News Articles for Perth International Jazz Festival

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

The Perth International Jazz Festival is off and swinging and Kristian Borring says the diverse opening night program promises a great weekend in Perth and later in the south-west.

STRUT Dance will be the first of many arts groups to use the long-shuttered Liberty Theatre in central Perth.

Our weekly appointments wrap includes Rob McKenzie, Alison Kelly, Tamara Hunter, Amanda Forrester, Huong Le Thu, Tina Chinery and Richard Evans.

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.

Taking inspiration from the venture capital sector to shake-up cultural funding could support the tireless work of emerging talent, and unleash creativity.

Organisers of the Perth International Jazz Festival are hopeful an expanded multi-stage event and a growing profile will help boost ticket sales this year by 13 per cent on 2013.

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.