Belconnen Arts Centre
8pm Saturday 26 June 2021
Suitable for all ages
1 hour, no interval
Invocation is an end-of-residency creative development about climate change, by Earthbound, a collaboration which brings together dance, visual arts, storytelling and music.
Eathbound’s five artists are the inaugural recipients of Belco Art’s Rhizome Performing Arts Residency.
Suki & Hugh Gallery
Bungendore NSW
Until 25 July 2021
Confirm opening hours with the gallery; phone 02 6238 1398
Titled from Edgar Allan Poe’s poem The Raven, the works in this exhibition are from Sharon Field’s home studio in the rural setting of Burra, inspired by the local landscape.
They carry a message of environmental conservation, speaking of the human bond with the plants, animals and insects around us. The exhibition questions how well life around us will survive with the impact of global warming and the actions of people more generally.
Continue Reading“Sharon Field – Only this and nothing more”
Living Arts Canberra congratulates Daniel Riley on his appointment as Artistic Director of Australian Dance Theatre. He succeeds the long serving (22 years) Garry Stewart (pictured) at the end of 2021.
A Wiradjuri man, Daniel began contemporary dance as a 12 year-old at the invitation of ADT’s founder and first Artistic Director, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman OAM, in Canberra. Elizabeth and her colleague Vivienne Rogis suggested that Daniel apply to Canberra based QL2 (then Quantum Leap).
Rated PG
Running time 80 minutes
In cinemas from 24 June 2021
email [email protected] to win family passes
Bullied for his intelligence and struggling to fit in at school, Danny is a 15-year-old genius who is always coming up with crazy inventions. When he is unexpectedly offered a scholarship to Cranston Academy, a secret, prestigious boarding school for geniuses, Danny views it as a place where his intelligence will be recognised and where he will have a chance to fit in.
Continue Reading“Win a family pass to Cranston Academy – Monster Zone”
Big Sky Publishing, Australia, 2021
Catherine McCullagh’s fictionalised history joins a swathe of current works about the WW2 European experience under the Nazis. Whilst set in a Paris cabaret, Le Prix d’Amour, it interests itself largely with how the ‘normal citizen’ coped with the many privations and difficulties of Vichy France, at the time of the German Occupation and then under its total control.
Sunday 20 June 2021
Canberra Girls Grammar School, Senior Hall
String Ensembles and James McCusker Orchestra 2pm to 6pm
Canberra Youth Orchestra 6pm to 8pm
This is a two-concert program providing a performance opportunity for a range of Music for Canberra students.
Continue Reading“Music for Canberra – The Colour of Sound”
Sunday 18 July 2021, 2pm to 4.30pm
Gunning Courtroom, 101 Yass Street, Gunning NSW
Yass resident and internationally-known musician Arnan Wiesel plays J.S. Bach’s favourite keyboard instrument in this recital. Wiesel will play a modern reproduction of Joseph Haydn’s circa 1790 instrument and will present the music of J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, Haydn, Johann Forkel and others.
The Courtroom’s acoustics and ambience are a perfect fit for the clavichord in this intimate concert.
There is a strict limit of 35 patrons for this performance. Booking strongly advised.
Saturday 19 June 2021, 2.00-4.00pm at the National Portrait Gallery
Saturday 7 August 2021, 2.00-3.30 pm at Belconnen Arts Centre
Wednesday 18 August 2021, 2.00-3.30 pm Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Wednesday 1 September 2021, 2.00-3.30 pm at COTA Hall, Hughes Community Centre
The GOLDs are a Canberra Dance Theatre dance class and performance group for movers and non-movers who are over 55. The focus is on fitness, mobility, sociability and creativity.
To celebrate their 10th anniverary, the GOLD dancers will be performing at a number of venues in Canberra to promote the benefits of dance for seniors. GOLD actively challenges stereotypes of older people and espouses the philosophy that dance is not just for the young!
Sunday 4 July 2021 at 2pm
Dendy Canberra Centre
This third film in Stronger Than Fiction’s 2021 Series, from the US, takes a deep dive into the wacky and wildly entertaining world of competitive table setting.
Continue Reading“Stronger than Fiction – The Set”
25 July 2021, from 11am to 1pm
Flazéda Hub in Belconnen
Flazéda Hub (the brainchild of Canberra powerhouse performance artist, Jazida) presents a high tea brunch, a collaborative effort of the alternate performing arts hub with local catering business Capital Roast, and interstate performer Diesel Darling (Winner – Miss Burlesque NSW 2020).
Burlesque Brunch boasts multiple tiers of high tea menu inclusions from Capital Roast, paired with customised drinks options (including a range of alcohol-free cocktails) curated by the studio’s resident bartender, all accompanied by burlesque entertainment from Diesel Darling and Jazida.
Bookings: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/burleque-brunch-tickets-158667078503
Apply by 5pm Monday 24 June 2021
Information www.flazedahub.com/Mentorship-Program
Flazéda presents a LGBTQIA+ Mentorship Program, supported by the ACT Government and designed to allow LGBTQIA+ people to have equal access to opportunities to develop new performing art work in a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment. It is particularly for people who identify as non-binary or transgender.
Continue Reading“Expressions of interest open for LGBTQIA+ performing arts scholarships”
Biographical drama
Canada, 2020, Rated PG
Directed by Clark Johnson
Palace Electric Cinema, Canberra
This film is based on the true story of an independent canola farmer’s six-year crusade against global corporate monolith, Monsanto. Accused of growing the company’s genetically modified organisms (GMOs) without a licence and forced to risk losing his land, 67-year-old Percy Schmeiser (Christopher Walken) takes his fight all the way to the Canadian Supreme Court.
Continue Reading“Percy Vs. Goliath – film review”
1-3/88 Wollongong Street, Fyshwick ACT
19 June to 13 July 2021
Albert Namatjira’s family embraced their father’s painting style, and the Hermansberg School of Art was adopted by other notable Indigenous artists.
The works in this exhibition have been saved and reframed by the Artists Shed as important and appreciated works.
Official opening 6pm Friday 18 June 2021. To attend contact 0418 237 766
Special guests Canberra Chordsmen
St Mary McKillop College Canberra
Mc Kinnon Crescent Wanniassa
Friday 18 June 2021 at 7.30pm
In this time when overseas travel is not possible, Canberra Brass invites you to journey with the band and experience music from around the world. The concert will also feature special guests, Canberra à cappella chorus, the Canberra Chordsmen.
Ventura Press, Australia, 2021
Christine Sykes’ memoir will strike a chord with many baby boomers, not just because of the Whitlam connection but because of her experience growing up in an age of change and reform.
