Archived News Items: October 2004 Festival of Comedy at the Faculty of Creative Arts
7th, 8th and 9th of October - Three world premiere one act plays in repertoire: 5pm, 7pm and 8:30pm each evening. Performed by second Year students. Bookings 4221 4889 or e-mail brooke_green@uow.edu.au
Admission: $15 / $9. Bring your own supper!
- Let's Hope - A tribute to the great comedian Bob Hope
- Androcles - based very lossely on Aesop's Fable
- The Canterville Rubies - an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's story by Rick Burchall
> More information on each play... EVENT: Nude Auction Graduate Show Fundraiser
VENUE: Faculty of Creative Arts Long Gallery
DATE AND TIME: 12.30 Thursday 7th October
The Faculty of Creative Arts invites you to a “Nude Auction” in the FCA Long Gallery. “Nudes” is a collection of original artworks by lecturers and students celebrating the tradition of the nude in artmaking. The auction contains an eclectic range of artworks from the traditional sketch to the abstract and the digital.
This is a great opportunity for you to acquire an original artwork at a budget
price, all in support of the 2004 Graduate Exhibition for the Faculty of Creative
Arts. So please come along and lend your support, and perhaps find a beautiful artwork for you to enjoy.
For further information, please contact the Auction Director Kate Francis on
kef74@uow.edu.au. Works may be viewed from 12pm on the day. Transient Memory ... BCA Honours Exhibition
Opening by Associate Professor Diana Wood Conroy, Friday October 8th at 6pm, in the FCA Gallery, Building 25, University of Wollongong.
Artists: Clare Cochrane, Dimple Rajyaguru, Tamara Gulic and Jude McCauley. Exhibiting until 22nd October.
 Graduation Vocal Recitals by FCA singers Emma Caddy and Alison Robertson (pictured) at the Wesley Uniting Church, Crown St. Mall, Wollongong on Saturday, October 30th, at 7.00pm.
ALSO...
Vocal Music Lunch Hour Concert : 14th October
Featuring second and third year FCA performance students specialising in voice: "Music for a While"
Music by Wolf, Brahms, Mozart, Fauré and Purcell. Accompanists: Lisa Baraldi and David Vance. Admission for this recital is by gold coin donation. All welcome.
Where: At the Wesley Church in Wollongong City Mall, Crown Street.
Date/Time: Thursday 14th October, 12:30-1:30pm. Two Graduation Plays in repertory: 
Wollongong premieres by Directors Linda Nicholls-Gidley and Chris Mead (pictured). Terrorism by the Presnyakov Brothers (translated by Sasha Dugdale) and directed by Chris Mead.
14th, 16th, 20th and 22nd October.
Song of Survival by E&R Harder, directed by Linda Nicholls-Gidley.
15th, 19th, 21st and 23rd October.
Based on an autobiographical book by Helen Colijn. The story of how women prisoners-of-war in Japanese camps used music to sustain themselves. The Black Lounge ... presented by the Sound Composition & Music production students at the FCA. Exciting ORIGINAL pieces spannning from theatre and video displays to live string quartets and rock bands.
When: Saturday 16th October, 2:30pm - 4:30pm
Where: Hope Theatre at UOW (Building 40)
Tickets: $10 / $5 concession available at the door.
 'The Fabric of the Ancient Theatre - Excavation Journals from Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean'
by Diana Wood Conroy.
The Fabric of the Ancient Theatre is an imaginative journey through the evolution of the theatre that uncovers the complex and layered world of the Eastern Mediterranean, both ancient and modern. Wood Conroy’s writing is scholarly and personal, intensely focused and deeply eclectic. This is a book about the past and the present, memory and loss, permanence and the ephemeral.
You are all cordially invited to a book launch on Thursday 21st October at the Unicentre Bookshop (4:30pm).
View Invitation Flyer >
Another Book Launch was held at the Nicholson Museum at the University of Sydney on Thursday 30th November, 2004. Featuring Diana's Book (above) and "Fabrika: An ancient Theatre of Paphos" by Richard Green, Craig Barker and Smadar Gabrieli. 
From Left: Mr Panayiotis Cristofi (Australian Cypriot Community Leader), A/Professor Diana Wood-Conroy (FCA - UOW) , (His Excellency) Mr Achilleas Antoniades (Cyprus High Commission), and Mr Mehmet Adil (PhD candidiate at the FCA - UOW. Performance Forum for the Wollongong City Gallery
CONTEMPORARY PERFORMANCE AND THE AVANT GARDE: NOW AND THEN - Sun Oct 24th 2pm Two leading alternative performance company performer/devisors - Pierre Thibaudeau ( Entr'acte) and Jeff Stein ( Gravity Feed) will speak of their past work and the impact that their radical performance choices had on their respective audiences. Video presentations will form part of the program.
A panel of local performance practitioners, led by Janys Hayes (Director Critical Mass Theatre), will speak in response to the presentations and in reply to the question "The Avant Garde - where is it now?"
This proposed forum follows in the style of forums run previously by IPAC and Anne-Louise Rentell, the Wollongong Performance Arts Facilitator at IPAC. It is aimed to attract students and artists involved in the performing arts, visual and new media arts as well as interested members of the public. Janys Hayes is the artistic director of Critical Mass Theatre, whose production Surface Tension, is showing throughout Viva at Project Contemporary Artspace. Janys is a Lecturer at the University of Wollongong's Faculty of Creative Arts.
This Forum is supported by the Wollongong City Gallery in conjunction with Viva la gong festival.  Critical Mass Theatre's Surface Tension is a new explosive performance of physical theatre, video and sound. At the newly opened Project Contemporary Artspace, Surface Tension is designed to cross the boundaries of theatre, visual art and new media.
Critical Mass Theatre is an Illawarra performance group that aims to foster new performative styles in the region, whilst also creating a pertinent and political theatrical voice.
Surface Tension, both in its creative development and in this production, has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding advisory body, Wollongong City Council Cultural Services, Faculty of Creative Arts, Wollongong University.
Alistair Davies, Janys Hayes, Bel Macedone, Jeff Stein & John Thorpe perform Surface Tension with Sarah Moss as Video Artist and Brent Williams as Composer and Musician.
At Project Contemporary Artspace 255 Keira St Wollongong On Sat 23rd Oct, Sun 24th Oct, Wed 27th Oct, Thurs 28th Oct., Fri 29th Oct. Sat 30th Oct,
At 8pm all nights except Sunday at 6pm. Cost $16 /Conc. $10.
More information: Janys Hayes ph-4221 4429 or: janys_hayes@uow.edu.au
Masters Exhibition by Megan Turner in the Blutac Gallery
Opening Thursday 28th October at 6pm for 6.30pm. All Welcome. Art Gallery NSW library - 'Undercover' - an Exhibition of artist books by staff and students from FCA University of Wollongong and the School of Art, University of South Australian. Until 10th December.
View images > Home Sweet Home - Works from the Peter Fay Collection
A National Gallery of Australia Travelling Exhibition
2 October - 28 November 2004
Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Art Centre, Gymea NSW. Opening 1st October 2004 at 6.00 p.m. by Councillor Kevin Schrieber, Mayor Sutherland Shire.
To enter into Home Sweet Home: Works from the Peter Fay Collection at the National Gallery of Australia is to enter into a sense of adventure. This exciting show of predominantly Australian and New Zealand contemporary art provides the opportunity for new ways of thinking about inventive displays and approaches to collecting art.
Co-curated by Dr Deborah Hart, Senior Curator of Australian Painting and Sculpture at the NGA (and University of Wollongong Alumni), and Glenn Barkley, Curator, University of Wollongong, Art Collection the exhibition challenges conventions and opens up fresh ways of engaging with the vitality of the processes of art-making and collecting. It reminds us that you don’t need to be hugely wealthy to be a collector but rather than you can develop an interesting collection by taking risks and an imaginative approach.
RSVP by 29th September (02) 8536 5700 The Coordinator of Visual Arts, Sue Blanchfield has been selected to exhibit her "By design-made in Australia" work at the national textile survey exhibition, the Tamworth Fibre Textile Biennial which opens in September at the Tamworth Gallery and tours Australia for two years.
She has also been selected to exhibit in the International Triennial of Tapestry, Lodz '04 in Poland, opening May 24 -Oct 31 (the works represent all facets of the fibre/textile practice, not exclusively tapestry) > more information from Sue
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