<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>327587</docID> <postdate>2024-09-03 04:00:59</postdate> <headline>When a video, a speech and a kiss go viral</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-327588" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Slap.-Bang.-Kiss.-Photo-Tiffany-Garvie-resized.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="599" /></p> <caption>Slap. Bang. Kiss… at The Q, Queanbeyan, September 11. Photo: Tiffany Garvie</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line"><strong>HELEN MUSA</strong> reports on arts news and performances in her latest Arts in the City column. </span></p> <p><strong>The play, Slap. Bang. Kiss, shortlisted for the 2021 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, shows what happens when a video, a speech and a kiss go viral and make international news. Performed by Melbourne Theatre Company, it’s at The Q, Queanbeyan, September 11.</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hot upon that, The Listies return with Make Some Noise, a comedy concert show for “kidults†where Rich and Matt belt out a bunch of songs almost in tune. Also at The Q, September 13-14.</span></p> <p><strong>Canberra Men's Choir is seeking new members and will hold a free open night as they prepare their Christmas repertoire at Harmonie German Club, Narrabundah, September 9. Inquiries to canberramenschoir@gmail.com</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">An exhibition featuring more than 50 artworks looking at life around Lake Burley Griffin and Lake George will be presented by artists Sylvie Carter and Claire B Cusack. Yarralumla Gallery and Oaks Brasserie, September 8-October 20.</span></p> <p><strong>The recent 2024 Art Music Awards in Melbourne saw only a modest achievement for Canberra music when CSO chief conductor and artistic director Jessica Cottis won a local state or territory Luminary Award. Canberra-raised Mary Finsterer won Work of the Year and Performance of the Year: Notated Composition, but she, like Cottis, doesn’t live here.  </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia presents more than 150 works of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists. National Gallery, September 14-August 24.</span></p> <p><strong>The Gaudy Ball is an unapologetically extravagant night of drag, burlesque, cabaret, and extreme silliness celebrating the art of “Glittering Garbageâ€. Attendees are encouraged to dress in glittering garbage fashion. The Polo, 38 David Street, Turner, September 14.</strong></p> <p><img class="wp-image-327589 " src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Maxine-Beaumont-and-Hannah-Tonks-in-The-Cut-resized-e1724559704530.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="500" /></p> <caption>Maxine Beaumont and Hannah Tonks in The Cut Mill… Mill Theatre, September 12-21.</caption> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Cut, a play by Mark Ravenhill exploring a dystopian society, is presented with an all-female cast by The Seeing Place, a new independent theatre company set up by Canberra artists Sammy Moynihan and Marlene Radice. Mill Theatre, Fyshwick, September 12-21.</span></p> <p><strong>The ACT Textile Arts Association is hosting Hanging by a Thread, with textile art, embroidery, crochet, knitting, felting, mixed media, dyeing, printing, sewing and dressmaking. Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery, Trinculo Place, September 13-22.</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Musica da Camera, directed by Shilong Ye, performs pieces by Australian women composers including Margaret Sutherland, Elena Kats-Chernin, Maria Grenfell, Helen Gifford and Sally Greenaway. Holy Covenant Church, Cook, September 14 and Gunning Shire Hall, September 15.</span></p> </body>