<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <docID>329287</docID> <postdate>2024-09-18 15:01:39</postdate> <headline>Luka gives a lesson in the different ways of love</headline> <body><p><img class="size-full wp-image-329288" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Luka-Lesson-performs-in-Agape.jpg" alt="" width="900" height="600" /></p> <caption>Poet Luka gives a lesson in love</caption> <p><span class="kicker-line">Arts editor <strong>HELEN MUSA</strong> rounds up what's on where in her latest Arts in the City column. </span></p> <p><strong>Poet Luka Lesson takes his audience through the different dimensions of love – Eros, Filia, Philoxenia, Philautia, Storgi and Pragma – in Agapi & Other Kinds of Love. Inspired by Plato’s Symposium and modern-day Athens, he blends rap, spoken word and ancient philosophy. The Vault, Fyshwick, September 21.</strong></p> <p>The Italian Film Festival opens at Palace Electric Cinema with Gloria! on September 19 and closes with Conclave on October 16.</p> <p><strong>ArtsNational Molonglo Plains has a talk on the Sculptures of the Parthenon, C3 Auditorium, </strong><strong>Queanbeyan, September 19.</strong></p> <p>A poetry-meets-physics event will see Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout read and engage in conversation with ANU Prof Ben Buchler. The Street Theatre, September 19.</p> <p><strong>Kate Flaherty and actors from Bell Shakespeare uncover one of the most amusing and successful literary hoaxes of all time in Fakespeare: The Story of the Vortigern Hoax, National Library Theatre, September 20.</strong></p> <p>The book, Life Journeys: Love and Grief by Fijian poet and parliamentarian Prof Satendra Nandan, will be at The Street Theatre, September 20.</p> <p><img class=" wp-image-329289" src="https://citynews.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Detail-from-a-painting-by-David-Kingdon.jpg" alt="" width="750" height="500" /></p> <caption>Detail from a painting by David Kingdon</caption> <h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Exhibitions</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li><em>Emerging painter David Kindon’s exhibition Life’s a Beach feature’s oil paintings featuring the Australian coastline. Strathnairn Arts, Holt, until October 13. </em></li> <li><em>Masami Teraoka and Japanese Ukiyo-E-Print, focusing on contemporary themes using traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints. National Gallery, September 21-March 2, 2025.</em></li> <li><em>Roger Beale’s exhibition of paintings opens at Humble House, Fyshwick, September 22.</em></li> </ul> <h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Stage</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li><em>Canberra Youth Theatre presents Work, But This Time Like You Mean It by Honor Webster-Mannison, The Courtyard Studio, September 20-29. </em></li> <li><em>Steve Michaels, Louis Brown and Michael Chambliss star in Elvis: An American Trilogy’s Aloha from Hawaii . The Q, Queanbeyan, September 21.</em></li> </ul> <h3><span style="color: #800000;"><strong>Concerts</strong></span></h3> <ul> <li><em>Canberra Symphony Orchestra presents Celestial Visions , where Jessica Cottis conducts Mahler, Llewellyn Hall, September 18-19.</em></li> <li><em>Dan Russell and The Phoenix Collective present Program: Music by Schubert, Shostakovich, Arnalds, and Sigur Rós. All Saints’, Ainslie, September 20.</em></li> <li><em>Brisbane-born John Granger Fisher appear ins a Piano Recital, Wesley Music Centre, September 20.</em></li> <li><em>Flux Jazz Quintet, Miroslav Bukovsky and friends, will perform at ANU Drill Hall Gallery, September 20.</em></li> <li><em>Electric Light Orchestra Tribute Show is at The Q, Queanbeyan, September 20.</em></li> <li><em>This Shining Night by the Canberra Choral Society, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, September 21.</em></li> <li><em>Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows, at The Q, Queanbeyan, September 22.</em></li> <li><em>Tom Woodward’s Australian folk album Revolving Doors will be launched with performances by The Missing Lincolns, Julia Johnson, Happy Axe, Evan Buckley and Konrad Lenz. The Polo, Turner. September 22.</em></li> <li><em>Members of the ANU Women in Music Program and the Wamburang Women’s Choir present Woven Melodies, Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU, September 23.</em></li> <li><em>Shreyas Sunkaraneni and Ben Francis, from Marie Cull’s Piano Studio, will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Debussy. Wesley Music Centre Lunchtime Concert, September 25.</em></li> </ul> <p><em> </em></p> </body>