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Arts in the City / Songs, animals and an alien…

“From Galaxies to Gumleaves”... cast members are aged 6-14 years.
“From Galaxies to Gumleaves”… cast members are aged 6-14 years.
PIED Piper Productions have “From Galaxies to Gumleaves”, a fantastic story about a spaceship crashing in the Australian bush, complete with bright songs, animal characters and one alien. Cast members are aged 6-14 years and the show runs for about 50 minutes at St Paul’s Anglican Church Hall, Manuka, 10am, on June 25 and 26 and 6pm Friday June 27 and 6pm Sat June 28. All tickets $5 cash at the door.

THE National Capital Orchestra Concert will join Igitur Nos Choir at 3pm, Sunday, June 22, in St Paul’s Anglican Church, Manuka, for an impressive concert. Vaughan Williams’ “Overture: The Wasps”, Finzi’s “In Terra Pax”, Strauss’ introduction from “Also Sprach Zarathustra” and Saint-Saëns’ “Organ” Symphony will be conducted by Matthew Stuckings. Bookings to nco.org.au

WARM congratulations to theatre director Tessa Bremner and musician Bill Hawkey, both honoured in the latest Queen’s Birthday list. Both, since leaving Canberra, have worked on musicals enterprises in regional Australia – far from thankless, but always challenging.

IT’S time to enter for the choirs section of the Australian National Eisteddfod. The big change this year is that there is a new section on the Saturday night – The Australian Choral Challenge – with prize money totalling $18,000. Entries close on July 4 and the syllabus is available at nationaleisteddfod.org.au

SCHOOL of Music graduate, soprano Krystle Innes, has won a place in the Masters in Voice Performance course at the Royal College of Music, but before she goes she will head up a fundraising winter solstice concert of operatic favourites at Wesley Music Centre at 3pm on Sunday, June 22. Bookings to trybooking.com/EYAB and donations to https://fundly.com/help-send-krystle-to-the-royal-college-of-music-london

YARRALUMLA Uniting Church Centre has its famous annual midwinter show at the centre in Denman St, Yarralumla on June 27-29. The official opening will be at 6pm on Friday, June 27, and includes a short fashion show with refreshments to follow. Over the weekend, there are free concerts each afternoon.

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