Who’s in what’s on where is the big question. Arts editor HELEN MUSA answers it in this week’s “Arts in the City” column. 

NEXT up at The Q is “The Waltz”, a new Australian play by David Cole, a teacher and scriptwriter from Goulburn. 

The story focuses on former members of The Push subculture in Sydney, played by Pauline Mullen and Martin Sanders. It looks at two ageing radicals, now in their 70s and facing death. The often-funny play was inspired by a conversation between journalist John Thistleton and the playwright. At The Q, 7.30pm and 2pm, June 9 and 10. 

BIG hART and the National Portrait Gallery are presenting “Gulgawarnigu: Thinking of something, someone”, new digital artworks produced by young artists from Roebourne in the Pilbara region of WA. The artworks were made during after-school creative sessions at the Digital Lab, a local tech art space that operates as a hub for innovation. NPG, June 3-October 2. 

“FOR the Record”, the members’ show at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, takes the humble LP as the starting point for member-artists to re-use, re-work or re-write the record. “Delve into your old LP collections… and create artworks that are sure to be a hit,” they advise. A one-day exhibition will take place at CCAS on the Lake on June 17, preceded by a party the night before where local DJs will spin all-vinyl sets. CCAS’s zero-commission policy means artists get 100 per cent of the sale price.

CANBERRA-raised director Amin Palangi will see his latest feature film, “Tennessine”, screened at the Sydney Film Festival from June 13. The “love-interrupted” movie follows the story of Arash (played by “Ali’s Wedding” star Osamah Sami) as he travels to Australia against his family’s wishes to reunite with his true love, Nazanin (Faezeh Alavi). Palangi, an ANU doctoral graduate and part of a very well-known family of Canberra artists, won the audience award at the 2014 Sydney Film Festival for his documentary, “Love Marriage in Kabul”. 

THE Australian Romantic & Classical Orchestra returns to Canberra to perform Beethoven’s “Septet” and Louise Farrenc’s “Nonet” in a concert titled “New Perspectives”. Albert Hall, 7pm, June 6.