Return to previous menu

Go to WA Government search

Open navigation menu

Search this website

News

Latest news from the department.

Featured news

The Master Collector, July 2024

School funding boost backs next generation of creative thinkers

Oct 7, 2025

The WA Government continues to invest in the next generation of artists, with students, teachers and school communities set to experience new creative learning projects coming to their classrooms.

Tags: creative industries Creativity for Schools funding media release

Categories

All news

A scene from the performance of 21 HEARTS: Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke in a theatre.

Local story touching hearts across regional WA

WA theatre makers THEATRE 180 recently took their popular show 21 Hearts: Vivian Bullwinkel and the Nurses of the Vyner Brooke on the road to regional towns across WA.

Guy Ghouse AM and Gina Williams AM win the 2025 People's Pinnacle Award

Celebrating excellence in performing arts

Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 Pinnacle Awards, which celebrates excellence in WA’s performing arts industry.

Colourful graphic reads: Creative Workplaces

New Creative Workplaces website

Western Australian creative workers are now able to find clear information about their rights and obligations thanks to a new national platform from Creative Australia.

Scene from Binge's The Twelve - Cape Rock Killer. With Sam Neill as Brett Colby and Danielle Cormack as Gabe Nicholls. Photo by Daniel Asher Smith

WA’s screen industry going from strength to strength

With the WA Government’s Screen Industry Strategy guiding growth of our state’s screen sector over the next ten years, WA’s screen industry is bustling with positive activity.

Adrian Dzvuke performing as support act for Coldplay, Optus Stadium, Perth 2023. Photo Samson Makumbe

New research helps music industry hit the right notes

Music Australia has released a new report, providing the first comprehensive measure of the economic contribution of Australia’s music industry.

A group of people stand in the old substation building looking up at the photographer who is on a second level.

WA Government investment secures future for CircusWA and Fremantle Press

Two of Fremantle's iconic arts organisations — CircusWA and the Fremantle Press —have secured a new home, thanks to support from the Western Australian Government.

Adrian Dzvuke support act for Coldplay, performs on stage at Optus Stadium Perth Australia

🎶Funding is now open for WA musicians to take up career defining opportunities!

Media release

The WA Government extended its initial 2018 commitment of $3 million for a Contemporary Music Fund in 2021 with an additional $3 million over 4 years through to 2025.

A close up an artist paint tray and brushes in a small bucket

Supporting the next generation of WA creatives

Media release

Two new grant programs will soon open to support the next generation of Western Australian artists and arts workers, as part of the WA Government's plan to grow our creative industries

A construction photo of works in the Perth Cultural Centre, with PICA in the background.

Transformation of the Perth Cultural Centre progressing

Find out what’s happening and what’s to come in the rejuvenation project

An artist using a VR set

A renewed focus for WA’s Creative Industries

Culture and the Arts renamed Creative Industries highlighting importance in WA’s economic diversification.

Spare Parts Puppet Theatre volunteer (centre) Hannah Bremner.

Connecting communities through volunteers

National Volunteer Week (19 to 25 May 2025) begins today with thousands of events and activities taking place across the country to celebrate.

A collage of the report

Creative workforce scoping study

Creative Australia and Service and Creative Skills Australia (SaCSA) recently released the Creative Workforce Scoping Study.

A view of the stage and attendees at the WA Export Awards 2024

Entries now open for local innovators and exporters

We know WA’s creatives punch well above their weight. This is your chance to be recognised. Two awards programs opened in early May recognising local achievements.

A group of children sit around a table at a worksop, focusing on the presenter

Funding boosts children's participation in flagship writers' festival

Media release

Western Australia's largest annual regional literary festival, the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival (MRRWF), aims to foster a love of literature and the arts for the WA community.

Creative WA: A 10 year vision to grow and sustain our creative ecosystem

Creative WA vision in motion

Implementation commences with sector information sessions.

A Carine High School building with a mural by Noongar artist, Mariah Yarran.

Funding brings cultural understanding to students, teachers and school communities

24 January 2025

Media release

Aboriginal cultural understanding is coming to more classrooms across WA schools, with cultural initiatives receiving support through the WA Government’s Partnership Acceptance Learning Sharing (PALS) program.

1
2 (current)
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10

Newsletters

Subscribe to receive newsletters to your email.

Subscribe RSS feed

Media hub

View Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport media statements and get in contact with the media team.

Page reviewed 19 June 2025