Another busy week looms on the Canberra arts scene. HELEN MUSA’s latest Artsweek column has it all… 

Karen Hall, fringe artist from LA, balances a classical cello recital with elements of performance art and clowning in Delusions and Grandeur, Mill Theatre, Dairy Road Fyshwick, until August 30.

The Korean Film Festival in Australia is presenting a selection of four free films. At Palace Electric Cinemas, August 31 to September 1.

A book launch for The Art of Catching Jam Before It Burns by Kathy Kituai will be at Upstairs at Smiths Alternative, September 3.

Rebecca Mayo is hosting a hands-on plant dyeing workshop workshop, 10 Boyle Place, Holt August 31.

Concerts

• Blues artist Chris Cain is at Harmonie German Club, Narrabundah, August 29.
• Selby & Friends: Triple Treat – Celebrating Beethoven, at Fairfax Theatre, National Gallery, August 30.
• I Progretti’s performance of Lamentatione features compositions from the Renaissance and Baroque periods, St John’s Anglican Church, Reid, August 31.
• The NFSA has a screening of feminist filmmaker Jeni Thornley’s Memory Film: A Filmmaker’s Diary. August 28 and Spotlight on Ari Wegner, In Fabric, August 31.
• Smith’s@Belco Live Music program has Australian storyteller William Crighton supported by Canberra’s Den Hanrahan. Belconnen Arts Centre, August 31.
• Composer and saxophonist Jeremy Rose, Aria Award winner for Best Jazz Album, will perform at Tuggeranong Arts Centre, August 31.
• Super Rats play Romanian traditional songs and dances, Smith’s Alternative, Civic, August 31.
• Art Song Canberra hosts countertenor Michael Burden in Airs and Graces, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest. September 1.
• Edward Neeman (piano) and Chris Latham (violin) will perform Witnesses: Two Nations’ Lost Composers, a tribute to lost composers Komitas and FS Kelly, Lecture Room 1, 5th Floor ANU School of Music, September 3.
• Harpsichordist Ariana Odermatt performs music by Bach, Beethoven, and Psatha, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, September 4.
• Geoff’s Jazz At Smith’s has Tom Fell (baritone sax) in a tribute to the music of Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Smith’s Alternative, September 4.

Stage

• Marcia Hines’ Still Shining 50th Anniversary Concert Tour is at Canberra Theatre, August 29.
• Hedy! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr celebrates the unexpected scientific genius of screen legend Hedy Lamarr, The Street Theatre, August 31.

Galleries

• Plate to Plate, a collaborative exhibition  and cookbook celebrating the work of Hands On Studio, is at Megalo Print Studio, 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston, August 31-October 12.
• Canberra self-taught artist Sean Martin presents a series of drawings and oil paintings centred around the theme of anonymous sentimentality Canberra Contemporary Art Space Manuka, August 30-September 8.
• Artists Peter Sharp and Michelle Cawthorn explore how artist couples engage, collaborate and sometimes ignore each other’s art practices in This is Not a Solo Show (v2). ANCA Gallery, Dickson, August 29-September 29.