189x Filetype DOCX File size 0.17 MB Source: www.perthfestival.com.au
Perth Festival 11 February – 6 March 2022 Main Brochure Founder The University of Western Australia Principal Partner Lotterywest 1 Perth Festival acknowledges the Noongar people who continue to practise their values, language, beliefs and knowledge on their kwobidak boodjar. They remain the spiritual and cultural birdiyangara of this place and we honour and respect their caretakers and custodians and the vital role Noongar people play for our community and our Festival to flourish. Acknowledgment developed by Associate Artist Kylie Bracknell with support from Perth Festival's Noongar Advisory Council (Vivienne Binyarn Hansen, Mitchella Waljin Hutchins, Carol Innes, Barry McGuire, Richard Walley OAM & Roma Yibiyung Winmar) WARDAN The ocean. We saw them first. They came along the sea, beyond the horizon Moving upon the water, closer and closer. Big white sails and strange white men We saw them, thinking the spirits of our ancestors are returning. Our lives changed forever. Now we are here. Today. Together still. Wardan is where it all began for us. It is dangerous and powerful, a mysterious and spiritual place. – Assoc Prof Ted Wilkes AO and Ian Moopa Wilkes 2 WELCOMES HON. MARK MCGOWAN MLA PREMIER OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Perth Festival has been a feature of our cultural life here in Western Australia for nearly 70 years. In 2021, as one of the few such events to occur anywhere in the world, the Festival brought wonder and joy to thousands at a time when our community needed it most. More than 470,000 people attended Perth Festival 2021, which gave local producers, venues and businesses a welcome economic boost. The Festival promotes jobs, skills and community wellbeing, and it provides an outstanding platform for expressing our unique identity and stories. The State Government, on behalf of all Western Australians, is proud to support the Festival through Principal Partner Lotterywest, Tourism WA and other State agencies. Perth Festival 2022 will see our city come alive once again with a diverse and accessible program designed for audiences of all ages and backgrounds. I wish the Festival team well for their voyage ahead and encourage everyone to explore the Perth Festival 2022 program. It promises to be a grand celebration of who we are as Western Australians. PROF. AMIT CHAKMA VICE CHANCELLOR, THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA It is my privilege to welcome you to the program for the 70th annual Perth Festival. The University of Western Australia is proud to be the founder of Australia’s 3 most diverse, longest-running arts festival, as a pillar of our engagement with the Western Australian community. Dedicated to excellence and inclusion, the Festival is testament to art’s power to reach across the generations and bring people together from all walks of life. Our beautiful Crawley campus will host the ever-popular Lotterywest Films at the Somerville auditorium, the sensational family show Patch’s Lighthouse at Uni Theatres and the epic majesty of Indigenous artist Sonia Kurarra, with the exhibition Ariel’s Song, at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. Perth Festival is a wonderful forum for us to share our collective creative intelligence and achieve more together than we ever could on our own. And, of course, it offers boundless possibilities for us to have much fun along the way. I congratulate the Perth Festival team and hope you can join us for a Festival season of wonder and delight. TIM UNGAR CHAIR, PERTH FESTIVAL Perth Festival is very fortunate to work with so many fantastic organisations and individuals in bringing to life our celebration of people and place each summer. The Festival stimulates social, cultural and economic vibrancy but can only do this with the great support of our audiences, government and corporate partners, donors, artists and the public. Beyond the many extraordinary events in venues around our city, our partners also underpin the community engagement programs that truly fulfill our mission to enrich life through art in WA. 4
no reviews yet
Please Login to review.