PERTH’S first Fringe World festival wound up last week after three-and-a-half weeks of shows, and 180,000 people attending free or ticketed performances.
PAUL Bodlovich has resigned as chief executive officer of the West Australian Music Industry Association, to take up the role of CEO at the Film and Television Institute (WA). Mr Bodlovich has been with WAM for 10 years.
BORN into the iconic Myer dynasty, Carrillo Gantner did his best to avoid the family business by training as an actor and pursuing a career on the stage.
THERE is a collective murmur of excitement from the little visitors to Scitech, the state’s science and technology learning hub for children and adolescents.
THE combination of physical activity and fundraising for a good cause has proved a near-faultless model in recent years, with swimming, running and cycling among the many ways of raising a dollar.
PERTH’S first Fringe World festival got under way last week with a program that includes 150 weird and wonderful acts, living up to the Fringe ideal of a program that offers everything the mainstream arts sector does not.
Social innovation has been on the state government’s agenda for nearly 12 months, with $14 million in the Social Innovation Grants Program kitty aimed at supporting organisations that develop new ways of delivering social services.
With few partnerships between large funding bodies, commercial radio stations and arts consultants in Western Australia, the new My City program on Southern Cross Austereo-owned Mix 94.5 is carving a new path to promote arts and culture events across the state.
Two Western Australian not-for-profit organisations have formed a partnership to fight infectious lung diseases, with $100,000 already being awarded to WA scientists for projects that address diseases like pneumonia.
It is not often you come across an organisation that specialises in caring for people affected by the murder of a loved one. The end of the year has resulted in a shortfall of $100,000 in operational funding for angelhands, which does exactly that.
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