Category: Lecture

February 28, 2012 8:00 am to 4:00 pm 8:00 am to 4:00 pm

A SUSTAINABILITY COMMUNICATIONS MASTERCLASS

Engaging the public on climate change, inspiring employees on corporate responsibility, generating buzaz around sustainability; this masterclass will have something for everyone.

Whether your aim is to raise awareness or inspire action, our wealth of experience and our high energy, hands-on, creative approach will ensure you feel inspired, confident and better equipped to effectively communicate sustainability.

NAB, Level 15, 255 George Street, Sydney

SPEAKERS:

Lucy Shea (Futerra), Ben Peacock, Matt Perry and Scott Matyus-Flynn (Republic of Everyone) are keynote speakers on both days and will be facilitating workshop sessions.

More Information http://www.republicofeveryone.com/events/

February 12, 2012 11:00 am to 1:00 pm 11:00 am to 1:00 pm

Museum of Sydney
Sunday 12 February
11.00am — 1.00pm

More information  http://www.hht.net.au/whats_on/event/lectures/the_art_and_politics_of_culture_jamming

February 11, 2012 9:00 am to 5:00 pm 9:00 am to 5:00 pm

While acknowledging the importance of observational documentary, this course is devoted to furthering the skills and craft of the narration based documentary. It will help you develop solid dynamic film structures and show you how to write winning proposals as well as excellent and entertaining integrated narration scripts.

The course will examine the structures and possibilities of working in and writing different forms of documentary, such as drama docs, bio-pics, and experimental docs. It will also look at the challenges of various kinds of documentaries from popular human interest stories, through to history and journalistic investigation documentaries.

The Wheeler Center

More Information http://www.open.aftrs.edu.au/course/X556

February 11, 2012 11:00 am to 2:00 pm 11:00 am to 2:00 pm

Prominent Indigenous writers and visual artists come together for a weekend of free public talks and performances as part of the inaugural Melbourne Indigenous Arts Festival.

Melbourne’s own Yorta Yorta woman, Kylie Belling, hosts some of Australia’s most talented story tellers at this session.

This talk celebrates Indigenous writing and the legacy and tradition of David Unaipon, Kevin Gilbert and Oodgeroo Noonuccal.

Guest Writers: Larissa Behrendt (Eualeyai and Kamillaroi/NSW), Richard Frankland (Gunditjmara/VIC), Tony Briggs (Yorta Yorta/VIC), Tjimba Possum Burns (Yorta Yorta and Ynugu, Lavitja, Majuta/VIC and NT) and Patrick Mau (aka Maupower)(Kala Kawaya/Torres Strait).

Further information aboutMelbourne Indigenous Arts Festival at www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/iaf

Location BMW Edge

Cnr Swanston and Flinders Streets Melbourne 3000

December 7, 2011 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm

Presented by Associate Professor Brian Atwell,Biological Sciences, Macquarie University

An illustrated lecture which explores the tree’s grand design and biological make-up using the latest scientific research in relation to the visual depiction of the tree by artists over time – from the colonial viewpoint to the contemporary.

Date: Wednesday 7 December, 2011
Time: 1-2pm
Cost: Free
Enquiries/bookings: Tel:(02) 9850 7437 or rhonda.davis@mq.edu.au

December 10, 2011 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

Speaker Natalie King, Director, Utopia, The Asialink Centre, The University of Melbourne

Ranjani Shettar creates installations and sculptures using diverse media, making works that challenge the categorical separation between craft and sculpture. Her work stands in the thresholds between art and craft, tradition and modernity, the physical and the ethereal. '

In the catalogue of How Latitudes Become Forms in 2003 Douglas Fogle writes: 'Shettar constructs sculptural artifacts that speak obliquely to the effects of urbanization in newly high-tech Bangalore. By using a formal language that invokes the organic and a material language that suggests the industrial, she operates in a manner similar to that of Bangalore itself, where industrial urbanization is colliding with (and collapsing into) the once rural countryside. But above all else, Shettar's work asks phenomenological questions about the way in which we inhabit particular spaces in our built environment.'

Where: NGV International. 180 St Kilda Road

When: December 10 at 12.30

To book: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/whats-on/programs/public-programs/floor-talk-touch-me-not-the-sculptural-installations-of-ranjani-shettar