CANBERRA Youth Orchestra’s recently-appointed conductor Leonard Weiss will lead musicians through a program of Strauss (‘Die Fledermaus’ Overture), Elgar (‘Nimrod’ from ‘Enigma Variations’), Weber (Bassoon Concerto in F major, featuring soloist Matthew Ventura), and Mendelssohn (Symphony No.3, Op.56).
Leonard Weiss conducting
THE concert, “Idyll,” is at Llewellyn Hall, 7:30pm tomorrow, October 23. Bookings to musicforcanberra.org.au .
Festivals and events
CUBA’S National Day of Culture will be celebrated with a fiesta at Saint James Church Hall, Curtin. 40 Gilles Street, opposite the Curtin shops, from 6.30 pm until midnight this Saturday October 24. $10 at the door… Children under 15 FREE.
THE regular markets at Westside Acton Park, 3 Barrine Drive, Acton run from noon to 6pm on Sunday.
Arts business
BELCONNEN Community Centre’s gallery@bcs is an affordable alternative to commercial galleries and is now taking expressions of interest for exhibitions in 2016. Inquiries to gallery@bcsact.com.au
Talks
TONIGHT’S lecture in the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum series is by Dr Lily Withycombe, who will talk about Augustus and his restoration of the temple of Jupiter Feretrius on the Capitoline Hill. In the Haydon-Allen ‘Tank’, ANU, 8pm Thursday October 22.
TORRES Strait Islander artist Rose Ware will host a free public talk to celebrate the display of her important art commission, ‘Torres Strait Light Infantry Battalion’ BAE Systems Theatre, Australian War Memorial, noon – 1.30 pm tomorrow Friday October 23.
NOVELIST Charlotte Wood talks about her BOOK “The Natural Way Of Things,” dealing with escaping from rape culture, slut shaming, feminism and contemporary misogyny, at ‘Muse’, East Hotel, 69 Canberra Ave, Kingston, 3.30pm this Sunday, Oct 25.
Film
THE National Film and Sound Archive of Australia marks the UN 70th birthday with a curated program of short films followed by the Hollywood blockbuster ‘The Interpreter,’ filmed within the UN headquarters in New York. At Arc Cinema, NFSA (McCoy Cct Acton), 6pm tomorrow, Friday, October 23, bookings to trybooking.com/IOIX
Theatre
Neel Kolhatkar
COMEDIAN Neel Kolhatkar’s latest show, Truth Be Told UC Refectory at University of Canberra, 7:30pm Friday October 23, bookings to uclive.com.au/
THE PIRATES of Penzance, based on Simon Gallaher’s award winning production, opens for Canberra Philharmonic at Erindale Theatre, McBryde Crescent, Wanniassa, 8pm tonight, October 22 and runs to Nov 7, bookings to http://philo.org.au/tickets/pirates/
Free Rain presents “The Art of Teaching Nothing,” written by Kirsty Budding and directed by Cate Clelland with Sarah Hull, at The Courtyard Studio – Canberra Theatre, October 22 – 25, bookings to canberraticketing.com.au or 6275 2700.
EVERYMAN Theatre and The Q are staging Stephen Sondheim’s “Company”, the musical about “love, marriage and everything in between”. At The Q, until Oct 24, bookings to theq@net.au or 6285 6290
DAMIEN Ryan’s new production of ‘Hamlet” for Bell Shakespeare is at The Playhouse until October 24, bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
Concerts
SALUT! Baroque presents: “Louis’ Legacy” Enjoy music by Couperin, Lully, Rameau, Boismortier and Charpentier from the age of Louis XIV, Albert Hall, 7.30pm, Friday October 23, tickets at the door.
THE National Capital Orchestra Concert presents “Stories in Music,” music by Grieg, Rachmaninov and Dvorák, at Albert Hall, 3pm, Sunday, October 25, bookings to freewebs.com/ncorchestra/
Gigs
Daniel Thompson
Singer Daniel Thompson and Australian guitar master Stuie French will stage “Cash 60: 60 Years Of Johnny Cash,” marking 60 years since the world first heard from Johnny Cash, at The Street Theatre, 8pm, tomorrow Friday October 23, bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.
NEIL Byrne and Ryan Kelly formerly of Celtic Thunder, will be at The Street Theater at 8pm this Saturday Oct 24, bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.
Exhibitions:
‘Embowered’
The Doug Alexander Award at Canberra Potters’ has gone to Zoë Slee for ‘Embowered,’ an installation that draws inspiration from the stick structures constructed by male bower birds. It’s in the Members’ show of 85 exhibits at Watson Arts Centre, Aspinall Street, Watson, 10am – 4pm Thursday to Sunday until November 8.
‘ECLECTIC’ celebrates the curious places in which we find beauty and divinity, as seen by 5 artists. At Aarwun Gallery in Federation Square until November 20.
EMERGING designer/maker in wood, Luke Batten, is exhibiting new work under the title “Process” at Gallery of Australian Design, 47 Jardine Street, Kingston.
THE Front Gallery and Café in Lyneham is presenting “Back to The Front Again,” an exhibition of mixed media works by Kylie Fogarty, Carole Osmotherly and Judy Witherdin, until October 25.
Graeme Townsend – ‘The story of flight’, acrylic on canvas
BEAVER Galleries have painter Graeme Townsend’s “Enjoy the silence” and studio glass artist Ruth Oliphant’s “Where the light falls” 81 Denison St, Deakin, Tue to Fri 10am – 5pm & Sat and Sun 9am – 5pm to Nov 3.
JAS Hugonnet’s online gallery is showing the work of Philip Alldis as he explores the footy crowds associated with the 1970s in relation to ideas of anonymity, image capture and mortality. Visit hugonnet.com.au
“THE Fire did not beat us – 100 years of fighting bushfires in the Australian Capital Territory: 1915 – 2015”, is showing at Tuggeranong Arts Centre until November 15.
Juhani Koivumäki, The Apostle (still) 2015, HD video, duration 4.21
PHOTOACCESS has ‘A Film of One’s Own’ [Archive Fever] by Canberra filmmaker, archivist and artist Louise Curham and ‘The Apostle’ by Juhani Koivumaki, a Helsinki-based media artist supported by Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centres’ Visiting Artists Program opening tonight Thursday Oct 22 at 6pm.At Manuka Arts Centre, at PhotoAccess until Sunday November 15.
Jennifer Taylor’s paintings from Arrernte country and Aotearoa, Darcey Bella Arnold’s “New but Nah” and Ellie Windred’s “Desperate Thirst”, at M16, 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, noon – 5pm Wednesday to Sunday until October 25.
“The Distant Warriors: Ka Maumahara (We Will Remember Them) Let Us Not Be Forgotten” is the ANZAC Centenary exhibition inspired by the stories of Indigenous Australian and Maori soldiers still running at Canberra Glassworks until November 19.
Random9 artist Dianne Libke’s ‘Memento Senescere. ( To Grow Old)’
Random9 (www.random-9.com), established in 2010, is a group of independent emerging visual artists, whose latest exhibition “Landscapes of Decay” is at Belconnen Arts Centre , 10am to 4pm Tues to Sun until Nov 15. Opening 5.30pm tomorrow, October 23. All welcome.
BELCONNEN Arts Centre also has ‘Transpire,’ works by University of Canberra Landscape Architecture students and ‘Borderline’ by Hayley Lander, to Nov 15, while meantime in the Outdoor Gallery at BAC, recipient of the Emerging Artist Support Scheme, artist Anton Poon has used the metaphor of a bridge to explore the concept of cultural transition. Until Dec 13.
‘SPUN’ is Alison Wright’s first solo exhibition in Australia. Her works use natural silk cocoons embedded on heavy Italian paper, white on white. Mon-Fri 10-3, Sat & Sun 10-4, until November 1 Nishi Gallery 17 Kendall Lane, NewActon.
At Strathnairn, ‘Tasmanian Wilderness’ by Val Johnson
Strathnairn Arts will be opening its annual member’s exhibition at the Strathnairn Homestead Gallery, 90 Stockdill Drive, Holt tomorrow, Saturday October 24, running to November 15.“The Art of Shakespeare,” Bell Shakespeare’s exhibition showing how Shakespeare has inspired artists of all disciplines, is at Parliament House until October 23.
AN exhibition of artworks from Belconnen Community Service Children’s programs in celebration of Children’s Week, in gallery@bcs, Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Crt, Belconnen, Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm until October 30.“Painting in Paris” sees young emerging artists, Kirrily Humphries + Yioryios, showing work by both while on exchange at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Furneaux St Manuka until Oct 25.
“Overland” sees potter Ros Auld and painter-printmaker Tim Winters exhibiting at FORM Studio and Gallery, 1/30 Aurora Ave, Queanbeyan until Nov 1.
‘PUNUKU Tjukurpa’ an Artback NT touring exhibition of works from the Maruku Arts archive at Mutitjulu near Uluru and is developed with Maruku Arts, now at the Canberra Museum and Gallery.
JANENNE Eaton’s show, “Reef” continues at Nancy Sever Gallery, 6 Kennedy Street Kingston, Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–5pm until October 25.
“FASHION and fantasy: 21st century fashion dolls”, from the collection of Julie Manley, can now be seen in CMAG’s ‘Open Collections gallery’ and also in the showcase by the London Circuit entrance. Until Nov 22.
Cups Lauraine Parker
ISLA Patterson’s watercolour show “Australia & the Antarctic” runs in the Yarralumla Gallery, Weston Park, Mon. to Fri. 10am -5pm, Sat. & Sun. 8.30-5pm. Until October 25.
‘CLOTH and Clay’ is a pop-up shop showcasing hand-printed household textiles and wheel thrown ceramic tableware, by mother/daughter duo Lauraine and Jemima Parker, Shop 5, The Hamlet, 16 Lonsdale Street, Braddon until Sunday November 1.
SCULPTURES by Sydney artist Michael Buzacott can be seen at the Drill Hall Gallery, Kingsley Street (off Barry Drive), Wednesday-Sunday, 12-5pm to November 1.
JANET Angus’s show “Within These Walls” continues at CCAS City in Hobart Place, Civic, Monday to Friday 9am to 5:30pm Saturday 9am to 1pm until October 24.
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