East Perth Power Station confirmed as venue for 2025 Perth Festival
Perth Festival will revive and re-activate the historic East Perth Power Station site as a creative hub that will be home to major programs featuring First Nations visual art as well as contemporary and world music. The venue will come to life with Casa Music a family-friendly and free alfresco music stage, an outdoor contemporary music venue, and home to Boorloo contemporary visual arts projections that will light up the building for the duration of the festival as a major installation.
Perth Festival is to receive $9.5 million from Lotterywest for its 2025 program allowing for more affordable events to ensure everyone has the opportunity to enjoy the upcoming festival.
Lotterywest has offered long-standing support for the Perth Festival. Over more than 30 years, Lotterywest has provided almost $170 million in grants to Perth Festival. The 2025 funding marks the biggest Lotterywest grant received by Perth Festival to date.
It will also contribute to the creation of community experiences such as the Karla Mia Bidi trail and Festival of Neighbourhoods programs, and expand existing offerings including the introduction of a Children's Film program.
In 2025, Perth Festival is aiming to push the boundaries of traditional art forms using innovative virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality art.
The 2025-2028 Festivals will feature a number of iconic events, including KARLA MIA BIDI: Karla Mia Bidi, meaning "the campfire track" in Noongar language, will be a large-scale light installation that illuminates sites of significance and community gathering along the Swan River from Guildford to Fremantle. The beacons will herald the arrival of Perth Festival from the opening night and remain lit every night of the festival to remind the community that the season is upon us.
Perth Festival's 2024 season welcomed more than 214,800 people across 129 events, showcasing 827 artists. Lotterywest's multimillion-dollar funding support now seeks to build on these audience numbers through ambitious, large-scale community programming.
Image. East Perth Power Station Credit: WA Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti
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