01 May Afterburn, free screening and roundtable
A free screening of Moira Fahy's remarkable film Afterburn, which traces the emotional experiences of three families as they rebuild their lives in the wake of the Black Saturday bushfires....
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29 Apr At the Edge of the Wild: A workshop and discussion with Professor Harriet Ritvo
This workshop will take the form of a discussion with Prof. Harriet Ritvo (MIT) about animals, the environment and the wild. The discussion will be focused by three preparatory readings...
23 Apr My Sydney – Writing Workshop
PART I: WALK AND TALK The workshop will begin at the 40 000 Years mural at the Redfern railway bridge (designed by Carol Ruff 1983) where Cathy Craigie will talk about...
23 Apr Finding Country Workshop
Finding Country is an ongoing project initiated by architect Kevin O’Brien in 2006 and continuing as a pluralist contest between the idea of Aboriginal space (Country), and European space (property)...
22 Apr Cowspiracy public screening
The Curtin University Sustainability Policy (CUSP) Institute is pleased to host a free public screening of the movie Cowspiracy. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking one and a half hour long feature-length...
18 Apr Public Lecture: Harriet Ritvo (MIT) “When is a cow not a cow?”
The word “cow” (or something very similar) has referred to the same bovine animals for more than a thousand years. But vernacular terms can be misleadingly robust. For example, the...
16 Apr Climate is Culture – The Cape Farewell Project
David Buckland will narrate 14 years of Cape Farewell’s ambition to place climate centre stage. Using the notion of expedition as a model to interrogate the future, Buckland will showcase...
16 Apr Creative Fellowships National Library of Australia
NLA Creative Arts Fellowships Open for applications The National Library of Australia have opened a new round of Creative Arts Fellowships, to assist creative practitioners, artists and writers to develop new...
16 Apr [Thinking Out Loud] David Wood, Responsibility in the Age of Climate Change
Philosophy@UWS of the University of Western Sydney in collaboration with the State Library of NSW, ABC Radio National and Fordham University Press invite you to this year’s Thinking Out Loud:...
08 Apr From Botanical Illustrations to Research
An exhibition of watercolours from the University of Melbourne Herbarium. This exhibition will combine intricately rendered watercolours of fungi with actual specimens from the University of Melbourne Herbarium collection. The watercolours,...