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Windsor hotel a canvas for VCA artists
26 July - 5 September
The Windsor hotel has been transformed into an art installation space by a selection of VCA graduate students, as part of the hotel’s 130th birthday celebrations. Featuring conceptual and material interpretations of Luminescence, the exhibition also includes The Windsor Art Award, a $10,000 scholarship that will be awarded this week by a panel of leading judges including photographer Bill Henson. 38 installations are currently on show from 7am – 10.30pm in a multitude of quirky spaces within the hotel including ceilings, lift wells, fireplaces, guest corridors, lights, windows and historic staircases.
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Mimir Chamber Music Festival
28 August - 1 September
Chamber Music junkies cannot miss the inaugural Melbourne season of the Mimir Chamber Music Festival. Founded in 1998 in Fort Worth, Texas, by MCM Head of Strings Dr Curt Thompson, the visiting festival will include open rehearsals and performances by artists from the Chicago and Houston Symphony Orchestras, The Cleveland Orchestra and the Cavani String Quartet. Named six times in The Dallas Morning News’ annual “Top 10 Musical Events of the Year”, with this expansion to Australia it's poised to become one of the leading festivals in both continents.
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Musical Migrants
16 August - 12 October
Curated by MCM PhD candidate Alison Rabinovici, Musical Migrants: Pictures & Stories from the Lucanian Community in Melbourne at Museo Italiano tells the little known story of a remarkable group of migrants and their descendants in Australia and other destinations of the Italian diaspora. Based on the photographs and stories generously shared by the Melbourne Lucanian community, the exhibition focuses on their musical contribution to Melbourne during the years 1880-1940.
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Femen doco at Venice
VCA alumna Kitty Green (BFTV 2007) was arrested by Belarusian KGB agents while shooting her first feature film Ukraine is not a Brothel, revealing the truth behind topless Ukrainian feminist protesters Femen. The film has now been selected to premiere at the prestigious Venice Film Festival. Ms Green spent one year with the members of Femen in Kiev, observing the relationships and activity behind the movement that began in the streets of post-Soviet Ukraine. The film is co-produced by fellow alum Michael Latham (BFTV 2008) and Jonathan auf der Heide (BFTV 2007).
Read story in The Age »
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Pathways scholarships open
The VCA & MCM are offering two professional development programs for recent graduates, funded by the State Government through Arts Victoria. The Professional Pathways Scholarships are worth $25,000 each and will be awarded to seven projects undertaken collaboratively by a Victorian not-for-profit arts organisation and a recent VCA & MCM graduate. The one-year Graduate Mentorships will provide project funding of $25,000 to four recent VCA & MCM graduates who are making their way in the professional arts world and want to work with a mentor.
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Learning to act
Macgeorge Fellow Professor Mary Luckhurst from the University of York believes a physical approach to staging text called ‘Pulse’, devised by VCA lecturer and theatre-maker Tanya Gerstle, could revolutionise actor training in the United Kingdom. In 2015, Bloomsbury Press will publish Physical Acting: Words Made Flesh, co-authored by Gerstle and Luckhurst. In this book Pulse will be explained clearly alongside exercises contextualised by case studies showing its application to classical and contemporary text or a devised piece. Established Australian actors and directors will also shed light on their own interpretations of the method.
Read story in Voice »
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Open Day 2013
Sunday 18 August, 10am – 4pm, Parkville and Southbank campuses
Open Day is the best opportunity for future undergraduate and graduate students and their families to visit the VCA & MCM’s Parkville and Southbank campuses. The program for the day includes information sessions, performances, activities and the opportunity to visit classes. Guests can also speak with staff about admissions information. View the Open Day program online and register.
VCA Graduate Study Week
16 - 20 September
Graduate study at the VCA involves professional training programs tailored to industry needs and creative arts research. We invite future graduate students to be among the next cohort of artists and innovators seeking a transformative education. View the VCA Graduate Study Week program and register.
Savages
Savages, a new play by multi-award winning writer Patricia Cornelius, takes a tough look at masculinity and misogyny amongst a pack of ordinary young men. Four friends embark on the holiday of a life time – but their excitement is soured by anger, bitterness and the disappointment of their own lives.
For your chance to WIN a double pass to the performance on Tuesday 20th August, 7.30pm email vcamcm-enews@unimelb.edu.au with your name & address.
16 August – 8 September
www.fortyfivedownstairs.com
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The Comedy Of Errors
Bell Shakespeare takes audiences on a wild ride updating one of Shakespeare’s earliest comedies into the red-light district of Kings Cross from dusk till dawn. Laden with cheeky nods to popular culture, this witty farce will have you in stitches!
For your chance to WIN one of five double passes to the preview on Tuesday 20 August, 7.30pm email vcamcm-enews@unimelb.edu.au with your name & address.
20–31 August
Arts Centre Melbourne
Fairfax Studio
bellshakespeare.com.au
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Melbourne Writers Festival
The world of literature is much bigger than just books! Join Melbourne Writers Festival from Thursday 22 August to Sunday 1 September 2013 in celebrating off-the-page creativity with live performance and music events.
For your chance to WIN a double pass to Friday Night Live on Friday 30 August, 9pm, simply email win@mwf.com.au with subject line ‘Friday Night Live’ by Friday 16 August.
22 August - 1 September
www.mwf.com.au/2013
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Image credits: Highlight 1: Anna Ng, 'Crystal City'; Highlight 2: Dr Curt Thompson; Highlight 3: The Gathering 2012. Photo by Sav Schulman. Highlight 4: Children from Viggiano c1917; News 1: Film still from 'Ukiraine is not a Brothel'; News 2: James Batchelor, 2012 scholarship recipient; News 3: Tanya Gerstle’s recent VCA production of Pericles Punished (after Pericles, Prince of Tyre by William Shakespeare). Presented by Acting Company 2013 and 1st, 2nd and 3rd year Production students. Photo by Jeff Busby. June, 2013. Focus: Open Day 2013; Giveaway 1: Photographer: Sarah Walker.
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