What's On at UWA

Hosted by UWA Friends of the Grounds, this walking tour is designed for school children (ages 8+) and their families and will showcase just a small example of what the University has to offer.

Meet our Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Simon Biggs; be amazed at the history of Winthrop Hall; touch a meteorite, have a tour of the Geology museum, purchase rocks that are millions of years old, tour the newly-refurbished Reid Library; hug a tree that is more than 660 years old; see a fascinating science experiment and a host of other extras.

The tour starts under the Great Gate, Winthrop Hall.

The Western Australian Marine Science Institution is proud to support the launch of the Kimberley Society’s latest publication, The Natural World of the Kimberley.

The publication is the culmination of research results presented at the 2017 Kimberley Symposium including chapters on the WAMSI Kimberley Marine Research Program as well as land-based research conducted across Western Australia’s universities and state government authorities.

Actor, arts writer and producer Sarah McNeill presents an evening of literature read live on stage by professional actors. Spend a relaxing evening with some great storytellers as they bring to life some of the best short stories from Australian and international writers.

Ticket price $20 includes wine and nibbles. Suitable for ages 18+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Learn tips and techniques for taking amazing night-time images in this hands-on photography workshop. Emerging landscape and astrophotographer Sean Standen will impart the secrets of night photography in theory and in practice.

Ticket price $20. Participants will need to provide their own digital SLR camera and if possible, a tripod. Suitable for ages 18+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

A writing masterclass with Michelle Johnston, author of Dustfall, dives into places you may not ordinarily go – you’ll travel deep into the human brain, to understand why sensuous detail is so compelling.

Ticket price $25-40. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Join us for the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s quarterly program for people living with dementia and their carers or family members. Refreshments provided.

Join UWA ‘oracle’ Terry Larder for a walking tour of two of UWA’s most celebrated buildings. Visit UWA's oldest residential college St George's College and the recently opened, purpose-built Forrest Hall.

Suitable for ages 8+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

A public lecture by Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH), University of Leeds.

It took Griselda Pollock sixteen years to complete the monograph on an artist whose single monumental art work - Life? or Theatre? - comprising 784 paintings and 320 transparent overlays, using image, text and music was created in one year in 1941-42, before being placed in hiding in 1943. First exhibited in 1961, this work is still finding its place in the histories of modern art. Where can we situate a single work by an artist exiled from her own country and living under the threat of effacement from life itself? Why did she undertake this project? How has it been interpreted in ways that further exile it from being considered art historically? What resources are needed to makes its project and its work legible to us now?

Professor Pollock first encountered this work in 1994. Some elements of it were exhibited in Perth in 1997 as part of the benchmark feminist exhibition Inside the Visible curated by Catherine de Zegher. Why has writing this book taken so long? What challenges had to be met theoretically and art historically before she could resolve, in however preliminary a fashion, the issues posed by a single work created in one year in the darkest of European fascism by an artist who was murdered by her own government at the age of twenty-six and who created an unprecedented artwork as grand in scope and as deep in psychological penentration as a Thomas Mann novel, as edgy and sardonic as a Brechtian operatta, and as affecting and sonorous as an opera by Gluck?

This lecture will explore the challenges posed to art hstory by the artworking of Charlotte Salomon and reflect on the ethics of writing on this work and on journey to its completion.

In this session we undertake a close observation of selected artworks from the Authentic Determination exhibition, followed by an informal discussion on themes of empathy and compassion.

A fun introductory session to the ukulele.

We’ll cover all the basics from the correct way to hold your ‘uke’, to tuning, basic chords and strumming patterns, learning several songs along the way. This fun introductory session will have you rocking out to Vance Joy, Green Day and The Beatles on your ukulele in no time.

Participants can enjoy a glass of wine, and cheese and biscuits will be provided, so why not grab a group of friends and make a night of it!

Suitable for ages 18+

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UWA WINTERarts 2018 2 - 31 July Escape the winter gloom and experience the best in art, literature, music and ideas during the 2018 UWA WINTERarts season. There are exhibitions, concerts, literary events, skills workshops, tours and a dedicated children’s program for the school holidays.

Find an event for you at culturalprecinct.uwa.edu.au/winterarts

Learn tips and techniques for taking amazing night-time images in this hands-on photography workshop. Emerging landscape and astrophotographer Sean Standen will impart the secrets of night photography in theory and in practice.

Ticket price $20. Participants will need to provide their own digital SLR camera and if possible, a tripod. Suitable for ages 18+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

A story about dreams, believing in yourself... and a dancing kangaroo. Based on the book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley the award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget.

Tickets $22-28. Suitable for ages 4+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

[This timeslot is a relaxed performance.] A story about dreams, believing in yourself... and a dancing kangaroo. Based on the book by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley the award-winning team behind Diary of a Wombat comes another hilarious tale of a bush animal you'll never forget.

See ticket website for more details. Tickets $22-28. Suitable for ages 4+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Join us for the opening of Stockyards and Saddles: A Story of Gibb River Station presented by the Berndt Museum at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

The exhibition explores the lives of those living and working on the remote cattle station of Gibb River in the East Kimberley region from the early 1900s until the 1990s.

The importance of photographs as historical memorabilia often goes beyond the people represented in the images to depict a period in our country’s history. As the last generation of cattlemen recall distant memories of dusty stockyards, saddle sheds, wet seasons, and those who passed before them, this exhibition celebrates their lives through the photographic image.

For visitors with visual impairment. Join us for a touch and verbal descriptive tour of the current exhibitions. A trained guide delivers descriptions of the visual elements of artworks exhibited, along with tactile opportunities using mixed media and 3D-printed models of the artworks.

For adults with hearing loss and their friends and family. Experience the artwork at LWAG in Australian Sign Language. Join us for a free tour in Auslan of the current exhibitions guided by a gallery staff member and interpreter from Auslan Stage Left.

MMoB's 2018 WA Migration and Mobilities Update Conference will focus on Modern Slavery and Migration, with keynote speakers Professor Jennifer Burn, Anti-Slavery Australia, and Assoc. Professor Marie Segrave, Border Crossing Observatory, plus a range of panellists from community, academia and government. A half day workshop to develop a set of indicators of modern slavery will follow the Conference. Come along, learn from the experts, and have your say. Watch the registration site for more details.

TEDxUWA is excited to announce that we’ll be hosting our second major event of 2018 titled TEDxUWASalon: Exposition on Thursday, 26th of July from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM!

In celebration of the City of Perth #WINTERarts, the goal of TEDxUWASalon: Exposition is to share and showcase innovation, creativity and insight into the world of art!

You can purchase your tickets now and come along to the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery at UWA to see our line-up of amazing and unique speakers and workshop leaders!

Find our event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/2062243157350460/

-- ABOUT TEDxUWA:

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TED Talks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized (Subject to certain rules and regulations).

We seek to find and share ideas from around the world and closer to home with the UWA community. We are students from the University of Western Australia , we are TEDxUWA.

Dr Shino Konishi, a senior lecturer in the School of Humanities and the School of Indigenous Studies at UWA specialises in Indigenous history and has a particular interest in encounters between European explorers and travellers and Aboriginal people. Join Shino to explore the installation and the forms in the Stewart Scrambler: Fragments exhibition.

Hosted by co-founder Andrea Gibbs, this edition of Barefaced Stories comes to LWAG for a take on the uniquely interesting, fascinating, and absurd tales of art galleries. Presenters to be announced closer to the date.

Tickets $20. Suitable for ages 18+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl