• AFTER 60 years of choral conducting, former director of the ANU School of Music, Bill Hawkey, is hanging up his baton as music director and conductor of the Montague Choristers in Narooma. Hawkey’s last classical performance with the choristers was Mendelssohn’s “Elijah” on August 5, but there’ll still be some “nostalgia” concerts to come. Potential new conductors and accompanists should phone 02 4476 2270.

• “BOY Girl Wall,” with 25 characters performed by one man, a stick of chalk and a sock puppet, concludes The Street Theatre’s 2012 “Solo Program” from August 22-September 1. It’s a piece de resistance for Matilda Award winner Lucas Stibbard and his comedic colleagues from the Brisbane Theatre Group, The Escapists, and tells of love-thwarting objects (such as walls). Bookings to 6247 1223 or www.thestreet.org.au

• CANBERRA Dance Development Centre’s annual concert is “Treasure”, inspired by Mother Teresa’s poem “Life Is”, at the Canberra Theatre, 7.30pm, Saturday, August 25, bookings to 6275 2700 or www.canberratheatrecentre.com.au

• SIX well-known regional artists will soon exhibit in Goulburn, linked chiefly by their proximity to the city. They are Canberra’s Julie Bradley, Susan Buret from the Southern Highlands, Margarita Georgiardis from Gunning, sculptor Mike and painter Kerry McInnis from Whiskers Creek and Bob Millis from Goulburn itself. “Six Pack,” at Goulburn Regional Art Gallery, corner of Bourke and Church Sreets, opens 2pm, August 25 until September 15.

• “SHORT+Sweet Canberra” is now in its fourth year, where it will run to September 1 at The Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre. It covers “all styles of theatre from comedy to drama, physical to puppetry, poetic to absurd.” Bookings to 6275 2700 or www.canberraticketing.com.au

• WESLEY Music Centre will be awash with concerts in the next week or so. There’s the Forrest National Chamber Orchestra performing on Sunday, August 19, at 3pm in a fundraising event for Wesley Music Foundation String Scholarships. No bookings required. On Wednesday, August 22, violist Robert Harris will perform his second concert in his ongoing “Viola Plus” project with pianist Colin Forbes, 12.40pm-1.20pm, $2 or paper note entry and on Friday, August 24, at 7.30pm, pianist Jonathan Wilson will perform Beethoven, Liszt, Fauré and Albéniz. Tickets at the door.