What's On at UWA

Showcasing WA’s vibrant community of ethically conscious businesses and organisations, The Good Market is the place to explore products and services that do good.

Browse and shop ethical fashion, gifts, food, homewares and eco products, and meet the inspiring change-makers behind these enterprises. Learn more about how you can buy and consume in a more sustainable and conscious way.

The Good Market is a fun-filled day for all the family with kids’ activities, live performances and wholesome food trucks on the beautiful grounds of UWA.

The Good Market is open and free for all to attend – simply come on the day and enjoy!



Stall-holders include:

Postcode Honey, Fair Go Trading, Leo Strange, Kadi Koo, Sophie Silks ...And many more to be announced!

Learn how to make a fibre art animal in this hands-on art workshop with award-winning artist Sharyn Egan.

Celebrate NAIDOC week by joining Nyoongar artist Sharyn Egan to learn techniques for making your own fibre art animal sculpture. Using straw and colourful natural and acrylic fibres, let your inspiration run wild to create a dog, bird, lizard, elephant – or whatever creature you can imagine - in Sharyn’s fun and relaxed workshop. All materials are provided.

Suitable for children aged 8-12. $10

Learn how to make a fibre art animal or doll in this hands-on art workshop with award-winning artist Sharyn Egan. Using straw and colourful natural and acrylic fibres, let your inspiration run wild to create a dog, bird, lizard, elephant – or whatever creature you can imagine - in Sharyn’s fun and relaxed workshop. All materials are provided.

Ticket price $10. Suitable for ages 8-12. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Join the team at the Confucius institute for a week of hands-on holiday fun - including bracelet making, fan painting, kite making, Tai Chi, lantern painting, paper cutting and movies. Sign up for a morning, a full day or the entire week - every day will be different.

Ticket price $50/full day. Program runs 9-13 July. Suitable for ages 6-12. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

The AUSTA Big Cello Day Out will be held at the UWA Conservatorium of Music.

Activities will include: opportunities for junior, intermediate and advanced students to play and receive feedback from expert teachers, cello ensemble workshops, and the chance for teachers of junior, secondary and tertiary students to observe and participate in discussion forums with guest teachers.

Visiting cellists include Thomas Gregory (UK), David Pereira (ANU) and Alvin Wong (Melbourne), Louise Butler (ACT) among others, will provide expert insights and feedback to participants.

The day will conclude with a master class by WASO soloist and international cellist, Pablo Ferrández.

Registration can be made for individual sessions, combined sessions or the whole day. Special discounts are available for AUSTA National Conference delegates, AUSTA members and students. Attendance at all sessions is free for Australian tertiary music students with current university ID. A catered lunch may be ordered online along with your registration.

Tickets available here: www.trybooking.com/383059

Become a junior paleontologist and learn about fossils, handle ancient fossil material and unearth a real fossil to take home in this fun workshop. Participants will receive a museum fossil hunt workbook to record their observations. Parents/carers welcome to stay.

Ticket price $10. Suitable for ages 8-12. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Become a junior paleontologist and learn about fossils, handle ancient fossil material and unearth a real fossil to take home in this fun workshop. Participants will receive a museum fossil hunt workbook to record their observations. Parents/carers welcome to stay.

Ticket price $10. Suitable for ages 8-12. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

In this fun, introductory workshop find out how easy it is to start playing the Ukulele and why it has fast become the worlds' most popular instrument. Ukulele's provided or bring your own if you have one!.

Tickets $20. For ages 8-10. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

In this fun, introductory workshop find out how easy it is to start playing the Ukulele and why it has fast become the worlds' most popular instrument. Ukulele's provided or bring your own if you have one!.

Tickets $20. For ages 3.30-5.00pm. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

This fun introductory session will have you rocking out to Vance Joy, Green Day and The Beatles on your ukulele in no time! We’ll cover all the basics from the correct way to hold your ‘uke’, to tuning, basic chords and strumming patterns, learning several songs along the way!

Ticket price $40 includes refreshments. Suitable for ages 18+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Hosted by UWA Friends of the Grounds, this walking tour is designed for school children (ages 8+) and their families and will showcase just a small example of what the University has to offer.

Meet our Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Simon Biggs; be amazed at the history of Winthrop Hall; touch a meteorite, have a tour of the Geology museum, purchase rocks that are millions of years old, tour the newly-refurbished Reid Library; hug a tree that is more than 660 years old; see a fascinating science experiment and a host of other extras.

The tour starts under the Great Gate, Winthrop Hall.

The Western Australian Marine Science Institution is proud to support the launch of the Kimberley Society’s latest publication, The Natural World of the Kimberley.

The publication is the culmination of research results presented at the 2017 Kimberley Symposium including chapters on the WAMSI Kimberley Marine Research Program as well as land-based research conducted across Western Australia’s universities and state government authorities.

Actor, arts writer and producer Sarah McNeill presents an evening of literature read live on stage by professional actors. Spend a relaxing evening with some great storytellers as they bring to life some of the best short stories from Australian and international writers.

Ticket price $20 includes wine and nibbles. Suitable for ages 18+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Learn tips and techniques for taking amazing night-time images in this hands-on photography workshop. Emerging landscape and astrophotographer Sean Standen will impart the secrets of night photography in theory and in practice.

Ticket price $20. Participants will need to provide their own digital SLR camera and if possible, a tripod. Suitable for ages 18+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

A writing masterclass with Michelle Johnston, author of Dustfall, dives into places you may not ordinarily go – you’ll travel deep into the human brain, to understand why sensuous detail is so compelling.

Ticket price $25-40. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

Join us for the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery’s quarterly program for people living with dementia and their carers or family members. Refreshments provided.

Join UWA ‘oracle’ Terry Larder for a walking tour of two of UWA’s most celebrated buildings. Visit UWA's oldest residential college St George's College and the recently opened, purpose-built Forrest Hall.

Suitable for ages 8+. For more WINTERarts events visit: http://bit.ly/2Ihs5Nl

A public lecture by Griselda Pollock, Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art and Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory and History (CentreCATH), University of Leeds.

It took Griselda Pollock sixteen years to complete the monograph on an artist whose single monumental art work - Life? or Theatre? - comprising 784 paintings and 320 transparent overlays, using image, text and music was created in one year in 1941-42, before being placed in hiding in 1943. First exhibited in 1961, this work is still finding its place in the histories of modern art. Where can we situate a single work by an artist exiled from her own country and living under the threat of effacement from life itself? Why did she undertake this project? How has it been interpreted in ways that further exile it from being considered art historically? What resources are needed to makes its project and its work legible to us now?

Professor Pollock first encountered this work in 1994. Some elements of it were exhibited in Perth in 1997 as part of the benchmark feminist exhibition Inside the Visible curated by Catherine de Zegher. Why has writing this book taken so long? What challenges had to be met theoretically and art historically before she could resolve, in however preliminary a fashion, the issues posed by a single work created in one year in the darkest of European fascism by an artist who was murdered by her own government at the age of twenty-six and who created an unprecedented artwork as grand in scope and as deep in psychological penentration as a Thomas Mann novel, as edgy and sardonic as a Brechtian operatta, and as affecting and sonorous as an opera by Gluck?

This lecture will explore the challenges posed to art hstory by the artworking of Charlotte Salomon and reflect on the ethics of writing on this work and on journey to its completion.

In this session we undertake a close observation of selected artworks from the Authentic Determination exhibition, followed by an informal discussion on themes of empathy and compassion.

A fun introductory session to the ukulele.

We’ll cover all the basics from the correct way to hold your ‘uke’, to tuning, basic chords and strumming patterns, learning several songs along the way. This fun introductory session will have you rocking out to Vance Joy, Green Day and The Beatles on your ukulele in no time.

Participants can enjoy a glass of wine, and cheese and biscuits will be provided, so why not grab a group of friends and make a night of it!

Suitable for ages 18+

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UWA WINTERarts 2018 2 - 31 July Escape the winter gloom and experience the best in art, literature, music and ideas during the 2018 UWA WINTERarts season. There are exhibitions, concerts, literary events, skills workshops, tours and a dedicated children’s program for the school holidays.

Find an event for you at culturalprecinct.uwa.edu.au/winterarts