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H20: Life & Death
- Date: Fri, 15 - Sat, 16 Sep 2017
- Location: Antechamber of the Hartley Concert Room
Waters are contested entities at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines both the serious absence and devastating overabundance of water: rising sea levels compete against desertification; hurricanes and floods follow periods of prolonged drought. As we increasingly pollute, canalise and desalinate waters, the ambiguous nature of our relationship with these entities becomes visible. From the paradisiac and pristine scenery of holiday postcards through to the devastated landscapes of post-tsunami news reports, images of waters surround us. And while we continue to damage what most sustains us, collective precarity grows. It is therefore unsurprising that shifting our understanding, and subsequent use, of water has been described as one of the biggest—and most pressing—challenges of our time.
Macau Days
- Date: Sat, 23 Sep - Sun, 8 Oct 2017
- Location: Migration Museum, 82 Kintore Avenue, Adelaide SA 5000
Immerse yourself in the rich multicultural history of Macau through the enigmatic images of John Young, the dazzling poetry and prose of Brian Castro, and the evocative soundscapes of Luke Harrald.
European Waters: A Cultural Evening
- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017, 11:00 am
- Location: Hartley Concert Room, University of Adelaide
Join us for an evening of film screenings and musical performances that examine the role of waters in shaping European identity and the challenges facing Europe as humanity’s relationship to waters become more fraught due to climate change. Featuring films by Sara Penrhyn Jones (Bath Spa University), Laura Denning (Bath Spa University) and a performance of a European classic inspired by water, Maurice Ravel's Jeux D'eau, performed by eminent pianist Anna Goldsworthy. 5pm, 15th September, Hartley Concert Room. This event is part of the H2O: Life and Death conference.
Panel with Macau Days creative team at Writing China
- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017, 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
- Location: Open State Hub at Imprints Bookshop
Join the creative team behind Macau Days for a panel discussion about their collaboration and all things Macau as part of Writing China, a day long literary banquet curated by the JMCCCP's Nicholas Jose and OzAsia's Sam Prior. Brian Castro, John Young and Luke Harrald will discuss the creative inspiration behind the enormously successful exhibition and book with Cath Kenneally from 11am on Sunday 8 October at the Open State Hub at Imprints Bookshop. To find out more about the book visit Art+Australia.
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Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address with Kim Williams AM
- Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017, 6:30 pm - 6:30 pm
- Location: University of Adelaide
The Peggy Glanville-Hicks address is the single most important national forum for contemporary music discourse, which honours one of Australia’s great international composers. In 2017, the address will be given by Kim Williams AM, whose career as a media executive and composer has seen him head prominent organisations such as Foxtel, Musica Viva Australia, the Sydney Opera House Trust, News Corp Australia (formerly News Limited), and the Australian Film Commission. In this lecture, entitled "I Wonder as I Wander: The Digital Paradox - Paradise or Purgatory?" Williams aims to ignite the national conversation around contemporary art music. Further details and to register here.
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The Wreckers
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017
- Location: TBA
Inspired by queer interjections into mainstream classical music, the Adelaide Queer Orchestra Project offers a programme that irreverently pushes against the expectations and limitations of orchestral presentation. It challenges the invisibility of queer music and people within the classical tradition, by exploring the relationships between sexuality, composition and performance, both past and present.
The Wreckers is part of this programme and showcases the work of queer composers and musicians. It begins with Australian composer Alex Turley’s Efflorescence, followed by Tansy Davies’s saxophone concerto Iris, and Pauline Oliveros’s to Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe, “In Recognition Of Their Desperation.” The second half features the work of Shoshanna Rosenberg and Iran Sanadzadeh, as well as Dan Thorpe’s newly commissioned concerto for cello and tactile electronics. The concert closes with a piece from its namesake —Dame Ethel Smyth’s Prelude to the Wreckers.
Cultural Evening with Selina Tusitala Marsh & Gabriella Smart
- Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018, 12:00 am
- Location: Madley Rehearsal Room, University of Adelaide
Join us for a unique evening featuring readings by NZ Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh and performances by award-winning pianist Gabriella Smart. This cultural evening is held as part of the Two Horizons: Pacific Studies in a Cosmopolitan World conference and is supported by the JMCCCP. To register for this event, email conference director Mandy Treagus: mandy.treagus@adelaide.edu.au.To register for the conference or the free public lecture with Vicente M. Diaz, visit the webpage.
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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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