ON October 10 Four Winds threw open the doors of the Windsong Pavilion to welcome pianist Sonya Lifschitz performing “Stalin’s Piano”, a multimedia work by composer Robert Davidson. Now, in the first “Digital Live Windsong” performance, audiences can enjoy the concert/ display on video here.

THE NGA’s 2020 annual lecture “Decolonise Your Feminism” features First Nations scholars Crystal McKinnon, Kimberley Moulton and Paola Balla questioning whether feminism has been relevant to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the arts. The online event will sit alongside the NGA’s “Know My Name” virtual conference, from November 10–13 and will also celebrate NAIDOC Week, postponed because COVID-19. Bookings here.

ARTSTATE Wagga Wagga will explore excellence in arts practice in the regions and exciting possibilities for arts and cultural development across the state under the theme, “Walking Together and Shaping Tomorrow”. The live the event includes talk and workshops but the Artstate Digital Pass allows online participation in the event from 9am-5pm, Friday and Saturday, November 6-7. Register here.

CARL Rafferty’s “Halloween at the Full Moon”, romantic and mysterious piano music in the gardens at St John’s Church in Reid, was scheduled for last weekend, but was deferred because of weather. The concert will now be presented on the first two clear nights of the following dates: Friday, November 6 and Saturday, November 7, with a reserve date for bad weather scheduled on Sunday, November 8. All details here. 

BEAVER Galleries are now showing Dianne Fogwell’s “Transient: works on paper & paintings”. Fogwell has long studied the effects of fire on the Australian landscape and this exhibition, she says, is “a meditation on damage and loss with hope for regeneration of both place and spirit”. At 81 Denison Street, Deakin, 10am-5pm, Tuesday to Sunday, November 5–22. The exhibition can also be viewed via beavergalleries.com.au

CANBERRA Jung Society’s monthly guest Eve Warren will present “A Dream in a Teacup”, a glimpse into Canberra’s psyche during the 1940s. At MacKillop House, 50 Archibald Street, Lyneham, 7.30 for 8-10pm, Friday, November 6. Pay at the door or online here. 

STORY Week (formerly Story-Fest), Australia’s largest performing writer’s festival, will go virtual and international from November 6-14, with poetry slams, talks and shared story-telling experiences from attendees around the world. The Australian Poetry Slam finals will be part of the festival program, with the national final on November 14. Full program for the festival at wordtravels.info

M16 Artspace 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, “Respectfully Intruding 11” by John Wiseman, wildlife and nature “Maps To Nowhere” by Clare Martin and in Chutespace “Viral series #5”, an artistic response to the COVID-19 by Greg Pritchard. Opening noon, Friday, November 6, then showing Noon-5pm, Wednesday to Sunday, until November 22.

LUMINESCENCE Children’s Choir is now open to applications from young musicians aged 9–16 who love to sing. Apply online here or get in touch at [email protected]

“COME Alive Festival of Museum Theatre” and Canberra Theatre Centre have joined forces to enable ACT students to present their museum theatre works in a professional theatre. This year’s only live show will kick off at the Courtyard Studio tomorrow, Thursday, November 5 with a dance work from Telopea School. Several of the shows will be live streamed and the remainder of the festival can be viewed on video here. 

MOV’IN Car Drive-in Cinema has Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland”, starring Canberra’s Mia Wasikowska, at Questacon, Science Garden Parking, Parkes, this Friday, November 6 gate opens at 7pm – movie starts at 8:30pm. Bookings here.

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