The Vault, Dairy Road Fyshwick ACT
Friday 24 July – Sunday 26 July 2026
METTLE is a new major dance work created by choreographers Alice Lee Holland and Jack Ziesing in collaboration with 13 young dance artists.
Continue Reading“Quantum Leap Australia –METTLE“
The Courtroom
101 Yass Street, Gunning, NSW
2pm Sunday 19 July 2026
Virtuosic young Italian pianists, the Duo Mimesi, begin their Australasian tour with a première opening performance in Gunning.
Continue Reading“Gunning Focus Group: Duo Mimesi – Melodies in Motion“
Ainslie Arts Centre, 30 Eloura St, Braddon, ACT
Friday 19 June 2026
6.30pm to 9.30pm
Yalda Night is a traditional solstice celebration in Persian culture. In the northern hemisphere, people gather to share music and stories on the longest night of the year.
Continue Reading“Hangama Arts Canberra – Yalda Night“
Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Saturday 20 June, 2026
Show 7pm / Bar 6pm
Masterpiece is a fusion of mime, slapstick and live music in which connection is made not through words, but through presence. There is a playful critique of the art world and the humour of common workplace dynamics
Continue Reading“Raeandwill: Masterpiece“
With Australian clarinetist Lloyd Van’t Hoff
Llewellyn Hall ANU
7pm Friday19 June 2026
In this concert, London’s Doric String Quartet perform a masterpiece by Beethoven, the String Quartet in F Major, Op. 59 No. 1 ‘Razumovsky’, and Benjamin Britten’s Three Divertimenti for String Quartet.
Continue Reading“Musica Viva – The Doric String Quartet”
Palace Cinemas Canberra and nationally
10 June – 5 July 2026
Ths year’s festival includes an award-winning drama, a rom-com starring one of the most well-known Latin American actors, a historical epic, and a salsa documentary.
The Gallery Next Door, which will open in July 2026, is the brain-child of Canberra artist Jennifer Baird, who wants to create a welcoming space for regional artists to exhibit their work and for the Weston Creek community (and beyond) to enjoy.
Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Friday 15 May, 2026
Show at 7pm / Bar 6pm
Josh and Tom Burton’s sketch show Tinseltown evokes Hollywood’s golden age through vivid, twisted characters – faded stars and hopeful newcomers. Mixing improvisation, audience participation, film parodies, and AI gags, the duo create controlled chaos, in a fast-paced, high-energy show.
Continue Reading“The Burton Brothers – Tinseltown“
Canberra Theatre Centre
23– 27 May 2026
Three stories of Country. one message of hope: Keeping Grounded, Brown Boys, and Sheoakhonour Bangarra’s past while looking to the future. Together, these three works engage with vital First Nations social and cultural issues, reminding us of the enduring connections between people, land, and spirit.
The Courtroom
101 Yass Street, Gunning NSW
2pm Saturday 30 May 2026
Life partners and international artists of note, harpist Alice Giles AM and pianist Arnan Wiesel, play music they love (duos and solo pieces by CP Bach and Carlos Salzedo).
Continue Reading“Gunning Focus Group – An Afternoon with Alice and Arnan“
Strathnairn Arts
90 Stockdill Drive Holt ACT
Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm
Until 31 May 2026
What Rhymes with Menagerie is an exhibition of drawings, weavings and paintings, evocative of memory, folk and fairy tales, myths and dreams.
(Or, a Play About But Not Starring A Famous Politician)
The Street Canberra
23 to 31 May 2026, various times
70 minutes
Tom Glassey’s sharp, fast-paced, satirical comedy has its world premiere at The Street in a production that combines podcasting, playmaking and screen.
Chifley Health and Wellbeing Hub
70 Maclaurin Crescent, Chifley ACT
1 to 9 May 2026
10am to 3pm
The much anticipated annual display of work and sale of many covetable items of fibre-based artworks, cuddly things, homewares, handspun wool and clothing is once again upon us at the CSW centre of activity and excellence in Chifley.
A fundraiser for the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre
Terroux Peace Garden and Event Venue
88 Rochford Road Hall (off Wallaroo Road)
Sunday 3 May 2026
12 Noon till 3pm
Entry by donation
You are invited to Terroux Peace Gardens for a fundraising lunch in aid of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, which is providing vital services including food, shelter and healthcare to around 8,800 people this year in Australia.
Continue Reading“Feast for Freedom”
Various venues
29 April to 3 May 2026
Creative Director Eugene Ughetti
This year’s program is marked by diversity in both music and style of concert with classical masterworks, contemporary jazz, global traditions, First Nations storytelling and newly commissioned Australian compositions.
