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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 Melbour...

Dindin Jingyi Wang wins 2025 Dorcas McClean Travelling Scholarship

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

Multimedia artwork provides unique insights into bushfires

4 February 2025
An innovative University of Melbourne multimedia project, which harnesses the latest visual effects technology to offer new insights into the ferocity of bushfires, will open...

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...

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.”...

'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...

'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....

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, cond...

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...

‘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 aroun...

‘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...

‘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 re...