Another big day in the arts with arts editor HELEN MUSA’S “Artsday” column…
LLEWELLYN Choir, joined by the Llewellyn Sinfonia, Soloists Sonia Anfiloff, Emma McMaster, Tom Azoury and Toby Silcock, and the Gabriel Singers from Canberra Girls Grammar and Canberra jazz musicians is performing a mighty concert at St Andrews Church, Forrest, 7pm, Saturday, December 11. It will feature two classic works by Leonard Bernstein, “Chichester Psalms” and his “Mass”, originally commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the opening of the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. Book at trybooking.com
STRONGER than Fiction 2021 Documentary Series’ Christmas film screening, in partnership with the Austrian Embassy, will be the film “Eva-Maria”, about a secretary in her early thirties who has been a wheelchair user since childhood and, wanting to become a parent, begins the process of in vitro-fertilisation. Dendy Cinemas, 4.30pm, Sunday, December 12, book here
MUSICA da Camera presents “Musica da Camera and Friends”, directed by Lizzy Collier with soloist Jodie Petrov on flute, at Holy Covenant Church, 89 Dexter Street, Cook, 2.30pm, Saturday, December 11, book musicadacamera.org.au
GILLIAN Wilde’s watercolours & inks with collage, featuring portraits of the birds of the Eurobodalla, are now showing at Gallery Bodalla. This time Wilde is joined by her partner John, who is creating hand-built pots inspired by underwater themes. “Wilde + Wilde” is also on view at gallerybodalla.com.au
WESLEY Music Scholars will present the “Sound Unseen” concert at Wesley Music Centre, Forrest 3pm, Sunday, December 12. Book here.
AN audio-visual presentation of “Perpetua”, an oratorio by Canberra composer Michael Dooley will mark the release of a new CD of the work, with an introduction by the composer and a presentation by Pastor Raymond Wadely about the plight of the persecuted church in our present time. Canberra House of Prayer, 28 Guilfoyle Street, Yarralumla, 6.30pm, Friday, December 10 and at Holy Cross Church, Hackett, 7pm, Saturday, December 11.
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