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Displaying from Tuesday, August 05, 2014
 August 2014
Tuesday 05
17:00 - FREE LECTURE - Gender and Social Choice in Saudi Arabia: Rights versus the Optimal Social Choice : CMSS Presents: A Public Lecture by Dr. Sean Foley Website | More Information
Although the women’s driving movement in Saudi Arabia has gained tremendous visibility in recent years, it has failed to meet its basic objective: winning women the right to drive. While there is no question that the movement has encountered sustained resistance to its agenda, resistance alone (...)

19:00 - EVENT - New Music Week : A week long festival of New Music, featuring composer Martin Bresnick, pianist Lisa Moore and members of Syzygy Ensemble in a week of performances, workshops and masterclasses brought to you in partnership with the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the UWA Cultural Precinct. Website | More Information
Contemporary Performance Masterclass

UWA students in masterclass with Lisa Moore and Martin Bresnick. This Masterclass is open to the public, all welcome. THIS IS A FREE EVENT

Described as “brilliant and searching...beautiful and impassioned...lustrous at the keyboard” by (...)
Wednesday 06
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - The many lives of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays Website | More Information
A public lecture by Pip Willcox, Curator of Digital Special Collections, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford.

A copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio arrived at the Bodleian Library in 1623. Why and when did it leave? What chance brought it back in 1905? What had happened to it in the (...)
Thursday 07
11:00 - EVENT - New Music Week : A week long festival of New Music, featuring composer Martin Bresnick, pianist Lisa Moore and members of Syzygy Ensemble in a week of performances, workshops and masterclasses brought to you in partnership with the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the UWA Cultural Precinct. Website | More Information
COMPOSITION MASTERCLASS

UWA composition students present their current composition for work-shopping, followed by a brief presentation by Bresnik on My Twentieth Century and ***Trio and Ishi's Song. This Masterclass is open to the public, all welcome. Martin Bresnick is Professor of (...)

13:10 - CONCERT - School of Music Presents FREE Lunchtime Concerts : New Music Ensemble + Syzygy Website | More Information
Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Special guests from Syzygy Ensemble (brought to you in partnership with UWA Cultural Precinct) (...)

18:00 - EVENT - Listening to Images, Hearing the Text : New Music that Engages the Visual and the Literary Website | More Information
A public talk and performance by Martin Bresnick, Professor of Composition, Yale School of Music.

The art of music has always had an unusual ability to be united with other arts - poetry, dance, theater and cinema. In our own time, the association of music, words and images has been (...)

18:00 - EVENT - New Music Week : A public lecture and performance by Martin Bresnick Website | More Information
A public lecture and performance by Martin Bresnick

Brought to you by the UWA Institue of Advanced Studies

"Listening to Images, Hearing the Text: new music that engages the visual and the literary"

The art of music has always had an unusual ability to be (...)
Friday 08
17:00 - EVENT - UWA School of Music presents Fridays@Five : A new series for 2014, Fridays@Five showcases the Voice students. Whether the Vocal Consort, solo song in recital, public workshop, mixed instrumental and voice ensemble or public Masterclass with Q & A, Fridays@Five are an ideal way to start your weekend. Website | More Information
Master Class with Marilyn Phillips (former Head of Music WA Opera, former Director of WASO Symphonic Chorus, Artistic Director of Artsong Perth). Three students perform a variety of works.

17:00 - FREE LECTURE - CMSS Lecture Tour: Building Cultural Bridges Through Literature : A lecture tour with Qaisra Shahraz Website | More Information
Qaisra will talk about her work, read from her novels, including her latest work 'Revolt' and ' A Pair of Jeans & other stories'. She will discuss her writing life in Manchester from the age of 14, growing up as a migrant in Britain, with multiple identities, and how and why her country of (...)

19:00 - EVENT - New Music Week : Assembled! New Music Ensemble + Syzygy Website | More Information
Assembled! New Music Ensemble + Syzygy

Special guests from Syzygy ensemble (brought to you in parnership with UWA Cultural Precinct) will join UWA Staff, students plus other special guests in an extended program including works by Bresnik, Lang and Rzewski.

Tickets - $10 / $5 (...)
Tuesday 12
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA School of Music in The Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery - Chamber Baroque : In 2014, UWA School of Music performs in the beautiful acoustic space of the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery. This is a wonderful opportunity to experience a pleasurable evening of music and art. Website | More Information
UWA String and Voice Students come together to perform chamber works from the baroque period. Exhibitions on view include Glitter, works by Pat Larter and Lola Ryan; HERE&NOW14, contemporary ceramic art from Western Australian artists.
Thursday 14
13:10 - CONCERT - School of Music Presents FREE Lunchtime Concerts : Hackett Brass Website | More Information
Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!
Friday 15
9:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Faith in Motion: Religion in the 21st Century More Information
The twenty-first century is often characterised as an era of unprecedented mobility and interconnectivity, but it is also marked by efforts to reinforce national borders and curtail human movement. Paradoxes of mobility and immobility in our increasingly unequal world come into sharp focus when (...)

15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Anthropology of Life : Classical and New Approaches : Public talk with Perig Pitrou, CNRS, Laboratoire d'anthropologie sociale, Paris Website | More Information
In contrast to Western philosophy, which, at least since Aristotle, has considered the distinction between life and the living to be fundamental, anthropology seems not to have given much thought to the difference between the two. However, the existence of an entity called ‘The One Who Makes Live� (...)

19:00 - CONCERT - Assembled - Pi�ata Percussion : The newly formed Piñata Percussion is comprised of undergraduate percussion students from the UWA School of Music. Directed by Louise Devenish, Piñata Percussion places a special emphasis on programming works by Australian composers, including established, emerging and student composers. Website | More Information
Directed by Louise Devenish, Piñata Percussion places a special emphasis on programming works by Australian composers, including established, emerging and student composers.

$10 at the door - unreserved seating
Monday 18
19:00 - EVENT - PMRG QUIZ NIGHT : General knowledge quiz night for everyone Website | More Information
Perth Medieval and Renaissance Group's ANNUAL QUIZ NIGHT Arrive at 6.30pm for a 7pm start. $10 per person. Tickets available at the door. Table bookings (limit of 6 per table) through Michael Champion: [email protected]. Events: raffels, door prize, art quiz, true & false
Thursday 21
13:10 - CONCERT - School of Music Presents FREE Lunchtime Concerts : UWA Voice Website | More Information
Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!
Friday 22
13:00 - EVENT - RESCHEDULED: �Making the Links� Roundtable: Building Research Teams and Partnerships in the Humanities and Social Sciences : Learn how to develop multi-partner projects and build collaborative relationships from some of UWA's leading ARC Linkage winners. More Information
Some of the University’s most successful ARC Linkage grant winners from the Faculties of Arts, Business, Education and Law will come together to discuss how they developed multi-partner projects and built collaborative relationships both within and outside academia. Members of the Research (...)

19:30 - CONCERT - Artistry! Culmination : The exceptional ability of young emerging artists and their passion for music will always create an extraordinary experience for concertgoers. In 2014 four outstanding orchestral concerts will feature Western Australia's best young musicians. Website | More Information
Every year, the outstanding ability and youthful passion of the emerging artists and their mentors combine to celebrate the culmination of their collaboration. Three young artists perform a movement of their chosen concerto onstage with orchestra in the finals of the prestigious VOSE competition (...)
Thursday 28
13:10 - CONCERT - School of Music Presents FREE Lunchtime Concerts : The Winthrop Singers Website | More Information
Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!


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