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Displaying from Friday, October 25, 2013
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October 2013
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Friday 25 |
13:00 - TALK - Documenting and Presenting Performance : Cultural Knowledge and Experience Embodied in Musical Recordings, Objects and Images
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Jennifer Post, an ethnomusicologist, is currently an Honorary Senior Research Fellow working with the John Blacking Collection at the Callaway Centre, UWA.
In this talk, Jennifer will explore the way saved sounds, objects and images hold stories and conjure memories of music-making (...)
Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00.
Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.
The UWA French Club presents
Jazz Soirée: Roaring Twenties: A classy cocktail party at Hackett Hall 7pm with live jazz entertainment, drinks and canapés.
This year, in honour of the Great Gatsby film re-make, the theme of the night and the dress code is 1920s! Tickets are available for (...)
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Sunday 27 |
15:00 - CONCERT - Keyed Up! Alex Raineri : Continuing in the Keyed Up! tradition, the School of Music is proud to host internationally distinguished artists in 2013. Indulge your senses in the renowned acoustic of the Callaway Music Auditorium and give your Sunday afternoons a new dimension!
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With a passionate interest in both solo keyboard music and chamber works, Alex’s performance experience includes tours of California, Taiwan, Germany and a vast amount of concerto, solo, and chamber music engagements in Australia including several broadcasts on ABC Classic FM, 2MBS Fine Music FM (...)
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Tuesday 29 |
17:00 - CANCELLED - School of Music presents International Research Seminar - Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir - CANCELLED
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This event has been cancelled.
Tess Tsokos: Gesture and response in the primary children's choir
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Wednesday 30 |
16:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Lipid Membranes of the Past and Future : Public talk with visiting Artist/Researcher Juan M. Castro (Waseda University, Tokyo)
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Life in all its diversity, as we know it today, could not have developed without an organic membrane. All living cells are surrounded by this outer wall or soft boundary. This talk presents an artistic and multidisciplinary perspective on the organic membrane and its potential as a media of (...)
19:00 - PERFORMANCE - Callaway Series : Ethnomusicology Concert
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Callaway Series is unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00.
Doors open 15 minutes prior to the event.
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Thursday 31 |
From almost the first moment of colonisation in 1829, the question of how to best harness and make use of Perth's riverfront setting has taxed the minds of its citizens and administrators.
To develop or not to develop, to reclaim or not to reclaim, to retain the broad green doorstep created in (...)
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November 2013
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Friday 01 |
Experience the sights and sounds of Africa through the lens of world-renowned ethnomusicologist John Blacking. Music Dance Landscape Image uses the John Blacking Collection, housed at The University of Western Australia’s Callaway Centre, to provide snapshots of performances that Blacking (...)
14:00 - SYMPOSIUM - The Longevity Dividend Symposium : Health, ageing, creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
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The Longevity Dividend is a symposium on a variety of issues related to health and ageing, including the potential for and benefits of creative expression and cultural engagement in later life.
Presented by the Western Australian Centre for Health and Ageing (WACHA) and the UWA (...)
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Wednesday 06 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - **CANCELLED** Cultural Heritage Keepers: digital technology and musical instrument repatriation
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A public lecture by Jennifer C. Post, ethnomusicologist and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, UWA
**Unfortunately this event has been cancelled**
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Friday 15 |
The Bliss exhibition considers notions of contemporary beauty and the feelings elicited by a harmonious state, however these may be complicated by political or social commentary.
Two* of the artists commissioned to create video works for the exhibition, Jacqueline Ball and Joshua Webb (...)
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - From Objects of Science to First Australians : Public talk with Jane Lydon
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Archival photographs of Aboriginal people were amassed during the colonial period for a range of purposes, yet rarely to further an Indigenous agenda. Today however such images have been re-contextualised, used to reconstruct family history, document culture and express connections to place. They (...)
19:15 - EVENT - Luminous Dreams - Geraldton : Lighting up the silo with a futuristic Geraldton tale
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On the evening of Friday 15 November a dramatic tale of Geraldton’s future, imagined through the eyes of artists and local high school students, will be projected onto the CBH silo at the Port, with a soundtrack simulcast on Radio Mama 100.5FM.
The Luminous Dreams project was developed (...)
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Friday 22 |
Join us to hear textile artist Nalda Searles share her knowledge of the Narrogin dollmakers, on Friday 22 November 2013, 1pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
Nalda Seares will talk about Joyce Winsley’s sculptures in Guildford grass, drawing from her 20 years of engagement with the (...)
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Sunday 24 |
10:00 - EVENT - Perth Upmarket : 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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Monday 25 |
The exhibition showcases the Design project work of Architecture and Landscape Architecture students at UWA completed during 2013. Included are speculative design studies of a wide range of projects and building types, finely illustrated in both three dimensional model form as well as computer (...)
The Guardian newspaper once called him “the greatest poet of our age”. Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, celebrated translator, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and many other awards, was the rarest of poets: one who was lauded by critics and loved by readers from around the world. The (...)
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Tuesday 26 |
16:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - 2013 UWA Historical Society Annual Lecture : 'The Fly-out, Fly-in Professor' with E/Prof Reg Appleyard
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Associate Professor of Economics Paul McLeod will chair a 'fireside presentation' with colleagues of our guest, Emeritus Professor Reg Appleyard. Hear about changes to university education and student internationalisation during
Prof Appleyard’s time as Head of Department with his frequent (...)
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Friday 29 |
17:30 - LAUNCH - Westerly magazine launch : The Westerly Centre, in partnership with the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, will launch the latest issue of Westerly magazine
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Westerly will launch issue 58:2 at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
The launch is being held in conjuction with the Bliss exhibition, for which the Westerly Centre was campus partner.
This special edition, On Beauty, has been guest edited by long-term former editor, Dennis (...)
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