Macquarie University alumni activities - November 2008
Join fellow alumni for a recently launched photographic exhibition at the National Museum of Australia in Canberra titled,‘Selling an American Dream: Australia's Greek Café’. This is the first time an exhibition developed at Macquarie has been featured in the National Museum of Australia. In its first six days, the exhibition attracted over 10,000 visitors! The event will be held on Saturday 8 November 2008. The coach will depart at 8.30am and return at 7.30pm, and departs and returns to Macquarie University via the Western Bus Stop on Macquarie Drive. The cost for alumni and guests will be $50 per person, which includes return trip by coach, brunch at The Paragon Hotel, admission into the Museum, a guided tour of the exhibition, and afternoon tea.
Please RSVP by Thursday 30 October 2008. Enquiries should be directed to Bonnie Linsell by email at bonnie.linsell@vc.mq.edu.au or call x6046. For more information and bookings please see www.alumni.mq.edu.au/html/events.html#081108. Please be advised that there are limited seats for this exciting tour.
There will be an Alumni Lecture on ‘Love in a Cold Climate’, by Associate Prof Robert Harcourt, Graduate School of the Environment, Macquarie University. In his lecture, Professor Harcourt will reveal the secret love life of penguins and seals in that most inhospitable environment, Antarctica. He will present a photographic essay that graphically reveals the results of scientific studies by Macquarie staff, students and colleagues over the last 15 years.
The lecture will be held on Tuesday 18 November, from 7-9pm (including questions and supper, in the Function Room and Art Gallery, Building E11A. Parking is available on request by email at bonnie.linsell@vc.mq.edu.au or phone at x6046. There will be $5 administration fee, to be collected on the night. Please RSVP by Friday 14 November. For more information and bookings see www.alumni.mq.edu.au/html/events.html#181108
The presentation will be followed by a light supper in the E11A Art Gallery where you can also view a related exhibition titled, ‘Beyond the Breakers’. Photography of this exhibition has been used as both a scientific tool and as a means of articulating that which lies well beyond the mere objective recording of specimens.
This message was sent by Lukas Frey, Manager, Alumni Relations (Office of Institutional Advancement), and approved by Caroline Trotman, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Development & External Relations).
Contact: Lukas Frey
Phone: Ext 1388
Publish Date: 30 Oct 2008
