All the arts from all about town, HELEN MUSA has it all in this week’s “Artsweek” column… 

NAIDOC Week at the National Film and Sound Archive’s Arc Cinema begins with “NFSA Restores: Radiance” on June 29, then an advance screening of Warwick Thornton’s new film, “The New Boy” starring Cate Blanchett, Aswan Reid, Deborah Mailman and Wayne Blair, on June 30 and “Samson And Delilah” on June 1.

LAND-locked Queanbeyan will bestow trust and confidence in HMAS Harman through the “Freedom of Entry March”. Crawford, Monaro and Lowe Streets and Queanbeyan Park, 9.45am-11am, July 1.

MOTHER Tongue Multilingual Mic will feature multilingual poet and songstress Karina Palomita, and also poems in mother tongues, heritage and learned languages, The Street Theatre, 4.30pm, July 1.

GEOFF’S Poetry at Smiths features poets Peter Bakowski and Hazel Hall, Smiths Alternative,  Civic, July 3.

Stage

• HONEST Puck Theatre’s play “Underneath the Lintel” is the story of a librarian who finds a book in the overnight slot that is 113 years overdue, with James Scott as the librarian. The Mill Theatre, Fyshwick, until July 2.
• FLAZEDA Student Spectacular, produced by Jazida, gives emerging artists the chance to display their acts. The Zeppelin Room, Harmonie German Club, July 1. 18+ only.

Galleries

• PHOTOACCESS, Griffith, launches three new exhibitions: “You are close be-side me” by Chin-Jie Melodie Liu, “Resistance Relapse” by Nico Krijno and “Parallel Play” by Rory Hamovit on  June 29. The shows run until August 12.
• “JAM FACTORY Icon Jessica Loughlin: of light” celebrates the achievements of one of SA’s most influential visual artists working in craft-based media. ANU School of Art & Design Gallery.
• The National Capital Art Prize is calling on artists to submit their entries before June 30, nationalcapitalartprize.com.au

Concerts

• Piers Lane performs works by Rachmaninov and Chopin, Snow Concert Hall, Canberra Grammar School, June 29.
• Elizabeth Scott conducts Canberra Symphony Orchestra, chorus and soloists in JS Bach’s “St John Passion”, Llewellyn Hall, 7.30pm, June 30.
• I Progetti Chamber Choir presents “Via Hibernis II”, in which a young man moves through a chill landscape. National Portrait Gallery, 1.30pm, July 1.
• MUSICA da Camera and Sally Greenaway present Australian music by a string of Australian composers including Peter Sculthorpe, Lachlan Skipworth, Tristan Coelho, Brenda Gifford and Canberra locals Leanne Bear, Marian Budos and Greenaway herself. Holy Covenant Church, Cook, 3pm, July 1.
• MARCELA Fiorillo’s students present a free piano recital of works by Bach, Haydn, Albeniz, Ravel, Ginastera and others. Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, 3.30pm. July 1.
• THE music of Radiohead is reinterpreted through original choral and instrumental arrangements, the 12 voices of Eklektika, computer-generated visuals and live camera projections, and 13 short films. Gorman Arts Centre, July 1-2.
• CANBERRA Community Chorale presents “The Castle of Heaven”, a program of Bach’s choral music under the direction of Dan Walker with soloists AJ America and Veronica Milroy. North Belconnen Uniting Church, 2.30pm, July 2.
• “SIX Strings, One Heart: The Enchanting Spanish Guitar of Andrea Gonzalez Caballero,” is at Wesley Music Centre, 3pm and 5pm, July 2.
• STUDENTS from the piano studio of Jinbo Huang perform compositions by Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, Fauré, Sibelius, Bartók, and Australian John Carmichael. Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, 12.40pm, July 5.
• National Capital Orchestra with Andrew Rumsey on piano perform “Journeys”, music of Michael Dooley. Llewellyn Hall, July 4.
• GEOFF’S jazz at Smiths on July 5 features the Clarke/Dewhurst/McBride Trio with Dan Junor on alto sax.