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.
Conductor, violist and digital engineer Aaron Wyatt has plenty of strings to his bow. But building awareness of Indigenous music is what gets him most excited. Varnya Bromilow talks to him ahead of the WA premiere of Eumeralla Requiem.
West Australian Ballet head of development Lauren Major will step up as the next executive director to co-lead the company with artistic director Aurélien Scannella.
Ivy Chen, Kane Blackman and Nilesh Makwana are among the line-up of executives and specialists to speak at an upcoming summit in a bid to include more diversity in the workplace.
Thirty years after its celebrated debut, Douglas Wright’s Gloria lights up the stage once more, this time with a very special addition. The result, writes Nina Levy, is simply glorious.
The Chamber of Arts and Culture WA is undertaking an “urgent” review of its operations, with chair Phil Thick declaring changes needed to be made for it to survive.
With a touch of performance rock, The Last Great Hunt takes audiences to the galaxy and beyond via the iconic rotary-dial telephone and it’s a dizzying and dazzling ride, says David Zampatti.
The state government has turned its back on the retirement village sector and with it has neutered WA’s response to the rapid ageing of its population.
Los Angeles-based street artist Thierry Guetta’s first Australian solo exhibition, Perth is Beautiful, has raked in more than $1 million in sales since it opened at Gullotti Galleries last week.
The state government has ruled the auditorium Spare Parts Puppet Theatre leases from them is unsafe, forcing the organisation to cancel its upcoming shows.
The state’s performing arts industry recognised its best last night with The Bleending Tree by Angus Cerini taking out four awards and Co3 winning three for its dance work Archives of Humanity.
Five local studios have been granted $50,000 to attend a computer and video games event in Germany, while $2 million has been allocated to help the industry access federal tax offsets.
Newly appointed boss of the WA Alliance to End Homelessness David Pearson said it was not ‘normal’ for a city like Perth to have high numbers of people experiencing homelessness.
Retirement villages will be forced to pay exit entitlements within 12 months under amendments to laws regulating retirement villages proposed by the state government.
