• LLEWELLYN Choir will usher in Easter with the performance of JS Bach’s inspiring “St. Matthew Passion”. Rowan Harvey Martin will conduct soloists Michael Martin, Stephen Bennett, Rebecca Collins, Rohan Thatcher and Christina Wilson, the 120-strong choir, 40 guest soloists and the Llewellyn Sinfonia. At Canberra Girls’ Grammar School Hall, 7.30pm, March 31, bookings to 6278 4498. Tickets at the door.

• THE Archibald Prize arguments have started. One “CityNews” online comment says Canberra shortlistee, stencil artist Luke Cornish’s portrait of father Bob Maguire shouldn’t be there as it’s, well, a stencil.

• PROGRAMMING director at The Q, Steven Pike has been rendered almost speechless by his newest show, “Syncopation”, which he describes as “beyond words”. Set in Ragtime-era New York, 1912, the lavish two-hander illustrates just how dangerous ballroom dancing once was. At The Q, Queanbeyan, March 27-April 5, bookings to 6285 6289 or www.theq.net.au

• PHOTOACCESS’ Huw Davies Gallery has gone exotic with an exhibition of Josh Wodak’s photographs, “Sense of Surroundings (images of Spain)”, showing until April 1 – the more exotic because he uses selective underexposure, motion-blur, silhouetting and ambiguously “awkward” positioning of subjects.

• HARPIST and pianist Meriel Owen will be performing Debussy and Saint-Saëns with Barbara Jane Gilby and Hayley Bullock (violins), Michelle Higgs (viola) and Martin Barker (cello) for Wesley Music Centre’s “Lunchtime Live” series on March 28, 12.40pm to 1.20pm. $2 or paper note entry. No bookings required.

• OUT-of-town shows during this glorious season are Tumut Art Society’s 55th annual Art Exhibition at “Fiveways Studio”, 1 Tumut Plains Road, Tumut, 10am-4pm until April 8 and our own Julie Bradley’s joint exhibition with Eurobodalla artist Tim Moorehead at Ivy Hill Gallery, 1795 Tathra-Bermagui Road, Wapengo, Friday to Monday, 10am-5pm until March 26.

• ARTISTS 12 to 25 years old living in the ACT or surrounding regions have until March 30 to enter the Headspace ACT exhibition aimed at National Youth Week in April. The prize is an iPad2 and the theme is “Imagine, Create, Inspire”.

• UNTIL March 31, M16 Artspace in Griffith is inviting proposals from artists wanting to exhibit in 2013, with the hope of expanding its range of shows. Inquiries to Emily at office@m16artspace.com or call 6295 9438.