Playing her way to the top

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Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University graduate Briely Cutting was named the winner of Symphony Australia Young Performers Award, Stage 3: Keyboard Final this month. She was awarded the David Paul Landa Scholarship of $25,000 for overseas study and Young Performers Award (YPA) of $5,000. She now progresses to Stage 4, the Grand Final, which will be […]

Griffith celebrates 21 years of deaf support

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Griffith University’s Deaf Students’ Support Program has come of age and will celebrate its 21st birthday on Saturday, June 17 at the Queensland Conservatorium. The university pioneered educational support programs for Deaf and Hard of Hearing people and has become a model for similar university programs throughout Australia. Support includes sign language interpreting, tutorials, note-taking, […]

Griffith scholars promote understanding of Islam

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Griffith University’s Islamic Research Unit (GIRU) is on the way to becoming the nation’s leading unit for Islamic research with the expansion of its PhD program. Three PhD candidates are currently undertaking studies at the university with another three starting this year following a $270,000 donation by an overseas philanthropist. Many other PhD applicants are […]

Comix new show to entertain Coasties

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Hot on the heels of its success at the recent Byron Bay Blues Festival the Gold Coast Comix! theatre group will offer an evening of fun and frolic at Surfers Paradise restaurant Focus on Tuesday, May 23. A collaboration between current Griffith University students and graduates of the Gold Coast Theatre Department, the troupe will […]

Exploring ‘scientific theft’ of Aboriginal remains

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This question will be explored by Griffith University historian Professor Paul Turnbull in a free public lecture on Thursday, May 11 at the Ship Inn, South Bank. “The past two decades have seen substantial collections of Indigenous Australians’ remains returned from museums and medical schools for burial or safe-keeping, but repatriation continues to have its […]

Exhibition reveals depth of friendship

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An exhibition by renowned Australian artists Margaret Olley and Donald Friend will be on show at the DELL Gallery @ QCA (Queensland College of Art) from April 22-May 28. The celebrated artists, who were great friends and studied and painted together at the National Art School in the 1940s, epitomised the state of art in […]