Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Western Australian Festivals

Last week, I missed out on the Beaufort Street Festival because of work. I'm currently working in the Emergency Department, and I have managed to fall into this sort of bimodal sleep pattern whenever I'm working night shifts. I go to bed at ~0930ish, sleep for three or four hours, wake up for lunch, then run errands and tire myself out so that I can get another three hours from ~1630hrs before I have to get ready for the next shift.

Earlier this year, I couldn't go to the Mundaring Truffle Festival because of my temporary relocation to Geraldton.

And now, it turns out that there was another festival that I hadn't even heard of, the Gourmet Escape, held in Margaret River.

Is it just me or have there been a lot of new festivals lately? Perhaps I am just noticing these events now that I no longer feel the urge to study every waking moment of the day, and actually have money to spend.

Anyway, I thought perhaps I could look up a list of festivals and their dates, but I wasn't able to locate a completely comprehensive list. Does anyone know of a website? Maybe my googling isn't good enough.

Here is a list of festivals I would like to try and attend next year:

Beaufort Street Festival (November)
Cottesloe Hullabaloo Festival  (November)
Good Food and Wine Show (July)
Truffle Festival (July)
Perth International Arts Festival (February)
William Street Festival (March)
Music festivals - TimeOut guide here (Summer). I've got tickets to Big Day Out, but I'm quite tempted by the idea of a camping festival at Southbound.

Are there any good festivals that I've missed out...?

8/12/12 UPDATE- so despite my recent attempts not to miss out on any future festivals, it turns out that last Saturday was the Leederville Carnival. My sole consolation is that I was working, so I couldn't have gone anyway...

The world is littered with unfinished visions, and is not life such a vision? And is not the finishing of any thing a little death?

--Darksong