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Displaying from Sunday, October 23, 2011
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October 2011
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Monday 24 |
Transformation Through Drawing is a series of student works that respond to the theme of transformation and change through ageing, movement, systems of codification and extreme viewpoints. Students have been given an opportunity to demonstrate the acquisition of new skills and the appreciation and (...)
School of Music Department of Vocal Studies presents: 'Brush Up your Shakespeare'
Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th October, 7.30pm, Callaway Music Auditorium
An informative and entertaining journey, exploring Shakespeare's songs a set by composers from Thomas Morley to Leonard (...)
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Tuesday 25 |
A public lecture by Neil MacGregor, OM, Director of the British Museum.
Presented by The Western Australian Museum in association with The University of Western Australia.
The great cities of the world are global cities where citizens engage with the history, traditions and (...)
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Wednesday 26 |
Since her London debut at the Wigmore Hall in 1974, Penelope Thwaites has established an international reputation as a soloist, broadcaster and recording artist. She has performed concertos with leading orchestras throughout Europe, America and Australia.
Her many recordings of Percy (...)
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Thursday 27 |
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Free Lunchtime Concert: UWA Wind and Brass Students: Chamber Wind Classics
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UWA Wind and Brass students present chamber works in this free lunchtime concert.
20:00 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music: Music Students' Society - Soloists
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Presented by the UWA Music Students' Society, the final concert in this series will showcase solo performances of UWA Music students performing a wide range of repertoire on a rage of instruments and voice.
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Friday 28 |
ACYA is holding its first Chinese movie night on Friday, October 28. Tickets are only $5 and includes snacks/soft drinks (BYO allowed).
"THE WESTERN TRUNK LINE" (Xi Gan Dao), 2006, a comedy/love story/veiled political satire starring Li Jie as a kind of Chinese James Dean. Set (...)
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Sunday 30 |
19:00 - PERFORMANCE - Salar Aghili & the Razo Niaz Ensemble : A wonderful gallery of the mystique of Persian music.
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Salar Aghili's passionate and silky voice will take you back into the music, literature and culture of an ancient land named Persia. Be overwhelmed with the sounds of Tar (Origin of Guitar), Setar and Kamanche. Let your emotions take you away into ancient Persia with the sound of Daf and Tonbak and (...)
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November 2011
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Tuesday 01 |
Dr. Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia will be presenting a lecture on “Islamic Art in Western Art Museums: A Century of Displays and Interpretation” in loving memory of Dr. Joan Trevelyan.
The lecture will discuss the history of displays of Islamic art (...)
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Thursday 03 |
19:00 - FUNDRAISER - THE AFROCENTRIC QUIZ NIGHT (Horn of Africa fund-raiser) : Quiz Night by The African Students Union UWA, featuring a fashion show from various African countries and a traditional dance.Proceeds go to the East African Famine.
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So, Do You Have The Guts To Be AFROCENTRIC?
FIND OUT !
Proceeds go to the East African Famine.
Featuring a fashion show from various African countries and a traditional dance.
Don't miss out on all the prizes, snacks AND heaps of fun!!!
For Tickets call (...)
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Friday 04 |
Bertrand Russell has suggested that learning begins with inarticulate certainty and moves towards articulate doubt. Creative endeavour requires doubt, and failure: studios and workshops open spaces for it, practitioners accept it as an ever-present possibility, a state to embrace, or as the (...)
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Sunday 13 |
16:00 - PERFORMANCE - Symphony by the Bay : Outdoor Orchestral Performance by Perth Symphony Orchestra and feature artists
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Celebrate the start of Summer at Symphony by the Bay: an uplifting celebration of Orchestral works performed by the Perth Symphony Orchestra and a selection of guest soloists including celebrated soprano, Sara Macliver, and violin virtuoso Paul Wright, conducted by Jessica Gethin.
Brin (...)
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Thursday 17 |
Life often unfolds in unexpected directions.
Four strangers find themselves trapped in an unknown place with no exit.
Together they dance tango, search for answers and recall moments when life ran out of control. From the exuberance of young love to the grief of loss, their (...)
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Friday 18 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - The Museum of Human Disease; Know Your Enemy : Friday afternoon seminar at SymbioticA
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This talk will be about the tension the Museum of Human Disease faces between acts of law and being interesting. And will link this to the types of ways art fits into trying to resolve these tensions.
Derek Williamson is currently manger of the Museum of Human Disease at the University (...)
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Friday 25 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - The Thrombolites of Lake Clifton in Western Australia : Friday Seminar with Jennifer Alexander
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Lake Clifton is well known for the largest array of living Thrombolites (a type of Microbialites similar to Stromatolites) in the southern hemisphere. They were first described in 1980s when the lake ranged in salinity between 7 and 35 ppt. Within the last 25 years the salinity in the lake has (...)
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Sunday 27 |
10:00 - EVENT - Perth Upmarkets : Perth Upmarket is Perth’s premier quarterly market for original and handcrafted wares
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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, craftsmen and gourmets all under one roof at the University of Western Australia’s Winthrop Hall. Incorporating a dedicated (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
The UWA NAIDOC Committee invites staff to attend a Kings Park Indigenous Heritage Tour as part of it’s commitment of providing cultural activities to all staff on campus.
Tour costs are covered by UWA (FREE) and run for approx 2 hours (10.00am – 12.00pm) and are limited to 25 staff (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
Professor Nicholas Cook is a world leading music scholar with an eclectic range of interests from aesthetics and analysis to psychology and pop. In this lecture, he examines the use of music to create affective values, constructions of identity and community.
His paper argues for a (...)
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December 2011
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Friday 02 |
15:30 - PUBLIC TALK - The Coppelia Project : Free public talk with Geoffrey Drake-Brockman
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The Coppelia Project is a programme of research, development, and artwork production aimed at the creation of a troupe of four robot ballerinas able to learn and perform dance movements and interact with an audience. The project is being undertaken by Geoffrey Drake-Brockman with assistance from (...)
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Sunday 04 |
13:00 - CONCERT - 'A Christmas Cracker' : Perth Undergraduate Choral Society's Christmas Concert
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The Perth Undergraduate Choral Society (PUCS) is proud to present our upcoming concert, "A Christmas Cracker", at 1pm on Sunday 4th December at Wesley Church, Perth. We will be performing a series of well loved pieces from our repertoire and Christmas Carols. Conducted by Jonathan Paxman (...)
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