What's On at UWA

Viewing the natural world under a microscope is a never-ending source of fascination for children and adults alike. In this workshop, your kids will learn to use a microscope to examine and share their finds with other children.

Participants will collect material from the UWA garden to (...)

Have you ever wanted to climb the 184 steps to the top of the UWA clock tower to marvel at the view? Or descended into the hidden air-raid shelters in the basement of the magnificent Winthrop Hall? Come and discover these and some of the other hidden secrets and forgotten treasures of UWA’s (...)

Thousands of recycled plastic bottles have been transformed into something breathtaking in this immersive installation. This new exhibition is your chance to experience the ordinary in an extraordinary way.

Artist Kathy Allam will be answering questions over Sunday talks taking place on (...)

Description Thousands of recycled plastic bottles have been transformed into something breathtaking in this immersive installation. This new exhibition is your chance to experience the ordinary in an extraordinary way.

Artist Kathy Allam will be answering questions over Sunday talks (...)

Music has the power to to enrich and change lives. Here at the UWA School of Music, we provide classes that support this and promote music in the community for everybody.

Our JMS group music programs, designed for children aged 18 months to 12 years, will nurture your child's musical (...)

Head downstairs to the Studio Underground Foyer at the State Theatre Centre. Listen to Australian poets Paul Hetherington, Amanda Joy and Siobhan Hodge while enjoying a beverage or two. Strumfrei16 will also mark the launch of UWA Publishing's new poetry series, UWAP Poetry.

Poetry and painting have been compared since antiquity. John Hollander (echoing Simonides) has said that ‘Works of art are silent; poetry speaks its mind’.

In this workshop critically acclaimed poet Paul Hetherington will demonstrate how visual imagery activates and energises poetry (...)

Join us for the exhibition opening of Miriam Stannage: Survey 2006 - 2016 on Friday 29 July 2016, 6pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

This exhibition curated by Lee Kinsella features recent and previously unexhibited work by senior contemporary Australian artist Miriam Stannage,

Prose poetry is a powerful literary form in the 21st century. It is neither exactly like lyric poetry, nor is it quite like conventional prose fiction.

As Peter Johnson says, ‘the prose poem plants one foot in prose, the other in poetry, both heels resting precariously on banana peels� (...)

This new exhibition showcases Miriam Stannage’s characteristically wry observations of life, and testifies to her ongoing experimentation and innovation across a range of media. The artist utilises everyday objects to offer commentary on fame, and the fragile and transitory nature of our time on (...)

The UWA Cultural Precinct, the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the Black Swan State Theatre Company are pleased to host a special Q&A event as part of The Caucasian Chalk Circle season presented by Black Swan State Theatre Company, in collaboration with the National Theatre of China.
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Lee Kinsella has curated and managed exhibitions at Australian state and national public institutions, and has published writing on Australian art and artists. She has recently edited the monograph Miriam Stannage: Time Framed which examines Stannage’s 50 year practice.

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Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

Free entry - no bookings required!

This week UWA's talented Guitar students, under the direction of Jonathan Fitzgerald (...)

The ideal way to start your weekend, Fridays@Five offers unique musical experiences to delight all music lovers. See young artists be inspired through a variety of masterclasses, workshops, pre-concert talks, lectures and Q&A sessions. Delve deep into music or simply enjoy a free informal (...)

Oh no! A piece of art has mysteriously gone missing from the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Gather clues from around the UWA campus and see if you can successfully identify the perpetrator of this terrible crime. Register and win a prize if you have solved the mystery.

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The Annual Dean’s Lecture, (Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts) by Kristien Ring, architect, curator and author.

With more and more people moving to urban centres worldwide, new solutions for growth are needed: strategies for densification that actually improve and (...)

Many generations of surveillance have passed since the introduction of CCTV, which now seems almost innocuous in comparison to newer technologies.

Dr David Glance, the Director of the Centre for Software Practice at UWA has been a keen commentator and observer of the interface between (...)

UWA School of Music is a vibrant centre for research in music and music education, where a thriving community of scholars is engaged in exploring the frontiers of knowledge, working on a wide range of research projects with diverse outputs.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters (...)

Be transported from the everyday in our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the finest musical talent locally, nationally and within the School.

This week's program includes works by Damian Barbeler, Ian Clarke and Osvaldo Golijov, as well as works by UWA students Andrew Ngooi and S (...)

Christine Beudoin will discuss her year-long research project which looks into the relationship between humans and lab-grown cells, as maintained by scientific methodology and harnessed by both biohacking and artistic practices. Her hands-on explorations have included mammalian tissue culture (...)