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Face to Face: Embracing Portraiture

A rare opportunity to see highlights of the University’s portrait collection, "Face to Face" presents artworks by acclaimed Australian artists. As the centrepiece, a new portrait depicting Kaurna Elder, Uncle Rodney O’Brien, will be displayed for the first time. The exhibition also includes researcher stories about the human face.

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Disrupting pathways into family violence

Please join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) forum. This forum will cover the Epidemiology – who is caught up in family violence, what are their characteristics, causal pathways into family violence – the accumulating evidence regarding the role of early-life trauma and what this means for Effective individual, family and community-based strategies.

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JMCCCP Presents Bedtime Stories: Writers on writing about the biggest subject of them all

When writer Chloe Hooper’s partner was diagnosed with an aggressive illness, she needed to tell her young sons. In Bedtime Story, she asks whether such news can be broken as a bedtime tale. In his memoir-in-progress, The Cancer Finishing School, writer and doctor Peter Goldsworthy considers his own cancer diagnosis through stories from patients who had been there first. Heather Taylor Johnson guides a conversation with Hooper and Goldsworthy about the biggest subject of them all.

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Miyawaki Miniforests and Smart Green Networks

This event will share Australian, Japanese, and global expertise on biodiverse urban forestry. The event is hosted by Adelaide University and Kyushu University and is timed to coincide with celebrations for Adelaide’s recent listing as a National Park City. 

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Parlour music recital in the Barr Smith Library Reading Room

Well-known and less well-known voice and instrumental pieces performed by Elder Conservatorium students, from favourite Schubert lieder to guitar folk melodies via Wagner. Hear them as you’ve never heard them before in the awesome acoustic of the Reading Room. Curated by Lauren Borg, Conservatorium Intern with Friends of the Library.

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Guitarissimo

An eclectic concert program of guitar solo and chamber music presented by the Elder Conservatorium guitar students and guests.

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Understanding Early Trauma

Please join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Australian Association for Infant Mental Health SA branch (AAIMH) forum.

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Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre presents a new production of Boubil and Schonberg’s Les Miserables

Prisoner-on-parole, Jean Valjean, runs from Inspector Javert on a journey beyond the barricades, at the centre of the Rebellion. Valjean helps a poor factory worker, Fantine, by saving her child, Cosette, held captive as a slave. Marius, a war veteran, falls in love with Cosette, but their lives change.

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Quality improvement in perinatal care – how to make a difference to outcomes that matter

Girl blowing bubbles

Please join us for the Healthy Development Adelaide (HDA) and Women’s and Children’s Hospital Grand Round.

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Friends of the Library Discovery event - Cheryl Hoskin on one of the Library's most beautiful rare books

Discover one of the Library’s most beautiful rare books with Cheryl Hoskin: Berthe Hoola van Nooten’s Fleurs fruits et feuillages choisis de l’ile de Java, published in 1880.

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