Here’s arts editor HELEN MUSA round up of all things arts and entertainment in her latest Artsweek column.
The National Museum is hosting Illuminating Egypt, a free event featuring music and dance, street food from Egypt, the Middle East and North Africa, a souk-inspired market and family-friendly activities on April 13.
Stage
- Sydney Theatre Company’s hit production, RBG: Of Many, One, with Heather Mitchell reviving her role as the indomitable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, is at The Playhouse, April 11-21.
- Popular music presenters, Myf Warhurst and Zan Rowe, are bringing their show, Bang On, to the stage as they chat about music, art, life and stuff. Canberra Theatre, April 12.
- Circus Spectacular is a show for the whole family, while Infamous is a pairing of circus and cabaret. Both under the Big Top at Majura Park, April 12 to May 19.
Galleries
- Rusten House Art Centre in Queanbeyan will host three exhibitions as part of the Queanbeyan-Palerang Heritage Festival until May 25.
- What You See, What I See? is a new exhibition of paintings by Marie Carver and Natalie Will, at Kyeema Art Gallery, Capital Wines, Hall, until May 5.
- Remake Remodel is a new exhibition by Bruce Reynolds, featuring paintings made of linoleum on wood panels that depict the artist’s take on modernist sculptures. Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, April 12-21.
Concerts
- The Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Heavenly Sopranos will feature singers Celeste Lazarenko and Helen Sherman performing Baroque-era pieces. Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, April 12.
- Oriana Chorale’s Prayers and Lamentations, music for peace in times of struggle, is at All Saints, Ainslie, April 13.
- Sarah Zhu, James Monro and Paul Nicolaou perform Birth & Rebirth, music for harp, viola & cello, Wesley Music Centre, April 14.
- Canberra City Band is performing a concert called Music She Wrote in which all works are by female composers. Murranji Theatre, Hawker College, April 14.
- The Merry Muse’s feature act on Sunday will be Tasmanian singer/songwriter Ian Paulin, Canberra Irish Club, Weston, April 14.
- Young pianist Charles Huang returns to the Lunchtime Concert Series. Wesley Music Centre, April 17.
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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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