HELEN MUSA's Artsweek column lists all the who-what-whens of another big week in the Canberra arts world.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
The Story of The Oars a 90-minute 'play with spoken-word songs', but most definitely not a musical, as arts editor HELEN MUSA discovers when she catches up with author Nigel Featherstone and composer Jay Cameron.
Here's Arts in the City, HELEN MUSA's weekly look at arts news around the town.
LEN POWER reviews Shimmying with the Schumanns, a performance by Sarahlouise Owens, soprano and Natalia Tkachenko, piano.
To mark the 50th anniversary of performer Tina Arena’s career, the National Portrait Gallery has commissioned photographer Georges Antoni to create her portrait.
"Lizzy, Darcy & Jane is what you might call a thoughtfully amusing literary romp," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
The names of festival-theatre director, the late Domenic Mico, and popular ACT arts minister, the late Bill Wood, have been given jointly to the Wood-Mico Theatre, launched on Friday at Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
The Canberra Art Fair at Exhibition Park this weekend is the brainchild of artist Margaret Hadfield.
A cavalcade of well-known Canberra performers take the stage to raise awareness of MS while also supporting the fundraising efforts of 12-year-old, Rosie Welling, who is preparing to hike the Kokoda Track in support of the cause.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews Patternmakers, an exhibition at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
Actor Christopher Samuel Carroll is heading back to town after a lightning trip to the Edinburgh Fringe with his one-man show, The Cadaver Palaver, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA rounds a week's worth of arts and entertainment events and rolls them into her latest Artsweek column.
