Over the years the AWESOME Festival has firmly established itself as the premier event for families and schools on Western Australia’s cultural calendar, has been lovingly crafted and shaped by many dedicated and wise hands along the way and is recognised by an international festival monitoring organisation as one of the top 25 events in the world for young people. The Creative Challenge program continues to lead the way in creative learning in Western Australia, arguably delivering the most in-school contact hours of any arts company in the state and empowering thousands of students to research, imagine, create, learn, present, problem-solve and evaluate their own projects. AWESOME Connect has been established in response to the increasing demand for AWESOME to deliver year-round programming with a multitude of partners who are committed to raising the bar on the quality of creative programming for young audiences. True to the vision of its creators, AWESOME Arts continues to be a dynamic platform through which children, their families and their educators connect with the arts and creative learning; be it via the international festival, at a community event, or in a school.