Events: staff news
October meet and mingle with music
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Location: Reading room, Barr Smith Library, North Terrace campus
Join The Friends of the Library for a special afternoon filled with music, meaningful conversations, and a celebration of our shared love for books and learning. Saturday 11 October, 2–4 pm. Reading room, Barr Smith Library, North Terrace campus. Register.
Wellbeing: Nam Baldwin - effective exercise and movement module 4
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
This module addresses what you can be doing to alleviate these challenges, boost your energy levels and why you want to instill new habits – now. We will share evidence-based and results-driven, exercise principles designed to improve the health and fitness of your heart, lungs, bodies and brain for a longer, happier, quality of life. Tuesday 14 October, 12–1.30 pm. Online. Register.
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DFAT, ASEAN–Australia Centre 2025–26 grants opportunity information session
- Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2025, 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
- Location: Online
Join an online session hosted by DFAT’s ASEAN–Australia Centre to learn about 2025–26 grant opportunities available, supporting collaboration and engagement across ASEAN. Hear from Fiona Hoggart, Head of Centre, and Ruth O’Hagan, Assistant Director, as they outline available schemes. Tuesday 14 October, 1.30–2.30 pm. Online. Register.
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Taming your inner critic with Clare Bowditch
- Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2025, 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
- Location: Online
Clare Bowditch joins Bupa to share candid, heartfelt stories and to invite us to reflect on the question of what it might mean to live a ‘well-lived’ life. Wednesday 15 October, 12.30–1.30 pm. Online. Register.
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Elegies
- Date: Thu, 16 - Sun, 19 Oct 2025
- Location: Little Theatre, The Cloisters, North Terrace campus
Celebrate life, love, and loss with Elegies: a Song Cycle by Tony Award-winning composer William Finn. This deeply personal and heartfelt collection of songs beautifully captures the moments that shape our lives, from the joy of friendship to the bittersweet reality of saying goodbye. Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 October, various times. Little Theatre, The Cloisters, North Terrace campus. Tickets.
My re-awakening: how the label of neurodivergent has helped me.
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
- Location: LG28 lecture theatre, Lower Napier building, North Terrace campus
The Neurodiversity Project invites invites you to listen to our four panel speakers who will be discussing their journeys. Specifically, how our speakers learnt about their neurodivergence and the potential positive impacts this had on their mental health. Thursday 16 October, 2–4 pm. LG28 lecture theatre, Lower Napier building, North Terrace campus. Register.
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Tarnanthi Festival launch
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Location: Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace
All staff are invited to the launch of Tarnanthi 2025. Now in its 10th year, Tarnanthi includes a vibrant program of talks, tours, performances, and workshops celebrating First Nations art. Thursday 16 October, 6 pm. Art Gallery of South Australia, North Terrace. Further information.
Healthy Development Adelaide Oration
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2025, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
- Location: Napier 102 lecture theatre, first floor, Napier building, North Terrace campus
Have we got it wrong? The public health approach and child protection presented by Professor Leah Bromfield who will discuss the application – and misapplication – of the public health approach, and practical ways forward to realise the intent of a transformed approach to child protection. Thursday 16 October, 6–8 pm. 102 lecture theatre, Napier building, North Terrace campus. Register.
Tarnanthi Art Fair
- Date: Fri, 17, 5:00 pm - Sat, 18 Oct 2025, 8:00 pm
- Location: Level 5 and 6, Union House, North Terrace campus
This in-person only event is a unique chance to meet Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists, learn about their world and ideas, and purchase works directly from individuals and Art Centres from across Australia. Join the launch at Thursday 16 October, 6 pm, at the Art Gallery of South Australia. It’s a rare opportunity to support ethical art production and take home a piece of contemporary Indigenous creativity. Friday 17 to Saturday 18 October, 5–8 pm. Level 5 and 6, Union House, North Terrace campus. More information.
Sports week and VC Cup
- Date: Mon, 20 - Fri, 24 Oct 2025
- Location: North Terrace campus
Sports Week and the Vice-Chancellor's Cup returns for 2025 with a variety of sports and activities to get involved in. Compete for bragging rights across a week of different sports, looking to become the winner of the Sports Week shield, culminating in the 17th annual Vice Chancellor's Cup 800m relay and being awarded the VC Cup trophy. Monday 20 to Friday 24 October. North Terrace campus. Register.
