PERTH FESTIVAL 7 February - 1 March
perthfestival.com.au CREATIVE LEARNING
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 – our offices are in Goodamboorup – and we honour and respect their caretakers and custodians and the vital role Noongar people play for our community and our Festival to flourish. WELCOME
The Perth Festival 2020 theme is Karla – a Noongar term meaning fire and country, and by extension home; a camp fire for sharing stories and inviting belonging. Karla is reflected Perth Festival believes all Western SCHOOL WORKSHOPS throughout our Creative Learning program, as we create opportunities for young people to Australian young people should have Students attending a Festival performance can participate in the Festival and ignite their imaginations and champion their stories. access to remarkable arts experiences. participate in free workshops linked to its themes, Our Creative Learning program is for techniques or content. Workshops will deepen Our program aims to create deep and ongoing relationships with the Festival, while also young people and the organisations and learning and facilitate collaboration with encouraging participants to feel empowered, challenged and proud, with a sense of belonging. individuals that support them. professional artists. See p10 for more details. We never stop learning and as a Festival we are keen to celebrate inquisitive hearts and artistic minds of all ages. We are committed to creating opportunities for young people to connect with CREATIVE PROJECTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR TEACHERS the Festival and our activities, and to celebrating them as artists in their own right. Our Creative Projects engage young people as Secondary teachers of English and The Arts can active participants in the arts, showcasing the apply for a Perth Festival Industry Pass to access I encourage you to join us in sharing stories and celebrating this place and its people. talent of young voices and celebrating them as discounts on tickets and other benefits. Festival creators and artists. Visit perthfestival.com.au for details. IAIN GRANDAGE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR COMMUNITY DISCOUNT TICKETS EXCURSION PLANNING & RESOURCES If cost is a barrier to attending Perth Festival Visit Connect: For Schools at perthfestival.com.au for The Fogarty Foundation is proud to support Perth Festival’s Creative Learning program, which events, your community group, club or organisation information that may be helpful when planning your gives young people an opportunity to experience the Festival – whether that’s by seeing world may be eligible for discount tickets. Visit Connect: school’s excursion. Event-specific education resources class performances, taking part in workshops, going behind the scenes to meet with artists or For Community Groups on perthfestival.com.au will be available online from mid-January 2020. being artists themselves. for further information. ACCESS FOR EVERYONE Perth Festival offers a chance to open up the world to West Australian students and young SCHOOLS TICKETING We want as many young people as possible to people and we are pleased to assist in making sure this chance can be taken up by as many Discounted tickets are available to School Groups experience the Festival. Access symbols on individual students across the community as possible. for many Perth Festival shows. School Tickets have pages act as a guide for services available. limited capacity and are subject to availability, so For more information see p37 or contact ANNIE FOGARTY be sure to get in quickly. [email protected] FOGARTY FOUNDATION, PATRON CREATIVE LEARNING
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Image: Cam Campbell AGES 15 – 18 PLAY BOOKS MAKING SPACE
Perth Festival Play Books are a wonderful way to continue to connect with the arts Ever wondered how exhibitions are developed, designed and presented? Curators play long after your Perth Festival arts experience. a vital role within art galleries, working with artists to realise their vision and guiding the experience of visitors. Inspired by the Festival theme of Karla, Play Books encourage you to record, draw, create, plan, experiment and reflect on your individual Perth Festival experiences. Join Perth Festival Visual Arts Program Associate Gemma Weston, in partnership with Exploring concepts of identity, home, Country and cross-cultural understanding Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, and learn all about curating. Over the summer create through the arts, Play Books can be used to stimulate discussion, reflection and your own artwork using collage or assemblage. Bring your artwork to this workshop interrogation of work seen in the Festival and beyond. focussed on exhibition design and curation and, together with the group, you’ll use your artworks to present an exhibition. All participants in our Creative Learning program will receive a 2020 Play Book. The resulting exhibition will be on display from 18 – 22 February at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s Dr Harold Schenberg Study Centre as part of Perth Festival 2020. FREE Venue Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery Date Sat 15 Feb FREE Participation is free, but you need to cover your own materials cost for the work created
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Image: Cam Campbell Image: Cam Campbell AGES 15 – 20 AGES 10 – 12 WHO RUN THE WORLD CURATED BY KIDS
REMIXED A favourite with young book lovers, Curated by Kids is back for our Literature & Ideas Family Day. Ten young curators get to create a program of literary sessions featuring their Who Run The World is back in 2020 and again we’re partnering with West Australian Music favourite authors and illustrators. to address gender inequality in music – but this time with a twist. Curators work alongside mentor Libby Klysz to discover what goes into producing a Young female and non-binary identifying musicians, producers and DJs are invited to join successful writers festival event. They then put together the program – from deciding who local musicians, performers and producers in a series of masterclasses and discussions will appear, researching questions and actually hosting the sessions. Previous curators across music, management, performance, technology and production. From creativity have interviewed acclaimed authors including Maggie Beer, James Foley, Josie Boyle and with loop pedals to preparing a studio for production, releasing your music to personal Andrew Hansen. stories from musicians, this is an opportunity to get the low down from those who have paved the way. Applications for Curated by Kids are open from 1 November 2019. For more information and to submit an application visit perthfestival.com.au Full program details announced and applications open on Monday 2 December 2019. For more information visit perthfestival.com.au Dates Meet & Greet Sat 14 Dec
FREE Workshops Sat 1 & Sat 15 Feb Literature & Ideas Family Day Sun 23 Feb
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Image: Cam Campbell AGES 15 – 18 AGES 15 – 25 YOUNG CREATIVES FIRE FANFARE
We are looking for passionate young people interested in any art form – from Imagine hearing a fanfare you wrote being broadcast at venues around Perth film to music, photography to drama and visual arts to literature – who are during the 2020 Festival! Instead of the traditional bells that let the audience keen to contribute to culture and the arts in Western Australia. know it’s time to take their seats, your Fire Fanfare will ring out to start Festival performances. Young Creatives dive into the heart of Perth Festival, attending performances, connecting with artists and Festival staff and peeking behind We are looking for compositions inspired by ‘fire’ to play at select venues the curtains to see what makes a festival tick. A program is especially tailored during Perth Festival. These fanfares will be recorded by professional to each Young Creative, with a mixture of individual and group activities musicians from the West Australian Symphony Orchestra alongside music engaging them across the Festival. students from UWA Conservatorium of Music and West Australian Academy of Performing Arts. Applications for Young Creatives are open from 1 November 2019. For more information and to submit an application visit perthfestival.com.au Find out more at perthfestival.com.au
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Image: Jess Wyld Image: Rachel Audino Image: Claire Alexander AGES 16 – 26 GOOD FILM CLUB GET LIT DRAG QUEEN Good Film Club invites young film lovers to be ambassadors of the BOOK CLUB STORY HOUR Lotterywest Films 2020 program.
Join the club and see all 18 films on their opening night as a group – for Perth Festival is inviting booklovers to join the Drag Queen Story Hour is a fun, inclusive story free! The Good Film Club will then meet casually over four sessions Get Lit Book Club. Members are asked to read time for everyone. Join Drag Queen with our Program Associate: Film Tom Vincent to discuss programming, one of three books from the Literature & Ideas Veronica Jean Jones for an hour of children’s marketing and the film experience. Weekend program – including books and delight. Everyone is welcome, from Tara June Winch’s The Yield, Tony Birch’s The the very old to the very young! You don’t need to be a film student or a filmmaker to join, you just need White Girl and Chessie Henry’s We Can Make a to have the desire to meet new people, discover our 2020 films and share Life. Participants will be given access to blogs, your opinions. questions and virtual meet ups to discuss the Venue Rabble Books ideas raised in each book. Join us as we deep 46 Eighth Ave Maylands Visit perthfestival.com.au for information on how to get involved. dive into some our favorite Festival books. Date Sun 19 Jan 4pm FREE Guardians/readers should make their own FREE decision on the suitability of the books.
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8 9 COLOSSUS DANCE WORKSHOP Learn about the exciting movement ideas and choreography Year Level Years 7 – 12 from Stephanie Lake Company’s large-scale dance work, Date Fri 21 Feb Colossus (p18). Colossus dancers will lead students through 1.30pm a range of movement tasks and experiments, learning Venue In school SCHOOL WORKSHOPS choreography from the show. & EXPERIENCES HOFESH SHECHTER In collaboration with teachers and artists, Perth Festival is proud to present a – UP CLOSE series of free experiences to deepen engagement with the 2020 Festival program. See behind the scenes of Hofesh in the Yard (p17) by watching Year Level Years 11 & 12 STRUT Dance training and rehearsing, participating in a Q&A Dates Fri 21 & Fri 28 Feb with artists and creatives and then attending the show. The 7pm CONTEMPORARY experience will deepen engagement with the work, enrich the Duration 60mins followed by understanding of contemporary dance practice and give insight the performance CIRCUS WORKSHOP into one of the leading choreographers of our times. Venue State Theatre Centre of Western Australia Join Circa for a practical workshop in contemporary circus, Year Level Years 7 – 12 experiencing everything from acrobalance to handstands Date Week of Mon 10 Feb and tumbling. Activities will complement the Leviathan Dates and times to ACTING AND LANGUAGE (p19) performance experience, with participants having the be confirmed upon opportunity to work with Circa’s world renowned artists and booking IN CLOUDSTREET trainers to learn new skills and refine technique. Duration 90mins Performers Ian Michael and Ebony McGuire lead an interactive Year Level Years 9 – 11 Venue In school workshop focussing on the style of performance within Date Tue 3 Mar Cloudstreet (p24) and the process of integrating Noongar Time to be confirmed AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET language into an existing work. Students will be provided insight upon booking into the development of the work through participation in Duration 90mins activities inspired by the rehearsal process. OPEN REHEARSALS Venue In school The Australian String Quartet’s ongoing work with First Nation Year Level Years 8 – 12 performers features collaborations that sit at the intersection Dates Thu 13 & Fri 14 Feb of Indigenous culture and European tradition. Step inside the 11.30am ADAPTING TEXT FOR group’s final rehearsals with William Barton (Thursday), Duration 60mins Lou Bennett and Stephen Pigram (Friday) as they put the finishing THE STAGE Venue University of touches on the Quartet & Country (p27) program. Western Australia Join Black Swan State Theatre Company artistic director Year Level Years 9 – 11 Clare Watson to explore the adaptation of texts for live Date Tue 10 Mar performance. Beginning with an in-depth exploration of Time to be confirmed NOONGAR SONGS the Cloudstreet (p24) adaptation, this workshop touches on upon booking adaptations from the ancient to the contemporary and provides Duration 90mins students the opportunity to interrogate the process of moving FROM HECATE Venue In school text from the page to the stage. Join members from the Hecate creative team for a Year Level Years 7 – 12 cross-curriculum workshop that shares Noongar language and Dates Tue 18 & Thu 20 Feb songs from the show. In Hecate (p21) the poetic and expressive Times to be confirmed qualities of the Noongar language are showcased and this unique upon booking Perth Festival will endeavour to find appropriate workshop venues free of charge for any schools that may not be able workshop will allow participants to deepen their exploration of Duration 90mins to host in school workshops. Workshop spaces are limited and bookings are not guaranteed until confirmed by the language and songs. Venue In school Festival. See p36 for booking details.
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Image: Mary Gimondo Image: Matthew Newton Image: Cam Campbell PRIMARY YEARS 10 – 12 NOONGAR STORYTELLERS H+SS CCP (NI’) LISTEN UP! H+SS CCP IN RESIDENCE LITERATURE & IDEAS FOR SCHOOLS
Festival artists and local storytellers provide students with a deeper appreciation of Australian In 2020 Perth Festival will work with members of the Noongar community to offer an Aboriginal histories, cultures and knowledge traditions. From Indigenous culture to land enriching cultural program to Primary Schools which combines storytelling as well as an management, race relations to connection to Country, these two sessions give students a greater interactive and playful introductory Noongar language lesson. understanding of Aboriginal Peoples’ ways of being, knowing, thinking and doing.
Working alongside Associate Artist Kylie Bracknell, Perth Festival will match participating Venue Octagon Theatre, UWA schools with Noongar storytellers and workshop facilitators who will deliver a program Date Fri 21 Feb 10am - 12pm with a strong connection to language, Country and culture. FREE However bookings are essential Applications to participate are welcomed from Primary Schools located on Noongar boodjar. For more information visit perthfestival.com.au BRUCE PASCOE GROWING UP NOONGAR Date This program is on offer across Term 1 and 2 2020 OUR COUNTRY: A TRUER HISTORY Join four proud young Noongar adults as they talk about Growing Up Noongar. This lively discussion, FREE Register your interest at perthfestival.com.au Bruce Pascoe, acclaimed author of Dark Emu, facilitated by Perth Festival’s Associate Artist invites students to consider a different version of Kylie Bracknell, touches on the influence culture Australia before First Contact – a land of cultivated has had on their lives, the importance of language farming areas and permanent homes rather than and song and their hopes for the future for the one inhabited by nomadic hunter-gatherers. Noongar community.
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Image: Jacob Nash Image: Daniel Boud SECONDARY & WACE SECONDARY & WACE BUŊGUL A H+SS CCP BENNELONG A H+SS CCP GURRUMUL’S MOTHER’S BUŊGUL BANGARRA DANCE THEATRE GURRUMUL’S GRANDMOTHER’S BUŊGUL GURRUMUL’S MANIKAY The life of one of history’s most iconic Aboriginal figures is Venue Heath Ledger Theatre explored onstage by internationally acclaimed With West Australian Symphony Orchestra Dates Thu 6 & Fri 7 Feb 7.30pm Produced by Skinnyfish Music and Perth Festival Bangarra Dance Theatre. Woollarawarre Bennelong was a Sat 8 Feb 1.30pm & 7.30pm senior man of the Eora, who led his community to survive a Sun 9 Feb 6pm clash of cultures. Through striking dance language, soul- Duration 75mins A buŋgul is a ceremony, a meeting place of dance, Venue Perth Concert Hall stirring soundscapes and exquisite design, Bangarra unpacks song and ritual. Post Show Q&A Fri 7 Feb Dates Fri 7 & Sat 8 Feb 7pm his legacy and its reverberation through contemporary Sun 9 Feb 6.30pm Tickets $16 Australian life. Transaction fees may apply Created on country in North East Arnhem Land with the Duration 90mins Yunupiŋu family, Buŋgul is a ceremonial celebration of one Contains smoke and haze effects Post Show Q&A Sat 8 Feb Created by Bangarra artistic director Stephen Page, of the transcendent albums of our time. Immerse yourself in Bennelong will leave you in awe of Australia’s history – and its the vibrant culture of an ancient people as your experience Tickets $16 50 Transaction fees may apply power to repeat. the traditional songs, dances and paintings that inspired Gurrumul’s award-winning final album, Djarrimirri (Child of the Rainbow), in a live performance by Yolŋu dancers, songmen and the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.
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Image: Ros Kavanagh Image: Ben Ruddick SECONDARY & WACE WACE MÁM A HOFESH IN THE YARD A TEAĊ DA SA STRUT DANCE
Presented in association with Hofesh Shechter Company
Around a single red-haired little girl, 12 dancers summon a Venue Heath Ledger Theatre Recognised as one of the most exciting artists working in Venue State Theatre Centre whirlwind of myth and magic, moved by the collaborative Dates Wed 26 – Sat 29 Feb contemporary dance today, Hofesh Shechter is renowned for of WA Courtyard music making of virtuoso Irish traditional concertina player 7.30pm creating his own genre – part dance, part gig, part theatre Dates Tue 18 – Sat 22 Feb 9pm Cormac Begley and European classical contemporary Duration 90mins and completely original. Tue 25 – Sat 29 Feb 9pm collective s t a r g a z e. Latecomers not admitted Sun 1 Mar 8pm Post Show Q&A Thu 27 Feb Now Perth’s own STRUT Dance presents 12 independent Duration 65mins including interval MÁM is international dance-theatre at its finest, playfully Tickets $16 artists from across the Asia-Pacific region performing a and provocatively taking you on an otherworldly journey Transaction fees may apply special version of Shechter’s explosive mega hit Uprising and Post Show Q&A Fri 21 Feb grounded in the untamed earth of West Kerry in Ireland. trance-like tHE bAD outside and in the round. Tickets $16 50 Transaction fees may apply Please note: This production contains adult themes. Please note: This production contains frequent coarse Contains smoke or haze effects language. This is a standing show with limited seating available
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Image: Mark Gambino Image: Damien Bredberg SECONDARY & WACE SECONDARY & WACE COLOSSUS A LEVIATHAN A STEPHANIE LAKE COMPANY CIRCA
Presented in collaboration with Co:3 Australia, Presented in collaboration with WAAPA and STRUT Dance Circus Maxima and CircusWA
Fifty dancers flood the stage, filling the theatre with a Venue Studio Underground Circa’s internationally-renowned ensemble joins with a local Venue Regal Theatre living, breathing, joyous mass of dancing bodies, moving in Dates Wed 19 – Sat 22 Feb cast of circus performers, professional dancers and young Dates Wed 26 – Sat 29 Feb 7pm intricate unison and wild individuality. They coexist in perfect 7.30pm people for a world premiere circus event. Sun 1 Mar 5pm imperfection, illustrating the push and pull of humanity and Sun 23 Feb 6.30pm Duration 80mins the exquisite patterning found in the natural world. Duration 50mins The art of circus is taken in an exciting new direction as 36 Post Show Q&A Thu 27 Feb Post Show Q&A Thu 20 Feb performers hang from a grid suspended in the air and propel Riveting and hypnotic, Colossus is an epic and exhilarating Tickets $16 Tickets $16 themselves across the stage, tumbling, balancing and soaring Transaction fees may apply dance work that explores the beauty and the ugliness of the Transaction fees may apply together. Directed by Yaron Lifschitz, Leviathan connects collective experience. Contains smoke or haze effects the local with the global and the emerging with the visionary 50 in for a circus experience that is both deeply moving and 50 physically stunning.
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Image: Pier Carthew Image: Eva Fernandez WACE SECONDARY & WACE ANTHEM A H+SS HECATE A BY ANDREW BOVELL, PATRICIA CORNELIUS, YIRRA YAAKIN THEATRE MELISSA REEVES, CHRISTOS TSIOLKAS & IRINE VELA Presented in association with Bell Shakespeare
Twenty-one years ago four playwrights and a composer Venue Heath Ledger Theatre In a world where the Noongar language is spoken by all, a Venue Subiaco Arts Centre came together to create a series of powerful interwoven Dates Wed 12 – Sat 15 Feb 7pm yarn about a Scottish king is retold. Dates Schools Performance vignettes that captured the zeitgeist of Australia in the 1990s. Sun 16 Feb 5pm Wed 12 Feb 11am Now the same team reunites to take the pulse of our nation Duration 2hrs 20mins Hecate, queen of the witches, is usually omitted from Additional Dates today, asking: does Australia share a dream and do we really including interval productions of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Here, she is at Wed 5 – Sun 16 Feb sing with one voice? Post Show Q&A Thu 13 Feb the heart of everything, watching as Macbeth strives Tue – Fri 7.30pm toward power at any cost. Having spent years studying Sat 8 Feb 2pm Tickets $16 Sat 15 Feb 2pm & 7.30pm A funny and ferocious portrait of a country unable to Transaction fees may apply and reclaiming their endangered Noongar language, a star reconcile its past and uncertain of its future a political vision, ensemble use this audacious adaptation as a springboard to Sun 6pm Anthem turns up the volume on the everyday injustices we showcase its poetic and expressive qualities. Duration 90mins choose not to hear. Latecomers not admitted Please note: This performance is performed in Noongar. Post Show Q&A Tue 11 Feb Please note: This performance contains explicit language, A detailed synopsis will be provided Tickets $16 adult themes and content that may not be suitable for all Transaction fees may apply audiences. Please contact us prior to booking for more information.
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Image: Tristram Kenton Image: Garth Oriander SECONDARY & WACE WACE TAO OF GLASS A BLACK TIES A H+SS CCP PHILIP GLASS & PHELIM MCDERMOTT BY JOHN HARVEY & TAINUI TUKIWAHO
ILBIJERRI Theatre Company & Te Rēhia Theatre
Phelim McDermott is a master storyteller – a theatrical Venue Heath Ledger Theatre It’s the biggest, blackest wedding ever and you’re invited! Venue Studio Underground alchemist and spinner of yarns who has summoned this Dates Wed 19 – Sun 23 Feb 7pm Dates Thu 13 & Fri 14 Feb 7.30pm astonishingly original show about making a show. Duration 2hrs 20mins Join a mob of Aunties, Uncles and cousins from both sides of Sat 15 Feb 2pm & 7.30pm including interval the ditch in a hilarious and heart-warming immersive theatre Sun 16 Feb 6pm Tao of Glass takes ten brand-new pieces by Philip Glass experience. Black Ties reimagines the popular wedding rom- Post Show Q&A Thu 20 Feb Duration 2hrs 30mins and pairs them with ten meditations on life, death and com from a distinctively First Nations perspective. Created including interval Tickets $16 Taoist wisdom performed by McDermott with an ensemble Transaction fees may apply by a team of Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and Māori Post Show Q&A Fri 14 Feb of musicians and puppeteers. The result is a warm, fun artists, featuring a peerless cast and set to a live score of Contains coarse language and adult Tickets $16 and utterly compelling fusion of music, theatre, puppetry themes Black anthems and wedding classics, this will be a party Transaction fees may apply and philosophical musing that is soundtracked by Glass’ to remember. Contains coarse language mesmerising music and bursting with theatricality.
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Image: Pia Johnson Image: Ben Symons SECONDARY & WACE SECONDARY & WACE CLOUDSTREET A E BRAN NUE DAE A CCP ADAPTED BY NICK ENRIGHT & JUSTIN MONJO BY JIMMY CHI & KUCKLES FROM THE NOVEL BY TIM WINTON Presented by West Australian Opera A Black Swan State Theatre Company of WA and Malthouse Theatre co-production Set out on the road trip of a lifetime with a runaway teenager, Venue Regal Theatre Join two of WA’s favourite families for a once-in-a- Venue His Majesty’s Theatre two hippies, a wily Uncle and a German priest. By the time Dates Thu 6 – Sat 15 Feb generation theatre event as Tim Winton’s award-winning Dates Fri 21 Feb – Sun 15 Mar you shake the red dust from your feet, you’ll know what it Tue & Thu – Fri 7.30pm novel Cloudstreet comes to life on stage. Wed – Sat 6pm means to come home. Wed 1pm & 7.30pm Sun 1 & 15 Mar 2pm Sat 2pm & 7.30pm The Lambs and the Pickles are as contrasting as the Australia Sun 8 Mar 12pm Jimmy Chi’s coming-of-age musical comedy Bran Nue Dae Sun 5pm they inhabit. In post-war Perth they share an old house at Duration 5hrs 10mins is an exuberant ride through 1960s Western Australia packed Duration 2hrs 20mins No 1 Cloud Street that’s haunted by a dark history. Over the including meal break with humour and hope. A trail-blazing Aboriginal musical, it including interval course of two decades their lives become entwined in ways and interval celebrates family, forgiveness and reconciliation with a feel- Post Show Q&A Wed 12 Feb 1pm they couldn’t have imagined. Cloudstreet is an epic Festival Post Show Q&A Wed 11 Mar good mash-up of rock-and-roll, gospel, country, blues and Tickets $50 A Reserve experience packed full of hardship and heart. Tickets $39 Broome saltwater music. $30 B Reserve Seats will be taken from B & C Transaction fees may apply Reserve only (pending availability) Please note: This production contains strong language, adult Transaction fees may apply themes and sexual references. Please contact us prior to Contains adult themes booking for more information.
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Image: Shane Reid Image: Jacqui Way SECONDARY & WACE SECONDARY & WACE THIRTEEN WAYS A E QUARTET & COUNTRY A AUSTRALIAN STRING QUARTET WITH LOU BENNETT, TO LOOK AT BIRDS WILLIAM BARTON, STEPHEN PIGRAM & ROMA WINMAR PAUL KELLY, JAMES LEDGER, ALICE KEATH & SERAPHIM TRIO In this series of four concerts, part of Perth Festival’s Venue Winthrop Hall Chamber Music Weekend, the Australian String Dates Sat 15 & Sun 16 Feb Quartet perform all six of Beethoven’s effervescent ASQ with Lou Bennet Sat 11am Perth Concert Hall Birds have fascinated poets for centuries and this event Venue Op 18 quartets and match them with works from ASQ with William Barton Sat 5pm brings together Australian music legend Paul Kelly, leading Date Sat 15 Feb 7.30pm Australian Indigenous composers. ASQ with Stephen Pigram Sun 12pm West Australian composer James Ledger, singer-songwriter Duration 85mins Singer Dr Lou Bennett AM, didgeridoo master ASQ with Roma Winmar Sun 4pm Alice Keath and Seraphim Trio for an evocative song cycle Post Show Q&A William Barton, Broome music icon Stephen Pigram Duration 60mins – 70mins inspired by birds. Sat 15 Feb and Noongar elder Roma Winmar bring the songlines Tickets $16 Transaction fees may apply Tickets $16 and stories of this vast country into conversation with Using the words of poets John Keats, Thomas Hardy, Transaction fees may apply the masterworks of the European musical canon. Emily Dickinson, Judith Wright, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Contains smoke or haze effects others, each of these 13 new songs and soundscapes is its own world – delicate and intimate at times, colossal and soaring at others.
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Image: Stefan Fuertbauer SECONDARY & WACE Image: Dario Costa SECONDARY & WACE Image: Jarred Seng WACE Image: Julia Holland SECONDARY & WACE
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BEETHOVEN’S FIDELIO GARRICK OHLSSON KOORLANGKA ANCIENT VOICES Co-commissioned by West Australian Symphony Presented in association with Musica Viva GINA WILLIAMS & GUY GHOUSE THE GESUALDO SIX WITH THE GIOVANNI Orchestra and presented in association with West CONSORT, VOYCES & WILLIAM BARTON Australian Opera Presented in association with Government House Foundation Experience Beethoven’s only opera reframed with Revered American pianist Garrick Ohlsson is a One of the UK’s finest choral ensemble, The text written by award-winning Australian writer master of the intimate art of the solo recital. In his On the anniversary of the Government apology to Gesualdo Six, is joined by local choirs Alison Croggon and narrated by actor hands the piano becomes a time machine, allowing the Stolen Generations, award-winning music duo The Giovanni Consort and Voyces to perform Eryn Jean Norvill interwoven with the music. the music of Beethoven, Prokofiev and Chopin to Gina Williams and Guy Ghouse bring guitar brilliance Thomas Tallis’ 40-part motet Spem in Alium. This Beethoven’s ode to love, risk and resistance is rarely speak to us with uncluttered immediacy. and incandescent vocals to an exquisite suite of concert also features works by virtuoso didgeridoo performed, but its relevance today is arguably childrens’ songs and lullabies performed in Noongar. player William Barton and a new commission based greater than ever. Venue Perth Concert Hall on Beethoven’s Ode to Joy from Cara Fesjian. Date Sun 16 Feb 6.30pm Venue Government House Ballroom Venue Perth Concert Hall Venue Winthrop Hall Duration 2hrs 10mins Date Thu 13 Feb 7.30pm Dates Fri 28 Feb 7pm Date Fri 14 Feb 7.30pm including interval Duration 90mins Sun 1 Mar 2pm Pre Show Talk Sun 16 Feb including interval Duration 2hrs Duration 2hrs 15mins including interval Tickets $15 Tickets $20 including interval Transaction fees may apply Transaction fees may apply Tickets $16 Pre Show Q&A Fri 28 Feb & Sun 1 Mar Transaction fees may apply Tickets $30 Transaction fees may apply Sung in German and narrated in English with English surtitles
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Dates Mon 23 – Tue 24 Dec 8pm Thu 26 – Sun 29 Dec 8pm Duration 91mins, PG
AUSTRALIA H IS FOR HAPPINESS Always-upbeat 12-year-old Candice Phee is determined to spark happiness in her family’s lives. Image: Jess Wyld Based on the award-winning young adult novel SECONDARY & WACE My Life As An Alphabet, and shot with plenty of A H+SS E L CCP spark and colour in Albany, this debut feature captures the hope and occasional toughness of a Western Australian childhood.
Dates Mon 30 Dec – Sun 5 Jan 8pm LOTTERYWEST FILMS Duration 103mins, CTC
Lotterywest Films return to UWA Somerville with a line-up of the best new films from around the world. The screen will light up with explorations of childhood, family, life on the land, memory and desire in a season that champions the importance of celebrating every person’s story. Films AUSTRALIA IN MY BLOOD IT RUNS from France, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Belgium, USA and Morocco will Dujuan is an inquisitive ten-year-old Arrernte/ entertain, enthrall, excite, intrigue and inspire. Garrwa boy who speaks three languages, understands his Aboriginal culture and loves Visit perthfestival.com.au for full screening and classification details. the natural world. As he struggles at school and faces increasing scrutiny from welfare and police, his family battle to keep him safe, grounded in Venue UWA Somerville language, culture and identity. Dates Mon 25 Nov 2019 – Sun 5 Apr 2020
Tickets $10 Dates Mon 3 – Sun 9 Feb 8pm Transaction fees may apply Post Screening Fri 7 & Sat 8 Feb Q&A Duration 90mins, PG Arrernte and English with English subtitles
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A H+SS CCP VISUAL ARTS
The Visual Arts 2020 program offers a richly textured experience, presenting a series of exhibitions united by the processes of assemblage and transformation. Chalkroom, 2017, fluorescent paint on FINAL ACT - Number Twelve, 2013, archival Thin Veneer, 2015, oil on board Focussing on the poetry and emotional resonance slate walls digital print, documentation of site-specific of materials, these exhibitions represent familiar intervention traditions and stories in innovative media and from diverse perspectives. CHALKROOM IAN STRANGE MIRA KURRUM MAUN BRICOLAGE Created by pioneering artist and This first large-scale survey of (FAR FROM HOME) Art meets science in this ambitious Visit perthfestival.com.au for full exhibition details. musician Laurie Anderson and Ian Strange’s photography and films new installation that brings The work of acclaimed artist All visual art exhibitions are FREE. Taiwanese new media artist offers an in-depth opportunity microscopic robots to life in a Hsin-Chien Huang, Chalkroom to unpack the process behind his Sandra Hill examines the spectre custom-built incubator. Introduced takes you flying on a spectacular ambitious transformations of of Aboriginal cultural annihilation by a visual text by acclaimed WA interactive virtual reality journey. full-scale homes. revealing her own lived experience writer Josephine Wilson. as a Noongar woman of the Stolen Venue Perth Institute of Venue John Curtin Gallery Generations. Venue Fremantle Arts Centre Contemporary Arts Venue John Curtin Gallery
Thunderhead (video still), 2016 Hudson Valley Ruins (production still), 2016 Australia Mix it All Up, 2019, acrylic on The Long Kiss Goodbye (installation view), Untitled, pencil and graphite on paper canvas 2016, screen-print on linen, canvas and lame, digital printed fabrics and various found fabrics, PVC, poly-fil, glass, ceramic THUNDERHEAD HUDSON AWAVENA JOHN PRINCE and plastic beads, thread, artists’ gloves CHEEKY DOGS Tina Havelock Stevens’ visceral and VALLEY RUINS A mixed-reality work created by SIDDON A selection of original works that immersive video and performance legendary artist/director THE LONG KISS vividly brings to life NT artst work Thunderhead channels the The unsettling experiences of two Lynette Wallworth and the A Walmajarri man living and working GOODBYE Dion Beasley’s fascination with energy of the meteorological young female characters are tracked Amazonian Yawanawa people, from Fitzroy Crossing, cheeky dogs and his unconventional phenomenon of a supercell. in Jacky Connolly’s short narrative Awavena tells a stunning tale of John Prince Siddon draws on A group exhibition in which the journey into the world of film produced entirely in the metamorphosis. contemporary politics, social issues artists transform familiar materials contemporary art. Venue Perth Institute of computer game The Sims 3. and personal experiences to present and symbols into complex Contemporary Arts Venue Art Gallery of a kaleidoscopic vision of Australia. meditations on attraction, repulsion, Venue DADAA Venue Perth Institute of Western Australia loss and hope. Contemporary Arts Venue Fremantle Arts Centre Venue Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
32 33 CROSS SCHEDULE TEXT FILM CURRICULUM MUSIC DANCE DRAMA VISUAL ARTS
THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN VENUE / DATE 6 FEB 7 FEB 8 FEB 9 FEB 10 FEB 11 FEB 12 FEB 13 FEB 14 FEB 15 FEB 16 FEB 17 FEB 18 FEB 19 FEB 20 FEB 21 FEB 22 FEB 23 FEB 24 FEB 25 FEB 26 FEB 27 FEB 28 FEB 29 FEB 1 MAR Noongar Noongar Colossus Songs Songs from Dance IN SCHOOL from Hecate Workshop Hecate p10 1.30pm, p11 p10 Koorlangka Making 7.30pm, Space p29 p3 VARIOUS Curated VENUES By Kids Workshop p5 Buŋgul Buŋgul Buŋgul Thirteen Garrick Beethoven’s Beethoven’s PERTH 7pm, p14 7pm, p14 6.30pm, Ways to Ohlsson Fidelio Fidelio p14 Look at 6.30pm, 7pm, p28 2pm, p28 CONCERT HALL Birds p28 7.30pm, p26 Bennelong Bennelong Bennelong Bennelong Anthem Anthem Anthem Anthem Anthem Tao of Glass Tao of Glass Tao of Glass Tao of Glass Tao of Glass MÁM MÁM MÁM MÁM HEATH LEDGER 7.30pm, p15 7.30pm, p15 1.30pm & 6pm, p15 7pm, p20 7pm, p20 7pm, p20 7pm, p20 5pm, p20 7pm, p22 7pm, p22 7pm, p22 7pm, p22 7pm, p22 7.30pm, p16 7.30pm, p16 7.30pm, p16 7.30pm, p16 THEATRE 7.30pm, p15 Black Ties Black Ties Black Ties Black Ties Colossus Colossus Colossus Colossus Colossus STUDIO 7.30pm, 7.30pm, 2pm & 6pm, p23 7.30pm, p18 7.30pm, p18 7.30pm, p18 7.30pm, p18 6.30pm, p18 UNDERGROUND p23 p23 7.30pm, p23 Hofesh in Hofesh in Hofesh in Hofesh Hofesh in Hofesh in Hofesh in Hofesh in Hofesh Hofesh in Hofesh in STATE THEATRE the Yard the Yard the Yard Shechter the Yard the Yard the Yard the Yard Shechter the Yard the Yard 9pm, p17 9pm, p17 9pm, p17 Up Close 9pm, p17 9pm, p17 9pm, p17 9pm, p17 Up Close 9pm, p17 8pm, p17 CENTRE OF WA workshop workshop 7pm, p11 7pm, p11 HIS MAJESTY’S Cloudstreet Cloudstreet Cloudstreet Cloudstreet Cloudstreet Cloudstreet Cloudstreet THEATRE 6pm, p24 6pm, p24 6pm, p24 6pm, p24 6pm, p24 6pm, p24 2pm, p24 Bran Nue Bran Nue Bran Nue Bran Nue Bran Nue Bran Nue Bran Nue Bran Nue Bran Nue Leviathan Leviathan Leviathan Leviathan Leviathan Dae Dae Dae Dae Dae Dae Dae Dae Dae 7pm, p19 7pm, p19 7pm, p19 7pm, p19 5pm, p19 THE REGAL 7.30pm, 7.30pm, 2pm & 5pm, p25 7.30pm, 1pm & 7.30pm, 7.30pm, 2pm & p25 p25 7.30pm, p25 7.30pm, p25 p25 7.30pm, p25 p25 p25
SUBIACO ARTS Hecate Hecate Hecate Hecate Hecate Hecate Hecate Hecate Hecate Hecate 7.30pm, p21 7.30pm, p21 7.30pm, p21 6pm, p21 7.30pm, p21 7.30pm, p21 7.30pm, p21 7.30pm, p21 2pm & 6pm, p21 CENTRE 7.30pm, p21 In My Blood In My Blood In My Blood In My Blood ASQ ASQ Quartet & Quartet & (Ni’) Listen Literature THE UNIVERSITY it Runs it Runs it Runs it Runs Rehearsal Rehearsal Country Country Up! & Ideas 8pm, p31 8pm, p31 8pm, p31 8pm, p31 11.30am, 11.30am 11am & 5pm, 11am & p13 Family Day OF WESTERN p10 Ancient p27 5pm, p27 AUSTRALIA Voices 7.30pm FREMANTLE John Prince Siddon & Bricolage John Prince Siddon & Bricolage ARTS CENTRE Mon - Sun 10am - 5pm, p33 Mon - Sun 10am - 5pm, p33 Chalkroom, Thumderhead & Hudson Valley Ruins Chalkroom, Thumderhead & Hudson Valley Ruins Chalkroom, Thumderhead & Hudson Valley Ruins PICA Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm, p32 Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm, p32 Tue - Sun 10am - 5pm, p32 LAWRENCE The Long Kiss Goodbye The Long Kiss Goodbye The Long Kiss Goodbye The Long Kiss Goodbye WILSON Tue - Sun 11am - 5pm, Tue - Sun 11am - 5pm, p33 Tue - Sun 11am - 5pm, p33 Tue - Sun 11am - 5pm, p33 GALLERY p33 JOHN CURTIN Ian Strange & Mia Kurrum Maun Ian Strange & Mia Kurrum Maun GALLERY Mon - Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat & Sun 11am - 5pm, p33 Mon - Fri 11am - 5pm, Sat & Sun 11am - 5pm, p33 ART GALLERY Awavena Awavena Awavena Awavena OF WESTERN Wed - Sun 10am - 5pm, p32 Wed - Sun 10am - 5pm, p32 Wed - Sun 10am - 5pm, p32 Wed - Sun 10am - 5pm, p32 AUSTRALIA Cheeky Dogs Cheeky Dogs Cheeky Dogs Cheeky Dogs DADAA Tue - Sat 10am - 4pm, Tue - Sat 10am - 4pm, p33 Tue - Sat 10am - 4pm, p33 Tue - Sat 10am - 4pm, p33 p33
34 35 BOOKING BOOKING CONDITIONS For full booking details visit www.perthfestival.com.au
An additional service fee of $6 applies per transaction. If you choose to have your INFORMATION tickets delivered by Registered Post (recommended for general admission events) additional fees will apply. Fees are non-refundable.
For performances on or before Sun 16 Feb 2020, all tickets must be paid for no SCHOOL GROUP TICKET BOOKINGS later than Wed 5 Feb 2020. For performances on or after Mon 17 Feb 2020, all tickets must be paid for no later than Wed 12 Feb 2020. Any tickets not paid for by School group tickets can be requested by emailing a Ticket Request Form to these dates will be released for sale to the general public. [email protected] Ticket Request Forms are available from perthfestival.com.au ENQUIRIES For performances with a $16 school ticket price, teachers receive one Email [email protected] complimentary ticket per ten student group tickets booked. Any additional teacher tickets will be charged at student concession prices.
School tickets for Koorlangka, Garrick Ohlsson, Cloudstreet, Fidelio and Bran Nue ACCESS SYMBOLS Dae have differing ticket prices and conditions of sale. Prices will be confirmed and you will be notified of any differing conditions of sale when you submit your WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE SYMBOL Ticket Request Form. ASSISTIVE LISTENING School group tickets have limited capacity and are subject to availability. All
Surtitle schools will be notified by Perth Festival on receipt of their Ticket Request Form 100 100 NO MUSIC OR DIALOGUE and requests will be processed within seven working days. Bookings are not guaranteed until confirmed by Perth Festival. 75 FULLY SURTITLED OR HAS MINIMAL DIALOUGE Some background music and/or sounds
50 PARTIALLY SURTITLED OR INCLUDES DIALOGUE WORKSHOP & EXPERIENCE BOOKINGS Background music and/or sounds Students attending a performance can also request to participate in an associated CLOSED CAPTIONING workshop or experience. Please submit your booking requests to [email protected] including the school name, teacher contact AUDIO DESCRIPTION information, number of participating students, the workshop name and preferred session time and date (where there are multiple sessions offered). TACTILE TOUR Touch tours are free but must be booked in advance Workshop spaces are extremely limited and bookings are not guaranteed until AUSLAN SIGN INTERPRETED confirmed by Perth Festival. With the exception of the Australian String Quartet open rehearsals, workshops are only available to school groups that have booked tickets to the linked performance. Please contact Perth Festival on [email protected] or 6488 8616 to book a captioned, audio described or Auslan sign interpreted performance, or a tactile tour. (NI’) LISTEN UP! If your school requires any additional support to attend (Ni’) Listen Up!, our WITH THANKS Literature & Ideas for Schools event (p13), please contact Perth Festival at [email protected] Moya Thomas, Lilly Blue, Helen Hristofski, The Literature Centre, Em Burrows
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