It’s whopper of a week for all-things art. HELEN MUSA diligently lists the lot in this week’s “Artsweek” column.

THE Tapestry of Cultures Family Festival will be celebrating more than 15 cultures with market stalls, family-friendly workshops and drop-in activities, National Museum of Australia, 10am-4pm, May 13.

RESEARCHERS at ANU are conducting a study, in partnership with MusicACT, to examine live music in the Canberra region. They are on the hunt for professional musicians willing to take part in a relaxed short one-on-one interview. Expressions of interest here

SCHOLAR Elizabeth Minchin will launch Estelle Strazdins’ new book, “Fashioning the Future in Roman Greece: Memory, Monuments, Texts”, ANU Classics Museum (AD Hope Building, ground floor), 4.15pm, May 17.

“PEACE with Earth – Pathways and Possibilities” is a fundraising event for Women’s Climate Congress, complete with songs and stories from A Chorus of Women. Terroux Peace Garden, 88 Rochford Road, Wallaroo, 2.30pm-4.30pm, May 13.

“GOLDEN Vienna” is the subject of the next Canberra Australian Decorative & Fine Arts Society talk to be given by Ian Gledhill, who will look at Viennese composers including the Strauss family, Josef Lanner, Karl Millocker, Carl Michael Ziehrer and others. National Library, 6pm, May 16.

Concerts

• MUSICA Viva is presenting a flute, harp and viola concert, “Among the Birds and the Trees.” Llewellyn Hall, 7pm, May 11.
• SINGER-songwriter Ruth O’Brien launches her second EP of folk-infused pop, “Songs for Abby”, at The Street Theatre, 7.30pm, May 13.

• Shortis and Simpson present “Under the Influence” with guests Nigel McRae and Beth Tully. Smith’s Alternative, 6pm, May 13.
• US Sacred Steel vocalist and lap-slide guitar wizard Nikki D Brown meets Australian slide-guitarist Dom Turner (of Backsliders) at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre, 7.30pm-9:30pm, May 13.
• BRISBANE’S Contra Guitar Duo, Hamish Strathdee and Emma-Shay Gallenti-Guilfoyle, is performing an intimate house concert in Rivett, 6pm, May 14, bookings essential at contraguitarduo.com
• THE Australian String Quartet will be here from Adelaide with a concert featuring Thomas Adès’ “Arcadiana”, Mozart’s String Quartet No.15 in D minor and Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.9 in E-flat Major. Gandel Hall, National Gallery, 2pm, May 14.
• LIMESTONE Consort will perform Bach’s Concerto for two harpsichords in C minor (BWV 1060), with soloists Ariana Odermatt and James Porteous, along with other works. Wesley Music Centre, 3pm, May 14.

On stage

• “STEEL Magnolias” is at ACT Hub, Kingston, until May 20.
• PERFORM Australia presents the Australian play “Out of Your Mind”, written by Sue Murray and directed by Zsuzsi Soboslay. The Mill Theatre, Fyshwick, May 11-13. 
• NEXT up for The Q’s company of young actors, Echo Youth, is Matt Cox’s comedy “Puffs”, the story of a regular boy who finds out he’s a wizard and goes to school in England where he makes two best friends and has adventures. Sounds familiar? At Queanbeyan Performing Art Centre, May 11-20.
• NATIONAL Opera’s pocket version of “The Elixir of Love”, adapted by Peter Coleman-Wright, will be directed by local theatre artist, Ylaria Rogers, with Canberra Sinfonia, conducted by Leonard Weiss. Albert Hall, May 11 and 13.
• ONE of Australia’s favourite international comedian/ventriloquists, David Strassman, appears in “The Chocolate Diet”, at The B, the Bicentennial Centre, Queanbeyan, May 13.

Around the galleries

• A pop-up exhibition at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery coincides with the launch of “The World of Hiroe Swen’s Ceramic Art”, a digital archive, celebrating more than 50 years of Hiroe Swen’s ceramic practice. There’s a public launch at the gallery from 2pm, May 13.
• “BETWEEN Things” is a continuous dialogue between artists Joel Arthur and Dionisia Salas about painting. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, opens at 6pm Thursday, May 11, then the show runs until May 21.
• BEAVER Galleries have Clara Hali, “Selected works: 1992-2022”, sculptures inspired by Western figurative art as well as Indian and south-east Asian sculpture and cultures. Until  May 27.
• M16 Artspace, Griffith, has three new exhibitions: “Transition”, by Canberra Art Workshop; “Dream City Demolition” by Katie Hayne; “Drift” Katherine White; and in Chutespace, “Dog Birthday Party” by Jess Dabro. 21 Blaxland Crescent. May 12-June 4.
• CANBERRA Spinners and Weavers’ annual exhibition and sale of members’ works, “Warped and Twisted”, opens in the Faye Skyring Canberra Textile Works Gallery, Chifley, 2pm, May 13-May 20.
• MANNING Clark House, Forrest, is hosting an exhibition of photographs by Susan Henderson covering a wide geography from Canberra to New York, Melbourne, Paris and Madrid. May 13-June 8.