CHRISTMAS is coming to Bilk Gallery with a high-end Christmas show featuring new and beautiful works in glass, silver and gold, including new rings, glass flowers, whiskey and sake glass sets, as well as earrings of all designs and necklaces. Palmerston Lane Manuka, opens this Saturday, November 19 and runs until December 24.

Events:

DESIGN Canberra will continue to promote Canberra as a global city of design, until November 25. It will stage a discussion about spaces between visiting independent designer Giovanna Massoni and landscape architects as well as Contour 556 festival founders Karina Harris and Neil Hobbs. At Vibe Hotel, Canberra Airport, 6:30pm-8pm this Friday November 18. Information at designcanberrafestival.com.au

CANBERRA is the next destination for the Canon Collective’s Photography Festival, November 18-20, canon.com.au/collective/canberra-festival-2016

MUSIC for Canberra’s Rock Academy students will be raising funds for new instruments by hosting a trivia night at Ainslie Arts Centre. The theme is Glam Rock, with a best dressed prize. 6:30pm, Friday, November 18, bookings to eventbrite.com.au/e/2016-rock-academy-trivia-night-tickets-28854288955

“COCK Crow: Rosemary Dobson in Words and Music”, at Smith’s Alternative, 76 Alinga Street Civic, 4pm, Saturday, November 19. Bookings to Smith’s alternative.com

Talk:

MUSE Café in the East Hotel will have “Madeline O’Dea: The Phoenix Years”, in which the former foreign correspondent and now artist O’Dea talks to the ABC’s Philip Clark about visual art and its power to foment social change. 3-4pm, this Sunday, November 20. Bookings to musecanberra.com.au

FRIENDS of the ANU Classics Museum are holding a program called “Travellers’ Tales”, where Museum volunteer guides will talk about a visit to Rome during a fundraising event. Conference Room, Humanities Research Centre AD Hope Building, ANU campus, 2pm-4pm, Sunday, November 20.

Film:

THE 23rd Greek Film Festival is presenting a selection of six films filled with love, laughs, politics and tragedy at Palace Electric Cinema until this Sunday, November 20. The festival will close with a rare screening of Costa-Gavras’ film “Z” which screened last year at Cannes as part of the showcase of film classics. Bookings to palacecinemas.com.au

THE IMB Bank Sunset Cinema program continues at Canberra’s National Botanic Gardens from to December 1. Bookings to sunsetcinema.com.au

THE Jewish International Film Festival continues at Dendy Civic on November 19-20. Bookings to jiff.com.au

Dance:

LEGS Performing Arts presents “Legs On Broadway”, a trip down Broadway encompassing various styles of dance from ballet, jazz, tap, hip-hop, contemporary, lyrical, acrobatics, cheerleading, musical theatre and tiny dancers from the studio’s Ready Set Dance Program. Canberra Theatre, November 18 and 19. Bookings to canberraticketing.com.au or 6275 2700.

Concerts and Gigs:

THE Griffyn Ensemble celebrates its 10^th birthday with “Griffyn Goes Wilder”, music American songwriter and composer, Alec Wilder. At Belconnen Arts Centre, 5pm Sunday, November 20, bookings to griffynensemble.com

CANBERRA Bach Ensemble, directed by Andrew Koll, will be performing Bach’s Advent Cantatas BWV 36, 61, and 62, and the cantata Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140. Performance at St Christopher’s Cathedral, Franklin Street, Manuka, 8pm Saturday, November 19 and 2.30pm Sunday, November 20. Bookings to canberrabachensemble.com

THE Rotary Club of Canberra annual free seniors’ concert will take place at the Albert Hall, 2 pm-4pm on Sunday, November 20. Patrons are asked to be seated by 1.50pm.

U3A’s Warrani Chorale will present “A Musical Medley”, songs of hope and fun, at Weston Creek Uniting Church, 16 Parkinson Street Weston , 10.30am, Wednesday, November 23. Entry by gold coin donation.

PIANO students from the Marcela Fiorillo Studio will be performing Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Schubert, Debussy, Arensky, Kabalewsky and others. At Wesley Music Centre 4.30pm, Saturday, November 19. Free entry.

CARL Rafferty is presenting “Champagne & Melody”, favourite tunes from “Oklahoma”, “Kismet”, Mozart, Rossini, and G & S as well as ballads and ragtime. ANU Drill Hall Gallery at 5pm this Saturday and Sunday, November 19 and 20. Bookings to trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=241875

ALT-rockers “Holy Holy” will be at The Basement, 2 Cohen Street Belconnen from 8pm this Sunday November 20.

“VOICES In The Forest” goes indoors this year with Sumi Jo, Richard Troxell and Sally-Anne Russell. At Llewellyn Hall, Saturday, November 19, bookings to canberraticketing.com.au or 6275 2700.

AUSTRALIAN punk rock mini-festival “Gingerfest” comes to Canberra. This celebration of punk rock culture is a festival born to celebrate the life of the later Nicky Sofer-Schreiber (The Ginger Ninja). Transit Bar, Civic, opens 4pm, Sunday, November 19.

Theatre:

“NOISES Off”, the world’s most famous farce, is Canberra REP’s pre-Christmas show, at Theatre 3, Acton, until December 3. Bookings to canberrarep.org.au or 6257 1950.

Dirty Dicks theatre restaurant invites people to frolic and feast while watching an all-new stage show in its Christmas season for 2016. Harmonie German club, Narrabundah, November 19 and 26 then December 3, 10 and 17. Bookings to 6295 9853 or harmonie@bigpond.net.au

PHOENIX Players are staging “Spring Awakening”, a rock musical with music by Duncan Sheik based on the famous German play of the same name by Frank Wedekind. ANU Arts Centre, to November 26, bookings to stagecenta.com

“MIND the Gap” is a locally-created showcase of a mixture of musical acts, short plays, comedians and dancers, including members of Ted Noff’s Street University; musicians Dylan Hekimian, rapper Cappo and sibling group The Faumuis. Proceeds go towards Menslink Canberra and the Ted Noffs Foundation in Canberra. Street Theatre 2, 7pm, November 18, 19, and 26, bookings to the street.org.au or 6247 1223.

Exhibitions:

POLKA Luka Resin Jewellery and Homewares, directed by Alex Freeman, is holding a pop up opening night show of her colourful jewellery from 6pm today, Thursday November (with complimentary drinks and nibbles). It then opens daily from 9.30am-7pm until December 22, at The Front Cafe, Lyneham Shops.

GALLERY@BCS’s “Piece of Mind” series presents “Kiss the Joy as it Flies”, an exhibition of paintings by Vitaya Sen. At Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Court, until November 25, Monday to Friday, 9am -5pm.

 “SOMETHING Old Something New” is a group exhibition by Sanne Koelemij, Sally O’Callaghan, Mimi Fairall & Johanna Butler. At Canberra Grammar School Gallery, 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill, November 19 to December 3, weekdays 10am to 4pm and Saturdays 11am to 4pm. Opens 4pm, Saturday, November 19. All welcome.

LOCAL artist Lars Wetselaar’s solo exhibition “A Loose Sieve” is at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space, City venue (Canberra City Framing Gallery) until December 10. Wetselaar manipulates patina laden, used lead, by layering, and reconfiguring this malleable material.