Western Australia’s arts and sports must embrace fossil fuel-free future

Western Australia’s arts and sports must embrace fossil fuel-free future

We all cherish these organisations. It’s time for them to embrace a brighter future by cutting ties with such companies. And here’s how we’ll help them do it.

  • byCarmen Lawrence

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Welcome to planet Bjork,a strange,wondrous and confounding world
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Welcome to planet Bjork,a strange,wondrous and confounding world

Icelandic musical adventurer Bjork had the audience in raptures at the opening of her Perth Festival residency at Langley Park,but she failed to communicate much beyond visual splendour.

  • byMark Naglazas andSarah Brookes
This Maj gets a facelift that actually looks good

This Maj gets a facelift that actually looks good

Stripped of its balconies in the 1950s and narrowly escaping the wrecking ball in the 70s,His Majesty’s Theatre has finally been restored to its former glory,if not its original colour.

  • byMark Naglazas
Oh! Behave! WA Ballet delivers cheeky festival piece

Oh! Behave! WA Ballet delivers cheeky festival piece

Your capacity for enjoying the popular Ballet at the Quarry series for Perth Festival depends on your willingness to suspend the search for meaning. You just have to let it roll over you,like the stars above and the balmy breeze.

  • bySarah Brookes
Force of nature:Bjork returns to Australia with concert spectacular

Force of nature:Bjork returns to Australia with concert spectacular

Bjork’s visions of Utopia evolve inside her digital theatre spectacular,Cornucopia.

  • byMichael Dwyer
After two years’ COVID heartbreak,Perth Festival is off like a rocket

After two years’ COVID heartbreak,Perth Festival is off like a rocket

Organisers end two years of longing for Perth’s carefree summers of old,launching a restriction-free program with plenty of sparkle.

  • byEmma Young
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Icelandic icon Bjork in Perth for Australian theatrical concert exclusive

Icelandic icon Bjork in Perth for Australian theatrical concert exclusive

This show’s first Australasian performance,and the Icelandic icon’s first live performance in Australia since 2008,will take place in a 100-metre custom-built pavilion.

  • byEmma Young
Perth Festival and Chevron to split after decades long partnership

Perth Festival and Chevron to split after decades long partnership

Perth Festival and US fossil fuel giant Chevron will be parting ways from mid-2023.

  • byRoyce Kurmelovs
Melbourne’s musical wunderkind prepares for a new starring role

Melbourne’s musical wunderkind prepares for a new starring role

Performer Lyla Digrazia is only 19 but has already appeared in 28 musicals. This week she has a starring role in the Melbourne premiere of Freaky Friday.

  • byElizabeth Flux
Curtin University joins exposure site list as WA Omicron cluster grows with two new cases

Curtin University joins exposure site list as WA Omicron cluster grows with two new cases

The cases are linked to the current Omicron outbreak in Perth with the possible transmission of the virus to people who visited three massage parlours still a major concern for health authorities.

  • byPeter de Kruijff
Kate Walsh and Caroline Brazier star in stellar Perth Festival line-up

Kate Walsh and Caroline Brazier star in stellar Perth Festival line-up

From dockside escapades in Fremantle and dancing on the sand at City Beach,to oceanic orchestral concerts,heart-pumping theatre and a magical lighthouse set to captivate the young-at-heart,Perth Festival promises to be spectacular.

  • byHolly Thompson