Past events
Gallery of Small Things: 4th Emerging Artist Support Scheme show
Exhibition
Gallery of Small Things (GOST) is hosting its 4th Emerging Artist Support Scheme (EASS) show with awardees from the ANU School of Art & Design. This continued relationship ensures winners of the GOST award can showcase new works and be introduced to Canberra audiences in the following year…
Sustainable Creative Careers : Arts Re/connect
Other
Emerging and mid-career artists are invited to our Arts re/connect session to meet artists, feel reinvigorated and explore themes that are important to you. Small group conversations will be facilitated allowing you to learn from other artists, meet new people in the arts community and pick up a…
Sustainable Creative Careers : Getting your career started
Other
So, you’ve recently graduated from art school. Now what? Learn how you can carve out a sustainable career here in Canberra, without having to jump on the next train to bigger cities. Once you scratch the surface, Canberra has a thriving, passionate and busy art scene. Hear from local arts…
Pandemic and population: the demographic impacts of COVID-19 in Australia
Conference
COVID-19 has had a dramatic impact on populations, from cradle to grave, around the world. In Australia, communities and governments reacted quickly at the outset, protecting lives and livelihoods. In the process though, international borders were shuttered, communities locked down and family and…
Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition & Margaret Smiles Associate Musician Prize for Pianists Finals
Other
Through the generosity of Ms Christine Roach, students from The Australian National University are given the opportunity to perform in front of an esteemed panel and guests for their share of $20,000 in prize money. Christine Roach was a passionate supporter of music students, who gained…
Indigenous Peoples, Critical Minerals and the ‘Just Transition’
Seminar
Abstract The world’s need to transition to renewable energy will require enormous social, economic and political change, change which will be far from neutral in its distributional consequences. The term ‘Just Transition’ has been coined to describe a situation in which the transition to renewable…
Towards ecosocial cities? Urban-nature encounters and relations
Lecture
We are now living in the age of expansive urbanisation, with estimates suggesting that nearly 60% of the world’s population – some 4.4 billion people – reside in cities (World Bank, 2023), with this trend only set to intensify over the coming decades (Rose and Fitzgerald, 2022). While cities…