CircuitWest’s Green Initiatives
Touring WA is a rewarding activity – but it also generates a lot of carbon. CircuitWest’s commitment to reducing our carbon footprint means redesigning our tours to reduce long drives and flights. We’ve also offset almost 80 tonnes of carbon on our tours since 2022. By partnering with Carbon Neutral, we have contributed to local […]
Holding the House: Have Performing Arts Audiences in WA Changed?
In late 2022, CircuitWest engaged Culture Counts to research performing arts audience attendance in Western Australia and gain insight into arts and culture motivators, barriers and behaviours at a population level. The CircuitWest Audience Research Project was undertaken in collaboration with a cohort of WA-based performing arts organisations looking to understand how audience behaviour may […]
2023 Touring Mentorship Program
CircuitWest is excited to launch its 2023 Touring Mentorship Program. This program is free and open to WA artists, producers and arts professionals interested in touring. Successful applicants will participate in three interactive online sessions over a week and develop skills relevant to building, funding and delivering successful tours. CircuitWest’s tour coordinators will be your […]
2021 CircuitWest Pinnacle Award winners
1 November 2021 Today, CircuitWest announced the winners for the Pinnacle Performing Arts Awards for the Western Australian Presenter of the Year and Producer of the Year, as well as the People’s Pinnacle Award. The Award celebrates the best in the live performance industry in Western Australia. The awards were presented at WA Showcase on […]
2021 Pitching Is Open WA Showcase
Definition: to present the passion and creativity for a great performing arts work or concept to presenters from differing and diverse communities and locations to gather feedback and identify possible directions Pitching is a must if you a producer with anything from a great creative development right up to a tour ready performing arts work […]
CircuitWest announces the next step in the WA Showcase journey
Today, CircuitWest announced 1-4 November 2021 as the dates for the 2021 WA Showcase. The main event in arts in Western Australia will be seeing some evolution in its format as it responds to feedback from arts producers, presenters and artists. According to CircuitWest Executive Director Ryan Taaffe the event has been dynamic since its […]
Technical Rating for Productions
This is a simple guide to a production’s technical rating, working from A, as the most complex to D as the simplest, it is a quick and easy system, originally used by NTS. THIS IS A GUIDE ONLY. The guide is not intended to be definitive; it is only a simple indication and producers would still be urged […]
Technical Rating for Productions
This is a simple guide to a production’s technical rating, working from A, as the most complex to D as the simplest, it is a quick and easy system, originally used by NTS. THIS IS A GUIDE ONLY. The guide is not intended to be definitive; it is only a simple indication and producers would still be […]
Aging With Arts
Cait Stewart Manager – Arts Narrogin How Arts Narrogin’s very successful Take Your Seats program improved the life of seniors in more ways than most would imagine. By programming work to connect seniors with the whole community they have been blown away at the health and community impact they have seen, and how they keep […]
Starting Courageous Conversations With Art
David Marshall Manager – Harvey Recreation and Cultural Centre David will talk about using performing arts to address serious community issues and start critical, but often difficult conversations. He points to the 52 Hertz play based on isolation in a connected world and explains how Harvey used the work to connect the youth and others […]
