Crowd at the Perth International Arts Festival Beck's Music Box, 2008
Status
Active
Genre
Arts festival
Begins
February
Ends
March
Frequency
Annually
Location(s)
Perth, Western Australia
Country
Australia
Years active
70–71
Inaugurated
1953 (1953)
Founder
Fred Alexander
Most recent
2023
Leader
Iain Grandage
(Artistic Director)
Nathan Bennett
(Executive Director)
Website
Perth Festival
Perth Festival, named Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) between 2000 and 2017, and sometimes referred to as the Festival of Perth, is Australia's longest-running cultural festival, held annually in Western Australia. The program features contemporary and classical music, dance, theatre, performance, literature and ideas, visual arts, large-scale public works. The main events of the festival take place every year, from February to March and the film program now known as Lotterywest Films runs from November to April, as part of the Perth Festival.
Perth Festival takes place and various indoor and outdoor venues across Perth. The festival is run by UWA in partnership with the state government and the Perth City Council. From 2004, the Festival carried Lotterywest branding, and Lotterywest was acknowledged as the Festival's "principal partner".
The artistic director for 2020 to 2023 is Iain Grandage.
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