THREE-time Golden Guitar winner Fanny Lumsden and her band will celebrate the release of her latest album “Fallow” in a new show. Coming from Tooma in the Snowy Mountains, Lumsden has racked up two ARIA-nominated albums, three Golden Guitars, an AIR award, a CMC Award and her own record label, Red Dirt Road Records. At The Street, Saturday, November 7. Evening show sold out but bookings for 4pm show here. 

“NAIDOC in the North” is a free celebration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture presented by Belco Arts, ACT Child and Family Centres, ACT Education Directorate, Capital Region Community Service, Communities@Work, Ginninderry and Libraries ACT through story, song, art, dance and ceremony. Recordings of some of Canberra’s best Aboriginal performers will be seen in a series of online performances released from November 8-15.

AMBUSH Gallery at ANU’s Kambri is staging an exhibition based on its poster competition, “The Hero’s Journey Art Prize 2020”. Curated and presented by aMBUSH, the collection, featuring the works of over 100 entrants, will be shown until November 15.

AS part of delayed NAIDOC Week celebrations in Canberra, the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies is celebrating with an Indigenous Art Market featuring 15 art centres from across the country, showcasing artists and their works with nightly projections onto the National Carillon. Begins on Aspen Island, Lake Burley Griffin, from 7.45pm on Sunday, November 8 and continues nightly until November 15.

DAN Lids Fernandes and L’Ensemble Dave O’Neill on guitar, mandolin and violin, Mitch Preston on drums and percussion, James Luke on bass and Riley Fernandes on vocals, will play at the Artists Shed, 88 Wollongong Street, Fyshwick, this Sunday, November 8 from 2-5pm. The café will be open and there’s a BBQ in the break. Bookings recommended. 

THE Festival of Jewish Arts and Music and Triple R present “Ladies Who Sing Leonard”, an online Leonard Cohen anniversary tribute concert featuring Ninet Tayeb, Katie Noonan, Deborah Conway, Kylie Auldist, Anita Lester, Emma Donovan and others. Globally via Zoom, Saturday, November 7, 8.30pm-10pm, pay as you can but registrations essential.

CERAMICIST Kelly Austin is interested in how an understanding of one object may influence the perception of another. Her exhibition “Moments of Darkness and of Light” is at Beaver Galleries, 81 Denison Street, Deakin, Tuesday to Sunday, 10am-5pm until November 22, and online.

GEOFF Page’s “Poetry at Smiths” will feature poets Rebecca Law, Peter Bakowski and Cassandra Atherton, appearing by Zoom next Monday, November 9 at 7pm. There can also now be up to 35 people in the room at Smiths Alternative, 76 Alinga St, Civic. Book here.

EXTENDED until November 15 is “Connee-Colleen: Queanbeyan Character”, 
an exhibition honouring her work as an artist, activist, agitator and archivist.
It features her astounding sculpted portraits of real-life local subjects, her relentless battles to save Queanbeyan’s historic buildings and her irrepressible community spirit. The Queanbeyan Hive, 274 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, Wednesday to Sunday, 10am-4pm, and Fridays, 10am-9pm.