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Halloween concert and other arts

HALLOWEEN is upon us tomorrow, Friday, October 31 and at 8pm, five time Grammy Award-winning drummer and composer, Jeff  ‘Tain’ Watts will take to the stage of The Street Theatre for one night only with Osmany Parades (piano), Troy Roberts (sax) & Chris Smith (bass).

Jeff 'Tain' Watts
Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts

After that, he’s heading for Wangaratta, where Watts will be a main player at the annual Jazz Festival, then it’s back to the US. Bookings to 6247 1223 or www.thestreet.org.au


RMC Band
RMC Band

THE ANU School of Music welcomes the Band of the Royal Military College, Duntroon back to Llewellyn Hall for its Semester 2 FREE Lunchtime concert today, Thursday Oct 30, from 12.30–1.30pm. Music Director Major Dan Hiscock says Percy Grainger’s music has been the mainstay of the programs thus far and will be the ‘main course’ in this concert as the band performs what many consider to Grainger’s seminal work, “Lincolnshire Posy”. Free Event.


THE National Gallery of Australia presents a program of music illuminating the art of Arthur Boyd, directed by Chris Latham and featuring some of Canberra’s finest performers. The program will include works by Rachmaninov, Wagner, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Sculthorpe, MacMillan and Silvestrov. “Invocations: Nine meditations on paintings by Arthur Boyd,” in James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA, 7-8pm Friday, October 31, $45, $40 members / concession, bookings to http://nga.gov.au


nfsa indigenous

AUSTRALIAN music legend Bart Willoughby (No Fixed Address, Yothu Yindi, Mixed Relations, The Black Arm Band) will join the NFSA’s “Black Chat” this Friday, for a journey through the Indigenous recordings from the ‘Sounds of Australia’ registry. NFSA Theatrette,    McCoy Cct Acton, Friday 31 October 2014, 5:30-6:30pm, Free, no bookings needed.


THE ANU Choral Society, SCUNA has its “Radiant Dawn” concert coming up at 7.30pm this Saturday, 1 November at St Andrew’s, Forrest, featuring the Motet Choir singing Renaissance a cappella music, as well as the full choir with Bach, and Russian Liturgical music from Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky. Tickets at the door.


BELCONNEN Artist’s Network, a group of 25 experienced artists from the Belconnen region, is exhibiting at Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre until Nov 15. A well established group, they cover a wide variety of arts including sculpture, textiles, drawing, watercolour, oils, mixed media and photography. As they’re saying, it’s “a plethora of professional paintings and photos portraying perception and perplexity, pleasure and passion, pomegranates and pears, pets and parrots, peel and preparation.” The Q Exhibition Space 10am- 4pm Monday to Friday and 10am – 3pm Saturday, closed Sundays.


A new exhibition, “PULSE: Reflections on the body,” has opened at the Canberra Museum and Gallery. Curated by Mark Bayly, it’s a novel project incorporating the work of 27 contemporary Australian artists reflecting in various ways on the body and its functions as physical as well as spiritual phenomena. The artists work across media, including moving image, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture and text. Until February 22, Monday to Friday 10am to 5pm, weekends from noon to 5pm.


Robert Boynes ‘Playboy club news’ 1974
Robert Boynes ‘Playboy club news’ 1974

EXCITING news that from this Saturday November 1, two works by Canberra painter Robert Boynes will be on show as part of the Art Gallery of New South Wales’ new show “Pop to Popism”, which runs to March 1 next year.


TODAY, Thursday, October 30, musician and singer Rod Gilbert and a 10-piece band will perform his tribute show to American singer, songwriter and actor Bobby Darin at the Canberra Southern Cross Club’s “Jazz at the Cross,” bookings to 6283 7288.


Maria Kunz, installation
Maria Kunz, installation

UNTIL Nov 30 in the Outdoor Gallery at Belconnen Arts Centre, Maria Kunz’s “Come out, come out, where ever you are” is part of the Australian National University, School of Art, Emerging Artist Support Scheme. “Made from yellow tongue, the colour itself expresses the dichotomy between playful behaviour and signals of warning.”


The late Akio Makigawa, 1997
The late Akio Makigawa, 1997

A book for connoisseurs is to be launched at the Drill Hall Gallery tomorrow to celebrate the life and work of one of Australia’s most important sculptors , the late Akio Makigawa. He commenced the book before his death in December 1999, but it took another 14 years before work was finally realised, with his jewellery artist widow Carlier Makigawa taking charge of its publication. Akio Makigawa book launch, at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery Friday 31 October 5.30pm.


REGISTRATIONS for Playing Field Studio’s Arts Exchange Program are now open to the Canberra community. Experienced tutors lead participants into new art forms. Workshop 3 is coming up this Saturday November 1. The cost is $2. Workshops are open to the public and anyone is welcome to attend. No experience necessary. Email interest to playingfieldstudio@gmail.com


“SURFACE TENSIONS” is an exhibition of abstract oil paintings on Perspex and by artist Shellaine Godbold presenting a series of paintings and objects based on her recent residency in Thailand and travel throughout China and Japan. Opens 6pm tonight, Thursday 30 October and runs until Sunday 9 November at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, 19 Furneaux Street, Manuka, Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm.


LARRY Sitsky’s 80th Birthday concert by Canberra Youth Orchestra is on tomorrow Friday 31st October at 7:30pm in Llewellyn Hall, bookings to ticketek.com.au or 62474714.


Shiny bums
Shiny bums

THE notorious Shiny Bum Singers are back at Weston Creek Community Centre this Saturday, 1 November at 1.30 pm with a return season of “Rampant Bureaucracy”. First seen at the National Folk Festival in 2013, this hilarious musical melodrama is back by popular demand for one show only. 8 Parkinson Street, Weston, tickets at the door.


LizLea in 'Kathrada', photo Lorna Sim
LizLea in ‘Kathrada’, photo Lorna Sim

CANBERRA dancer/choreographer Liz Lea has long been fascinated by the story of Ahmed Kathrada, who was imprisoned along side Nelson Mandela for 26 years. Lea has melded classical Indian technique with the Indian martial arts Kalariappayattu and Chauu and a musical score by Aria award winners Bobby Singh and Sandy Evans to create “Kathrada 50/25”. At QL2 Theatre, Gorman House Arts Centre this Saturday 1st November at 7pm and Sunday 2nd November at 4pm and 7pm. Bookings to trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=104860


BRISBANE/Melbourne indie band Holy Holy will be at The Transit Bar tonight, Thursday 8pm October 30 with “The History Tour.” Thcmag imageey’ve recently completed a handful of massive tours around the country and also made a massive impact at Brisbane’s Big Sound Conference.


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“SEVENTH Wonder – The Fleetwood Mac Experience” is performing in Canberra Theatre at 8pm this Friday October 31st, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the birth of the classic Fleetwood Mac line-up. The tribute show will include hits like “Rhiannon”, “Don’t Stop” and “Go Your Own Way”. Bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.


MGT (Ralph Towner, Wolfgang Muthspiel and Slava Grigoryan) are all world famous guitarists in their own rights. This concert brings together their various jazz, world music, and classical guitar influences to celebrate the release of their latest album, “Travel Guide”. at The Street Theatre for one night only, this Sunday November 2nd at 7:30pm, bookings to 6247 1223 or www.thestreet.org.au


CANBERRA Brass is teaming up with the Canberra Burns Club Pipe Band and the Strange Weather Gospel Choir to perform a concert at the Canberra Girls Grammar Concert Hall at 3pm this Sunday, November 2. Each band/choir performs in its own right, and then we assemble the entire group of musicians on stage for a series of massed items – pipes, drums, brass and voice. It is a very fitting climax to an afternoon of great music. Tickets at the door.

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