Events

Join the Friends of the Festival to celebrate the launch of
2009 Lotterywest Festival Films

When
Please join us at 7pm on Sunday 30 November 2008
7–7.50pm drinks and a Must Winebar picnic box
8pm official welcome and season preview
8.30pm feature film: Young@Heart • USA • PG • 107 mins

Where
Somerville Auditorium, The University of WA, Crawley

Tickets
$40 per person

RSVP essential to book your tickets by Friday 21 November, use the booking slip and Fax to 6488 8555 or mail to Friends of the Festival, M418 The University of WA, 3 Crawley Avenue, Crawley WA 6009

Outdoor event – bring a warm jacket and blanket. Cancelled if raining.

 

Festival in Focus Events

Festival Focus 4: 2009 Visual Arts Program

This will be an illustrated talk outlining the projects that will form the Visual Arts Program as part of the 2009 Festival and will be presented by Margaret Moore who has recently been appointed the Program Manager for the Visual Arts.

The 2009 program charts artists using digital media, sound, sculpture and painting.

Date       Sunday 1 February 2009
Venue   Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
Time      3pm sharp
Cost       FREE

Take this opportunity to hear how some of the works, such as Daniel von Sturmer's commission for the New Bishops See Building, have come to fruition. 

Other projects under discussion will be the exhibition of art and music at the John Curtin Gallery and Oscar Muñoz Mirror Image at PICA.

Margaret will be joined by John Barrett-Lennard, Curatorial Director at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, who will introduce his expansive exhibition of the work of Imants Tillers. 

This talk will be a helpful precursor to the Visual Arts Keynote Address to be delivered by 16 February by distinguished critic and writer from New York, Eleanor Heartney.

Meet with other Friends of the Festival after the talk when drinks and light refreshments will be served on the verandah of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Strictly limited places so please book early
RSVP friends@perthfestival.com.au  or phone 6488 8625

Festival Focus 3:  The Year of Magical Thinking

The stage production of Joan Didion's Pulitzer prize-winning memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking will be brought to life by Australian actor Helen Morse, and directed by Kate Cherry, Artistic Director of Black Swan State Theatre Company.

Kate and Helen will discuss the production so don't miss this opportunity to gain an insight into the work. 

Date       Thursday 22 January 2009
Venue   Dolphin Theatre, UWA
Time      7pm sharp
Cost       Admission Free

This one woman play, rich with pathos, exposes the beauty and terror that we all find in the transience of life and celebrates the power of the imagination to help us survive.

Meet with other Friends of the Festival after the talk when light refreshments will be served with a cash bar open.

Strictly limited places so please book early
RSVP friends@perthfestival.com.au  or phone 6488 8625

Festival in Focus 2: The War of the Roses

And here I prophesy: this brawl today
Grown to this faction in the Temple garden,
Shall send between the Red rose and the White
A thousand souls to death and deadly night
(Henry VI, Part One - Act 2: Scene 4)

One of the highlights of the 2009 Perth International Arts Festival will be the Sydney Theatre Company’s ambitious staging of Shakespeare’s The War of the Roses, featuring Cate Blanchett and Robert Menzies. Directed by Benedict Andrews, this will be an unmissable theatrical event. This production is a new commission by Sydney and Perth Festivals.

In order to learn more about Shakespeare’s grand epic, the second Festival in Focus event for 2009 takes a closer look at the intrigue, history and conspiracy that lie behind the plays.

Date              Thursday 27 November - SOLD OUT

Due to high demand for this event an additional Festival in Focus will be held Wednesday 3 November

Venue           The Dolphin Theatre, UWA
Time              6pm sharp
Admission   Free

Join Professor Chris Wortham, a Renaissance drama specialist, as he guides you through the social, cultural and political implications of Shakespeare’s series of plays on the War of the Roses; their relevance to Shakespeare’s contemporaries and why they still resonate with audiences today.

Meet with other Friends of the Festival after the talk. Light refreshments will be served and a cash bar will be open.

Strictly limited places so please book early
RSVP friends@perthfestival.com.au  or call 6488 8625

 

Festival in Focus 1: Royal de Luxe

The first Festival in Focus event for 2009 is certainly one not to be missed. French street theatre company Royal de Luxe will magically transform Perth during the 2009 Festival.

Overnight, ordinary shop-windows will turn into live theatres with mannequin actors taking centre-stage. Over nine days melodramas will unfold entertaining and mesmerising passers-by.

Come along to meet Royal de Luxe’s Location Manager and Assistant Artistic Director and learn about the complex logistics behind the scenes; anecdotes of their extraordinary shows and be the first to discover what they have in store for Perth.

Date                 Thursday, 2 October 2008
Venue              Wardle Room, Perth Concert Hall
Time                 6pm
Admission      Free for Friends and one guest
Cash bar will be open

There is a strict limit on places available for this event so make your booking quickly, limit of 2 places per Friend.

To RSVP please email friends@perthfestival or call 6488 8625