Here’s this week’s Arts in the City column from arts editor HELEN MUSA.
News is in from former Narrabundah College student Laurence Fuller, now a film actor and artist in the US, who recently played British painter David Hockney in the HBO Max series Minx. Last week, he and his colleague, the American actor and filmmaker Vincent D’Onofrio, opened a radical exhibition at the Lume Studios on Broadway of work where poetry, notebook and pen, method acting and AI painting combine to create “Poetic Cinematic Fine Art”. Under the name Graphite Method, they perform and exhibit at art fairs, conferences and galleries around the world.
Creative Gunning is hosting the free, interactive Fibre to Fabric exhibition where participants can watch and get hands-on experience with how to prepare alpaca and wool fleece, spinning, weaving and other ways of making fabric and woven cord. Each room of the restored Gunning Railway Station building on Grovenor Street will be dedicated to a particular stage of the process and the last room will have specially selected items for sale. Connect@Gunning Station, April 14.
Three brilliant young Canberra-raised musicians, cellist James Monro, violinist Sarah Zhu and harpist Paul Nicolaou, premiered their concert Birth & Rebirth during December to packed houses at St Jude’s Bowral and Wollongong Art Gallery. A highlight was the premiere of Nicolaou’s composition Of Light, Divided and Monro’s Saturated Reflection. Now they’re bringing this program to Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, on April 14.
Aeolus Wind Trio is back in action with a concert traversing the four stages of love – first attraction, happy in love, lost love and enduring love – through music by McCartney, Tchaikovsky, Gershwin, Gade, Borodin, Loewe, Waller, Rota, with some Bach and Wagner, too. Wesley Music Centre, April 24.
Soul singer Prinnie Stevens will perform her show, Lady Sings The Blues Volume 2, at The Street Theatre on April 20. The show features the songs of Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Nina Simone, Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Whitney Houston, Tina Turner and more, spanning more than 100 years.
ACTHub in Kingston is holding a 12-hour, fundraising Hour Hub-Athon featuring multiple plays and more than 20 actors on April 27.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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