First years: you could develop any one of those poems/ prose pieces that you started writing on Friday in class: the Ekphrastic poems…. if, for whatever reason you missed the class this week, you could write a commentary on Mirikitani’s “Breaking Tradition” the poem that we all spent some really good time on in tutorials.…
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Poetry Competition- Deadline: Friday 20th April!!!!!
Don’t Delay- Post your Entries to http://community.livejournal.com/poetrywcom/…. hope to see you there!!!!! MG
Poetry Competition- Autumn 2007- Life’s Seasons.
Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…
Poetry Competition- Autumn 2007- Life's Seasons.
Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…
Poetry Competition- Autumn 2007- Life's Seasons.
Thank you all for your many suggestions for a theme for our next poetry competition- they were all good, all potentially cracker-jack entries (by which I mean capable of producing a crop of new poems that would jump out of the ground like cracker-jacks!). But the one that caught my imagination most, and that seemed…
Suggestions for Week5/6 LJ Entries
Hi all… Easter is almost upon us so we need to tidy up our Live Journals in ready for the first “inspection”…. hope that you have all found the experience challenging and satisfying. I must say there have been some fantastic breakthroughs in terms of what students have been doing in LiveJournal across all years.…
Week 4 Teaching
One quarter of the way through semester! And we have covered such amazing ground in four weeks. Let’s take a quick review: In first year: a clutch of the world’s greatest story tellers: Mena, Kafka, Parker, Cliff, Leyner – and along with this an exploration of how we as readers shape the meaning of the…
Great First Year LJ Blogs
I am going to keep an updated list here of some excellent first year LiveJournal Blogs as they come to hand. Please visit them, make friends, make comments and let’s keep the community growing and growing: For some wonderful stories, poems and comments take a look for starters at: http://suze-h.livejournal.com/ http://davidchadar.livejournal.com/ http://elisriture.livejournal.com/ http://aussielatina.livejournal.com/ http://peterjmw.livejournal.com/ http://davidoff22.livejournal.com/…
Year 2 ENGL200 19thC. Literature Art Gallery Visit: How Literary Themes Are Mirrored In Visual Art.
Thank you all for your enthusiastic attendance. We began with Brett Whitely- only because he is Romanticism re-incarnated in the late 20th Century. This amazing painting is called “Alchemy” – the ancient art of turning coarse matter into gold (symbolic of the spiritual domain)- and it is a painting of huge spiritual significance despite its…
Great News- Our Uni LiveJournal Poet published
Hi all – I have just had confirmed something that I had heard on the grapevine a few days ago, that one of our literature students, Young J, who was in third year last year – and began LiveJournal with us 3 years ago- has finally had a book of his poems published. These are…
Week 3 Teaching and ETC
Hi all- an amazing week all round. In first year we had the luxury of reading four fantastic stories: Katherine Mansfield’s “The Garden Party”, James Joyce’s “Araby”, Ernest Hemingway’s “Hills Like White Elephants” and Hanif Kureishi’s “Blue, Blue Pictures of You”. These represented Anglo/New Zealand, American/European, Irish and Anglo Pakistani perspectives. Talk about international literature!…
Week 2 2007 Hi all- hope the week has not been too exhausting
Thank you all for your keen participation during this second week. Third years: we had a rollicking time mulling over the nature of love in the sixteenth century, contrasting that with love in the 21st century. Are there any essential similarities? Certainly love stories from the 16th century seem to be filling our cinemas. My…
Harry Potter Appreciation Society Meeting
Fabulous to see our senior students co-ordinating such literary activities: well done Alyssa. Hope the event goes really well. MG “Harry Potter Appreciation Society Meeting this Thursday 8th March at 2pm outside the canteen. Great discussions of all things Harry!” Organized by Alyssa P (3rd Year Literature) <!– –>
First Year: Introduction to Literature
Hi first years… I think we had a great start to the subject. We managed to deal with the administrative stuff painlessly and were able to get down to the business of responding deeply to literature very quickly. So good to see so many of you eager to talk about and share your ideas. And…
Ideas for LiveJournal Entries for Week One 2007
Hi all: a provisional plan is to post in here some suggestions each week for what you might like to try in your LiveJournal. So each week (as I pass through my three units: Shakespeare; Nineteenth Century and Introduction to Literature) I will jot down ideas for critical and creative responses to what we have…
Welcome back to Uni everyone!!- and an International On-Line Conference on Blogging
In two weeks time we are all back together, cutting our teeth, brains and imaginations on fabulous literature… I am really looking forward to the journeys we have in store for us. For third year: the renaissance in England in the sixteenth century; for second year the nineteenth century and Romanticism; for first year an…
Welcome back to Uni everyone!!- and an International On-Line Conference on Blogging
In two weeks time we are all back together cutting our teeth, brains and imaginations on fabulous literature… I am really looking forward to the journeys we have in store for us. For third years: the renaissance in the sixteenth century in England; for second years the nineteenth century and Romanticism; for first years an…
Great News
And now for the great news that Anissa and John have both gained entry into our uni as a result of their work in the C program. Congratulations to you both! And George has gained entry into the CI to study Theology… so all the hard work put in by you all on those long…
Christmas Day in the ‘Tanic Gardens
Some of the C “Sacred Australia” Group, together with some of the friends of “David’s House” gathered with me and my two daughters (Hannah and Helen) at the Botanic Gardens for a late Christmas Lunch. Here is the gathered community (minus Ted who went walkabout)[and remember to click 2 or 3 times on each image…
Christmas Day in the 'Tanic Gardens
Some of the C “Sacred Australia” Group, together with some of the friends of “David’s House” gathered with me and my two daughters (Hannah and Helen) at the Botanic Gardens for a late Christmas Lunch. Here is the gathered community (minus Ted who went walkabout)[and remember to click 2 or 3 times on each image…
Christmas Day in the 'Tanic Gardens
Some of the C “Sacred Australia” Group, together with some of the friends of “David’s House” gathered with me and my two daughters (Hannah and Helen) at the Botanic Gardens for a late Christmas Lunch. Here is the gathered community (minus Ted who went walkabout)[and remember to click 2 or 3 times on each image…
Final public performance of “Away” by the C Students
This is tonight at 5.30 pm at 141 Harrington Street, The Rocks…. all welcome… go down to the quay end of George Street… turn Left (facing towards the quay) up Grosvenor Street and the Right into Harrington… 141 is near the corner… MG…. be there or be square….
Final public performance of "Away" by the C Students
This is tonight at 5.30 pm at 141 Harrington Street, The Rocks…. all welcome… go down to the quay end of George Street… turn Left (facing towards the quay) up Grosvenor Street and the Right into Harrington… 141 is near the corner… MG…. be there or be square….
Dress Rehearsal of Michael Gow’s Away at Wahroonga
Yesterday (Sunday) our Cgroup (Sacred Australia) were invited to present their Christmas Play (Michael Gow’s Away) to the Quakers at their “Friends Meeting House” in Wahroonga. This was a wonderful occasion at which our drama group performed to a capacity crowd with the Wahroonga Bushland singing through the windows behind the stage: The Quakers were…
Dress Rehearsal of Michael Gow's Away at Wahroonga
Yesterday (Sunday) our Cgroup (Sacred Australia) were invited to present their Christmas Play (Michael Gow’s Away) to the Quakers at their “Friends Meeting House” in Wahroonga. This was a wonderful occasion at which our drama group performed to a capacity crowd with the Wahroonga Bushland singing through the windows behind the stage: The Quakers were…
Dress Rehearsal of Michael Gow's Away at Wahroonga
Yesterday (Sunday) our Cgroup (Sacred Australia) were invited to present their Christmas Play (Michael Gow’s Away) to the Quakers at their “Friends Meeting House” in Wahroonga. This was a wonderful occasion at which our drama group performed to a capacity crowd with the Wahroonga Bushland singing through the windows behind the stage: The Quakers were…
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C Students studying Sacred Australia….
Students taking part in this course Sacred Australia through the VV and CO have been keeping their own LiveJournal Literature Blog as part of their course requirement. The C Program is an innovative series of courses designed to help into University entry those who for a range of reasons have found access to higher education…
C Students begin rehearsals for Michael Gow’s “Away”.
What a fabulous beginning to our rehearsals for Michael Gow’s play “Away”: thank you all C crew for your attendance and diligence. And thanks especially to John G who has come on board again to direct this motley crew and transform them into “star” material. Of course this is an amazingly appropriate play for the…
C Students begin rehearsals for Michael Gow's "Away".
What a fabulous beginning to our rehearsals for Michael Gow’s play “Away”: thank you all C crew for your attendance and diligence. And thanks especially to John G who has come on board again to direct this motley crew and transform them into “star” material. Of course this is an amazingly appropriate play for the…
C Students begin rehearsals for Michael Gow's "Away".
What a fabulous beginning to our rehearsals for Michael Gow’s play “Away”: thank you all C crew for your attendance and diligence. And thanks especially to John G who has come on board again to direct this motley crew and transform them into “star” material. Of course this is an amazingly appropriate play for the…
Australian Hong-Kong LiveJournal Exchange
Fantastic news folks- all those who volunteered to be part of the Hong-Kong / Australia LiveJournal Creative Exchange should hear something from your Hong-Kong Colleagues very shortly. If you don’t then please let me know and I can try to help with the connections. Just for information this is what the Hong-Kong group received from…
Marking Finished!
Hi All…. out of the sweat shop finally. Marking has now finished and results are now in. A few of you have commented that you can’t access WebCT any more. I have rectified that. So please revisit WebCT and check out results, returned assignments etc. Those students who have put forward their interest in interacting…
Art Gallery Visit- VV – Sacred Australia
Week Seven of Sacred Australia with the group of students at Vincentian Village (now temporarily relocated to Charles O’Neill) brought us to the NSW Art Gallery where we explored images of the Sacred in Australian painting across 2 centuries… It was a wonderful animated group that provided many insights into the paintings. Here, at the…
VV Week 6- The Desert and the Suburbs
From the bottom left around the table clockwise: Hi John (Johannes!), Luke, Shayne, Tania, Michael, George, Rosemary, Ian and Anissa. We have been temporarily moved from our site at Vincentian Village because internet access was suddenly cut. So here in upper Crown Street in the Charles O’Neill Men’s refuge we have found a wonderful location…
Fantabulous, Fibrulating, Flotsganian, Frantifying 20th Century Literature Drama Presentations
Thank you all for the effort and creativity that went into these productions. I felt that so much was learnt about 20thCentury drama through DOING IT! High points for me personally (althought ALL had some spark of true creativity!) will become clear as I meander through the performances. I loved the “Mums & Girls” rendition…
Australian Literature – Drama Extravaganza
What an amazing variety of rich interpretations of the plays we have broached this semester: Coralie Landsdowne Says No (The Rejects)- producers of a feature film which brought a whole new perspective to this play. While the closure needed more anchoring and some sections could have been pruned some more, the overall effect of this…
Bushwalk and Granddaughter’s party
Between watching and marking Drama performances I did find time to renew my contact with the local bush AND to attend my granddaughter’s Eighth Birthday party (yikes!)… With my son David and friend Graeme we walked all the way from Galston Gorge to Dural and back starting at 5.30am on Sunday morning. A fantastic day…
Bushwalk and Granddaughter's party
Between watching and marking Drama performances I did find time to renew my contact with the local bush AND to attend my granddaughter’s Eighth Birthday party (yikes!)… With my son David and friend Graeme we walked all the way from Galston Gorge to Dural and back starting at 5.30am on Sunday morning. A fantastic day…
Bushwalk and Granddaughter's party
Between watching and marking Drama performances I did find time to renew my contact with the local bush AND to attend my granddaughter’s Eighth Birthday party (yikes!)… With my son David and friend Graeme we walked all the way from Galston Gorge to Dural and back starting at 5.30am on Sunday morning. A fantastic day…
LiveJournal ACU Spring Prizes…..
Live Journal Spring Prizes 2006 Please pick up your prizes if you have not yet done so!- there are a number to chose from. Let it here be said that the overall quality of LiveJournal is getting better and better by the hour! Please visit all these sites for inspiration!!! First Year Outright Winners for…
Sydney-HongKong
A number of switched-on ACU Literature students have volunteered to be part of a pilot programme in which students from Hong-Kong & Sydney interact using LiveJournal as a Creative Venue. The details of what you do are being worked out as I am writing this…. but if anyone wishes to be added to the list…
William Blake- After Party
We had a great get together at the Wentworth Hotel in Flemington after our William Blake extravaganza. Thank you all for finding this venue- which was timed so well with the SRC end of semester uni “drink-in”…. William Blake would no doubt have endorsed the free spirit flowing in our veins on this evening…… MG
William Blake: The Visionary Imagination Presentations
The Class of 2006 produced some outstanding and innovative interpretations of the life, times, ideas and artistic practice of William Blake. All groups seemed to be able to draw out the contemporary significance of Blake. The Tygers did this through a mockery of Rove Live with William Blake (Peter T) as the one who interviews…
The Tempest – Bell Shakespeare Company
What an amazing night that was in which we managed to have first, second and third year students from ACU Mount Saint Mary Campus together with a group of “marginalized” students from Vincentian Village: here on this night, we all became part of the one commmunity- as indeed we also are when we Blog on…
VV Week 5- The Sacred in The Australian Landscape
Before our visit to Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” we had a wonderful session dealing with the aspects of the sacred in the landscape descriptions of A.D. Hope’s poem “Australia” and Mitchell’s journals of exploration through Victoria in the Early 19th Century. We put these images next to John Glover’s paintings of the Tasmanian bush in the…
Mangoes
We had such a wonderful slurpy Australian Literature Tutorial on the poem Mangoes this week. Quite a fabulous way to finish our engagement with Australian poetry for the semester…. oh did we find so many wonderful suggestive connotations in this amazing piece of literary magic…. Oh the blessed subversion of sucking mangoes… of letting the…
Noticeboard?
Hi all… am just coming round the last couple of bends in marking all your amazing livejournals. What I feel is really needed is some place where after you have written your blog you advertise it on some kind of noticeboard so that we could then simply go to the noticeboard to see what items…
Conference with Mark Bernstein
Mark Bernstein publisher of Hypertext works such as Margaret Heyward’s “Of Day, Of Night” was the keynote speaker at a conference I went to today. His topic: “False intentions and the fallacy of finding” explored the ways in which information architecture (that is internet and web design) fail to really match the way we read…
VV Week 3- The Sacred in The Australian Landscape
We had a very rich discussion yesterday on the changing relationship to the Australian landscape and the ways in which artist and writers gradually discovered the sacred in the landscape. The early colonists, we saw, brought with them a whole lot of “baggage” from the old world. They could only appreciate what was conventionally beautiful.…
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