Posts Tagged ‘Faculty of Arts and Theology’

that design: a retrospective

Friday, November 7, 2014
that design exhibition

Lecturer Donna Pinter established that design in 2006 to give final-year visual communication students professional practice. Some of the studio’s best work featured in a retrospective Learning and Teaching Week exhibition in the Joanne Felk Gallery. Credit: Haley Forrester.

East meets West

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Nepalese women share maternal health message

Lawson Hull
Public relations intern
Avondale College of Higher Education
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia

Three women’s rights advocates have presented a seminar at Avondale as part of an Australian speaking tour to raise awareness of maternal health in Nepal.

Women's health advocates

Rama Basnet, with daughter Dr Angela Basnet and friend Samita Pradhan, meet with lecturer Brad Watson and students to discuss women’s health in Nepal. Credit: Paris Lawrence.

Studies indicate about 600,000 women in the landlocked country suffer from uterine prolapse, says one of the advocates, Dr Angela Basnet. Young marriages and heavy workloads, particularly while pregnant, are the two main causes. The cost of the medical procedure to permanently treat it: $300.

“We need to inspire change, particularly in rural communities, by raising awareness of uterine prolapse and by helping women suffering from it receive a second life in ways that respect our culture and traditions,” says Angela, a consultant physician for the Community Service Academy Nepal.

Education, for women and men, is one of the keys to success. It will “reduce the problem, not eliminate it, and open up opportunities to help more and more women,” says Samita Pradhan, co-founder of the Centre for Agro-Ecology and Development. She speaks highly of women in Nepal, despite the way they are marginalised, describing their resilience as the factor that “will ultimately lead to change.”

Samita’s not-for-profit entity, along with the entity for which Angela works, are partners of Asian Aid, which presented the seminar. Joshua Moses is one of its communication coordinators. “If people in the West were more globally minded about people in the East,” he says, “health issues could be far closer to being cared for.”

Artist makes mural with kiwi kids

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Ends lecturer’s week-long school-based intensive

An Avondale visual arts lecturer has helped staff members and students from a New Zealand primary school create an outdoor painting celebrating their Christian multiculturalism.

Andy Collis and Joanne Andrews

Teacher Joanne Andrews and Andy Collis framed by their mural.

The 4.8- by 2.4-metre mural by Andy Collis and the South Auckland Seventh-day Adventist School depicts a contemporary Jesus surrounded by children in a New Zealand native fauna and flora setting. The border borrows from traditional decorative symbolism to describe the creation story.

The unveiling came at the end of a week-long art intensive Andy, with wife Sally, delivered to the school’s 305 pupils and to its teachers.

Story shows there is no substitut de qualité

Thursday, April 17, 2014

Student shortlisted for travel writing competition

A small French village and her lecturer’s “gentle prodding” inspired an Avondale English major to write a story shortlisted for a regional travel competition.

Bianca Reynaud

Bianca Reynaud’s narrative helps the reader understand the vagaries of the French meal experience. Credit: Etienne Reynaud.

Bon Appetit by Bianca Reynaud featured as one of the top 20 stories at a live read hosted by Hunter Writers’ Centre at The Unorthodox Church of Groove in Newcastle on March 29. The narrative, a retelling of a lunch served in the backyard of a chalet in Montailloset, helps the reader understand the vagaries of the French meal experience.

“I was starved for an hour before the meal, served tiny portions of heavenly food, then terrorised with all manner of cheeses,” says Bianca, who studied at the Adventist University of France for two years. The longer she lived in the country, “the more I loved the culture and heritage of the eating ritual—right down to setting the table.”

Bianca wrote Bon Appetit for a print journalism class. Lecturer Dr Carolyn Rickett’s mentoring “inspired me to write like I never have before.”

Lecturer helps lead praise for peoples’ choir

Wednesday, October 16, 2013
A performance by an Avondale lecturer’s orchestra and the first massed people’s choir has raised $2000 for a community centre in Warburton, Victoria. The Institute of Worship Orchestra, directed by Dr Lyell Heise and including members of Paul Woodward’s Gospel Big Band, accompanied a 200-voice congregational choir during the worship service and afternoon concert at the local Seventh-day Adventist Church. The money will support the Adventist Development and Relief Agency’s Redwood Community Centre. Credit: Barry Hill.

A performance by an Avondale lecturer’s orchestra and the first massed people’s choir has raised $2000 for a community centre in Warburton, Victoria. The Institute of Worship Orchestra, directed by Dr Lyell Heise and including members of Paul Woodward’s Gospel Big Band, accompanied a 200-voice congregational choir during the worship service and afternoon concert at the local Seventh-day Adventist Church. The money will support the Adventist Development and Relief Agency’s Redwood Community Centre.
Credit: Barry Hill.