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Arts in the City / Budget cuts send dance chief from job

Neil Roach… job lost to government cuts.
Neil Roach… job lost to government cuts.
SAD dance-lovers have farewelled retiring Ausdance ACT director of eight years, Neil Roach. When we say “retiring”, Roach finds himself without a job and Ausdance without a director after cuts to the community dance budget by the ACT government. Bitterest pill to swallow is that the schools and colleges’ dance festival has been deemed outside artsACT’s philosophical remit.

JAN Brown, the artist responsible for kangaroos at Commonwealth Park and her “Icarus” sculptures in Petrie Plaza, has her “birds” on show at Beaver Galleries in drawings, works on paper and sculpture dating from the mid-1960s. At 81 Denison Street, Deakin, until April 14.

Chris Latham… war concert at the High Court.
Chris Latham… war concert at the High Court.
CHRIS Latham, former “CityNews” Artist of the Year and director of The Gallipoli Symphony, has “Re-sounding Gallipoli”, a free concert, at the High Court, from 1.30pm, on Sunday, April 12. It’s the first in his “Flowers of War” series of 25 concerts on how music sustains people in times of conflict.

WORKS of Australian architectural photographers including John Gollings, Christopher Frederick Jones and Dianna Snape will be on show under the title “Site Seeing” at the Gallery of Australian Design, 47 Jardine Street, Kingston, until May 15. Gollings will visit Canberra for related events on April 30. Details at aila.org.au/act_events

THE late Eleanor Houston was a founder of the ACT Lieder Society, later Art Song Canberra, and for many years its president and patron. Art Song will stage a tribute concert in her name in Wesley Music Centre at 3pm on Saturday, April 18. All welcome.

BILK Gallery in Palmerston Lane, Manuka, has work by eight contemporary Thai artists on show until April 25. The show, “A New Negotiation”, was curated by Bow Wasinondh for ATTA Gallery in Bangkok, whose director Atinuj Tantivit is a contemporary art jeweller, collector and advocate who wants to bring the work of Thai artists to a wider audience.

LAST year the Canberra Dance Development Project won the second prize of $3000 in the 2014 Sydney Eisteddfod McDonald’s Dance of Champions for a work choreographed by Paul Knobloch. Now it’s time for keen singers, dancers, musicians, actors and other artists to get their entries in for this year, visit sydneyeisteddfod.com.au

ROOKWOOD Cemetery is calling for entries to its seventh annual “Hidden” exhibition, running from September to October and bearing an award valued at $10,000. Last year Canberra’s Stephen Harrison had a sculpture installed there. Submissions may take the form of artist impressions or sketches with details of scale and materials. Apply to hidden.rookwoodcemetery.com.au

 

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