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June 2011
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Friday 17 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Vision Underwater: Beauty in The Eye of The Beholder : SymbioticA Friday seminar
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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 (...)
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Sunday 26 |
10:00 - EVENT - Perth Upmarket : Perth’s premier quarterly upmarket shopfront for the State’s talented artists, designers, stylists and gourmets
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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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July 2011
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Friday 01 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - Science isn't about why, it's about why the hell not! : SymbioticA Friday seminar with Perth Artifactory members
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 05 |
11:00 - CONCERT - Waarnging Maar-Waarnging: The Mandelbrot Duo with Richard Walley : Composing and rehearsing new works in the Gallery
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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 (...)
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Friday 08 |
"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 (...)
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Saturday 09 |
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 (...)
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Sunday 10 |
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 (...)
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Monday 11 |
9:00 - CONFERENCE - AAEH XXII Conference Perth : Conference on the contradictory nature of Europe in modern times
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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 (...)
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Tuesday 12 |
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 (...)
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Wednesday 13 |
A delicious luncheon at the University Club of Western Australia will be the setting for a literary discussion with author Ian Reid, who will give an insight into his bitter-beautiful historical novel The End of Longing - a thrilling and lyrical novel about a confidence trickster, a restless woman (...)
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Friday 15 |
What is “value”? What is “goodness” and “badness”? What does our only scientific theory of life have to say?
The mathematical logic of game theory shows that cooperation can evolve, as does the adaptationist logic of biology. Both kinds of logic rely on the assumption of (...)
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Friday 22 |
18:30 - PUBLIC TALK - AESTHETICS OF THE MULTICOSM with JOE DAVIS : Free public talk presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies and SymbioticA
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Artists operate within both the miniscule contexts of cells and molecules and the vastly larger macrocosm of human experience. While scientists ponder higher dimensions and the existence of multiple universes, the scope of knowledge encompasses once inconceivable reaches of space and time. Art is (...)
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Monday 25 |
A public lecture by Professor Terry Smith, FAHA, CIHA - Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory, Department of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.
The lecture is based on Terry Smith’s new book which argues that, in recent (...)
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August 2011
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Tuesday 02 |
17:00 - EVENT - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Exploring the Politics of Collaboration: Bridging the Scholarly Divide in the Kyrgyz Manas Epic
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Today, the Kyrgyz Manas is one of the most celebrated epic heroic poems in the world. At the turn of the new millennium it was appointed a UNESCO ‘Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind’, signaling its global importance. It sits alongside Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, or the (...)
A free public lecture by Professor Lyndel V. Prott, Honorary Professor, University of Queensland.
Appreciation, accumulation, devastation? The love of beauty has inspired many great collections of works of art.
Source countries are today increasingly articulate about the (...)
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Wednesday 03 |
Music for Cello and Piano with Guest Artists Niall Brown, cello and Isabelle Trub, piano
Following more than ten years of concerts, it has become clear that cellist Niall Brown and pianist Isabelle Trub have created something quite special in chamber music that the press have unanimously (...)
3 - 8 August 2011
A festival of old and new music for 1-12 cellos spanning 3 centuries
Old meets new in an exciting festival of music composed for the cello, ranging from baroque works written in the early 18th century through to world premier compositions by UWA resident (...)
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Thursday 04 |
Specialist performer Geoff Gartner will workshop UWA student composer pieces, as well as presenting select works from the repertoire, and give composers advice about writing for cello.
As a musicologist Gartner specializes in the American experimental scene with a particular emphasis on (...)
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