SINGERS Chris Cheney, Phil Jamieson, Tim Rogers and Josh Pyke will celebrate the ninth Beatles’ studio album, known as the “White Album” (because of its plain white cover) at Canberra Theatre, September 21. 

CANBERRA International Music Festival has announced that its 2024 iteration will run from May 1-5. It’s a tight set of dates for the event, which will see Roland Peelman’s last outing as artistic director. 

KATE Ceberano will join the Canberra Symphony Orchestra to perform personal favourites from her four-decade career in “My Life is a Symphony”. Canberra Theatre, September 15.

“HANGING by a Thread” is a terrific title for the exhibition by ACT Textile Arts Association, showing hand-crafted textile art, embroidery, crochet, knitting, felting, mixed media, dyeing, printing, sewing and dressmaking, at the Queanbeyan Art Society Gallery, Trinculo Place, September 15- 24.

BACH’S best loved choral music will be performed entirely in German by Canberra Choral Society and Luminescence Children’s Choir in “Immortal Bach”. It’s directed by Dan Walker, with Anthony Smith on the organ and Lindy Reksten on continuo. All Saints Church, Ainslie, September 16. 

THE Royal Czech Ballet returns with “Sleeping Beauty”. Canberra Theatre, September 17-18.

THE Italian Film Festival will feature a retrospective on screen idol Massimo Troisi, but will open with the Australian premiere of “The Last Night of Amore” (“L’ultima notte di Amore”), a Milan-set thriller where Pierfrancesco Favino plays a police lieutenant drawn into a web of crime and corruption. Palace Electric Cinemas, September 20-October 18.