2026 Schedule
Bringing campus to the community, Wellspring is an exciting series of immersive events that explore new depths of cultural enquiry and exchange. A collaboration between The Street Theatre and the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Wellspring invites Canberra’s curious to experience the inexhaustible source of human creativity and communication.
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2026 WELLSPRING: ENQUIRY AND EXCHANGE
Events are free, bookings essential. Tickets available at The Street.
Tues 9 June, 5.30 -7 pm Reimagining Sex Work
Wed 22 July, 5.30 pm Beyond the Algorithm: challenging the manosphere
Thu 3 September, 7 pm Preserving Australian Modern Dance: Creating a Pedagogy for the Bodenwieser Technique
Wed 7 October, 7 pm Singing the News in Early Colonial Australia
Contact
- Leslie Barnes
Upcoming Events
Wellspring Series 2026: Singing the News in Early Colonial Australia
Una McIlvenna (ANU), Madeline Sargeant (ANU)
Singing the News in Early Colonial Australia revives a centuries-old tradition of singing ballads as a form of news transmission. Associate Professor…
Past Events
Wellspring Series 2026: Preserving Australian Modern Dance: Creating a Pedagogy for the Bodenwieser Technique
Wesley Lim, James Batchelor, Ruth Osborne
In this lecture-demonstration, scholar Wesley Lim and choreographers James Batchelor and Ruth Osborne explore the movement legacy of modern dance…
Wellspring Series 2026: Beyond the Algorithm: challenging the manosphere
Can we use social media to stop hate?How might we redesign digital spaces to minimise misogyny and associated social harms?Beyond the Algorithm…
Wellspring Series 2026: Reimagining Sex Work
Jane Green, Venus de Siren, Natasha Ambrose
Debates about sex work often recycle sensationalised images of sex workers; salacious, depraved or victimised, they are not truly flesh and blood,…