Expanding Perth Festival’s cultural footprint from one signature event to a series of events spread out across the year, including this week’s EverNow, will enable the Festival to offer greater job security and longer-term contracts for many of its staff, according to Perth Festival Executive Director Nathan Bennett.
‘Internally, we were very mindful that, for a long time, the rhythm of a festival is such that we expand and contract our workforce a lot over the course of a 12-month cycle. And so, if we’re able to find a way to smooth out the calendar, deliver more activity year-round, it means that we can employ more people on longer-term contracts or on an ongoing basis,’ Bennett tells ArtsHub.
