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Ecopoetics in Australia
- Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm
- Location: The Stretton Room, 420 Napier Building
DATE: Wed 20th July
VENUE: The Stretton Room, 420 Napier Building
TIME: Masterclass 1 (Jill Jones) 10.30am - 1pm. Masterclass 2 (Peter Minter) 2 - 4.30pm
Exhibition Opening - Adelaide Variations
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016, 5:30 pm - 9:30 pm
- Location: JPE Design Studio, 19 Gilles St Level 4, Adelaide, South Australia 5000
Adelaide Variations is an exhibition of black and white photographs shot by 2016 SALA Finalist and JMCCCP affiliate Annette Willis on her iPhone in the streets of Adelaide. The exhibition will be opened by Lisa Slade Assistant Director, Artistic Programs Art Gallery of South Australia.
Schubertiade and Schubert on the Streets
- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016, 3:15 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Adelaide Central Railway Station
On the 23rd September, Seraphim Trio will perform Schubert's "Trout Quintet" at the Adelaide Central Railway Station (just north of Shunters coffee shop) from 3.15-4.30pm. Acclaimed street artist Peter Drew will film the interactions between the musicians and passers-by. If you miss seeing Seraphim Trio at the station, there is another opportunity to see the lauded classical music trio at the State Library of South Australia on 24th and 25th September. More information. Bookings:131 246 or www.bass.net.au.
Schubertiade
- Date: Sat, 24 - Sun, 25 Sep 2016
- Location: Mortlock Library, State Library of South Australia
Seraphim Trio performs a weekend of Schubert in the beautiful Mortlock Library at the State Library of South Australia, over three captivating recitals. Also featuring discussions with JMCCCP's Anna Goldsworthy and ABC Classic FM’s Simon Healy.
Why Do Things Break: A Creative Symposium
- Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2016
- Location: Hartley Concert Room, University of Adelaide
Why do things break, fall apart, fall down, disintegrate, splinter, corrode, degenerate, devolve? Aristotle observed that if we make things out of brass they become brazen, if we make things out of gold they become golden, arguing that the suffix demonstrates the new element that has been introduced through the act of making. But what about the act of breaking? Do we make braken things or are they just broken? And who is the ‘we’ that makes and breaks? What forces drive the world’s relentless breaking? What makes us broken and breaks the things we make?
The Poetics of Place: John Kinsella and Tracey Ryan
- Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016
- Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide
Join us for a seminar with two of Australia’s greatest poets of the Western Australian landscape.
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"Wholly Other": Writing and the Writer-Critic
- Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide
This masterclass with world-renowned Coetzee scholar and award-winning novelist, Professor Elleke Boehmer (Oxford), will examine how we conceptualise the relationship between writing and criticism in the works of writers who practice both. Are metaphors such as conversation, exchange or interface at all helpful? In times when more creative writers than ever before are working in academic departments of literature, but at the same time writer and critics are distancing themselves from the notion of 'critique', has this relationship become closer or simply more ambiguous? And is the ambiguity in any way stimulating for the core work that makes us writers?
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The Dreamer & the Dream: A Personal Perspective on Writing Fiction
- Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide
The writing of a novel is a strange and complex undertaking, one in which the fiction writer's task must be to create a dream that readers can believe. As John Gardner notes in his book The Art of Fiction, “…the organized and intelligent fictional dream that will eventually fill the reader’s mind begins as a largely mysterious dream in the writer’s mind.” Each writer approaches the making of a novel through their own unique creative practice, yet the aim of fiction writers everywhere is universal: to convince the reader to remain within the dream. Drawing on her work-in-progress, and on texts that have been instrumental in developing her own writing practice, Carol Lefevre’s masterclass will move through the important early decisions of the writing process to explore the ways in which other creative disciplines may be enlisted to enrich the
fictional dream.
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Three New Works on J.M. Coetzee's Life & Writing
- Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017, 4:30 pm - 4:30 pm
- Location: Hotel Richmond, 128 Rundle Mall
Preeminent novelist and moral philosopher Raimond Gaita joins us to launch three new works examining J.M. Coetzee's life and oeuvre. J.M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus: The Ethics of Ideas & Things, edited by Professors Jennifer Rutherford and Anthony Uhlmann (Bloomsbury, 2017) provides an “indispensable guide to unravelling the literary, philosophical and spiritual dimensions of Coetzee’s enigmatic novel.” (Professor Paul Patton, UNSW). A special issue of Texas Studies in Literature & Language, edited by Professors Anthony Uhlmann, Bruno Clémont and Nicholas Jose, gathers together some of the most intriguing papers from the 2014 Traverses: J.M. Coetzee in the World conference, while Traverses: J.M. Coetzee in the World App for mobile and tablet features interviews with world-renowned Coetzee scholars, archival photographs, manuscripts and much more.
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Public Lecture with Professor Alan Lelchuk
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
- Location: 715, Ingkarni Wardli Building
Why do we read works of literature? This public lecture with award-winning writers, Professor Alan Lelchuk (Dartmouth College), will focus on the special importance of reading great works of literature in our digital age. Professor Lelchuk will discuss the power and pleasures of reading serious works of literature, be they short stories, novels or poetry, and their subsequent aesthetic and moral rewards. It is through such habits of reading that the inner life of the individual can be cultivated and preserved in all its richness.
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