Overall attendance increased while box office sales lagged at Perth Festival this year after border closures resulted in a smaller program of local acts.
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.
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.
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.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Rebecca Mitchell, Justin Nuich, Patrick Conway, Jody Nunn, Julia Holt, Patricia Todd, Michael Van Dongen, David Crothers, and Kristie Young.
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 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.
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.
Ambitious plans to attract more visitors from outside Western Australia for next year's Perth Festival and beyond are top-of-mind for executive director Nathan Bennett.
Artistic director Iain Grandage launched the 2020 Perth Festival program last night and announced the first week of the 24-day festival will be dedicated to First Nations performances.
Two Western Australian arts organisations have made changes to their boards, with appointments including David Shirley, Rowena Albones, Ben Lisle and Rishelle Hume.
Fringe World and Perth Festival may offer audiences a different range of artistic experiences, but both achieved strong growth in ticket and box office sales this year, according to recent reports.
Box office sales at this year's Fringe World Festival were up by 15 per cent on 2018 figures, while 13 per cent more people attended ticketed events, according to a report released last night.
This year's Perth Festival encouraged 7,300 tourists to visit Western Australia while box office sales increased 21 per cent from 2018, the festival's impact report has shown.
A new collaboration between Perth Festival's Writers Week and The Literature Centre is promising to expand the centre's audience reach to an adult demographic.
Perth Festival has released the first taste of its 2019 program, one day after festival sponsor Adrian Fini won a national award for his philanthropic work.
The state's two leading arts festivals have a large role to play in the cultural and creative vibrancy of Perth during the summer months, according to their impact reports released this week.
An analysis of Perth Festival undertaken by local firm Culture Counts has found near-universal support for the event's impact on, and importance for, Western Australia's cultural scene.
WA Symphony Orchestra has deep roots planted firmly across Western Australia, having spent 90 years connecting with communities beyond its core audience of classical music aficionados.
For the first time in its 65-year history, Perth Festival has appointed a home-grown artistic director, Iain Grandage, whose creative vision will be executed across a four-year tenure starting in 2020.
SPECIAL REPORT: An eclectic mix of corporate heavyweights, private philanthropists and innovative disruptors have helped to shape the state's arts sector.
Box office sales for Perth's two major arts festivals have remained steady against last year's figures, with Perth Festival on track to make $3.8 million and Fringe World Festival hitting $10 million.
Julia Hales is a pioneer for the state's arts and disability community, as shown by the fact she has brought together three of the state's key arts organisations to co-produce her latest play at the State Theatre.
The increasingly competitive nature of the arts marketplace has prompted a rebrand at the longest-running international arts festival in Australia, Perth International Arts Festival.
A career in puppetry was the furthest thing from Philip Mitchell's mind two decades ago, when he had his sights set on making it in the music business.
With the Perth International Arts Festival under way, Business News caught up with Alex Desebrock to discuss life as a local artist and her latest creation.
