Perth Festival

A timely call out! Same Drum are asking for support in the proposed name change for Galup / Lake Monger as the Town of Cambridge ask for public comment in its new draft management plan.

The plan will help direct activities and projects to be undertaken within the reserve, over the next ten years. As part of the survey, the Town is seeking feedback on a proposed change of name for the reserve, from “Lake Monger” to “Galup” as requested by the Whadjuk Noongar Registered Knowledge Holders and Council.

If you were lucky enough to see 'Galup' from our 2021 program or have encountered the incredible VR experience, you will know how important this is.

Complete the survey here: https://www.cambridge.wa.gov.au/Community/Infrastructure-Works-Projects/Draft-Lake-Monger-Galup-Management-Plan

JOBS JOBS JOBS! We've got three great opportunities as part of our programming team across community engagement, arts industry and creative learning. We're searching for an Engagement Manager, Associate Producer Creative Learning and Associate Producer Connect.

These roles range from permanent full time to seasonal contracts. The ideal candidates will be self-motivated and goal-oriented leaders who are keen to make a contribution to the future success of Perth Festival!

All three positions close at midnight on Sunday 21 July 2024.
Find out more here https://www.perthfestival.com.au/get-involved/work-with-us/

Photo by Rift Photography

With ticket sales accounting for just 30% of what's needed to create unforgettable Festival experiences, your donation this June will directly assist us to empower artists and shape the next four bold and brilliant Festivals for your community and the people of WA.

These are just a few ways your donation can make an impact:
🤍 $100 gives 2 free tickets for a community partner
🤍 $500 assists an artist to research and develop new work
🤍 $800 to assist in creating new costumes

Head to our website to find out more!

A BOLD NEW VISION - Perth Festival Your donation can make a huge impact on our community!

Closing soon! We're seeking an Executive Assistant to join the Perth Festival team on a full-time, permanent position. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and be keen to contribute to the future success of the Perth Festival!

Working closely with the Executive Director and Artistic Director you will provide effective and efficient administrative support services. The position reports to the Executive Director but has a direct line of responsibility to the Artistic Director.

If this sounds like something you'd love then apply now!

Applications close at 11.59pm on Tuesday 2 July 2024.

Visit the link in our bio to find out more.

A fantastic opportunity! 👀 We're looking for an Executive Assistant to join the Perth Festival team on a full-time, permanent position. The ideal candidate will be self-motivated and be keen to contribute to the future success of the Perth Festival!

Working closely with the Executive Director and Artistic Director you will provide effective and efficient administrative support services. The position reports to the Executive Director but has a direct line of responsibility to the Artistic Director.

If this sounds like something you'd love then apply now!

Applications close at 11.59pm on Tuesday 2 July 2024.

Executive Assistant - Perth Festival Work with us! We're looking for a full time Executive Assistant

Work with us! 👀 Join our team as a Senior Manager, Partnerships. Perth Festival has been turning big ideas into unforgettable experiences for more than 70 years. We're looking for a collaborative team member who has experience in building strong partnerships that contribute to building our state’s vibrancy and well-being. With our dynamic new Artistic Director at the helm, we’re poised for an exciting evolution.
You can play a role in bringing the next era of impactful experiences to Perth.

Applications close midnight Sunday 9 June 2024.
https://www.perthfestival.com.au/get-involved/work-with-us/senior-manager-partnerships/

Reminder to get your ideas in! 👀 We’re planning for festivals from 2025 – 2028 and we’d love to hear from you. If you have an idea to share or a story you think needs to be told, our door is open.

We want to connect with people and projects from across WA neighbourhoods near and far. But this state is huge, and we only know what we know. So, we need your help.

Submit your idea by 12 May: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/our-invitation-to-wa-artists/

Intellectual property for all materials submitted will be owned by you, the submitting artist/s.

Our invitation to WA artists - Perth Festival We want to say hello!

We're looking for a Partnerships Coordinator! 👋 This is an exciting, full-time, year-round opportunity within the Perth Festival Development team.

The Partnerships Coordinator is responsible for implementing strategies to secure support for the Festival’s artistic and cultural outputs with a focus on partnership servicing and retention. Working closely with the Partnerships Manager and the Senior Manager, Partnerships, this role manages relationships for a portfolio of corporate partnerships including in-kind partners.

Applications close Sunday 12 May midnight.
Visit our website for more info.

PARTNERSHIPS COORDINATOR - Perth Festival We're looking for an Partnerships Coordinator

Work with us! We're looking a Head of People and Culture to to join the Perth Festival team on a full-time, permanent basis. 👀

This is a new, senior role that reports to the Executive Director and is a key member of the Festival’s Senior Leadership team. The Head of People and Culture will play a pivotal role in leading the strategic and operational aspects of human resourcing, ensuring that our organisation attracts, develops, and retains the best talent.

Applications close at midnight Sun 12 May.
See our website for more details on how to apply.

Photo by Duncan Wright

Head of People and Culture - Perth Festival Play a pivotal role in leading the strategic and operational aspects of human resourcing

Anyone who missed the brilliant I’m With Her - The Play at the sold-out Perth Festival 2024 season can now catch it at World Congress of the International Society of Performing Arts next week on 2 & 3 May at State Theatre Centre, Studio Underground.

Check it out!
https://tickets.artsculturetrust.wa.gov.au/overview/im-with-her-act-stc
Photo by Marnie Richardson

We’re planning for festivals from 2025 – 2028 and we’d love to hear from you! If you have an idea to share or a story you think needs to be told, our door is open.

We want to connect with people and projects from across WA neighbourhoods near and far. But this state is huge, and we only know what we know. So, we need your help.

We are proud to be a festival that tells Western Australian stories and where commissioning new work and collaborations take centre stage.

Find out more on our website: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/our-invitation-to-wa-artists/

Intellectual property for all materials submitted will be owned by you, the submitting artist/s.

Our friends at PICA are presenting cutting edge dance, next week!

Make Your Life Count is an ambitious dance work that shifts scale in a heartbeat and moves from the microscopic to the universal and back again. In front of an audience, choreographer and dancer Sarah Aiken encounters her own self – expanded to infinite proportions and shrunken to painful insignificance.

Dates: 17–20 April
Times: 7pm, and 2pm matinee Saturday 20 April only
Tickets: https://pica.org.au/whats-on/sarah-aiken-make-your-life-count/

Head to Freo and see some wonderful art. 'A Rising in the East' is open until 22 Apr.

A rising in the east explores Japanese arts and disability A collaboration between Perth Festival, DADAA gallery and studio, and four Japanese arts and disability organisations has resulted in A rising in the east—an exhibition that asks what artists with disabilities can achieve when offered the resources.

Job alert! We're looking for a Technical Manager to join our Production Team.

This is a new senior role within the Production Department that will play pivotal role in planning, managing and executing the technical aspects of all theatre productions within the Festival. This is a 12 month, full-time, fixed-term contract.

Find out more and apply now on our website: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/get-involved/work-with-us/technical-manager/

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It's the last weekend of Lotterywest Films! Soak up an evening of stunning cinema amongst the trees before we close for the season. Plus, if you have Films Vouchers to use up now's the time.

🧡 Thu 28 Mar: The Promised Land
🧡 Fri 29 Mar: Anatomy of a Fall
🧡 Sat 30 Mar: Radical
🧡 Sun 31 Mar: Ryuichi Sakamoto | OPUS

Tickets: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/categories/film/

Soak up some fan favourites before our amazing Lotterywest Films season comes to a close. ✨ With seven films screening across seven nights, there's plenty to choose from. So enjoy an evening (or two) of fresh air and great cinema as we close out the season.

Screening next week:
🧡 Mon 25 Mar: La Chimera
🧡 Tue 26 Mar: Monster
🧡 Wed 27 Mar: The Zone of Interest
🧡 Thu 28 Mar: The Promised Land
🧡 Fri 29 Mar: Anatomy of a Fall
🧡 Sat 30 Mar: Radical
🧡 Sun 31 Mar: Ryuichi Sakamoto | OPUS

Tickets on our website: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/events/encore-week-2/

See the playful, powerfully inspiring and true story 'Radical', next week at Lotterywest Films.

Journey to a Mexican border town plagued by neglect, corruption and violence, where a frustrated teacher (Mexican superstar Eugenio Derbez) tries a radical new method to break through his students’ apathy and unlock their curiosity and potential – and maybe even their genius.

Screening Mon 18 – Sun 24 Mar
https://www.perthfestival.com.au/events/radical

Soak up some art! ✨ Plenty of our Visual Arts exhibitions are still happening and make for the perfect weekend treat. Get to them quick, some close as soon as the end of this month.

Find all the details you need to enjoy your visit to a gallery on our website: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/categories/visual-arts/

Images 1-3 cr Danica Zuks at DADAA, 'A Rising in the East'
Image 4 cr Aaron Claringbold at DADAA, 'A Rising in the East'
Images 5-6 cr Aaron Claringbold at Fremantle Arts Centre, 'Polarity: Fire & Ice'

We're looking for a Partnerships Coordinator! This is an exciting, full-time, year-round opportunity within the Perth Festival Development team.

Working closely with the Partnerships Manager and the Senior Manager, Partnerships, this role manages relationships for a portfolio of corporate partnerships including in-kind partners.

Find out more and apply now via our website: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/get-involved/work-with-us/partnerships-coordinator/

Our stunning outdoor cinema is still open with more brilliant films coming your way. Plus our final Encore Week has been announced so you can catch those fan favourites you missed!

🧡 Mon 25 Mar 'La Chimera'
🧡 Tue 26 Mar 'Monster'
🧡 Wed 27 Mar 'The Zone of Interest'
🧡 Thu 28 Mar 'The Promised Land'
🧡 Fri 29 Mar 'Anatomy of a Fall'
🧡 Sat 30 Mar 'Radical'
🧡 Sun 31 Mar 'Ryuichi Sakamoto | OPUS'

Screening at Lotterywest Films, book online
https://www.perthfestival.com.au/events/encore-week-2

See Oscar-winning Japanese director Hamaguchi Ryûsuke’s potent new film 'Evil Does Not Exist'.

Takumi and his daughter Hana reside in a forested region of Japan that’s remained largely unsullied by large-scale development, until now.

As this mysterious film unwraps with more than a few surprises, it weaves a captivating cautionary tale about the price of disrespecting nature.

Screening at Lotterywest Films Mon 11 – Sun 17 Mar
🧡 https://www.perthfestival.com.au/events/evil-does-not-exist

What a night! We came together in shared humanity at 'Under the Same Sun' our Lotterywest Closing event. Check out a few brilliant shots from a magical evening that featured creative collaborations between leading Aboriginal musicians and their chosen guests from around the globe. 🧡

Photos by Jess Wyld

Films screen at 7.30pm from this week onwards! 📽️ As the sunsets get earlier, our Lotterywest Films screenings will be starting at 7.30pm from this week until the end of the season. Doors from 6pm.

Plus, this week only preorder a pizza from Charlies Pizza online and get 15% off! Use the code ‘promisedland’ at checkout.

🔗 Preorder: https://www.charliespizza.com.au/menu

Discount valid on orders scheduled for collection 4–11 Mar only, one use per person. Same day orders must be placed by midday.

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Sampha plays tonight! ✨ Close out your Festival with some feel good vocals at Supreme Court Gardens.

6pm Doors
7pm Nai Palm
8.30pm Sampha

Entry to the event is via the east side of the venue.
Tickets available on the door!
Or via our website: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/events/sampha/

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It's going ahead! ✨ Our Lotterywest closing event Under The Same Sun is going ahead as planned.

Read the event FAQs here: https://www.perthfestival.com.au/faqs-under-the-same-sun/

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White text on a dark blue textured background. 'UNDER THE SAME SUN. Our Lotterywest closing event Under The Same Sun is going ahead / Bring a rain coat just in case, umbrellas are not permitted in the venue / Water stations are available on site – bring your water bottle to refill!

What an incredible show from Sampa The Great last night! 🙌 She really did get the whole crowd jumping.

A wonderful opening night of our pop up venue at Supreme Court Gardens, Sampa was joined by Kaiit and Soul Alphabet DJ's.

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Bringing it all back home with Sampa the Great and Adrian Dzvuke Zambian rapper and songwriter Sampa the Great is set to bring her intoxicating mix of hip-hop, soul, and Afrobeat to [...]

Our Lotterywest Closing event 'Under The Same Sun' is sold out! If you already have a ticket, here's some key info on how to have the best experience.

Find more details in the FAQs listed on the event page on our website.
https://www.perthfestival.com.au/events/under-the-same-sun/

Image cr. Jess Wyld taken during Under The Same Sun rehearsals at ABC Studios, Perth.
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Mads Mikkelsen exudes old-school screen charisma in 'The Promised Land', a tale of a proud and uncompromising man and his allies in the fight against evil, death and the conquest of a harsh land.

Don't miss this gripping character study on how dreams and ambitions can become dangerous obsessions.

The Promised Land screens Mon 4 – Sun 11 Mar at Lotterywest Films
From next week onwards, screenings start at 7.30pm
Book now! https://www.perthfestival.com.au/events/the-promised-land