HELEN MUSA’s weekly arts column features opening concerts, events and shows in Canberra
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Armed with its idiosyncratic triple-barrelled theme “Power.Politics.Passion”, the fourth Canberra Writers Festival opens today (August 21) with a host of literary celebs and political writers descending on the nation’s capital.
Canberra has a lively new vocal group, the Australian Voice Collective, and they’re launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for their first concert, writes HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA shares Canberra’s newest gallery openings
Shipped out during the Irish Famine with the promise of a better life in Australia but destined to become cheap domestic labour, these were the “Belfast Girls” of a play that bowled director Jordan Best over for the suffering, wit and the fortitude of its five protagonists.
Scratch the surface of almost any major department or organisation in Canberra and you’re bound to find a former member of Woden Valley Youth Choir running it.
The 2019 Napier Waller Art Prize online exhibition of 26 shortlisted artworks is now live on the Australian War Memorial’s website, writes HELEN MUSA.
Who’s doing what where in Canberra arts this week. Arts editor HELEN MUSA has it here.
Canberra musical initiatives were among those honoured in the 2019 ART Music Awards, announced tonight (August 19) at the University of Sydney's Great Hall.
Bookings have been extended until tomorrow, August 20, for the annual Australia Indonesia Association winter dinner, marking Indonesia’s Independence Day, the 74th anniversary of independence from the Netherlands.
Mint staff say a collection this size has never been showcased for the general public and the exclusive display features coins from around the world dating back to the 18th century.
“If you’ve ever been in love, you will understand this show,” writer and performer Jacob Boehme says of “Blood on the Dance Floor,” coming soon to Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
