Transition: A shared space
Exhibition
This is a journey of memory and emotion, from images of Country to interpretive drawings and photos that contemplate the state of transition, a shared space. » More on the School of Art website
Rob Nugent, You talk… No you talk ! 1 June 2012
Seminar
Small video cameras (GO PRO cameras) and microphones were issued to children who are participating in community development projects in Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Zambia and Malawi. Each child, after basic instruction in the use of the camera and microphone, set off to explore, discuss and…
Bob Connolly presents Mrs Carey's Concert
Arts & entertainment
Mrs Carey’s Concert Directed by Bob Connolly and Sophie Raymond, Mrs Carey’s Concert is a multi-award winning observational documentary about music making and coming of age at an elite girls school. Bob Connolly Connolly began his career at the ABC, directing some 30 documentaries in the 1970s…
HRC Seminar - A question of cosmopolitanism: Lady Craven on the world stage.
Seminar
Lady Elizabeth Craven (1750-1828), later the Princess Berkeley and Margravine of Anspach, shared the international experience and cosmopolitan impulses of many writers and thinkers of the long eighteenth century. Craven considered herself a literary citizen of the world: she lived on the…
HRC Seminar - John Grierson, the Documentary Film Movement and ‘Internationalism’.
Seminar
Much has been written of John Grierson, the so-called ‘Father of the Documentary Movement’ in Britain and the Canadian Film Commissioner during the Second World War. He remains a controversial and contested figure. Until recently, few works focussed on the international character of the documentary…
HRC Seminar - The two Giuseppes: The influence of Garibaldi and Mazzini on popular politics after 1850.
Seminar
Giuseppe Garibaldi and Giuseppe Mazzini have become little more than footnotes in the history of popular politics in the anglophone world after 1850. Among the general public today their names are all but forgotten. In the second half of the nineteenth century, however, Garibaldi and Mazzini…