February is peak summer festival season, with Fringe World continuing in Perth and Midsumma also extending into this month (see January’s summer festival guide part 1 for more details). New festivals hitting their stride in February 2025 include Perth Festival, Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Adelaide Fringe and Adelaide Festival.
Her inaugural Perth Festival program includes a visual and musical takeover of the derelict East Perth Power Station, which has been closed to the public since 1981, and the introduction of a major new Aboriginal/First Nations visual arts program, Boorloo Contemporary, in recognition of the fact that Perth lacks the equivalent of Darwin’s Telstra NATSIAA and the Adelaide Biennial. We’d also recommend Why Not Theatre’s epic Mahabharata (8-16 February), “which takes you on this wild journey featuring the gods and the supernatural and the urge to seek bloody vengeance,”. Reece said
