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Arts / What’s on in Canberra this weekend?

PAINTER Tracey Creighton is launching her show of oils and acrylics, “Unleashing the Flood”, at Strathnairn Arts Gallery. 4pm, Saturday, December, 3. All welcome. Exhibition runs until December 18.

Tracey Creighton with 'Unleashing the Flood' paintings.
Tracey Creighton with ‘Unleashing the Flood’ paintings.
Events:

THE Friends of the National Film and Sound Archive are holding a “Magical Movie tour of Cinematic Chapman” (the Canberra suburb) through the streets in in the suburbs that are named after Australian film and theatre personalities like Roy Rene (Mo), Chips Rafferty and Arthur Tauchert (the original Sentimental Bloke). Thursday, December 8. Bookings to trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=243946

Talk:

CANBERRA Glassworks is holding a “Crystal Clear: Talking Residences” Q&A  facilitated by Jane Cush and current Thomas Foundation Artists in Residence, Amy Schleif, Joanna Bone and Aaron Micallef. Bone and Micallef’s joint exhibition, “In Depth”, is currently on show in the gallery. Q&A, at Canberra Glassworks, 4.30pm, Thursday, December 8.

Glass artist Amy Schleif works with the engraver in the Engine Room
Glass artist Amy Schleif works with the engraver in the Engine Room
Arts business:

ART, Not Apart is preparing to “Shake It Up”. That’s the 2017 theme for Canberra’s largest contemporary arts festival, centred at New Acton and Westside, and it’s an open invitation to explore change. With over $50,000 directly available for art funding, they’re now calling for proposals for works from local, national and international artists. Call for projects will close at midnight, January 7, submissions to artnotapart.com

IF you are launching a new book, planning a special poetry event or would like to take part of “last Thursday of the month” poetry readings, get in touch with The Manning Clark House Poetry Committee via kkituai@westnet.com.au.

QUEANBEYAN Palerang Regional Council’s cultural development officer will be at the Bungendore Community Centre on Majara Street, Bungendore from 10.30am, Monday, December 12 to discuss existing events, funding opportunities, projects and exhibitions for Bungendore residents. All welcome but RSVP to cultural.services@qprc.nsw.gov.au or 6285 6170 by Friday, December 9.

REGISTRATIONS are now open for “RAW Comedy”, Australia’s largest open-mic comedy competition. Heats will take place across Victoria, New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland, Tasmania, Northern Territory, and Australian Capital Territory before culminating in a live national grand final during the 2017 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Registrations to rawcomedy.com.au

REGISTRATIONS are also now open for Melbourne International Comedy Festival’s national secondary school comedy competition, “Class Clowns”. The one-of-a-kind program is open to people aged 14 to 18 (Years 9 – 12). To register visit comedyfestival.com.au/2017/classclowns

Film:

THE National Film and Sound Archive of Australia welcomes the filmmakers behind the Indigenous documentary “Zach’s Ceremony”, which captures one boy’s journey to manhood in a complex, emotionally driven story of family and connection. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with concept creator Alec Doomadgee, director Aaron Petersen and producer Sarah Linton. At Arc Cinema, 7pm, Saturday, December 10. Bookings to trybooking.com/NFXF. The film is also screening at noon on Tuesday, December 13.

THE IMB Bank Sunset Cinema program continues at Canberra’s National Botanic Gardens to December 17. Movie screenings this weekend are “Dirty Dancing”, “Café Society”, “Pete’s Dragon” and “Arrival”. Bookings and details to sunsetcinema.com.au

A still from "Dirty Dancing'
A still from “Dirty Dancing’
THE NFSA and the US Embassy are throwing a musical celebration that offers Canberrans a chance to experience the 2016 documentary “American Epic”, which turns the clock back to the 1920s when record companies toured the US with a recording machine, capturing the music of the people and sparking a cultural revolution. Sunday blues and barbecue, at the NFSA, McCoy Circuit, Acton, from noon, Sunday, December 11. Bookings to trybooking.com/NFXF

Dance

CANBERRA Dance Development Centre’s full-time vocational dance course students are presenting a showcase production, “Auth-or-ize”, with several daytime shows targeted at schools, aged-care groups and the general public. Each show will be followed by a Q&A. At the ANU Arts Centre, December 8-9. Bookings to trybooking.com

Concerts and Gigs:

THE Monkees will be in Canberra this weekend for the last time, they say. Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork are joined by Micky’s sister Coco for “A Little Bit Me, A Little Bit You”, “Last Train to Clarksville” and other favourites. Llewellyn Hall, Friday, December 9, bookings to premier.ticketek.com.au

KEITH Urban’s “Ripcord World Tour Australia 2016” comes to GIO Stadium Battye Street, Bruce, this Saturday, December 10, with Buchanan and its frontman Josh Simons hand-picked by Urban as the support act. Bookings to viagogo.com

JOE Camilleri and the Black Sorrows will be back in Canberra next week touring numbers from their 20th album, “Faithful Satellite”. At The Basement, 2 Cohen Street, Belconnen, Thursday, December 8, bookings to Oztix.com.au

“SPECTRES of Love”, billed as “a world of lonesome outsiders, haunted dreamers and sexually charged rock’n’roll”, sees Mikelangelo back home with his spine tingling tales. At The Polish Club, 38 David Street, Turner, 8pm this Friday, December 9. Tickets at the door.

Mikelangelo back home
Mikelangelo back home
Josh Pyke and Bob Evans first toured together 10 years ago and have continued to make music together ever since while both also embarking on successful solo careers. They’re together at The Street Theatre this Saturday, December 10, bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.

BUNGENDORE Wood Works Gallery and Cafe Wood Works are presenting “A Breeze from Alabama & Other Ragtime Diversions”, music by Scott Joplin played by Carl Rafferty at the piano keyboards, with vocalists and Morgan Merrell on the Washboard. At the Wood Works, Kings Highway, Bungendore, from 6pm this Saturday, December 10. Bookings at the Cafe or 6238 1688.

AUSSIE folk-pop group and five-time ARIA winners Boy and Bear, will be at the ANU Bar, 8pm this Thursday, December 8. Bookings to moshtix.com.au/v2/event/boy-bear/89063

Boy n Bear
Boy n Bear
Theatre:

SILLINESS abounds as Stephen Pike’s notoriously naughty production, “Merry Christmas Mr Wolf” takes the stage at Teatro Vivaldi Restaurant, ANU Arts Centre, until December 23, bookings to vivaldirestaurant.com.au or 6257 2718.

DIRTY Dick’s 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, December 10 and 17, bookings to 6295 9853 or harmonie@bigpond.net.au

SCROOGE returns to haunt us in a pre-Christmas revival of Tom Mula’s play “Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol”. At the Street Theatre, December 9-11, bookings to thestreet.org.au or 2471223.

Exhibitions:

Peter Hislop's 1980 photo of Don Burrows and James Galway
Peter Hislop’s 1980 photo of Don Burrows and James Galway
“PETER Hislop, photographer: People, Performances and Places” is an exhibition that looks back 40 years to the beginning of Hislop’s remarkable work in documenting Canberra’s fine music performance and performers – around 200 events each year. At the High Court of Australia, December 11 to January 25, free.

THE Australian War Memorial has joined the Jewish Holocaust Centre to mount “The Holocaust: witnesses and survivors”, a show that includes over 85 collection items from both institutions, including documentation from Jewish men, women and children who survived ghettos, and concentration and extermination camps. It also features the artwork of the official war artist Alan War Memorial.

“THE Sell: Australian Advertising, 1790s to 1990s” at the National Library of Australia until April 25. FREE exhibition.

“COLLEGE Express 8” is presented by Belconnen Arts Centre and celebrates the work of almost 100 students from the North Canberra region. Young artists in Year 11 and 12 from colleges in the north Canberra region explore the world around them through photography, painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles and design technology. At 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, until January 15, 10am-4pm, Tuesday to Sunday.

AMIEL Courtin-Wilson’s winning digital video work will be on display with six other finalists in the Digital Portraiture Award 2016 exhibition which is open to the public at the National Portrait Gallery until Sunday, April 9.

Jay Kochel with his winning drawing.
Jay Kochel with his winning drawing.
The M16 Artspace 2016 Drawing Prize is at 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, until December 18. Winners are Jay Kochel and Berenice Carrington, who throw new light on the art of drawing.

BEAVER Galleries have “Small works”, paintings, works on paper, ceramics, glass and sculpture. At 81 Denison Street Deakin, until December 24, Tuesday to Friday 10am to 5pm.

KYEEMA Gallery, a new gallery at Capital Wines Cellar Door will feature local artist Judi Power Thomson in its inaugural exhibition. Works include paintings of jazz musicians, dancers, entertainers and landscapes. 13 Gladstone Street Hall Village Court, Thursday to Sunday, 10:30am-5pm until December 24. Floor talk 3pm, Saturday, December 10.

 

An Image from "Refocus"
An Image from “Refocus”
“REFOCUS” is a photographic exhibition which highlights the beauty and diversity of the Australian native flora and fauna by 14 members of the Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens and includes framed and unframed photographs, cards, calendars and bookmarks, that are all for sale. Visitors Centre, Botanic Gardens until December 11.

THE annual Christmas Fair, with affordable ceramics on sale, is now running at Watson Art Centre, Aspinall Street, Watson until December 23, 10am-4pm Thursday to Sunday.

THE summer exhibition starts at Ivy Hill Gallery, 1795 Tathra-Bermagui Road, Wapengo, this weekend with large abstract landscapes by Antonia Haege, watercolours and graphite drawings from Liz Jeneid and ceramic studies of kangaroos by Gwenna Green. Christmas drinks from 5pm this Saturday, December 10. All details at ivyhill.com.au

 

 

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