There’s lots of arts events on the way. HELEN MUSA previews some of them this week in her “Arts in the City” column.
QUEANBEYAN Players return with the Gilbert and Sullivan favourite, “HMS Pinafore”, directed by Jude Colquhoun, with Matt Greenwood as musical director and Belinda Hassall as choreographer. The Q, October 14-23.
THE Song Company’s British artistic director Antony Pitts is leaving the company towards the end of November. They plan to engage a series of guest directors in 2023.
BRILLIANT Italian piano duo, Eleonora Spina and Michele Benignetti, will be at Wesley Music Centre twice in October – October 12, for a lunchtime concert, “Music in their Veins”, then on October 23 with Schubert’s “Die Forelle” and Ravel’s “Valses Nobles et Sentimentales” and “La Valse”.
IN “Fairytales on Ice”, premier skaters bring favourite fairytale characters to life through ice skating, singing, and music. Canberra Theatre, 4pm and 7.30pm, October 9.
THE Harmonie-German Club, Narrabundah will be shaken, not stirred, on Friday, October 21, when Blamey Street Big Band members plays “Bond for Big Band”, a concert of big-band arrangements of songs associated with James Bond movies.
THE Czech and Slovak Film Festival is in Canberra on October 14 and 16, opening with “Zatopek”, a biographical blockbuster about long-distance runner Emil Zátopek. Ron Clarke is played by Aussie actor James Frecheville.
CANBERRA International Mental Health Film Festival is back for the fifth year running, hosted by This Is My Brave Australia, with three sessions at the AIE Theatre in Canberra Technology Park, 12.30pm-6.30pm, Sunday, October 9.
“MUSIC of the Night,” a journey through the songbooks of Lloyd Webber, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Sondheim and more featuring Joey Fimmano, Jessica Di Bartolo and Dexter Villahermosa, will be at the “B”,the Bicentennial Hall, Queanbeyan, 2pm, Saturday, October 15.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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