The Bo ReportUn-unanimous

OCM 26 AUG 2025 · ITEM 16.4 · RES OCM-25/08-012

Arts and Culture Sponsorship 2025/26

Carried 6–1

Approves Arts and Culture Sponsorships for nine applicants, printed as totalling $1,130,300 ex GST, including three-year funding for the AWESOME Festival and The Blue Room Theatre, and one-year funding for WASO's Serenade the City and Head On Photo Festival. Cr Doshi's amended motion raised The Blue Room's later-year funding from $70,000 to $80,000 and $90,000. Declines Co3's Pathways Program and Mainstage Presentation.

Moved by Raj Doshi, seconded by Liam Gobbert.

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Minutes of 26 Aug 2025, page 243 (City of Perth, PDF)