Australian Embassy and Permanent Mission to the United Nations

Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine

Address: Mattiellistrasse 2-4, 1040 Vienna; Telephone: +43 1 - 506 740 - Fax: +43 1 - 504 1178 - Email: austemb@aon.at

Calendar of Australian Events

The calendar does not claim to be exhaustive. If you know of any forthcoming 'Australian' event, we would appreciate if you could send us an email or write to us.

Download - Embassy Newsletter - January 2012 Edition

Australian Movie: Samson and Delilah

17 Feb-29 Feb

Australian movie "Samson and Delilah" directed by Warwick Thornton tells the story of two teenagers living in an Aborigines community in the desert of Central Australia. The film won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes festival in 2009. It is "a tender film, and an honest one, but it's tough going" (Sydney Morning Herald).
For further information, please refer to www.samsonanddelilah.com.au . For screening times, please refer to www.schikaneder.at

Venue
Schikaneder
Margaretenstrasse 24
1040 Vienna
Phone: +43 (0)1 5852867 (daily from 18:00)

Presentation - "Race Across Australia 2011"

22 Feb, 18:30

Crossing Australia from Perth to Sydney on a bicycle at record speed: In 2011, four Austrian extreme cyclists covered a distance of more than 4,000 km in less than 5 days, faster than anybody else before them. They will be talking about their adventure at a presentation on 22 February. Admission is free. Donations for the "Austrian Research Institute for Musculoskeletal Disorders" are welcome. For further information, please refer to www.austriateam.com.

Venue
Altes Rathaus, Barocksaal
Wipplingerstrasse 6-8
1010 Wien

Envisioning Buildings - Reflecting Architecture in Contemporary Art Photography

Exhibition running until 22 April 2012

Australian Geoff Kleem exhibiting at Vienna’s Museum for Applied
Arts (MAK) as part of the “Envisioning Buildings” exhibition. He recently
had exhibitions in the United States, including in Chicago. The exhibition’s
focus is architecture from the perspective of contemporary
art photography and is an international survey of architecture in art
photography. It brings together artists and works from all over the
world, among them several photographers of the “Düsseldorf School
of Photography” and the “Vancouver School”. For further information,
please refer to www.mak.at

Venue:
MAK Exhibition Hall
Weiskirchnerstraße 3
1010 Vienna

Exhibition - Sally Duncan

Opening: 24 Feb, 19:00
Exhibition running from 25 Feb to 1 Apr

Australian artist Sally Duncan will be exhibiting sculptures, reliefs and paintings at the Muehlviertler Schlossmuseum Freistadt. For further information, please refer to www.museum-freistadt.at.

Venue
Muehlviertler Schlossmuseum Freistadt
Schlosshof 2
4240 Freistadt
Phone: +43 (0)7942/72274
Email: schlossmuseum.freistadt@gmx.at

Creative writing course with Australian author Sylvia Petter

Spring 2012: 23 February; 1 & 8 March

Discover flash fiction: learn how to write stories of a page or two that pack a punch and/or just linger in the reader’s mind. Australian author Sylvia Petter, living in Vienna, will be giving creative writing courses in autumn this year and spring 2012. Sylvia has a PhD in Creative Writing (UNSW, Sydney, 2009) and has published internationally in print and online. She is the author of two short-story collections and participated in workshops all over the world. For registration and course fees, please refer to www.writersstudio.at

Concert: David Helfgott

28 Apr, 19:30

Australian pianist and protagonist of the movie "Shine" (1996), David Helfgott, will give a concert together with the Stuttgart Symphony orchestra conducted by Matthias Foremny. He will be playing a classical romantic piano recital as well as Sergej Rachmaninov's concert for piano and orchestra Nr.3. For further information, please refer to www.musikverein.at

Venue
Grosser Saal, Musikverein
Musikvereinplatz 1
1010 Wien
Email: office@musikverein.at
Phone: +43/1/505 8190