News Articles for Perth Cultural Centre

Stakeholders are working to activate vacant CBD spaces with art, but hurdles are limiting potential.

The construction of the new multimillion-dollar screen production facility in Malaga is well under way.

A design for a revamped Perth Cultural Centre has been revealed but the estimated cost for the project has escalated, with the state government investing an additional $20 million.

Construction company EMCO Building has won $23 million worth of work on the state government's major Perth Cultural Centre redevelopment project, now tipped to be completed in 2025.

Cox Architecture has been tasked with progressing the design of the $35 million Perth Cultural Centre rejuvenation project under a new contract from the state government.

From cost blowouts to deadline extensions, the much-vaunted plan to revitalise Perth's CBD appears to have been placed on the backburner.

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Business News understands the redevelopment is due to be completed by late 2024.

A refined Fringe World Festival is giving audiences and artists a chance to reconnect after a tough year.

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.

The highly anticipated WA Museum Boola Bardip will open later this month.

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

The state government has again pushed back further easing of coronavirus restrictions to August 15, with Premier Mark McGowan noting the serious situation in Victoria and NSW.

Perth's indigenous and European cultural history is being illustrated and celebrated in architecture new and old.

Culture and the Arts Minister David Templeman has announced the formation of a cultural precinct taskforce, ahead of WA Museum's reopening in late 2020.

The owners of Northbridge's Picabar have signed a five-year lease agreement with the Perth Theatre Trust (PTT), Culture and the Arts Minister David Templeman announced this morning, bringing to an end a year of uncertainty for the venue.

Scitech will relocate to the Perth Cultural Centre after almost three decades at its current City West home, a move expected to complement the $428 million new museum complex scheduled to open in 2020.

After nine years leading the WA division of UDIA, Debra Goostrey has decided it's time for some fresh influence.

The state government has begun the tender process to find a builder for its $430 million Museum of Western Australia, set to be built at the Perth Cultural Centre.

An iconic fixture at many sporting and cultural events, food vans are going gourmet, with pies and chips giving way to more sophisticated cuisine that, increasingly, is competing with the bricks and mortar hospitality sector.