Arts in the city

• FEDERAL Minister Simon Crean sounded an artistic note at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting about the National Museum’s attendance-breaking show “Yiwarra Kuju: The Canning Stock Route”, now on tour.

Mr Crean used the occasion to signal the imminent release of his new National Cultural Policy, the first since Paul Keating’s 1994 “Creative Nation.”

• IDIVIDUALIST Canberra artist David Sequeira is opening his new Everything Nothing gallery on November 8 at Level 1 of the Centre Cinema Building in Civic.

First up is an exhibition of works by the late Australian expatriate John Vickery in the op art, (optical art) style. Sequeira says “Vickery’s calculated precision is dazzling.”

Noon-5pm Saturday and Sunday (and by appointment).

• A SAD note with the final tour in the 2011 Selby and Friends season, “A Change of Seasons”.

It marks the final series of concerts for Australian piano trio Trioz, as violinist Niki Vasilakis and cellist Emma-Jane Murphy are leaving – Murphy to return to her native Ireland.

Fairfax Theatre, NGA, November 7, bookings to www.selbyandfriends.com.au

• THE Q is presenting “The Mousetrap” in its 2012 season.

Tempo Theatre’s recent production was a hit in Belconnen, so why not do it across the border?

Auditions are on November 8 with call-backs on November 10. Email jordan.best@aapt.net.au to book.

• HERE’S something special. On November 9, ANU masters student in flute Leah Jilovsky and American harpist Krysten Keches will perform a 20th century flute and harp concert in the Wesley Music Centre Lunchtime Live series, 12.40pm-1.20pm.

At Harvard, Keches was principal harpist of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. $2 or paper note entry. No bookings.

• EDGARD Varese’s “Amerique” and Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring” will be the highlights of the final Canberra Youth Orchestra concert of the year, with Dominic Harvey holding the baton at Llewellyn Hall, 7pm, November 1. Bookings to 132849.

• MR Green Teal is a “drag king,” the imaginary creation of visual artist Megan Munro, whose new exhibition at ANCA gallery in Rosevear Street, Dickson, until November 6 gives a visual interpretation/history of “Mr Green Teal and his Friends”.

Also until November 6, at Watson Arts Centre is veteran ceramicist Greg Daly’s exhibition of new ceramics, “Shades of Light”, 10am-4pm, Thursday to Sunday.

UNTIL November 12 are all the following:

• Bilk Gallery, Palmerston Lane, Manuka, has a show called “Melbourne Boys” that proves that blokes can make jewellery, too.
• Next door Nomad Art has fine prints by Fiona Hall, Judy Watson and leading Yolgnu artist Djambawa Mirabilis, the results of a creative exchange involving artists, scientists and printmakers.
• Up the road at Canberra Grammar School Gallery, veteran modernist painter Garth Dixon is showing 50 years’ of artworks.
• And Sue Gascoigne is exhibiting “Heart + Wood” at Dunstone Design, corner of Townsville and Albany Streets, Fyshwick, 10am-4pm, Tuesday to Saturday.