What's On at UWA

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from within the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

Join us this week for an exciting concert featuring our talented brass students. The program will include solo works by Messiaen, Wilder, Schumann and Mozart, before the UWA Brass Ensemble perform 'Elsa’s Procession to the Cathedral from Lohengrin' by Wagner and 'Little Suite for Brass No. 1 for Brass Band' by Malcolm Arnold.

Free entry, no bookings required.

Join respected Noongar Elder Dr Noel Nannup OAM as he shares some of the stories about the night sky from an Aboriginal perspective. Together with the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), Dr Nannup will illustrate the stories using a Stellarium app that features the night sky.

Ordinary Meetings of Convocation are the general meetings of The University of Western Australia. These meetings of Convocation provide the opportunity to receive an update on the operations of your University and current issues in tertiary education from the Vice-Chancellor, the Warden of Convocation and the Guild President.

Special guest speaker Professor Peter Veth, Director, UWA Oceans Institute, will speak about A Deep History of Maritime Peoples from Western Australia.

A museum of lost art would contain more objects than all of the world’s museums combined. Only a modest percentage of the artworks created through the ages survive intact today. Some vanished masterpieces are definitely gone: consumed by fire, destroyed by iconoclasts, or fed to pigs. But what stirs the imagination are not the definitive tragedies of artifacts known to have been ruined, but the stories of artworks that are lost – stolen, mislaid, hidden and forgotten – and might be retrieved. A case in point is Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, missing for centuries, covered in dirt, misattributed, thought all but worthless and now the world’s most expensive artwork. This lecture will explore famous missing masterpieces by artists such as Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Vermeer, Rembrandt, David, and Manet, and examine some of the most notorious heists in history.

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.

This week HDR students Megan Barbetti and Adam Lewin will present on their current research.

Megan Barbetti: Reviving the Ghost: A Method for Baroque Improvisation Modelled Through Telemann’s Twelve Fantasias for Flute without Bass (1727–28)

Adam Lewin: Bridging the Gap: The Performative Influence of the Artist, the Space and the Audience in Amanda Palmer’s Who Killed Amanda Palmer Tour

Free entry - no bookings required

Unfortunately this event has been cancelled.



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Sally Rugg is one of Australia's most influential campaigners for social change. Her new book - 'How Powerful We Are' - is her manifesto for championing what we believe is right.

Through the lens of the successful marriage equality campaign Rugg spearheaded, and the work she continues to do now, you can learn just what it takes to bring attention to the things that matter to you most. Filled with insights into the modern campaigning landscape, 'How Powerful We Are' is here to inspire you to stand up for what you believe in.

Rugg will be joined in conversation with Professor Ted Snell AM CitWA. Organised in partnership with Boffins Books, UWA Cultural Precinct and the City of Perth Library.

Be transported from the everyday by our free lunchtime concert series, featuring the best musical talent from with the UWA Conservatorium of Music and around the country.

This week, young emerging artists from the UWA String Department will present this week's free Lunchtime Concert, featuring much loved repertoire for violin and piano.

Free entry, no bookings required.

The cream of Perth's chamber music scene, Semra Lee-Smith, Zak Rowntree, Sally Boud and Jon Tooby, work closely with UWA String students in this side-by-side performance of the Dvorak's Bass Quintet.

Tickets from $10

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Since joining the Malaysian Philharmonic as Principal Piccolo in 2001, Sonia Croucher has performed over 2000 wide-ranging concerts featuring such artists as Lorin Maazel, Gennay Rozhdestvensky, Sir Neville Marriner, Yan Pascal Tortelier, Dame Kiri Takanamwa, Jose Carreras, Sir Willard White, Joshua Bell, Chris Botti, Andrea Bocelli and the Count Basie Orchestra.

Join Sonia for a free workshop at UWA, where we'll be exploring a wide range of orchestral piccolo excerpts.

Tertiary and High-School piccolo players welcome.

Contact [email protected] to register and receive the workshop materials

A former member of the Berlin Philharmonic, celebrated violist and composer Brett Dean sits down with friend and fellow composer James Ledger to discuss life as one of Australia’s most eminent composers, giving a unique insight into his works and the compositional process.

Free entry - RSVP to [email protected]

Refreshments served from 630pm

Talk starts 7pm

Don't miss Brett performing the World Premiere of James Ledger new Viola Concerto with the West Australian Symphony Orchestra at Perth Concert Hall on Friday 4 and Saturday 5 October. Further details and bookings: https://www.waso.com.au/concerts-tickets/whats-on/concert/Symphonie-Fantastique

The Conservatorium is proud to support the 2019 ASME National Conference, with keynote speakers including Professor Margaret Barrett, Dr Anita Collins, Dr Clinton Bracknell and Dr Joan Pope.

This fun school holiday workshop, led by visual artist Deborah Worthy-Collins, will introduce your child to basic paper making skills, while helping out the environment. AGES: 7 –12 PRICE: $30

With textile artist Leah Louise, kids will learn how to make their own fabulous fibrous fluff balls using recycled takeaway containers (not a tricky cardboard donut in sight!), and the process can be easily replicated at home, for hours of cheerful holiday entertainment. AGES: 6–12 PRICE: $20

Using recycled and craft materials, you will be guided through the process of making your own DIY crankie. A visual-storytelling device often accompanied by narration and music, crankies, or moving panoramas, were a popular form of entertainment in the 19th century. You will explore basic construction and storytelling techniques to create your own miniature, hand-cranked story to take home. AGES: 7+ PRICE: $20

UWA and WAO present a series of lecture recitals, talks and masterclasses with internationally recognised directors and artists from WAO's 2019 season, to delight audiences with a unique insight into the world of opera.

Macbeth director Stuart Maunder speaks this week on 'The language between music and literature'.

Free entry, bookings essential. RSVP to [email protected]

Learn simple techniques to make a simple yet practical woven work using raffia and other natural fibres. You will learn coiling and other techniques to shape your own unique vessel. Weaving is a relaxing, reflective practice, and this workshop will suit beginners as well as those with some experience. AGES: 15+ PRICE: $50

Participants will be guided through the whole process of making a comic, developing the foundational elements of story writing, cartooning and illustration techniques. This school holiday workshop has something to offer for young people of all skill levels. AGES: 8+ PRICE: $30

A free weekly seminar series, with presenters from within UWA and from the wider community.

This week, Chair of Woodwinds Ashley Smith presents his current analytical research on contemporary clarinet repertoire.

Further information at music.uwa.edu.au

Weaving is a centuries old art form found all over the world, and now you can practice it yourself using cardboard and recycled yarns. Kids will learn to make their own loom, choose colour palettes, and weave their own wall hanging to take home. AGES: 8–12 PRICE: $30

Participants will design a mixed media book inspired by stories of people, animals and nature. In this school holiday workshop they will learn an array of art techniques such as collage, watercolour painting, collage paper cutting and folding. AGES: 8+ PRICE: $30