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Displaying from Tuesday, April 24, 2012
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April 2012
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Thursday 26 |
Come along and listen to some of UWA's senior Vocal Students
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - ANZAC Service for Peace : Service for Peace with the Winthrop Singers and instrumentalists from the UWA School of Music
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A Service for Peace,
featuring
Readings of West Australian war poets
HAYDN's 'Nelson' Mass
performed by the UWA Winthrop Singers with an orchestra made up of members of the School of Music,
led by Winthrop Professor Paul Wright
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - The Old Fella and Mates : He’s The Old Fella who gave up shearing for stand-up and won hearts around the country with his performances on Australia’s Got Talent.
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68-year-old retired farmer, Rod Gregory, was stunned to make it to the top four in the grand final. He didn’t expect to make it through the first audition!
As one of our newest comedians, The Old Fella has performed all over Australia and will hit Perth in April this year with his (...)
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Friday 27 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - How Crude Was Life at Gdansk? : Public Talk at SymbioticA with Catts & Zurr
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Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr will discuss the Tissue Culture and Art Project(TC&A) retrospective in Lazina Centre for Contemporary Arts, Gdansk; they will use the opportunity to reflect on some of TC&A’s earlier works, and attempt to create a kind of a narrative to culminate with TC&A’s (...)
In a special partnership with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, emerging artists take to the stage with their mentors to present a program of some of the best-loved music of the classical period. The Winthrop Singers will also join the ensemble in heavenly music. Lead by Paul Wright and Alan (...)
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May 2012
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Tuesday 01 |
13:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Ms Victoria Schofied a Renowned Journalist Lecture on Resolving the deadlock over Kashmir : highlights the need to resolve the debate on the future of Kashmir. What is the nature of the Kashmir issue? How can it be resolved? What role do external actors play in the resolution? Victoria Schofield will address these and other related issues.
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Victoria Schofield is an internationally recognized scholar of the Kashmir issue. Her publications include Kashmir in the Crossfire (1996) Kashmir in Conflict (2000 and 2002) and Afghan Frontier: Feuding and Fighting in Central Asia.
The Kashmir issue has bedevilled relations between India and (...)
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Wednesday 02 |
18:00 - SYMPOSIUM - Bazm-e-Sarfraz 2012 Faiz Ahmed Faiz: Progressive Thinkers in Pakistan : This year, the Centre for Muslim States and Societies at UWA is celebrating Faiz Ahmed Faiz's centennial year by organizing a symposium on his poetry. This symposium is unique because anyone can participate in a poetry recital/singing competition based on Faiz poetry. Faiz's daughter Moneeza Hashmi will be the judge.
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The Symposium organised by the Centre for Muslim States and Societies, commemorates the contribution and services made by Begum Sarfraz Iqbal(1939-2003) to Urdu literature.
Faiz Ahmed Faiz (1911-1984) was one of the leading poets of Pakistan. Listed four times for the Nobel Prize, he is also (...)
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Thursday 03 |
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform a choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
This week features Canticles composed by an alumnus of UWA.
Responses: Smith
Psalm 145
Old Testament (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - Distinguished International Guest Lecture Series : Dr Una Mcllvenna
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Dr Una Mcllvenna of the ARC Centre of Excellence for History of Emotions will explore emotional responses to public execution in the early modern period, looking specifically at the use of song and verse in broadside and pamphlet accounts of crime and execution across Europe.
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Thursday 10 |
13:10 - EVENT - Lunchtime Concert : Violin Cello Duo: Sophie and Jasmin Parkinson Stewart
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Sisters Jasmin and Sophie Parkinson-Stewart, winners of the People's Choice Awards in last year's Vose competition, perform a selection of duos for violin and cello.
17:30 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Dr Amara Lakhous - "Reforming Islam from the Outside" : Multi-Award Winning Author Dr Amara Lakhous is an Algerian-born Muslim writer. He is the recipient of the Italy’s Premier Literary Award.
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Born in 1970 in Algiers in a Berber family, Amara Lakhous is the sixth of nine children. He studied at Koran school for four years where he learned classical Arabic. He learned French at junior school. He was influenced from an early age by authors like Mahfouz, Flaubert and Hemingway, and after (...)
The UWA Winthrop Singers perform choral Evensong on Thursdays at 6pm during semester. These currently take place at St Thomas More College chapel.
This week's service features an extraordinary work for triple-chorus by 16th century Italian composer Andrea Gabrieli, and music by Gustav (...)
Come down and watch classic films by Jean Renoir, Cassavetes, Bergman, Kurosawa and many more every Thursday at 6pm.
Venues TBA via http://www.facebook.com/uwafilmsociety and http://www.facebook.com/groups/242259162472394/
19:30 - CONCERT - Music Students' Society - Chamber Music Concert : Featuring works by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn
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A student concert of chamber works featuring Shostakovich's Piano Quintet and Mendelssohn's String Quartet.
Tickets at the door: MSS members and music staff - FREE, non-members $10.
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Thursday 17 |
6:30 - PERFORMANCE - Dawn Eucharist : Dawn Eucharist for Ascension Day with the Winthrop Singers
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Join the Winthrop Singers bright and early to celebrate the Feast of The Ascension.
William Byrd: Mass for Four Voices
Reading: Matthew 5: 38-48
Motet: Philips, Ascendit Deus
13:10 - PERFORMANCE - Lunchtime Concert : String Quartet Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh
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2011 Flora Bunning Memorial prize winners Riley Skevington, Elena Phatak, Eunise Cheng and Jeremy Huynh present and exciting program for string quartet, featuring Schubert's "Death and the Maiden"
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Friday 18 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Amanda Newall and Ola Johansson: PROJEKTET : Resident Artists talk at SymbioticA
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The immune system can be seen as the metaphorical factor of applied performance, which makes the latter artistic practice more than simply social work. Transposed into a functional nomenclature, the immune system makes a larger body stay healthy by encountering visitors (pathogens) by way of (...)
The flourishing vocal program at UWA's School of Music presents an exciting program of music by UWA Senior vocal students.
19:30 - PERFORMANCE - The vocal program at The School of Music, UWA Presents "The Mikado - in absentia"
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What happens when you have a show needing a chorus of men and five major male leads, but only five men and not a tenor in sight, too many women who are all suitable to sing the two major women leads, no budget, no sets, no props, a bare music auditorium and a grand piano?
Answer. UWA (...)
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Sunday 20 |
International concert pianist, Bernadette Harvey is renowned for her commitment to Australian music. Since winning the ABC "Young Performer of the Year" as a young woman, her career has taken her all over the world to great acclaim.
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