CANBERRA Glassworks invites everyone to celebrate its 8th birthday from 5pm – 8pm tomorrow Friday 1 May. There’ll be a FREE performance from 6pm – 7pm in the Hotshop where artist Sarah Humphrey’s cast glass violin and cello, ‘A Giocherellare’ will be played by musicians Emma Greenhill and Felix Hoffman-Este. Humphrey’s was winner of the 2014 National Student Art Glass prize and the performance has been scheduled to coincide with opening night of the Canberra International Music Festival. There will be an artist’s talk by Jenni Kemarre Martiniello for the ‘ReInventing the Weave’ exhibition this Saturday May 2 at 2pm, also at the Glassworks.
“THE Crucible” directed by Jordan by Best – the second production for REP in 2015 – features some of Canberra’s top actors and music by the noted film composer Peter Best, the director’s father. “The Crucible” at Theatre 3, Acton, May 1-16, preview April 30 at 8pm, bookings to canberrarep.org.au or 6257 1950.
SYDNEY Dance Company opens tonight with a double bill of works by international choreographer William Forsythe’s dance work for five dancers, ‘Quintett’ and by company director Rafael Bonachela, “Frame of Mind,” that gives its title to the whole program. “Frame of Mind,” is a personal story and the set, a huge wire picture frame, matches the theme. “Frame of Mind” at Canberra Theatre, 7.30pm, April 30-May 1, bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
“COLOUR my world” is the first exhibition dedicated to the hand-coloured photograph since the 1970s: The exhibition at the NGA draws together engaging photographs by some of Australia’s most important contemporary artists, Micky Allan, Ruth Maddison, Warren Breninger, Julie Rrap, Janina Green, Christine Barry, Fiona Hall, Miriam Stannage, Robyn Stacey, Nici Cumpston, Lyndell Brown/Charles Green and Jon Cattapan. At the National Gallery of Australia.
KOTARO Nagano, winner of the 2nd Australian International Chopin Piano Competition (Canberra 2014) will perform a piano recital for The Friends of Chopin Australia on the ANU School of Music’s 1847 Pleyel piano, Chopin’s favourite type of piano. Sunday 3 May at 8pm in the Larry Sitsky Recital Room. Bookings to friendsofchopin.org.au or tickets at the door.
THE next show at PhotoAccess is a large solo show by Canberra photographer Sean Davey encompassing all three spaces. “Port Moresby | Second Contact” comprises images made in Papua New Guinea over a ten year period. A regular visitor to PNG, Davey presents a deeply personal look at the country and he highlights his process as a photographer, presenting intimate contact prints (small photographs), sketchbooks and collaged images. 2015, he notes, is Papua New Guinea’s 40th anniversary year of independence. Glenn Keys will open the exhibition at 6pm today, Thursday 30th April. All welcome. At Huw Davies Gallery Manuka Arts Centre, Manuka Circle, Griffith 10am-4pm Tuesday-Friday & 12pm-4pm.
THE Vinyl Lounge is back at the National Film and Sound Archive this Friday. Enjoy drinks and nibbles from 5pm, then regular hosts Thorsten Kaeding and Graham McDonald will hit the turntable with YOUR favourite tracks from YOUR favourite vinyl from 5.30pm. 5:30-6:30pm NFSA Theatrette, Canberra, ACT FREE entry, no booking required.
THERE’LL be a preview tonight of the coming art auction “Sunday Dreaming” today Thursday 30 April, from 6 – 7.30pm in the Foyer of The John Curtin School of Medical Research Building, 131 Garran Road, ANU Campus where Indigenous art expert Wally Caruana Professor Simon Easteal will describe the art and the work of The National Centre for Indigenous Genomics. (Register at eventbrite.com.au). The auction is from 11am-3pm this Sunday 3 May, on the lawns of Government House, Yarralumla, with all funds raised supporting medical research at the National Centre for Indigenous Genomics, ANU.
CANBERRA Grammar School Gallery is hosting an exhibition of recent works by David Hodges called “The Atomic Landscape.” The show opens this Saturday, May 2 at 4 PM and continues until May 23, Monday to Friday 10 AM to 4 PM, and following Saturdays 11 AM to 4 PM, at CGS gallery, 40 Monaro Crescent, Red Hill.
FRANCIS Kenna’s new exhibition ‘Catfish Blues’ bathes the gallery walls at CCAS Manuka with intense colour as Kenna transforms the space into a laboratory for perceptual experiments where the audience can understand radiance as the result of a series of waves and vibrations. Opening 6pm Thursday 30 April at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka 19 Furneaux Street, Manuka, Wednesday to Sunday 11am to 5pm, until 10th May. All welcome.
NO Lights No Lycra South Canberra is throwing Canberra’s first ever Morning Rave. They’re taking over The Bogong Theatre and filling it with fairy lights, banging upbeat tunes by DJ MK8, hula hooping by Hoopbeat, homemade muesli from The Muesli Bar, Yoga with Ashtanga Lab. NO alcohol but plenty of dancing. The Good Morning Rave Friday 1st May 7am – 8am Bogong Theatre, Ainslie + Gorman Arts Centre, 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon Wear comfy clothes, including animal costumes and multi-coloured clothing. All ages welcome but bookings to eventbrite.com.au
A recital this Saturday 2nd May at 2pm will celebrate a new chapter in the life of the historic 1908 Wadsworth Organ, now located at Westminster Presbyterian Church Belconnen. The recital will also feature strings and trombone, and all funds raised will support orphans in Bangladesh and the concert will be followed by afternoon tea. 61 Templeton St, Cook, all welcome, tickets at the door.
PHOTOGRAPHER John Gollings will be in town presenting a landscape architecture photography masterclass and evening talk in Canberra today Thursday 30 April. The landscape architecture photography events coincide with an exhibition “Site Seeing: A decade of landscape architecture through the lens”, on show at the Gallery of Australian Design, 47 Jardine Street Kingston, Canberra until 15 May, 9am – 5pm, Monday to Friday. Bookings to aila.org.au
THE annual Griffith Street Party hosted by M16 Artspace and the Griffith-Narrabundah Community Association will be held again at M16 Artspace, this Saturday 2 May from 12.00 to 3.30pm. It’s always a family friendly community event that combines art with food and jazz. On the day M16’s three gallery spaces will be open and 14 different tenant artists from M16 Artspace will open their studios to event goers. A sausage sizzle, Girl Guide cupcakes, a coffee stall with baked goods, a range of arts and crafts and other goodies and displays are expected to contribute to the traditional ‘village fair’ atmosphere. The original poster artwork by ‘Byrd’, will also be raffled and the proposed design for the new Blaxland Park will be on display, as well as diagrams of the ACT government’s proposals to re-develop the Stuart Flats and Gowrie Court. 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith.
THE Drill Hall Gallery at Kingsley Street, Acton, open 12 – 5pm Wednesday to Sunday, is a hive of activity. It’s currently exhibiting the works of 13 artists who were part of the Sydney gallerist Robert Linnegar’s ambitious project where groups of artists from Australia and New Zealand to revisit the legendary sites of the Anzac expedition to Gallipoli. Then tonight, Thursday 30 April at 7pm, chamber group The Haydn Ensemble will perform ‘Mozart’s Flute’ including Mozart’s C major flute quartet and Beethoven string trio OP.8, bookings to australianhaydn.com.au In the FRIENDS NIGHT (non Friends are welcome too) at 5pm tomorrow, Friday 1 May director Terence Maloon will talk about his trip to Venice and Padua.
VIOLIN at TWILIGHT with Carl Rafferty is a Friends of the Drill Hall Gallery concert this Saturday and Sunday May 2 and 3 where young violinist Liam Keneally will return to Canberra to play a Mozart concerto, gypsy dances by Brahms and Dvorak, tunes by Elgar, and a handful of ‘cheering novelty pieces’. Arrive at the gallery at 4.30, enjoy a glass of wine or champagne and have a look at the remarkable exhibition before taking your seat. Please book by return email or carlrafferty@bigpond.com, Canberra
ARTIST Margaret Dimoff invites art-lovers to join her for drinks and to preview her new body of work tomorrow Friday 1st of May 6 to 8 pm at the Margaret Dimoff Art Gallery (formerly Solander) 38 Grey St Deakin.
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