What's On at UWA

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

At the UWA Conservatorium of Music, we know that performance enhances your brain, your social skills and helps you reach your full potential.

We also know that exams and auditions can be a daunting experience for young musicians!

Join us for the annual Keyed Up! Day of Piano where you can learn tips and tricks of piano performance from some of Perth’s most experienced teachers and examiners. Why not ensure that every performance you give is one that you are proud of, whether that be for your University or School assessment, WACE practical or AMEB or other grade exams!

The skills that you learn at the Keyed Up! Day of Piano will give you the confidence to excel in all your performance endeavours!

Led by UWA Head of Keyboard and Performance Studies, Graeme Gilling and supported by Perth’s finest pianists, teachers and performance specialists and ideally timed for those students undertaking ATAR Music and AMEB or other grade exams the Keyed Up! Day of Piano is an event not to be missed!

Register to perform and receive feedback from one of our expert panel in an informal workshop setting or just come along and observe students at your own level.

You’ll also have the opportunity to:

- Hear performances by UWA Conservatorium of Music students - Explore the Conservatorium’s Historical Instrument collection with a guided session led by Dr Cecilia Sun - Discover the range of AMEB piano options with Valerie Lang

Join artist George Haynes who will share insights about his own work and that of his contemporaries exhibited in Modern Australian Landscapes, 1940s –1960s.

Join UWA’s Chief Cultural Officer Ted Snell as he shares four intriguing, little-known stories from art history with the events of artist’s lives, how they earn their living and how their work is received by their communities often provide a different inflection to the history of art and can illuminate significant social and political issues.

Ticket price of $99 includes 3-course meal and beverages. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

The lunchtime concert series resumes this week with a special performance by Head of the Conservatorium, Professor Alan Lourens. Alan will perform some virtuosic works for Euphonium accompanied by Gaby Gunders on piano.

PROGRAM

'Beautiful Colorado' - Joseph De Luca

'Zanette' - Percy Code

'A Cold Mist Over the Cypress Tree' for unaccompanied Euphonium - Philip Wilby

'Variations on a Neapolitan Song' - Herman Bellstedt

Entry is free - no bookings required