Upcoming Events

You are warmly invited to this deeply personal story by Professor Jing Han—at once hilarious and sombre, illuminating, reflective, and evocative.This event will be opened by Professor Barney Glover AO, Commissioner of Jobs and Skills and former Vice-Chancellor of Western Sydney University.

Writers in Conversation #3 features Jumaana Abdu, an award-winning and brilliant young Australian writer. The Conversation will be chaired by Professor Jing Han, Director of IAC, with the participation from writing students of WSRC. Topics covered will include how Jumaana has carved out her literary career while continuing her work as a medical doctor; what fuels her literary exploration; and the emergence of new voices that are reshaping contemporary Australian literature.

Qiyun in Chinese aesthetics are a type of intertwined energies across human breath, ink splashing and string sonic vibrations. In this multi-artform project musicians skilled in ancient Chinese erhu and guzheng and contemporary percussion and others perform compositions and improvise live responding to the works by the Australian artists of Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese and Korean heritages interpreted as a series of Short Films, with poetic responses in-between like interweaving leaves.