In Canberra, the arts never stop. HELEN MUSA, our arts editor, has it covered. 

LIZ Lea is working with the National Portrait Gallery on a free event for International Day of People with Disability – Australia, with dance and music from the Chamaeleon Collective, Canberra’s first inclusive dance company, as well as ZEST – Dance for Parkinson’s, The Deaf Butterflies Group – DeafACT, Subsdance Dance Studio and The Stellar Company. They’ll also join the Heidi Latsky Dance’s global social justice initiative performed all over the world in honour of the UN’s International Day of Persons with Disabilities. National Portrait Gallery 3.30pm, December 3. 

CONCERT pianist, Simon Tedeschi, one of Australia’s best-known  classical musicians, loves jazz too and will appear with George Washingmachine in “Summer & Me,” a celebration of George Gershwin favourites, at The Q, Queanbeyan on Friday. Book at theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

FILMED in the Canberra Symphony Orchestra offices, the CSO Chamber Ensemble presents movements from Shostakovich’s “Five Pieces for Two Violins and Piano” featuring Lucy Macourt on violin, Tim Wickham violin and Rowan Phemister on harp and produced by Matt Barnes and Harry Chalker. Accessible from 5pm, Friday, December 3, here.

BILK Gallery’s “Solstice” of fine contemporary jewellery exhibition continues, together with light refreshments, at 403 Captains Flat Road, Carwoola, 4 km from the roundabout, on Friday and Saturday, December 3 and 4, 11am-5pm or by calling 0433694669.

THE National Film and Sound Archive has unveiled its December program, filled with holiday spirit and timeless classics, including “Grease 2” and a retrospective of four films by Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to win Best Director at the Oscars. Details and bookings at nfsa.gov.au     

COMPOSER Sally Greenaway’s final release for 2021 is called “The Strawberry Thief”, for which there is a live stream digital concert on Friday. She is also celebrating the launch of a special edition CD/DVD boxset, paired with Australian hand-made chocolate matching the music from Enigma Fine Chocolates in Braddon. The concert is accessible here  at 8pm on Friday, December 3. The full track is available from December 3 here.

THE AIATSIS Indigenous Art Market has grown to become the largest indigenous art market in the Canberra region and, since going online in 2020, now attracts buyers from throughout Australia and from abroad. Works will be added progressively over the duration of the event, which runs until Sunday (December 5). Accessible here 

NATUREART LAB has its annual student exhibition opening at M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent, Griffith, 6pm on Thursday (December 2) and continues from December 3 to 5, noon to 4pm.