Temporary infrastructure for creative practices

Testing Grounds:

2013 — 2025

The Festival of Para-Academia

21-24 Nov 2024Booking Required Education Exhibition Festival Panel Talks

The Festival of Para-Academia (FOPA) is an experiment in collective equipment for an emerging cultural sphere. FOPA is a gathering of entities responding creatively to the decay in the Australian university sector. This event is for anyone who thinks ‘education’ ought to be done better.

Schedule

Thursday November 21 | From Midday until Late

Pell Mell Studio
Public Pedagogies Institute
Existentialist Society
Overland, Jacobin Australia and Paris End

Friday November 22 | From 12:30pm until Late

Critical Research Association Melbourne
Melbourne School of Contemporary Art
Barron Field Experience

Saturday November 23 | From 10am until Late

School of Political Economy
Platonic Academy of Melbourne
Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

Sunday November 24 | From 9:30am until Late

Art Programme
Independent School of Philosophy
Mongrel Matter
I 愛 AI
Seventh Gallery

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Testing Grounds respectfully acknowledges the five language groups of the Kulin Nation as sovereign custodians of the lands and waters on which we work, live and learn. In the context of the work we do, we express gratitude for our shared connection through place, to the oldest continuing cultures on earth.