The ALVA Student Society

Get ready to channel your inner BRAT at our Wine Tour!!

💚 Sunday 22nd September
😎 Meet at Clifton Street next to ALVA campus at 10:30am
🪩 $30 for members $35 for non members

https://www.trybooking.com/CUZVT

🍏 18+ event only. IDs will be checked. No BYO
💿 Itinerary and Look book coming soon!

🌟 Some pics from our amazing sundowner earlier this semester!

Who needs to set some time aside to connect to their mind & body??

If so, get excited for an upcoming mental health maintenance conversation with the lovely Lily from How to be Well. 🧠And start your day to some sunrise movement with a beginner vinyasa class held by Matilda from TillyTimeYoga. 🧘🏻‍♀️(Welfare VP)

Allow yourself to turn inwards, find ways to be their for yourself and others around you. Putting your well-being before everything is vital 🌷

This is a free workshop in week 7 Tuesday 10th September 7:15-8:45am. Start the second half of the semester with a total refresh. 🤸🏼‍♀️🤸🏼‍♀️

Along with your beautiful self & an open mind, please bring a jumper, mat, water bottle, (optional) notebook and pen.

Excited to see you there!🫶🏻😊

Applications for Summer internships with the McCusker Centre for Citizenship are open now - you can apply early to receive a role offer before the close date!

Make a difference for the community while you earn academic credit and gain outstanding real world experience. More than 3,400 UWA students have undertaken McCusker Centre internships, and 97% say they would recommend it.

Apply online https://bit.ly/ApplyMcCusker or contact the Centre today [email protected]

Very excited to announce 📣 🥁

Advanced Major Studio Interim Exhibition for our 3rd year fine arts student’s.👀✨

They have been working extremely hard over the last 5 weeks experimenting, conceptualising & curating within 4 small groups.

Running from Thursday to the following Thursday 22nd to 29th. There will be a closing ceremony on the 29th 6-8pm, where some light nibbles & drinks are provided 🧀 🍷.

Excited to see you there!!🎉

🎉 Enjoy a fun night of building your own 3d architectural model‼️
🏡🏢🏗️🏯🏛️🛖

No experience needed! Everyone is welcome 🥰
📐 Materials provided (You can bring your own too!)
⭐ Snacks included

💥 Wednesday 14th August, 6-8pm
📍ALVA design hub, UWA Nedlands Campus

🎟️ TICKETS OUT NOW (link in bio)
$10 members
$15 non-members

💟 DM us if you have any questions!

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1266705?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0WH3OlZoy_pguxH5hnEiGIh5pj56RV62dj_FDMbwYtlLS8u5CyBue6QmU_aem_FNahuA4CsZ3WttnVgRxGRQ

☀️ Join us at our sundowner tomorrow ‼️

🍕Food & Drink will be provided
🎧Live DJ .svnha

It'll be an amazing night to make some new friends and get to know the committee💗💗

📌 6-8PM THURSDAY 1st AUGUST
🌳 ALVA COURTYARD (school of design, nedlands campus)

🎟️ FREE ENTRY 🎟️
⭐ This is an 18+ event ONLY. ID’s will be checked upon entry. ⚠️ No BYO drinks allowed.

See ya there!

🌟 Join us and the UWA Photography Club for some film developing! 🌟📸

Meet us at our stall during the Club Carnival at 2 PM and the UPC will lead a walking tour, perfect for practicing your photography skills and learning more about taking great film shots. 📷✨

Then, we’ll gather at the print room at ALVA at 4 PM. You’ll have some time to grab a bite, meet new people, and socialize. 🍴🤝 Alex’s () developing class will start around 4:15 PM and run until 5/5:30 PM.

$5 for members and $10 for non-members. Tickets at the door/stall at the carnival

Bring your own film to develop, or we’ll have some available if you just want to learn! 🎞️🔍

💫 Meet our Fresher reps: Hannah, Lily & Cody!

Hannah is in her 1st year majoring in Fine Arts and Communication/Media.
Hannah’s fun facts:
🪶 has a pigeon
🥭 fave fruit is mango
🎵 can’t live without music

Lily is doing her 1st year of her Architecture degree.
Lily’s fun facts:
🦋 loves Hozier
🧵 is a seamstress
🌊 likes to surf

Cody is doing his 1st year of his Architecture degree.
Cody’s fun fact:
🎵 can play 6 musical instruments

🎪 Visit us at CLUB CARNIVAL on Tuesday the 30th of July!

We’ll be at James Oval from 12-2pm ‼️
👕 buy our cool merch designs
🎉 become an ALVA member!
⭐ learn about our exciting upcoming events
🥰 come say hi!

📌 Make sure you’re there at 2PM for 's photography walking tour 📸
Then join us for our film development workshop at 4pm!!! 🎞️

(👁️ more details coming very soon!)

💥ALVA SUNDOWNER IS BACK💥

Join us for a relaxing night to celebrate the start of a new semester 🎉
A safe space to make some new friends and get to know the committee 🥰
🎧Featuring a Live DJ .svnha
🍕Food & Drink will be provided

What you need to know:
⏰ 6 TO 8PM
🗓️ THURSDAY 1st AUGUST
🌳 ALVA COURTYARD (School of Design, Nedlands campus)

🎟️ FREE ENTRY 🎟️
⭐ This is an 18+ event ONLY. ID’s will be checked upon entry ⚠️ No BYO drinks allowed.

send us a dm if you have any questions!

💥 Meet our (Extra)Ordinary Committee Members (OCM’s): Meg, Izzy, Jess & Lucy!

Meg is in her 3rd year of her Fine Arts + Marketing degree.
Meg’s hobbies include:
🧶 crocheting
🎸 playing bass
🍞 making toasties

Izzy is doing her 3rd year majoring in Conservation Biology + Fine Arts.
Izzy’s fun facts:
🍹 made palomas for Dua Lipa and Troye Sivan
⭐ is a perfect candidate for space travel because she’s never broken a bone
🍒 doesn’t have an appendix

Jess is in her 4th year of her History of Art degree (currently completing her honours).
Jess’s fun facts:
💗 has a crusty white dog (that she shamelessly adores)
🎀 is a stomach ache survivor
🌸 recently rediscovered ripsticking - and cannot be stopped! 👹👹

Lucy is doing her 3rd year of her Fine Art + Art History degree, with a minor in Curatorial Studies.
Lucy’s fun facts:
⭐ loves a funky mug
☕ lives for a good hot choccy
🤎 enjoys watching trashy reality tv to wind down

🌟 Meet our new Secretary Kahlia & some of our PR Officers: Ebony, Avani, Ciera & Fuzzy !!
(Our old secretary Chloe is studying abroad next sem! 🌎)
Our PR officers help with social media posts and marketing.

Kahlia is in her 3rd year of her Fine Arts degree.
Kahlia’s fun facts:
🏋️‍♀️ does weightlifting
🩰 classically trained in ballet for 10 years
🌾grew up in a remote mining town in the Pilbara

Ebony is in her 2nd year majoring in Fine Arts.
Eb’s fun facts:
🫒 bakes olive bread
💞 loves laufey and the backseat lovers
🧵 getting into sewing

Avani is in her 1st year of her Environmental Engineering degree.
Avani loves:
🎨 painting
🌻 being outdoors
🐾 her dog

Ciera is in her 1st year of her Classics + Ancient History major, with a minor in Curatorial + Religious History.
Ciera loves:
🐞 reading
🍎 listening to music
🎮 playing video games

Fuzzy is doing her 1st year of her Masters in Fine Arts by Research.
Fuzzy’s fun facts:
🐸 loves the colour green intensely! (It’s way beyond just a favourite colour 😁)
🍕 would like to eat pizza for all her meals one day
⭐ passionate about the concept of naps :)

It’s time to look back on semester 1 🎉🎉

We had a heap of awesome events and new workshops this sem !!
Thank you to all our members and everyone who got involved ⭐

We’ve got loads of exciting events lined up for next sem 💥
Can't wait to see you then :))

Have a relaxing break 💗

💌 ALVA

Our friends at are hosting a party on July 7th to celebrate the release of their third magazine STARBURST!! ✨✨

What to expect! 🐛
-All age event (Everyone welcome!!)
-First look at their magazine
-Live Dj 🎶
-Shocase of work by local Artists
-Collaborative zine made on the night

We are so excited to see you guys there! 🤩

📢 Registrations now open for Cohen Connect's Saplings Mentoring Program!

The mentoring program focuses on developing opportunities to support current architecture students from underrepresented backgrounds ⭐

Cohen Connect is a non-for-profit network of built environment professionals seeking to bring energy and enhancement to the broader community 🌱

💥 REGISTER: https://www.cohenconnect.org/saplings

Registrations closing soon on the 1st of July 2024. Program planned to start mid July 2024.

who took some great photos at our model making workshop is running an online intro to revit course next week. Everyone is welcome to join!!

Next week is the final week for students to apply for the winter round of internships in the McCusker Centre for Citizenship’s internship program. The program is a great opportunity for UWA students from all areas of study to make a difference with an organisation that works for the benefit of the community, while earning academic credit and gaining outstanding experience. 97% of interns who have undertaken internships through the program say they would recommend it to other students.

💌 Stressed out from studying? Take a break and join us for a movie night filled with 90s nostalgia, as we bring the cinema to Hew Roberts Lecture Theatre on the 27th of May at 6pm 🎬✨

(For legal reasons we can’t say the movie name)

Entry: Just a gold coin donation 💛 (proceeds will go towards funding our future events)

JOIN ALVA for Sem 2!

We have lots planned, and want to hear your ideas of course, click the link below to apply. https://forms.gle/oPYKT1EwgfNrh1Ck8

If you want to meet new people, make lifelong friends and make an impact on the education and experience of your peers at UWA this is the club for you 🫶

https://forms.gle/oPYKT1EwgfNrh1Ck8

🍕 FOLIO NIGHT

💥 wednesday 22nd may
⭐FREE pizza + redbull @ 7pm !
📍4th floor ALVA building

see ya there !!!

💥 We had an amazing model-making night !!

Everyone designed some really unique & creative models ⭐📐
Thanks to everyone who came, we hope you had fun 🥰

📸 Special thanks to Kai for the awesome photos !

Meet our discipline representatives 🎉 Melany, Mark, Nalinie and Dan !! They’re responsible for communicating issues and ideas within their discipline

Melany is in her 2nd year of her Architecture degree.
Melany loves:
🌷studio ghibli
✨discovering new places
🫖visiting restaurants

Mark is in his 2nd year majoring in Landscape Architecture.
Mark’s fun facts:
⚽ enjoys playing soccer
🐆 loves animals (works at the zoo!)
💥 life motto is ‘hakuna matata’

Nalinie is in her 3rd year of her degree, majoring in Fine Arts and History of Art. Nalinie’s fave hobbies are:
📖 reading
🌺 gym
🪴curating her home

Dan is in his 3rd year of his History of Art degree.
Dan’s fun facts:
⭐ originally from Iutruwita/Tassie (if you joke about it not being a part of australia i’ll cry)
🎹 plays classical piano
🪲 really bad at spelling

💥📐 MAKE ARCHITECTURE MODELS WITH US !!

Come along and enjoy a fun model-making night ✨ feel free to let your imagination go wild and create the craziest models that come to mind !
⭐ No experience needed ! Everyone is welcome
🔨 Materials will be provided (feel free to bring your own too!)
✨ Snacks also included

WHEN & WHERE?
🗓️ this Tuesday, 30th of April
⏰ 6pm to 8pm
📍at the ALVA HUB

🎟️ TICKETS (link in bio !!)
$5 alva members
$10 non-members

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1217093?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR20AmxxzKls8CwRc7P89P7cJYfKJSLWW_tADNEy7PQfpljOOucM929IoOE_aem_AR0D8ZBXBKNmr1FM1THf439kUz-9nA9cNtDMOqA61bVq24-vvGTyD0v7iZcwTxQgU2iFryb-rwkDsFxQE5Yw2I60

see you there 👁️

📣 DRAW & DISCUSS NIGHT @ THE TAV!

Indulge your inner artist and connect with friends to empower women through conversation at our upcoming Draw and Discuss Night, brought to you by ALVA and UWA Guild Women’s Department 🩷🎀✨💖🌸

🗓️ When: Wednesday 1st May, 4:30 pm - 7pm
📍 Where: UWA Tavern

🎟️ Tickets:
$5 ALVA members
$10 non-ALVA members
Purchase here:
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1201039?fbclid=IwAR2D08fAFAsgg346ZUXYyQCJtoJtcSTJbf7fSsk7mMY6qXod0dwhsytLX6U
Everyone is welcome! 💝

The event is inspired by a “paint & sip,” with open interaction between models and artists, to enhance connections and empower women through discussion 🎨🖌️🙌
…think Ahn Do portraiture style 🤩
Come along to mingle and let your creativity flow in a laid-back and supportive atmosphere with our amazing committee members guiding you along the way 🌸🫶🏼🎀🎨🩷🍹💖

General drawing and painting materials will be provided but feel free to bring your own along ✨
Neither ALVA nor UWA Guild Women’s Department are providing food or alcohol, but you are more than welcome to purchase your own at the Tavern.

We can’t wait to see you as you unleash your artistic flair on canvas!

Let’s make it a night to remember!

2024 Australasian Student Architecture Congress coming up soon !! 5 days of architecture tours, keynotes, workshops, discussions and parties!

📌 25-29th of June in Nipaluna/Hobart

check out https://www.groundmatters.com.au/ for more details !!

⭐👕 Thanks for coming to our tshirt making workshop !!
We had an awesome night and everyone designed some really cool tees 💥👨‍🎨

👁️ keep an eye out for our other crafty events coming soon ...