Category: Features
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O-Week: The Thursday
Thursday’s sort was a successive lineup of three bands playing at the UniBar. The problem is that O-Fest has it’s spectacle located outside UniBar, music and play around the duck pond and such, and club stalls circling the whole library-cafeteria-jugglers-lawn perimeter; if anyone was to be at UniBar, it was probably because something loud and…
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Meeting O-Week Stars
With o-week having come to an end and the grind of uni underway, here’s The Tertangala’s scoop on the serious talent we got to witness. I had a chat with some of the musicians who are defining the golden standard of artistry on display right here UOW – o-week and beyond, you’ll want to commit…
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Rose and Crown – Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscious; this is the ideal life” -Mark Twain Welcome back, readers, to this week’s edition of Travel Tuesdays with Serena. The past few days have been both excitingly eventful and dreadfully uneventful at the same time. I thought once I got here I would be more than keen…
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Delighted in Solitude: Travel Tuesdays with Serena
“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.” -Aristotle Welcome back to my travel column. The first day in a foreign country alone is, in my opinion, one of the most exciting and at the same time scary moments in one’s life. I can say with absolute certainty that I…
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How to lead? Nietzsche and Machiavelli: From Fear to ‘The Will to Power’
How to be a good leader? That has been one of the most difficult questions that our society struggled with throughout the years. For me this is a very difficult question since so many elements and qualities contribute to a good and well-functioning leader. In an attempt to answer this question, I will use two…
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The Ghost of Mount Keira
By Max Mandile Mount Keira harbours dark secrets. I’ve often felt a sense of unease in the area… a sense of wonderment. Living so close to it, I would often hear strange noises echo from the mountain and would see weird things occur when summiting the mountain at night (once the sky even glowed orange, visible…
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Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC
Merrigong X presented Landed by Frumpus at the IPAC All-women performance group, Frumpus, returned to IPAC with their new show, Landed. Their nonsensical performance left audiences with a wonderful but strange feeling of confusion. The group, made up of Cheryle Moore, Lenny Ann Low and Stephanie Hart, formed in the 90s and after…
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Centre Stage: From UOW to Sydney
UOW graduate Irelish Barker and 2nd year student Anna Krywyj Moore are both emerging artists working with Shopfront Arts Co-Op and Q Theatre Penrith in an artist residency program called ArtsLab. Along with two other artists, they have put together works for the ArtsLab: Drifters festival taking place at 107 Redfern and The Joan, Penrith.…
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Talking Poetry: Free Verse on RadioU
The university’s very own radio station was formed last semester and features a diverse range of news, music and entertainment hosted by students for students. I got to chat with the two hosts of a poetry show and discovered how they’re hoping to make waves in the local poetry scene. Kirsten: Tell me a little…