Co_Lab:24 brings an immersive edge to dance week
Australian Dance Week has been launched at CMAG, with a preview of Australian Dance Party’s Co_Lab:24 performed at the Courtyard Theatre.
Reviews
LEN POWER reviews Shipwrecked, a performance of Baroque music by Tobias Cole and Apeiron Baroque.
"With a collection of recorder music spanning from the Renaissance to the present day, it was a pleasure to hear the musical expressions crafted for this instrument through nearly 500 years," writes reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Prinnie Stevens performance of Lady Sings the Blues Vol. 2.
Reviews
Jones finds life in the ‘old dogs’
CON BOEKEL reviews two new photographic exhibitions at At M16 Artspace.
Reviews
Soprano adds emotion to songs of struggle and loss
LEN POWER reviews a performance by soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal in “a concert in human solidarity with the Palestinian people, especially in Gaza".
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Oceans, trees and an alphabet of climate concern
Three books, two by Australian authors, reaffirm the dramatic impact humanity has had, and continues to have, on our fragile environment, writes reviewer COLIN STEELE.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Birth & Rebirth, a concert performed by James Monro, Sarah Zhu and Paul Nicolaou.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Prayers and Lamentations, a performance by The Oriana Chorale.
"Heather Mitchell’s performance as the legendary US lawyer and judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg is poetry in motion." SIMONE PENKETHMAN reviews RGB: Of Many, One.
ALANNA MACLEAN reviews The Shoe-Horn Sonata, at The Mill Theatre, Fyshwick.
"The ensemble were magnificent. They were wonderfully supportive of the soloists but had an energy, colour, intensity and virtuosity of their own that had the audience mesmerised." ALPHA GREGORY reviews the Australian Haydn Ensemble.
"Karen Vickery’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull makes for a highly relatable and accessible text heightened by strong and, at times, very powerful performances from the cast," writes reviewer JOE WOODWARD.
LEN POWER reviews Romantic Masters, a performance by tenor Andrew Goodwin and pianist Roland Peelman.
LEN POWER reviews Heroic Masterworks performed by pianist Edward Neeman.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Son et Lumière by Musica da Camera at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture.
HELEN MUSA reviews For M Is Musick, performed by the Llewellyn Choir at WesleyUniting Church.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews South Facing, an exhibition by Holly Grace and Julie Bradley at Craft + Design Canberra.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews a large exhibition of ceramics by Moraig McKenna at the Canberra Potters Gallery.
![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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