Arts in the City / Q promises ultimate girls’ night out
Rosie Hosking, Amity Dry and Nikki Aitken in “Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life”“MOTHER, Wife and the Complicated Life” is a new Australian musical set to counter the Hollywood version of marriage and motherhood. Chosen for the New York Musical Theatre Festival, it was written by Amity Dry, familiar from Channel Nine’s hit TV show “The Block”, who also stars in the show that they’re billing “The Ultimate Girls’ Night Out.” At The Q, Queanbeyan, until September 27, bookings to theq.net.au or 6285 6290.
“CANBERRA Botanical” is an adjudicated exhibition of more than 80 artworks running until October 5, daily from 10am to 4pm at the Nishi Gallery in NewActon. All are welcome to opening night, Friday September 18 from 6pm-8pm, when a silent auction will be held. The works are for sale.
Canberra bassoonist David Whitbread… recital to help “Save the Bassoon”.CANBERRA bassoonist David Whitbread’s second solo bassoon recital will help “Save the Bassoon”, an international campaign that started at the Holland Festival this year. With backing music from rock bands, jazz combos, solo pianists and guitarists, swing bands and full orchestras, it will be “exhausting but rewarding”, Whitbread predicts. At Wesley Music Centre, 2pm, on Sunday, September 20. Entry by note donation from 1.30pm. All proceeds to StreetSwags.org
Country music star Amber Lawrence… Southern Cross Club, September 24.AMBER Lawrence, country music’s Golden Guitar Female Artist of the Year, heads up the “Girls of Country” tour coming to the Canberra Southern Cross Club on Thursday, September 24. Lawrence will be joined by fellow country songstresses Aleyce Simmonds and Lyn Bowtell, in a two-hour show featuring their individual hits and some trios. Bookings to ticketek.com.au
TOBY Cole and the Canberra Choral Society are staging “Come and Sing Messiah” in Llewellyn Hall on December 12, but applications to join in close on October 12 and rehearsals start on November 2. “Wonderful” and “thrilling” are some other words the society is using of the experience. Visit trybooking.com/150139
Smash comedy “God Willing”… opening the Italian Film Festival.THE 16th Italian Film Festival has 32 titles this year, opening with the smash comedy “God Willing” (Se Dio Vuole), starring Alessandro Gassmann, Marco Giallini and Laura Morante and closing with a new restoration of the Bernardo Bertolucci’s “The Conformist” (Il Conformista). At Palace Cinemas in NewActon until October 11, Bookings to palacecinemas.com.au
Electric Fields are looking to spark a connection by mirroring how their audience consumes music as they prepare to represent Australia at Eurovision in Sweden.
As Aarwun Gallery in Gold Creek enters its 25th year, director Robert Stephens has always had a creative approach to his packed openings, mixing music and talk with fine art, but this year he's outdoing himself, reports HELEN MUSA.
One of the last remaining luminaries from the explosion of professional theatre in Canberra during the 1970s has died after complications from lung cancer. He was 91.
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