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03 Mar
In Pieces Ticket Giveaway Competition
We’ve got a FREE double pass to In Pieces to giveaway! In Pieces is a new musical by Joey Contreras and this is the Australian premiere production presented by the Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre graduating class. 18 Oct
The history of one of the most influential schools of Western Desert painting
Forty years ago, in a tiny community called Balgo on the fringe of the Kimberley and the Great Sandy Desert in Western Australia, one of Australia’s brightest art movements was born. 22 Sep
Faculty of Arts wins Vice-Chancellor's Cup
Congratulations to Oliver Ducros, Charley Kennedy-Dinan, Gillian Hagenus and Cameron Green for winning the 2021 Vice-Chancellor's Cup on Friday 17 September. This is the second year in a row that the Faculty of Arts has won the race that stops the campus. Well done to all runners and supporters! 14 Sep
School of Education awarded Apple Distinguished School Status for 2021-2024
The School of Education has been awarded Apple Distinguished School (ADS) status for 2021-2024. 16 Jul
VR students impress with creative work
Students with a passion for future technologies – especially those who want to develop and create them – can now combine their artistic and technical skills in a cutting edge Virtual Reality Design and Development course offered by the University of Adelaide.
Upcoming events
18 Mar This symposium tracks the influence and afterlives of South African author and feminist Olive Schreiner across Australian and southern African literatures with a focus on Catherine Edith Macauley Martin (1848-1937, UK/South Australia), Henry Handel Richardson (1870-1946, Australia/UK), Patrick White (1912-1990, UK/Australia), Bessie Head (1937-1986, South Africa/Botswana), and JM Coetzee (b.1940, South Africa/Australia). Speakers include: Mandy Treagus, Nicholas Jose, Alex Sutcliffe, Susan Sheridan, Dorothy Driver and Andrew van der Vlies. 01 Apr Director George Torbay 28 Apr The rationale for this event is to explore some of the key concepts outlined in what has come to be called the New Modernism Studies: to test their viability, the scope of their application, and their utility as critical coordinates for present and future research. 29 Apr Academic Symposium at University of Adelaide
Musical Director Paul Sinkinson
Choreography Joseph Simons
The first Elder Conservatorium Music Theatre production of 2022 is the Australian premiere of a new musical by Joey Contreras. Set in New York City, In Pieces reflects on the romantic journeys of a group of individuals, as they look back on their chosen paths and partners along the way. These pieces come together to create a universal remembrance of what it’s like to be young and learning in love.
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For 100 years, T. S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land' has stood at the pinnacle of modern poetic achievement in the English language: by turns baffling, seducing, electrifying, alienating, and engaging generations of readers. What does it mean to read the poem today? How have changing critical fashions altered the reception of a work once considered essential? Who teaches it anymore? What aspects seem to have aged poorly; what ones well? Where is its influence being felt today? Over the course of the day, we will probe the lasting significance of a masterpiece still as controversial as it is unavoidable.