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Raining Poetry in Adelaide
- Date: Tue, 9 Mar, 8:00 am - Thu, 9 Sep 2021, 8:00 am
- Location: Adelaide's CDB
Raining Poetry in Adelaide is a poetry street-festival organised and led by postgraduate students at the University of Adelaide.
Reading Group
- Date: Mon, 3 May, 3:30 pm - Fri, 31 Dec 2021, 5:00 pm
- Location: TBC
Our new Director, Associate Professor Anna Goldsworthy, and distinguished JMCCCP member Professor Anne Pender have started a Reading Group that focuses broadly on the topic of creative practice and contemporary society.
Winter Words: Poetry Workshops and Salons
- Date: Fri, 30 Jul - Sat, 21 Aug 2021
- Location: Several locations across the Adelaide Hills
We are delighted to collaborate with the Adelaide Hills Council again in 2021 to present four poetry events, two workshops and two salons.
Provocation #3: The end of the world has already happened
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
- Location: The Lab, 63 Light Square/Waumi
Provocation #3 calls for provocateurs who envision what stands at the limits of our world and beyond; provocateurs who can respond to Timothy Morton’s question: “What’s the point? Does anything mean anything if we’re all going extinct?”
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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
- 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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