Published by Joan, an imprint of Allen & Unwin
Australia, 2023
Text hand lettered by Sarah Firth
Cover and text designed by Sarah Firth and Joanna Hunt
The publication of this book by a mainstream Australian publishing house is significant. It is recognition of something teachers and parents have always known – that people learn, see things and process information and ideas in different ways.
84 Comur Street Yass NSW
17 November to 3 December 2023
New works from six artist friends from the Yass region – Stephanie Corkhill Hyles, Ning Clark, Sally Rasmussen, Kasey Robinson, Nicole Cosgrove and Sara Phemister.
More info https://www.tygergallery.com.au/
Various venues
Until 26 November 2023
The 28th edition, of this film festival offers 260 films chosen from over 800 submissions from 48 countries in a celebration of film diversity.
Allen & Unwin, Australia, 2023
Cover design Luke Causby/Blue Cork
Cover photos Alamy
The Seven is a slow burn, a novel that might be described in the jargon as ‘sweeping’, with its historical time crimes and that of the modern day held together by ties of lineage, power, privilege, land and water.
Continue Reading“Chris Hammer – The Seven”
St Christopher’s Cathedral
Cnr Furneaux and Franklin Streets, Manuka ACT
Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 December 2023
The Canberra Bach Ensemble celebrates the Christmas season with its performances of Bach’s Advent Cantatas BWV 61, 36, 62, and 1 in the magnificent space of St. Christopher’s Cathedral in Manuka, Canberra.
Continue Reading“Canberra Bach Ensemble – Bach Advent Cantatas”
Malachi Gilmore Hall, Oberon NSW
24 to 26 November 2023
The festival offers the Streeton Trio, specially created ensembles featuring the country’s leading musicians (soprano Susannah Lawergren, harpist Emily Granger, local clarinettist Peter Jenkin, oboist Diana Docherty and members of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
Continue Reading“Oberon Chamber Music Festival”
Raglan Gallery, Cooma NSW
Until 3 December
Open Wednesday to Sunday 10.30am to 3.30pm
Philip Miles presents paintings of the bush after fire has gone through, along with snowscapes and the Monaro region.
Continue Reading“Philip Miles – Fire and Ice: some Australian landscapes“
91 Hoddle Street, Robertson NSW
The Southern Highlands Artisans Collective (SHAC) has announced its return to Robertson where the collective was first established.
Continue Reading“Southern Highlands Artisans Collective Returns to Robertson”
Smooth Ops
Canberra Southern Cross Club
8pm, 23 March 2024
This James Bond tribute concert will feature a ten-piece ensemble along with costumed dancers and will cover every James Bond film theme.
Suki & Hugh Gallery
38A Gibraltar Street Bungendore NSW
21 October to 26 November 2023
The exhibition entitled Natural Light is the first at Suki & Hugh for the trio who spent 2022 in Europe and Israel studying the old masters and painting their surroundings.
Continue Reading“Sandra Brand, Edward Essing & Astro Spiller – Natural Light “
70 Maclaurin Crescent Chifley ACT
Friday 10 and Saturday 11 November 2023 10am to 4pm
Sunday 12 November 2023 11am to 3pm
The annual exhibition of the Canberra Spinners and Weavers includes open days, a silent auction, demonstrations and sales tables. Beautiful handmade garments, scarves and other textile objects are available for sale as well as hand spun yarns.
Information: https://www.canberraspinnersandweavers.org.au/
Palace Electric Canberra
From 2 November 2023
MA15+, 96 minutes
Bring Him to Me is a mob genre film, a merciless look at the equally merciless underworld.
Continue Reading“Bring Him to Me Film Review”
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.
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.
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.
