“MUSICA Viva in Schools” is heading for another success as it announces its 2019 season, which will again take live music and educational resources to children all over Australia. According to Canberra musician Michael Sollis, […]
CANBERRA’s arts community rallied in force outside the ACT Legislative Assembly at lunchtime today to make the point that, as one banner put it, “Art changes lives”. Organised by the recently-formed Canberra Arts Action Group […]
A CONCERNED group of arts community members last night set in motion the Canberra Arts Action Group, a circle designed to campaign for the ACT’s artists to be given ‘a fair go’. “Citynews” readers will […]
ACT Arts Minister Gordon Ramsay has agreed to meet arts representatives in late January to discuss the dramatic 66 per cent drop in arts project funding revealed on Monday. During a “Town Hall-style meeting” held […]
MUSICA VIVA In Schools has a very strong connection with Canberra. Not only is its inaugural artistic director for education, Michael Sollis, a dyed-in-the-wool Canberran, but it has just announced that two new ensembles will […]
music / “Sex and Dragons”, the Griffyn Ensemble. At CSIRO Discovery Centre, August 11 & 12. Reviewed by Clinton White
Review / Canberra International Music Festival Concert 5, The Griffyn Ensemble – “Ear of the Cat”, Ainslie Arts Centre – Sunday May 1, reviewed by Ian McLean
CANBERRA composer, artistic director of the Griffyn Ensemble and musician, Michael Sollis, has just been announced by Musica Viva as Artistic Director of Education to Australia’s largest and most innovative school music education program. Sollis […]
“A MAP of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which humanity is always landing,” Oscar Wilde once said. It’s Vincent […]
music “Northern Lights” Griffyn Ensemble At the James O. Fairfax Theatre, NGA, May 30-31. Reviewed by Helen Musa
EVER since the release of the Loxton Report in 2011, the phrase “arts hub” has become a “buzzword” around the local art scene. News is to hand that Artsound, Bilk Gallery, Canberra Glassworks, CCAS Manuka, […]
A NATURAL storyteller from a young age, Eva Warren’s writing journey began as a dream – like most authors – but in the end became a healing activity after losing her husband. “I worked out […]
“What must the Sydney based and essentially nameless and faceless members of the Suburban Land Agency board think of their first year’s effort?” JON STANHOPE doesn’t spare them on Page 3.
IN the dizzying European summer of 1990 a former Canberra public servant took part in a defiant street demonstration in Berlin directed against the looming disappearance of the East German state. The name of this […]
MANIPULATIVE, terrible and fierce, yet William (Billy) McMahon was, until now, the only Australian prime minister who didn’t have a biography written about him. The 250,000-word, 766-page biography, “Tiberius with a Telephone”, by Patrick Mullins […]
3PM UPDATE: MADISON HAS BEEN FOUND SAFE AND WELL, SAY POLICE TEENAGER Madison Clews-Proctor hasn’t been seen since last Thursday, November 8, at her home in Kambah. The 15-year-old contacted her family on Friday but there […]
