Arts at the weekend/ What’s what in Canberra

HAPPY 50th birthday to The Canberra Theatre Centre, the first multi-purpose such facility in Australia.

There’ll be an open day this Saturday June 6, featuring music from 11am to 7.20pm in the Link, Puppet-making, kids activities, and a memorabilia Q&A at 3pm, as well as the “Storm Boy” performances at 1pm and 6pm. Director John Sheedy will be talking on Saturday at noon about the making of “Storm Boy”. There is also a Q&A with the cast following the 1pm performance.

WITH “Storm Boy” in town until Saturday at The Playhouse, there’s an exhibition at Civic Library running until June 28 featuring items relating to author Colin Thiele’s books, as well as some items from the Thiele family. Mezzanine Floor of the library, Civic Square, Monday to Friday 10am-5.30pm, Saturday 10am-4.00pm, free entry.

QUEANBEYAN Players’ “My Fair Lady” is running June 5 to June 13 (at The Q Performing Arts Centre, Queanbeyan, with Gerard Ninnes as Professor Higgins and Tina Robinson as Eliza Doolittle. Bookings to theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

TONIGHT’S Lakeside literary lounge at the Tuggeranong Arts Centre features noted Canberra horror fiction writer Kaaron Warren. Today at 7pm, 4 June Warren will officially release “The Gate Theory,” – a series of six short stories. Scary.

“FROM Hummingbirds to Shiraz: Paraguayan Literature from an Australian Perspective” is a public lecture by Professor Roy C. Boland at 6pm tonight, Thursday, June 4, at Manning Clark Centre, Theatre 4, Australian National University. Details at http://anclas.anu.edu.au/event/public-lecture/hummingbirds-shiraz-paraguayan-literature-australian-perspective

THE High Court’s free concert program continues on Sunday, June 7. At 1.30pm Philippine baritone Joseleo Logdat, accompanied on piano by Raul Navarro, will sing favourite works by Beethoven and Mozart in his Australasia premiere. Then at 2.30pm after a short intermission is “Re-Inventions,” the Mainly Mozart String Quartet and Robyn Mellor will perform music written to combine the sounds of solo and ensemble recorders with a string quartet. Free but bookings essential to hcourt.gov.au/about/concerts

Marilyn Hutchinson’s solo exhibition of soft pastels and digital photography titled “See Sky” in the Foyer Gallery at the Belconnen Arts Centre, Emu Bank, finishing on June 7. Hutchinson was a Sulman Prize finalist in 2012.

IN “Echoes in Time”, also at Belconnen Arts Centre until June 7,  Vivien Lightfoot looks at the first 150 years of the Australian settlement through the narrative of her family tree through 30 ceramic figures, 73- 83 cm high, that stand in groups constructed from press moulds.

THE Vinyl Lounge is back at the NFSA Theatrette, this Friday, June 5. You can bring your favourite vinyl and play a track of your choice on our pure analogue sound system. Hosted by NFSA Sound Archivists, Thorsten Kaeding and Graham McDonald, the Vinyl Lounge is on the first Friday of the month. Drinks from 5pm, Vinyl Lounge grooving from 5.30-6.30 pm. Free entry, no booking required.

“LONGING” is an exhibition of photographs by Canberra-based artists Cathy Laudenbach and Adam Mann, exploring the idea of longing as a desire to seek, know and reveal. These two photographers both use the photograph as time capsule and a frame to probe place, but there is more to these works. ANCA Gallery 1 Rosevear Place Dickson ACT Gallery, noon-5pm Wednesday to Sunday until June 21.

CELEBRATING the music of the Blue Note Era The Jack Ray Organ trio will perform some of the most important and influential works in the jazz canon at The Front, Wattle St Lyneham, today, June 4, follow on June 5 by confronting live act “Naked Bodies”, also at The Front.

“GALLERY JOURNEYS” is a solo exhibition of art works by Alan Jones, President of the Art Society of Canberra opening this Sunday June 6 at 3pm in Ginninderra School House, Gold Creek, Nicholls, and running to July 5. All welcome. “Journeys” follows a series of themes, with landscapes from times in Germany, UK, Greece, USA, China, Japan, Switzerland and now Australia.

AFTER the success of their lead single “Road to Ruin”, Brisbane’s We All Want To have just dropped their third album “The Haze” and will be at The Phoenix, on Saturday, June 6 as part of their launch tour.

AS WELL, Brisbane five-piece group, Art of Sleeping, have a show tomorrow June 5 at the Transit Bar. It’s part of a national tour to launch their second single “Voodoo” off their debut album, which will be out later this year. Bookings to moshtix.com.au/v2/event/art-of-sleeping-voodoo-tour/76514

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