For Schools
We invite you and your students to be immersed in a range of events and activities that connect young people to ideas, develop and celebrate their creativity and foster a life-long love of the arts.
Teacher Professional Development
Our 2025 professional development program offers teachers the opportunity to work alongside extraordinary local and international artists, and gain insight into their creative process. From devising live performance works and engaging with community, to embracing new technologies as effective storytelling tools, these sessions will centre around practice sharing and conversation. Engage with cross disciplinary story building in fun, hands on and accessible ways with a focus on helping you pass what you learn on to your students.
Find out more about our three workshops below.
While these workshops are designed to be standalone events, we strongly recommend that you book tickets for the associated Perth Festival show to get the most out of your experience!
Registrations Open: Mon 25 Nov 2024
Registrations Close: Thus 12 Dec 2024
Confirmation: Mon 27 Jan 2025
Please return the EOI form before Thu 12 Dec.
Dive into UK-based company Quarantine’s creative process with core artist and producer Sarah Hunter. Hear about their approach to making work with ‘real people’ with a focus on durational piece, 12 Last Songs, and gain insight into the unique dramaturgical methods the company employs to shape their work. This workshop will explore how to create structures and ask questions that invite people to ‘be themselves’ on stage.
*Register for this event if you are interested in storytelling as a vehicle to celebrate community.
Date: Sat 8 Feb 2025
Venue: All Saints’ College. Ewing Ave, Bull Creek
Time: 1 – 4pm
Click here for more information on 12 Last Songs.
Join Director Sophia Stepf as she unpacks the process of creating the multi-disciplinary work Ultimate Safari with Tanzanian-based company Asedeva. Based on some simple yet layered theatre exercises, you’ll find out what one minute of stage time can look like, and how playing and reflecting on it helps us to understand how performance flows in time. Explore what place speech, sound and movement (in space) have in this minute, and how each person can express themselves with their talents and yet become part of a larger system.
*Register for this event if you are interested in exploring the different tensions between performance making and the art of being an audience.
Date: Sat 22 Feb 2025
Venue: All Saints’ College. Ewing Ave, Bull Creek
Time: 10am – 1pm
Click here for more information on Ultimate Safari.
Unlock the creative potential of your classroom in this hands-on workshop led by award-winning director Luke Kerridge. Inspired by the magical world of The Last Great Hunt’s Night Night, Luke will take high school teachers on a journey through sparking fresh ideas, crafting imaginative worlds and exploring the power of visual and non-verbal storytelling. Packed with practical tools, this workshop will empower you to ignite your students' creativity and guide them in developing original, multi-dimensional performances from scratch.
*Register for this event if you are interested in engaging with different technologies and non-verbal storytelling.
Date: Wed 5 Mar 2025
Venue: All Saints’ College. Ewing Ave, Bull Creek
Time: 10am – 1pm
Click here for more information on Night Night.
Schools Tickets
Our schools program at Perth Festival allows students and teachers to access world class performances and flexible booking arrangements to accommodate their unique needs. Select performances from our program come with heavily discounted ticket prices for schools, as well as some resources and Q&As to deepen engagement. There are some performances in our season that come with cheaper prices specifically for schools to access.
Below you can find the schools ticketing form which provides all the information needed to make a booking.
If you have any questions, or would like to make a school booking for another performance, please email [email protected]
The Certificate of Currency for excursion paperwork here and here.
Tickets to our schools program shows are $19, with one complimentary teacher's ticket for every ten student tickets booked.
This $19 price type only applies to one specific performance of the show’s season, it is not applicable for the whole season. If you wish to attend an evening performance, you will not be able to access the $19 price type.
We understand that class sizes and budgets are difficult to predict at this point in the year. So we’re offering a flexible booking approach for schools. Put in your requests now to reserve your tickets and confirm class sizes in February 2025, with no demand for payment until then.
Please note that if your request increases, we cannot guarantee we will be able to accommodate the extra tickets.
How to book $19 schools tickets
The schools ticket form has now closed.
Ticket requests will be assessed, and we will let you know if you’ve been successful in securing the $19 tickets on Wed 13 Nov.
If the $19 price allocation has been exhausted, we may offer you tickets at a higher price point.
After Wed 13 Nov ticket requests for any remaining $19 tickets will be handled on a case-by-case basis. We strongly recommend you get your ticket requests in by Fri 8 Nov as allocation is limited and demand is high.
Please call the Perth Festival Info Centre on 08 6488 5555 or email [email protected] for more information.
The full 2025 festival program is now live. More information on shows that do not have specific schools shows can be found here.
To book tickets to any shows other than the ones identified in this program, please email [email protected] or call the Perth Festival Info Centre on 08 6488 5555.
Schools program live 25 Oct 2024
Perth Festival program launch and Festival Club pre-sale 6 Nov 2024
General tickets on sale 6 Nov 2024
Schools booking registrations close 8 Nov 2024
Notification of $19 schools ticket allocation by 13 Nov 2024
Request to finalise booking numbers 31 Jan 2025
Deadline for booking numbers finalised by 3 Feb 2025
Invoices issued to schools 3 Feb 2025
Perth Festival dates 7 Feb – 2 Mar 2025
Schools payment due 10 Feb 2025
Big Name No Blankets schools show 28 Feb 2025
Night Night schools shows 27 and 28 Feb 2025
Ultimate Safari schools shows 19 and 20 Feb 2025
August: Osage County schools show 12 Mar 2025
Schools shows
Big Name No Blankets
Travel from the heart of the central desert to the bright lights of the big smoke in an epic rock ‘n’ roll theatre show. Before King Stingray, before the mighty Yothu Yindi, there was Warumpi Band. The band that took Aboriginal culture to the world.
Crank up the amps and plug into the heart of Papunya (Warumpi).
Big Name, No Blankets celebrates the phenomenal journey and impact of Sammy Tjapanangka Butcher and his brothers, the founding members of this iconic Australian band. Making history as the first rock ’n’ roll band to sing in Aboriginal languages, they took anthems including ‘Blackfella/Whitefella’, ‘My Island Home’ and ‘Jailanguru Pakarnu’ from Central Australia to wild nights in the pub rock scene. They toured the world, bringing their potent politics and prolific guitar riffs to a global audience. Stomp your feet, clap your hands and get swept away by a show that truly rocks.
Packed with rockstar performances, iconic songs and plenty of humour, Big Name, No Blankets is big-hearted story that shows music can make change.
This production is best suited to ages 12+
Show contains images, representations and the names of Aboriginal people who have passed away
Schools show Fri 28 Feb 12pm
Post show Q&A included
Where Regal Theatre, Subiaco
Show length 1hr 40mins
Season dates Thu 27 Feb - Sat 1 Mar
Night Night
See a theatrical film created live each night through a blend of puppets, animation and DIY digital magic. Highly visual and playfully cinematic, the newest creation from WA’s own The Last Great Hunt tells the heartwarming story of life, death and other dimensions.
From the multi-award winning team behind Lé Nør [The Rain], Alvin Sputnik: Deep Sea Explorer and New Owner comes a thrilling adventure that peers beyond the limits of our reality.
Follow Pip, a downtrodden Antarctic scientist on a quest to discover the origin of life. Haunted by visions of an albino penguin, she stumbles upon a higher plane of existence that challenges everything she thought she knew. As her world unravels, Pip must team up with a mysterious, glowing entity to reveal the hidden threads binding life, death and the universe.
Night Night invites you to witness both the onscreen story and behind-the-scenes artistry. Trust us, you will never want it to end!
This production is best suited to ages 12+
Show contains strobe, loud noises and themes of death.
Schools show Thu 27 - Fri 28 Feb 12pm
Q&As after both shows
Where State Theatre Centre, Studio Underground, Northbridge
Show length 75mins
Ultimate Safari
Be transported to the safari plains of Tanzania without leaving Perth. Put on a set of virtual reality goggles and you become a tourist, sitting on the roof of a 4WD as a herd of elephants meanders past. Take a 360° look at wildlife conservation and tourism in Africa on this immersive adventure.
From the safety of your zebra skin stool, a group of performers from Germany and Tanzania are your personal guides on what might be the ultimate way to experience an African safari. The adventure feels even more real as the performers move around you, bringing the experience to life.
Sadly, wildlife conservation in Africa also has a dark side. Safari tourism is the main source of income for several African countries, while at the same time most national parks exclude the local population, depriving them of their livelihood. Revealing the Tanzanian experience is part of Ultimate Safari.
Ultimate Safari leads you on a multi-perspective journey through the economic challenges and conflicts between locals, wealthy hunting and photo tourists and international conservation organisations in Tanzania. This innovative artistic collaboration blends powerful and playful performance, lecture and immersive film scenes for a visceral and thought-provoking experience.
This production is best suited to ages 14+. Violence is verbally mentioned and VR glasses are used.
Schools shows Wed 19 & Thu 20 Feb 12pm
Venue State Theatre Centre, Rehearsal Room 1, Northbridge
Show length 75mins
Season dates Wed 19 - Sun 23 Feb
August: Osage County
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harbouring shady little secrets. You can’t choose your relatives! Tracy Letts’s caustic, darkly funny August: Osage County was a smash-hit on Broadway. Don’t miss this local adaptation of a grand American family drama.
Charismatic poet-patriarch Beverly Weston has gone. Where? Nobody knows. His wife Violet spirals into opiate addiction and their three daughters dutifully return to the childhood home – spouses, children and unfinished business trailing behind. For the first time in years, the family is together ... almost.
As the temperature soars in the scorching Oklahoma summer, so do family tensions, boiling over in vicious point-scoring and score-settling to sensationally entertaining effect.
August: Osage County takes an honest look at addiction, personal failure and the complex relationships we have with those closest to us. Packed with unforgettable characters it unflinchingly – and uproariously – exposes the dark side of the Midwestern American family.
This production is best suited to ages 15+
Show contains adult themes, sexual content, drug use, violence. Smoking onstage.
Schools show Wed 12 Mar 1pm
Venue Heath Ledger Theatre, Northbridge
Show length Approx 3 hours 30 minutes including 2 intervals
Season dates Thu 27 Feb – Sun 16 Mar
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