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| Thursday 23 September 2010 |
| Mark Dapin: King of The Cross | |
Mark Dapin, SMH Good Weekend columnist and author of King of the Cross, discusses his books as part of the 2010 Get Reading campaign.
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| Time: 7:00pm-8:30pm Sep 23 Cost: $7.incl refreshments
Venue: Vinegar Hill Memorial Library & Community Centre, Level 1, 29 Main St, Rouse Hill Town Centre, Rouse Hill
Enquiries: The Hills Shire Library Service www.thehills.nsw.gov.au/library 02 8889 5200 |  |
| Friday 24 September 2010 |
| Chopin and His Legacy in France | |
Chopin, who lived only to the age of 39, would be 200 this year. Having composed no symphonies and no operas, even a generation ago he was deemed barely respectable in some academic circles. Roy Howat takes up the musical evidence, including the case put by Chopin's 'grand-pupil' Paul Dukas.
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| Time: 4:00pm-5:00pm Sep 24 Cost: Free
Venue: Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Macquarie St, SYDNEY
Enquiries: Sydney Conservatorium of Music www.thecon.com.au (02) 9351 1257 |  | |
| Other Ways: Alternatives to Violence | | Over dinner, Sr Susan Connelly, Mary MacKillop International Mission, a staunch advocate for the East Timorese people, and Azim Khamisa, US author, who established a program to prevent violence in schools following the stabbing death of his son, discuss alternatives to reacting with violence against violence. |
| Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm Sep 24 Cost: $50 incl dinner
Venue: Santa Sabina College, 90 The Boulevarde, Strathfield
Bookings: Justice and Peace Office, Archdiocese of Sydney 02 9922 2927 | |
| Sunday 26 September 2010 |
| Primavera: Past Present and Future | |
Artists and curators of Primavera past and present discuss the exhibition, their involvement and its impact on them.
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| Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Sep 26 Cost: Free
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art, Circular Quay West, Sydney
Enquiries: Museum of Contemporary Art www.mca.com.au (02) 9245 2462 | | |
| ASIO. Secret Files, Films and Persons of Pnterest | | Founded in 1949 to track down KGB spies, ASIO soon came to track the lives of dissenters and non conformists. Film maker Haydn Keenan speaks about his new television series Persons of Interest and will show newly discovered ASIO surveillance films and actual pages from ASIO files.
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| Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm Sep 26 Cost: Free
Venue: Ruby's Place, Chapel by the Sea, 95 Roscoe St , Bondi Beach
Enquiries: Chapel by the Sea, Bondi Beach Uniting Church www.chapelbythesea.unitingchurch.org.au (02) 9130-3445 | |
| Wednesday 29 September 2010 |
| Boyd Anderson at Balmain | |
Conversation with Boyd Anderson about his book Errol Fidel and the Cuban Rebel Girls. This is based on true events that recreates one of 20th Century's greatest unknown stories.
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| Time: 6:00pm-8:00pm Sep 29 Cost: Free
Venue: Balmain Library Meeting Room, Balmain Library, 370 Darling Street, Balmain
Enquiries: leichhardt library www.leichhardt.nsw.gov.au/library (02) 93679215 | | |
| Nuclear or Not?: Dr Ziggy Switkowski | | Dr Ziggy Switkowski traces the growing importance of nuclear technology around the world, examines concerns with its use, and concludes that nuclear power cannot be excluded if Australia is to meet its energy and climate change targets, in the inaugural Kevin McCann Lecture on energy and resources law. |
| Time: 6:00pm-7:30pm Sep 29 Cost: Free: Registration essential
Venue: Foyer, Level 2, Sydney Law School, New Law School Building, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney (Camperdown Campus), Camperdown
Enquiries: Sydney Law School www.sydney.edu.au/law (02) 9351 0238 | | |
| Using Evolutionary Theory to Understand and Improve the Human Condition | |
Prof. David Sloan Wilson shows how evolutionary theory can help to solve the problems of everyday life, from the quality of life in our cities to rethinking the fundamentals of economic theory and policy.
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| Time: 6:00pm-7:15pm Sep 29 Cost: Free, no bookings or registration
Venue: Eastern Avenue Auditorium, Eastern Avenue Auditorium, University of Sydney, Sydney
Enquiries: University of Sydney www.chast.org 0 2 9351 5080 | |
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