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Arts in the city: Williamson shines again

• MAYBE you missed David Williamson’s “Let the Sunshine” when it came to the Canberra Theatre a few years back. Not to worry, it’s on at the Q, Queanbeyan until April 29. Set in Noosa, it shows documentary maker Toby and wife Ros having problems with the changes in the now-chic town. Bookings to 6285 6290.

 

• CAN there be “dialogue to die for”, as Canberra Rep says of Andrew Bovell’s play “Speaking in Tongues”, on which “Lantana” was based? It’s an all-star cast directed by Ross McGregor and, as they’re saying, “Bovell has written a major piece of brilliantly crafted theatre, sexy without the sex, exciting without the blood”. At Theatre 3, May 4-19, bookings to 6257 1950.

 

• GREENWAY artist, Nicola Crichton-Breen, is an entrant in this year’s Xstrata Percival Portrait Award at the Perc Tucker Regional Gallery, Townsville, with “One Girl Dreaming”, a portrait of 14-year-old Lyric Hearn, a “determined and talented indigenous girl from Far North Queensland”, now studying at Canberra Girls’ Grammar School.

 

• AUSTRALIAN Dance Week is with us until May 6. There’ll be displays by Canberra’s hoofers at the Belconnen Fresh Food Markets, 11am-2pm, on Saturdays April 28 and May 5. More information at ausdance.org.au

 

• THAT live-wire Kate Shelton, of Benedict House, Queanbeyan, has “Form & Fashion”, an exhibition of her own jewellery, polymer clay by Natalie Mara and glass by Jan Hine, 3pm-5pm, Sunday May 6.

 

• UNTIL May 6 at M16 Artspace in Griffith are exhibitions of certified organic textiles and photography by Turkish-born Perth artist, Zuhal Kuvan-Mills; “Remains of Fire”, by Perth artist Adriana Fernandes-Goncalves and small observed landscapes by M16 artists Ian Robertson and Marje Seymour.

 

• “IMAGINE” is a Youth Week Exhibition running in gallery@bcs at Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Court, 9am-4.30pm, until May 4. Young people aged 12-25 from ACT schools and the Bungee Youth Resilience Program are exhibiting classic cartoons, magical manga, animated flip books, obsolete objects, frantic figures and “crazy contraptions”.

PHOTO: A work by Turkish-born Perth artist Zuhal Kuvan-Mills… at the M16 Artspace.

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