has proved to be the most successful in the event's history, with $5.98 million earned at the box office, despite some programming cancelled due to COVID-19 and lower audience numbers.

The pandemic has highlighted the plight of the arts sector but will the support continue?

I love this stunning city of ours – a glorious home between desert and sea.This is a place of great natural beauty, culture and enterprise, full of big dreams and stories as diverse and compelling as the people who call it home.

Home-grown artists will be highlighted in the 2021 Perth Festival program, which features Tim Minchin performing songs from his new album Alone Together with WASO as the headline act.

BGC Australia and Perron Group are among the businesses hoping to provide a sensory boost to the consumer experience.

Perth Festival has postponed all live performances until after next weekend and Fringe World Festival has cancelled all events until 6pm on Friday, due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

Fringe World Festival shows will begin from 7pm tonight while Perth Festival has been postponed another week, until February 15, under advice from the state government.

Fringe World Festival was due to wrap up on Sunday, but organisers have launched an encore season after losing five days of programming due to Perth’s COVID-19 lockdown.

Artists are putting pressure on arts organisations to think more carefully about where their funds come from.

Overall attendance increased while box office sales lagged at Perth Festival this year after border closures resulted in a smaller program of local acts.

Fremantle Biennale, Factory Summer Festival and Origin Fields are among the arts events to have received a share of $40 million in funding from the federal government.

Enjoying a new production of a show just as much as you did the original is a Brilliant Thing, writes David Zampatti.

Perth Festival has recruited former WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt to its board, one day after it was announced he was joining APM as a non-executive director.

Perth Festival has released a dramatically changed program for 2022 along with its first-ever 12-month financial report since becoming a stand-alone company.

A large-scale event to open the 2022 Perth Festival on February 11 will not go ahead due to the organiser’s concern about the potential spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.

West Australian Opera’s performance of Carmen at the WACA Ground in February has been postponed due to uncertainty around the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and the possibility of further restrictions.

Mary Stuart, the great play Shakespeare could never write, has a flawlessly conceived and delivered staging at the Heath Ledger Theatre, writes David Zampatti.

Art is moving away from institutions and into more creative locations.

Perth Festival’s box office sales increased slightly from the 2021 iteration, but total attendance was heavily disrupted by cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The second instalment of Donating Differently details the rise of organisations harnessing the power of collective giving.

Western Australian customers of several major arts organisations may have been impacted by a cyber breach of the digital marketing platform used by the Arts and Culture Trust.

Chevron’s long-running sponsorship of the Perth Festival will end next year, with the festival expected to seek new corporate backers while continuing to ramp up its philanthropic income.

Perth Festival is budgeting for a doubling in box office sales next year after signing up acclaimed Icelandic performer Björk for an Australian-exclusive season.

Perth Festival will return next year with a full line-up of interstate and overseas acts, a free opening event at Joondalup and expectations for a big increase in income.

Anna Reece has been announced as the next Perth Festival artistic director from 2025, taking over from Iain Grandage.

Senior editor Mark Beyer covers some of the highlights from his latest corporate finance feature.

WA’s arts sector has a solid foundation to build on in terms of a new federal policy.

Former politician and prominent board director Ben Wyatt has been announced as the new chair of Perth Festival, which has also appointed three new members to its board.

The WA arts industry has celebrated change and embraced inclusivity over 30 years.

The state government has announced a free six-day festival in collaboration with Perth Festival to celebrate Western Australian Indigenous culture and natural biodiversity in early October.

A major new event launching tonight celebrating the Noongar season of Kambarang will become a permanent fixture on WA’s calendar.

Fiveight and Perth Festival have partnered up to deliver two free art events at Carillon City as part of the festival’s 2024 season, which starts today.

The chronically underfunded arts sector needs the government, media and public to recognise its value and provide appropriate support.

The new artistic director at Perth Festival brings a diverse career background to the role.

Perth Festival has set its sights on East Perth power station as an event space, a site previously earmarked for redevelopment by Kerry Stokes and Andrew Forrest.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Bree Maher, Iain Grandage, Alex Jones, Jean Shaw, Gail Archer, and Michael Gething.