Arts events galore! It’s HELEN MUSA’s weekly round up of what’s on where. It’s this week’s Artsweek column.

The National Film and Sound Archive is exploring onscreen representations of Australian history with John Farrow’s Technicolor feature, Botany Bay, and Bob Weis’s satirical spoof, Wills and Burke, featuring a young Nicole Kidman. Arc Cinema, NFSA, March 2.

The Sri Lanka Festival 2024 will feature traditional and contemporary dancing and music, food, and Ceylon tea. Sri Lanka High Commission, 61 Hampton Circuit, Yarralumla, March 2.

Harvest Day Out is a celebration of Lanyon Homestead’s autumn kitchen garden, and sustainable food and growing practices, with workshops, demonstrations, talks, tours, market stalls, music and food offerings. Lanyon Homestead, March 2.

Friends of the ANU Classics Museum have Lucy Jackson from Durham University deliver her lecture, Unsettling Oedipus: Psychoanalysis and the Ancient Greek Chorus, at Theatrette 2.02 in the Sir Roland Wilson Building , ANU, March 6.

Queanbeyan Multicultural Festival is on this weekend with cultural festivities, food and more, Queanbeyan Park, March 3.

Music

• Percussionist and Griffyn Ensemble favourites, Wyana O’Keeffe and Michael sollis, will be playing pieces from the Zodiac Suite by Estonian composer Urmas Sisask, at the Strathnairn Arts Sunset Sessions, March 1.
• Musica Viva’s Long Lost Loves (and Grey Suede Gloves) is a fully-staged evening of songs over the piano devised by writer and director Constantine Costi, dramaturg Hilary Bell, pianist Michael Curtain and mezzo soprano Anna Dowsley. The Playhouse, March 1.
• Super Rats promise an evening of rip-roaring Romanian folk at Smith’s, March 2.
• Blamey Street Big Band Swings with The Beatles will be at The B, Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, March 2.
• Flamenco Meets Tango when Bandaluzia performs at The Street Theatre, March 2.
• Visions of desert landscapes carpeted in flowers is the inspiration for Superbloom, by The Song Company. Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, March 3.
• Greek musicians, NikoTeini, will be at Smiths Alternative on March 5.
• Karen Jacobsen channels Julia Gillard in her performance of Misogyny Opus, The Playhouse, March 6.
• The CSO’s Rediscovering Music series helps people with any degree of hearing loss find joy in listening to music. Led by audiologist and CSO musician Kristen Sutcliffe. The first event, featuring guitarist Steve Allen, will be held in Ainslie Football Club on March 6.
• Pianist Jennifer Hou will perform three works by Ross Edwards (Sea Star Fantasy), Alexander Scriabin (Étude Op.42 No.5 in C# minor) and César Franck (Prélude, Choral et Fugue, FWV 21), Wesley Music Centre, March 6.

 Stage

• Bring It On: The Musical, Canberra Philharmonic Society at Erindale Theatre, until March 16.
• Afrique en Cirque, draws on the Nyamakala tradition of circus practiced in West Africa and is a blend of acrobatics, music and choreography. Canberra Theatre, March 1-2.

Galleries

• Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka has Glitch City – The Glimmers, an exhibition of new work by Scott Franks. March 1 – 10 .
• Rusten House Art Centre, Queanbeyan, will showcase an eclectic range of works by female artists, March 2- 23.
• Queanbeyan Art Society’s Abstract & Abstraction competition and exhibition kick off at the society’s gallery under the bridge in Trinculo Place, Queanbeyan, March 3.
• Meandering around the Murray is Canberra painter Val Johnson’s tribute to the river. Strathnairn Homestead Gallery, until March 24 .