Events and learning

Kickstart your O-Week. Discover UQ’s Museum experiences across the St Lucia campus!

Join us during NAIDOC Week 2024 for an Art Walking Tour exploring some of the incredible Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art On Campus at UQ St Lucia.

Oral Histories passed down by matrilineal story telling have sustained Melanesian cultures for generations. For many, these histories become a central part of their approach to life and creative practice, offering a rich, layered and emotive foundation to their work and identity. Join us for a conversation between women across generations as they discuss how their life’s work of making these stories visible has been a pathway for healing and connection.

A evening of performances of chamber works for choir, small vocal ensemble, and strings.

Join UQ art history expert, Associate Professor Andrea Bubenik, on Thu 9 May as she shares some of the most unbelievable and hidden tales behind incredible portraits from the UQ Art Museum Collection. Presented by UQ Arts, Brisbane Portrait Prize, and the UQ Alumni Team in the beautiful Atrium Space at UQ Brisbane City.

This event brings together the creative talents of UQ School of Music's composition & performance students in reflective and imaginative artistic dialogue. Join us for a free night of performances set against the backdrop of 'How we remember tomorrow' at UQ Art Museum.

Join us for a discussion on practices of storytelling around Indigenous histories and futures connected to the Great Ocean.

Join us for The Word for World is Ocean Reading Circle led by Dr Bronwyn Bailey-Chateris. Give yourself permission to connect, read, discuss and share deeply around the vast body that connects us all - the Great Ocean.

Join us for a conversation bringing together creative, legal and academic voices to discuss Indigenous water rights.

In our final Ultramarine Conversation for 2023 join us for a conversation on revolutionary love.

Please join us for an evening of discussion about Indigenous water rights as part of our current exhibition "Mare Amoris | Sea of Love".

Join a curatorial tour of "Mare Amoris | Sea of Love", delivered by exhibition curators Peta Rake, Jocelyn Flynn, and Isabella Baker.

In this Ultramarine Conversation hear how First Nations peoples are leading the fight for climate justice in Australia.

Join us for a conversation and Q&A with climate activist Tishiko King on the intersection of climate and First Nations justice.

Get to know the museums on campus this Connect Week on a self-guided trail.

Join us for a conversation following the release of the Net Zero Australia study with a panel of leading academic and industry experts.