Canberra dancers from Legs Performing Arts is soon heading to the 2024 Tianjin International Children’s Festival, the only Australian delegation to be invited this year.
In an unsteady funding climate, you’ve got to be resourceful, and Dianna Nixon, has resourcefulness in spades. She will be presenting a reading of Fire, as a fundraiser for her ongoing project to see Millicent Armstrong, back on stage.
Canberra soprano Gore has the show-stopping role of Ophelia – "a very demanding role," she says. "It's the hardest thing I've ever had to do in music, but the most rewarding," she tells HELEN MUSA .
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.