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What’s on and where this weekend

ARTSOUND is holding an ‘epicurean delights and sweet tunes’ event from 4pm to 6pm this Saturday, March 19 in the gardens at Manuka Arts Centre – showcasing some of the produce of this region and the musical talents of Stuart Warner on piano/keyboard.

Manuka Arts Centre
Manuka Arts Centre

BILL Mason of Regional Wine and Beverage Merchants and Dr Colin Andrews from Jirra Wines at Jeir Station will be on hand for wine tastings. chocolatier Robyn Rowe will bring her certified fair trade chocolates.

Bookings to artsound.fm or 6295 7444.


Events:

HOW early is too early for poetry? Join the ‘Noted’ festival at Smith’s Alternative 76 Alinga Street Civic 7:30am to 9am this Friday, March 18, for intimate and early-morning live poetry readings. Grab a coffee and share a table with poet to experience personal one-on-one and small group performances.


THE Fanciful Fiction Auxiliary, David Stavanger, Jennifer Compton, Laurie May and the BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! team with the Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre brings the Salt Room, the national capital showcase of territory, interstate and international writers and performers. Main Hall, Gorman Arts Centre 55 Ainslie Avenue Braddon, 7:30pm to 10pm this Friday, March 18.


SINGER-songwriter Deborah Conway was a founding member of Do-Re-Mi before launching a successful solo career, much of which was shared with musical collaborator William (Willy) Zygier. They’re in conversation at Arc cinema, NFSA, this Fri March 18.


SOUTH Coast artist Jennifer Hawkins, currently exhibiting at Belconnen Arts Centre until March 28, is leading a day of experimentation at the centre 10am to 3pm this Sat March 19. bookings essential to belconnenartscentre.com.au


ADFAS, the Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society Molonglo Plains, kicks off this year This year’s 2016 program begins with a lecture on “The City Of Kyoto & The Cult Of Beauty,” by British independent lecturer Pauline Chakmakjian. At the Comfort Inn Airport international, 57 Yass Road, Queanbeyan 2pm, Thursday, March 17. Inquiries and bookings to adfasmembersmolongloplains@gmail.com or 6299 1105.


Arts Business:

Inside ANCA Gallery
Inside ANCA Gallery

ANCA Gallery is now calling out for exhibition proposals for the first half of its 2017 program. emerging and established, local and interstate artists and curators are encouraged to apply. The deadline for proposals for this round is 5pm Thursday 31 March 2016. To access the application form and more information about exhibiting at ANCA Gallery, please go to: anca.net.au/applications/


APPLICATIONS are now open for the Playing Field Studio 2016 Community Arts Residency Program. Successful applicants will have unlimited access to a studio space for seven days or a term block (10 weeks for two hours a week over Term 3 or 4). A budget of up to $500 for materials and equipment. Submissions close at 5:00 pm on Friday, May 2 to playingfieldstudio@gmail.com or call 0468 749 711 for an application form and more information.


ACTING for the Fun of It courses are for adults who wish to develop their creativity through exploration of drama and theatre skills. The courses are TQI (Teacher Quality Institute) accredited and teachers are able to count the 12 hours of each course towards their 20 required hours of professional development. The first course for 2016, “Acting for the Fun of It: An introduction to a variety of performance skills and techniques,” will commence after Easter (changed time) at ImproACT studios in Civic between 7 and 9 p.m. The course comprises 6 x 2 hour sessions on consecutive Mondays. Information and enrolments from tutor peterbwilkins@aol.com or peterwilkins@grapevine.com.au phone on 0408 034 373. A MASTER Class in Watercolour & mixed media with Sandra Hendy is coming up at Aarwun Gallery, Federation Square, Gold Creek, 9.30 am – 4.30 pm, Sat-Sun March 18-19, COST: $350.00 for two days of tuition, includes lunch and refreshments, bookings to 6230 2055.


Prizes and Awards:

THERE’S still time to nominate for Queanbeyan Heritage Awards. The awards coincide with the National Trust’s Heritage Festival and the winners will be announced at the Queanbeyan Historical Museum on April 16. Winners of each category will receive a $1000 cash prize. Closing date for nominations is close of business Friday, March 11. Nominations can be emailed to council@qcc.nsw.gov.au or posted to Heritage Awards, PO Box 90, Queanbeyan, NSW 2620. Inquiries to Tonia Liosatos, Communications Coordinator on 6285 6588.


Films:

1916 The Irish Rebellion
1916 The Irish Rebellion

PAT Collins and Ruan Magan’s documentary (with narration from Liam Neeson) “1916: The Irish Rebellion” is screening at Arc cinema, tonight Thu March 17, $5 tells the dramatic story of the events that took place in Dublin during Easter Week 1916, when a small group of Irish rebels took on the might of the British Empire. Info at nfsa.gov.au


THE 27th edition of the Alliance Française French Film Festival runs at Palace Cinemas, NewActon, until March 29. All details and booking s to palacecinemas.com.au/


BANGARRA’S Stephen Page makes his feature film directorial debut with the vibrant dance film, Spear (2015, PG, 84mins)depicting the journey of young Aboriginal man Djali (Hunter Page-Lochard) as he comes to understand what it means to be a man. It co-stars Aaron Pedersen and dancers from Bangarra Dance Theatre. Screening Arc cinema, until Wed 23 March 10-23, cast and crew Q&A 8pm, March 12. details at nfsa.gov.au/whats-on/


Theatre:

THE Canberra Comedy Festival runs until March 20. There are dozens of comedy choices, all details at http://canberracomedyfestival.com.au/


ONE of the UK’s most energetic and charming performers, Joel Dommett will host 2016’s RAW Comedy ACT State Final, at ANU Arts Centre 8.30pm this Thurs March 17. It’s Australia’s biggest and most prestigious annual open-mic comedy competition has been all over the country with more than 45 heats taking place nationally. Tickets at the door.


Concerts and gigs:

Ben Winkelman
Ben Winkelman

AWARD-winning jazz pianist and composer, Ben Winkelman, is at The Street for one night only, joined on stage by drummer Ben Vanderwal, and bassist Sam Anning. Formerly of Melbourne, Winkelman has been based in New York since 2010, where he is active on the jazz, Latin and gospel music scenes. Bookings to 6247 1223 or thestreet.org.au 6247 1223.


YOUNG musicians from the Ichijo Senior High School Band in our sister city Nara will be here for a Friendship concert at Llewellyn Hall, 7pm, on Monday, March 21, free event, no bookings required.


CANADIAN retro soul songstress Ann Vriend is in Australia for a special tour throughout March titled the ‘Those Records’ tour. She’ll be bringing a swag of limited release vinyl with her. Smiths Alternative, 76 Alinga Street, Civic, Thurs March 17.


THE John Black Trio, with John Black piano, Ben O’Loghlin, double bass and Ben Schumann, play swing music from the 30s and 40s. In Cooinda Hall, Kangara Waters Retirement Village, 2 Joy Cummings Place, Belconnen, 2.15-3pm, Sunday March 20, bookings to trybooking.com/KQGC , or at the door.


Dance:

“ENTERPRISE Park” a short new work by choreographer James Batchelor originally commissioned for Lucy Guerin Inc’s Pieces for Small Spaces in 2015, will be performed at the Art Not Apart festival in New Acton. It’s a series of installations appearing throughout the New Acton precinct. Art Not Apart is a feast of visual art,


MONARO Folk Society is throwing a FREE Kids’ Bush Dance at the Yarralumla Woolshed Cotter Rd from 2 – 4pm this Saturday March 19 followed at night 8 – 11.30pm by a Shearers’ Ball, also at the Woolshed. They promise “Spine-tingling music” from the Bush Capital Band. best dress in layers, comfortable smooth-soled flat shoes advisable.


Exhibitions:

(left) Leah Bullen, Treasure Island II (detail), (right) Sara Roberts, By the Sea, 2016.
(left) Leah Bullen, Treasure Island II (detail), (right) Sara Roberts, By the Sea, 2016.

“RETRONAUTS” is an exhibition of new works on paper by Leah Bullen and Sara Roberts, curated by Kathleen Linn, interrogating the relationship between painting and photography. For both artists, photography acts as a kind of stepping stone, a way to move between the real world and the imaginary world created in their work. At ANCA Gallery 1 Rosevear Place Dickson 12pm-5pm Wednesday-Sunday until April 3.


Valerie Kirk Collage Detail mixed media
Valerie Kirk Collage Detail mixed media

FORM Studio and Gallery now has “Past in the Present and the Future”, in which Valerie Kirk shows new work in drawing, collage and textiles exploring the past as an imaginary space that impacts on our present and future. At 1/30 Aurora Avenue, Queanbeyan, Monday – Friday 9.30am – 2.30pm,Saturday &Sunday 10.00am – 4.00pm until March 28.


“BARBARA Hanrahan: Words + Art” exhibits prints and prose of artist and writer Hanrahan, assembling pieces form UNSW Canberra and UNSW art collection, at ADFA Northcott Drive, Campbell 9am to 5pm until June 17.


IN its newest show, Canberra Museum and Gallery aims to further the enjoyment of the complexity of the nature of the Canberra region and our ‘bush capital’, in photos, paintings, sculpture, natural history illustration and drawing, scientific specimens and audio-visual material and a program of walks and talks, which can be found at cmag.com.au “Bush Capital: the natural history of the ACT,” CMAG, until June 26.


THE GARAGE, the independent project directed by Sabrina Baker & Sara d’Alessandro, has surfaced again soon in a spot offered by Julian Hobba & Bryan Foong. “Woody” is a show by Sydney artist Natalya Hughes, whose works cross psychological theories and feminism with a ‘pop, ironic quality’. At 34 Longstaff Street Lyneham, March 20, Friday-Sunday from 2 to 6 pm.

CARLA Wolf, untitled 1
CARLA Wolf, untitled 1

ORGANIC and architectural, Carla Wolf’s sculptures involve rotating shapes composed of lines and have a simplicity that belie her rigorous making methods as she works with different clay mixtures, often with paper fibre and/or Perlite added. The work has been made during her artistic residency at Watson Arts Centre, where the exhibition is showing at Watson Arts Centre 10am to 4pm until April 17.


GALLERY@BCS is marking Seniors Week 2016 with “Homage”, a mixed media exhibition for which local artists were invited to reflect on their relationship with a “significant senior”. At Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Court, Belconnen, March until 18, Mon – Fri 8am-4:30pm.


NANCY Sever Gallery at 6 Kennedy Street Kingston has “Scylla and Charybdis”, works by Wilma Tabacco, until April 3, Wed-Sun, 11 to 6. M16 Artspace in Griffith has three new shows. Stella-Rae Zellik shows documentary photography of the custom motor bike scene in Smiles for Miles. Jacob Potter plays with paint and material in his latest series of painting/objects. And Lynda Edridge re-presents painted portraits from mass-media imagery in ‘Dibutades Shadow’. Stella-Rae Zelnik, Road to Nowhere, 2015, 35mm black and white photograph, 46 x35 cm. Lynda Edridge, Camille, 2016, watercolour, graphite and encaustic on canvas, 20 x 25 cm.


IN “Contrasting Visions,” three Canberra artists Steve Tomlin, Kate Hine & Robyn McAdam exhibit works on paper, coming come together with a shared interest in imaginative narratives and a desire to share their distinctive visual stories. At Strathnairn gallery, 90 Stockdill Dr Holt, Thurs – Sun 10 – 4 until March 20.


BEAVER Galleries have prints and drawings by Rona Green and porcelain by Shannon Garson at 81 Denison St Deakin, until March 20 ,Tue to Fri 10am-5pm Sat and Sun 9am-5pm.


DIFFERENT Strokes Art Group has a show reflecting the artists’ experience of life in Canberra, “Canberra Inside and Out” at Sweet Copper, Old Ginninderra Schoolhouse, O’Hanlon Place, Gold Creek until March 27.


CANBERRA Glassworks has been busy playing with marbles, and in their newest show, they’ll be showing off the responses to this humble yet technically demanding glass art form by nine artists from across Australia. “Collecting Nostalgia,” at Canberra Glassworks to April 24.


BLAZE TEN, curated by Sara D’Alessandro Manozzo sees includes the work of 9 artists: Joel Arthur, Reid Bedlington, Christopher Burton, Hayley Lander, Dierdre Pearce, Millan Pintos-Lopez, Elliot Schultz, Kael Stasce and Julia Thwaites. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman Arts Centre 55 Ainslie Avenue, Braddon, Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5pm and Saturdays 10am to 4pm until March 24.


Janice Lurent - Beaded Fish 1
Janice Lurent – Beaded Fish 1

THE Q Exhibition Space has an unusual show, “Marine Life” 12 artists’ interpretations of this theme,  running until March 12.


PHOTOACCESS has “The ONE Project,” curated by award-winning portrait photographer Hilary Wardhaugh, showcasing 28 works by 28 photographers using one camera and one roll of film, passed between each photographer over a period of six months. Continues until March 20. Also showing is ‘Fringe Dwellings’ by Dean Cross, both shows at the Huw Davies Gallery, Manuka Arts Centre, Cnr Manuka Circle and New South Wales Cres, Griffith Griffith until March 20.


CRAFT ACT: Craft and Design Centre’s exhibition, “Emerging Contemporaries” showcases the work of 2015’s outstanding graduate students and emerging craft practitioners and designer makers from across Australia. At Craft + Design Centre Gallery, Level 1 North Building, 180 London Circuit. Also showing in the same space are solo exhibitions from local artists Mi-Kyung Myung and Meredith Hughes. Showing in the Crucible showcase are Bula’bula arts early career artists Marley and Linda Malibirr from the Ramingining community. Tuesday to Friday 10am-5pm + Saturday 12pm-4pm, to March 26.


THE Australian Centre on China in the World has an exhibition entitled “Photographs of 1930s China” by Stanley O. Gregory, a selection of rarely-seen photographs of 1930s, taken by Stanley O. Gregory, from original negatives in the NLA Collection, printed in large-format for the first time. In the China in the World Building, Fellows Lane (Building 188) ANU, until March 20, 9am–5pm, Monday to Friday, weekend viewings March 19–20, 10am–4pm.

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