Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - October 2024
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
Friends of the ANU School of Music: Jazz Concert
Performance
The Friends of the ANU School of Music Presents: The Friends Annual Jazz Concert Featuring: The ANU Jazz Orchestra The School of Music Recording Ensemble Drinks will be available from 6:30pm and during the interval.
Dr Anthony Hooper (University of Wollongong) - ‘Epic kleos as a Model for Immortality in Plato’s Symposium’
Seminar
Epic kleos as a Model for Immortality in Plato’s Symposium The presentation of immortality in the Symposium persists as one of the most fraught topics in Plato studies, as scholars continue to struggle even to discern what model of immortality is at play. I seek to lend clarity to this issue by…
Classical Student Lunchtime Concert
Performance
Come along to listen to our talented students playing a range of different instruments. Program Sonata in F minor, op. 57, ‘Appassionata’, first movement (Allegro assai) Ludwig van Beethoven Jacob Wu - piano Blue Tongue Barry Cockcroft Sarah Williamson - clarinet …
Kate Fullagar | The Modern Saga and Forgotten History of Reynolds’ Mai Portrait
Seminar
This event will be held both on-campus and online. In March 2023 the longstanding battle for ownership of Joshua Reynolds’ Portrait of Mai (1775) was resolved. After more than two decades of struggle to retain the work in public British hands for its “historical significance [as a]…
2024 Whitworth Roach Classical Music Performance Competition & Margaret Smiles Associate Musician Prize for Pianists Finals
Performance
Through the generosity of Ms Christine Roach, students from The Australian National University are given the opportunity to perform in front of an esteemed panel and guests for their share of $20,000 in prize money. The audience will play a crucial role by voting for the [People’s…
Campus Couture: Foraged Fashion. 'We are dyeing to end Fast Fashion'
Exhibition
Plants & Place Textiles Course presents: Campus Couture: Foraged FashionWe are dyeing to end Fast Fashion Please join us as we celebrate and catwalk upcycled garments we have dyed with plant matter sourced on campus from The Kitchen Garden; Coombs surrounds, Research School of Biology &…