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
Past Events
Wellspring Series 2024: We've Been Here: A Meditation on Italian Folk Queerness
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Wellspring Series 2024: Bushfire Stories
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Wellspring Series 2024: Memory in the City
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Memory in the City Cities are not only brick and mortar. In cities, cultures converge, interact, flourish, and sometimes clash violently. Cities…