❓ Mr McGrath asked about the success of the Commonwealth Festival following CHOGM. Mr Day responded, highlighting attendance figures, diverse performers, and various art exhibitions, deeming the festival an outstanding success.
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COMMONWEALTH HEADS OF GOVERNMENT MEETING 2011 — COMMONWEALTH FESTIVAL
I was very proud that the closing ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was held in my electorate. It was a wonderful event, enjoyed by many Western Australians, especially those living in South Perth. Now that CHOGM is over, could the minister update the house on the success of the Commonwealth Festival? Mr J.H.D. DAY
I was very proud that the closing ceremony for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting was held in my electorate. It was a wonderful event, enjoyed by many Western Australians, especially those living in South Perth. Now that CHOGM is over, could the minister update the house on the success of the Commonwealth Festival? Mr J.H.D. DAY
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I thank the member for the question. I agree that Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth was an excellent venue for the concluding concert of the Commonwealth Festival, which was held last Sunday afternoon and evening. I think it is widely acknowledged that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and all that surrounded it in Perth last week, up until Sunday, was an outstanding success organisationally in relation to the logistics and security, the welcome that was provided by Perth and Western Australia to all the visitors, and the many other aspects. CHOGM was a catalyst for an outstanding arts festival that extended over a week. I will outline some of the important aspects of it. The festival was supported financially by the state government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. I am informed that approximately 40 000 Western Australians attended the range of events over the week. Combined with the thousands who attended the sporting events and the estimated 120 000 people who attended the “big Aussie barbeque” last Saturday morning, it all adds up to the fact that it was an outstanding success and very much embraced by Western Australians. As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I thank the member for the question. I agree that Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth was an excellent venue for the concluding concert of the Commonwealth Festival, which was held last Sunday afternoon and evening. I think it is widely acknowledged that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and all that surrounded it in Perth last week, up until Sunday, was an outstanding success organisationally in relation to the logistics and security, the welcome that was provided by Perth and Western Australia to all the visitors, and the many other aspects. CHOGM was a catalyst for an outstanding arts festival that extended over a week. I will outline some of the important aspects of it. The festival was supported financially by the state government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. I am informed that approximately 40 000 Western Australians attended the range of events over the week. Combined with the thousands who attended the sporting events and the estimated 120 000 people who attended the “big Aussie barbeque” last Saturday morning, it all adds up to the fact that it was an outstanding success and very much embraced by Western Australians. As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
I thank the member for the question. I agree that Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth was an excellent venue for the concluding concert of the Commonwealth Festival, which was held last Sunday afternoon and evening. I think it is widely acknowledged that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and all that surrounded it in Perth last week, up until Sunday, was an outstanding success organisationally in relation to the logistics and security, the welcome that was provided by Perth and Western Australia to all the visitors, and the many other aspects. CHOGM was a catalyst for an outstanding arts festival that extended over a week. I will outline some of the important aspects of it. The festival was supported financially by the state government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. I am informed that approximately 40 000 Western Australians attended the range of events over the week. Combined with the thousands who attended the sporting events and the estimated 120 000 people who attended the “big Aussie barbeque” last Saturday morning, it all adds up to the fact that it was an outstanding success and very much embraced by Western Australians. As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
CHOGM was a catalyst for an outstanding arts festival that extended over a week. I will outline some of the important aspects of it. The festival was supported financially by the state government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. I am informed that approximately 40 000 Western Australians attended the range of events over the week. Combined with the thousands who attended the sporting events and the estimated 120 000 people who attended the “big Aussie barbeque” last Saturday morning, it all adds up to the fact that it was an outstanding success and very much embraced by Western Australians. As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Mr J.H.D. DAY replied: I thank the member for the question. I agree that Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth was an excellent venue for the concluding concert of the Commonwealth Festival, which was held last Sunday afternoon and evening. I think it is widely acknowledged that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and all that surrounded it in Perth last week, up until Sunday, was an outstanding success organisationally in relation to the logistics and security, the welcome that was provided by Perth and Western Australia to all the visitors, and the many other aspects. CHOGM was a catalyst for an outstanding arts festival that extended over a week. I will outline some of the important aspects of it. The festival was supported financially by the state government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. I am informed that approximately 40 000 Western Australians attended the range of events over the week. Combined with the thousands who attended the sporting events and the estimated 120 000 people who attended the “big Aussie barbeque” last Saturday morning, it all adds up to the fact that it was an outstanding success and very much embraced by Western Australians. As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
I thank the member for the question. I agree that Sir James Mitchell Park in South Perth was an excellent venue for the concluding concert of the Commonwealth Festival, which was held last Sunday afternoon and evening. I think it is widely acknowledged that the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting and all that surrounded it in Perth last week, up until Sunday, was an outstanding success organisationally in relation to the logistics and security, the welcome that was provided by Perth and Western Australia to all the visitors, and the many other aspects. CHOGM was a catalyst for an outstanding arts festival that extended over a week. I will outline some of the important aspects of it. The festival was supported financially by the state government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. I am informed that approximately 40 000 Western Australians attended the range of events over the week. Combined with the thousands who attended the sporting events and the estimated 120 000 people who attended the “big Aussie barbeque” last Saturday morning, it all adds up to the fact that it was an outstanding success and very much embraced by Western Australians. As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
CHOGM was a catalyst for an outstanding arts festival that extended over a week. I will outline some of the important aspects of it. The festival was supported financially by the state government through the Department of Culture and the Arts and Lotterywest. I am informed that approximately 40 000 Western Australians attended the range of events over the week. Combined with the thousands who attended the sporting events and the estimated 120 000 people who attended the “big Aussie barbeque” last Saturday morning, it all adds up to the fact that it was an outstanding success and very much embraced by Western Australians. As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
As far as the Commonwealth Festival itself is concerned, there were artists and performers from Australia and 16 other commonwealth countries, including India, South Africa, Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Importantly, local artists were included in all the key events, including 220 Perth community percussionists who played a piece by the Australian composer Graeme Leak at the opening celebration in the Supreme Court gardens. There was an outstanding gala concert at the Perth Concert Hall by the West Australian Symphony Orchestra conducted by Brad Cohen, amongst other performances, including outstanding performances by young soloist Amy Dickson on the saxophone and Yelian He on the cello. The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
The festival also featured some outstanding visual arts exhibitions, including Extraordinary Stories from the British Museum , which is on until early February at the Western Australian Museum. That exhibition has been provided by the British Museum as part of a very important five-year partnership between the British Museum and the Western Australian Museum. The Art Gallery of Western Australia is hosting the Princely Treasures: European Masterpieces 1600–1800 from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. One of the highlights of the arts aspect of the week was an outstanding talk by Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum, in the Octagon Theatre at the University of WA, attended by the Premier, me and many other people. He used examples of many of the objects in the exhibition at the WA Museum to speak about the role of museums and what many of those objects can tell us about the world in which we live. Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Importantly, there was also an outstanding presentation of art of Indigenous peoples from around the nation, including the Western Australian Indigenous Art Awards exhibition, which is on at the Art Gallery at the moment; the exhibition of newer Indigenous artists, 2011 Revealed , at the Central Gallery at the Central Institute of Technology; the Nomads Two Worlds exhibition, which I believe is still on in the city malls; and opening to the public tomorrow in the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre is the Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route exhibition, which I strongly recommend everybody make the time to visit while it is there over the next three weeks before it returns to the National Museum of Australia in Canberra. The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
The “People’s Space” in the Perth Cultural Centre was a place of great activity and vibrancy over the four-day festival, particularly on Friday and Saturday. Tens of thousands of people availed themselves of the opportunity to see street theatre, listen to live music and enjoy the multicultural food stalls, the photographic exhibition and the other aspects there. That shows what an outstanding success the Perth Cultural Centre and the precinct can be when it is used in the right way. It certainly indicates the opportunities that are available to us in the future. To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
To conclude, the State Records Office of Western Australia organised a very innovative event known as Eating the Archives in the Perth Cultural Centre last Friday. The member for Perth may well laugh, but I think it shows great — Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Mr J.N. Hyde interjected. Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
Mr J.H.D. DAY : Mr Speaker, I commend the staff of the State Records Office for coming up with the idea of presenting to the wider community some of the very important archival material referring to previous state visits and state banquets held in Western Australia. I am sure all those who had the opportunity to attend or observe, enjoyed and appreciated it. In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
In conclusion, I congratulate, commend and thank all those involved in organising this very extensive arts festival.
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