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Arts in the city: book celebrates a century of words

• LOCAL writer and editor, Irma Gold, is launching “The Invisible Thread: One Hundred Years of Words” at the end of the month. A Centenary project with illustrations by Judy Horacek and a foreword by Robyn Archer, it’s an anthology of 75 works by Canberra region-related writers, praised by Frank Moorhouse as “a very special anthology about a special city.

• THE Queanbeyan Players are doing a kilt-less production of the Broadway classic, “Brigadoon”, which tells the story of two Americans who stumble on a mysterious village in the Scottish highlands. We are disappointed by the Players’ spoilsport justification that kilts were banned from 1745 to the mid-19th century, but it should be a good show. At The Q, November 2-17, bookings to www.theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

• LOCAL artist and the director of Form Studio and Gallery in Queanbeyan, Claire Primrose, is over the moon at having been  accepted into both the Fisher’s Ghost Art Prize the $20,000 Paddington Art prize.

• LIKEWISE, over the moon is former Canberra art critic and now Taralga-based painter, Geoff de Groen, who has exhibited at the Drill Hall and Chapman Gallery in the past year or so, on learning that the NGA has acquired his work “January 16, 2011.”

• THE closing date for entries from artists over the age of 25 into Tuggeranong Arts Centre’s popular Capital Chemist Art Award is Tuesday, October 30. Details at  www.tuggeranongarts.com.au

• CAN you believe it’s 50 years since The Beatles released their first single, “Love Me Do” with Parlophone Records? Shortis and Simpson will mark the occasion with a nostalgic show, “The Act You’ve Known for All These Years,” at Teatro Vivaldi, November 2-4, bookings to 6257 2718.

• WE warned you about burlesque. Now there’s “Batman Follies of 1929”, a “classic, 1920s-style, vaudeville performance set in Gotham City”. Conceived by producer Russall Beattie, the brains behind the Australian version of the “Star Wars” burlesque, “The Empire Strips Back”, it’s at the Playhouse on November 2, bookings to 6275 2700 or www.canberraticketing.com.au

• ALEX Pinker has written to us about The International Screen Academy Sydney, a new screen-acting school opening in February in Waterloo. The ISA is run by professionals, such as  AFFIX award winner Nicholas Hope, of “Bad Boy Bubby” notoriety, who will be head of acting. Information at www.isasydney.com.au.

• “FOR the first time in Australia,” enthuses publicist Coralie Wood, Canberra is getting “Russia’s finest opera singers in a seamless theatrical presentation, Moscow Novaya Opera Soloists and Orchestra with dancers from the Russian Imperial Ballet” – and with a 44-piece symphony orchestra. “Operamania”, at Llewellyn Hall, from April 23-25 next year, (don’t say we didn’t give you notice). Bookings to 1300 795012 or ticketek.com.au

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