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• One-night-only exhibition Next to Nothing explores the limits of performance

  19 March 2025

  Project8 Gallery will this week host a special one-off exhibition exploring the nature of performance and its central role in the generation and presentation of the creative arts.

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• New play The Robot Dog reminds us there are some knowledges we hold that AI will never have

  12 March 2025

  Set in 2042, new play The Robot Dog revolves around Janelle (Kristie Nguy), of Cantonese heritage, and her partner Harry (Ari Maza Long), a First Nations man.

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• Melbourne Conservatorium of Music appoints Sophie Rowell as Associate Professor in Violin

  05 March 2025

  The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music is thrilled to announce Sophie Rowell’s appointment as Associate Professor in Violin.

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• Why does music make us feel things?

  27 February 2025

  Imagine a scene from the movie Jaws, with the great white shark closing in on another helpless victim. The iconic semi-tone pattern builds and your heartbeat rises with it; the suspense pulls you further to the edge of your seat.Now picture that scene without the score. Much of the tension evaporate...

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• Renowned violinist Wilma Smith receives 2025 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award

  19 February 2025

  Distinguished violinist Wilma Smith has been announced as the recipient of the 2025 Sir Bernard Heinze Memorial Award.

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• University of Melbourne and Australian Chamber Orchestra launch life-changing music program for Victorian primary school students

  11 February 2025

  The University of Melbourne and the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO) have launched an award-winning music and string instrument learning program, ACO Foundations, at Melbourne’s Belle Vue Park Primary School in Glenroy.

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• Dindin Jingyi Wang wins 2025 Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship

  04 February 2025

  Dindin Jingyi Wang has been awarded the 2025 Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship, Australia’s richest prize for young violinists.

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• Flashover — Multimedia artwork provides unique insights into bushfires

  04 February 2025

  An innovative University of Melbourne multimedia project, which harnessed the latest visual effects technology to offer new insights into the ferocity of bushfires, was exhibited at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music in February.

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• When does an actor stop, and AI begin? What The Brutalist and Emilia Pérez tell us about AI in Hollywood

  29 January 2025

  The Brutalist has drawn attention this week for its use of artificial intelligence (AI) to refine some of the actors’ dialogue. Emilia Pérez, a musical crime comedy, also used AI to extend lead star Karla Sofía Gascón’s vocal range. Her singing voice was blended with that of French popstar Camille, ...

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• Nicholas Currie: Don’t look in the dark or something will look back at ya: Paintings by a ghost fella

  19 December 2024

  In Glossary of a Haunting, Eve Tuck and C. Ree describe the structure of settler colonialism as “an ongoing horror made invisible by its persistence.”

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• 'Young artists should have a right to invent the world, rather than just receive it': Meet Honours coordinator Dane Mitchell

  18 December 2024

  Dane Mitchell is a multi-award-winning artist and Head of Honours at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA). He answered some questions for us about his own practice and the enriching possibilities that arise through pursuing an Honours year in Visual Art.

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• 'Research for me starts with the body': Meet Honours (Visual Art) graduate Nicole Goode

  18 December 2024

  Nicole Goode and I are at the 2024 Grad Show, sitting on the grind rail she had made in the metal workshop, as part of her final Honours work.

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• University of Melbourne confers Honorary Doctorate on music education leader Professor André de Quadros

  17 December 2024

  The University of Melbourne has conferred an honorary doctorate on Professor André de Quadros, a childhood refugee and now senior international leader in music education, conducting, ethnomusicology and human rights activism.

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• Melbourne Conservatorium of Music students present two versions of the opera Hänsel und Gretel

  29 November 2024

  Two versions of Engelbert Humperdinck’s 1893 opera Hänsel und Gretel will be performed by Melbourne Conservatorium of Music students in December — one for children and a darker version for adults.

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• ‘Remember who you are and where you come from’: Meet VCA graduating artist Nicholas Currie

  26 November 2024

  Meet Nicholas Currie, a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) student in the Painting department. Nicholas’ work is deeply reflective of the experiences of his community around him.

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• ‘Everyday objects are given new meaning’: Meet VCA graduating artist Rachel Rovira

  25 November 2024

  Rachel Rovira is a graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts student at the VCA. Rachel’s work uncovers the harm of extractivism through her own experiences undertaking fieldwork.

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• ‘It’s in unexpected places that you will find exactly what you’re looking for’: Meet VCA graduating artist Tess Rogers

  25 November 2024

  Bachelor of Fine Arts student Tess Rogers explores the way fabric can evoke lost emotions and memories in her latest photography series, inspecting the boundaries of social reproduction and femininity. We spoke to Tess ahead of the 2024 VCA Art Grad Show.

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• ‘There is an immense sense of fulfilment that comes as a result of resonating with art’: Meet VCA graduating artist Baillie Jackson

  25 November 2024

  For graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts student Baillie Jackson, identity sits at the forefront of their photography practice. We spoke to Baillie ahead of the 2024 VCA Art Grad Show.

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• ‘Artists exist to speak the truth’: Meet VCA graduating artist Ziyi Wei

  25 November 2024

  Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) student Ziyi Wei uses jewellery and ornamentation to explore themes of desire, gendered bodies, and the erosion of ethnic culture in modern society. We spoke with Ziyi before she unveiled her latest work at the 2024 VCA Art Grad Show.

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• Emerging visual artists debut work at 2024 VCA Grad Show

  25 November 2024

  The VCA Art Grad Show returns this week with an extraordinary display of new work by graduating students at the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts (VCA).

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• VCA graduates showcase short films in partnership with MIFF

  31 October 2024

  The next generation of Australian filmmakers will showcase their graduating works from the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) from 26 November to 10 December.

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• A decade after the US version ended, Australia remakes The Office. It’s not new, but it’s funny

  21 October 2024

  Just over ten years after the United States version of the British series ended, Australia has decided to make its own version. It follows franchises in Canada, Greece, India, Sweden and Poland, to name a few.

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• University of Melbourne to host Collaborate. Innovate. Create. forum

  21 October 2024

  The University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music (Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and Victorian College of the Arts) will host the inaugural Collaborate. Innovate. Create. forum on Thursday 24 October.

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• Innovative music program for children with disabilities seeks new cohort for 2025

  11 October 2024

  A University of Melbourne research program run in conjunction with Melbourne Youth Orchestras (MYO), the Adaptive Music Bridging Program, is currently seeking a new cohort of young musicians to join its program in 2025.

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• New exhibition Chronomingle explores the interplay of time, culture and storytelling

  10 October 2024

  The University of Melbourne’s Project8 Gallery has launched a new exhibition exploring the nature of storytelling across different historical and cultural contexts.

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• Sydney Dance Company’s momenta – a breathtaking study in perpetual motion

  09 October 2024

  Artistic director Rafael Bonachela’s latest work for the Sydney Dance Company, momenta, had its Melbourne premiere on 8 October at the Playhouse Theatre in the Arts Centre.

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• What the Paiwanese nose flute tells us about ‘intangible culture’

  07 October 2024

  Archives are strange things. On one hand, they are repositories of the past and the people that came before us. On the other, they are partial snapshots that do not adequately capture diverse cultural practices. The Paiwan worldview is a particularly salient example.

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• Unique performance co-created by VCA Theatre students to feature at Alter State festival

  01 October 2024

  An innovative durational performance event created by Joshua Pether in collaboration with Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre) students from the Victorian College of the Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts and Music will feature as part of disability-led arts initiative Alter State 2024.

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• David Balfour appointed Head of Film and Television

  24 September 2024

  David Balfour has been appointed as the new Head of Film and Television at the Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) within the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Fine Arts and Music.

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• University of Melbourne and Australian Chamber Orchestra partnership renewal spotlights the value of music and education at every level

  24 September 2024

  University of Melbourne students and staff, and Victorian primary school students, will be among the key beneficiaries of a seven-year extension to the University’s exclusive partnership with the Australian Chamber Orchestra (ACO). The two-part partnership renewal will launch in 2025 — t...

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• In Conversation with the Creators of 'Paper City'

  17 September 2024

  Paper City follows the survivors of a US air attack on eastern Tokyo. Now in their twilight years, the survivors battle for recognition and reparations under a government reluctant to acknowledge them. Currently having its world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), we spoke ...

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• Oscar: the tragedy and beauty of Wilde’s life, and an historic moment on the ballet stage

  16 September 2024

  Christopher Wheeldon and The Australian Ballet’s Oscar, which had its world premiere in Melbourne on September 13, is based on the story of Oscar Wilde: the writer, the man, the protester.

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