What's On at UWA

Bring the family along to this exciting behind-the-scenes look at rarely exhibited objects from the Berndt Museum's extensive collection.

The material dates from the 1950s and will include ceremonial adornment as seen in the exhibition Through the Kunai Grass: Portraits of the New (...)

Perth Upmarket 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 Junior Upmarket and Gourmet section. Parking and entry are free and the venue is (...)

You are invited to join us mark the 100th anniversary of the first meeting of the University of Western Australia’s Convocation.

The First meeting was held on March 4th 1913 in St George’s Hall, Hay St near the corner of Irwin Street. The historic façade including the portico (...)

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester

Choral evensong with the UWA Winthrop Singers, featuring Weelkes' Short Service and Stanford's Justorum Animae

Join Rebecca as she discusses her artworks exhibited within LUMINOUSFLUX at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Rebecca Baumann’s works interrogate ideas of emotion, colour, perception and consciousness through the exploration of materials. Her works are often kinetic and ephemeral in (...)

We're after current students to get together and spell out a massive '100' on Oak Lawn. We'll grab a photo and put it in the Guild Centenary Time Capsule to be opened in 100 years.

Want to take part? Register by emailing your name and phone number to [email protected]

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Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

The Cultural Precinct invites all first-year students for a welcome-party at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Thursday 14th March 2013.

First Flock will have refreshments, prizes, entertainment and will also coincide with the launch of a new initiative - the UWA Cultural Precinct (...)

Choral Evensong with the UWA Winthrop Singers. Feat. Farrant's "Canticles in G Minor" & Arvo Part's "The Woman With The Alabaster Brow."

Winthrop Professor Ted Snell (Director of the Cultural Precinct, UWA) launches the new ArtWear label by Byron Bay-based designer Carolyn Daniell at Pakenham Street Art Space, Fremantle on 15 March 2013.

The ArtWear range is inspired by the Warlukurlangu artists of Yuendumu, whose (...)

Mary Coughlan’s smoky, bluesy, boozy drawl has always been a seduction, no matter what the subject. The vocal marrying of sardonic wit, visceral rage, between-the-sheets passion and the tenderest of sorrowful regrets – this is Mary’s talent. This is why she is so loved. Throughout the 25 (...)

Alexander Jensen: Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology.

Different ways of dealing with death: the relation between music and theology Western music has always been a way of expressing that what is most important to men and women. In the past (...)

Georg Corall: DMA Lecture-Recital

The Eloquent Hautboy

Scholars have investigated ‘music as speech’ and the ‘weapons of rhetoric’ in musical execution in order to understand the importance of text in historically-informed performance practice (HIP). This has led to (...)

Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm

Choral Evensong with the UWA Winthrop Singers. Feat. Gibbon's "Short Service" and Weelke's "Hosanna to the Son of David."

James Leach from the University of Aberdeen, Scotland presents his research findings regarding an unprecedented event that took place in 2010 on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea.

Slit-gong drums are made and used as part of affinal exchange relations by the people on the Rai Coast of (...)

Between August 2012 and February 2013 SymbioticA's Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr seconded to Aalto University in Helsinki, to help establish Biofilia- Base for Biological Arts. The resulting hybrid lab, launched in February, is a fully functioning state-of-the-art tissue engineering and molecular (...)

Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy? Experience the UWA Extension Summer School Choir’s performance of your favourite Queen hits, led by the queen of choirs, Dr Margaret Pride. Be part of the concert experience and join in the sing-along in the grand Octagon Theatre; be taken on a ride (...)

Music as the ‘missing link’: the evolutionary pathway from animal communication to language.

A growing consensus drawing on research in a wide variety of disciplines has over the last fifteen years or so argued the need to revisit Darwin’s conjecture of 1871 that language may be (...)