Archived News Items: September 2004 Attention Postgraduate Students - As previously advised, the Faculty of Creative Arts' Postgraduate Week will be held during Week 8 of Spring Session (6-10 September).
During this week a range of activities relating to research and postgraduate studies will be held for students and staff. PG Week provides an opportunity for students and staff to discuss their research and creative work in a friendly and stimulating environment. Accordingly, it is expected that all students currently enrolled will attend where possible.
The School of Music and Drama presents: " A Beautiful Murder in Two Parts" A Double Bill presentation by First Year Students. "Woyzeck" by Georg Büchner and Directed by James Beach... and
"He Had it Coming" - Directed by Robina Beard 22nd, 24th 25th September: 8pm at the Performance Space, Faculty of Creative Arts (BLDG 25) UOW. Bookings through Brooke ph 42214889 or e-mail. Admission: Gold Coin donation. Both shows are 50 min. duration (interval between shows). Australian Poet and Artist in Residence at the FCA, "Pi O" will be at the University of Wollongong from the 13th - 24th September.
Considered the first poet to utilise the ocker and migrant dialect he was exposed to in suburban Melbourne, "Pi O" began his poetry career in the 70's, writing about inner city life, poetry set in the workplace, political issues and visual and performance poetry.
As part of his residency at the University he will be discussing Australian poetry to students and staff and will be performing at the Wollongong City Gallery on Thursday the 23rd September at 7:30 pm, with established sound artist Warren Burt who will apply 'voice modification' techniques to his poetry.
Pi O continues to write 'Visual' poetry and is excited by a recent collaboration established with other visual poets in Italy, who are keen to publish a booklet of his Number Poems. (Number poetry involves replacing words and letters with numbers) > view some of his work.
And of his name? Pi O represents his true initials, a symbol of his balance, his love of mathematics, it is anonymous and it represents his function as a poet (the manipulation of words and letters). He has used Pi O as his name since the 70's and will continue to do so as long as he writes poetry. The University of Wollongong has received its biggest ever donation by Dr Douglas Kagi - a collection of 70 prints by eminent English artists from the second half of the 20th century valued at $200,000. Artists include Richard Hamilton, Peter Blake, Joe Tilson and Paula Rego. An exhibition of the artworks will take place at the Wollongong City Gallery on July 30.
Master Prints from the UK — The Dr Douglas Kagi Donation
University of Wollongong Art Collection : Wollongong City Gallery 31st July - 5th September 2004. Read more at: http://media.uow.edu.au/releases/2004/0722b.html 15th Annual Unicentre Acquisitive Art Award
(30th August - 17th September 2004). Exhibiting in the Long Gallery of the Faculty of Creative Arts (BLDG 25). UOW students compete for the chance to represent UOW in the National Tertiary Art Prize. Categories are: Two Dimensional Art, Three Dimensional Art, Photography, and the Yang Sheng-An Memorial Prize ("Spirit and Nature" theme).
The Yang Sheng-An Memorial Art Prize is to honour the memory of UoW student, and outstanding artist, Yang Sheng-An who drowned while surfing at East Corrimal beach in December 2002. The family of "Victor" Yang Sheng An, made a special return to Wollongong University on August 11th this year. They made a $10,000 contribution to the ‘Yang Sheng-An Memorial Art Prize’ to ensure their son's memory continues as part of this special exhibition.
Read about the visit by Victor's family / view photos >
Acquisitive Art Award winners> Exhibiting in the Glass Cabinets/Long Gallery: Undercover - Artist Books
September 2 - 30th, 2004. Opening Thursday 2nd September at 12:30pm
Undercover - an exhibition of artist books by students and staff from the Faculty of Creative Arts, University of Wollongong and the South Australian School of Arts, University of South Australia will open on Thursday, September 2, at 12.30, by Professor Amanda Lawson, Head of the School of Art and Design, FCA, UOW.
> View more A fascinating refereed essay by Helen Lambert, PhD candidate, Creative Writing (poetry), is currently the feature essay on the Australian Public Intellectuals website. The essay was published in the prestigious Journal of Australian Studies, 21st Century New Talents 2004 series, and is on the politics of Les Murray and the republic. more at: www.api-network.com.  Sonic Connections 2004 – a celebration of new music, new musical instrument design and new tuning systems - takes place Friday 10th and Saturday 11th September. Like Sonic Connections 2003, this year’s festivities include concerts of new music in alternative tuning systems, new music for purpose-built instruments and electronic systems and new applications of spatialised audio.
9th Annual Unicentre Poetry Competition.
Readings and Winners were announced Wednesday 1st September, 5:30 pm at the UniBar.
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