Museum of Australian Democracy/Old Parliament House
Weekends 1, 2 and 8, 9 March 2019
It’s that fabulous time of year in Canberra when the Enlighten Festival sees our public buildings awash with images made by light. If you want something handson rather than just to look at the wonderful artworks on the buildings, head to Museum of Australian Democracy.
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Bungendore Fine Art Gallery
Ellendon Street, Bungendore
2 March to 30 April 2019
Open daily 10am to 4.30pm
https://www.bungendorefineart.com.au/
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
10am-2pm daily until 1 June 2019
Carriberrie features 156 dancers and 36 performances, encompassing traditional and contemporary dance. It was shot on locations including Uluru, Sydney Opera House, the Arnhem Wetlands and the Torres Strait. it is narrated by actors David Gulpilil and Jack Charles.
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National Folk Festival
Easter (18-22 April 2019)
Exhibition Park in Canberra
Tickets and information: www.folkfestival.org.au
Living Arts Canberra was pleased to attend the launch of the 2019 festival at the Canberra and Region Visitors Centre on 20 February.
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Strathnairn Homestead Gallery
7 to 31 March 2019
Pantera Press 2019
Sulari Gentill just gets better and better. All the Tears in China is the latest of the addictive and absorbing Rowland Sinclair mysteries. This is the sort of book that makes it seem perfectly reasonable to read till 4am just to finish it, just because you can’t bear not to know the denouement in full and RIGHT NOW.
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Self-published, Canberra Australia 2019
Artist Nancy Tingey OAM dedicates this book to her husband Robert John Tingey, diagnosed with Parkinsons at the age of 46 in 1987 and died aged 77 on 17 November 2017.
It was Bob who first became involved with the Parkinson’s Disease Society of the ACT, but it was in 1993 that Nancy decided to start an art group called Painting with Parkinsons.
Portobello Books 2009
More years ago than I would have liked, we visited King Island. As we arrived at the yurt where we were staying for the week, with the sparkling silver sea as our backdrop and the sun streaming through the picture windows, I remember thinking, ‘I wonder when I can come back.’
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Palace Electric Cinema Canberra 7 March to 10 April
The utterly delicious French Film Festival returns to Canberra with 54 films across a variety of styles and genres. With 30 years under its belt, the festival celebrates with a grand array of films and plenty of special events to entice Francophiles and film lovers.
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Strathnairn Arts Homestead Gallery until 3 March
This beautiful exhibition is by mother and daughter Aunty Bertha Firebrace and Angela Pisciotta. Bertha is a Wiradjuri/Yorta Yorta woman, an emerging artist painting her stories on wooden objects and Angela is a Wiradjuri woman who has now been in Canberra for 24 years or so and calls it home. Angela works in woven forms including basketry.
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Australian Plants as Bonsai Exhibition
23 to 24 February 2019
Australian National Botanic Gardens – Crosbie Morrison Building
Open Sat. 9.30am to 4.30pm and Sun. 9.30am to 4pm
Enjoy a display of more than 30 bonsai by Canberra based artists showing the diversity of Australian plants. There are demonstrations daily at 2pm for those interested in learning techniques and small group guided tours daily at 12 noon through the gardens to show the large versions of the bonsai native trees.
Visitors can vote for their favourite bonsai and there is a raffle offers the chance to win a native bonsai and some books.
Illustrated by Fiona Burrows
Midnight Sun Publishing P/L 2019
This beautiful picture book tells the story of the building process of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, shining a light on the social conditions of the time from 1890 when a need became an idea in 1893 and then finally a reality in 1932.
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Free introductory workshops 12 and 16 February 2019: Ganesha—the bestower of new beginnings and Rasa classical Indian dance.
Two new Indian dance courses offer students a meditative practice or the principles of the classical Indian tradition.
Padma Menon has over 30 years’ international experience as a dancer, choreographer, teacher and facilitator. She has performed in venues all over the world and created numerous original contemporary and traditional Indian dance productions for high profile festivals and venues internationally.
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Belconnen Arts Centre and Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Classes run concurrently with ACT school terms.
Having had the privilege of sitting in as an observer on a taster session for the Dance for Wellbeing program, I must compliment Philip Piggin and his colleagues and the two arts centres for such excellent provision of dance classes for people with Parkinsons, dementia and at all mobility levels.
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Canberra: St John’s Church Hall, 45 Constitution Avenue Reid, Saturday 16th February 2pm and 3:30pm
Goulburn: Trinity Catholic College Hall, Clinton St & College Streets, Sunday 17 February, 2pm
Narrated by Charles Hudson and conducted by artistic director, Leonard Weiss
Peter and the Wolf tells the story of Peter, a young boy who ignores his grandfather’s advice and ventures beyond the safe enclosure of his back garden. Outside he encounters a variety of animals, some friendly and others not so friendly, with much adventure, charm and laughter ensuing.
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