"Making live music for real-time listeners was the main thrust of Sunday's closing concert for the 30th Canberra International Music Festival, appropriately themed Mulanggari (alive)," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
"It is a feeling of impermanence, of the sifting boundaries of shelter and safety and our understanding of it that connects the many complex themes in this exhibition," writes visual arts reviewer KERRY-ANNE COUSINS.
HELEN MUSA reviews Shortis and Simpson’s final Under The Influence session, this time featuring Fred Smith.
The arts are in full flight this week as HELEN MUSA's Artsweek column attests...
On a recent Sunday afternoon, arts editor HELEN MUSA joined a crowd in Queanbeyan for Rebus Theatre’s screening of their film, Re-Emergence: Every Storm Gives Way To A New Sunrise.
Basking in the light of musical stardom, Korean-American virtuoso pianist Joyce Yang is about to descend on Snow Concert Hall to perform a concert of Russian music, reports HELEN MUSA.
One of the last remaining luminaries from the explosion of professional theatre in Canberra during the 1970s has died after complications from lung cancer. He was 91.
More arts news from the pen of arts editor HELEN MUSA and her Arts in the City column.
From Hilde with Love, which will open the 2024 German Film Festival on May 7, is a movie about the Nazi era such as you may have never seen before, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Mr Squiggle and his friends Blackboard, Rocket, Bill Steamshovel and Gus the Snail, have landed in Canberra after having been acquired by the National Museum of Australia, says director Katherine McMahon.
Playwright Peter Quilter is not exactly a household name, but he probably should be, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
As Aarwun Gallery in Gold Creek enters its 25th year, director Robert Stephens has always had a creative approach to his packed openings, mixing music and talk with fine art, but this year he's outdoing himself, reports HELEN MUSA.
