2011 Festival
11 Feb-7 Mar

The 2011 Perth Festival program will be launched early November.

The quintessential Perth summer experience: the Lotterywest Festival Films will open Mon 29 November.

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Film program manager

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Madeline Bates to the highly sought-after role of Program Manager: Film.

Our current program manager, Sherry Hopkins, will bow out next year after more than 40 years with the Festival.

Madeline comes to the Festival from the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Welcome

The director of one of the UK's largest and most vibrant arts festivals has been appointed as artistic director of the Perth International Arts Festival.

Jonathan Holloway, currently artistic director and chief executive of the 238 year old Norfolk & Norwich Festival, will take over the artistic direction of Perth Festival from 2012-2015, following the departure

of current artistic director Shelagh Magadza after the 2011 Festival.

Jonathan said "I am thrilled to have been invited to lead artistically one of the world's great festivals, in one of the world's most beautiful places. Perth Festival has a great energy and Western Australia has a growing apetite for the arts. I look forward to four years of collaborations."