Upcoming events

Cultural Evening with Selina Tusitala Marsh & Gabriella Smart

Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2018, 12:00 am
Location: Madley Rehearsal Room, University of Adelaide

Join us for a unique evening featuring readings by NZ Poet Laureate Selina Tusitala Marsh and performances by award-winning pianist Gabriella Smart. This cultural evening is held as part of the Two Horizons: Pacific Studies in a Cosmopolitan World conference and is supported by the JMCCCP. To register for this event, email conference director Mandy Treagus: mandy.treagus@adelaide.edu.au.To register for the conference or the free public lecture with Vicente M. Diaz, visit the webpage.

Who Shot the Albatross? Gate-keeping in Australian Culture.

Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2018, 10:30 am - 7:00 pm
Location: Hartley Concert Room, University of Adelaide

Provocations is an exciting new public forum tackling controversies in the arts and humanities hosted by the JMCCCP. In the first event in this series, professor of migrant and post-colonial literature, Sneja Gunew (University of British Columbia), will join Dr Mark Davis (Melbourne University) and award-winning writers Michelle Cahill and Brian Castro to mount a challenge to Australian critical orthodoxies. Provocations #1 will ask: Are cultural institutions receptive to new voices or are in they living in a literary echo-chamber? How do elites govern the cultural field? Are we all inadvertently cultural gate-keepers? Join us for what is sure to be a lively debate. To register, visit eventbrite.

Disturbing the Comfortable; Comforting the Disturbed

Date: Mon, 7 May - Tue, 7 Aug 2018
Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide

How does writing both comfort and disturb us? Coetzee Centre Writer in Residence, Heather Taylor Johnson, will examine this question in a thought-provoking masterclass, drawing on her own writing of chronic illness, as well as the works of other writers, to explore how we can grow communities of caring through fictional empathy. 7th May, Room 618, Napier Building. Please email the centre to register.

Oratunga Winter School 2018: Creating out of Place

Date: Thu, 5 - Tue, 10 Jul 2018
Location: Oratunga Sheep Station

Featuring a host of eminent creative practitioners and set in the historic Oratunga sheep station on the traditional lands of the Adnyamathanha people, this four day winter school examines creative place-making in storied Country. Each day will feature a creative workshop, focusing on a different medium with plenty of time allocated to participants' own creative practice. Theoretical workshops run by Professor Stephen Muecke will encourage critical reflection on the role of Country in the creative process.

Tjungu Pakani (Together We Rise)

Date: Wed, 8 Aug - Sun, 23 Sep 2018
Location: Ayers House, 288 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

Soundstream and the JMCCCP are proud to present Tjungu Pakani (Together We Rise), a series of events celebrating Titjikala culture through art and music. Join the Titjikala Women's Choir (NT) as they share their unique artistic and musical practice in art and music workshops, culminating in a wonderful concert and month-long exhibition held at Ayers House Museum.

Raining Poetry in Adelaide Launch

Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018, 12:00 am
Location: Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton

Led by University of Adelaide postgraduate students under the auspices of the JMCCCP, Raining Poetry in Adelaide aims to brighten up gloomy days by bringing poetry to the city streets. Poems are stenciled onto footpaths in invisible paint only to magically appear when it rains. Join us for the launch of this exciting event, presented in collaboration with No Wave, at 7pm on the 5th of September at the Wheatsheaf Hotel. The launch will feature readings by the poets involved and a map with the locations of the poems will be revealed. To see photos, updates and more, visit the Facebook page.

Music & Text: A Symposium

Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus

How do we transpose narrative forms into musical ones and vice-versa? What similarities and differences are there between the two art forms? Join celebrated concert pianist and memoirist Dr Anna Goldsworthy (Adelaide), literary scholar, classical singer and Jane Austen expert Dr Gillian Dooley (Flinders), and modernist and African literatures expert A/Prof Brian Macaskill (John Carroll University) for a fascinating discussion about how art forms transform and influence one another. In case you missed it, download our recording to hear the presentations and discussion.

Seminar with A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg

Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus

Curator of the 'J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood' exhibition A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape) will give a seminar titled "Against World Literature: Photography and History in Life & Times of Michael K.' This paper will reread J.M. Coetzee's lauded novel Life & Times of Michael K as a text that is grounded in South Africa by exploring its links to photography and the story of Northern Cape farm labourer, Jan Pieriga. To register for this event, please email the centre.

J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood

Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus

Join us on the 9th November for the launch of an unique exhibition showcasing Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s youthful foray into photography, when he attempted to capture ‘the moment when truth revealed itself’. Offering intriguing glimpses of Coetzee’s childhood in Cape Town in the mid-1950s, these images demonstrate how deeply photography shaped his creative development. The exhibition will be launched by curator A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape) with a special reading by J.M. Coetzee. To register for this free event, visit the eventbrite site.

Masterclass & Seminar with Sisonke Msimang

Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: 108 Napier Building, University of Adelaide

Celebrated writer Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home, will be giving a masterclass on 'Writing Lives', as well as a seminar on her most recent works. In the masterclass, Msimang will lead a discussion on the practice of life writing through reflections on her recent memoir of exile and home and her forthcoming biography of Winnie Mandela. To register and to obtain preparatory readings for these exciting events, please email the centre. These events are presented with the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice and the Department of English & Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.

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