The Perth International Arts Festival will be held from 8 February to 2 March 2008.

The program and 2008 website has now been launched!

Browse through the different categories: Theatre, Dance, Visual Arts, Music, Family, Artist Talks, Lotterywest Festival Films, Beck’s Music Box, Perth Writers Festival, The Great Southern and Free Events!!!

Under the ‘My Festival‘ heading you can sign up and create your own program, very useful!

I already wrote about Sonic Youth (23 Feb) and The Scientists (13 Feb) performing at Beck’s Music Box. I also see Rufus Wainwright is performing, on 9 February 2008 at the Perth Concert Hall.

There’s just so much more, and unfortunately I don’t have the time to look further into it right now! Go and see for yourself!

Quick mentions for the free opening event, a family spectacular you can watch on the foreshore on the Swan River (8 and 10 February), free floating family films in Applecross and Hillary’s Boat Harbour, The Chaser guys and Naomi Wolf for the Perth Writers Festival (22 to 24 Feb) and Black Watch by the National Theatre of Scotland.

Bookings open this Monday, 12 November!

Dullsville Perth, nothing to do? Ha, I wish! Also check out what’s happening this weekend, one of the busiest weekends of the year! And it’s not all expensive concerts, there’s a heap of free events as part of the Northbridge and ABC festivals!