The programme includes Jordi Savall, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Taipei’s U-Theatre and the Michael Clark Company.

The Perth International Arts Festival, or PIAF, is no more. Instead, Artistic Director Wendy Martin and the Board have rebranded it with the snappier moniker Perth Festival.

“And in rebranding ourselves as Perth Festival, we are looking at what it means to be in Perth, and the landscape and the light. All the art on our new website is driven by that now. There is a beautiful artwork on our website, which will change as the light of the day changes,” says Martin.

^{Beyond Time by U-Theatre from Taipei. Photograph: supplied}

Announcing a line-up of more than 230 arts events, many of them free, Martin says that “ritual” is a theme across much of the programme. This is her third Perth Festival and as with the previous two, she has chosen an official festival scent. In 2018 it’s damask rose, which was inspired by a tiny bottle of rose water donated to the Museum of Water to tell a migrant’s story of arrival in a new land....