Here's HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City, a weekly look at all things arts around Canberra and beyond.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
One of Canberra's brightest young musicians is about to take off to study at Albert Einstein's old college in Switzerland, but not before he gives a farewell concert, reports HELEN MUSA.
Around 2750 musicians from 83 concert, school and jazz bands, orchestras and ensembles took part in the Australian National Eisteddfod’s Bands & Orchestras event.
Billed as an “absurdist romantic comedy,” Canberra Rep’s next offering, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, begins when Jean (Jess Waterhouse), noticing that the man next to her in a café fails to answer his mobile phone, finds he's dead.
A group of artists struggling to pay the rent in New York City during the AIDS pandemic hardly sounds like the formula for a hit musical. But it is reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews another week of Canberra arts in her latest Artsweek column.
When an Adelaide law lecturer drowned in 1972 after having been thrown into the River Torrens, it led to SA becoming the first Australian state to decriminalise homosexuality. The story seems tailor-made for opera, writes HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA sweeps the Canberra arts scene in this week's Arts in the City column.
HELEN MUSA reviews the Blamey St Big Band as it Swings Disney at the Harmonie German Club.
The ACT’s indigenous arts sector has been boosted with the appointment of a reference group to establish the new ACT Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Space at the Kingston Arts Precinct.
HELEN MUSA reviews Rebus Theatre's production The Art of Disruption.
Riding the Olympic Wave, a new exhibition at the National Museum of Australia, shines the spotlight emerging Olympic sport, reports HELEN MUSA.
