Here’s “Artsweek”, arts editor HELEN MUSA’s weekly wrap of all things arts around Canberra.

THE National Film and Sound Archive of Australia will celebrate the Aboriginal community radio program “Radio Redfern” with a panel discussion and screening of the award-winning Film Australia 1988 documentary, “88.9 Radio Redfern”. Arc Cinema, August 19.

THE Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens is hosting a talk by Prof Reinhard Senff about the German Archaeological Institute’s excavations at Miletus on the west coast of Turkey.

KYLE Wilkins is a Canberra Christian hip hop artist and record producer known for his singles “Lead Me Home” and “50 Snap Back”. His new EP, “The First And The Last”, will be released on August 21.

TWO scientific comedy shows are coming to Smith’s Alternative, Civic, on August 23: “The Wine Science Show”, written and starring Luke Morris, is a comedy on the story of the farmer behind the greatest red wine ever produced; and “Atomically Correct”, written by and starring science explainer, Rachel Rayner, is billed as an accidental “Barbenheimer” combining physics with sparkles.

Stage

• PERFORM Australia is staging the world premiere of “The Getting of Wisdom”, based on Henry Handel Richardson’s novel, by Canberra playwright Elizabeth Avery Scott. The performers are all members of a specialist high school program for years 7-10. Tuggeranong Arts Centre, August 17-19.
• A team of Australia’s top improvisers will perform as part of “Precipice”, QL2 Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre, August 18-20.

Concerts

• AUSTRALIAN Haydn Ensemble returns to perform masterworks in chamber form, including Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 7”, the overture to “Egmont & Boccherini”. Wesley Music Centre, August 17.
• SUPER Rats will be back with its signature blend of crazy fast tunes. Smith’s Alternative, August 18.
• VIOLIST Tahlia Petrosian with ANU staff and students will perform works by Hoffmeister, Kats-Chernin, Mozart, Bloch, and Sibelius. Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU, August 18.
• ANU Viola Day will bring together ANU School of Music and Open School of Music viola students and other violists from across Canberra and the region with leading viola teachers. ANU School of Music, August 20.
• SHILONG Ye will conduct Brindabella Orchestra in “American Gems”, Weston Community Hub, August 20.
• AN evening of music with CSO’s Kingsland Fellows and CSO principal bassoonist Ben Hoadley will finish with Hoadley’s own original composition, “Cave Dances”. Larry Sitsky Recital Room, August 21.
• IN “A Glance at Romance” Patrick Galvin on violin, and Jennifer Hou on piano, will perform works by Amy Beach, Jean Sibelius, Frédéric Chopin, Pablo Sarasate, and Korine Fujiwara. Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, August 23.

Galleries

• AJITH Perera is an artist whose practice is centred on drawing. Inspired by Surrealism, he frequently uses automatism as a starting point for his drawings in ink, now on show in “Shadow Work”, Strathnairn Homestead Gallery until August 27.
• “RETURNING to Light” by Yalan Chen was inspired by studies at the Australian National Botanic Gardens. Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, August 17-August 27.
• “FOR the Love of Watercolour”, an exhibition by Jan Vincent, opens at Kyeema Art Gallery in Capital Wines, Hall,  August 18-September 17.
• “Out of the Shadows” is an exhibition of digital drawings, crochet sculptures and video reflecting artist Megan Munro’s life as a queer, disabled artist. ANCA Gallery, Dickson, August 23-September 10.