CANBERRA band Moochers Inc. is launching its debut EP at a free event in Glebe Park this Saturday, 15 November, 2pm, performing with Pocket Fox and the Hoary Sunrays.
Moochers Inc.
Moochers Inc. has been performing its brand of 1920’s New Orleans-inspired jazz over the past three years. Local songwriters Cameron Smith (trumpet) and Rafe Morris (guitar), say that a party in the park is the perfect venue for the launch.
“Palerang”
VIOLINIST Anna McMichael, accompanied by Canberra International Music Festival’s Artistic Director Roland Peelman, will perform music by Debussy, Ravel, Sibelius, Szymanovsky and Kate Moore in a fundraiser for the 2015 festival. Noon, this Saturday 15 November at 154 Hazeldell Road Mulloon, between Bungendore and Braidwood. Directions: 18km from Bungendore along the Kings Highway towards Braidwood. Turn left onto Hazeldell Road (watch for letter boxes) Look for the “Palerang” sign on the right. Bring: A comfy chair and be prepared for an elegant outdoor picnic. Cost: $85 per head includes lunch and complimentary glass of champagne on arrival. Wine and soft drinks available. Bookings to cimf.org.au/
Musica da Camera
IN Musica da Camera’s third program for 2014, the harpsichord, an instrument usually associated with early music, will feature in two 20th Century works: Harpsichord Concerto by Henryk Górecki and The Phoenix and the Turtle by Australian composer, Colin Brumby. Other works include an arrangement for flute of a Bach harpsichord concerto and a Sinfonietta by Roussel. The orchestra will be directed by Michael Sollis and the soloists will be James Huntingford (harpsichord) and Kiri Sollis (flute). This Saturday November 15 at 2.30 pm at Holy Covenant Anglican Church, 89 Dexter Street, Cook ACT, and on Sunday November 16 at 2.30 pm in St Peter & Paul’s Cathedral, Goulburn. Tickets at the door.
THE “Unbridled Festival of Horses, Music and Food” opens at Thoroughbred Park this Saturday, 15 November as a celebration of the horse, with music, entertainment and a craft market. All details at unbridledfestival.com singer/songwriter Mark Moldre will be performing at Unbridled on Sat Nov 15 and at Smiths Alternative on Sun Nov 16.
Ilona Lasmanis, Flight of Fancy, Monoprint mixed media_2014
STRATHNAIRN Arts has a new show up this week, ‘Ephemeral Alchemy,’ works by Ilona Lasmanis, Jan Ward and Robyn Diener. Opening this Saturday 15 November at 4pm, at 90 Stockdill Drive, Holt, all welcome.
US Baritone Bruce Cain and guitarist David Asbury will perform for Art Song Canberra in “Dedications – New Works for Voice, Guitar and the World”. Wesley Music Centre, 3pm Sunday November 16, no bookings required,
THE IMB Sunset Cinema is at the Australian National Botanic Gardens from Nov 14 to December 20, Wed to Sat, with blockbusters, cult classics, live bands, beanbags, gourmet food and a bar, bookings to sunsetcinema.com.au/canberra
Ayse Göknur Shanal
ALAN Hicks will be conducting Rossini’s “Petite Messe Solennelle” with the University of Canberra Chorale and soloists Ayse Göknur Shanal, Christina Wilson, Christopher Lincoln-Bogg at All Saints, Ainslie, 7.30pm, this Friday, November 14, bookings to www.trybooking.com/FVMC or tickets at the door.
Val Johnson’s Rocks and Spinifex.
VAL Johnson is exhibiting a mixture of past, more recent and new painting in “A Touch of Colour” at Old Ginninderra School House C1883 Gold Creek at Sweet Copper Café, Thurs & Fri 10am-4pm Sat & Sun 8.30-4pm until Nov 30. “It pleases me if I can give pleasure to someone that may like my work,” she says.
THE 2014 Canberra Country Blues & Roots Festival is at Queanbeyan Showground on 14-16 November 14 to 16. Bookings to ticketbooth.com.au or canberracountry.com
SOPRANO Greta Bradman will join the Australian String Quartet tour to present Paul Stanhope’s “Sea Chronicles”, a song cycle for soprano and string quartet. The concert commences with Fanny Mendelssohn’s rarely heard String Quartet in E‐flat major and concludes with Felix Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in A minor op 13. Sunday, November 16, 2pm, National Gallery of Australia, Gandel Hall.
‘LET all Men Sing!’ Canberra is to host the biennial massed male voice concert of the Male Choirs Association of Australia (MCAA) – ‘Let All Men Sing!’ This special concert will be staged at the AIS Arena this Saturday 15th November at 2.30 pm. In a city spoilt for high quality music, it will be a rare choral treat, with over 400 choristers from fourteen male choirs, including one from Wellington, New Zealand. The Australian Rugby Choir is organising the event, and will have more than fifty choristers. Bookings to ticketek.com.au or 13 28 49.
Husky
HUSKY will be performing at Transit Bar in Canberra this Saturday November 15. Over the past 18 months, the band have been meticulously crafting their second album “Ruckers Hill”.
TOORA Women’s Inc. is Canberra’s charitable organisation providing services addressing violence against women. At BentSpoke Brewing Co. Corner of Mort St and Elouera St, Braddon, 5 – 6 pm Friday, November 14, all welcome.
Work by Gary Sauer-Thompson
“EDGELANDS” is a photographic exhibition by Gary Sauer-Thompson opening at 4pm this Sunday 16 November, Manning Clark House, 11 Tasmania Circle Forrest. This exhibition looks back to the 1970’s New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape exhibition (1975) and movement in the US. Sauer-Thompson has been an economist, a tramways conductor, unemployed, an author, a political advisor and a blogger.
THE Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House has a new exhibition, “Bespoke: Design for the People,” launching tomorrow Friday 14 November as part of DESIGN Canberra. Six Australian craft and design practitioners have created new works that reflect and respond to the designs of the original furniture at Old Parliament House. The Canberra artists are Jennifer Robertson, Niklavs Rubenis, Julie Ryder, Caren Florance in collaboration with Melinda Smith; and Sydney artist Cecelia Heffer. The exhibition will run from 15 November for 12 months.
Medicine Chest II, Jo Walters
JO Walters’ exhibition “Embodied” takes a look at the human body and the impact of different social, historical and economic circumstances. Walters’ series of assemblages investigates the way people project their collective anxieties regarding status and identity onto the body. Opening 6pm Thursday 13th November, all welcome. Runs to November 23 at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka.
A work by Dionisia Salas
“OF FIELDS” is an exhibition by father and daughter Gabriel and Dionisia Salas, now showing at ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place Dickson. Dionisia is an artist who spends her time between Canberra and Berlin, and Gabriel is a hydrogeologist currently based in Spain.
MUSICA Viva features violinist, Ray Chen, accompanied by Timothy Young today, Thursday 13 November, at 7pmm in Llewellyn Hall. Raised in Brisbane, jet-setting virtuoso Chen is one of the brightest stars in the new generation of violinists and will perform by Mozart, Prokofiev and Sarasate. Bookings to musicaviva.com.au/chen
AN exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture sees artist Ben Henderson depicting a rediscovery of his hometown Canberra, at Soju Girl, Civic, until late December. All Works will be For Sale.
THE Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House has just launched “The Power of 1: Does your voice count?” exhibition, which displays the results of a national baseline survey canvassing four generations: Builders, Boomers, GenX and GenY. It presents Australian views and attitudes towards democracy and the political system, exploring what we like, don’t like and think should be changed.
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