Phil Wilson, the man who cemented the National Folk Festival’s permanent place in Canberra, has died in Denpasar, Bali, aged 76, after complications from dengue fever.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
At a lively event onstage at the Causeway Hall in Kingston, ACT Hub unveiled an ambitious season of 11 productions and a mini-festival of plays on Thursday evening.
The comedy series, Austin, has been commissioned for a second season, with the titular central character and his family heading to Canberra.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reviews Homecoming: An Opera Gala, an informal yet elegant recital by five gifted young singers from the Queensland Conservatorium.
Another great mix of arts and entertainment awaits Canberra and surrounds as HELEN MUSA reports in her latest Artsweek column.
Jordan Best's coming production of A Midsummer Night's Dream will also serve as the effective unveiling of the newly-landscaped Aunty Louise Brown Park directly outside The Q, writes HELEN MUSA.
When American soprano Rachel Mink steps up to perform for Art Song Canberra, the audience will sense quite a different flavour from the usual lieder repertoire, reports HELEN MUSA.
An eleventh-hour but temporary reprieve has quelled fears that that Thursday’s opening night of Canberra Rep's Christmas show, Bloody Murder, would be destroyed by the closure of its adjacent car park.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares an author's innovative way to raise money for a charity in this week's Arts in the City column.
The new director of the Canberra International Music Festival, Eugene Ughetti, unveiled his program for 2025 at the Italian ambassador’s residence on Monday evening under the theme of Liberté.
Nobel Laureate and former vice-chancellor of the ANU Brian Schmidt has unveiled the Canberra Museum + Gallery’s latest exhibition, Outer Space: Stromlo to the Stars, marking the 100th anniversary of Mount Stromlo Observatory.
SOPHIA HALLOWAY reviews Afterimages of Familiar Tales by Adelaide artist Jessica Murtagh.
