What’s what and who’s who in the arts this week? Here’s HELEN MUSA’s weekly “Arts in the City” column.

CANBERRA Symphony Orchestra turns its eyes to the silver screen in “CSO at the Cinema” with selections from “Psycho”, “Star Wars”, “Schindler’s List” and other films, performed under the baton of Jessica Gethin, previously chief conductor of the Perth Symphony Orchestra. Llewellyn Hall, 7.30pm, Saturday, August 7. Book here or 6262 6772.

CANBERRA photographer Ian Skinner has won the Australian Photographic Society’s $10,000 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize, it was announced by judge Judith Nangala Crispin at Muswellbrook Regional Arts Centre recently. Skinner’s winning series, “Ashscapes 01-04”, captures the debris released into the ocean from devastating bushfires.

“WAYFARING: Photography in 1970s-80s” is a collaboration with the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts that looks into the work of photographers under the authoritarian martial law era from 1949 to 1987, little known in Australia. Australian Centre on China in the World Gallery, Building 188, Fellows Lane, ANU, 9am-5pm on weekdays, and on certain weekends until October 28.

ACT ALTERNATIVE creative arts initiative “You Are Here” turns 10 this year. The first eight years concentrated on an annual festival format largely in underused or unused spaces in Civic, but from 2018 the focus turned to artist development through residency programs, while still presenting work through the “Cahoots” program’s live season. “Time flies when you’re having fun,” they say.

ALONGSIDE the 100-year-old Archibald Prize exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW is the Young Archie competition, now in its ninth year, where more than 2100 entries from children aged 5-18 came in from all around Australia. Among the finalists in the 16-18-year-old category is Cassandra Johanson, 17, from Garran.

“RE-STORYING: The Resilience Project”, supported by ACT Health, is a six-module program being delivered online and live at The Street Theatre until October for artists in the ACT and region offering support to those whose livelihood and mental health have been affected and/or disrupted by covid, led by theatre-maker and bodywork therapist Zsuzsi Soboslay.

THE Australian String Quartet has announced its new violist, Tasmanian Christopher Cartlidge. The engagement comes as ASQ violist of nearly 10 years, Canberra-raised Stephen King, has stepped into the new role of director of learning and engagement.

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