{"id":2788,"date":"2026-01-12T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T07:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/?post_type=events&#038;p=2788"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:25:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T05:25:47","slug":"perth-festival-opening-night-2026","status":"publish","type":"events","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/events\/perth-festival-opening-night-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Festival Opening Night 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">We invite you to join us for the opening of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/exhibitions\/perthfestival2026\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/exhibitions\/perthfestival2026\/\">A call and response across the ocean<\/a><\/em>, that brings together living histories of the Indian Ocean, reuniting friendships and kin ties that were severed through transglobal acts of colonisation. This reconnection offers a vision of the world in which generosity, empathy and cross-cultural collaboration can begin to heal the wounds of the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Event Details<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thursday 5 February 2026<br>4:30pm \u2013 6:30pm<br>Free event, open to the public<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Formalities from 5pm:<br>Welcome to Country<br>Perth Festival Director and Artist Speeches<br>Artist Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Light refreshments provided<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Exhibition Open:&nbsp;<\/strong>6 February \u2013 3 May 2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/events.humanitix.com\/jcg-perth-festival-bunuru-2026-opening-night\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Register here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Curtin Gallery\u2019s Perth Festival exhibitions have been made possible with the support of Perth Festival, The Navigators, and Lotterywest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:14px\">Header image credits: Installation view of Thania Petersen, Rampies Sny (detail) at Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (MOCAA), Cape Town, 2022. Courtesy of the artist, Ames Yavuz, and MOCAA, South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","event-locations":[5],"class_list":["post-2788","events","type-events","status-publish","hentry","event-locations-john-curtin-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events\/2788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/events"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-locations","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/jcg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-locations?post=2788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}