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Arts in the City / High drama from a cello

Cellist Steven Isserlis. Photo by Keith Saunders
Cellist Steven Isserlis. Photo by Keith Saunders
SUPERSTAR Steven Isserlis, who turns cello playing into high drama, will be in town for Musica Viva, with Canadian pianist Connie Shih. Llewellyn Hall, 7pm, Thursday, June 18, bookings to 1800 688482 or musicaviva.com.au/Isserlis

FILM, food, fashion and feeling are the themes chosen by film critic and director Simon Weaving for his third “Winter Film Series” at the NGA on Wednesdays at 6.30pm until July 8. The films are all about art and culture, as in “National Gallery”, Frederick Wiseman’s documentary depiction of a great London institution. Bookings and details of all films at online.nga.gov.au/screenings or tickets at the front desk.

THE annual family-friendly, free celebration, “Fête de la Musique”, runs from 6.30pm on June 19 with an open stage concert, each group performing for 20 minutes until 10pm, followed by the band Two4six from 10pm-11pm. Alliance Française de Canberra, 66 McCaughey Street, Turner, all welcome.

THE Glassworks is celebrating 100 years of its home at Kingston Power House with an open day, 4pm-11pm, on Saturday, June 20. There’ll be glass market stalls, live music, interactive glass making workshops, viewings, a lighting installation, the “winter glow garden”, a silent auction, lucky dip and door prizes. Meantime, at 6pm on June 17 at the Glassworks, poet Andrew Galan will open director Magda Keaney’s “New Glass 2015: Archaeology, Excavation & the

THE Devil’s Intern”, by Canberra-based Donna Hosie, has just won a 2015 Westchester Fiction Award in the US, given to authors who contribute exemplary literature to the young adult community.

CANBERRA filmmaker Sotiris Dounoukos’ 19-minute drama “A Single Body” has been awarded Best Short Film at the St Kilda Film Festival. Dounoukos, currently directing “Joe Cinque’s Consolation” here, won $10,000 and qualification for consideration in the Oscars’ short film category.

MUSICAL identity Judith Clingan had a huge response from overseas for her coming “Jubilate!” music event at the Orana Steiner School, with 76 children, teenagers and adults due to arrive on July 4 from China, Taiwan and Japan. Now she needs Canberra families to billet them until Saturday, August 1. Willing hosts should email her at judithclingan@me.com

UC Chorale, now directed by Alan Hicks, is soon to stage “Dian Dreaming”, a concert of choral, vocal and violin works by women composers, including Fanny Hensel (Mendelssohn), Lili Boulanger, Mary Hudson, Ethel Smyth, Vittoria Aleotti and Canberra’s Sally Greenaway. Soloists will be Christina Wilson and Barbara Jane Gilby. Belconnen Arts Centre, 2pm, on Sunday, June 14.

SIX-foot tattooed diva Storm Large, the front for US group Pink Martini and star in the TV show “Rockstar Supernova”, will be at The Playhouse on June 17 with her band Le Bonheur, en route home from  the Adelaide Cabaret Festival. Bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.

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