It’s “Arts in the City”, HELEN MUSA’S weekly wrap of what’s playing where in Canberra.

QUEANBEYAN Players missed out on the rights to “Oklahoma!” so they’re doing an encore run of their smash-hit 2021 show, “The Sound of Music” at The Q, Queanbeyan, June 24-July 3. Bookings at theq.net.au or 6285 6290.  

READERS have been asking how to see Daniel Widdowson’s challenging documentary, “Trafficked to Australia”, about Australia’s involvement in the dark world of human trafficking. The film will now be available free worldwide on YouTube from July 1. In the meantime, it will screen at the National Film and Sound Archive at 2pm on June 25. 

THE second National Capital Art Prize has more than $45,000 prizemoney across three categories – Open, First Nations and Sustainability. The Finalist Exhibition will be at the Fitters’ Workshop, Kingston, during late September and early October. Entries by June 30 to nationalcapitalartprize.com.au 

SYDNEY ensemble Thoroughbass will be in town with “Home and Hearth”, sonatas, catchy tunes and sentimental songs performed by soprano Danielle Grant, Tara Hashambhoy on violin and Diana Weston on piano. Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, 3pm, Sunday June 19.

PIANIST Ronan Apcar will join Canberra Sinfonia to perform the world premiere of Dulcie Holland’s “Piano Concertino”. The concert will also feature the Australian premiere of “The Light that Breaks Through”, by Chinese-American composer Bobby Ge, and another world premiere, “June Again”, by Sydney composer Christopher Gordon. Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, 5pm, Sunday, June 19.

CANBERRA author Ryan Ginard has won the “social change” category in the 2022 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, for his book, “Future Philanthropy: The Tech, Trends & Talent Defining New Civic Leadership”. Ginard says the principles outlined in the book are a blueprint for Australia to use philanthropy to its full potential.

CANBERRA Choral Society and National Capital Orchestra continue their annual collaborations with the presentation of Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle”, with Louis Sharpe conducting, Dan Walker as chorus master and Sarahlouise Owens, Sonia Anfiloff, Ryan O’Donnell and Hayden Barrington. Llewellyn Hall, 3pm, Saturday, June 25.