Celebrity fashion designer Alex Perry will talk the fashion talk and schmooze with arts patrons at M16 Artspace's increasingly popular swanky fundraiser at The Ottoman.
Drama, comedy, documentary and animation will all be on parade when the Veterans Film Festival returns next month with a four-day program, writes HELEN MUSA.
"When the audience rose for a standing ovation at opening night of 'Billy Elliot the Musical', all eyes were on ginger-haired Jamie Rogers, a 12-year-old boy who originally studied dance in Pialligo," writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Alex Budd, executive producer, touring & commercial for Opera Australia, will replace the long-time Canberra Theatre administrator Bruce Carmichael as director after he retires in November, says art editor HELEN MUSA.
Singer Katie Noonan comes with strings attached at her next Canberra performance – the Australian Sting Quartet that is. Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports on this and more in this week's "Arts in the City" column.
"There was no chance of falling asleep in this theatrical endeavour – it was intellectual, informative, funny, charming and quite outrageous," writes theatre reviewer HELEN MUSA.