What's On at UWA

A new season of free lunchtime meditation sessions is commencing this Friday (7 May, 1.10pm – 1.45pm) at the UWA Somerville Auditorium. Come sit amongst the giant pine trees and take a little time to de-stress and gain some clarity. All are welcome. Please wear warm, comfortable clothing. (NB: (...)

The 'Chinese Bridge' Chinese Proficiency Competition is an annual international language and cultural competition. The competition is organised by the Office of the Chinese Language Council International (‘Hanban’, Beijing).

For the opportunity to win a trip to China and other (...)

To mark Mothers’ Day, Paloma Gomez, one of Spain’s most lauded dancers, will be the featured soloist with an all-female Danza Viva Spanish Dance Company at the Octagon Theatre (on the campus of the University of Western Australia) on Sunday 9 May at 3pm.

In a program entitled MUJERES (...)

Spanish Dances Flemanco. Mujeres with Paloma Gomez.

Purchase tickets - 9275 3946

The Letter to the Hebrews, in the Bible, describes faith as "the assurance of things hoped for and the conviction of things not seen"



In what parts of our lives do we regularly make decisions based on faith, from predicting the actions of other drivers on the roads (...)

Stephen Vitiello is an internationally celebrated American sound and media artist. Focusing on the physical aspect of sound he uses atmospheric noise or transforms energies such as light and wind to create new environments and experiences. Vitiello’s visit to North-Western Australia in early 2010 (...)

An IAS public lecture by Professor Herbert Huppert, FRS, Director of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics at the University of Cambridge and 2010 IAS Professor-at-Large.

Terrorism is not new. The Zealots of Judea in the first century carried out underground assassination campaigns (...)

In 1844, John Gavin, a 15-year-old boy, became the first European to be executed in the colony of Western Australia. He had arrived in Fremantle just months earlier, one of a group of juvenile convicts taking part in an attempted rehabilitation scheme. David Hutchison will tell how he first learned (...)

The Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences will be hosting an evening for prospective applicants to the undergraduate entry medicine course. Year 12 students who are considering applying to the course are encouraged to attend. Parents and teachers are welcome. Booking not required.

Featuring scenes from two Baroque favourites: Handel's Semele and Monteverdi's Orfeo, presented by UWA Vocal Studies students, with piano accompaniment.

Featuring scenes from two Baroque favourites: Handel's Semele and Monteverdi's Orfeo, presented by UWA Vocal Studies students, with piano accompaniment.

space-matter-colour concentrates on Brian Blanchflower’s intense, monochromatic paintings of the last decade, but also includes a broad selection, very largely from the artist’s collection, of works going back as far as 1970. The recent works are set in context, and his conjoining of colour (...)

To celebrate the opening of Brian Blanchflower's exhibition, Michele Theunissen and Michael Iwanoff will present a special guided tour. Michele and Michael are both practicing artists who currently teach painting in the Art Department at Curtin University of Technology. In this talk they will draw (...)

Join UWA Friends of the Grounds and Professor Ted Snell,Director UWA Cultural Precint, for a Cultural Precinct walk and talk on the Crawley Campus. We plan to meet at the Visitors Information Centre at 10:00am.

The Harp Consort (in association with Musica Viva) featuring Andrew Lawrence-King and Steven Player.

Are quotas the only answer? How to solve the problem of so few women walking Australian corridors of power: boardrooms, executive suites, government.

We are delighted to invite you to join in this roundtable discussion that will approach this problem from a diverse range of perspectives (...)

The Harp Consort (in association with Musica Viva) featuring Andrew Lawrence-King and Steven Player.

The city street of nineteenth-century Britain were noisy, and street musicians were frequently accused of being major contributors to this noise. If this was the case, what part did the barrel piano makers of Bristol have in this business of noise? The paper will examine the role of, particularly (...)

An IAS public lecture by Winthrop Professor Cheryl Praeger AM FAA, Director of the Centre for Mathematics of Symmetry and Computation at UWA and 2009 WA Scientist of the Year.

As the vital role of technology in modern society increases, the mathematical sciences are becoming (...)

This event acknowledges the important role music plays in bringing people from all walks of life together, and in encouraging their health and wellbeing. Staff and students from the School of Music will join Catch Music, The Stirling Silver Singers, and The People Who Care Choir to celebrate music (...)