Past events
Drawn to Experience V2
Entertainment
Reception: 6pm, Friday 9 October 2015 This survey explores the expansive act of Performance Drawing – the act and action of drawing, its processes as theatre, line, motion and record, positing drawing within an interdisciplinary platform. Curated by Kellie O’Dempsey, the group exhibition consists…
How you show yourself is how you'll be seen | Tony Curran
Entertainment
Reception: 6pm Friday 9 October 2015 This exhibition includes several of Curran's recent works that have included performance as a focus for creating portraits. Working within contemporary currents of participation and performativity, the artist incorporates these aesthetics and tests them…
En Plein Air
Entertainment
En plein air [ohn ple ner] expression, French trans. ‘in the open air' Nestled in the heart of Canberra’s central musical institution, En Plein Air is a celebration of art and the outdoors set to a soundtrack of our most talented young performers. For one night, the School of Music courtyard…
The Humanities and the Sciences: a conversation
Lecture
Professor Brian Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and astrophysicist at ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences Professor Gary Tomlinson John Hay Whitney Professor of Music & the Humanities; Director Whitney Humanities Centre, Yale University…
The Humanities and the Sciences: a colloquium
Lecture
A one-day colloquium to interrogate the common assumption that these two broad, competitive cultures operate divisively within our universities and our society. Four major thinkers – two scientists, two from the humanities – have been invited to address the question of the similarities and…
PIAZZOLLA TANGO Concert
Entertainment
On October 8 the Larry Sitsky Room at the ANU School of Music will be filled with the music of tango maestro, Astor Piazzolla, performed by the great Argentine pianist, Marcela Fiorillo, who will soon be departing on a concert tour beginning at Kuala Lumpur on Oct. 26 (Conservatory of Músic UiTM…
Official opening of Centre for Classical Studies
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Join us in celebrating the future of Classical Studies at the ANU as Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt AC officially opens the Centre. Brought to you by the College of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics and Centre for Classical Studies.