Wesley Uniting Church Forest ACT
5pm 12 November 2023
This is the first in a series of cross-arts concerts mixing Early Music with presentations from a wide variety of non-musical disciplines.
Apeiron Baroque and Poetry
Denotes website entries with audio interviews
Sam Vincent – My Father and Other Animals
Black Inc, an imprint of Schwartz Books Pty Ltd, Australia, 2022; second edition 2023
Cover design Akiko Chan
Cover image Getty/221A
Sam Vincent’s memoir/philosophy about country, community and heritage is a highly readable work which has us both laughing at the author’s self-deprecatory accounts of his introduction to sustainable farming and deeply considering matters of succession, inheritance and First Nations connection with the land.
Musica Viva Australia – 2024 Concert program
February to November 2024, various venues
The 2024 program is a blend of tradition and innovation, with seven national tours to six states and territories, four world premieres by Australian composers, and 26 of the world’s best artists including William Barton, The Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Finnish violinist Pekka Kuusisto and pianist Kirill Gerstein.
Strathnairn Arts – Community
Homestead Galleries
Until 29 October 2023
Artworks created by the long-standing community groups who meet at Strathnairn’s Village Hall. Barbie spoke to several of the artists exhibiting:
BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival
State Library of NSW
1-5 November 2023 and live streamed nationally
BAD Sydney celebrates Australian crime writing with a program of author panels, entertaining social events, writing workshops, guided walks and the opportunity to pitch to a publisher.
Wendy Holden – The Princess
Welbeck Fiction Limited, Great Britain, 2023
An imprint of Welbeck Publishing Group
Cover design Simon Michele
Cover images Irene Gittarelli/Trevillion Images, Shutterstock
This is the third of Wendy Helden’s historical fictions focussed on women considered to be disrupters in the glittering sphere of the British Royal family. The Princess is a fictionalised version of the early life of Diana Spencer, the first wife of (now) King Charles.
Gunning Arts Festival
Gunning, NSW
Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 October 2023
Gunning Arts Festival had to go online during COVID, but this year it’s back live.
Bell Shakespeare – Twelfth Night
Canberra Theatre Centre
13 – 21 October 2023
Director Heather Fairbairn places her characters in a garden setting that transforms throughout the play, linking their mortality to life cycles in nature and asking them, along with the audience, to find light in the darkness.
Moving Archetypes (Padma Menon) Dance – Invoking the Secret Waters
Archetypal Dance contemplation course
Separate in-person and online classes
Beginning mid-October 2023
This eight-week course explores the universal archetype of water. In Indian dance, water holds an ancient wisdom for the archetypal dance; the Apsara, is a being that moves in the waters.
Rebus Theatre, Canberra Community Law and Legal Aid ACT – Just Hearing
Main Hall, Gorman Arts Centre
7pm – 8.30pm 20 October 2023
This innovative forum theatre performance during Mental Health Month challenges the legal system to understand the impacts of trauma on clients.
Margaret Bice – Bird Song
A mixed media exhibition of miniatures focusing on endangered bird species
Wren’s Nest Gallery in the Designer Shop Emporium
1 Lyell Street Fyshwick
Tuesday 2 October to Sunday 22 October 2023
Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4.30pm, Sunday 10am to 4pm
Margaret Bice says she has aways enjoyed the bird life around her.
Canberra Dance Theatre – Communities Dancing Together
Civic Square Canberra City
1.30pm Sunday 15 October 2023
Canberra Dance Theatre will celebrate its 45th with Communities Dancing Together, a free celebratory dance event.
Isla Patterson – Country Vistas
Kyeema Gallery, Hall ACT
Until 22 October 2023
Much loved and highly awarded Canberra artist Isla Patterson tells us that this will probably be her last solo exhibition and so this is a very good reason not to miss it.
Muscia Viva – Vision String Quartet
Llewellyn Hall, ANU
7pm Thursday 5 October 2023
The Berlin-based Vision String Quartet formed in 2012 and this tour is its Australian debut. The musicians perform from memory.
Allee Richards – A Light in the Dark
Hachette, Australia, 2023
Cover design Alissa Dinallo
Cover illustration Karin Locke
This is a book about growing up. Allee Richards captures perfectly that teenage girl angst which many of us will remember despite, in some cases, being decades past this time of life.