India Residency Exhibition
30 August - 29 September

Ghar ghar ki baat/Tales from two homes presents work by three contemporary Indian artists: Neha Choksi (Bangalore), Rakhi Peswani (Mumbai) and Brendan Fernandes (Toronto/New York), alongside Melbourne artists Kate Daw, Emily Floyd and John Meade. This follows the exhibition Sleep on the Left Side in New Delhi late last year and considers the fluid nature of home and connectedness.

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University of Melbourne Orchestra
Friday 4 October, 7.30pm

In this concert at the Melbourne Recital Centre conducted by Fabian Russell, the University of Melbourne Orchestra performs music from three of the most important composers of the Germanic tradition. The program begins with a performance of Brahms’ Academic Festival Orchestra. Exciting young oboist Jasper Ly will perform Richard Strauss’ Oboe Concerto, before the concert concludes with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No.2.

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Women and the Silent Screen
30 September - 2 October

The VCA in collaboration with the Gender Studies Program at the University of Melbourne is hosting the seventh international Women and the Silent Screen conference. Themed this year to ‘Performance and the Emotions’, the conference constitutes the largest and most prestigious global meeting in the field of gender and early film, attracting outstanding scholars working across a broad range of disciplines.

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Davidson to lead new research initiative

The University has recruited one of the world’s most respected performance and music psychology academics, Professor Jane Davidson, who will serve as the inaugural head of the University’s major research initiative in the Creative and Performing Arts, based in the Faculty of VCA & MCM. Professor Davidson said she was very much looking forward to leading the new initiative and cementing strong relationships within the national and international Arts communities.

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Schools Engagement Project with The Smith Family

The MCM’s pilot engagement project with The Smith Family, delivered throughout Term 3 2013, has seen a number of staff and recent graduates working with students on a weekly basis from Bendigo and Ballarat secondary schools. The program, known as SmArts, has featured a wide variety of sessions from ensemble work and improvisation workshops to performance preparation classes. The project culminated in a gala concert at Melba Hall last Friday.

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Travelling scholarship provides inspiration

A new $10,000 travelling scholarship provided by the Majlis Pty Ltd gives a VCA third year art student the opportunity to travel overseas at the conclusion of their undergraduate studies. Its inaugural winner, Miss Grace Wood, is interested in the way Buddhism influences contemporary art and she plans to use the scholarship to travel through China, Tibet and Burma, before embarking on Honours study at the VCA in 2014.

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The Tempest

Presented by Union House Theatre and written by William Shakespeare; directed by and starring VCA alumni Matt Scholten and Tom Gutteridge respectively.   A ship of fools and royalty comes crashing into Prospero’s life and his only companion, his sequestered daughter Miranda, discovers that her father believes in magic, spirits and, thankfully, forgiveness.

For your chance to WIN one of five double passes to a performance on Saturday 12 October at 7.30pm, simply email vcamcm-enews@unimelb.edu.au with your name and contact details.

10–12, 16–19 October
union.unimelb.edu.au/thetempest

Hard Rubbish

Presented by the award-winning Men of Steel, the story is simple – retro, dishevelled and abandoned furniture left on the street on ‘hard rubbish’ collection day wages war against their usurpers: the flat-packed Swedes armed with allen keys and instruction booklets!

For your chance to WIN one of 3 double passes to a performance on Saturday 21 September at 7pm, simply email your name and contact details, with 'VCA & MCM' in the subject line, to: news@malthousetheatre.com.au. Winners only will be notified.

12 September to 6 October
malthousetheatre.com.au

Water Torture

The Millinery is excited to present the upcoming production Water Torture, as part of the Melbourne Fringe at 'The Dock' at Revolt Artspace in Kensington. Just another 40 degree day in the life of two bored Melbourne Inner North Public Pool Lifeguards: ethnic tensions; sexual harrassment; lap lane abuse; blood in the water; and floating turds. Your typical Northside melting pot of cultures, with plenty of chlorine.

For your chance to WIN a double pass to a performance on Saturday 21 September at 7.30pm, simply email vcamcm-enews@unimelb.edu.au with your name and contact details.

18 - 29 September
melbournefringe.com.au