For Australian artists, the residency program is an opportunity to sustain and deepen their practice and research, free from the distractions and duties of daily life.
The 2019 Monash Prato Music Festival kicks off on Tuesday 3 December at 9.15pm with a public jam session open to all musicians and involving Monash students and teaching staff from the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music.
What happens when a town becomes your classroom for the day?
The main focus of the projects presented by the group of students participating in this year’s Design Semester Program, led by Dr Vince Dziekan and taught in conjunction with Andy Murray, Amelie Scalercio, Myriam Diatta and Kylie Brown, was the creation of a self-reflective personal archive. During their eight weeks of study which included an immersive research studio held in association with the Venice Biennale, along with field trips to Milan, San Gimignano and Siena, students were challenged to collect, record and process materials to document their intellectual, creative
On 5 October 2019 forty-eight students from eight different high-schools of Prato reclaimed their city and presented their unique perspectives on it, exhibiting in the Officina Giovani space the works they created over a five-days’ creative workshop on their relationship with the city and with the different cultures and languages that traverse it.
We enjoyed spending time with Monash Prato Alumni at Palace Cinema Como in South Yarra (Melbourne) during the Lavazza Italian Film Festival.
Prato alumni, staff and friends caught up over an aperitivo before a private screening of the comedy Ti presento Sofia (Let me introduce you to Sofia).
“It is always inspiring to meet Monash Prato Alumni and to find out where their Prato study experience has taken them since graduating from Monash,” said Dr Cecilia Hewlett, Director of the Monash University Prato Centre.
We welcome new students from Monash Arts who will be studying and living in Prato for one to three months.
Students can choose from a wide variety of units, all of which have strong links to Tuscany, Italy and/or Europe. The subjects include Italian language and culture, cinema, human rights, history and politics. For the first time, they can study the development of Italian crime fiction with the new unit ‘Crime in Italian popular culture’.
We encourage students to live as a local during their stay in Prato, to experience first-hand local Italian traditions and everyday life. As we prepare to welcome the next cohort of students at the end of September, the Monash Prato Centre is also preparing to offer students the opportunity to engage with the city and its people.
As part of the PratoEstate 2019 summer programme, Monash students, visitors and the local community are invited to attend a special open-air screening of the 2018 Australian film Boy Erased on Thursday 5 September 2019 at 9.30pm.
The film tells the story of Jared, growing up in a small-town Baptist family. After being outed gay to his family, the film follows his struggles and pressure to attend conversion therapy, and his journey to self-acceptance.
We are delighted to have the opportunity to introduce Jon Campbell, our Artist-in-Residence for 2019, to the local community in Prato at our Visual Residency Night on Thursday 12 September.
