There’s some serious celebrating at Bom Funk Dance Studio, after a top-notch year of success at the 2024 Australasian Dance Education Awards, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Thoughtful quality outshone showbiz pizzazz in this year’s top concerts, exhibitions and plays, says CityNews arts editor HELEN MUSA.
After just a year at the helm, executive director of the Canberra International Music Festival Rachel Whealy will leave to take a similar position with The Song Company in Sydney.
Six months after his death at age 70 in June, one of Canberra's most eccentric personalities threw a posthumous farewell party by the lake on Monday, complete with a fireworks display.
News of Tempo Theatre's annual radio play leads arts editor HELEN MUSA's final Arts in the City column for this year.
A new music-theatre work to mark the 50th anniversary of The Dismissal and a life-saving grant to and experimental music festival are among the 12 projects funded under Round 2 of the 2024 Arts Activities, it has been announced by Arts Minister Michael Pettersson.
After a long period of dormancy, the chimes of the National Carillon are set to ring around Lake Burley Griffin again this weekend, the National Capital Authority has announced.
‘Tis the season for rebranding, with news that two well-known Canberra cultural spaces will have new names, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Melbourne playwright Sarah Matthews is the winner of Canberra Youth Theatre’s 2024 Emerging Playwright Commission.
In a totally transformed exhibition area at the National Museum of Australia, director Katherine McMahon unveiled the new exhibition, Pompeii: Inside a Lost City, to assembled media on Thursday morning.
"Her career spanned only 12 years before a tragic death. She captured her world – a voracious observer yet also intentional in her approach to narrative and composition." BRIAN ROPE reviews Carol Jerrems – Portraits at the NPG.
Ten audio recordings illustrating Australia’s cultural and political life and environment have been added to the National Film & Sound Archive’s Sounds of Australia collection.
