Embajada de Australia

España

Embassy address: Level 24, Torre Espacio, Paseo de la Castellana 259D, 28046, Madrid - Telephone: 91353 6600 - Fax: 91 353 6692

Próximas actividades:

Arte Indígena Contemporáneo en Australia: Colección Sordello Missana

Una exposición que incidirá en la innovación estética de los artistas aborígenes de la Colección Particular de Marc Sordello y Francis Missana.

La originalidad del arte aborigen se sustenta en la novedosa forma que transmite al mundo su cultura ancestral, tan importante en su significado. Las obras tienen simplicidad geométrica y juegan con los volúmenes y las frontalidades.

La exposición podrá visitarse del 31 de enero al 16 de abril en el Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), c/Guillem de Castro 118, Valencia.

Para más información pueden consultar la página del Instituto en http://www.ivam.es

Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art: the Sordello Missana Collection

From the Private Collection of Marc Sordello and Francis Missana, this exhibition highlights the aesthetic innovation of aboriginal artists.

The originality of aboriginal art resides in the new forms that it uses to convey to the world its ancestral culture, of central significance. The pieces of art have geometrical simplicity and play with volume and frontalities.

The exhibition will run from 31 January to 16 April at the Valencian Modern Art Institute (IVAM), c/Guillem de Castro 118, Valencia.

For additional information please visit the Institute’s website at http://www.ivam.es

On-Line Exhibition

The on-line exhibition The Catalan Footprint in Australia has been oficially presented at the Immigration Museum in Melbourne. Spanish academic, Lluïsa Vilalta, has worked on researching this project in Australia and Spain over several years.

You can access it on www.catalanfootprintinaustralia.net (please make sure your navigator has been updated recently for optimal view).

Actividades Anteriores:

Sydney Dance Company at the Mercat de Les Flors, Barcelona

In November 2011, award-winning choreographer Rafael Bonachela returned to the Mercat de les Flors with Sydney Dance Company for their first performance in Spain in many years. The double bill includeed two of Bonachela’s newest works – 6 Breaths and LANDforms

6 Breaths, first performed in Sydney in March 2010, is inspired by the act of breathing and performed to the music of Bonachela’s long-term collaborator Italian composer Ezio Bosso. Bonachela took his intricate choreographic language and fused it to a score written by Bosso for six cellos and a piano to create a piece that celebrates the act of breathing as the very spirit of life. 12 dancers perform six sections - First Breath (life breath), Out of Breath (breathless), Crying Breath (weeping), In the Same Breath (simultaneous), Under One’s Breath (whisper) and Last Breath.

LANDforms, first performed in Sydney in March 2011 to great acclaim, takes its inspiration from landscapes and the elements that shape them. Performed to a luscious score by Ezio Bosso, the work features 15 dancers and highlights the physicality and beauty of Bonachela’s movement language.

Performances: 24 - 26 November @ 21:00 and 27 November @ 19:00
Tickets and more information can be found online at: http://www.mercatflors.cat

AUS-ACCESS4EU – Science and Technology Research Collaboration

Information Day: Madrid, Wednesday 25 May 2011, 1300-1700 hours

AUS–ACCESS4EU is a project funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7). It is one of a number of ACCESS4EU projects which aim to increase the European research community’s awareness of opportunities to participate in research, technological development and innovation (RTDI) programmes in industrialised countries outside Europe.

The objective of AUS–ACCESS4EU is to build awareness of current opportunities for European–Australian research collaboration and this event is aimed at key players in the Spanish research community.

The partners in the project who are hosting the event are the International Bureau of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research at the German, the Aerospace Centre (DLR), the Forum for European-Australian Science and Technology cooperation (FEAST) at the Australian National University (ANU), the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), and the British Council.

This event presents an excellent opportunity for members of the Spanish research community to learn about current opportunities for European–Australian research collaboration through Australian–funded research funding schemes. The relatively recent opening up of the major Australian Research Council’s competitive grant programmes and the CSIRO Flagship Fund initiatives means that there are now greater opportunities for European researchers to participate in Australian research programmes.

CIRCUS OZ Madrid - 4-17 March

"Circus Oz is something almost completely different - a bit punk, undeniably in your face, refreshingly progressive, unapologetically off-colour and gleefully Australian." San Francisco Chronicle.

¡llega a madrid UNO DE LOS ESPECTÁCULOS AUSTRALIANOS MÁS vivos y DIVERTIDOS del momento!

"Circo Oz es algo diferente – un poco punk, muy directo, refrescante y progresivo, algo fuera de tono y con sabor australiano”. San Francisco Chronicle.

Recorriendo el mundo y entreteniendo a generaciones de australianos por más de 30 años, Circus Oz llega a España con un espectáculo lleno de energía y virtuosismo circense con su sello de humor puramente australiano. De Melbourne a Nueva York, la compañía ha divertido a niños y adultos de 26 países en los cinco continentes con su ingenioso espectáculo elogiado por la crítica. Dos horas de música en directo, sorprendentes hazañas acrobáticas y bromas que te harán reír a carcajadas, acompañadas a ritmo de rock por la banda de Circus Oz.

Garry Stewart's BE YOUR SELF

Australian Dance Theatre

February 4, 5, Teatro Central, Jose de Galvez, 6, Isla de la Cartja, Sevilla

As an Adelaide-based company, Australian Dance Theatre has been building its reputation as one of the world’s best contemporary dance companies with increasingly extensive tours throughout Europe while building interest in Asia.

Be Your Self is the result of a visionary collaboration between Garry Stewart and New York architectural firm Diller, Scofidio + Renfro. Dance, spoken text, video graphics and architectural design come together to collapse the underpinnings of who we think we are.

Literatura

Se publica El gran incendio, una novela de la australiana Shirley Hazzard con la cual obtuvo el National Book Award en los EE.UU

Nueva novela del escritor australiano Peter Carey: Mi vida de farsante

Guía sobre los pueblos indígenas de Australia