New arts festival coming to Perth this winter
Perth is set to launch a new winter arts and cultural festival this July, with RE//Perth activating multiple Northbridge spaces in a celebration of creativity and urban exploration.
Perth is set to launch a new winter arts and cultural festival this July, with RE//Perth activating multiple Northbridge spaces in a celebration of creativity and urban exploration.
The 10-day event will run during the second week of the school holidays, from 4 to 14 July, with a hero production running from 2 to 27 July.
There will also be a huge range of free and ticketed events.
The festival will centre around 4 key themes:
- Food element (RE//BIRTH) including a winter banquet with high-end degustation food and wine experiences, plus a food market with winter favourites like roasted chestnuts, toasted marshmallows, mulled wine, hot apple cider, and live entertainment
- Performance element (RE//FLECT) centring around an exclusive, large-scale WA premiere of dance and acrobatic show The Mirror, from multi-award-winning producers Gravity and Other Myths, which will run for 4 weeks
- Kids element (RE//PLAY) attracting children and families during the school holidays with live entertainment, interactive winter-themed activities, snow cone creations, snowflake projections, live ice carving, winter-warming drinks, and marshmallow toasting
- Sustainable fashion element (RE//PURPOSE) highlighting the value of recycled and repurposed fashion through workshops for children and adults.
The festival is a new and diverse homegrown addition to WA's events calendar delivered by ARTRAGE, the local not-for-profit registered charity and WA arts and cultural organisation known for producing the annual FRINGE WORLD festival.