The weekly wrap of all things arts by arts editor HELEN MUSA
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Canberra this weekend for the World Bonsai Masters event at the National Arboretum.
HELEN MUSA’s weekly arts column features opening concerts, events and shows in Canberra
Here the balance of slow, heavily-accented band music, lyrics, acting and dance revealed the totality of performance that can make theatre the most exciting of art forms, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares Canberra’s newest gallery openings
“I want to disabuse people of the idea that I’m ‘doing’ Bob Dylan,” actor, rocker and screen identity John Waters told HELEN MUSA about his coming show, “Dylan Revisited”. “I’m not doing any impersonations. It’s purely myself and a six-piece band going out on the stage doing Dylan songs.”
Applications are now open for Canberra Choral Society’s annual “Come & Sing”, when music-loving members of the Canberra community are invited to join the choristers in rehearsing choral masterpieces, writes HELEN MUSA.
Questacon will come alive for a special adults-only night of science on Monday (September 2).
News of singer Christine Anu's return to Canberra to celebrate the life and legacy of soul diva Aretha Franklin leads art editor HELEN MUSA's weekly Arts in the City column.
Theatre producers Kelly Roberts and Grant Pegg have been focusing on musicals that haven’t been seen before in Canberra, as will be the case in the new production called “Assassins”, reports HELEN MUSA.
The National Film and Sound Archive is kicking off its new "Arc Out Loud" season tonight with a screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show”, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
TODAY (August 23) marks the 30th anniversary of the day when more than a million…
