Here’s arts editor HELEN MUSA‘s latest, rather grim, arts news – today’s “Artsday” column.
A BUSY weekend in Canberra’s arts scene has fallen foul of the snap lockdown, with “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead”, due to have opened at Canberra REP Theatre tonight, August 12, one of the first to go on hold. As Rosencrantz says in the play, “Now you see me; now you don’t”.
Also POSTPONED until further notice:
THE National Gallery of Australia will be temporarily closing to the public, effective from 4pm today.
STUDENTS of Elena Nikulina, due to play at Wesley Music Centre, Wednesday, August 11.
THE Annual General Meeting of the Young Music Society Inc. on Sunday, August 15.
CORO chamber choir at Fitters’ Workshop, Sunday, August 15.
PHOENIX Collective’s “The Priest, the Intellect, the Eccentric & the Pirate”, Wesley Music Centre, August 14.
SUPER Rats, The Hive, 274 Crawford St, Queanbeyan, August 15.
“ILLUSTRATING the Antipodes: George French Angas in Australia and New Zealand 1844-1845” at the National Library of Australia.
CANBERRA Museum and Gallery’s exhibition “Spowers & Syme”.
QT Hotel’s Winter Twilight Series, Moondog, August 15.
“DARK Euphoria” and Rory Gillen at Tuggeranong Arts Centre until September 18.
WEEKEND photography celebration at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
A Brush with Birds and Botanicals, to have opened August 15 at Helen Stephens Gallery in Collector.
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