Organiser Toolkit
Find out more about key Festival dates around Australia, uncover our 2023 theme and get some handy tips on how to register your Australian Heritage Festival event(s).
There’s still time to be part of the 2023 Australian Heritage Festival! Register by 3 April 2023 and be featured in our online calendar.
No matter where you are in Western Australia, if you have an event that commemorates Australia’s natural, cultural or Aboriginal heritage, we would love for you to take part in the Festival.
These five weeks are your opportunity to promote your tours, talks, exhibits, performances and virtual events. Most importantly, it’s a chance to have fun bringing heritage to life.
All event details will be displayed on our online Australian Heritage Festival calendar.
The City of Perth will host Boorloo Heritage Festival for the month of April 2023. Event holders are welcome to register their event in both the Boorloo Heritage Festival and the Australian Heritage Festival – and receive twice the amount of promotion and support! Prepare for a supercharged celebration of heritage across April in Perth.
If you have any questions or feedback please call (08) 9321 6088 or email our Heritage Festival team.
Registering your event for the Australian Heritage Festival connects you with likeminded organisations and individuals across the nation. By hosting an event, you’re providing new opportunities for the community to access important Shared Stories of our heritage and helping us to position heritage as important, enriching, valuable and worth celebrating for all.
You could be organising a walking tour, leading a guided tour of an historic place, hosting a talk… Putting on an art or photography exhibition? Terrific. Hosting a seminar or workshop? Fantastic. Planning on doing any of that virtually? Organise your Facebook live or Zoom details for your digital event and we’ll bring people to you.
There is no fee for registering your event with the Australian Heritage Festival.
Our own social channels will be abuzz with Australian Heritage Festival content, so please keep an eye on our pages and reshare content to help spread the word.
When you promote your event, add the hashtag #AHF2023 to help us spread the word.
Be sure to us in your posts and photos along the way:
Facebook: @AustralianHeritageFestival
Twitter: @HeritageFestAus
You can add the festival theme to the images you post through social media, together raising the profile of this annual event.
Access our social media post templates here
You can use our Australian Heritage Festival poster templates to promote the festival and your event.
Simply download the templates and add in your hero image for your event in the frame.
Print and then display your posters – we’re sure they will help raise awareness about the festival.
Access the poster templates here
By registering you can expect:
And access to…
Each state has a dedicated festival coordinator to assist with any queries along the way. You can find their contact information here.
Please submit your registration form in one go. There is no opportunity to save and return to it later. Click here to download the 2023 Event registration questions so you can prepare your submissions in advance.