The arts editor’s top picks for 2021
Arts editor HELEN MUSA offers up her five best arts moments of 2021.
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DANCER, choreographer, hotshot CEO, mother, teacher and former Artist of the Year, Padma Menon, is…
WHEN citynews.com.au reported last week that prominent Canberra glass artist Mel George had won the…
THE naughty ratepayers of Queanbeyan have copped a finger wagging from their council’s water and…
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Well, hello Dolly
"I’D like to get away with a little bit of murder,” cabaret artist Dolly Diamond’s…
Helen of the arts gets a gong
HELEN Musa, the “CityNews” arts editor, is among those local residents recognised in this year’s…
Artist’s peaceful, easy feeling
ARNOLD Williams is that rare kind of artist who seems totally comfortable within his own…
RUSSIAN producer Gennady Polluck and the director of the Moscow Novaya Opera, Valery Raku, have…
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• I’M still humming the tunes from the late Jonathan Larson’s “Rent”, the modern rock-and-AIDS-age answer…
• CANBERRA’S literati are hoping for a big crowd to the NewActon Courtyard at 6pm, on…
• IT’S been an exciting time for film in Canberra, with the sell-out International Film Festival…
I FIRST met Todd McKenney around 13 years ago when the young hoofer was in…
WHAT is it with the Maltese and the performing arts? Is it sheer coincidence that…
THE Australian Haydn Ensemble is a vibrant, youthful group of performers with international performance backgrounds…
Remember Big hART’s terrific production of “Namatjira” last year? Now the same team is back…
IT is all-too common for those outside the art world to imagine that indigenous Australian…
• THE Paperback Sessions is bringing APRA winner and co-founder of the group Leonardo’s Bride, Abby…
THE Australian National Eisteddfod has stepped in to help save the jewel in its crown,…
