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Jack Lloyd, executive director and co-CEO

Belconnen Arts Centre announces joint CEOs

BELCONNEN Arts Centre has announced the appointment of joint CEOs to steer it into the future. Monika McInerney, previously creative program director at the centre, now becomes artistic director and co-CEO, while Jack Lloyd, previously […]

Arts / ‘Talk Blak’ CD goes public

“TALK Blak – Take Two” is a hip hop music program that’s been running in Civic this year, and this weekend the creators are launching a CD. Community inclusion officer at Belconnen Arts Centre, Ann […]

The winning portrait, “Scarlett as Colonial Girl”, by Megan Seres

Review / Endless fascination in Moran portraits

Arts / “Doug Moran National Portrait Prize,” at the Belconnen Arts Centre, July 1-23. Reviewed by ROB KENNEDY

Arts / Family friendly music that’s free

“THINGS are motoring away here at the Young Music Society,” says artistic director and manager, Stephen Leek. You can say that again. With the new free monthly “Sunday Music by Lake Ginninderra Series” ready to […]

Christopher Samuel Carroll in "Paradise Lost.." Photo by Richard Lennon

Review / ‘Extraordinary physicality’ in staged Milton

Review / ”Paradise Lost,” by John Milton. Adapted by Christopher Samuel Carroll. At Belconnen Arts Centre until January 28. Reviewed by JOE WOODWARD

Review / Astoundingly wide and, at times risky, variety of music

Review by IAN McLEAN. The Griffyn Ensemble, “Griffyn Goes Wilder”. At Belconnen Arts Centre. 5pm, Sunday, November 20.

Interior of the arts centre, the performing art facility will abut onto the right hand side of this room.

Belconnen Arts Centre petition needs signatories – by Wednesday!

YOU CAN just tell that Belconnen Arts Centre CEO Daniel Ballantyne and the board have had enough — they really want the BAC Stage 2 development to go ahead. When Stage 1 opened in 2009 […]

Where’s the funding for Stage 2 at Belco Arts Centre? board asks

ALL EYES in Belconnen will be upon the next ACT Budget to see if there’s anything in it to help with Stage Two of the Belconnen Arts Centre. When Stage One was opened, the then-Chief […]

Review / ‘Dance on the Edge’ at the Belconnen Arts Centre

Dance on the Edge Belconnen Arts Centre, May 7, Reviewed by Bill Stephens

The Whitewash Of The Year, 1981 by David Morrow

Review / ‘Exuberant and powerful’ exhibition of Megalo posters

art “Messages from Canberra: Screen Printed Posters From Megalo”, Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, until February 28, 10am to 4pm Tuesday to Sunday. Reviewed by Meredith Hinchliffe

Arts in the city / Mooney puts his gags on trial

COMEDIAN Lawrence Mooney is coming to Canberra to trial material for his newest show. Best known as the host of “Dirty Laundry Live” on ABC TV, he’ll be up close and personal at Courtyard Studio […]

Review / ‘The Last Time’ at the Belconnen Arts Centre

The Last Time, written and composed by Lucy Matthews, co-directed by Lucy Matthews and Miriam Slater, Acoustic Theatre production in association with Shadow House Pits, Belconnen Arts Centre to 31 January. Reviewed by Len Power

New musical to provoke discussion – and empathy

AN original Canberra-grown musical is coming to Belconnen Arts Centre this week – but it’s anything but an average Broadway-type show. “The Last Time: A Story of Love, Lust & Desperation” has been written by […]

Creativity ignited in new Braddon gallery

THERE’S a new exhibition space opening its doors today on Northbourne Avenue. Located in the National Disability Insurance Agency ACT Trial Site at 212 Northbourne Avenue, the space is the result of a partnership with […]

Olivia Fyfe and Jamie Winbank… producing an installation that will recall a child’s birthday party.

Arts / Now they are six, the fun begins

BELCONNEN Arts Centre is about to turn six and the creative team has turned to the art of dance and to Winnie the Pooh’s creator AA Milne for inspiration. “Now We Are Six”, you […]

Belco marks NAIDOC week through hip-hop radio

IN honour of NAIDOC week, Belconnen Arts Centre has today announced “taLKbLaK RADIO on Friday”. PART of a larger vision, “Detour: North West Uncut”, this project aims at working with Indigenous and non-Indigenous rappers to […]

Monika McInerney joins Belconnen Arts Centre

AFTER a hiatus, Belconnen Arts Centre at last has a new creative program director. Monika McInerney, well known as an arts figure in the south coast arts scene and co-ordinator of the Basil Sellers art […]

Arts crowdfunding campaign in Belco is on the way

BELCONNEN Arts Centre won $8,000 in ‘funding through Creative Partnerships Australia’s Plus1 program, but here’s the rub — it has to raise another $8,000, since Plus1 requires recipient arts organisations to match funding. The centre […]

Marianne Mettes commission performance at NMA - photo by Pete Butz

Budding puppeteers wanted for new course at Belco

MARIANNE Mettes is a Canberra puppeteer, puppet-maker, artist and performer who works full-time through her company PuppetOOdle. Mettes has trained with master puppeteers from all around the world and, back in 2013, she had a […]

Wendy Sharpe, Hikmat, pastel on paper, 2014

‘A trapeze artist without a net’ – Wendy Sharpe draws refugees

IN an extraordinary moment of serendipity, a touring exhibition by the Asylum Seekers’ Centre in Sydney now showing at Belconnen Arts Centre coincides with a play about asylum seekers opening at the Street theatre this […]

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Belconnen Arts Centre announces joint CEOs

Arts / ‘Talk Blak’ CD goes public

Review / Endless fascination in Moran portraits

Arts / Family friendly music that’s free

Review / ‘Extraordinary physicality’ in staged Milton

Review / Astoundingly wide and, at times risky, variety of music

Belconnen Arts Centre petition needs signatories – by Wednesday!

Where’s the funding for Stage 2 at Belco Arts Centre? board asks

Review / ‘Dance on the Edge’ at the Belconnen Arts Centre

Review / ‘Exuberant and powerful’ exhibition of Megalo posters

Arts in the city / Mooney puts his gags on trial

Review / ‘The Last Time’ at the Belconnen Arts Centre

New musical to provoke discussion – and empathy

Creativity ignited in new Braddon gallery

Arts / Now they are six, the fun begins

Belco marks NAIDOC week through hip-hop radio

Monika McInerney joins Belconnen Arts Centre

Arts crowdfunding campaign in Belco is on the way

Budding puppeteers wanted for new course at Belco

‘A trapeze artist without a net’ – Wendy Sharpe draws refugees

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