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Antipodes Festival, Monet, Costumes and more
Welcome to the April-May 2013 edition of Humanities 21 eNews.
This month in Melbourne offers a wide range of exciting events for you to explore - there are Greek History & Culture seminars as part of the Greek Community of Melbourne's Antipodes Festival; the NGV's 'Monet's Garden' opens, featuring a symposium in which you can hear renowned international speakers address key themes of the exhibition; or you could attend a lecture or do a short course in the Art & History of Garden Design. Another major exhibition with a number of associated talks is ACMI's Hollywood Costume which explores the central role costume design plays in cinema storytelling. Long term exhibitions are also worth remembering, such as The Classics and Archaeology Collection at The Ian Potter Museum in the University of Melbourne, or the State Library of Victoria's ' Changing Faces of Victoria'.
Our events calendar is growing every week, and this newsletter is only a small selection of What's On for us humanities enthusiasts, so take a look and you might find something exciting you had no idea was out there!
Jane Utting, Executive Director, Humanities 21.
 Arts at WORK
Monthly Profile: Sue Hamilton
Organisation: Humanities 21
Industry: Public service & not-for-profit social enterprise.
Background: Classics degree (Oxford)
Sue Hamilton's classics degree from Oxford provided ideal training for public service, ultimately taking her to the role of CEO of the State Library of Victoria, as well as managing the federal health budget. She learned to write "from some of the best writers who ever lived" which was an asset to the public service; a paper-based world where ministers need bits of paper that they can read and understand in a car, a lift, and in parliament.
For more on how Sue's humanities study was the cornerstone to her remarkable career, go to the 'Arts at Work' page on our website. |
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Exhibition: The Changing Face of Victoria
Until 31 December, 2013
This exhibition brings together historical artefacts, photographs, drawings, maps, letters and diaries to tell the stories of the people, places and events that have shaped life in Victoria over the past 200 years. Located in the Dome Galleries overlooking the magnificent La Trobe Reading Room, the first section of the exhibition focuses on the early years of European settlement, daily life in rural Victoria, and the events and mythology surrounding that most famous Victorian, Ned Kelly.
Where: Dome Galleries, State Library of Victoria
Cost: Free
Details: here |
Seminar - Addressing The Lemnos Heritage of Gallipoli and the Forgotten Foundations of Anzac
Thur 25 April 2013, 7pm.
Part of the Antipodes Festival 2013
As the Gallipoli centenary approaches, a research project seeking to demonstrate the importance of Lemnos to the entire venture and to contribute to the island’s (re)inclusion in the conceptualisation of the Anzac campaign at Gallipoli is proposed. Speaker Dr John Yiannakis, has been a Research Fellow at Murdoch & Curtain Universities.
Location: Wheeler Centre
Cost: Free
Details: here |
Symposium: Impressions of Monet
Sat 11 May, 2013, 1.30pm-4.30pm:
Part of 'Monet's Garden' Exhibition at the NGV
Celebrate the most extensive exhibition of Monet’s work to ever travel to Australia and hear renowned international speakers address key themes of the exhibition. The symposium is generously supported by the Australian International Cultural Foundation, an affiliate of Art Exhibitions Australia. Numerous highly acclaimed speakers.
Location: Clemenger BBDO Auditorium at the NGV: International Art.
Cost: $50-$60
Details: here |
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Exhibition: Hollywood Costume
Wed 24 April - Sun 18 Aug, 2013
Direct from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Hollywood Costume explores the central role costume design plays in cinema storytelling. Bringing together the most iconic costumes from a century of film making, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the clothes worn by unforgettable and beloved characters in films from The Wizard of Oz (1939) to Titanic (1997), Ben-Hur (1959) to Casino Royale (2006). 'Hollywood Costume' illuminates the costume designer's creative process from script to screen and reveals the collaborative dialogue that leads to the development of authentic screen characters.
Location: Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Cost: Buy Tickets
Full $19.50 Concession $15.50 ACMI Member $13.50
Child (4-15 years) $10
Family (2 adults, 3 children) $50 ACMI Member Family $40
Unlimited entry*: Full $48 Concession $38 ACMI Member $32
School and group bookings also available
Details: here |
Seminar - Greece 1974-2013: A Critical Overview
Sun 19 May 2013, 3pm-4.30pm:
In Greece today, it is universally accepted that the current economic, social, cultural and political crisis of the country, marks the end of metapolitefsi, that is, the period of time that starts right after the downfall of the military junta in mid 1974 and runs up to the present. So… What went wrong? Speaker: Kostas Karamarkos is a graduate of the University of Melbourne where he majored in the History and Philosophy of Science.
Location: Wheeler Centre
Cost: free
Details: here |
Short Course/Lectures: Visions of paradise – The art & history of garden design
Part of 'Monet's Garden' Exhibition at NGV
Saturdays 2pm - 3pm, 25 May - 20 Jul, 2013:
Presented by local art historians and academics in landscape architecture, this nine week series of lectures explores the art and history of garden design from the Italian Renaissance to today.
Location: NGV International
Cost: $20 A / $16 M / $18 C (per lecture), $170 A / $125 M / $152 C (full series)
Details: here |
Exhibition - The John Hugh Sutton Antiques Collection: From Greece to Egypt
On until 31 Oct, 2013
Navigate the globe via ancient relics and cultural artefacts when this rare collection is on show at Ian Potter Museum of Art. The exhibition is set to feature classical coins, vases, terracotta artefacts and bronzes acquired in the late 1920s through antiquities dealers in Britain and excavation sites in Greece.
Location: Ian Potter Museum of Art, University of Melbourne
Cost: free
Details: here |
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