Photo credit: Perth Festival – Daniel Boud Governor’s Patronage – Perth Festival 2020 Season November 1, 2019 By Adele Hollywood The 2020 Season program for Perth Festival has been announced. On a bedrock of Indigenous culture, Perth Festival 2020 will welcome everyone to a glorious summer celebration of people and place. From 7th February to 1st March, more than 250 events across theatre, music, dance, opera, film, visual arts and literature and ideas – many of them free – will dazzle audiences from near and far. Artists include – Mavis Staples, Neil Gaiman, Meow Meow, Rufus Wainwright, Kate Tempest, Bryony Kimmings, Paul Kelly, Garrick Ohlsson, Michael Keegan-Dolan. New works will celebrate such diverse influential figures as Gurrumul, Philip Glass, Beethoven and Bon Scott. New Artistic Director Iain Grandage’s four annual programs on Noongar Boodjar will capture an ever‐expanding orbit of stories from the local to the global. View the full program (external link) The Governor is proud to be Patron of the Perth Festival. View all of the Governor’s Patronage organisations Photo credit: Perth Festival – Jacob Nash Photo credit: Perth Festival – Mark Gambino Post navigation Professor Peter C Doherty AC, guest at Government House2020 Music on the Terrace program announced View all Articles