“GALLIPOLI Then & Now: Bonds Forged by War”, photographs by Vedat Acikalin, are on show at the Lalezar Hall, Turkish Embassy, 6 Moonah Place, Yarralumla, until December 18.
Festivals and events:
THE Inner South Arts Hub is a collective of established and active contemporary art galleries and spaces based in Canberra’s inner south. Organisation like PhotoAccess, ArtSound FM, Bilk Gallery, Canberra Contemporary Artspace Manuka, Canberra Glassworks, M16 Artspace and Megalo Print Studio + Gallery are joining in “Art After Dark” and “Art + Ride” events that will see each arts organisation open 5-8pm this Friday, Dec 11, offering enticing activities. facebook.com/
MEGALO Print Studio is pulling all the stops out to celebrate its birthday by creating the world’s longest screen print, 35 metres long, to be unveiled by Chief Minister Andrew Barr. It will be holding an open day at its Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, centre, 11am-2pm, on Saturday, December 12. All are welcome.
CANBERRA International Music Festival organisers are suggesting it’s a good time to buy the Festival Pass, which offers entry to 22 ticketed concerts at the 2016 event. Bookings to trybooking.com
Arts Business:
THE director of SoundOut contemporary music festival, Richard Johnson, is looking for volunteer ticket sellers, ushers, stage managers, sound and lighting assistants, media people and drivers for the 2016 event on January 30 and 31. Inquiries to 439 045 365 or vortexrec@aapt.net.au
Film:
IMB Bank Sunset Cinema, is back at the Australian National Botanic Gardens until December 19 for 4 sessions per week, with a mix of blockbusters, dramas, thrillers and family films, live music, beanbags, food and a fully licensed bar. Bookings to sunsetcinema.com.au
Talks:
Dance:
MORE than 300 Fresh Funk students bring the tale of Aladdin to life in their end-of-semester show at the Erindale Theatre, on December 11 and 12. Bookings to trybooking.com
TWELVE choreographers and dancers have come together for two weeks to create, develop, and perform “On Course,” at QL2 Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre, 7pm December 12 & 13. Bookings to trybooking.com
Theatre:
46 ACROBATS, musicians, singers and actors will present a showcase of spectacular aerial feats, astonishing human agility, and emotion in “Quidam” by Cirque du Soleil, at AIS Arena, until December 20.Bookings to ticketek.com.au
TEATRO Vivaldi, at the ANU Arts Centre has a pre-Christmas show, “Baby Boomers the Musical”, a revue written and directed by Louise Rostron that tracks, musically, the decades since World War II. Vivaldi’s, until December 19, bookings to 6257 2718. Dinner and high-tea shows available.
Concerts:
A FEAST of music is promised when the National Capital Orchestra presents its annual Concerto Concert, works by Berlioz, Telemann, Mouquet, Marcello, Boehme, Krommer and Rachmaninov with the NCO, conducted by Leonard Weiss and NCO members. In the John Lingard Hall, Alexander Street Red Hill, 3pm, Sunday, December 13, entry by donation.
HANDEL’S “Messiah” will be presented by the Canberra Choral Society at Llewellyn Hall 7.30pm Saturday December 12, bookings to Ticketek.com.au
BUSH Gothic will bring their dark folk tales to Canberra as part of their ‘Natural Selection Australian Songbook’ national tour. At Wesley Music Centre, 7.30pm Saturday December 12. Bookings to trybooking.com/JLHT and at the door.
A CHORUS of Women and their musician friends are busy rehearsing for their “Peace On Earth – Peace With The Earth” concert, to be held at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Barton, 4.30pm this Saturday, December 12. Bookings to trybooking.com or tickets at the door cash only.
Gigs:
Exhibitions:
THE “TOM Roberts” blockbuster is opens to the public at the NGA until March 28, bookings to Ticketek.com.au
THE National Portrait Gallery’s new show ‘Sideshow Alley’ featuring bushrangers, oddities, true crime and scandal, will be on display to the public until Sunday February 28.
“HOME in Time”, at Canberra Museum and Gallery, will be opened on December 11 by Tim Reeves and Alan Roberts, authors of “100 Capital Houses: A Century of Capital Architecture”, a book about Canberra architecture from 1913 to 2013 written as a centenary project.
CELEBRATING M16’s 30th Birthday, the M16 Drawing Prize winners will be announced in M16’s gallery 01 and 02, 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, at 7pm Friday December 11. The prize, which has been running since 2006, includes an array of works produced on paper or other surfaces using either traditional or non-traditional drawing materials or techniques. All welcome.
FOURTEEN members of Belconnen Artists’ Network are exploring aspects of Australia’s living heritage in an exhibition of sculpture, painting, drawing, photography and textiles at Australian National Botanic Gardens, daily 9:30am to 4:30pm until January 17.
ALEX Freeman is a Canberra-raised designer of resin jewellery and homewares, sold under her label Polka Luka. She has a pop up exhibition of her latest range, ‘Island’ 2015-6, at The Front Cafe and Gallery in Lyneham, until December 22.
IN the Canberra Potters’ Christmas Fair, running at Watson Arts Centre, Aspinall Street, and Watson daily 10am – 4pm until December 23, local potters and ceramicists have created a selection of ceramic artworks, jewellery, functional and sculptural items.
THE exhibition ‘Oh me, oh my!’ sees the gallery for contemporary metal and glass decorated and filled with rings, bracelets, pendants, objects and brooches from artists new and old, at Bilk Gallery Palmerston Lane Manuka, runs until December 24.
“BEHIND the Lines 2015: the year’s best political cartoons”, is running again with a selection of 80 cartoons from 39 cartoonists and some of Australia’s most controversial cartoons. At MoAD, Old Parliament House, 18 King George Terrace, Parkes, daily 9am–5pm (closed Christmas Day).
IN “Wendy Saddington: Underground icon” artist Peter Maloney uses his own archives to follow the development of Saddington’s career as a cult celebrity singer and a key figure in Australian popular music history. Canberra Museum and Gallery open collection gallery Square until April 17. Also, “Exhibition, Capital and Country: the Federation years 1900–1914” is now at CMAG, Civic Square.
CANBERRA emerging artist and ANCA EASS Award recipient, Ruby Berry, has a solo show, “Cocoon” at ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear St Dickson, until December 13.
THE GALLERY@BCS Piece of Mind Series presents “Face to Face,” a showcase of recent work, especially portraiture, from Canberra artists in celebration of International Day for People living with a Disability, at Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Crt Belconnen, Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm until Dec 11.
BEAVER Galleries “Small Works 2015” exhibition, paintings, works on paper, sculpture, glass, ceramics is at 81 Denison Street, Deakin, until December 24.
THE final Canberra Glassworks exhibition for 2015, “Borland + Borland”, is an exhibition celebrating the work of sister artists photographer Polly and glass artist Emma.
ART in Miniature’s 2015 exhibition of 170 tiny art works in watercolour, acrylic, oil, gold leaf, embroidery, mixed media, will be at Yarralumla Gallery, near the nursery, until January, 10 am – 5pm Mon to Fri and 8:30 am – 5pm Sat & Sun.
Brisbane artist Ros Paton’s exhibition “Lamina” celebrates the transience of our built environment, a subject initially inspired by the 1989 Newcastle earthquake. Also at Belconnen Arts Centre, until December 13.
Nicola Dickson’s current installation is seen in the glass-walled Gallery 4 of Canberra Museum and Gallery facing Civic Square, visible 24 hours of the day until February 13.
“COLLEGE Express 7” showcases the energetic artwork of 150 students in Years 11 & 12 from north Canberra colleges. The run the gamut through video, photography, painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles and design work. At Belconnen Arts Centre until January 31.BELCONNEN Arts Centre has “Hidden Faces”, its Community Cultural Inclusion Program exhibition until December 13 and “Coexistence,” by Paul Dumetz and Maryke Henderson, until December 13. Meantime in the Outdoor Gallery at BAC, recipient of the Emerging Artist Support Scheme, artist Anton Poon has used the metaphor of a bridge to explore the concept of cultural transition. Until Dec 13.
STRATHNAIRN’S Christmas exhibition “Conviviality” will be themed around food, festivity and friendship. It runs at 90 Stockdill Dr Holt, 8.30 – 8pm Saturday 8.30pm – 4pm Sunday, until December 20.
“BIRTH of the Cool” is a selection of major works by David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson and Dick Watkins, it surveys the decade between 1963 and 1973, a golden era of Australian art, at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, 12 – 5pm Wednesday to Sunday until Dec 13.
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