Upcoming events

Experimental Writing Symposium, Masterclass and Seminar

Seminar with Kate Lilley and Masterclass with Marion Mary Campbell, 17 Sept. Symposium and Readings Night, 18 Sept.

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Reading Group session one: Divine inspiration or craftmanship? Creativity in Aristotle, Plato and Kant

Is creativity the product of divinely inspired ecstasy or the result of careful craftsmanship directed towards a specific goal? The work of genius or labour?

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'I am God': Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonatas

Join internationally acclaimed pianists Konstantin Shamray, Stefan Ammer, Ashley Hribar and Mekhla Kumar in a once in a lifetime opportunity to honour the great Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1872 – 1915) in his 100th year anniversary.

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Visions of Precarity: A Seminar with Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Luke Harrald

Associate Professor Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (Nagoya University) and JMCCCP member Dr Luke Harrald will present a seminar on creative responses to precarity in Japan and Australia.

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Seminar with C.A.L -J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow Cath Kenneally

ALL WELCOME. See the Faculty of Arts blog for full details.

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Myth Matters: Werewolves, Dogmen and Biopolitics in World Literature

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Vin Ordinaire: A masterclass with J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow Cath Kenneally

In this masterclass, J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow for 2015, Cath Kenneally, will consider her writing as a series of constantly renewed attempts to capture/encapsulate the humdrum, the quotidian and the familiar, using examples of writing by others she admires as a measure. In ‘The Street’, 3: Practical Exercises, Georges Perec, writes: "Do you know how to see what’s worthy of note? … You don’t know how to see. You must set about it more slowly, almost stupidly. Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless." It is this task that endlessly presents itself in the practice of writing, that must always be completed anew. Cath will discuss the poetry of Jenny Bornholdt and Janet Charman, as well as some of her own poems, as examples of writing that take the quotidian and make it tell. Writing about places other than home does not require a new way of seeing or writing, a point Cath will examine with reference to travel poems and prose. Cath will also provide participants with writing prompts, which will offer ways of surprising the everyday into unfamiliarity.

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Anna Goldsworthy plays Aust premiere of Stephen Whittington’s Autumn Thoughts

Acclaimed pianist and JMCCCP research fellow Anna Goldsworthy will be performing works by the JMCCCP's Stephen Whittington, as well as works by Larry Sitsky, Graeme Koehne, Schubert, Prokofiev and Beethoven at Elder Hall this Friday 15 April. The concert will feature the Australian premiere of Whittington's Autumn Thoughts, as well as the world premiere of Sitsky's Nocturne.

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Reading Group session two: Imagination and creativity

This session we will continue to look at historical perspectives on creativity from both artists and scientists, with a selection of descriptions of the creative process from Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Walter Bradford Cannon, Graham Wallas, Catherine Patrick and Cesare Lombroso.

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Ngeringa 24

Ngeringa 24 in a unique concept—five events in 24 hours, set in the idyllic surrounds of Ngeringa Cultural Centre. You’ll meet striking individuals—curious, imaginative people. Some are working together here for the first time; others invite us into relationships that are decades deep. Join a harpist who has defined contemporary Australian repertoire for his instrument (Marshall McGuire), a guitarist beloved for her passionate performances (Karin Schaupp), a writer who traces the complex contours of the human heart (Chloe Hooper), the youthful purity and energy of Young Adelaide Voices, an ardent, brilliant Italian cellist (Umberto Clerici), a sound designer with a feather-light touch (Jim Atkins), a jazz trumpeter-composer with a quietly burnished sound (Phil Slater), a filmmaker whose cinematography reveals layers we’d forgotten to notice (Sera Davies), and a recorder player with an insatiable appetite for exploration (Genevieve Lacey).

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