QUEANBEYAN City Library was the spot chosen by Arts Minister Simon Crean to launch a National Year of Reading campaign today. The campaign aims to remind people just how important Australia’s 1400 public libraries are…
THERE’LL be more than a little bit of Paris in Canberra from December 14, when the National Gallery of Australia’s new summer exhibition, “Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris and the Moulin Rouge” opens, as first reported in “CityNews”…
IF the creative director for the Canberra Centenary, Robyn Archer, is right, more than 1200 people around the world now know that Canberra is the national capital of Australia. That’s because, as she explained to…
CANBERRANS will have a unique opportunity to try the traditional Spanish art of flamenco singing when cantaora (singer) Eva Piñero-Mesa visits the ACT this weekend for a one-off workshop with her friend and colleague Tomás…
“SEND in the clowns”, The National Folk Festival has announced the end of funds for The Majestic program at the annual festival. It’s not really a surprise. The Majestic was invented when the ACT Government’s Multicultural…
Music student ROHAN MOORE, of Save Our SOM, says there have been no wins for the School of Music
ACT Liberal arts spokesperson VICKI DUNNE reminds the ANU what the School of Music means to Canberra
CANBERRA’S musical heavyweights are throwing a free concert for the ACT community tonight to show the ANU what they can do. Organiser of the concert, pianist and masters student at the university, Andrew Rumsey, told…
THE ACT Division of the National Tertiary Education Union has condemned today’s announcement by the ANU of a possible fund-raising consortium as a case of exploiting community goodwill. NTEU said it was “a useful distraction…
IN a letter to the editor written to “CityNews”, Canberra Symphony Orchestra CEO Henry Laska has called on Canberra’s cultural circles to “take a step back” and work towards a considered solution to the current…
