CURTIN Primary School has thrown caution to the winds with the “stuff and nonsense” theme of its coming Art Show, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Lear’s birth. Lear’s famous poem, “The Owl and the…
• MORE than 1000 women, including the Brindabella Chorus, will gather in Canberra on May 17-21 for the 2012 national Sweet Adelines Women’s Barbershop Competition and Convention – 30 quartets and 20 choruses assessed by judges…
IT seems only yesterday that the NGA’s inaugural National Indigenous Art Triennial, “Culture Warriors”, was running. Now it’s time for the second Triennial, “unDisclosed”. Twenty artists have been selected, and when I catch Franchesca Cubillo,…
CANBERRA artist Paul Summerfield latest exhibition “Sky Aquarium” opened last Thursday at The Front Cafe and Gallery in Lyneham to a packed house. Summerfield, who uses digital design combined with painting and drawing techniques, created…
A SHOW opening tonight at the ANU School of Art Gallery has a title that could mislead you. “Mental as Anything” has nothing to do with a famous Australian rock band or drawings and paintings…
LATE yesterday, staff at the ANU School of Music received a letter from head of school Prof Adrian Walter via an email from the general manager’s office, saying that he was no longer on leave….
ANU Music staff have greeted stories of a “backdown” over staff cuts by the vice chancellor, Ian Young, with disappointment and scepticism. A senior faculty member who preferred not to be named said staff were…
CANBERRA’S music community will be saddened to hear of the death in Denmark of pianist and former director of the Canberra School of Music, John Winther. Winther was born on August 20, 1933 in Copenhagen,…
IT WAS undoubtedly the noisiest, and the coolest, rally in town as staff, students and members of the public gathered at the ANU’s Union Court today to protest against cuts and changes at the School…
