What's On at UWA

UWA String and Voice Students come together to perform chamber works from the baroque period. Exhibitions on view include Glitter, works by Pat Larter and Lola Ryan; HERE&NOW14, contemporary ceramic art from Western Australian artists.

Panel discussion on the topic "Crossing the line" with a focus on fighting attitudes that seek to silence the voices of women, and to highlight the importance of women speaking out and sharing their stories and views. Featuring a special tribute to UWA W/Prof Philippa Maddern. Light (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Come to a free talk and book signing by Tim Jarvis, one of the world’s leading explorers, as he describes his modern-day journey to retrace, for the first time ever, the legendary 1914 expedition of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

In early 1914, British explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

HERE&NOW14, a conversation between long-term creative collaborative partners Pippin Drysdale and Warrick Palmateer and more recent collaborative partners Sandra Black and Andrew Nicholls.

Prominent practitioners in their own right, these artists have been working in creative (...)

A fascination with modes of thinking, the nature of creativity as well as the neuro-physiological basis of these have led me to pursue work within the domains of art and science throughout my adult life. My conviction, through my own experience, that the practices of art and science are varied (...)

Every year, the outstanding ability and youthful passion of the emerging artists and their mentors combine to celebrate the culmination of their collaboration. Three young artists perform a movement of their chosen concerto onstage with orchestra in the finals of the prestigious VOSE competition (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Award winning researcher and writer Stephen Kinnane who co-wrote and produced The Coolbaroo Club (1996), an ABC TV documentary, will introduce the film and take questions following the screening.

This documentary is a portrait of the Coolbaroo Club, an Aboriginal-run dance club which (...)

UWA Voice Consort - or should we say "consorts".... multiple groups comprising 20 students perform predominantly a cappella works from the Renaissance to 20th Century. One to a part antiphonal, series and humours - we cover it all in this concert with 2 short halves.

David Dolan has devoted his career as a concert pianist, researcher and teacher to the revival of the art of classical improvisation. David has performed at major concert venues and festivals, such as the Wigmore Hall and the Royal Festival Hall in London and is a professor at the Yehudi Menuhin (...)

The Winthrop Singers herald the beginning of Spring with a free recital at dawn from the tower and balconies of Winthrop Tower.

Prof. Jeff Tatum, of Victoria University of Wellington, is a 2014 Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Visiting Professor.

It is well known that monumental architecture in Rome was a crucial medium for the exhibition of aristocratic prestige, not least by way of its enduring (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Join Curator Gemma Weston as she guides us through the stunning works on display from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art in the exhibition Glitter: Pat Larter vs Lola Ryan.

This event is part of the public program accompanying the exhibition Glitter which is featured at the (...)

Beethoven: A Tale of Triumph Concert - to be held at St George's College as part of their Spring Concert Series. The concert will see a selection from Beethoven's piano sonatas including the famous Moonlight Sonata performed by Perth's mightiest pianists! Performing: Mark Coughlan, Caroline (...)

An 'On the Edge' Lecture by Benjamin W. Smith, Winthrop Professor of World Rock Art at UWA

In this lecture Professor Smith will draw upon experiences from his past four years as President of the PanAfrican Archaeological Association to consider the illicit practices, the scale and the (...)

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series.

FREE 50min Concert every Thursday during Semester at 1:10pm. No booking required, just turn up!

Join us for a discussion between Associate Professor Andrew Rate from the School of Earth and Environment and ceramic artists Andrea Vinkovic and Stephanie Hammill.

The use of clay as both artistic medium and source of scientific enquiry will form the basis of this discussion. Andrew (...)