THE National Archives of Australia’s newest exhibition, “Out of This World: Australia in the space age” is now open to the public. The show examines Australian society’s innovative, creative and imaginative response to space research and exploration from the 1950s to the 1970s. At the National Archive, Parkes, 9.30am to 4.30pm, Monday to Sunday, until March 14. 

NEWS is in from Melbourne that performances of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” at the Princess Theatre will be suspended for a further nine weeks, in the hope that by mid-January visits to the Princess Theatre will be covid-safe. The latest information is regularly updated here.

CANBERRA Region Feltmakers have their annual show, “Rapt in Felt”, online this year with the promise of “exotic, handmade felt artworks” and a focus on abstract, geometric textiles until October 30. They’ve created a 3D virtual exhibition where visitors can view the felted artworks, listen to improvised poetry and shop in the exhibition shop. Viewable here.

AMBUSH Gallery at ANU Kambri is celebrating campus life over the past seven decades with a new exhibition, “Woroni –70 Years of Outrage and Activism”. Taken from the archives of “Woroni”, the show includes a seven-metre-long timeline feature wall and a display of full-colour reprints of dozens of past Woroni covers. 10am-6pm weekdays and noon-5pm on weekends, until November 1.

DESIGN Canberra has now been officially launched and will return from November 9-29 in its 7th edition, with more than 200 events, exhibitions, talks, tours, collaborations, artist studios and open homes, revealing Canberra as a designed city. Bookings are now open here. 

CANBERRA Jung Society has poet, storyteller and minister of religion Sarah Agnew, presenting “Tells Stories”, at MacKillop House, 50 Archibald Street, Lyneham, and viewable online here at 7.30pm for 8pm, Friday, October 2.

NEW director Natsuko Yonezawa takes a journey into physical theatre with Miriam Slater, Christopher Samuel Carroll, set design by byrd and original sound design by Marlene Claudine Radice in “Mess”, at the Belconnen Arts Centre, October 1-2. Bookings here. 

A new documentary, “American Dharma”, shows former Donald Trump chief strategist, Steven Bannon, going head-to-head with acclaimed filmmaker and Academy Award Winner Errol Morris (director of “Fog of War” and “The Thin Blue Line”) in a full-on interview. Viewable from October 1 via iwonder.com