Bach Symposium
25 - 27 July

In honour of Prof. Christoph Wolff's contribution to Bach studies and in anticipation of the MSO performance of the B minor Mass on 7 - 9 August, the MCM with St Johns Southgate and the Australian Bach Society are hosting a symposium that showcases Bach scholarship across Australia. The symposium features performances by students of the MCM Early Music Studio and a public lecture by Prof. Christoph Wolff that addresses aspects of general interest regarding this period in Bach's life and works, including a context for the Mass in B Minor.

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re. reading : Pound at the Lenton Parr Library
17 - 30 July

re. reading Pound at the Lenton Parr Library will see Melbourne artist and book collector Patrick Pound working with the Lenton Parr Music, Visual and Performing Arts Library collections. The exhibition presents subtle and poetic interventions in the library's displays as well as substantial collection-related artworks and ephemera, all referencing the activity of reading and the book and music collections of the library as if on a dare.

Artist floor talk
Sunday 27 July, 2pm
Bookings essential

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Faculty Graduate Research Symposium
29 July

Discover the innovative research in the creative and performing arts taking place at the VCA & MCM.

Hear presentations from PhD and Masters level research candidates undertaking research projects and practice based research from across the Faculty.

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Global Atelier Cuba

The second Global Atelier took place in Havana, Cuba in May. The group included five undergraduate students from the Jazz and Improvisation major in the BFA Contemporary Music and Lecturer Alex Pertout. They spent a fortnight learning afro-cuban percussion from Havana's Roman Justo ‘Pella Apito’ Hernendez and learning to rumba!

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Alumni Story: Fred Fowler

In 2011 Fred Fowler made the jump from Melbourne's skating and graffiti counter-culture - to the VCA's School of Art. Since then he's developed into a visual artist whose recent work, 'uses the vessel of landscape painting to explore ideas about native and invasive species, both animal and human'.

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The World's Best Jazz Club: The Story of Bennetts Lane

"There is a strong sense of place about Bennett's Lane...There is an aura about Bennetts Lane. You can almost feel history in the walls" says Prof. Mark Pollard in this enagaging book about Melbourne's foremost jazz club. Written by Dr David James, honourary fellow at the VCA, the book is the story of Bennetts Lane and its founder and owner, VCA alumnus Michael Tortoni. 

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Bell Shakespeare Company presents Henry V

Damien Ryan’s vision for Henry V is inspired by a true story – in 1941, for 57 consecutive nights during the London Blitz, a group of boys trapped in a bunker rehearsed a new play each week and would then perform it for others in the shelter. This production explores the rite of passage that violence and conflict offer as a threshold to manhood. It confronts the fact that – for all the horrors of war – true courage and brotherhood can inspire remarkable achievements.

We have a double pass to giveaway to the Thursday 3 July performance of Henry V, to enter email vcamcm-enews@unimelb.edu.au

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National Gallery of Victoria: Melbourne Winter Masterpieces
16 May - 31 August

This winter the NGV presents Italian Masterpieces from Spain's Court, Museo del Prado. The finest collection of Italian masterpieces ever to come to Australia. Featuring important works by masters such as Raphael, Titian and Tiepolo, the exhibition represents an unprecedented opportunity in Australia to see extraordinary Italian works of art produced during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

We have some beautiful Italian Masterpieces exhbition catalogues to giveaway, as well as a number of double passes to the exhibition. To enter email vcamcm-enews@unimelb.edu.au

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VCA & MCM Music Winter School

Every winter VCA & MCM hosts a series of short courses and workshops in music. This July we have one place in either of: Low Brass Bootcamp (4 – 7 July) or Ironwood Chamber Music Winter School (7 – 12 July) to giveaway. Strings, brass, woodwind and keyboard players welcome from senior secondary level and above. The courses are being held at the Parkville and Southbank campuses.

To enter email vcamcm-enews@unimelb.edu.au

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