Here’s the latest Arts in the City column from arts editor HELEN MUSA.

The premiere commission for Belconnen Arts Centre’s new lakeside projection program, Afterlight, is Language Moves Here, an eight-minute silent animated film by Wiradyuri artists Rechelle Turner and Marissa McDowell. Projected on to the west facing theatre façade above the café and bar seating, the work will be looping nightly from sundown until 9pm as part of a season of digital artworks illuminating the lakeside. Belconnen Arts Centre, until July 5.

David Williamson’s popular play, Travelling North, now directed by Cate Clelland, follows Frank and Frances as they pursue a late-life romance and a sea change dream in the tropics, only to confront family tensions, ageing and mortality. Canberra Rep Theatre, Acton, June 11-27.

Concert pianist, author and incoming Australian National Academy of Music artistic director Anna Goldsworthy will join Andrew Leigh in conversation about her new Quarterly Essay, The God We Made: The Threat and Promise of Artificial Intelligence, examining how AI is reshaping ideas of humanity and creativity. ANU Meet The Author, Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre, ANU, June 10.

Apeiron Baroque’s The Afternoon Hours aims to evoke calm, warmth and nostalgia in a winter concert for traverso and baroque ensemble, featuring music by Brentner, Sammartini, Pandolfi, Graupner, Vivaldi, Telemann and Boismortier. Wesley Music Centre, June 7.

The 2026 Spanish & Latin American Film Festival will bring more than 30 films from Spain, Colombia, Argentina and beyond to Canberra screens this winter, with stories ranging from culinary journeys in Peru and São Paulo to thrillers, romances, salsa documentaries and an uplifting tale of the young women who transformed Spanish football. Palace Electric Cinemas, June 10-July 5.

Harmonic Curves’ Resonance pairs celebrated guitarist Timothy Kain with harpist Alice Giles in an afternoon of music for harp and guitar, from O’Carolan favourites and a Canberra premiere by Márian Budoš to Máximo Diego Pujol’s vibrant Suite Mágica. Wesley Music Centre, June 7.

Salut! Baroque’s Bohemian Rhapsody celebrates the splendour of 18th century Bohemian music inspired by the lavish 1723 coronation festivities for Charles VI in Prague, drawing on Charles Burney’s famous praise of Bohemian musicians. Wesley Church, Forrest, June 12.

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