Arts / What’s on this weekend

CANBERRA music-lovers will be astonished by the Australian premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino’s “The Circle Cut by Sounds” for 104 flutes this Friday.

“IL cerchio tagliato dei suoni” features four soloists forming a circle around the audience and creating an accelerating swirl of sound, only to be interrupted by one hundred ‘migrating’ performers, who walk in procession through the space, introducing a forward flow of sound and movement while ‘cutting the circle’ of sounds. High Court of Australia Parkes Place,  7.30pm, October 2. Free entry.

AUSTRIAN actress Maxi Blaha takes the stage as pacifist, writer and lecturer, Bertha von Suttner in Susanne F. Wolf’s play “Soul of Fire”, coming to The Street from October 2 -4. The first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906 she is commemorated on the Austrian 2 Euro coin. German language performance at 4pm on Sunday only, October 4.   Bookings to 6247 1223 or thestreet.org.au

IN her exhibition “Reef”, Janenne Eaton’s works offer the viewer a decidedly 21st century vision of the painting enterprise, recalling  her abiding interest in the metaphorical “window” of Renaissance art, while visually fusing notions of our physical world with the multiple windows and overlapping screens of our ‘virtual world’. At Nancy Sever Gallery, 6 Kennedy Street Kingston,Wednesday-Sunday, 11am-5pm until October 25.

ONE of the most-read and famous children’s books of all time, “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” emerges off the page in a masterful theatrical experience for the whole family. At The Q, Queanbeyan until October 4, bookings to theq.net.au or 6285 6290.

ANTARCTICA has been on the mind of painter Isla Patterson, whose watercolour show “Australia & the Antarctic” runs in the Yarralumla Gallery, Weston Park, weekdays 10am-5pm, weekends 8.30am-5pm. Until October 25  The Antarctic paintings from come from a trip she took in 2013.

ARGENTINE-Australian pianist Marcela Fiorillo plans to give a lecture at the piano called “Piazzolla & Nuevotango” in the ANU’s Manning Clark Theatre 2, at 7pm, on Thursday, October 1. free event.

CANBERRA artist Tricia Wheatstone’s new show, ” On the Wall”, is an exhibition of contemporary paintings beginning on with an and closing on the 1st Ginninderra School House Gallery, Sweet copper Cafe, Gold Creek, 10am-5pm Thursday and Friday & 8.30am-5pm Saturday and Sunday, to November 1, with the official opening at 3pm on Sunday Oct 11.

WESLEY Music Centre has the Australian Art Quartet’s “Sublime” tour. Dan Russell violin, Hayley Bullock violin, Leo Kram viola and James Beck cello play some of the most loved and “swoon-worthy” music, as recently voted by the Australian public in ABC FM’s Classic 100. Wesley Music Centre Forrest, 7pm, Thursday, October 1. Bookings to aaq2015.floktu.com or tickets at the door.

MAGDA Szubanski speaks over dinner about her new memoir, “Reckoning”, at The Hall in University House,  6.15pm for 7pm, Friday, October 2 . Tickets include a glass of wine and dinner. Bookings to anu.edu.au/events/eat-drink-and-be-literary-with-magda-szubanski or 6125 4144.

THE next exhibitions at Strathnairn Arts are “Shaping and Dyeing to Show Off”, an exhibition of works by six local members of the World Shibori Network Australia and New Zealand (WSN ANZ) in Gallery Two and The Woolshed. The exhibiting artists are Marli Popple (ACT), Kevin Schamburg and Marcus Bogie (Queanbeyan), Simone Doherty, Helen O’Sullivan and Joan James (ACT). Official opening by Ann McMahon at 2pm Saturday, October 3 in the Woolshed. All welcome. Strathnairn also has “Faces and Places: Paintings and prints by Cary James.A trip to China in 2014 was the inspiration for this exhibition which is a collection of portraits and landscapes by James. Both exhibitions will run until October 18.

THE Llewellyn Choir joins forces with sister choir Les Alizés from New Caledonia in a program featuring Karl Jenkins’ “The Armed Man”, originally dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis.  The choirs will also perform anthems by Herbert Howells and Poulenc’s “Un Soir de Neige”. RMC Chapel, 7.30 pm, Saturday, October 3. Tickets at the door, or bookings to trybooking.com/Booking/BookingEventSummary.aspx?eid=156787 5

ALSO The Llewellyn Choir & the New Caledonia French Choir perform  in the High Court at 1.30pm this Sunday, October 4. Those requiring chairs are advised to arrive half an hour early. Booking to hcourt.gov.au/about/concerts is necessary but does not guarantee seating.

THE NFSA’s Vinyl Lounge is on the first Friday of the month. The Bench Room cafe is open from 5pm for drinks and snacks, with the Vinyl Lounge grooving, NFSA Theatrette, 5.30pm-6.30pm, Friday, October 2.  Free entry, no booking required. Bring your vinyl and play a track of your choice on the pure analogue sound system.

PHOTOACCESS has two shows, “Antarctica” by nature photographer and former director of the Australian Antarctic Division, Tony Fleming, and its final members’ exhibition for 2015, “PhotoACTIVISM,” both running until October 18.

“TRANSLOCATION” is a solo exhibition by Launceston   artist Patrick Sutczak, presenting work initiated during a studio residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. During this residency, Sutczak continued his exploration of repeated engagement by walking, including ideas around site-representation, navigation, mapping, and treading the realms of historical and fictional narratives. At ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place, Dickson,  noon-5pm, Wednesday-Sunday until October 18.

THE 16th Lavazza Italian Film Festival has 32 titles this year. At Palace Cinemas in NewActon until October 11, Bookings to palacecinemas.com.au/cinemas/electric/

“DUALITY” brings together two virtuoso musicians, Australia’s award winning recorder player Alicia Crossley & American harpist Emily Granger, in a concert of classical and contemporary works for recorder and harp. The unique instrumental duo will journey through re-imagined masterpieces including Faure’s “Sicilienne”, Anne Boyd’s “Goldfish through Summer Rain” and C.P.E. Bach’s “Sonata in G minor”, interspersed with new works by Tristan Coelho, Mark Oliveiro, and Andrew Batt-Rawden. Wesley Music Centre Forrest, 2pm, Saturday October 3. Bookings to trybooking.com/IOWXor at the door.

FREMANTLE four-piece band San Cisco’s regional Australia regional “Gracetown tour” brings them to the ANU Bar at 8pm on October 1. Bookings to http://premier.ticketek.com.au/Shows/Show.aspx?sh=SANCISC15

ANU Drill Hall Gallery will be displaying sculptures made over the last 40 years by Sydney artist Michael Buzacott, an inventive, idiosyncratic artist working in the Cubist tradition. At the Drill Hall Gallery, Kingsley Street (off Barry Drive), Wednesday-Sunday, 12-5pm to November 1.

“CANBERRA Botanical” is an adjudicated exhibition of over 80 artworks running at the Nishi Gallery in NewActon until October 5 daily from 10am to 4pm. The works are for sale.

IN “A Journey through Opera” three sopranos from Melbourne, Canberra and Queensland, Madeline Anderson, Miriam Rose & Elisha Margaret Holley perform a selection of arias from the Baroque to the 20th Century with Hilda Visser-Scott on piano. Wesley Music Centre Forrest, 6pm, Saturday October 3, bookings to 0401 281319 or at the door.

“MERGE” will bring together 30 local emerging artists spanning fashion, music, visual and performing arts, music and more for a one night extravaganza. It is the fifth of six emerging arts showcases to be run by RAW Canberra in 2015.  At Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Bank, Belconnen, from 7.30pm, Friday, October 2.

THE Rubens are celebrating their album ‘Hoops’ with one of their biggest tours yet. Hoops follows on from the band’s certified platinum, self-titled debut album, which landed at #3 on the ARIA Album Chart and saw the band win an APRA Award. At ANU Bar Friday, October 2.

“SCULPTURE in the Paddock” continues at Cooma Cottage. Admission to paddock free, but contributions are welcome via a donation box. Visitors are eligible to vote in the People’s Choice Award. at Cooma Cottage, Yass Valley Way, Thursday 10am-8pm, Friday to Monday, 10am-4pm until October 11.

HOU Leong’s paintings, curated by Peter Haynes, are in The Silk Road Gallery, 19 Kennedy Street, Kingston, 7 days, Sunday-Tuesday, 10am-2pm.

SHAKESPEARE is on the menu with Canberra REP’s “Much Ado about Nothing” on show, directed by Cate Clelland. At Theatre 3, Repertory Lane, Acton, until October 3, bookings to 6257 1950 or canberrarep.org.au

‘FOOTY Fever’ is an exhibition that explores the varying relationships artists have with their favourite football codes, including Aussie Rules, Rugby League, Rugby Union, Soccer, and Wheelchair Rugby. “Footy Fever”, curated by Alexander Boynes. At the Canberra Contemporary Artspace, Gorman Arts Centre, until October 10.

MICHAEL Connell began getting laughs at the age of three in his back yard with the Hills Hoist acting as stage and curtain, and he hasn’t stopped performing since. A veteran of six Melbourne Comedy Festival shows. Atthe Uni Pub’s London Circuit,  Level 3 Lounge from 8pm on October 2. Bookings to unipub.com.au/whats-on or at the door.

BARAK Zelig’s new solo exhibition, “Hybrids” runs at the Goulburn Historic Waterworks to November 30.

JANET Angus is a recent graduate from the ANU School of Art. Canberra Contemporary Art Space presents her new solo exhibition “Within These Walls” at CCAS City in Hobart Place, Civic, Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm Saturday 9am to 1pm until October 24.

BILK Gallery in Palmerston Lane Manuka is currently presenting “Slippage”, an exhibition of new works by jewellers Sean O’Connell (NSW) and Nicholas Basin (VIC). Aesthetically their work is wildly different, these two jewellers have a shared predilection for and revel in the “fuzzy edges, the in-between, and the slippery bits”.

“WONDER & Loss”, a springtime show of contemporary Australian ceramics by Cathy Franzi, is at Karen O’Clery’s Narek Galleries, 1140 Tathra-Bermagui Road, Tanja. Franz has been investigating ways in which representations of Australian flora on the ceramic vessel. Continues to Sunday, November 15.

BELCONNEN Community Service’s Piece of Mind Series presents: “Act Belong Commit”, a showcase of recent work from Canberra artists in celebration of Mental Health Week, in gallery@bcs, Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Crt Belconnen Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm, until Oct 16.

“DISTANT VOICES” is an exhibition combining the works of two artists and close friends, Roger Beale and Grahame Crocket, in M16 Artspace, Blaxland Crs Griffith. ALSO AT M16 are “Synthesized Fragility” by Eleanor Evans, and “Waxing, Waning,” in which Lucy Chetcuti explores the cultural, spiritual and emotional relationships between people and the moon. All exhibitions run until October 4.

“TRANSFER,” new works by Canberra artist and printmaker, Jo Hollier inspired by a residency in Thailand, “Tideline,” images of the Kimberley coast by Elizabeth Truswell, “Rent? Home? Sanctuary?” the International Tenants’ Day Art Exhibition are all on show at Belconnen Arts Centre until October 18. In  the Outdoor Gallery at Belconnen Arts Centre, sculptor Mike MacGregor presents “The Makings of an Angel,” the result of the inaugural exhibition prize presented at Sculpture on the Edge in Bermagui in 2014.

 

 

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