THE Italian Tenors, Sabino Gaita, Mirko Provini and Evans Tonon, will be flying direct from Italy to Canberra to begin their Australian tour. The trio combines classical roots with Neapolitan music and their own blend of Italian Pop. At Canberra Southern Cross Club, Woden, 8pm, Thursday, March 5. Bookings at abstractentertainment.net

IN the “Revue for Recovery – A Night of Musical Merriment for local Bushfire Support”, 12 of Canberra and Queanbeyan’s musical theatre companies will come together to share the stage in a two-act show featuring numbers from loved musicals. Stephen Pike directs and musical direction will be by Ian McLean. Bicentennial Hall, Queanbeyan, 8pm, Saturday, March 7. Bookings at stagecenta.com

THE seventh annual “Burlesque Idol” returns for one night only on International Women’s Day. At Harmonie German Club, Narrabundah, Sunday, March 8. Bookings at eventbrite.com.au

BEAVER Galleries have Lucy Culliton’s “Bibbenluke Spring paintings”, inspired by her country life on a property in the Monaro district of NSW and Nicole Ayliffe “Seasonal landscapes”.  At 81 Denison Street, Deakin, 8am-5pm, Tuesday–Sunday, until March 22. Opening 6pm, Thursday, March 5. All welcome.

SELBY and Friends’ “A Tale of Two Cities” will feature Kathryn Selby, Emily Sun, Benjamin Mellefont and Clancy Newman playing seminal works of chamber music by Mozart, Brahms, Stravinsky and Arensky. At Llewellyn Hall (Chamber Music Mode), 7.30pm, March 5. Bookings at ticketek.com.au

“THE Chef and the Potter” is a celebration of handmade tableware produced by local artisan potters for restaurants and cafes. This exhibition, coordinated to coincide with Good Food Month Canberra, invites viewers to explore playful, refined and unique tableware. The exhibition runs at Watson Arts Centre, 1 Aspinall Street, Watson, 10am-4pm, Tuesday-Sunday, until March 29.

THE Darling Portrait Prize for Australian portrait painting and the National Photographic Portrait Prize both open at the National Portrait Gallery on Friday, March 6 and run to May 10. Tickets at portrait.gov.au include entry to both exhibitions.

TUGGERANONG Arts Centre presents legendary Australian blues guitarist/vocalist, Dom Turner and his band playing music from the southern US African-American church tradition. It’s joint venture between Australian slide guitarist Turner and US lap-slide guitar and vocal artist Nikki D Brown. The support act beings at 7.15pm with an 8pm show, Thursday, March 5. Bookings at trybooking.com

MATRIARCH is an all-girl grunge band headed by Ana Key on vocals with Glenda Harvey on guitar, Lee Grunwald on bass and Leanne Thompson on drums. At Smiths’ Alternative, International Women’s Day, 7pm, March 8. Bookings at smithsalternative.com

AUSTRALIAN National Capital Artists has the opening of “Pencil On”, works by Chris Burton, at ANCA Gallery 1, Rosevear Place, Dickson, 6pm-8pm, Wednesday, March 4, then the show continues noon-5pm, Wednesday–Sunday, until March 22.

CANBERRA Theatre Centre’s inaugural International Women’s Day Concert will be a three-and-a-half-hour concert experience headlined by Seeker Lover Keeper, the indie-folk supergroup comprised of Australian musicians Sarah Blasko, Holly Throsby and Sally Seltmann. The line-up also includes neo-soul/jazz singer Kaitt as well as Canberrans Moaning Lisa and Shoeb Ahmad. Book at canberratheatrecentre.com.au or call the box office on 6275 2700.

CANBERRA International Music Festival is presenting a lazy Sunday afternoon of autumn music with the Alex Raupach Trio, Woden Valley Youth Choir, Roland Peelman, and soprano Chloe Lankshear in the Walcott Gardens in Red Hill at 2pm, Sunday, March 8. Bookings at cimf.org.au

GRAMMY-nominated in 2015 for Best Blues Album, Hill country blues artist Cedric Burnside will be at The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, 8pm, Friday, March 6. Bookings at canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.

“ENLIGHTEN” comes to the National Film and Sound Archive with “Game Masters: The Exhibition after hours”, before it closes on March 9. Admission includes a drink on arrival, and a chance to master 80 classic and modern video games. Bookings at nfsa.gov.au

THE monthly Vinyl Lounge in the NFSA Theatrette from 5.30pm on Friday, March 6, will be devoted to vinyls by female, trans or gender diverse artists. Then they’re screening the 2019 documentary “No Time for Quiet” at 4pm on Sunday, March 8, with all sales going towards the Girls Rock! 2020 camp.

“AMERICAN Song”, performed by Melbourne’s Red Stitch Actors’ Theatre, is Joanna Murray-Smith’s tour-de-force for one actor, played by ensemble member Joe Petruzzi. It’s a play exploring parenting and love as unforeseen events lead his character to places he never imagined. At The Q, Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, 8pm, March 5-8, bookings at theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

POET, writer, photographer and composer Judith Nangala Crispin will launch “Severed Web”, featuring artwork by Deborah Faeyrglenn and haiku by Hazel Hall. This chapbook explores the environment and climate change, concluding with the beginning of the recent fire season. Proceeds go to injured wildlife at Two Thumbs Animal Sanctuary in the Snowy Mountains. At Smith’s Alternative, 5.30pm-6.30pm, Monday, March 9. Tickets at the door.

AMBUSH Gallery presents “Mirrung”, meaning “belonging” in Dharug, the Sydney language. It’s a new exhibition blending the artistic talents of indigenous brother-sister-duo David and Noni Cragg, which showcases over a dozen collaborative portraits of people connected to our arts scene. In Kambri precinct at ANU, March 4–April 12.

THE Sydney and Melbourne Buildings will be illuminated with the work of two Canberra artists during this year’s “Enlighten”. The historic buildings that mark the entry to the city centre will light up until March 9 with five colourful creations, two each from Jodie Cunningham and George Rose, and one created from the neon shapes from the festival’s 2020 branding.

THE Canberra Centre is also getting into the festival spirit with five “mini beast” installations, including a gesture-controlled humming Neon Cuckoo Bee, an enormous proximity-activated Swallowtail Butterfly, and a touch sensor singing Cicada.

THE Angels are coming to The Basement, with guests, Boom Crash Opera. Fronted by Dave Gleeson, the band will play a set of their greatest hits with surprises thrown in. At 2 Cohen Street, Belconnen, Friday, 7pm, March 6, bookings at oztix.com.au or at the door.

A STAGED reading of “Choice”, a play with incidental music about the role memory plays in defining who we are, will be performed, by choristers in The Glorious MUDsingers (based in the Milton/Ulladulla area), this weekend in aid of south coast bush fire victims. At Uniting Church, Rutledge Street, Queanbeyan, 2pm, March 7 and 8. Tickets at the door include afternoon tea.

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