Yhonnie Scarce is an artist known for sculptural installations which span architecturally-scaled public art projects to intimately-scaled assemblages replete with personal and cultural histories. Scarce is a master glass-blower, which she puts to the service of spectacular and spectral installations full of aesthetic, cultural, and political significance. Her work also engages the photographic archive and found…
Topic: Indigenous Knowledge
Hobart College Sustainable Food Festival
A celebration of insect proteins and other innovations in food. Our popular, student run cafe will feature crickets, mealworms and products made from insect flours, supported by information collated by science students. During our regular pastoral care time, all students will have the opportunity to participate in National Science Week activities based around the theme…
Mid-Afternoon Masterclass: Dating Australia’s rock art
Australia hosts the oldest ongoing culture in the world with Aboriginal rock art providing an important window into what Australia’s First People were doing and the things that were important to them when it was created. However, in order to understand how these remarkable artworks might relate to things like changes in the climate and…
Experimenta Life Forms
Philosophers have wrestled with defining life for thousands of years. EXPERIMENTA LIFE FORMS reveals how contemporary artists are approaching this perennial question, at a time when technological change and new research findings are making definitions of ‘life’ increasingly difficult to pin down. What new life forms are emerging through technological and biological adaptation and invention?…
Scitech Presents The Great National Science Week Scavenger Hunt
We’re celebrating National Science Week with a free weekend event that everyone can enjoy. See Perth in a whole new way as you follow the clues, solve riddles and discover that science is all around you. With prizes and experiments along the way, it will be a fun and creative weekend for all ages. How…
goIT Monthly Challenge – August
Did you know that nearly all Australians aged 2-18, and 9 in 10 adults aged 19 and over do not consume enough vegetables. Many remote and rural communities in Australia don’t have adequate access to fresh foods contributing to food insecurity in those areas. Tata Consultancy Services in partnerships with Food Ladder and Woolworths Australia…
Murray Bridge South Science Week
Local Indigenous presenter David Booth will focus on food through an Indigenous lens. Learning activities will include: Cultural presentation focusing on Indigenous tools used for food preparation/collection and sources of food. STEM investigation into non powered ways to heat food (solar oven). Investigation of Indigenous plants to utilise in future cooking projects. Students will get…
Winton Wetlands Science Forum – Managing wetlands in times of uncertainty
Sessions include: DAY 1 Rewilding of iconic species Communities of Practice for Restoration Forum dinner DAY 2 Grassland managment Wetland walk
Bush Foods and Science workshop
First Nations Peoples have used plants as food for thousands of years. In this one-hour interactive workshop participants will learn about: the cultural significance of bush food; Indigenous plant identification and growing conditions; and edible uses of plants. During the workshop you will learn in-depth information about how Indigenous peoples have been using these plants…
Birds and Language Conference
The sounds birds make form structured series, comprised of complex syntaxes, nuanced in tone, precise, sometimes excessive, often regarded as being of compelling aesthetic value. We do not hesitate to refer to many of these sounds as songs, or, more prosaically, calls. We move, easily, too, towards thinking about these sounds as a species of language. More, we readily…