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.
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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.
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.
Nowra Library
10 Berry Street, Nowra NSW
Saturday 25 November 2023
1pm to 2.30pm
BookFest is an opportunity for South Coast authors and illustrators to showcase their published work. The presenters will speed share their books followed by an audience Q and A, then booksales and signings.
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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:
13 October to 26 November 2023
Details at https://www.belcoarts.com.au/exhibitions/
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Tyger Gallery
84 Comur Street, Yass NSW
Open Friday to Sunday 10am to 4pm
This exhibition features nine artists working primarily in textiles and paintings: Josie Cosgrove, Rozalie Sherwood, Monique van Lieuwland, Lorraine Blackwell, Liz Perry, Karyn Fearnside, Dotti Le Sage, Christine Appleby, and Beverly Moxon.
All details https://www.tygergallery.com.au/
Palace Electric Canberra
From Thursday 19 October 2023
Thriller, French with English subtitles
123 mins, rated MA15+
The Origin of Evil (L’Origine du Mal) was shown in the 2023 Alliance Française French Film Festival. It is billed as ‘wickedly funny’, though we found it to be wickedly clever and not funny at all.
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Greenaway Studio
2pm Sunday 22 October 2023
For venue details, register at https://sallygreenaway.com.au/piano
Curated specially for the enjoyment of piano enthusiasts, Piano Music For Discoverers (vol. 1) is a limited edition collection of 12 original compositions for piano by Australian composer Sally Greenaway.
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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.
Entries close 15 December 2023
A new playwriting competition exclusively for Australians aged 60 and older – has announced it is open for entries. Scenes from the Sage Age is a not-for-profit project of Scene Theatre Sydney.
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Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival
Huon Valley Tasmania
21 October to 12 November 2023
The Terror Australis festival Readers and Writers Festival (TARWF) is Australia’s southern-most literary festival, a celebration of books, writing and community. This year the festival is joined by Ann Cleeves as writer in residence.
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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.
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.
