All the latest arts news in arts editor HELEN MUSA’s weekly “Arts in the City” wrap.

THE Museum of Contemporary Art and Monash University Museum of Art are jointly staging a major survey of the work of the trailblazer Canberra artist Vivienne Binns next year in 2022. Now 80, Binns has been at the forefront of her practice for more than six decades. A Creative Partnerships Australia Fund has been established to receive donations for the production of the monograph, writers’ and reprint fees. The fundraising target is $25,000. Donate at cpaus.force.com 

FIVE Canberra singers, Charles Bogle, Emmeline Booth, Hannah Carter, Thomas Nolte-Crimp and Katrina Wiseman, have been selected by National Opera director, Peter Coleman-Wright, to participate in a public masterclass with operatic soprano Alexandra Flood, who is returning from Europe to spend a few months here. The masterclass will be held in Larry Sitsky Recital Room, September 4, followed by a concert of operatic favourites featuring Flood at The Street Theatre, Sunday, September 5. Book for both at nationalopera.org.au

MEANTIME, bookings are also open for the postponed presentation of Puccini’s “La Rondine” at Llewellyn Hall on October 21, 23 and 25. Lauren Fagen replaces Lorina Gore in the lead role of Magda, but tenor Henry Choo still plays her love interest Ruggero. Book at nationalopera.org.au

T-REX is roaring into Canberra this month in “Jurassic Creatures”, an animatronics exhibition involving more than 30 dinosaurs and activities designed to immerse families in a prehistoric time. At 18 Spitfire Avenue, Majura Park, August 27-October 4. Book at ticketmaster.com.au 

PERIPATETIC Canberra dance artist James Batchelor and his collaborators have been presenting the world premiere season of “An Evening-length Performance” in Berlin for the Tanz im August festival. 

OUT of a field of nearly 250 applicants across Australia, Canberra visual artists Saskia Haalebos and Lisa Sammut are two of the five recipients chosen for The Unconformity artist in residence program on the remote west coast of Tasmania. Haalebos, from Belconnen, is already there while Sammut, who works in sculpture, video and installation, makes the trip to Queenstown in September.

SOPRANO Veronica Milroy joins pianist Ella Luhtasaari in “The Desire for Hermitage”, a Luminescence Chamber Singers’ soloist concert. This exploration of the melancholy, creativity, and humour is shown through the lens of Samuel Barber’s Hermit Songs and the music of 20th and 21st century composers. ANU Drill Hall Gallery, Sunday, August 22. Book via Eventbrite.

THE federal government is supporting the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia with a $70,000 grant to commission an indigenous filmmaker, to produce a contemporary, digital work as part of the UK/Australia season theme of “Who Are We Now?” The project, tentatively titled “Re/Vision” will involve an indigenous filmmaker working closely with NFSA curatorial and technical experts.