• PHOTOGRAPHERS Belinda Pratten and Luca Yuwaganit Li have documented a project in which grandmothers and grandfathers shared family histories and memories in their traditional languages. The resulting show, “Memories from Fire”, is at PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Art Centre, until February 19.• COMEDY ACT’s artists will preview their Melbourne Comedy Festival show, “Capital Punishment”, at the Canberra Irish Club on February 16. Veterans Kale Bogdanovs, musician Rafe Morris and Greg Kimball, will join newcomers Jez Margosis and Marie Helou and guests Jay Sullivan and The Stevenson Experience. Bookings to comedyact.com.au or at the door.

• GUITAR virtuoso and award-winning composer, Bradley Kunda, will give a preview of his own PhD graduation recital program, which includes works by Villa-Lobos, Takemitsu and Ourkouzounov. Wesley Music Centre, 12.40pm to 1.20pm, February 15. $2 or paper note entry. No bookings required.

• COMING up at The Street Theatre, under its “Solo at the Street 2012” series, is a double-bill scripted by Canberra writer Subah Jaireth in which Raoul Cramer plays the medieval Indian mystic Kabir and Naone Carrell plays Anton Chekhov’s youngest sister Maria. “To Silence”, February 16-26, bookings to 6247 1223.

• THE International Women’s Development Agency will screen the comedy film “The Artist”, to support programs working with women and girls in the Asia Pacific, at Manuka, 6.30pm, February 13. Bookings to http://www.iwda.org.au/, or 03 9650 5574. Tickets are $25.

• MICAELA Chauque and Miguel Tomas will be performing traditional folk music from the north-west of Argentina at the National Multicultural Festival from 12.30 to 1.30pm on February 12 on Platform 2 in Civic, then at the Larry Sitsky Recital Room, adjacent to Llewellyn Hall at 6pm on February 16, followed by Argentine wine and food from the Argentine Embassy. Both events are free.

• “UNDERWATER Abstraction” is a solo exhibition by the artist known as “Dr onacloV”, a  visual artist known here for her artistic partnerships with marine biologists, sound artists and interactive designers. Until February 12, ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place Dickson.

• SALUT! Baroque is staging “The Craftsman” as a tribute to the famous European woodwind instrument-maker, Johann Christoph Denner. The music will be by Bach, Vivaldi, Fasch, Schickhardt and… Anonymous. Albert Hall, 7.30pm, February 17. Tickets at the door.