Festival Lab

Festival Lab is Perth Festival’s intensive development program for emerging artists and creative practitioners

The Festival Lab is an annual program that encourages participants to deeply engage with the Perth Festival program. This is an opportunity for emerging artists from any discipline to engage with other emerging artists, experience the breadth of Festival offerings together, and reflect on your artistic practice with an Arts Leader as your guide and Navigator.   

Each year, the Lab will encourage cross-border collaboration and convergence by providing space for artists to explore connections with peers throughout the Asia-Pacific and Aotearoa region. The Festival Lab program and cohort will be guided by a Lab Navigator from the arts industry.

The Lab cohort will participate in critical discussion and workshops, meet visiting artists, producers, programmers and Festival staff, and forge new relationships with other practitioners in this intensive program.  

The curated program offers a space for inquiry and connection – an open invitation to learn and engage with no outcome expectations.