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Who Shot the Albatross? Gate-keeping in Australian Culture.
- Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 10:30 am - 7:00 pm
- Location: Hartley Concert Room, University of Adelaide
Provocations is an exciting new public forum tackling controversies in the arts and humanities hosted by the JMCCCP. In the first event in this series, professor of migrant and post-colonial literature, Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia), will join Dr Mark Davis (Melbourne University) and award-winning writers Michelle Cahill and Brian Castro to mount a challenge to Australian critical orthodoxies. Provocations #1 will ask: Are cultural institutions receptive to new voices or are in they living in a literary echo-chamber? How do elites govern the cultural field? Are we all inadvertently cultural gate-keepers? Join us for what is sure to be a lively debate. To register, visit eventbrite.
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Disturbing the Comfortable; Comforting the Disturbed
- Date: Mon, 7 May - Tue, 7 Aug 2018
- Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide
How does writing both comfort and disturb us? Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence, Heather Taylor Johnson, will examine this question in a thought-provoking masterclass, drawing on her own writing of chronic illness, as well as the works of other writers, to explore how we can grow communities of caring through fictional empathy. 7th May, Room 618, Napier Building. Please email the centre to register.
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Oratunga Winter School 2018: Creating out of Place
- Date: Thu, 5 - Tue, 10 Jul 2018
- Location: Oratunga Sheep Station
Featuring a host of eminent creative practitioners and set in the historic Oratunga sheep station on the traditional lands of the Adnyamathanha people, this four day winter school examines creative place-making in storied Country. Each day will feature a creative workshop, focusing on a different medium with plenty of time allocated to participants' own creative practice. Theoretical workshops run by Professor Stephen Muecke will encourage critical reflection on the role of Country in the creative process.
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Tjungu Pakani (Together We Rise)
- Date: Wed, 8 Aug - Sun, 23 Sep 2018
- Location: Ayers House, 288 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000
Soundstream and the JMCCCP are proud to present Tjungu Pakani (Together We Rise), a series of events celebrating Titjikala culture through art and music. Join the Titjikala Women's Choir (NT) as they share their unique artistic and musical practice in art and music workshops, culminating in a wonderful concert and month-long exhibition held at Ayers House Museum.
Raining Poetry in Adelaide Launch
- Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018, 12:00 am
- Location: Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton
Led by University of Adelaide postgraduate students under the auspices of the JMCCCP, Raining Poetry in Adelaide aims to brighten up gloomy days by bringing poetry to the city streets. Poems are stenciled onto footpaths in invisible paint only to magically appear when it rains. Join us for the launch of this exciting event, presented in collaboration with No Wave, at 7pm on the 5th of September at the Wheatsheaf Hotel. The launch will feature readings by the poets involved and a map with the locations of the poems will be revealed. To see photos, updates and more, visit the Facebook page.
Music & Text: A Symposium
- Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
How do we transpose narrative forms into musical ones and vice-versa? What similarities and differences are there between the two art forms? Join celebrated concert pianist and memoirist Dr Anna Goldsworthy (Adelaide), literary scholar, classical singer and Jane Austen expert Dr Gillian Dooley (Flinders), and modernist and African literatures expert A/Prof Brian Macaskill (John Carroll University) for a fascinating discussion about how art forms transform and influence one another. In case you missed it, download our recording to hear the presentations and discussion.
Seminar with A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg
- Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Curator of the 'J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood' exhibition A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape) will give a seminar titled "Against World Literature: Photography and History in Life & Times of Michael K.' This paper will reread J.M. Coetzee's lauded novel Life & Times of Michael K as a text that is grounded in South Africa by exploring its links to photography and the story of Northern Cape farm labourer, Jan Pieriga. To register for this event, please email the centre.
J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood
- Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
- Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus
Join us on the 9th November for the launch of an unique exhibition showcasing Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s youthful foray into photography, when he attempted to capture ‘the moment when truth revealed itself’. Offering intriguing glimpses of Coetzee’s childhood in Cape Town in the mid-1950s, these images demonstrate how deeply photography shaped his creative development. The exhibition will be launched by curator A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape) with a special reading by J.M. Coetzee. To register for this free event, visit the eventbrite site.
Masterclass & Seminar with Sisonke Msimang
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: 108 Napier Building, University of Adelaide
Celebrated writer Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home, will be giving a masterclass on 'Writing Lives', as well as a seminar on her most recent works. In the masterclass, Msimang will lead a discussion on the practice of life writing through reflections on her recent memoir of exile and home and her forthcoming biography of Winnie Mandela. To register and to obtain preparatory readings for these exciting events, please email the centre. These events are presented with the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice and the Department of English & Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.
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2018 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address
- Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018, 12:00 am
- Location: Madley Rehearsal Space, Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide
Composer and sound artist Professor Cat Hope (Head of the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music, Monash University) will examine the current situation for music creators in Australia by bringing together some current debates and proposing appropriate actions to improve inclusion and opportunity for all people. For the second year in a row, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is proud to be supporting the Adelaide iteration of this important national forum for contemporary music discourse, presented by the New Music Network and the University of Adelaide. To register for this free event, please visit the eventbrite site.