Arts editor HELEN MUSA compiles the who-what-where of the coming week of Canberra arts events.

STAR didgeridoo master William Barton, nowadays an associate professor at the ANU, will perform his own composition, “Square Circles Beneath the Red Desert Sand”, alongside works related to deserts and nature by Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe and Katy Abbott played by CSO Chamber Ensemble as part of the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s next Australian Series. The program culminates in the world premiere of “The Coming Dawn”, a new CSO commission by Noongar violist and scholar Aaron Wyatt. National Museum, June 22.

SOMETHING new for Poetry Night at Manning Clark House will be “Writing out of Darkness”, a winter’s poetry evening to acknowledge the longest night of the year with poetry, warm beverages, and some time for reflective writing – bring a poem. 11 Tasmania Circle Forrest, June 22.

THE Friends of the ANU Classics Museum and the Centre for Classical Studies are holding a viewing of the Graeme Clarke Teaching Collection and new Object-Based Learning Room, ANU AD Hope Building 5.30pm, June 28.

On stage

• CRESWICK, better known as jazz singer-songwriter Liam Budge, has created a verbatim stage work around nine fathers he interviewed. “In His Words: Voices of Fatherhood,” The Street Theatre, June 23-June 25.
• “PONY” is a 95-minute stage show starring comedian Briallen Clarke around the universal subject of pregnancy. The Playhouse, June 22-24.
• JAZIDA Productions has the next edition of its burlesque variety show “Decadence and Debauchery”, Verity Lane Upstairs, June 24.
• QUEANBEYAN Players are staging the dance musical “Footloose” made famous in the 1984 movie starring Kevin Bacon. At The Q, Queanbeyan, June 23-July 2.

In concert

• BASS-baritone David Greco will sing arias and flautist Melissa Farrow will play two flute concertos with the Australian Haydn Ensemble in “Die Stille Nacht,” (The Silent Night) a recital of works by Vivaldi, Telemann, Hasse and Biber. Wesley Music Centre, June 22.
• ACT Organ School students studying with Christopher Wrench have prepared a short concert. Wesley Uniting Church, 5.30pm, June 23. Admission free.
• MUSIC for Canberra presents “Winter Festival”, a concert that shines a spotlight on the young talents of its string stream ensembles, Camerata, Sinfonietta, String Ensemble and James McCusker Orchestra. St Benedict’s Primary School Hall, Narrabundah, 11am, June 24.
• LLEWELLYN Choir’s “A Winter Concert: Duruflé and Boulanger” is a program of French music featuring Maurice Duruflé’s “Requiem”, with three pieces by World War I-era French prodigy, Lili Boulanger. Wesley Uniting Church, June 24.
• SHOWMAN Greg Andrew will pay homage to the music of Elton John in “Rocketman”. At The B, Queanbeyan Bicentennial Hall, 8pm, Saturday, June 24.
• THE James Morrison Quartet is appearing at Harmonie-German Club, Narrabundah, June 24.
• THE Australian Rock Collective will perform Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” in its entirety, marking its 50th anniversary. Llewellyn Hall, June 25.
• CANBERRA Strings will perform Brahms and Mendelssohn string quintets, All Saints Anglican Church, 3pm, June 25.
• POLIFEMY will perform “Cries & Lamentations: 7 funerals & a beheading”, music from around the 16th century on the occasion of celebrity deaths. Uniting Church, 3pm, June 25.
• NATIONAL Capital Orchestra’s coming concert celebrates its 40th Anniversary. The conductor is Louis Sharpe and the concert comprises “Through Healer’s Eyes” by Ukrainian-Australian composer Catherine Likhuta, “Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini” by Rachmaninoff and Symphony No. 3 – “Century” by Australian composer Andrew Schultz. Albert Hall, 3pm,  June 25.
• AS part of it Music Chats, MusicACT is holding a free session on “The Art of Production”, The Front, Lyneham, 3pm, June 25.

Galleries

• “GREG Daly | Colour”, an exhibition of the work of ceramic artist Daly. At Nancy Server Gallery, Civic, June 25-July 23.
• THE National Museum of Australia has added a Ukrainian-language audio guide for its blockbuster exhibition “Feared and Revered: Feminine Power through the Ages”.
• THE National Photographic Portrait Prize 2023 is at the Portrait Gallery until October 2.
• NEWCASTLE artist James Drinkwater is the focus in this survey exhibition curated by Terence Maloon that ranges over his prolific output during the last 20 years. Opens at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, 6pm, on June 23, then runs to August 20.
• “BARK” is a new solo exhibition by Nathan Hughes, and is an instinctive response to Canberra and making a meaningful life in a time of uncertainty. Opens at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, 6pm, June 22 then runs to July 2.
• ARTISTS Emma Beer, Kate Bohunnis, Bryan Foong, Lotte Frances, Louis Grant, Annie Parnell and Angus McGrath are the focus of “Bodies Without Organs”, a new exhibition curated by Anja Loughhead. At Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Parkes, June 23-August 12
• “HOW Cities Work” is a family-friendly interactive exhibition at Canberra Museum and Gallery, Civic Square, until October 8. .