Perth International Arts Festival
Photos courtesy of Perth International Arts Festival: Beck's Music Box venue; "Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea"; Camille; Giselle; Brad Mehldau Trio
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| Country and Region | Australia — Western Australia |
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| Type of Festival | Dance, Drama, Literary, Music |
| Location of Festival | Perth, Western Australia, Australia |
| Festival Contact Information | Perth International Arts Festival |
| Festival Description | The UWA Perth International Arts Festival, the oldest annual international multi-arts festival in the southern hemisphere, is Western Australia’s premier cultural event. The Perth Festival was established in 1953, following the birth of the Edinburgh Festival six years earlier, and now offers the people of Western Australia some of the best international and contemporary drama, theatre, music, film, visual arts, street arts, literature, comedy and free community events. For more about the Perth Writers Festival visit the KadmusArts profile page at http://kadmusarts.com/festivals/8484.html |
| Festival Dates | February 8 - March 2, 2013 |
| Festival Links | http://www.perthfestival.com.au/ |
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Podcast interviews:
- If you like this festival… listen to
- Sonya Mazumdar: the Laya Project
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=1319 - Ping Chong & Company, contemporary theatre and art
http://kadmusarts.com/podcasts/?p=1924 - Jennifer McLachlan, Australian Council for the Arts
http://kadmusarts.com/blog/?p=183 - Lucy Guerin, dancer, choreographer and artistic director of Lucy Guerin Inc.
http://kadmusarts.com/blog/?p=515
- Sonya Mazumdar: the Laya Project
Reference:
Programs, Perth International Arts Festival, 1953 - (Ephemera)
This comprehensive collection contains representative programs from every year of the Festival. Most years have programs of individual festival events, however later years contain only the general festival program. Select years contain a press book and publicity material. Located at the National Library of Australia. PROMPT collection (Access through Petherick Room)- John Birman, ‘Festival of Perth: a festival of the arts (1953 - 1976), Part One’ Studies in Continuing Education, (No. 5, December 1980), pp. 10-32.
- John Birman, ‘Festival of Perth: a festival of the arts (1953-1976), Part Two’ Studies in Continuing Education, (No. 6, June 1981), pp. 47-65.
Practical Info:
Venues:
- Perth Concert Hall
http://www.perthconcerthall.com.au/pages/about.asp - His Majesty’s Theater
http://www.hismajestystheatre.com.au - UWA locations, including the Sunken Garden and The New Fortune Theatre
http://www.theatres.uwa.edu.au/welcome/venues/sunken_garden - How to get to UWA campus, where a lot of festival events take place
http://www.uwa.edu.au/visitors/visiting/gettingthere - Disability access
http://www.dca.wa.gov.au/access.asp - Family Friendly: special programming for kids
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