UWA Extension

7.00pm Wednesday 28 March 2012 To book tickets now click here. Fiona Scott-Norman takes us on a romp through her youth via really bad music and vinyl LPs which features music from white supremacists, William Shatner, Australian radio jock John Laws, dodgy Christians, and misguided football players. She takes us back to a more “innocent” time, when it was OK to be racist, sexist, or intolerant – or all three if you were a Christian recording artist. Fiona delivers this collection of ... [More]

7.30pm Thursday 1 March 2012 (5 week course) To book tickets now click here. The shaping presence of the poet – introducing the structure and themes of the poems. Four Quartets is a set of four poems by T. S. Eliot, published individually over a six-year period. These interlinked meditations have as the common theme, man’s relationship with time, the universe, and the divine. Eliot blends his Anglo-Catholicism with mystical, philosophical and poetic works from both Eastern and Weste... [More]

6:15pm Tuesday 31 January 2012 To book tickets now click here. With the sparkling city lights and starry night sky over Kings Park providing a shimmering backdrop, join director Paige Newmark for a director’s talk prior to watching a production of ‘The Tempest’. Admittance ticket and a glass of sparkling wine on arrival included. The Tempest is regarded as Shakespeare’s final masterpiece. This production will showcase an innovative Indigenous, reinterpretation of The Tempest (which ... [More]

7.00pm Wednesday 8 February 2012 To book tickets now click here. The Kimberley is home to Australia’s Great Devonian Reef – a 380 million year old structure, which preserved some of the best fossils the world has known. Placoderms – ancient armored fish once swam in this tropical reef and their fossils have revealed that their reproductive strategies were not as primitive as once thought. In 2008, the Materpiscis – the mother fish – was shown to contain the minute and perfectly pres... [More]

7.00pm Wednesday 1 February 2012 To book tickets now click here. Susan Prescott takes us on a journey into the allergy epidemic. As both a cutting-edge researcher and an allergy specialist working in a busy children’s hospital, Susan is perfectly placed to explore how and why we are experiencing an epidemic rise in allergic diseases and to discuss how we can deal with these potentially life-threatening conditions. The alarming and unprecedented rise in allergies and immune diseases ... [More]

4.00pm Wednesday 8 February 2012 (4 week course) To book tickets now click here. Between the microworld of subatomic particles and the macroworld of stars and galaxies, human minds try to make sense of it all. Out of science emerge new stories about our place in the universe, where we came from, and the future destiny of our planet and our universe. The stories we uncover are much more than strings of facts and numbers. As Einstein emphasised, our knowledge evokes deep feelings of a... [More]