WELL-known Canberra photographer George Serras spent some months working as a volunteer with the Luang Prabang National Museum and lived next to the Vat Manorom temple. His B&W photo essay “Dharma: life in a Laotian temple” shows life behind the scenes there. 

Money raised from the exhibition will pay for prosthetics and rehabilitation services for Laotian children who have been victims to landmines. At PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre, until October 14.

ALSO At PhotoAccess until October 14, presented at three different locations around Manuka Arts Centre, sound designer Lea Collins and writer-historian Mary Hutchison have “A Canberra Sound Album”, a collection of “places, moments and people,” conjuring up the suburb of Kingston.

THE 29-year-old Aeolus Wind Trio, David Shaw (flute), Liz Hoorweg (clarinet) and David Whitbread (bassoon), are playing their way into spring, with “Tiptoe through the Tulips” in the repertoire, from noon to 3pm on October 1 and October 14 at Tulip Top Gardens, 15 minutes north of Canberra on the Federal Highway.

THE Iranian Film Festival Australia has returned for a second year and the Canberra screenings will run at the National Film and Sound Archive’s Arc Cinema from October 11-14. The program kicks off with Ali Mosaffa’s “The Last Step” and festival directors, Anne Démy and Armin Miladi, hope the films will improve our understanding of Iranian culture. Bookings to 6248 2000 or at the door.

THERE is only until October 1 to catch “Clay Presence”, the Canberra Potters’ Society’s 2012 Members’ Exhibition at Watson Arts Centre, Aspinall Street, Watson (Thursday to Sunday, 10am to 4pm and the public holiday on October 1).

REVERED Latin American band Inti-Illimani Histórico, whose name means “Sun of the Illimani”, was formed in 1967. Praised by guitarist John Williams as “one of the great music ensembles of our time”, they’ll be been performing in Llewellyn Hall, 7.30pm, on October 5. Bookings to www.ticketek.com.au