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Arts in the City / New chapter for bookseller Anne

“RETIRED booksellers don’t die…they just try and reinvent themselves,” Anne Hutton tells us just months after she and business partner Katarina Pearson closed Electric Shadows Bookshop. From her Yass home she’s been building a website called Paper Parrot (paperparrot.com.au) that specialises in the add-ons that people loved in the Braddon bookshop – cards, bookmarks, calendars, wrapping paper and gifts that emphasise Australian art and design talent, “but not to the point of xenophobia,” she assures us.

Chrissie Shaw as Madame Bijou… at The Street, September 16-20.
Chrissie Shaw as Madame Bijou… at The Street, September 16-20.
CHRISSIE Shaw’s “Bijou” is a sell-out cabaret built around a real-life character, Madame Bijou, Queen of the Belle Epoque demi-monde, back at Street 2 for six shows after touring in regional NSW. Alan Hicks plays the long-suffering bar pianist. At The Street Theatre, September 16-20, bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.

CANBERRA Short Film Festival is another sell-out, attracting audiences from all over Australia. Now in its 20th year, it’s become a must for film buffs and the 2015 edition will run at Dendy Cinemas in Civic over three nights from September 18-20. Full program and bookings to csff.com.au

The Mariachi Band.. here for a family-friendly Mexican Independence Day concert.
The Mariachi Band.. here for a family-friendly Mexican Independence Day concert.
“HOLD on to your big hats” advises Victor Valdes, whose Mariachi Band is coming from Sydney to the Fitters Workshop on Thursday, September 17, with a family-friendly Mexican Independence Day concert. Bookings to stickytickets.com.au/28233

REP’s next production, “Much Ado About Nothing,” is at Theatre 3, September 17-October 3. Director, set and costume designer Cate Clelland sets the play in a time “just after a war” (bet you that’s World War I) with music, dancing and a sense of new possibilities and promise. Intriguing casting of Jim Adamik as Benedick and Lainie Hart as Beatrice. Bookings to canberrarep.org.au or 6257 1950.

Soprano Rachael Duncan… at Wesley Music Centre, September 13.
Soprano Rachael Duncan… at Wesley Music Centre, September 13.
SOPRANO Rachael Duncan and pianist Anthony Smith take the podium at Wesley Music Centre for Art Song at 3pm, Sunday, September 13 in a program alluringly titled “Night’s Caressing Grip”. Actually, it’s art songs from the 19th and early 20th centuries that explore devotion, loss, yearning and homecoming in works by Schumann, Grieg, Britten, Hahn and Svendsen. Tickets available only at the door.

FINNISH pianist, conductor and composer, Olli Mustonen, will be here with the Australian Chamber Orchestra to perform Bach’s “Concerto for Keyboard”, to direct Hindemith’s “The Four Temperaments” from the piano, and then to see colleagues, including ACO principal cellist Timo-Veikko Valve, perform the world premiere of his own “Sonata for Cello and Chamber Orchestra”. At Llewellyn Hall, Saturday, September 12, bookings to aco.com.au

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