Sydney Talks - Art http://www.sydneytalks.com.au Who is talking where this month en-us Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:58:40 +1000 Sydney Talks - Art http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/images/sydneytalks_rss.gif http://www.sydneytalks.com.au 88 Peter Sculthorpe: Music and Climate Change http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8701&Itemid=25 Well-known for his life-long concern with landscape, Peter Sculthorpe reflects on writing music at a time when there is much debate on climate change. ... Art for A Changing World http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8751&Itemid=25 Designer Liane Rossler and TV Presenter Nell Schofield, members of Al Gore's Climate Change Leadership Project, talk about how artists are addressing climate change. ... Biodiversity and The Arts http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8883&Itemid=25 What does biodiversity have to do with the Arts? Novelist Alexis Wright; Cosmologist Bryan Gaensler; Cultural Theorist Brett Neilson; Philosopher Nikolas Kompridis; and Biologist George (Buz) Wilson ... Author Talk: Liz Donaldson http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8790&Itemid=25 Elizabeth introduces her book William Dobell, lavishly illustrated with artworks, personal photographs and newspaper clippings it paints a compelling portrait of both the man and the artist. ... Puja Ceremony with Pandit Rami Sivan http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8901&Itemid=25 In association with The Indian Empire, Multiple Realities Exhibition Hindu pandit Rami Sivan conducts and explains the blessings offered in a puja ceremony, ... Women with a Mission - Women on Safari http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8755&Itemid=25 Join artist Nafisa Naomi and writer Tammie Matson as they speak about how they combine different forms of communication, from Nafisa's art to Tammie's books and the documentary Elephant Wars, to giv... Artist Talk: In the Balance http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8752&Itemid=25 Join exhibiting artists including Bonita Ely, Lucas Ihlein and Catherine Rogers for a discussion about their work. ... John Edwards on Edward Baker Boulton http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8359&Itemid=25 Local author John Edwards talks about his book on a colonial Austrailan artist, Edward Baker Boulton, long forgotten and underrated. ... Drawing Sydney's Streetscape - 1848 http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8815&Itemid=25 Joseph Fowles, a drawing teacher and board member at the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts in the 1850s, had a passion for Sydney's unique buildings. Mark Dunn, researcher and contributor to the Dictio... Talking of French Drawings: Louis-Antoine Prat in Conversation with Edmund Capon http://www.sydneytalks.com.au/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=8902&Itemid=25 In association with the exhibition David to Cezanne: Master Drawings from the Prat Collection, Paris, Louis-Antoine Prat, collector and art historian with the Musee du Louvre, discusses his extraord...