What's On at UWA

The festival coincides with Chinese Youth Day and is a celebration of Chinese music and Chinese influenced music including works for chamber orchestra, string quartet, piano trio, solo violin and cello. The concert will feature conductor Raymond Yong and soloists Alexandra Isted (violin) and Jeremy Huynh (cello) performing a variety of works including the Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto with chamber orchestra in the beautiful setting of the St George's College Dining Hall. Guests are invited to join the cultural festival before the concert. From 5.45 pm please come to enjoy the various cultural offerings available from kung fu and calligraphy demonstrations, fan dancing and much more. Refreshments that includes Chinese food will be served throughout the festival. The concert will commence at 7.00 pm and is free. Bookings are essential as there is limited space.

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 artist Alice Blanch for a floor talk on Friday 9 May, 1pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

Since graduating in 2012 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts, Honours, award-winning photographer Alice Blanch has exhibited widely in Australia and in China. Her moody cloudscapes and enigmatic still life compositions offer compelling images.

In this talk, Alice will discuss her work that includes experimenting with photographic film in antique cameras.

FREE to attend. RSVP: Required via the link.

All Assembled performances are unreserved and ticketed at the door.

All tickets are $10.00.

Doors open 15 minutes prior to the commencement of the event.

Four finalists perform a concert of solo piano music for the glory of their College and to take home the $500 Snaden's Prize. The final stage of the competition will be judged by visiting Professor, Prof. Steven McIntyre from Melbourne University and Prof. Graeme Gilling, Head of Performance and Keyboard Studies at The University of Western Australia and orchestra pianist for the West Australian Symphony Orchestra.

Event is free and open to the public. Please book as there is limited space.

Stephen McIntryre is one of Australia's most eminent pianists and teachers and has performed as soloist and chamber music player in many countries including all major Australian orchestras. His cycle of the complete piano music of Ravel won the National Critics Award.

Stephen McIntryre is one of Australia's most eminent pianists and teachers and has performed as soloist and chamber music player in many countries including all major Australian orchestras. His cycle of the complete piano music of Ravel won the National Critics Award.

The Art of Zhen Shan Ren (Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance) takes viewers through the story of Falun Dafa - from its introduction to the public in 1992, through the beauty and enlightenment of the practice, to the unjust and unrelenting persecution, moving forward through the peaceful resistance of Falun Dafa practitioners worldwide who seek to bring an end to the persecution, then through themes of karmic retribution, salvation and grace, and finishing with a moment of choice.

Storytelling has long been one of fine art's greatest joys, and this Exhibition's ability to cross cultural, lingual and ethnic barriers is highlighted each time it is shown.

Inspired by tradition and divinity, the artists paint - often collaboratively - stories either experienced by themselves or shared by fellow Falun Dafa practitioners worldwide. Realist oil painting, or Neo-Renaissance, was chosen as the style for its narrative capabilities, accessibility and, above all, its purity.

The Exhibition aims to educate and draw focus to an unjust persecution - to record a moment in time when the universal principles of Truth, Compassion, Forbearance are openly opposed. It also highlights the danger of becoming involved in the persecution through state-run ventures such as forced labour and forced organ harvesting of Falun Dafa practitioners. Outlasting these sombre themes, however, is a steady message of hope and fulfilment, as the enduring courage and belief of practitioners bring positive change in numerous dark settings.

A central hope of founding artist Professor Zhang's mission is to promote, through fine art, the understanding that freedom of belief is a fundamental human right, and to raise awareness.

Stephen McIntrye is one of Australia's most eminent pianists and teachers and has performed as soloist and chamber music player in many countries including all major Australian orchestras. His cycle of the complete piano music of Ravel won the National Critics Award.

This book was funded by a University Centenary Grant with detailed vignettes of 71 places named after personalities on the Crawley Campus. An initiative of the UWA Historical Society, it includes a fold-out map showing each location. Join the authors and their many supporters for the launch.

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!

'Verily it is by beauty that we come at wisdom,'so it says at Winthrop Hall, so what are all the 'words' for? This WXED talk presents stunning visuals of soaring and uplifting Christian art and some stories of iconclasm and censorship in order to draw a picture of Christianity's contribution to our current artistic culture.This event is an experiment in thinking beyond the silos and we are looking for you to join the conversation.

Masterclass

All Assembled performances are unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the commencement of the event.

The UWA Archaeology Department invites you to join us to celebrate National Archaeology Week on Saturday, 17 May.

What do archaeologists actually do? How do archaeologists use cutting-edge technology in their research? What kind of archaeological research goes on at UWA? How can you even become an archaeologist yourself?!

Come along to a relaxed day of short talks, a picnic/fieldwork lunch and lab tours, where you’ll find out the answers to all these questions and more.

Our speakers will cover topics including: An Introduction to Australian Archaeology; Archaeology and Graffiti; Just what is Geoarchaeology?; The Australian Historic Shipwrecks Protection Project; Desert Rock Art: Dating the Dreamtime; Caesar and GIS.

The morning of talks will be followed by a picnic lunch organised by the Archaeology Society of Western Australia (at a small charge) and optional tours of our archaeology lab facilities here at UWA.

Former violin lecturer at the UWA and USSR educated violinist Semyon Kobets, mentors young trio members and recent School of Music graduates Osborn Fong (cello) and Siang Ching (piano) to perform a selection of musical gems that were composed during and in anticipation of the Soviet Union.

'Back in the USSR' starts with Arensky's Piano Trio D minor, a pre-soviet era composer and moves to a solo Prokofiev Sonata for piano, Spiegel in Spiegel by Arvo Part and Shostakovich's profound Piano Trio, known to be one of the most technically demanding piano trios in history.

The concert is free but bookings are essential as there is limited space.

Conducted by Head of School, Dr Alan Lourens, the School of Music celebrates its community links in a concert at the Perth Concert Hall. The UWA Symphony Orchestra and Symphonic Chorus will be joined on stage by the choirs of John Septimus Roe Anglican School as part of their 25th anniversary. A combined band of 80 musicians will open the evening performing Ticheli's Simple Gifts.

All Assembled performances are unreserved and ticketed at the door. All tickets are $10.00. Doors open 15 minutes prior to the commencement of the event.

The White Devil is set in a Renaissance Italian court society of devious Dukes, decadent Counts, murderous malcontents, and corrupt Cardinals. Through this misogynistic milieu moves Webster’s protagonist, the Venetian lady, Vittoria Corombona, seeking opportunities for advancement wherever she can find them, whether through love, lust, adultery, or murder. But she is not the only ‘white devil’ (or hypocrite) in this morally corrupt and homicidal society.This fast-paced production, directed by Steve Chinna, is presented by UWA theatre students as part of their course, Making Theatre and Performance. $25 full - $18 concession. Tickets at door or book on ticketsWA.com No online booking charges or call 6488 2440 (noon-4pm weekdays)

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!