Events:

CANBERRA’S City West precinct will host a celebration of all things wintery with the capital’s first “Hurly Burley Winter Fair” in Hobart Place from 4pm-9pm this Friday, June 30. Director Chenoeh Miller is planning a family-friendly winter fair with locally-made food and live music by musicians such as Kristobelle and the Southern Jubilee Ringers and East Row Rabble. There will be market stalls along with fire pits, marshmallow roasting and story-telling by Canberra’s poets.

Talk:

ADFAS Molonglo Plains has Phillip Bailey lecturing on “Yehudi Menuhin: Prodigy And Phenomenon”, at the Comfort Inn Airport International, 57 Yass Road, Queanbeyan, from 2pm this Thursday, June 29. Visitors welcome and inquiries to Lucy Costas on 0437 538529.

Workshops and classes:

CASP is an annual small grants program administered by Regional Arts NSW on behalf of Create NSW Arts and Health. Its focus is on arts and the environment, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander projects, culturally and linguistically diverse projects and projects by children or young people. CASP Grant writing workshops are open to applicants at southerntablelandsarts.com.au until 5pm on Thursday, July 27.

CIT Adult Short courses are held every first weekend of the month all year round at Canberra Glassworks. Costs apply and to find out more, email [email protected]

STUDIOMAP is conducting a winter school holiday art workshop featuring Pokemon Art, Manga art and general illustration for children and teens. The workshop are suitable for children aged six through to teenagers and all levels. Beginners, intermediate and advance participants are catered for. At M16 Artspace Griffith, two hours daily, from 3pm-5pm, Monday, July 3 to Thursday, July 6. Fees apply. Bookings to studiomap.com.au

Arts Business:

YES it’s tax time even in the arts. If you have some spare dollars, the following organisations would be pleased to have them by June 30: The Street Theatre, thestreet.org.au/donate-now; QL2 Dance, http://ql2.org.au/2017/05/your-tax-deductible-donation-to-ql2-directly-helps-young-people/; and M16 Artspace, secure.squarespace.com/commerce/donate?donatePageId=58757cc56a49630b1d25ed63

WILD Strings is a daring winter string camp being hosted by The Young Music Society of Canberra where young artists can learn everything from classics to “Wild Strings” at the Canberra Girls Grammar School Music Centre, from July 3 to 7. Applications to youngmusicsociety.org.au or phone 6251 8017.

KIRSTY Budding’s venture the Canberra Youth Talent show is back for its second year, giving a stage to talented children and young people between ages six and 19. It will be running at the Belconnen Community Theatre all day on Saturday, August 12. There will be prizes awarded by guest judges and by audience vote. Registration and audition video are due by July 15 to [email protected]

M16’s Writer in Residence Program 2017 is a supported residency for emerging writers with an interest in the arts. To apply submit an example of your arts writing (review, essay, etc.) no longer than 1000 words and a CV by 5pm, Friday, July 28 to [email protected]

AINSLIE and Gorman Arts Centres offers supported office accommodation for artists, creatives, as well as arts organisations and music-based organisations and individuals. Inquiries to agac.com.au

Literature:

CANBERRA-based Halstead Press has just published Joy Eadie’s new book, “Discovering Charles Meere”, which presents a fresh perspective on the artist who painted the Australian Beach Pattern. With a preface by Edmund Capon, Eadie’s book explores how one of the most recognisable Australian images became infinitely more famous than its painter. Terence Maloon will launch the book at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Kingsley Street, Acton, 2017 at 5.30pm this Friday, June 30, all welcome.

“NOT Very Quiet” is a new twice yearly online journal edited by Moya Pacey and Sandra Renew, which aims to offer an opportunity for more women poets of all ages, ethnicities and backgrounds to publish their work. Submissions of poems for the first issue close on July 1. Send to not-very-quiet.com

Dance:

BELCONNEN Arts Centre and Tuggeranong Arts Centre have launched a program supported by ACT Health called “Dance for Wellbeing”. Led by Philip Piggin, Jane Ingall, Gretel Burgess, Debora di Centa and Jacqui Simmonds, it provides dance programs for people challenged by Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s or multiple sclerosis. Inquiries to Rachel at 0404 024406.

AUSDANCE ACT Open Class is continuing with advanced to professional level classes on Wednesdays from 10am-11.30am at the Belconnen Arts Centre. Evening classes on Thursdays run from 6.50pm-8.20pm at QL2’s Dance Studio, for intermediate to professional level dancers of all genres. This Thursday Italian dance artist Debora di Centa will teach “Contemporary.” Inquiries to 6247 9103.

Film:

FILM critic, David Stratton and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia are celebrating 20th century Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa with “Essential Kurosawa: selected by David Stratton”, a curated two-week season of his most famous films. Stratton will be in town for the final night screening of “Rashomon” on June 30, at the Arc cinema, until June 30. Bookings to nfsa.gov.au

THE fifth Winter Film Series is back at the NGA. Curated by Simon Weaving, now a lecturer at the University of Newcastle, the high points this year are new docos about medieval painter Hieronymus Bosch, fashion designer Dries Van Noten and enigmatic artist Joseph Beuys. At the James O Fairfax Theatre, 6.30pm, until July 5. Bookings to nga.gov.au or 6240 6701.

Concerts and Gigs:

UC Chorale is back under the baton of AJ America, performing a highly original winter concert that will feature a 13th century Icelandic hymn, Bruckner’s “Locus Iste” and Dan Walker’s “Laudate for Another Place, Another Time”. The concert will be held at Kippax Uniting Church, 3pm, Sunday, July 2. Bookings to trybooking.com or tickets at the door.

CELLIST David Pereira joins pianists Edward Neeman and Stephanie Neeman for a concert featuring the world premiere of “Mirrored from Far Away” by Professor Kenneth Lampl, as well as a new work by David Pereira titled “Poem for Zoe”, sung by April Mills, works by Prokofiev and Rachmaninov and piano duets by Samuel Barber and William Elden Bolcom. At the Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU School of music, from 7pm-9pm, Thursday, June 29. Bookings to eventbrite.com.au/e/david-pereira-and-edward-neeman-with-stephanie-neeman-tickets-35425500626

BAROQUE cellist Anthony Albrecht will be performing a selection of J.S. Bach’s Suites for Solo Cello and other early repertoire in “Bach to the Bush”, at Wesley Music Centre, 7pm, Friday June 30. Bookings to /anthonyalbrecht.yapsody.com/event/index/63456 or tickets at the door.

PHOENIX Pub in Civic has as follows: Thursday, June 29 at 9pm, Kegs n Karaoke; Friday, June 30 at 9pm, Friday Fiesta – Los Chavos; Saturday, July won at 9pm, The Ivory Elephant, Wesley & The Crushers and An Inconvenient Groove.

Theatre:

FOUR actors play around 40 characters in “The 39 Steps”, which uses cross-dressing to perform heroes, villains, men, women, children and even objects. Canberra REP at Theatre 3 to July 1. Bookings to canberrarep.org.au or 6257 1950.

Exhibitions:

ANCA Gallery’s 7^th annual PIN exhibition features small, wearable artworks (especially brooches) from emerging and established artists from around Australia such as Sue Gascoigne (ACT), Birte Larson (NSW), Nicci Haynes (ACT), Mimi Fairall (ACT), David Hamilton (TAS) and Merryn Lloyd (ACT). At 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson, from Wednesday to Sunday, 12pm-5pm until July 9.

CANBERRA painter Robert Boynes’ newest exhibition of work, “Modern Times”, curated by Terence Maloon, is at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Kingsley Street, Acton, until August 13.

PHOTOACCESS has two new exhibitions in the Huw Davies Gallery as part of its Indigenous Photomedia Artists Program, including: “They Blew Up the Hospital I was Born in”, by Dean Cross, to coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Royal Canberra Hospital implosion and; “Mill Binna” by Leah and Duncan King Smith, who use still and moving images, sounds, objects and light. At Manuka Arts Centre, on the corner of Manuka Circle and New South Wales Crescent, Griffith to July 16.

TEN artists living around Bateman’s Bay are exhibiting pastel works depicting wildlife, landscapes and still life, at Ginninderra School House Gallery, Sweet Copper Cafe, Gold Creek, Nicholls, from 10am to 4pm, Friday, 8.30am to 4.30pm, Saturday and Sunday, running between June 30 to July 31.

“INSPIRED at Strathnairn” is a culmination of works from art group, “The Gumnuts”, exploring a myriad of technique, colour and medium. The exhibition features works that have been inspired by Strathnairn and its surroundings in a variety of mediums. At Strathnairn Arts, 90 Stockdill Drive, Holt, 10am-4pm, until July 9.

BELCONNEN Arts Centre has scored quite a coup in its July triple treat of exhibitions; “Feast: indulgence, savouring and delectation”, an exhibition by artists from Illawarra Association for the Visual Arts (IAVA), “The 2016 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize Finalists Exhibition” and “Traits”, by Georgia-Rae Byrne-Jameson. Opening at 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, 5.30pm this Friday, June 30 and running until July 23. All welcome.

“POROSITY Kabari” is an exhibition by Australian object designer Trent Jansen, artist/architect Richard Goodwin and Indian design thinker Ishan Khosla. At Hotel Hotel’s Nishi Gallery, to July 9.

ARTWORK from Warnayaka Art Centre, Lajamanu, which is in the Tanami Desert 580kms south west of Katherine, NT, can be seen at East Hotel, Kingston, until July 8. These are contemporary paintings from Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Awards finalists Lily Hargraves, Molly Napurrurla Tasman and Rosie Napurrurla Tasman as well as a selection of other artists. All works are for sale.

CANBERRA Museum and Gallery currently has an exhibition called “Aviary”, celebrating our feathered friends in “Aviary”. The show in the Open Collections gallery is largely drawn from the CMAG collection and includes bird art in painting, drawing, print, photography, sculpture and the decorative arts.

THE Canberra Centre has now unveiled the first in a specially-commissioned series of large-scale murals, including an artwork based on the theme of the artwork series, “Beauty Redefined” created in Australian artist Nick Thomm’s photo-realistic style which utilises bright, psychedelic colours in a mixed-media format.

“A Change Is Gonna Come” is an exhibition focusing on the 1967 Aboriginal Referendum and the 1992 MABO land rights decision by the High Court. At the National Museum of Australia, until January 30, 2018.

WATSON Art Centre’s 2017 Student/ Teacher exhibition is now open in the gallery at Aspinall Street, Watson until July 9, open 10am-4pm, Thursday to Sunday.

MEGALO’S annual “shutdown week” at its Wentworth Avenue, Kingston continues until tomorrow, Friday, June 30.

NANCY Sever Gallery has an exhibition of recent paintings by the Melbourne artist John Scurry, whose last 16 years were as a senior lecturer at the Victorian College of the Arts where he was a former head of printmaking. His paintings, he says, “come from an impulse to depict.” At Kennedy Street, Kingston, Wednesday to Sunday, 11am-6pm until July 2.

“KIRSTIE Rea: the land”, a 20-year survey of works by one of Canberra’s most famous glass creators, has been chosen for the reopening of the Canberra Museum and Gallery. The show runs to August 20. KYEEMA Gallery’s new exhibition with sale is “Margaret Ballard: Works in Resin”, which opens at 13 Gladstone Street, Hall Village. From 10.30am–5pm, Thursday to Sunday.

“BRO..OCH” is an exhibition of brooches and pins being mounted by Bilk Gallery, with works by Melissa Cameron, Marian Hosking, Nick Bastin, Panjapol Kulpapangkorn, Kath Inglis, Johannes Kuhnen, Helen Aitken-Kuhnen, Eugenie Keefer Bell, Inari Kiuru, Janice Vitkovsky, Jo Hawley, Jasmine Watson, Larah Nott, Zoe Brand, Laura Eyles and Annelies Hofmeyr. At 12 Palmerston Lane, Griffith (Manuka shops) until Saturday, July 8.

 ARTISTS Gillian Bellas, Leigh Murray, Ann Hand, Nyree Mason, Wendy Antoniak, John McKenna, Jeff Isaacs and Coby Brinkman are exhibiting paintings of native and exotic plants, birds and animals under the title “Birds, Beasts & Buds”. Sweet Copper, Old Ginninderra Schoolhouse Gallery, Gold Creek Village. Running until the end of June.

“MELODRAMA in Meiji Japan” features Japanese woodblock (Kuchi-e) illustrations at the Exhibition Gallery on the ground floor of the National Library of Australia, from 10am-5pm, to August 27. It’s a free event with no bookings required.

“DEFYING Empire: 3rd National Indigenous Art Triennial” brings the works of 30 contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists to the National Gallery of Australia until September 10.

CRAFT ACT has a solo exhibition by South Australian designer and maker Christian Hall, which includes furniture, sculpture and jewellery. Craft ACT will also feature “Emerging Contemporaries”, the Craft ACT National Award Exhibition for early career artists. At Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre, North Building.

“NGADHI Dabaamlang” is an exhibition of paintings by Duncan Smith and his family, presented as part of Belconnen Community Gallery’s “RESPECT” series and running in gallery@bcs, Swanson Court, Belconnen, until June 30. The word “Ngahdi Dabaamlang” in Wiradjuri means “my mob” and that’s what Smith wants to portray by including his family in the exhibition, which features both contemporary and traditional art using ochre and acrylic paints.

THE Australian War Memorial has as a permanent exhibition “The Holocaust: witnesses and survivors”, which includes over 85 collection items.

THE Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council Art competition and exhibition, “Five Mediums- Any Subject”, opens at the Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery Trinculo Place under the bridge on the Queanbeyan Riverbank at 2pm this Sunday, July 2. At the exhibition there will be guest speaker Ray Barnett, refreshments and music.

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