Join UNSW's School of the Arts & Media music cohort, to experience incredible performances over three nights of music ensembles.

MON 23 NOV | 6pm | Handbells & Gamelan

WED 25 NOV | 7pm | Jazz Ensembles

THUR 26 NOV | 6pm | Chamber & Latin Conjunto

FRI 27 NOV | 7pm | SoundLab Live x Read to Me

Io Myers Studio

Performance Collaboration is a series of performance experiments that are the outcome of a third-year Theatre and Performance course that explores collaborative artistic processes. The performances were created this term through improvisation, writing, research, and cross-disciplinary conversations. 

Dixon Room, State Library of NSW 

This panel explores how artists engage with archives to unsettle colonial histories and their ongoing legacies.

Archives are not neutral repositories of the past; they are shaped by power, omission, and the politics of memory.

Artists bring speculative, embodied, and affective methods that can disrupt the conventions of historical storytelling, highlight what is missing or suppressed, and offer counter-narratives that make space for other voices and ways of knowing and sharing.

This panel explores how artists engage with archives to unsettle colonial histories and their ongoing legacies. It focuses specifically on how artists work in archival institutions through residences, grants and commissions and how such opportunities impact both creative practices and host institutions.

A collaboration between UNSW, State Library of NSW, and La Trobe Art Institute. Infinity of Traces is a research project led by Diana Baker Smith (UNSW), Erin Brannigan (UNSW), and Jacqui Shelton (La Trobe University).

The 31st Annual Australasian Association of Writing Programs Conference: “Voicing Our Worlds”, University of New South Wales, Sydney, 2–4 December 2026.

Hosted by the Literary Provocations Hub, the 31st Australasian Association of Writing Programs (AAWP) conference will be held in-person at the UNSW Kensington campus, situated on unceded Bidjigal lands. The conference is a cross-institutional collaboration between UNSW Sydney, Macquarie University, University of Sydney, University of Technology Sydney, and Western Sydney University. The theme of this year’s conference is “Voicing Our Worlds”.

In our contemporary world, the multifaceted terms, “voices”, “voicing” and their many conjugations and articulations are intertwined with key considerations in our discipline of Creative Writing. First Nations writers have been leading discussions about the real-life consequences of the amplification of some writerly voices and the silencing of others. We hear writers say that they are “giving voice to the voiceless” in their work, a formulation famously critiqued by the writer Arundhati Roy who said “There’s really no such thing as the “voiceless”. There are only the deliberately silenced or the preferably unheard.”