The Medical Device Research Institute conducts world leading, collaborative research into Medical Devices to meet challenges facing the global healthcare sector.

Program

1:30pm -2:30pm
Lecture Theatre 1, Ground Floor – Meet our key researchers and discover what we do.

Rapid fire PhD presentations
MDRI Industry collaboration success stories
Lean about our mentoring program (and see how you can be involved)

2:30pm-5pm
Explore our laboratories and facilities at your own pace and talk to our researches and students.

Visit our facilities:
– Medical Device Prototyping Lab
– Biomechanical/ Surgical Skills Lab
– Digital Health/CISCO Lab
– Rehab and Motion Analysis Lab
– Multimodal Recording Facility
– PPE Testing Facility
– MicroCT Lab

Staff and students will be invited to participate in yarning circle that will focus on Health and Wellbeing centred around Indigenous ways of being, knowing and doing. The Yarning Circle will foster cultural learning and enable conversations on reconciliation, race relations and the call for a Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice to Parliament.

The yarning circles will offer a safe space without judgement to participate in these discussions. Everyone will be encouraged to speak, one at a time, without interruption. This is a process that helps to develop deep listening skills, sharing knowledge and establishing respect in a safe and culturally informed space.

Each session would be co-facilitated by:

o Tod Stokes – Legacy Counselling and Consultancy

o Bianca Stawiarski – Warida Wholistic Wellness

Tickets for Future Energy Week are now OPEN!
Get your early-bird ticket below for 5% off! Only $237.50 +GST per person, for two-full days of collaboration, learning and innovation.

Here is your special discount code to use before the 30th September: earlybird05

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What’s included in my Ticket?

2 Full Days of Learning

Two days packed with content. Be a part of the energy transition and experience the power of collaboration, all at the Tonsley Innovation District, SA.

60 Industry Experts

Enjoy hearing from 60 industry experts as they speak and hold panels across key topics, to teach and equip you for the Australian energy transition.

8 Incredible Topics

Our key themes for this year are relevant and timely, designed to prepare you and open conversation around the upcoming energy transition.

7 Networking Opportunities

Use our morning & afternoon tea breaks, lunches & Wednesday night Networking Drinks to meet new professionals in your industry.

300 Likeminded Professionals

Connect with the brightest minds in the energy industry over the two-days, including at our dedicated networking opportunities.

15 Expo Exhibitors

Explore the latest innovations in electric vehicles and other clean technologies at our Expo Area, while supporting local businesses and start-ups.

Follow us on LinkedIn & check out our website to stay updated.

In your own time, explore a blend of the traditional and non-traditional creative outputs from our Bachelor of Creative Arts and Bachelor of Creative Industries. On display for Flinders Festival of Creative Arts is a range of:

• paintings
• digital illustrations
• sculptures
• short films
• fashion design
• costume design
• visual effects and entertainment digital media

You’ll be inspired by the work that is produced by creative arts students. Open all day, every day.

We would be delighted for you to join us for the opening of the 2023 Flinders Festival of Creative Arts. This year’s event will be held over two weeks from Monday 13th November – Friday 24th November.

Douglas Gautier AM will officially open this year’s Festival on Monday 13th November at 4pm at Café Alere. Flinders University Assemblage Artistic Director Nescha Jelk will share some of her insights about her incredible journey through the arts industry.

Refreshments and canapes will be provided.

Tim Carlier’s absurdist comedy Paco was produced through the Hanlon Larsen Fellowship, dedicated to the memory of late Flinders Screen lecturer Cole Larsen, and his interest in experimental film. Paco is a surreal odyssey through Adelaide’s film scene, as sound recordist Manny (Flinders graduate Manuel Ashman) attempts to recover a lost microphone. Filled with wry humour and carefully choreographed long takes, Paco has gone on to play at the Adelaide Film Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Please join us for this special Flinders screening, followed by a conversation with the filmmakers.

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Flinders University Chamber Ensemble has been playing on campus for about 25 years. We perform once each semester and our repertoire is mostly, but not limited to, baroque. The orchestra comprises people with a broad range of musical skill, who enjoying playing music together including staff, students, alumni and friends. Depending on availability, we range from a very small chamber group to a small orchestra. For this concert we will perform baroque works including Winter from the popular Four Seasons by Vivaldi.

Conductor: law alumni Arthur Siow

You are invited to sit back, relax, and enjoy a movie night under the stars at the 2023 Flinders Sunset Screening.

7.00 – 9.30pm, Thursday 16th November, Flinders Outdoor Plaza (Films will be shown on the Superscreen)

Featuring short films made by Flinders Screen Production students.

BYO picnic blanket and food (no BYO alcohol)

*Viewer discretion advised: Some of the films may include strong content. Children under 15 must be accompanied by a parent or adult guardian for the duration of the films.*

Robyn Archer Oration

Following her recent tour “Robyn Archer: An Australian songbook” with stops in Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Darwin, Sydney and Hobart, Robyn Archer AO returns to Adelaide in November 2023 where she will deliver the inaugural The Robyn Archer Oration.

Robyn, one of the Australia’s greatest cultural treasures, is a singer, writer, stage director, artistic director, and public advocate of the arts, nationally and globally.

2023 marks the 50th anniversary of both the Adelaide Festival Centre opening its doors and the first staged production of the Flinders University’s Drama Centre. This year also marks the opening of the new Flinders city campus building in December.

This colocation of past, present and future, the strengths of Flinders and Adelaide as beacons of the arts and the festivals that showcase them, unite in this event to signal the vibrancy of the arts as it looks to the next 50 years.

Robyn’s links are powerful. She played the lead in the first production which launched the Festival Centre’s Space Theatre in 1974. It was directed by Wal Cherry, founder and first head of the Drama Centre. The production changed Robyn’s career forever.

Hosting the inaugural oration in the shadow of the new city campus building, and from a view of the new horizon proposed for Flinders university’s creative arts practice and teaching, the Oration will bring not just a perspective from a career spanning more than sixty years, but also some considered gazing at the role the arts might play in influencing futures beyond just the arts.

The Robyn Archer Oration is a biennial lecture devoted to the creative arts brought to you by the Assemblage Centre for Creative Arts and the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University.

Toward the end of the evening, Associate Professor Tully Barnett will lead question time with Robyn as they discuss what the arts sector needs from the tertiary sector in terms of education, research and practice.

Guests will have the opportunity to make contact with Robyn over refreshments at the conclusion of the event.

How to get there: https://www.adelaidefestivalcentre.com.au/your-visit/festival-theatre

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You are invited to a live demonstration of the 2023 projects that have been undertaken in ‘The Void’ Flinders multipurpose virtual production stage housed in the university’s acclaimed Drama Centre.

Discipline Lead, Senior Lecturer and Motion Capture Specialist Jason Bevan and Cameron Mackness, Business and Development Coordinator of The Void will guide you through the research and production activity they have undertaken in 2023 and give you an insight into the production methods used in a multitude of virtual production projects, led by both students and staff at Flinders University. You will also see the work of MA Virtual Production students, BCA Drama, BCA Screen, BCA Visual Effects and BCI Digital Media students who have all undertaken projects in The Void.

The demonstrations will take place live from the Void as part of the Flinders Creative Arts Festival on:

Monday

Session 1 Demonstration: 10:00 – 11:30

Session 2 Demonstration: 2pm – 3:30

Tuesday

Session 3 Demonstration: 10am – 11:30

Session 4 Demonstration: 2pm – 3:30pm

Please register for your preferred session time.

The Void will be open for guests to drop-in and out throughout business hours.

Project work will also be screened to the Voids LED screens which can be viewed from 9am during the whole 2 weeks of the festival.

Dr Jesse Budel is a composer-performer and sound artist based in South Australia.

His works are for diverse media and spaces, ranging from concert works and installations to community and interdisciplinary collaborations. His music has been performed by the Australian String Quartet (AUS), Soundstream Ensemble (AUS), Zephyr Quartet (AUS), Elder Conservatorium Wind Orchestra (AUS) and Corvus Ensemble (Alaska, USA), and he has been an artist-in-residence at Adelaide City Library, Sir Robert Helpmann Theatre in Mount Gambier (SA, AUS) and Arts Letters and Numbers (Upstate NY, USA).

Currently, Jesse serves as the Secretary for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology.

For more information, visit www.jesse-budel.com

Please register for your preferred session time:

Monday 20th Nov

Session 1 Demonstration: 12:00 – 1pm

Session 2 Demonstration: 3pm – 4pm

Tuesday 21 Nov

Session 3 Demonstration: 12:00 – 1pm

Session 4 Demonstration: 3pm – 4pm

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Join FUMA Director Fiona Salmon for an introduction to the exhibition mane djang karirra: the place where the dreaming changed shape

This exhibition marks the sixtieth anniversary of Maningrida Arts & Culture (MAC), a community-based Aboriginal art centre in north central Arnhem Land. Established as an element of the Maningrida Social Club in 1963 and now one of the nation’s longest-running art centres, MAC supports a vibrant and diverse community representing some fifteen language groups. mane djang karirra puts the spotlight on a new generation of female artists – affirming the flourishing and dynamic role of these young women as they forge the centre’s identity in the twenty-first century.

A Flinders University Museum of Art exhibition with Maningrida Arts and Culture presented in association with Tarnanthi Festival 2023

Exhibition dates: 9 October — 15 December 2023

Flinders University Museum of Art

Ground Floor, Social Sciences North building

Flinders University, Bedford Park SA 5042

NOTE – Photographs may be taken at this event to be used for promotional purposes. Please advise staff on the day if you don’t wish to be photographed.

GETTING TO FUMA

FUMA is located on the ground floor of the Social Sciences North building – off Humanities Road and adjacent to car park 5. Car parking on campus is free from 5pm.

Public transport | Parking | Map

For information regarding accessibility please email FUMA museum@flinders.edu.au

Creative Writing and Drama invite you to a book launch and dramatic performance of the readings for our 2023 creative writing anthology Arcanum: Myth, Mystery and Mayhem.

Published by Glimmer Press, this anthology is a collection of thirteen tantalising tales inspired by the Tarot.

Watch these short stories come to life with readings from Flinders Drama students in this intimate setting in The Tavern.

The Citizens Orchestra workshop is a music-making activity running for around 2 hours.
This workshop is open to people of all ages and abilities: members of existing music groups, music students, curious music-loving individuals, people who like to sing, and people without any musical experience, but would like to try it out.

If you have your own instruments please bring them along or just show up as you are.

Collaborate with Tim Steiner to devise the lyrics and music.

More events at the Flinders Festival of Creative Arts

Lucid Dreaming asks the question “What if dreams could change reality?” The film delves into the subconscious and surreal. Lucid Dreaming will appeal to anyone who has ever had a dream, and wanted to change the world.

The film is a non-linear narrative, delving into the subconscious and surreal. In the late 1980s join Macy as she comes to terms with her trauma through self-reflection and dream journaling, only to discover the ability to lucid dream. Be taken on a journey of discovery, exploring dreams through a unique first-person point of view perspective. Macy finds that lucid dreaming can unlock the potential of the human mind by accelerating learning and developing greater internal awareness. Lucid Dreaming will appeal to anyone who has every had a dream, and wanted to change the world.

100 Day Film Project – www.100dayfilm.com

Filmmaker, business owner and educator Tom Young has set himself the challenge of making a feature film within 100 days, from 15th August to 23rd November 2023. Day one begins with a script, and on day 100 the film will premiere worldwide on YouTube, and on the big screen to a local South Australian audience.

Behind the Scenes

The entire creative process will be filmed from development and working with actors, to planning the film shoot, production design, cinematography, and editing. All production documentation will be available for free at www.100dayfilm.com include the pitch deck, plot points, script, schedule, call sheets, and more.