Here’s arts editor HELEN MUSA’s latest Arts in the City column.

Hot on the opening of Making a Creative Life – Hiroe and Cornel Swen at Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra Potters will stage Endless Horizons: The Art of Hiroe Swen, a solo exhibition by the veteran ceramic artist, as a central highlight of its 50th anniversary celebrations. Canberra Potters. Watson Arts Centre, January 9-February 2. 

Preparations are afoot to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Canberra Theatre Centre. They’ll be hosting a special event in conjunction with the return of The Australian Ballet in June and are also embarking on a “memory capture” project to collect people’s stories, photos and videos about their experiences at the theatre over the past six decades. All contributions are welcome at forms.gle/R9UokbnvaZ6nf6sY9 

A new exhibition, The Excellencies of Musick: Highlights from the Jamie and Michael Kassler Collection, features rare works by famous composers, theorists and philosophers, as well as portraits, engraved tickets and trade cards. Highlights include a broadsheet advertising an 1817 performance of Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah. Treasures Gallery, National Library of Australia until August. 

Dianna Nixon’s company Music Theatre Projects is holding summer holiday music theatre workshops teaching how to connect with industry professionals, prepare audition repertoire, manage performance nerves and fine-tune ensemble skills, The Oaks, Rosevear Place, Dickson, February 1-2, inquiries to mtprojectsltd@gmail.com 

The volunteer guides of the ANU Classics Museum are presenting a series, Highlights of the Museum: Links with Pompeii, to hook in with the National Museum’s big exhibition on Pompeii. AD Hope Building, ANU, January 13 and 20, registration is essential to pfinley@webone.com.au