Perth Festival's slate of local works put Western Australian artists up against big names from abroad — and they rise to the challenge.
Howett has 40 years in Australia's arts industry. He has sat on funding advisory panels and has seen funding decline over the years."As the funding dollars got cut, it's the artists that are wearing the cost of it," he said.Hope, who was based in WA when her opera Speechless was conceived but subsequently moved to Melbourne where she teaches at Monash, said she found the distance from Perth challenging.
It also arguably makes them risky for everyone involved: risky for artists, risky for audiences, risky for the festival, reputationally, and risky for funders. "There is no doubt that we encourage artists to present their most bold and ambitious ideas — because why not?"That's a very fine line that artists and festivals need to navigate together," Reece said.It involved a relatively untested site — the newly recommissioned Sunset Heritage Precinct— and 70 performers, including a community choir, orchestra and solo vocalists.
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