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Displaying from Wednesday, October 30, 2013
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October 2013
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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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December 2013
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Thursday 05 |
13:00 - EVENT - 'For richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health...' : Music and positive health outcomes in later life
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Winthrop Professor Jane Davidson, Callaway and Tunley Chair of the School of Music at UWA, explores the use of music for health, and its impact on the well-being of participants coming to musical performance activities for the first time in later life.
The participants include those (...)
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Saturday 07 |
8:00AM - 12:00PM, SATURDAY 7 DECEMBER 2013
UWA Publishing’s Big Book Sale is back for 2013 and bigger than ever!
Come down to the UWAP carpark on Saturday 7 December and grab some pre-Christmas bargains.
ALL BOOKS UNDER $10!
Books for sale include fiction (...)
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Thursday 12 |
19:00 - EVENT - University Carols Service : A Service of Readings and Carols at St. George's College Chapel
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Members of the UWA community, family and friends are invited to a traditional service of readings, carols and hymns at the Chapel of St. George's College on Thursday 12th December at 7pm. The choir is the UWA Winthrop Singers.
The event is free and we invite a donation which will be (...)
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Friday 13 |
19:00 - EVENT - Christmas Carols with the Winthrop Singers : Beautiful Christmas Carols performed by the Winthrop Singers
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An annual event at St George's College is the Christmas Carols performed by the Winthrop Singers. An evening not to be missed. Please book as there is limited space. Performances are on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 December.
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Sunday 15 |
17:30 - PERFORMANCE - School of Music presents: Master's Recital - Marco Lombardi (piano)
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Master of Music (Research) student Marco Lombardi presents his Master's Piano recital. The program includes:
Chopin, Frederic - Preludes Op 28
Mozart, W.A. - Rondo in A minor K511
Busoni, Ferruccio - Sonatina Seconda
Castiglioni, Niccolo - Sonatina
Entry is free - all welcome! (...)
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