CANBERRA School of Bollywood Dancing presents “Straight Outta Bollywood,” featuring over 60 dancers from tiny tots to adults.
THE spectacular show is at the ANU Arts Centre, 6pm, Saturday December 5, bookings to trybooking.com
Festivals and events:
GORMAN Arts Centre is hosting a Summer Garden Party at 55 Ainslie Avenue Braddon, from 6pm tomorrow, Friday 4 December. FREE entry.
RECORD fans are invited to bring along their vinyl s and play a track on the NFSA’s pure analogue sound system. The Vinyl Lounge, at the NFSA Theatrette, 5.30–6.30 pm tomorrow, Friday Dec 4. The Bench Room cafe is open from 5pm for drinks and snacks. Free entry, no booking required.
MELBOURNE designer Dale Hardiman is holding a workshop that combines old and new methods of making your own camp furniture. Participants will explore colour, form and texture to create practical furniture from a range of natural and biodegradable materials. Bookings to hotel-hotel.com.au
“SUMMER Lunch in the Garden with the Röhn Family”, a fundraiser for the Canberra International Music Festival, at the Crisp Galleries, Hume Highway, Bowning, 11.30am-3pm, Saturday, December 5. Bookings to cimf.org.au or 6230 5880.
Talks:
IN “Why ‘Messiah’,” Canberra Choral Society artistic director Tobias Cole and Coro Chamber Choir co-founder Paul Eldon take the floor at Muse cafe, East Hotel , 69 Canberra Ave, Kingston at 3.30pm this Sunday, Dec 6, to discuss the everlasting popularity of Handel’s ‘Messiah’ in the lead-up to the Choral Society’s performance in Llewellyn Hall at 7.30pm Saturday December 12. (Messiah bookings to Ticketek.com.au)
Opera:
CANBERRA Opera has Puccini’s “La Bohème” until December 6. Director Elisha Holley has set it in 1840, the time of the original story, depicting the characters as “an eclectic group of Bohemians”. Bookings to eventbrite.com.au/e/la-boheme-tickets-1898854
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
Theatre:
“A VERY Canberra Comedy Festival Christmas” will see some of the best comedians from the 2016 festival perform in a showcase show at the Canberra Theatre at this Saturday December 5. Bookings to canberracomedyfestival.com.au
“EVANGELINE (or, the grief that does not speak whispers the o’erfraught heart, and bids it break)”is the testing title of a new live art work by Chenoeh Miller. Courtyard studio, Canberra Theatre, 8pm, December 3-5, bookings to canberratheatre centre.com.au or 6275 2700.
GRADUATING performers at the Canberra Academy of Dramatic Art, Claire Birbara, Takudzwa Chipangura, Colin Giles, Katharine O’Bryan, and Michael Ubrihien, will perform a showcase act alongside students training in the Advanced Diploma of Performance program. At CADA Studios, 1/9 Lithgow St, Fyshwick, 7:30pm, December 2, 3 & 4, bookings to cada.net.au/shows.html
REP has “Don’t Dress for Dinner,” on stage now. IN the play Bernard plans to entertain his chic Parisian mistress for the weekend while his wife is away, but things go wrong. Perfect pre-Christmas fare. At Theatre 3, 3 Repertory Lane, Acton, until Dec 5, bookings to canberrarep.org.au or 6257 1950.
Concerts:
DAVID Reedy’s Bel Canto Studio students and graduate friends will be taking “a delightful journey beyond opera” at Queanbeyan Uniting Church, 13 Rutledge Street, Queanbeyan, 7.30pm – 10pm Saturday December 5. Bookings to trybooking.com/167167 or 62491831. Tickets at the door from 6.45pm.
MALE barbershop chorus “Canberra Chordsmen appear in in “A Very Merry Concert”. At Wesley Music Centre 2pm, Saturday December 5, bookings to trybooking.com/JBSA. Children under 10 free.
THEN in the same venue, the choir of St James’ Church, King St Sydney present seasonal choral music – sacred and secular, spanning over 500 years. At Wesley Music Centre, 5pm, bookings to trybooking.com and at the door.
THE Griffyn Ensemble presents “The Utopia Experiment “, music by George Dreyfus, Nigel Westlake, Eric Gross and Vincent Plush, at the National Portrait Gallery, 7pm, Friday and Saturday Dec 4 and 5, bookings to griffyn.iwannaticket.com.au or phone 0466 480 104.
“AN Evening with Keith Potger”, founding member of The Seekers, at the National Theatre, Wallace Street, Braidwood,, Saturday, December 5. All bookings to 4842 1700.
Gigs:
“THE Great Pretenders” will revisit hits from the 60s on, with artists like Queen, Beyoncé, and Kiss as well as bit of Christina Aguilera’s “Burlesque”. At the Vikings Club Erindale, until Dec 6. Bookings to premier.ticketek.com.au
Exhibitions:
THE National Portrait Gallery’s new show ‘Sideshow Alley’ featuring bushrangers, oddities, true crime and scandal, will be on display to the public at the NPG from Saturday December 5 until Sunday February 28.
“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).
“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.
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.
AN exhibition and celebration of the tree run at Bungendore Wood Works Gallery until December 6.
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’ 40th birthday celebration and opening of “Small Works 2015” exhibition, at 81 Denison Street, Deakin, 6pm, Friday, December 4.
THE final Canberra Glassworks exhibition for 2015, “Borland + Borland”, is an exhibition celebrating the work of sister artists photographer Polly and glass artist Emma. Members of the public are invited to hear from Emma and Polly Borland in conversation with Glassworks director Magda Keaney at 6pm tomorrow Friday December 4 in the Hotshop at the Glassworks.
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.
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 the1989 Newcastle earthquake. Also at Belconnen Arts Centre, until December 13.
MARSDEN Art Group’s 2015 exhibition of works by 13 Canberra artists is at Watson Arts Centre in Aspinall Street Watson 10-4 Thurs-Sun until December 6.
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.
IVY Hill Gallery has “Take a Line,” drawings by Veronica O’Leary, Peter Tucker and Simon Weber, at 1795 Tathra-Bermagui Road, Wapengo, Thursday to Sunday until December 6.
‘WOMEN of Canberra’, stories of 100 women from Canberra ‘Seeking Utopia’ by Fredrika Rose and ‘Light and Grain’, photography by select students from Lake Tuggeranong College are the three newest exhibitions at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, running until Saturday, December 5.
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