DNA Simply Human

Presented by Ochre Contemporary Dance Company

A primal, yet tender, dance experience.

DNA – Simply Human presents six provocative stories that illuminate the physical and emotional qualities we all possess, the evolution of the human spirit manifested through movement and the revelations that follow. It is raw, sensual, primal, athletic and elegant.

This explosive new program comprises a richly diverse cohort of Australian and International choreographers including Oded Ronen (Israel), Gareth Belling (QLD) Penny Mullen (QLD), Jesse Martin (NSW) Matthew Tupper (WA) and Floeur Alder (WA). Together, through stylized dance, they explore what makes us human, the commonalities that connect us to universal themes relating to place, community, touch and ritual.

The works will illuminate the grace, artistry and dynamic energies of this unique company and inspire audiences to question ‘what is it to be Simply Human’?

Event Details

• When: July 2 - July 11. For session dates and times, visit the bookings website.
  
• Event Type: Dance
  
• Presenter: Ochre Contemporary Dance Company
  
• Venue: Dolphin Theatre
• Attend: Adults: $39.50 | Youth, Students, $22.00 | Registration via TicketsWA.
  

Image: Ochre Contemporary Dance Company. Photo by Dana Weeks

Exhibition Opening -  WARMUN THEN AND NOW

Presented by the Berndt Museum and Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Presented by the Berndt Museum, WARMUN THEN AND NOW features artwork by renowned Indigenous artists whose homelands lie in Gija country, located in the Kimberley region of north-east WA.

This exhibition presents a distinctive series of paintings by 1980s artists such as Queenie McKenzie, Rover Thomas and Paddy Jaminji, alongside more recent work by Mabel Juli, Lena Nyadbi, Betty Carrington, and others. The exhibition design complements the artwork by taking Perth audiences into a replica of a remote-area Aboriginal Art Centre and Gallery as a contextual backdrop.

• Duration: Opening Saturday 4 July 3pm | Exhibition runs until 12 December 2015
• Event Type: Exhibition Opening / Exhibition
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE RSVP to attend the opening night | Tues - Sat, 11am - 5pm
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Lena Nyadbi, Gija Language Group, Warmun Community, Jimbarla Country (detail), c 2012, etching on paper, 50 x 60cm. Berndt Museum, The University of Western Australia, © the artist.

Curators in Discussion

Presented by the Berndt Museum

Attend the launch of WARMUN THEN AND NOW at 3pm then enjoy afternoon tea and stay to listen to Professor Sandy Toussaint of the Berndt Museum in discussion with representatives of the Warmun Art Centre. The exhibition includes prized works from renowned Gija artists dating from the 1980s through to works completed recently. Hear how this intensive collaborative process between the community and the museum has brought together a display of works that illuminate the richness and depths of the cultural life of the artists and their families.

• Date: 4pm Saturday 4 July 2015
• Event Type: Curator's Talk / Exhibition
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | RSVP to attend
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Sandy Toussaint, Associate Director, Berndt Museum

Music Workshop: Natural Melodies

Presented by the UWA School of Music

Have you ever stopped to listen to the melody of a leaf or thought about what a stick sounds like when it sings? Using natural materials from the world around us children will explore the form and shape of found objects from the world, converting them into melodies, rhythms and visual patterns.

Presented by Educated by Nature and the UWA School of Music, this full day workshop (for children aged 6-14 years) will give participants the opportunity to create mini villages and small worlds, to draw and play music, to sing and spend time connecting with nature. Assisted by digital technology, children will have the opportunity to capture their creations and take them home.

• When: Wednesday 8 July 2015, 9am - 4pm
• Event Type: Children's Music Workshop
  
• Venue: Eileen Joyce Studio, School of Music
• Attend: $100.00 Register online. 

Image: Natural Melodies workshop (Photo by Melissa Britto). 

Discover! Ukelele

Presented by the UWA School of Music

It’s easy to understand how learning the humble Ukulele has become the worlds' fastest growing instrument. Easily accessible to children and adults alike, join one of our introductory workshops to find out how easy it is to start playing this amazing little instrument.

Presented by the UWA School of Music Junior Music School this workshop is suitable for beginners aged 8-13 years.

• When: Thursday 9 July 2015, 10am - 12pm
• Event Type: Children's Music Workshop
  
• Venue: Eileen Joyce Studio, School of Music
• Attend: $25.00 Register online. 
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Discover! Ukulele Workshop (Photo by Matthew Galligan). 

Children's Workshop: The rough and smooth of minerals – gems to jewellery

Presented by Edward de Courcy Clarke Earth Science Museum

Gem minerals have long been a source of human curiosity, superstition and speculation. Participants will explore and examine the way some minerals are turned into precious or semi-precious stones.

All participants will receive a semi-precious mineral for their gem collection.

Ages: 9 - 12years (maximum 10 participants)

• When:  *New session added* Thursday 9 July 11am - 12pm Register online
                 Thursday 9 July 2 - 3pm - Register Online 
• Event type: Children's Workshop
  
• Venue: Earth Science Museum, UWA
  
• Cost: $10 
  
• Enquiries: John Reeve, Curator Earth Science Museum - [email protected]

Exhibition Opening -  Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

German artist Elise Blumann arrived in Perth in the summer of 1938. She was immediately struck by the local landscape and the piercing brightness of the Australian light. Her painting in the subsequent decade focused on an analysis of various plant forms surrounding her home in Nedlands, and the settings of the Swan River and the Indian Ocean, which feature prominently in her work. While including some early works produced in Europe, this exhibition focuses on paintings from the artist’s first decade in Australia; the series of bold portraits produced in the late 1930s to the increasingly abstract renderings of the landscape of the late 1940s.

• Duration: Opening 10 July 6pm | Exhibition runs 11 July - 19 September 2015
• Event Type: Exhibition Opening / Exhibition
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE RSVP to attend the opening night | Tues - Sat, 11am - 5pm
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Elise Blumann, On the Swan, Nedlands, 1942, oil on composition board, 56.6 x 66.4 cm, The University of Western Australia Art Collection, Acquired with the assistance of the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council and the Dr Albert Gild Fund, 1976. Photo: Bo Wong

Exhibition Opening -  OBJECT LESSONS II: Curtain Situations

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

OBJECT LESSONS II: Curtain Situations is the second in a three-part exhibition series at Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery in 2015 showcasing contemporary art from the Cruthers Collection of Women’s Art. OBJECT LESSONS II: Curtain Situations refers to a recent acquisition for the collection from leading contemporary artist Agatha Gothe-Snape, a diptych titled Expression Curtain/Certain Situations, which juxtaposes found fabric with a text that transforms the fabric from an object into a ‘situation’.

Using this juxtaposition between two and three dimensions as an exhibition framework, OBJECT LESSONS II: Curtain Situations includes sculptural objects alongside paintings and prints that examine the continuing mysteries of representation and perception.

• Duration: Opening 10 July 6pm | Exhibition runs 11 July - 19 September 2015
• Event Type: Exhibition Opening / Exhibition
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE RSVP to attend the opening night | Tues - Sat, 11am - 5pm
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Elizabeth Pulie, Wood & Stone (detail), 1997, wood & stone beads, wire, metal rod, 80 x 200cm. Collection of Elaine Baker and John Cruthers. © Courtesy the artist

Curator's Talk and Tour - Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938 - 1948

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Join Curator Dr Sally Quin for a discussion of the life and work of German artist Elise Blumann who, on arriving in Western Australia in 1938, was struck by the intense light and colour of the local landscape. This tour will investigate the artist’s response to her new home through analysis of her bold and evocative paintings.

• Date: Saturday 11 July 2015, 2pm - 3pm
  
• Event Type: Talk and Tour
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | Register to attend
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Elise Blumann, Surge, 1943–44, oil on paper on board, 86.0 x 55.5 cm. Private collection. Photo: Bo Wong

Children's Workshop: Natural art under the microscope

Presented by Edward de Courcy Clarke Earth Science Museum

Microscopes provide a fascinating way to see art in natural objects. From multi-coloured feathers to seashells and crystals in crystals, participants will see nature from a new perspective. After a quick exploration of the University grounds, collected items and prepared material will be examined under a microscope and the beauty of natural art discussed.

All participants will receive a mineralogical specimen for their collection.

Ages: 9 - 12 years (maximum 10 participants)

• When:
  Wednesday 15 July 2 - 3pm - Register online
  *New session added* Thursday 16 July 11am - 12pm - Register online
• Cost: $10 
• Event type: Children's Workshop
  
• Venue: Earth Science Museum, UWA
• Enquiries: John Reeve, Curator Earth Science Museum - [email protected]

Book Launch: The Mind's Own Place with Ian Reid

Presented by UWA Publishing

Two women and three men, displaced in different ways by the rapid transformation of Victorian England, travel separately to a small settlement on Australia’s western rim. With them they carry social ambitions and psychological wounds. As their lives intersect in the Swan River Colony, what they encounter is not quite what they expect. Who will struggle, who will thrive, and how will each react when secrets emerge?

The Mind’s Own Place will be Ian Reid’s third work of historical fiction, following on from the critically acclaimed That Untravelled World and The End of Longing. Join us in celebrating this new work by a celebrated local author.

• When: Wednesday 15 July 2015, 6 - 8pm
• Presenters: UWA Publishing
  
• Venue: UWA – further details upon registration
  
• Attend: FREE, RSVP essential.
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing [email protected]

Image: Book cover of The Mind's Own Place by Ian Reid. 

Artist-run workshops

Presented by Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Inspired by the artworks in Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948 children will experiment with drawing landscapes and figures with a local artist.

Wednesday 15 July | Ages 5-7 years - Enrol online
Thursday 16 July | Ages 8-10 years - Enrol online

• Event type: Children's Workshop
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
• Cost: $10 per child | maximum of 20 participants
• Enquiries: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery - [email protected] | 6488 3707
  

Children's Workshop: Rock Art

Presented by Edward de Courcy Clarke Earth Science Museum

In collaboration with the Berndt Museum and the School of Indigenous Studies, participants will explore the role of rock art and dot painting in Indigenous culture. Using acrylic paints, participants will be able to create their own dot painting to express a story.

Ages: 9 - 12 years (maximum 10 participants)

• When: Thursday 16 July 2 - 3pm
  
• Event type: Children's Workshop
  
• Venue: Earth Science Museum, UWA
• Attend: $10 Tickets Online
• Enquiries: John Reeve, Curator Earth Science Museum - [email protected]

Cranky Bear

Presented by UWA Theatres

University Theatres presents Patch Theatre Company Cranky Bear, based on the book The Very Cranky Bear, written and illustrated by Nick Bland. After last year’s super-duper, itchy scratchy Mr Mcgee and the Biting Flea, Adelaide’s Patch Theatre Company are back!

Zebra, Lion and Moose each think they know how to solve the Bear’s crankiness but their shenanigans just make him even crankier. It takes a humble and empathetic Sheep with an open heart and a listening ear to solve the Bear’s woes.

Cranky Bear is a rollicking new show for 4-to-8-year-olds packed with laughter, surprise and mayhem based on the enormously popular children's book.

• When: Saturday 18 July 2015, 9:30am & 12:30pm
• Event Type: Children's Theatre
• Presenter: UWA Theatres and Patch Theatre Company
  
• Venue: Octagon Theatre
• Attend: $20 - $25.00 | Book Online
  

Image: Cranky Bear. 

Where is Article 31?

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Article 31 of the United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), remains one of the most overlooked globally, even though children’s cultural rights offer the possibility of shaping museums into more democratic institutions. In this talk, visiting scholar Dr Lea Mai seeks to contribute to an emergent dialogue on the cultural citizenship of children in art museums.

• Date: Thursday 23 July 2015, 6 - 7:30pm
  
• Event Type: Lecture and Presentation
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | Register to attend
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Inside knowledge: revisiting the life and times of Elise Blumann, 1938-1948

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

In Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948, the artwork provides an insight into the social and cultural life of Perth at a time of immense change. Join Elise Blumann’s son Nils Blumann as he elaborates on the stories and events behind the art and provides a personal viewpoint to the works

• Date: Saturday 25 July 2015, 2pm - 3pm
  
• Event Type: Talk and Tour
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | Register to attend
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Elise Blumann, Surge, 1943–44, oil on paper on board, 86.0 x 55.5 cm. Private collection. Photo: Bo Wong

Sturmfrei: Poetry nights

Presented by UWA Publishing and Trove Journal

UWA Publishing and Trove journal have fled the UWA campus and arrived at the Gold Digger bar in Northbridge, primed for a night of poetry and conversation.

This will be the first in a quarterly series of poetry nights co-hosted by UWA Publishing and Trove journal, which will feature a stellar line-up of poets from our lists. Each night will be an off-campus, off the grid offering.

Come and join us for a beer, a wine and a stanza or two.

• When: Wednesday 29 July 2015, 7 - 9pm
• Presenters: UWA Publishing and Trove Journal
  
• Venue: The Gold Digger, Cultural Centre, 174 William Street, Northbridge
  
• Attend: $10 at the door. No tickets required. All welcome.
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing [email protected]

Friday Talk: What is collection and exhibition registration?

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

The role of the curator in museums and galleries is fairly well understood but the role of registrar is less easily defined. It is a job that encompasses the management of collections and exhibitions including information management, artwork handling and movement, preservation, conservation, insurance, transport logistics, acquisitions, loans, image management, copyright and legal and audit requirements.

Join Kate Hamersley, Registrar (UWA Collections), as she discusses the responsibilities of collection and exhibition registration at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery.

• Date: Friday 31 July 2015, 1pm - 2pm
  
• Event Type: Talk
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | Register to attend
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk

A Barking Gecko Theatre Company and Windmill Theatre production by arrangement with Catherine Wheels Theatre Company | Presented by UWA Theatres

Think back — was there someone at school you thought would be your best friend forever? Martin is the new kid at school among a sea of unfamiliar faces. Then Simon McGurk comes along. He’s wildly different from Martin, but they become best buddies. Until, one day, Martin does something that will poison their friendship — forever?

Directed by renowned international director Gill Robertson, The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk examines the fragile nature of schoolyard friendship and how hard it can be to stay true to yourself and your friends.

This performance is best for 7-to-12-year-olds.

• When: Saturday 1 August 2015, 11am, 1pm and 3pm
• Event Type: Children's Theatre
• Presenter: UWA Theatres
  
• Venue: Dolphin Theatre
• Attend: $20 - $25.00 | Book Online
  

Image: The Ballad of Pondlife McGurk

Workshop: Drawing the Human Face

Presented by UWA Extension and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Drawing the human face is challenging, but it is a wonderful skill for capturing precious moments in life. Whether you have experience or not, come and learn how to draw what you really see. Discover your gifts and where they can take you.

Curator Dr Sally Quin will first guide a tour of the exhibition Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948, focusing on the figures and portraits. Then join artist Daniela Dlugocz in two rewarding afternoon workshops in which you will experiment with different materials and shading techniques.

A life model will attend each session of the course. You will discover not just a face on paper but how to capture expression and atmosphere.

• When: Saturdays 1 + 8 August 2015 12:30 - 4:30pm
• Event Type: Workshop
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
• Cost: $190.00 Enrol Online.
  
• Enquiries: Bill Grayson (08) 6488 2433 or [email protected]
  

Book Launch: The Subject of Feeling by Peter Rose

Presented by UWA Publishing and UWA Cultural Precinct

“Youth and maturity, love and infatuation, memory, music, loss, landscape, Peter Rose exposes the human experience in poems that are gorgeously lucid and often profound. The Subject of Feeling reveals a fearless wisdom, a wry wit and a quiet depth. These poems stop you in your tracks."
- Andrea Goldsmith

Come and hear from one of Australia’s finest contemporary poets as he launches his sixth collection of poetry, The Subject of Feeling.

• When: Wednesday 5 August 2015, 6 - 8pm
• Presenters: UWA Publishing
  
• Venue: UWA – further details upon registration
• Attend: FREE | RSVP essential
  
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing [email protected]
  

Image: Book cover of The Subject of Feeling by Peter Rose. 

Workshop - On Reviewing: how to write quality criticism

Presented by UWA Publishing

“Criticism is an art but also an entertainment – and occasionally a sport. We should not be coy about the good or polite about the mediocre” – Peter Rose in The Australian Book Review. The state of criticism in Australia is a hotly debated subject, some bemoaning its demise and others defending its quality.

In this workshop Peter Rose, poet, critic and editor of The Australian Book Review, will guide litterateurs through the complex practice of good criticism. A one-off Perth event not to be missed.

• When: Thursday 6 August 2015, 11am - 2:30pm
• Presenters: UWA Publishing
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
• Attend: $40.00| Book online.
  
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing [email protected]
  

Morning Alleluias: A Concert for Hiroshima

Presented by the UWA School of Music

Marking the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, a combined Wind Orchestra from the UWA School of Music and the West Australian Academy of Performing Arts will present works such as Nelson’s haunting Morning Alleluias in a free concert opening the UWAnzac Centenary Commemorations.

• When: Thursday 6 August 2015, 7:30pm
• Event Type: Free Concert
• Presenters: UWA School of Music
• Venue: Winthrop Hall, UWA
• Attend: FREE | Register to attend

Photo by Matthew Galligan.

Free Lunchtime Concerts

Presented by the UWA School of Music

Be transported from the everyday every Thursday in our free lunchtime concert series featuring the cream of Western Australia’s young musicians and their mentors.

6 August, 2015 - Sarah-Janet Brittenden and Toni Johnson: Arias and Duets
13 August, 2015 - Piñata Percussion Ensemble
20 August, 2015 - Alan Lourens and friends: Hackett Brass
27 August, 2015 - UWA Guitar Ensemble

• When: 6 - 27 August 2015, 1.10pm - 2pm.
  
• Event type: Concert
• Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA
  
• Attend: FREE. No bookings required. All welcome
  

Photo: Nic Montagu

Geology and War

Presented by the Edward de Courcy Clarke Earth Science Museum and the UWA Cultural Precinct

The exhibition will feature artefacts used as weapons that contain geological components or derived from minerals or rocks.  Of particular note are artefacts from the First World War from the Museum Curator’s personal collection, along with items on loan from other museums, UWA Schools and individuals.

An original sound loop created by Kingsley Reeve (Sound Design and Production, National Institute for Dramatic Art) will compliment the exhibition.

• When: 6 - 29 August 2015, various times.
  
• Event type: Exhibition
• Presenter: Edward de Courcy Clarke Earth Science Museum
  
• Venue: EdCC Earth Science Museum
  
• Attend: FREE. No bookings required.
  
• Enquiries: Museum Curator - 6488 2681
  

Image: Lt McGlinn, 44th Battalion, later Australian Flying Corp and souvenir embossed World War One British and German 25 pounder shells. Photo: John Reeve (Curator, UWA) 

MUD, BLOOD AND GAS: Visions of hell on the Western Front

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Annette Thas, photographer, filmmaker, mixed media and sculpture/installation artist, has exhibited extensively in Europe and Australia. She studied sculpture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon, drawing at the Saint-Lucas School of Arts Ghent, and Fine Arts Photography & Filmmaking at UWA. Her ‘Wave 1’ won the People’s Choice Award at Sculpture by the Sea 2014.

Drawing on images and stories encountered while growing up in the Flanders, Thas’ iconic photographs of period gas masks symbolize the horrors experienced in the alien and deformed landscape of the Western Front in WWI. These banner size images will be hung on venues across campus.

• When: 6 - 30 August 2015, all hours
• Event type: Outdoor photographic banner exhibitions
• Venue: Various locations across Crawley campus, The University of Western Australia
• Attend: FREE. Open public spaces.
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Gas masks. Photographs by Annette Thas.

2015 Salek Minc Lecture: Space, Place and Migration in Modern Art

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

This year’s Salek Minc Lecture is held in conjunction with the exhibition Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938–1948 (11 July–19 September 2015) and presented by Dr. Jutta Vinzent, Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture at the University of Birmingham, UK, and Research Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt, Germany.

Her publications include Identity and Image: Refugee Artists from Nazi Germany in Britain (1933-1945) and Overcoming Dictatorships: Contemporary East and West European Visual Inquiries.

Free to attend, registration essential. RSVP required.

• Date: Friday 7 August 2015, 6pm - 7pm
  
• Event Type: Lecture
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | Register to attend
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Image: Dr. Jutta Vinzent

Art Heist

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the UWA Law School

Come to UWA Open Day and follow the clues to solve a hypothetical art heist. A special prize will be awarded to the successful sleuth. Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery and the UWA Law School.

• Date: Sunday 9 August 2015, 11am - 4pm
  
• Event Type: Hypothetical Art Crime Investigation
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | Register on the day at either LWAG or the UWA Law School
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Book Launch: Feet to the Stars with Susan Midalia

Presented by UWA Publishing and UWA Cultural Precinct

Feet to the Stars, Susan Midalia’s third collection of short stories, offers keenly observed details about everyday life expressed with pathos, tenderness and bracing wit.

Subtly rendered and emotionally engaging, these stories speak of the transformative capacities of the heart and mind, and of the ways we affect each other, sometimes unwittingly and often profoundly. They offer us the pleasure of listening to different voices, and the satisfaction of careful crafting and evocative prose.

Meet and mingle with Susan and guests at the launch of Feet to the Stars.

• When: Wednesday 12 August 2015, 6 - 8pm
• Presenters: UWA Publishing
  
• Venue: UWA – further details upon registration
• Attend: FREE | RSVP required
  
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing [email protected]

Image: Book cover of Feet to the Stars by Susan Midalia. 

Workshop: Watercolour Landscapes for Beginners

A series of two workshops presented by UWA Extension and the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Join Dr Sally Quin for a curator’s talk and tour of Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948 and consider landscape painting afresh.

Watercolour painting is a skill that can be learned. Artist and teacher Debi Riley simplifies watercolour processes with step-by-step instructions and demonstration. You’ll be encouraged, inspired and guided in the basics watercolour techniques.  All materials are provided.

Over a two-day workshop on subsequent Saturdays, discover how to create lovely atmospheric skies, mountains, hills, trees and foliage and incorporate them into your own paintings. You’ll learn just how easy it is to mix dozens of colours from only three tubes of paint, and gain techniques to create your own watercolour landscapes.

• When: Saturdays 15 + 22 August 2015 11:00 - 4:00pm
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
• Presenters: UWA Extension, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
  
• Cost: $190.00 | Register Online
  
• Enquiries: Bill Grayson (08) 6488 2433 or [email protected]
  

Swing That War Away:
A dinner to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II

Presented by the University Club and the UWA Cultural Precinct

On 15 August 1945, World War II came to an end when Emperor Hirohito announced to the Japanese people the official surrender of the Japanese military. Australians and War will celebrate this anniversary with a special dinner in the University Club featuring the music of the Swing era performed by The Oz Big Band. Dedicated to recreating the authenticity and high energy of big bands from the 1930s-1950s, The Oz Big Band is popular in jazz and swing scenes around Australia. Guests are encouraged to dress in period costume for a three course meal and night of dancing.

• When: Saturday 15 August 2015, 7pm - midnight
  
• Event type: Dinner Dance With Live Music
  
• Venue: University Club
  
• Bookings: $99.00 - More Info and bookings
• Enquiries: 6488 8700

Trench Poetry

Presented by Well-Versed, The Winthrop Singers and the UWA Cultural Precinct

Well-Versed is a collective of experienced performers offering readings of poetry. They have been working together for three years, sharing their passion for poetry by devising and presenting more than twenty specially prepared programs covering the full gamut of subjects, learned to light-hearted, classical and modern, on which verse has been written.

For Australians and War series, they have selected a program of works by Australian and Allied service personnel on the subject of warfare in the trenches and on the Western Front, during the Great War. The readings will be supplemented by choral music performed by The Winthrop Singers.

• When: Sunday 16 August 2015, 3pm - 4:30pm
  
• Event type: Poetry readings with Music
  
• Venue: St George's College Dining Hall
  
• Attend: Gold coin donation. All Welcome.
  
• Enquiries: Well-Versed. Pat Stroud. 0408 908 928

War and Emotions

One-Day Symposium

War and Emotions is the intellectual hub of the Australians and War program. This symposium will explore current research into emotions relating to war, various aspects of World War I and the ANZAC legend, and the experience of Australian soldiers returning from war.

The symposium includes a round table discussion on ‘What the Great War has meant for Australia – then and now’, chaired by Professor Jenny Gregory (UWA). Other participants include Professor Louise D’Arcens (Wollongong University), Dr Megan Cassidy-Welch (Monash), and Professors Mark Edele, Jane Lydon, Andrew Lynch and Bob White (UWA).

The symposium is co-presented by the Centre for the History of Emotions, the Centre for WA History, the History Discipline Group, the UWA Cultural Precinct, the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, and the Institute of Advanced Studies.

• When: Monday 17 August 2015, 10am - 6pm
  
• Event type: Symposium
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
  
• Attend: FREE to attend. Registrations essential. 
• Enquiries: Nicola Holman, + 61-8-6488 4731 [email protected]

Image: John Singer Sargent, Gassed (detail), c.1919. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Hell Sounds, Birdsongs and Zeppelins: Emotions, Memory and the Soundscape of Great War

2015 Fred Alexander Fellowship Lecture

Professor Joy Damousi is Professor of History and ARC Laureate Fellow at the University of Melbourne. She has published on various aspects of grief, trauma and loss during the two world wars.

In this lecture Professor Damousi considers the ways in which the sounds of the battlefield and home front defined the memory of the war and elicited a range of emotional responses. The relentless sounds pierced the emotions and were associated with distinctive memories of grief, loss, trauma and fear. An analysis of the experience of sound enables a broader, uncharted understanding of the emotional experience of civilians and combatants.

Presented by the Institute of Advanced Studies in conjunction with the War and Emotions Symposium.

• When: Monday 17 August 2015, 6 - 7:15pm
  
• Event type: Lecture
  
• Venue: Webb Lecture Theatre, UWA
  
• Attend: FREE to attend. Registrations essential. 
• Enquiries: Pam Bond - [email protected]

The Poetry of Archives - Workshop with Ross Gibson

Presented by UWA Publishing

In this exclusive workshop, critically acclaimed author and historian Ross Gibson will take us through the particulars of his unique craft. Gibson’s practice is best described as a kind of alchemy where research, interpretation and poetry combine to produce works that resist definition. Taking the Elise Blumann exhibition as his material for this workshop, Ross will guide us through the complex art of ekphrastic writing.

Ross’ UWA Publishing books 26 Views of the Starburst World and The Summer Exercises will also be available for purchase and signing.

• When: Friday 21 August 2015, 11am - 2:30pm
• Presenters: UWA Publishing
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
• Attend: $40.00| Book online.
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing [email protected]
  

ANZAC: Chamber - Quartet for the End of Time

Presented by the UWA School of Music

Composed while he was prisoner of war and premiered by his fellow prisoners at a Nazi prisoner of war camp in 1941, Messiaen’s magnificent and moving Quartet for the End of Time will be performed by celebrated artists from the UWA School of Music in this special Anzac Centenary commemorative concert.

The program will also feature UWA’s Piñata Percussion who will perform Peaux by Xenakis and Varese’s Ionisation for thirteen percussionists.

• When: Friday 21 August 2015, 7:30pm
  
• Event Type: Concert
• Presenters: UWA School of Music
  
• Venue: Callaway Music Auditorium, UWA
• Attend: $25/$20 Concession (Senior, Students, Friend of UWA School of Music) - Book Now
  

Photo by Matthew Galligan. 

On Reading: How Our Reading Habits Might Change the Way We Think

Presented by UWA Publishing

In this one-off panel session, four Australian thinkers will discuss what changing reading habits may mean for cognition and development, and how the ways in which we consumer or ‘interact’ with words shape how we comprehend them.

Chair: Terri-ann White

Panel members: Ross Gibson, Ande Roestenburg, William Yeoman, Claire Jones.

• When: Saturday 22 August 2015, 6 - 8pm
• Presenters: UWA Publishing
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, The University of Western Australia
• Attend: $15.00 | Book tickets online
  
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing [email protected]
  

ANZAC Legends and Myths Revisited

Presented by The University of Western Australia Historical Society

The University of Western Australia Historical Society was founded to research and promote the history of the Campus and the academics, graduates and students who have been part of the University family since its inception.

Nicholas Hasluck and Ronald Bodycoat have researched and prepared material relevant to the World War I Anzac experiences of University personnel and of the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915. The Forum will include them and other presenters as well in a round- table discussion with the audience to challenge local myths and explore and reveal the true impact of war.

• When: Sunday 23 August 2015, 3pm - 4:30pm
  
• Event type: Public Forum
  
• Venue: St George's College Dining Hall
  
• Attend: Gold coin donation. All welcome. No registrations required.
  
• Enquiries: The UWA Historical Society  Ron Bodycoat - 0418 917 757

UWA Publishing's 80th Anniversary

Presented by UWA Publishing

UWA Publishing turns 80!

To celebrate our seniority (but not senility), UWA Publishing will host a soiree featuring mezzo-soprano Fiona Campbell, clarinettist Ashley Smith and a special address from author Amanda Curtin. 

We invite all lovers of books and ideas to help us herald in another decade of quality publishing.

• When: Thursday 27 August 2015, 6pm - 8pm
  
• Event type: Cocktail Party
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
  
• Attend: $20 Tickets Online
  
• Enquiries: UWA Publishing - [email protected]

UWAugust Evensong

Presented by The Winthrop Singers

Since 2007, the Winthrop Singers have been a prominent feature on the UWA cultural landscape. Formed by Dr Nicholas Bannan of the School of Music, they are choir in residence at St George’s College Chapel, performing Evensong every Thursday.

The Choir’s milestones include: singing from Winthrop Tower at dawn on the first day of spring, public workshops with The Song Company, concerts at New Norcia sponsored by the Spanish Embassy, the debut recording of Philip Gearing’s Prop Patria Mori, touring to China, and participating in Verdi’s Requiem for Western Australian Symphony Orchestra.

For UWAugust: Australians and War, the Winthrop Singers will present a specially Anzac-themed Evensong.

• When: Thursday 27 August 2015, 6 - 7pm
  
• Event type: Concert
  
• Venue: St George's College Chapel, UWA
  
• Attend: FREE. No bookings required. 
  
• Enquiries: 08 9449 5555

Friday Talk - Researching Elise Blumann: An Émigré Artist in Western Australia, 1938-1948

Presented by the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery

Dr Sally Quin’s research on Elise Blumann combines her interests in the historical fortunes of women artists and the cultural and social contexts of artistic production. This talk will focus on her approach to research for her book on the artist and the accompanying exhibition.

• Date: Friday 28 August 2015, 1pm - 2pm
  
• Event Type: Talk
  
• Venue: Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery
• Attend: FREE | Register to attend
• Enquiries: (08) 6488 3707 or [email protected]

Artistry! Commemorate: Britten’s War Requiem

Presented by UWA School of Music

In this special free event recognising the 100th Anniversary ANZAC commemorations, the School of Music, in collaboration with the UWA Choral Society and Churchlands Senior High School, present Britten’s epic War Requiem, featuring internationally-renowned soloists Sara Macliver and Andrew Foote.

Rarely performed, the War Requiem, which features the poetry of soldier Wilfred Owen, employs multiple musical forces: a 100 piece orchestra, a second chamber orchestra, over 125 adult voices, a children’s choir, and three solo voices that alternate and interact with each other throughout the piece in a polyphony of sound. This is a concert not to be missed!

• When: Saturday 29 August 2015, 7:30pm
  
• Event type: Concert
  
• Venue: Winthrop Hall, UWA
  
• Attend: FREE. Register Online