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Talking Pictures
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Location: The Braggs lecture theatre Room G60, The Braggs Building, The University of Adelaide
We are delighted to collaborate with the Papercuts Comics Festival and The University of Adelaide's Department of Media to present Talking Pictures. Join us for this evening of visual storytelling.
Rural Seclusion
- Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021, 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Madley Rehearsal Studio
This concert of songs and readings features Alex Roose (baritone), Gillian Dooley (soprano), Stephen van der Hoek (piano), with readings and narration by Professor Tom Burton, an international specialist in the poetry of Barnes.
2022 Calendar of Events COMING SOON
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2022
- Location: Online, with in-person launch event details TBA
The 2022 JMCCCP Calendar of Events is filled with exciting collaborations, creative projects and innovative student initiatives. A dazzling print and online calendar is coming soon - including an in-person launch event - but here's a peek at some of the event highlights:
Olive Schreiner Influence Symposium
- Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
- Location: The Writing Studio, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
This symposium tracks the influence and afterlives of South African author and feminist Olive Schreiner (1855-1920, Cape Colony) across Australian and southern African literatures with a focus on Catherine Edith Macauley Martin (1848-1937, UK/South Australia), Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946, Australia/UK), Patrick White (1912-1990, UK/Australia), Bessie Head (1937-1986, South Africa/Botswana), and JM Coetzee (b.1940, South Africa/Australia). Three papers in progress towards the collection Olive Schreiner: Writing Networks and Global Contexts (edited by Jade Munslow Ong and Andrew van der Vlies) will be presented for discussion.
Call for Submissions: Provocations #4
- Date: Mon, 21, 12:00 am - Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 5:00 pm
- Location: The Lab, Light Square/Wauwi
JMCCCP is delighted to welcome special guest provocateurs Deborah Cheetham, Arnagretta Hunter and Scott Ludlum to The LAB on Light Square/Wauwi for Provocations #4: Radical Hope on 28 April 2022.
Provocations #4: 'Hope' is the thing with feathers
![Provocations title hope on background of colourful feathers](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-04/hope-eventbrite-banner.png?h=8256b09c&itok=EZUpuSgc)
- Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: The LAB, 63 Light Square/Wauwi, Adelaide
Join special guests writer, activist and former Greens senator Scott Ludlum; First Nations Chair of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music Practice at Monash University Deborah Cheetham AO; and Chair of the Commission for the Human Future Arnagretta Hunter (with composer activist and Head of the School of Music at ANU Kim Cunio) for a lively evening of radical hope.
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The Waste Land 100th Birthday Celebration
![portrait of TS Eliot overlaid with image of crowded bridge and light shining through desert monument](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-04/waste-land-celebration.jpg?h=2a58c8d9&itok=OmXWhjNR)
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2022, 12:00 pm - 4:15 pm
- Location: Hetzel Lecture Theatre in the Institute Building State Library SA
On Saturday April 30, 2022, at the State Library of South Australia, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice will co-host a celebratory event with the University of Adelaide’s Department of English, Creative Writing, and Film to mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
Bedtime Stories: Writers in conversation about the biggest subject of them all
![banner image with title Bedtime Stories and photos of Heather Taylor Johnson, Chloe Hooper and Peter Goldsworthy](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2022-05/bedtime-stories.png?h=a6c55029&itok=lTb0husd)
- Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Location: Ingkarni Wardli Conference Room 715
In Bedtime Story, writer Chloe Hooper breaks news of terrible illness as a bedtime tale. Doctor Peter Goldsworthy draws on tragic, comic and transcendent stories from his patients in his memoir-in-progress, The Cancer Finishing School. Heather Taylor Johnson guides conversation with these authors about the biggest subject of them all.
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Writers' Week appearances
- Date: Sat, 2 - Wed, 6 Mar 2024
- Location: Pioneer Women's Memorial Garden
The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice will have several appearances at Adelaide Writers' Week.
Is this the gate? Nicholas Lens & J.M. Coetzee
![Nicholas Lens and J.M. Coetzee](/jmcoetzeecentre/sites/default/files/styles/ua_landscape/public/media/images/2024-02/de-is-this-the-gate-1116-x-652-copy.jpg?h=cf59b42b&itok=t0FGNrDX)
- Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2024, 12:00 am
- Location: Elder Hall, The University of Adelaide
The Adelaide Festival will present a special concert performance offering an excerpt from a new opera entitled 'Is this the Gate?'
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