This week's appointments include Alan Barrett, Karen Hook, Allister Caird, Marah Braye, Vanessa Guthrie, Michael Corboy, Lee Lawler, Rachelle Lewis, Karen Ho, Dylan Ogilvie, Jessica Steliou, and others.
After holding senior roles at the Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA, Perth International Arts Festival and PAC Australia, Rick Heath has been selected to lead Community Arts Network.
Perth Festival's Nathan Bennett will be stepping down to become chief executive of World Masters Games Perth 2029 early next year, an international multi-sport competition is held every four years
Perth Festival has set its sights on East Perth power station as an event space, a site previously earmarked for redevelopment by Kerry Stokes and Andrew Forrest.
Fiveight and Perth Festival have partnered up to deliver two free art events at Carillon City as part of the festival's 2024 season, which starts today.
The state government has announced a free six-day festival in collaboration with Perth Festival to celebrate Western Australian Indigenous culture and natural biodiversity in early October.
Former politician and prominent board director Ben Wyatt has been announced as the new chair of Perth Festival, which has also appointed three new members to its board.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Simona Chady, Anna Reece, Iain Grandage, Dan McAulley, Donna Nelson, Sandra Eades, Mike Nelson, Paul Laybourne, Lance Malone and Mark Ritter.
Perth Festival will return next year with a full line-up of interstate and overseas acts, a free opening event at Joondalup and expectations for a big increase in income.
Perth Festival is budgeting for a doubling in box office sales next year after signing up acclaimed Icelandic performer Björk for an Australian-exclusive season.
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.
Western Australian customers of several major arts organisations may have been impacted by a cyber breach of the digital marketing platform used by the Arts and Culture Trust.
Perth Festival's box office sales increased slightly from the 2021 iteration, but total attendance was heavily disrupted by cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mary Stuart, the great play Shakespeare could never write, has a flawlessly conceived and delivered staging at the Heath Ledger Theatre, writes David Zampatti.
West Australian Opera's performance of Carmen at the WACA Ground in February has been postponed due to uncertainty around the spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant and the possibility of further restrictions.
A large-scale event to open the 2022 Perth Festival on February 11 will not go ahead due to the organiser's concern about the potential spread of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.
Perth Festival has released a dramatically changed program for 2022 along with its first-ever 12-month financial report since becoming a stand-alone company.
Perth Festival has recruited former WA Treasurer Ben Wyatt to its board, one day after it was announced he was joining APM as a non-executive director.
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.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Trent Bartlett, Susan Male, Isabelle Deschamps, Craig Amos, Ella Dachs, Rachael Whitworth, Mark Hyde, Jennifer Tropiano, Mandee de Reus, Mary Roseingrave, Ching Yee Tan and Colin Judd.