HELEN MUSA rounds up a week’s worth of arts experiences in this week’s Artsweek column. 

The next Book Club at the  National Film and Sound Archive will screen David Fincher’s film adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 satirical novel Fight Club, followed by a discussion of both the film and the novel with Andrew Hutchinson and Kaya Wilson. June 16.

Dr Tets Kimura presents a lecture on his 2023 National Library Fellowship research into how grief was experienced during the Asia-Pacific War in two different nations, Australia and Japan, and how it is identifiable in art and fashion. NLA, June 13.

Concerts

• Musica Viva has pianist Kirill Gerstein playing Liszt, Schumann, Poulenc, and Chopin, Llewellyn Hall, June 13.
• The Phoenix Collective matches the music of Mendelssohn and Ginastera with prog-rock classics from Pink Floyd. Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, June 14.
• Smith’s@Belco has Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Lara with The Andalusian Guitar, Belconnen Arts Centre, June 15.
• Half Light, the duo of Rennie Pearson and Bob McNeill, returns with Celtic music to Smiths Alternative on June 15.
• Star keyboard player Kotaro Nagano will perform An Afternoon of Baroque with Historical Instruments, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, June 15.
• Cellist James Monro and pianist Edward Neeman play Piazzolla, Schumann and Cassadó in Passion & Poetry, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, June 16.

Stage

• Q The Locals presents The Will To Be by Mark Salvestro, The Q, Queanbeyan, June 13.
• Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Canberra Rep Theatre, Acton, June 13-29.
• The Lieder Theatre Company, Goulburn, presents Life Without Me June 14-19.
• The Irish Community Players presents The First Bloomsday, with live Irish traditional music. Canberra Irish Club, Weston, June 16.
• Irish Club Comedy Night features Canberra comedians Caitlin Maggs, Jeremy Smith, Sam Sila, Sarah Stewart, Chris Marlton, Holly Hazlewood and MC Suma Iyer. Canberra Irish Club, Weston, June 19.

Galleries

• Sound Explorations features improvised and experimental music, performative drawing and dance, at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, June 12.
• Popular landscape artist Ted Lewis, at Aarwun Gallery, Nicholls.