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Bibliotherapy-healing the soul through literature
Workshop 1: 'Bibliotherapy: Healing the Soul Through Literature' From the first libraries in ancient Egypt and Greece, described as “temples to heal the soul”, it was understood that literature has a profound effect upon the heart and intellect of the reader, allowing a deeper understanding of human nature and its conditions. Join biblio-enthusiast Alana Marshall over a series of three workshops where you will learn and apply methods and techniques for insightful personal growth...
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Travel Sketching with Pen and Wash
This workshop is for people who wish to learn how to best use pen and wash to capture scenes in a sketch book when travelling. Some drawing experience is an advantage. We will cover simple perspective and composition with tips and tricks on how to not be overwhelmed with what we’d like to capture. OUTLINE • Recap basic drawing techniques • Simple perspective – distance and horizon. • Composition • Mark making with a pen • Simple colour theory • Wash techniques THINGS TO KNOW The...
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Creating and Sharing Memorable Photos
With the holiday season on the way, have fun with your camera! There are holidays, swimming, travel adventures and Christmas/New Year celebrations. It’s also when photographers buy more new cameras than any other time. Creating Memorable Photos is an informative and fun three hour workshop; providing helpful tips to obtaining sharper, better exposed, memorable images with suggestions for dynamic design and the occasional ‘wow’ image. The workshop includes: • Taking photographs...
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Philosophy Feast - Drug Use
Philosophy involves thinking about some of the big questions we ask during our lifetime: Should recreational drugs be legalised? Should performance enhancing drugs be allowed in sports? Come along to the May Philosophy Feast, join in the conversation and hear the arguments for and against the legalisation of recreational and performance enhancing drugs. This Feast of Philosophy, chaired by Dr Nin Kirkham, UWA Chair of Philosophy, will tackle these big questions and more over...
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The Philosophy Feast - Consequentialism
Philosophy involves thinking about some of the big questions we ask during our lifetime: What is consequentialism? What is utilitarianism? Is utilitarianism the best moral theory? At this Philosophy Feast we will discuss the benefits and the limitations of the utilitarian approach to ethics. We will look at alternatives, and highlight the practical implications of adopting the utilitarian approach to ethical decision making. This Feast of Philosophy, chaired by Dr Nin Kirkham, UWA...
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Philosophy Feast - Consequentialism in Ethics
Philosophy involves thinking about some of the big questions we ask during our lifetime: What is consequentialism? What is utilitarianism? Is utilitarianism the best moral theory? At this Philosophy Feast we will discuss the benefits and the limitations of the utilitarian approach to ethics. We will look at alternatives, and highlight the practical implications of adopting the utilitarian approach to ethical decision making. This Feast of Philosophy, chaired by Dr Nin Kirkham, UWA...
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Mastering Facebook for Business
Over 17 million Australians now use Facebook, and more than half of them log in every single day. Like it or loathe it, Facebook is a great way to communicate with all manner of people and this advanced Facebook course will look at how you can use it to promote a business or cause. Content in this workshop will include how to set up and optimise a Facebook business page and how to develop a winning content strategy. We’ll also look at Facebook groups as another great way to engage...
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The Insider's Guide to the Baroque Underworld: Vice and Destitution in Rome
This lecture will reveal the insolent dark side of Baroque Rome, its slums, taverns, places of perdition. An ‘upside down Rome’, tormented by vice, destitution, all sorts of excesses that underlie an amazing artistic production, all of which left their mark of paradoxes and inventions destined to subvert the established order. This lecture presents this neglected aspect of artistic creation at the time of Caravaggio and Claude Lorrain’s Roman period, unveiling the clandestine face...
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ADVANCED- DNA and genealogy
After last year’s sold out DNA seminar we have been inundated with requests for a more advanced course. So you’ve done a DNA test and want to know more! In this intensive session, Mike will expand your DNA toolkit and demonstrate how to get the most out of the analytical tool available on ancestry DNA. Also how to download your raw DNA data and upload to other sites and which sites to choose. Plus you will learn how to use tools available such as chromosome browsers, clustering...
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