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Fifty books for fifty years: celebrating half a century of collecting Primary information
| Date: |
Thursday May 08, 2008 to Sunday August 31, 2008 |
| Time: |
Library opening hours |
| Location: |
Level 1, ISB wing, Sir Louis Matheson Library (Building 4), Clayton campus |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Description: | A special Library exhibition has been mounted as part of the celebrations for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Monash University. Fifty academics and researchers have each chosen a book from the Library's Rare Books Collection which has particular significance to them. The result is an amazing variety of material. Many items are on display for the first time. The fifty academics explain their (sometimes surprising) selections in the exhibition catalogue. |
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http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/exhibitions/ |
| Category: | Exhibition |
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Laurence Aberhart / James Newitt Primary information
| Date: |
Thursday June 05, 2008 to Saturday July 19, 2008 |
| Time: |
Monday - Friday: 10am - 5pm |
| Location: |
Faculty Gallery, Faculty of Art & Design, Art & Design Building, 900 Dandenong Rd, Caulfield East, Caulfield campus |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Description: | MUMA @ Faculty Gallery Presents:
Laurence Aberhart / James Newitt
These parallel exhibitions offer the photographs of highly regarded New Zealand artist Laurence Aberhart adjacent to the work of emerging Tasmanian artist James Newitt. Whilst each exhibition takes its form from the internal logic of the artist's practice, there are also shared interests which flow between these separate bodies of work.
Laurence Aberhart: The photographs of Laurence Aberhart reflect the rush and flow of time documenting the vernacular architecture of rural New Zealand, recording the meeting places of communities which have been subject to enormous change and capturing fragile traces of the early lives of the artist's children. This exhibition brings together works by this eminent New Zealand photographer dating from the 1970s to the present. Selected works in series, such as The Maori churches of Northland, community halls and Freemasons lodges, are presented alongside affecting single images: a light suspended over a Toowoomba street; the blurred movement of a child in the dappled shadows of the undergrowth and the graffiti of an unknown poet discovered in the dunes.
James Newitt: 'I notice these little things, how they change'.
James Newitt watches and listens. Intensely interested in the experience of place and memory, he takes us hitch-hiking through frosty hinterlands in his work 'Arberg Bay'and looking for echoes of the Saturday night dances once held at Koonya Hall, on Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula. 'Saturday Nights 2006' offers a portrait of a community in changing times. At Newitt's instigation, Koonya Hall, once the location of weekly Saturday night dances, again opens its doors to local music-makers and revellers. This gently observed work celebrates the particular as well as the unexpected the vernacular richness of an architecture so familiar it is almost invisible and the anticipation and warmth of an evening perched between the 'now' and 'then'. |
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http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/ |
| Category: | Exhibition |
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Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 Primary information
| Date: |
Wednesday July 02, 2008 to Saturday September 06, 2008 |
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Tuesday-Friday: 10am-5pm, Saturday: 2pm-5pm |
| Location: |
Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Ground Floor Bldg 55, Monash University, Wellington Road Clayton VIC 3800, Clayton campus |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Description: | Monash University Museum of Art, Melbourne in partnership with the Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane is pleased to present the first major survey exhibition of leading Australian artist Diena Georgetti.
The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008 reveals Georgetti's enigmatic and elusive artistic practice across the last two decades. From early blackboard paintings, which achieved considerable critical attention when first shown in 1989 at Brisbane's Institute of Modern Art, and subsequently at the 1992 Biennale of Sydney to recent paintings co-opting early modernist styles, this exhibition will present the full scope of Georgetti's intriguing and diverse oeuvre and allow us to take stock of the breadth and development of her practive.
The humanity of abstract painting 1988-2008 will bring together works from various private collections in Australia and New Zealand, as well as several public collections.
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http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/ |
| Category: | Exhibition |
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Emily Loves To Bounce Primary information
| Date: |
Friday July 04, 2008 |
| Time: |
10am & 11:45am |
| Location: |
Alexander Theatre, Clayton campus |
| Cost: |
$15 - Adults at Children's Prices |
| Description: | Emily Loves to Bounce is an enchanting performance inspired by the books of Stephen Michael King. Balls and boxes, eccentricity and efficiency, spontaneity and organisation, all come together in the friendship of Henry and Amy. Through music, games, songs and dance this acclaimed Patch Theatre production inspires the creativity, imagination and exuberance of childhood. |
| Website: |
http://www.monash.edu.au/monart/whatson/2008/emily-bounce.html |
| Category: | Performing Arts |
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Opening celebration: Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1998-2008 Primary information
| Date: |
Saturday July 05, 2008 |
| Time: |
3pm |
| Location: |
Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Ground floor, Building 55, Monash University, Clayton campus |
| Cost: |
Free |
| Description: | Professor John Redmond, Chair and Max Delany, Director, MUMA cordially invite Monash staff to attend the opening function of: Diena Georgetti: The Humanity of Abstract Painting 1988-2008, with opening remarks at 3.45pm by Sue Cramer, Public Programs Co-ordinator, Heide Museum of Modern Art. Light refreshments will be served. The exhibition will continue to 6 September 2008. For further details and opening hours visit the MUMA website. |
| Website: |
http://www.monash.edu.au/muma/ |
| Category: | Exhibition |
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Jimeoin On Ice Primary information
| Date: |
Saturday July 05, 2008 |
| Time: |
Saturday 5 July at 7:30pm |
| Location: |
Alexander Theatre, Building 7, Clayton campus |
| Cost: |
Adult $34.90, Concession $31.90, Group: (10+) $31.90 |
| Description: | A-List Entertainment presents Jimeoin On Ice From the magical world of Jimeoin comes this smash hit show. See Jimeoin gracefully skate through brilliantly funny observations on the absurdities of everyday life. Get your skates on!
"A Comic Masterpiece" Daily Mail UK |
| Website: |
http://www.monash.edu.au/monart/whatson/2008/jimeoin.html |
| Category: | Performing Arts |
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