Current Events and Exhibitions

The 2025 Australasian Animal Studies Association (AASA) Conference occurs on the 20th anniversary year of AASA. Please join us to celebrate 20 years of animal studies!

Artists: Beata Batorowicz, Jane Michaele Cameron, Fernando do Campo, Heather Fraser, Carmen Guiterrez Jordano, Morganna Magee, Mona Quilty, Jen Valender & Yvette Watt.

Featuring: In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys & Prima Facie directed by Eloise Haugh.

A powerful double bill exploring truth, activism, and courage. In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys is a new work exploring the delicate ethics of whistleblowing in the modern media age. Prima Facie follows a criminal barrister whose faith in the legal system is shaken by personal experience. 

Content warning: 
Contains strong language, references to sexual assault, references to war and violence, suggestion of self-harm, legal trauma, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: My Name Is Rachel Corrie directed by Tiani Clark & Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man directed by Vin McRae & Thor Morrison.

Two compelling dramas that confront justice, prejudice, and humanity. My Name Is Rachel Corrie, drawn from the writings of the young American activist, captures a voice that still echoes with empathy and defiance. Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man explores a true story of disability and inherent ableism in the 1880s through a contemporary, meta-theatrical lens. 

Content warning: 
Contains references to political violence, medical trauma, ableism, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Graduart is an annual art exhibition that showcases artworks from graduating Visual Art students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The works represent a broad cross-section of emerging contemporary art practice, including painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics, and mixed media work.

Curated by Rhi Johnson and Brodie Taylor

Opening – 26 November 2025, 5.30pm – 8pm 

A Block & B Block Gallery, UniSQ Toowoomba 

Exhibition dates 26 November 2025 – 16 January 2026 

Image: Jane Orme Cycle, (detail) 2023, midfire porcelain with verying pink/clear glaze

Featuring: Hir, directed by Dominic Vandersee

Taylor Mac’s Hir is a darkly funny, explosive family drama that tears apart the myth of the traditional home. When Isaac returns from war to find his family transformed by new ideas of identity, gender, and power, chaos and revelation collide in equal measure.

Content Warning
Contains coarse language, partial nudity, discussions of sexual assault, scenes of vomiting, and references to domestic and family violence.

Duration:
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: Hir, directed by Dominic Vandersee

Taylor Mac’s Hir is a darkly funny, explosive family drama that tears apart the myth of the traditional home. When Isaac returns from war to find his family transformed by new ideas of identity, gender, and power, chaos and revelation collide in equal measure.

Content Warning
Contains coarse language, partial nudity, discussions of sexual assault, scenes of vomiting, and references to domestic and family violence.

Duration:
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys & Prima Facie directed by Eloise Haugh.

A powerful double bill exploring truth, activism, and courage. In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys is a new work exploring the delicate ethics of whistleblowing in the modern media age. Prima Facie follows a criminal barrister whose faith in the legal system is shaken by personal experience. 

Content warning: 
Contains strong language, references to sexual assault, references to war and violence, suggestion of self-harm, legal trauma, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: My Name Is Rachel Corrie directed by Tiani Clark & Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man directed by Vin McRae & Thor Morrison.

Two compelling dramas that confront justice, prejudice, and humanity. My Name Is Rachel Corrie, drawn from the writings of the young American activist, captures a voice that still echoes with empathy and defiance. Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man explores a true story of disability and inherent ableism in the 1880s through a contemporary, meta-theatrical lens. 

Content warning: 
Contains references to political violence, medical trauma, ableism, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: My Name Is Rachel Corrie directed by Tiani Clark & Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man directed by Vin McRae & Thor Morrison.

Two compelling dramas that confront justice, prejudice, and humanity. My Name Is Rachel Corrie, drawn from the writings of the young American activist, captures a voice that still echoes with empathy and defiance. Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man explores a true story of disability and inherent ableism in the 1880s through a contemporary, meta-theatrical lens. 

Content warning: 
Contains references to political violence, medical trauma, ableism, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: Hir, directed by Dominic Vandersee

Taylor Mac’s Hir is a darkly funny, explosive family drama that tears apart the myth of the traditional home. When Isaac returns from war to find his family transformed by new ideas of identity, gender, and power, chaos and revelation collide in equal measure.

Content Warning
Contains coarse language, partial nudity, discussions of sexual assault, scenes of vomiting, and references to domestic and family violence.

Duration:
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys & Prima Facie directed by Eloise Haugh.

A powerful double bill exploring truth, activism, and courage. In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys is a new work exploring the delicate ethics of whistleblowing in the modern media age. Prima Facie follows a criminal barrister whose faith in the legal system is shaken by personal experience. 

Content warning: 
Contains strong language, references to sexual assault, references to war and violence, suggestion of self-harm, legal trauma, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys & Prima Facie directed by Eloise Haugh.

A powerful double bill exploring truth, activism, and courage. In The Public Interest by Alexander Humphreys is a new work exploring the delicate ethics of whistleblowing in the modern media age. Prima Facie follows a criminal barrister whose faith in the legal system is shaken by personal experience. 

Content warning: 
Contains strong language, references to sexual assault, references to war and violence, suggestion of self-harm, legal trauma, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: Hir, directed by Dominic Vandersee

Taylor Mac’s Hir is a darkly funny, explosive family drama that tears apart the myth of the traditional home. When Isaac returns from war to find his family transformed by new ideas of identity, gender, and power, chaos and revelation collide in equal measure.

Content Warning
Contains coarse language, partial nudity, discussions of sexual assault, scenes of vomiting, and references to domestic and family violence.

Duration:
90 minutes per session (no interval)

Featuring: My Name Is Rachel Corrie directed by Tiani Clark & Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man directed by Vin McRae & Thor Morrison.

Two compelling dramas that confront justice, prejudice, and humanity. My Name Is Rachel Corrie, drawn from the writings of the young American activist, captures a voice that still echoes with empathy and defiance. Joseph Merrick, The Elephant Man explores a true story of disability and inherent ableism in the 1880s through a contemporary, meta-theatrical lens. 

Content warning: 
Contains references to political violence, medical trauma, ableism, and adult themes.

Duration: 
90 minutes per session (no interval)