FOUR Winds Festival is preparing an Easter weekend of music at Barragga Bay, Bermagui, April 7-9, and closer to home, crowds will be gathering from Thursday as Exhibition Park becomes a tent and caravan city for the National Folk Festival, April 6-10.

Theatre

• BROADWAY hit, “360 Allstars” is an urban street culture show exploring BMX riding, basketball, breakdancing, rap, acrobatics and drum, complete with a live soundtrack and video projections. Canberra Theatre until April 8.
• NEIL LaBute’s comedy “Reasons to be Pretty” is running a preview season at Mill Theatre, Fyshwick, April 12-15, followed by its season, season April 19-May 6.
• IN the subversive comedy “Hir” (it’s a new personal pronoun), New York playwright Taylor Mac plays with gender identity and it’s coming up in a production by new artistic director Blake Selmes at Lieder Theatre, Goulburn, April 12-22.
• JAZIDA Productions is presenting a pop-up party as recurring event every three weeks on Fridays, which will include a 90-minute cabaret show with a rotating cast of performance. First up is at City Walk, 5 pm to 8.15 pm, April 12.

Concerts

• SCARLATTI’S “Stabat Mater” and Porpora’s duet for Lent “Rigate Lacrimis” will be performed by an impressive line-up of Canberra musicians, at St Paul’s Anglican Church Mark, Manuka, 3pm, April 7, free entry, no applause.
• ADELAIDE International Guitar Festival Classical 2022 Guitar Competition champion Connor Whyte performs original transcriptions of organ works by Bach and Pachelbel, and classical guitar standards. Wesley Music, Centre, Forrest, 12.40pm to 1.20 pm, April 12.

In the galleries

• THE Treasures Gallery in the National Library of Australia has new treasures on display, including photographer Harold Cazneaux’s first camera, the Schevenhuysen Map, and Ellis Rowan’s “Chrysanthemums”.
• DENNIS Mortimer’s painting students from the Bunker Arts Group are holding a studio artists’ exhibition at the Hive, (the yellow house), Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, opening 6pm, April 6 and running until April 23.
• QUEANBEYAN Art Society has an exhibition called “people-places-animals”, with 130 works for sale until April 23. 
• A group exhibition by artists Joel Arthur, Esther Carlin, Bryan Foong, Louis Grant, Aidan Hartshorn, Alex Hobba, Jacquie Meng, Belle Palmer will run at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery until May 12.
• THE Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society Canberra is having a special daytime talk featuring Camille Berg, former art/craft coordinator for the Australian Parliament House project. Theatrette, Parliament House, 10am, April 12. 
• RUSSIAN-born Florentine mosaic artist Anatoly Golobokov’s works have been gifted to everyone from Vladimir Putin to the late Prince Phillip. In them, natural, precious and semi-precious stones are cut hand-polished and carefully positioned with no gaps, to form works easily mistaken for paintings. Some of his “meta mosaics” and a digital experience will be presented in the Chapel at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Barton, until April 18.