Ford Street Publishing, Australia, 2019
This gentle story of girl power is told in the voice of Super Nova’s brother. She is always up to mischief but has everyone fooled except for him. Despite the challenges of being an older brother to Nova, he is always there to cheer her on – even through tussles with aliens.
An exhibition of paintings and ceramics
Humble House Gallery
93 Wollongong Street, Fyshwick
10 to 28 March 2021
Open Wednesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm
The evocation of home is at the heart of these works as we travel from the sea, along the many roads to Canberra city and region. In the airy upstairs gallery at Humble House, the works in this exhibition are a burst of colour and light.
MobileMuster, an initiative funded by the mobile phone industry, is aiming to collect and recycle many of the estimated 5 million broken mobiles in Australia in its Go For Zero campaign during March.
The head of MobileMuster, Spyro Kalos, says that MobileMuster extracts 95 per cent of the materials in phones, including glass, plastics and rare materials, by hand in Australia and sells them for reuse.
20 to 28 March 2021
Various venues including Gungahlin Town Centre
Celebrate Gungahlin will present a program of around 30 arts and community events across the Gungahlin region. including a talent quest, the Rotary Local Community Market, children’s activities, a family picnic day, a variety of workshops and performances of all sorts.
Connection to neighbours and community will be at the heart of the festival.
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Until 1 August 2021
This is a survey exhibition drawn from the Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) collection, the artist’s private archive, and sound and moving image from the NFSA. It includes probably Bishop’s his most famous photograph – then prime minister Gough Whitlam pouring a handful of earth into the hand of Vincent Lingiari.
Bishop was Australia’s first Indigenous press photographer and the photographs in the NFSA exhibition are from his 60-year career as a photojournalist, personal images of family and friends and intimate portraits of members of the Aboriginal community.
Conducted by Leonard Weiss
Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest
Saturday 13 March 2021 at 3pm
The deliciously titled Rain of Diamonds by Chloe Sinclair opens the Canberra Sinfonia 2021 season. The work was commissioned by the Sinfonia and is followed by Aaron Copland’s Appalachian Spring.
Tuggeranong Arts Centre
Until 27 March 2021
This engaging exhibition, which begins TAC’s gallery year, is in three parts – the paintings of artist Jack Featherstone, an essay about his father by writer Nigel Featherstone and a film by Anna Georgia, with Jack as raconteur.
String quartets recalling musical dedications to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm II
Thursday 11 March 2021 7pm
Wesley Uniting Church Forrest
The reign of King Friedrich Wilhelm II was relatively brief and his greatest claim to fame today is the building of the Brandenburg Gate. But as a patron of the arts, many notable chamber works were penned for him, including all three quartets featured in this program.
Independently published, Australia, 2021
The Hunt of the Halfling is the first of a planned series under the title Crimson Tale. Fans of the Twilight series will be interested in this new Brisbane based writer.
The story is full of vampires, faeries, werewolves and the sort of burgeoning romance that young people will know only too well, and older readers too perhaps, depending on their circumstances. But at the very least older readers will recall that stomach twisting sense that a relationship is going to be more than getting to know a new best friend.
The Street Theatre and online
5pm Friday 12 March 2021
Duration: 90 Minutes
Tickets by Donation
There’s death, sex and humour in this three-hander, which was awarded the 2018 Rodney Seaborn Playwrights Award for works that give hope.
Lauren works at a crematorium and is afraid of death. She picks up men in bars and is afraid of commitment. She remembers little of her childhood and is afraid of forgetting even that.
Diana Doherty & Streeton Trio
Llewellyn Hall, ANU
7:00 PM Thursday 12 March 2021
Sydney oboist Diana Doherty is acclaimed worldwide for her unparalleled command of a famously tricky instrument. The Streeton Trio perform with Diana and alone in masterpieces of the chamber music repertoire.
An Enlighten Canberra performance
Australian National Botanic Gardens
5 to 14 March 2021
Symbiosis takes the audience on a guided walk through different environments in the Australian National Botanic Gardens, exploring our human connection with Nature, our part in the natural world and its delicately balanced ecosystems.
It aims to direct focus back onto the urgency of climate action and to remind us of our role in protecting the precious.
Tour one of the five- concert 2021 series
Llewelyn Hall, ANU School of Music
Thursday 15 March 2021
Selby and Friends will present a year of piano trios in 2021. The first concert features Franz Schubert and three important 20th century composers:, Ernest Block, Joaquin Turina and Dmitri Shostakovich.
Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2021
The latest offering from prolific and highly successful author Roland Perry is a boys’ own, ripping suspense thriller. It’s full of spies and skullduggery, power, greed, money, murder and mayhem.
Songs from a Stolen Senate
Presented by the Griffyn Ensemble and Belco Arts
2pm & 7pm Saturday 13 March 2021
Belconnen Arts Centre
Songs from a Stolen Senate is the beginning of a series from The Griffyn Ensemble that challenges how Australian identity had been forged since European settlement.
In this instalment, First Nations composers from across the country have taken parliamentary voices and reworked them into song and storytelling from their Indigenous perspective.
Eight of Australia’s most prolific First Nation musicians from a diverse genres and backgrounds join The Griffyns in this work:
From Stolen Generations to climate politics, Songs from a Stolen Senate offers different perspectives of our national past and the Australian parliament.
COVID seating applies: One empty seat will be left between separate bookings to aid in social distancing. Tickets purchased in the same booking will be seated together.
Image courtesy Belconnen Arts Centre
