What's On at UWA

In this lecture-performance, renowned soprano Julianne Baird, Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, will discuss and perform music from the Jane Austen Songbook, reflecting from her research on what they tell us about the great English novelist’s musical tastes and the cultural milieu of (...)

Theatre students in English and Cultural Studies present Webster's provocative play of love, lust, and revenge involving a vengeful malcontent, a wilful Duchess and her two scheming brothers. Directed and designed by Steve Chinna. Five nights only in the Dolphin Theatre, Tuesday May 24 to Saturday (...)

Lyric Soprano Zoe Kikiros performs regularly as a Principal Artist with West Australian Opera. In this recital she will present a song cycle.

Cat Hope is the artistic director of Decibel, a new music ensemble based in Perth, Western Australia devoted to performing works that explore the nexus of acoustic and electronic instruments. Pioneering unique electronic score formats and giving electronic music instruments a voice in the acoustic (...)

From the vibrant sounds of the Andes, to the sublime sounds of Eric Whitacre and Billy Joel: the Perth Undergraduate Choral Society and Los Chasquis invite you to an unforgettable musical event in the superb acoustics of St Joseph's Church in Subiaco.

"Misa Criolla and Songs from (...)

For lovers of good music, good humour and all things Irish, this is simply an evening not to be missed - two of the Emerald Isle’s finest together in an unforgettable double bill.

Finbar Furey first leapt to prominence as one of the Furey’s whose many worldwide hits include When You (...)

In this talk Paul Thomas will discuss his current processes and references looking at silver and the refraction of light. The talk will look at art historical connections with Silver which was the selected substrate researched at a nano level for structural and metaphorical reasons exploring its (...)

Beccy Cole and Adam Harvey are two of the most recognised names in Australian country music and together are as much a comedy act as a musical one! Now the hilarious duo are presenting a show aptly named THE REMATCH. After touring together in 2006 to rapturous applause and belly laughs coupled with (...)

A free public lecture by Dr Margaret Henderson, senior lecturer at the University of Queensland and a consultant to the National Museum of Australia, advising on a modern Australian women’s movement collection.

For the last two decades or so Western women’s movements have been (...)

At least 540 million years ago, the first vertebrates appeared and survived in shallow, marine water bathed by sunlight with a spectral composition similar to the environmental conditions of the present day. Over this time, fishes have radiated into the largest vertebrate taxa and now occupy an (...)

Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares.

The market brings together over 150 of Perth’s most talented artists, designers, craftspeople and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall.

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The Artifactory is Perth's manifestation of the world-wide phenomenon of hackerspaces; free-form communities of "Makers" that band together to build their own robotic CNC tools, explore cutting edge DIY fabrication such as 3D printing, share electronics and crafting skills, and generally (...)

The Austrian-based classical Mandelbrot Duo team up with Western Australian Indigenous performer Richard Walley for the premiere of a new work for violin, cello and didgeridoo especially commissioned for the UWA WINTERArts Festival 2011 and to coincide with NAIDOC week. This collaboration brings (...)

"I am a choreographer and dance artist because of my interest in the capacity of art to makes sense of the world around us and the capacity of imagination to dream up the future. I hope, in some small way, that my art practice can contribute to the transformation of our world. This vision has (...)

Celebrate Bastille Day early with the 62nd Australian Intervarsity Choral Festival Choir!

This will be a concert not to be missed, featuring the Australian premiere of the Desenclos Requiem coupled with beautiful music composed by Fauré, Alain and Poulenc. The choir will be (...)

Songs are a universal medium of communication, able to cross borders of language, culture and class. As songwriters we can share the personal and the universal, from our own unique perspective. Like other forms of writing, songwriting is both instinctive and reflective, a talent to be released and (...)

Experience a unique and extensive showcase of visual arts from established and emerging WA artists. Artists and art lovers will come together to share their common interests and explore the styles and techniques of today's established and emerging artists. Supported by some of UWA and Perth's most (...)

The visiting classical Mandelbrot Duo team up with Australian indigenous performer Richard Walley for the premiere of a new work for violin, cello and didgeridoo especially commissioned for UWA WINTERArts 2011 and to coincide with NAIDOC week.

The collaboration brings together three (...)

The history of Modern Europe presents a multitude of disturbing contradictions. The Old Continent has engendered the most uplifting visions of human potential and the darkest dystopias in human experience. It has laboured to produce its colossal social, cultural and artistic heritage and has (...)

Focused around the theme of identity of place and origins, this concert by Austrian-based performer-composers The Mandelbrot Duo is a rich and engaging journey into the imaginative worlds of sound.

Southern Oceans Suite explores the oceanic region of the southwest coastline Australia (...)