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Displaying from Friday, July 28, 2017
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July 2017
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Friday 28 |
15:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Life 2.0: CRISPR and the Age of Designer Babies : Public Talk with Dr. Ellen Jorgensen
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Science fiction has explored the consequences of human genetic engineering for decades, and the results are universally dystopic. With the advent of the genome editing technology called CRISPR, we are closer than ever before. CRISPR has been called 'the word processor for genomes', allowing us for (...)
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Saturday 29 |
13:30 - GUIDED TOUR - ** SOLD OUT** Hidden UWA - Behind the Doors (Repeat tour) : Discover the hidden secrets and forgotten spaces of UWA's Crawley campus
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Have you ever wanted to climb the 184 steps to the top of the UWA clock tower to marvel at the view? Come and discover this and some of the other hidden secrets and treasures at UWA’s Crawley campus on a tour Behind the Doors, led by the University’s recently retired “Oracle” Terry Larder.
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Sunday 30 |
Join us for the second annual Keyed Up! Day of Piano where you can learn tips and tricks of piano performance from some of Perth’s most experienced teachers and examiners to ensure that every performance you give is one that you are proud of, whether that be for your University or School (...)
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August 2017
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Friday 04 |
11:00 - PUBLIC TALK - Laws, Sausages and the Question of Taste : Public Talk with Artist John O'Shea
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Black Market Pudding is a twist on the traditional Irish blood sausage. It represents an ethically-conscious food product, combining congealed pig blood with fats, cereals and spices. Black Market Pudding is manufactured using blood taken from a living pig. It proposes a cyclical business model to (...)
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Saturday 05 |
Join Janet Holmes à Court and Alan Dodge in conversation as they take us through the marvellous collection of artworks in Scratching the Surface: A selection of works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection at LWAG.
Hear the stories that framed this collection and influenced (...)
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Tuesday 08 |
13:00 - PRESENTATION - Talking Allowed: Art and Leadership : ‘Talking Allowed’ is a new series of presentations offered by the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.
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In this Talking Allowed, Robin McClellan will explore the ways in which art can be utilized as a galvanising tool to provoke thought leadership, by challenging and encouraging discussion whilst also evoking emotional connection to social issues and new ways of being. Robin McClellan is the Chief (...)
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - Luther�s Reformation at 500: Luther�s Image and the First Media War : This is an Institute of Advanced Studies and Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies series of lectures.
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Martin Luther was the media superstar of his time. Thousands of painted and printed portraits of Luther were issued particularly during the early years of the Reformation. Some were even signed by Luther in the first recorded instance of a celebrity sending out autographed portraits. These (...)
19:00 - EVENT - Friends of the Library UWA Library Speaker : “New Norcia – a little bit of Spain in Western Australia”
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In 1846 two Spanish monks, Dom Rosendo Salvado and Dom Joseph Serra, members of the Order of Saint Benedict, arrived in Western Australia with the intention of becoming missionaries. They were allocated an area now known as the Victoria Plains by Bishop Brady in Perth (...)
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Friday 11 |
13:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA School of Music Presents Free Lunchtime Concert : Perth Orchestra Project and UWA Composition present 'Adventure'
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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.
This week student-led ensemble 'The Perth Orchestra Project', conducted by Izaak Wesson present Haydn's Symphony No.31 “Hornsignal” (...)
13:00 - TALK - Up Close � Emily Kame Kngwarreye in the Janet Holmes � Court Collection : Join Anne Brody and Darren Jorgensen in conversation as they explore Emily Kame Kngwarreye’s beginnings as a member of the Utopia Women’s Batik Group
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In the 1990s, Anne Brody curated three international touring exhibitions of Aboriginal art for the Janet Holmes à Court Collection — Utopia-A Picture Story 88 batiks on silk (1990, Ireland and Europe); Contemporary Aboriginal Art. A Selection (1990, USA and Australia); and Stories. A Journey (...)
17:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA School of Music Presents : Fridays@Five - Milhaud: La Creation du Monde
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Now in its third season, Fridays@Five is the ideal way to kick-start your weekend! Each session offers a unique musical experience to delight all music lovers, from young artist led concerts to informal musical drinks on the famous grassy knoll, behind the scenes workshops to lectures and (...)
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Sunday 13 |
10:00 - OPEN DAY - UWA Open Day : An opportunity for future students and the community to explore what's on offer at UWA.
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There’s so much to discover, experience and enjoy at UWA Open Day.
Get a taste of uni life as the campus comes alive with interactive activities, entertainment, tours, displays and more.
Visit the Future Students Hub, explore our campus and facilities on a tour, check out (...)
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Tuesday 15 |
17:00 - SEMINAR - UWA School of Music presents Free Research Seminar : Claire Stokes - Making Music Sustainable
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It is widely understood that music, and indeed all arts, are a critical part of society and we simply could not live without it. However, the way it is funded and supported in Australia is not set up in a way that ensures sustainability. Individual artists are expected to be entrepreneurs as well (...)
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Thursday 17 |
18:30 - SCREENING - The Destruction of Memory - FULLY BOOKED / SOLD OUT : A film screening followed by panel session
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A powerful award-winning
film on the war against culture,
and the battle to save it.
Over the past century, cultural destruction
has wrought catastrophic results across
the globe. In Syria and Iraq, the ‘cradle of
civilization’, millennia of culture have been
destroyed. But the push to protect (...)
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Saturday 19 |
Discover children’s attitudes to children and childrearing methods from the perspective of children who lived during the tumultuous centuries of change from the Black Death until the eighteenth century. Explore historical books and toys for children and how children were educated, how children (...)
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Sunday 20 |
16:00 - PERFORMANCE - UWA School of Music Presents Music on the Terrace - Baroque Beauties
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The UWA String Orchestra and Vocal Consort join forces with renowned soprano Rachelle Durkin for an afternoon of exquisite baroque music in the majestic Government House Ballroom.
Tickets $35
tickets.perthconcerthall.com.au
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Thursday 24 |
18:00 - PERFORMANCE - Music Performance: Creation - The Dorothy Ellen Ransom Prize in Musical Composition
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UWA’s thriving community of emerging composers will work closely with mentors Christopher Tonkin and James Ledger to create new and imaginative works for quartet and voice inspired by artworks exhibited in Scratching the Surface: A selection of works from the Janet Holmes à Court Collection.
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Friday 25 |
Led by Dr Vanessa Russ, Associate Director of the Berndt Museum, this tour invites you to look closely at the works on display and discover more about the stories behind the art of Millingimbi Island.
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Tuesday 29 |
18:00 - PUBLIC LECTURE - In Absentia: The Politics of Cameraless Photography : A public lecture by Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Art History, Victoria University
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How can a photograph of nothing—of nothing discernable or apparently significant—be said to offer some useful political purchase on the world it inhabits? How can a photograph that represents, but does not depict, a given situation be freighted with historical knowledge and import? Confining (...)
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Wednesday 30 |
9:30 - Masterclass - Dissemination: The Photograph and its Image : A masterclass with Professor Geoffrey Batchen, Art History, Victoria University.
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One of photography’s most distinctive features is its schizophrenia. Capable of shifting shape and identity in the blink of an eye, photography has always encompassed both material and immaterial manifestations, both physical objects grounded in specific configurations of time and space, and (...)
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