Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's parade of what's on where. She calls it Artsweek and it's a big week this week.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Twelve artists working in literature, music, screen, dance, theatre and visual arts have won grants totalling $352,012 in the current round of ACT government Arts Activities for projects between $5000 and $50,000.
Comedian Wendy Harmer may be bringing the lives of grandparents to life in a new stage play she’s written called The Grandparents’ Club, but she's not a grandparent – not yet, anyway, reports HELEN MUSA.
National Opera has fallen on its feet in securing the right to host Mildura-born star soprano Siobhan Stagg, who will perform with pianist Nico de Villiers at Albert Hall later this month, reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA scans the Canberra arts scene in her latest Arts in the City column.
DANTE COSTA reviews The Song Company's The Stars Turn, its 40th anniversary performance tour.
"I'm against cancel culture," Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday night at the National Gallery of Australia in one of the more unusual gallery speeches in a while, as he unveiled Gauguin’s World: Tōna Iho, Tōna Ao.
A veteran Canberra poet and a rising novelist were among the big winners at the 2024 ACT Literary Awards, hosted at Canberra Contemporary Art Space on the lakeside, by Marion Ink on Thursday.
"This is true horror. This does something on stage which is normally only achieved in movies." John Waters tells arts editor HELEN MUSA of the play The Woman in Black that's coming to Canberra soon.
There's a lot of music and more happening around town as arts editor HELEN MUSA reports in the latest Arts in the City column.
The official portrait of Governor-General David Hurley was unveiled at Australian Parliament House on Monday.
Twenty-eight projects have been recognised in the 2024 ACT Architecture Awards with categories ranging from residential new homes and renovations to public works and interiors.
