ACT Indigenous artist Krystal Hurst is one of 68 finalists in the 2019 Telstra National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art Awards (NATSIAA), Australia’s most illustrious and long standing Indigenous art awards.
This concert of rarely performed
treasure for string quartet is inspired by Viennese classicism with works by
Mozart, Haydn, Hoffmann, Albrechtsberger and Schubert.
The concert supports the work of Sleepy Burrows Gundaroo, an organisation that cares for wombats injured on the road, abused by human beings or plagued by diseases. (www.sleepyburrows.com.au)
Musicians: Christoph Angerer – violin
and viola d’amore; Milan Nikolic – violin; László Ábrahám – viola; Ute Groh –
violoncello
Chef prepared afternoon tea at
interval is included in the $45 ticket price; young audience special for 6 to
18 y.o at $10.
Concert bookings requested please by 12 June for catering purposes:
https://www.trybooking.com/BCQLM
For lunch bookings at the Field of
Dreams Café please ring Peter on 0427 488 373 or email [email protected]
Artworks by Indigenous detainees at the Alexander Maconochie Centre Tuggeranong Arts Centre until 1 June 2019
These paintings impress not only for
their quality as works on the wall, mostly acrylics on canvas, but also for the
story they bring of the redemptive power of art and creative work.
All works are for sale and proceeds go
directly to the artists.
Make a visit to Tuggeranong Arts
Centre one of the things you do during Reconciliation Week.
ACT Corrections Minister Shane Rattenbury opens the exhibition
Canberra Youth Orchestra and Canberra Choral Society Llewellyn Hall Saturday 29tJune, 2019 at 7.30pm
This is the first 2019 subscription concert for Music for Canberra and the Canberra Youth Orchestra (CYO). It features soloists Rachael Duncan, Tobias Cole and Andrew O’Connor. They will be joined by Canberra Choral Society, Canberra Children’s Choir and Seasoned Voices.
Le Très Bon restaurant, Bungendore Saturday 15 June 2019 at 6.30pm and Sunday 16 June 2019 at 12 noon
Chrissie Shaw returns with her fascinating cabaret performance about Madame Bijou, transporting you to a café-bar in Paris 1933…. ‘A wine, a chat; the music plays … there’s a new face in the crowd.’
Having recently re-read The Dressmaker upon the opening of the exhibition of the film costumes at the National Film and Sound Archive, I was fortunate to speak with Rosalie Ham about her work. This sent me to her latest novel, The Year of the Farmer and I am also now reading my way through her back catalogue.
In The
Year of the Farmer, Rosalie Ham shows us the same wit, sharp observation
and finally a forgiving affection for the people of her chosen setting, the small
Australian country town. Topically, this book focusses on the scarcity, the supply
and the purchase of water, and all the scope for dirty dealing that this
entails.
Book 2 of The Sandstone Trilogy Independently published, printed by Ingram Sparks 2016
Unshackled,
set in the 1850s in Sydney, continues the story of Irish born John Leary and
his rise in the building trade. It is at once a glimpse into the history of the
growth of the city and a story of the complexities of family.
John Leary’s business struggles in a
tough and often corrupt industry are just part of this tale. Michael Beashel
interests himself in the status and place of women at this time and in the
conditions of the working men and women of the era.
Friday 28 June at 7.30pm and Sunday 30 June at 5pm The Chapel, Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture Cnr Kings Ave and Blackall Sts, Barton ACT
Pesented by A Chorus of Women, the Luminescence Children’s Choir and some of Canberra’s finest singers and musicians.
Written by Glenda Cloughley, Musical Direction by Johanna McBride
3pm Saturday 1 June, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest Conductor: Leonard Weiss Soloists: Barbara Gilby (violin) and Lucy Carrigy-Ryan (viola)
The rare combination of tangos with one of Mozart’s most loved works stems from violist Lucy Carrigy-Ryan’s experience as a scholarship holder at the Emilio Balcarce Tango Orchestra School in Argentina.
This pioneering series of cinematic films about exhibitions, galleries
and artists returns for a sixth season with Degas: Passion for Perfection, directed by David
Bickerstaff and produced by Phil Grabsky.
The Q, Queanbeyan Sunday 16 June at 3pm Pre-concert talk 2.15pm
The National Capital Orchestra,
conducted by Leonard Weiss, continues its tradition of combining exciting new
Australian works with traditional favourites of the orchestral repertoire. This concert features the world premiere of
Michael Dooley’s Piano Concerto no. 1
performed by acclaimed pianist Andrew Rumsey.
This debut novel by Julie Keys was
shortlisted for the Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. It is a work of
historical fiction, an absorbing and fast moving story that waltzes elegantly
between the past in the 1920s and the recent past of the 1990s.
First and foremost this is a story of
secrets and the murky world of the Bohemian Sydney art world. Artist Muriel
Kemp steps into the present however, despite having been reported dead in 1936,
and meets her biographer in Jane Cooper, newly pregnant and suffering from
morning sickness. What follows is both a fascinating story of the untangling of
truth from fiction and the development of a strange but important relationship
between two women from different times and places.
Canberra Theatre Centre Sunday 26 May, 6.30pm – 11pm
On the eve of the Reconciliation Day public holiday in the ACT, some of the strongest voices in the country will honour the anniversary of the 1967 Referendum.
The concert will feature Wergaia singer-songwriter Alice Sky, rapper and TV personality Briggs, and Yothu Yindi & the Treaty Project.
Playing one piano with four hands – but a
unified artistic mind, Eva-Maria Zimmermann and Keisuke Nakagoshi are ZOFO; a ‘20-Finger Orchestra’
Listen to Barbie’s interview with newly appointed ACT Manager of Musica Viva, Christina Cook
For this performance they have commissioned a ‘Pictures at an Exhibition’ – seeking out composers from 14 countries and asking them to choose a piece of visual art from their own culture, and then write a short piece inspired by it. The result is ZOFOMOMA – an unforgettable multimedia concert experience.