Perth Festival
Artistic Director
2004 - 2007
Perth Festival
2004 - 2007
Perth Festival
2004 - 2007
Perth Festival
2004 - 2007
Four broad themes: Journey (2004), Transcendence and Transformation (2005), Earthly Pleasure (2006) and The Human Family (2007); were the starting point for this suite of Festivals. Major world artists/companies included Lepage’s Ex Machina, NeedCompany, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan, Akram Khan, Kronos Quartet, The Gotan Project, Prague Chamber Orchestra and Youssou N’Dour. In 2007 the festival achieved its (then) best box office result in 55 years and won national acclaim for the Wesfarmers Arts Commissions Series. Through this initiative, festival-led partnerships with resulted in World Premieres of a major new opera, ballet, symphony and theatre work in each festival. A parallel WA regional focus featured in each festival. In 2006, for the first time in the festival’s history the Perth International Arts Festival was a celebration dedicated to local First Nations culture and language. Guided by a Noongar Advisory Group, through community consultation from 2004, six senior Noongar artists were commissioned to create Ngallak Koort Boodja (Our Heart Country), an epic-scale canvas and cultural document, depicting animals, plants, ancestral spirits and landscapes within 14 circles representing the interrelated dialectical groups of the Noongar nation. The canvas was unveiled as part of the Opening Event for the 2006 Festival before going on public display across WA.
"Socially, the Festival has arguably done more for black/white relations in Perth than any single event in the city’s history. Hume has not needed a cultural policy to get on with the job of, in her words, ‘making a real difference to the life and soul of our community’. Her courageous and mature 2006 festival has contributed more to the imaginative possibilities of the state’s cultural life than any policy could."
The Australian, March 2006
"A fitting finale...four years of exceptional programming by Lindy Hume...Hume has brought the world to Perth while simultaneously celebrating local cultures... While developing major new works, she has also increased community involvement and facilitated a confident showcase for Indigenous culture – especially the local Noongar people... Hume’s final festival was quite a swansong."
Sunday Telegraph UK March 2007
"Socially, the Festival has arguably done more for black/white relations in Perth than any single event in the city’s history. Hume has not needed a cultural policy to get on with the job of, in her words, ‘making a real difference to the life and soul of our community’. Her courageous and mature 2006 festival has contributed more to the imaginative possibilities of the state’s cultural life than any policy could."
The Australian, March 2006
"A fitting finale...four years of exceptional programming by Lindy Hume...Hume has brought the world to Perth while simultaneously celebrating local cultures... While developing major new works, she has also increased community involvement and facilitated a confident showcase for Indigenous culture – especially the local Noongar people... Hume’s final festival was quite a swansong."
Sunday Telegraph UK March 2007
"Socially, the Festival has arguably done more for black/white relations in Perth than any single event in the city’s history. Hume has not needed a cultural policy to get on with the job of, in her words, ‘making a real difference to the life and soul of our community’. Her courageous and mature 2006 festival has contributed more to the imaginative possibilities of the state’s cultural life than any policy could."
The Australian, March 2006
"A fitting finale...four years of exceptional programming by Lindy Hume...Hume has brought the world to Perth while simultaneously celebrating local cultures... While developing major new works, she has also increased community involvement and facilitated a confident showcase for Indigenous culture – especially the local Noongar people... Hume’s final festival was quite a swansong."
Sunday Telegraph UK March 2007
Culture, music, storytelling, dance and image-making have been practiced on Country for millennia by Australia's First People. I acknowledge and pay respect to the original custodians of Culture and Country where I live in Tathra, the Djiringanj people of the Yuin Nation on the Far South Coast of New South Wales, and the palawa/pakana, First People of lutruwita Tasmania.
© 2023 Lindy Hume
© 2022 Lindy Hume
© 2022 Lindy Hume