"As the buzz of excitement increases in volume at Craft + Design Canberra in the lead-up to its 10th Craft + Design Canberra Festival, there’s an even louder sound emitting from its headquarters – exultation," writes HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
A gift made to King Charles during the recent royal visit on behalf of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, puts paid once and for all to the monarch’s father’s notorious quip that Canberra was "a city without a soul”, writes HELEN MUSA.
Lisa Freshwater has been appointed to the new role of executive producer at Canberra Theatre Centre.
Canberra artist Solomon Karmel-Shann is one of five artists awarded residencies at Shark Island, a creative arts hub in Kangaroo Valley, in the 26th annual Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
HELEN MUSA rounds up the town's arts events and rolls out another busy Artsweek column.
A reproduction of the Gutenberg Bible, considered to be the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, has been given to the National Library of Australia.
There are very few school teachers who live to see themselves immortalised in bricks and mortar, but Joe Woodward, director of The Daramalan Theatre Company (and CityNews theatre critic), is one of them, writes HELEN MUSA.
As the Canberra Writers Festival opens with its extraordinary line-up of authors, few of them are quite so well known as Christos Tsiolkas, beloved, the festival tells us, "because of his provocations”. HELEN MUSA reports...
HELEN MUSA finds herself in the centre of silliness when she sits in on a rehearsal for Queanbeyan Players’ production, Nice Work If You Can Get It, coming up at The Q.
Music and comedy are a couple of artistic offerings for Halloween, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.
Canberra’s oldest art society, the Artists' Society of Canberra, launched its annual spring exhibition in fine style with about 400 artworks on display at the Fitters' Workshop in Kingston.
Reviewer HELEN MUSA clocks on for a shift at the Department of Responsible Adulting, a testing theatrical experience by Canberra Youth Theatre.
