Superstar percussionist Adélaïde Ferrière is to open the Snow Concert Hall season, reports HELEN MUSA in this week’s Arts in the City column.

The Snow Concert Hall International Series has been announced, along with a new subscription program. First up will be superstar French percussionist Adélaïde Ferrière on February 23 and The King’s Singers on March 21.

Eric Carle’s The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold more than 50 million copies and its theatrical version, involving a menagerie of 75 puppets and created by Jonathan Rockefeller, will be The Playhouse February 1-3. 

Artistic director of Canberra Youth Theatre, Luke Rogers, has written from the “gloriously gritty city of Glasgow”, where he’s on a research placement with the National Theatre of Scotland for the next two months, discovering what’s happening in youth arts across the UK and Ireland. 

Revisiting past glories from Basil Hall’s time as director of Studio One, the exhibition Basil Hall Prints from Studio One, 1987-1996 includes prints by Mandy Martin, Jorg Schmeisser, George Gittoes, Raymond Arnold, Garry Shead, GW Bot, Chris Denton and Dianne Fogwell. Opens at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, February 2. 

South African guitarist Derek Gripper, known for his insightful interpretations of traditional Malian kora music on the classical guitar, is bringing his concert, Music from the Strings of Mali, to James O Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery, February 5-6. 

Lexi Sekuless’s Mill Theatre is swinging into action with Blank by Nassim Soleimanpour. Like his famous work, White Rabbit Red Rabbit, the play involves a joint effort between audience and performer to fill gaps in the script. Actors Christopher Samuel Carroll, Stefanie Lekkas, Ali Clinch, Sarah Nathan-Truesdale and Heidi Silberman will be doing much of the heavy lifting. Mill Theatre, Dairy Road Precinct, February 3, 10, 17, 23, and 24. 

Georgia Pike-Rowney’s contract as the Friends’ lecturer in classics and curator at the ANU Classics Museum has been extended until July 2026, thanks to donations, pledges and commitments from the Classics Endowment Fund. It’s a boost to the Centre for Classical Studies’ teaching and outreach program and to the Friends’ dedication to research.

While the Royal Australian Mint’s Deakin gallery undergoes redevelopment, its exhibition and coin shop are located at Canberra Museum and Gallery, where they hope to match their regular 360,000 visitors annually.