• CRAFT ACT and Canberra Contemporary Art Space, are turning on a series of presentations and panel discussions by “industry leaders” (an appalling term when applied to the arts) and arts gurus on Fridays August 3 and 10. The idea is to look at funding alternatives, procedures, networking and luring in the media. “Come along to find out how, as an artist, you can make money and influence people,” the blurb reads. Gosh, I’m one of the speakers and I wish I knew the answers. Bookings essential, to 6262 9333 or michelle.symons@craftact.org.au

• FORMER Canberran Ed Wightman is in town directing Shelagh Stephenson’s play, “The Memory of Water”, for Canberra Repertory, August 3-18 at Theatre 3. Three sisters and their partners gather at their mother’s funeral. Wightman has assembled a star cast and production team, the latter headed up by set designer Quentin Mitchell. Bookings to 6257 1950.

• MELBOURNE printmaker Cat Poljski’s work reflects urban encounters. She’s currently showing “Imagined Cities” at FORM Studio and Gallery until July 29 at 1/30 Aurora Avenue, Queanbeyan.

• “MOTHERHOOD The Musical” is a kind of prequel to “Menopause the Musical”. This time we meet Barb, stressed-out mother of five, lawyer Brooke who barely sees her kids, single mum Trisha and very pregnant Amy. Comedy, pathos, songs, laughs. At The Q, Queanbeyan, August 14-19, bookings to 6285 6290 |or www.theq.net.au

• SLAM poet Miles Merrill, here for the Capital Jazz Project, sees a lot of inauthentic rapping and poetry at his touring workshops, but admired the kid from Wagga who described his home town as “such a big hole it echoes” – get it? Wagga Wagga!

• WESLEY Music Foundation and the Music Teachers’ Association of NSW are holding an afternoon with composer Ann Carr-Boyd at Wesley,  1pm-5pm, on Sunday, July 29, 1-5pm. Information at www.wesleycanberra.org.au/music 6254 6133 or 6254 9423.

• THEN on Wednesday, August 1, classical guitarist, Matt Withers, will perform works by G. Regondi, J. S. Bach and S. Smith at Wesley Music Centre, 12.40 to 1.20pm, $2 or paper note entry. No bookings required.

• FRAMING Matters in Captain Cook Crescent, Griffith, is holding an exhibition of work by Michelle Day, Meelan Oh, Julie Sabur, Craig Shipton, Jo Shore and Sarah opening on August 2 to mark the 11th birthday of a business whose owners say every item they frame “has value, both emotional and heritage.”