The Owl’s recent UCFM broadcast from the FADxL exhibition featured the presentation of the Communications and Media Awards, celebrating academic success across the four Communications and Media disciplines. The Owl Awards 2023 were presented to graduating Journalism and Sports Media students, and to members of The Owl Production Team.Continue readingThe Owl Awards 2023
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At the end of each year, the Faculty of Arts and Design (FAD) takes over the UC refectory to showcase the incredible achievements of our graduating students. The FADx exhibition features creative work by students from architecture and poetry, and everything in between. This year, the party was even louder because not only were we celebrating our graduates, we were also celebrating the FAD’s 50th anniversary. And The Owl was there!Continue readingThe Owl at FADxL
Nine talented year 11 and 12 students from Canberra and regional NSW. Two days of workshops at UC. A bunch of great storytelling.Continue readingThe Owl College 2023: introduction to online storytelling
Playing team sports has and most likely will always be a part of the culture of growing up a teenage boy. Introduced as early as the first years of school, sport is deeply rooted in many people’s life. That is the case for Australian fourteen-year-old Bede Galvin. Throughout the multiple schools Bede has gone to he has always played a sport as his passion has always remained. Different sports ranging from Cricket, to AFL, Rugby Union to Basketball. But the one that stuck with him was the latter.Continue reading“When I started playing basketball my life changed”: Q&A with a future NBA star
When Geoff Hall was a teenager, he loved old cars. Unfortunately, on a rainy day in the 1980s, Geoff flipped and crashed his first fiat 1500.Continue reading“Unfortunately, I got into a crash”: how a Melbourne wrecking yard changed my life
I’ve known Tara Craemer-Banks since the third grade, and since then have had many adventures. Adventures these days are rarer, what with assignments, AST prep and writing university applications. Despite everything that’s been happening in preparation for what feels like the biggest change of our lives (what to do after school?) we’re having another adventure today: She called me asking if I wanted to help her dye her hair.Continue readingNew chapters and new hair colours: what dying your hair can really mean
James Bannon is a Rugby Union player who played football for the South Coast Monaro representative team in 2019. During his time playing he was coat hangered and managed to score a penalty try for his team.Continue readingBeing coat-hangered to score a try
David Ryan left his comfortable career as a public servant in criminal law to pursue his dream of being his own boss and creating his own law firm.Continue readingTaking the leap: how David Ryan started his own law firm
Powerlifting is a strength-sport based around attempting to lift a barbell with as much weight as possible in three categories; squat, bench-press and deadlift. It’s a fast-growing sport, with the U.S.A. Powerlifting Organisation having reached 22,000 members in 2019 and slowly regaining those numbers after COVID-19 affected team sports globally.Continue readingFinding your community: Q&A with powerlifter William MacAlonan
The 25th anniversary of the National Multicultural Festival proved again that we are all individuals part of the same big, beautiful world. And at the Festival, the bright colours blended together with the different smells wafting through the air, accompanied by loud and powerful sounds of instruments, created an atmosphere of joy.Continue readingMulticultural