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Displaying from Friday, March 22, 2013
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March 2013
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Friday 22 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Exhibition Talk: The Death of a Slit-Gong Drum: Changing Objects on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea
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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 (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Postcards From the North : Public talk with Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
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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 (...)
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Saturday 23 |
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 (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Nicholas Bannan
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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 (...)
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Wednesday 27 |
18:00 - SPECIAL GUEST LECTURE - Capturing the Individual: Portraits of Papua New Guinea : Renowned photographer Stephen Dupont talks about his confronting contemporary experiences in Papua New Guinea
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Renowned photographer Stephen Dupont talks about his confronting contemporary experiences in Papua New Guinea at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA on Wednesday 27 March 2013.
Dupont’s images have received international acclaim, described as ‘hauntingly beautiful photographs of (...)
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Thursday 28 |
Choral Evensong celebration for Maundy Thursday, with the UWA Winthrop Singers. Feat. Tallis' "In Jejunio et Fletu" & Lotti's "Crucifixus."
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April 2013
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Monday 08 |
In a confused world still tainted by a gross abuse of humanity, 18 artists have found a peaceful yet powerful way to express their wish for the end to the largest humanitarian concern in the world today through a return to traditional culture and values.
The artists in this exhibition (...)
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Tuesday 09 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Andrew Sutherland
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Principles for designing an effective, post-compulsory Music curriculum suitable for Western Australia.
A new post-compulsory Music course known as the West Australian Certificate of Education (WACE) Music course was recently introduced into Year 11 and 12 in Western Australian (WA) (...)
“INTENSELY COMPELLING…EXTRAORDINARY.”
Karen Curry- Former CNN Bureau Chief New York
The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction…
The multi-award winning “Free China: The Courage To (...)
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Wednesday 10 |
18:30 - FILM SCREENING - Film Screening: First Contact (1983, 54 minutes, Rated: PG) : Academy Award nominated film documents an unforeseen collision of two very different worlds.
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Join us for a film screening of the documentary First Contact on 10 April 2013 at the Robert Street Lecture Theatre, UWA.
In the 1930s three Australians, Michael, Daniel and James Leahy experienced an astonishing encounter: a flourishing population of native people living unaware of the (...)
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Thursday 11 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm
“INTENSELY COMPELLING…EXTRAORDINARY.”
Karen Curry- Former CNN Bureau Chief New York
The fates of a woman living in Beijing and a man living in New York become inextricably linked because of a common conviction…
The multi-award winning “Free China: The Courage To (...)
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Friday 12 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Campus Partner Talk: Light as a Medical Diagnostic Tool : Researchers discuss their current research related to the use of light as a medical diagnostic tool
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Researchers from the Optical + Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (OBEL) share their research findings related to the use of light as a medical diagnostic tool at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 12 April 2013.
OBEL is based within the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and (...)
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Tuesday 16 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - Kristin Bowtell
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Kristin Bowtell (returning Court Music Fund award-holder)
The Embodied Score: Conductors' Interpretive Decision-Making
Conductors are expected to develop a personal interpretation of each piece in advance of the first rehearsal, yet the conducting and performing literature (...)
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Wednesday 17 |
18:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Dark Portals: Themes and Techniques : Panel discussion around the range of issues raised by the exhibition Dark Portals by artist Sera Waters
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Panellists Pamela Gaunt, Mark Stewart and Felicity Johnson examine the range of issues raised by the current Exhibition Dark Portals at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Wednesday 17 April 2013.
Focussing on the Cruthers Collection of Women's Art exhibition, the discussion will (...)
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Thursday 18 |
Free 50min Concert every Thursday
Are you Down To Film? Are you interested in acting, writing, directing or producing? WASTV UWA offers a broad spectrum of opportunities to students at UWA - ranging from being in the spotlight through to high level management and coordination.
Come down to our AGM on April 18th - elect and meet (...)
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Friday 19 |
13:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Luminosity: Words & Thoughts : A unique glimpse behind the scenes of the creative process of language development in a poem
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UWA writing collective 'Words&Thoughts' presents a unique behind-the-scenes view of the creative process for the development of the language of a poem, at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery on Friday 19 April 2013.
Words&Thoughts have created new works inspired by the theme 'luminos (...)
Opening the season, conductor and virtuoso violinist Paul Wright conducts a program affected by classical sensibilities featuring some of the period’s best-loved works.
Grainger: Duke of Marlborough Fanfare;
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (Unfinished);
Bach: Violin Concerto in E Major (Soloi (...)
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Tuesday 23 |
17:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - School of Music presents: Research Seminar Series - David Symons
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David Symons: Antill After Corroboree: A Return to Conservatism?
This paper investigates one of the widespread perceptions in much critical comment on the music of John Antill following the composition of his famous ballet Corroboree – namely, that the composer reverted to a ‘quieter� (...)
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