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Weekend arts: live improvised drawing
TONIGHT (Friday, December 6) at 6pm, M16 Artspace has the opening of its Drawing Prize Exhibition of Finalists. Sally Blake, “Rupture”, 2013, stitch and pinpricks on paperThe exhibition will feature a...
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Review: ‘Delivery Man’ (M) ** and a half
IN 2011, Ken Scott and Martin Petit made a French-Canadian film about a guy who, in late adolescence, “wrestled the dragon” and, trading as Starbuck, sold the result to a firm whose business is...
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Awards for young artists announced
BELCONNEN Arts Centre has announced that sculptor Maria Kunz and textile artist Anna Sutherland have won Emerging Artist Support Scheme (EASS) Awards, allowing each to hold a curated solo exhibition at...
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Review: ‘The Spectacular Now’ (M) *** and a half
AH, those exciting transition years as life encounters the unexplored boundary between adolescence and young adulthood! For Sutter (Miles Teller), the final months of senior year have not been good....
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Review: ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ (M) *** and a half
WHEN widowed Swiss academic Raimund (Jeremy Irons) stops a young woman wearing a bright red raincoat from jumping into the river in Berne, what we get watching Bille August’s film of Pascal Mercier’s...
View ArticleArboretum hosts veggie-patch expert
THE Arboretum is hosting a talk about growing your own vegetables at home by sustainable agriculture expert Russell Glover on Monday evening. The 40-minute talk, ‘Bugs, biosecurity and bureaucrats:...
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Review: Golden oldies at the Gallery
WHAT is it about the Incas that captivates the imagination of the public and has done so since the early explorations of the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pissarro – is it the gold, the mystery, the...
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Socials: At Property Council Christmas lunch, Hotel Realm
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View ArticleOver 20 shoplifters arrested in police blitz
OVER 20 people have been arrested after a police blitz on shoplifting in Canberra’s south in the past few weeks. During the operation so far 23 people have been arrested for minor theft and one person...
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Socials: At The Tradies ACT Sportstar of the Year Awards, Phillip
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Man to face court after assaulting police officer
A MAN will face court after allegedly assaulting a police officer on Saturday morning. Around 1.30am officers saw a large group of men “behaving aggressively” in a Civic laneway. The officers...
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Melba 7-Eleven robbed at knifepoint
A SERVICE station in Melba was last night robbed at knifepoint for the second time this year. Police say a man entered the 7-Eleven on Chinner Street in Melba at about 10pm last night, armed with a...
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Young women ‘involved’ in statue theft
POLICE are asking for the public to help identify two young women after the ‘fat men’ statue in Civic was vandalised yet again on Sunday morning. An image taken from CCTV footage and released by...
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New host for breakfast program
FORMER Canberra FM News Director and Radio Personality Kristen Henry will return to MIX 106.3’s new breakfast show in January, replacing outgoing host Carla “Biggzy” Bignasca. Kristen HenryKristen was...
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M16 goes on holidays with a bang
THE M16 Artspace Drawing Prize winners have been announced and as they say, “we are going out with a bang!” Julie Bradley, Serious Moonlight, gouache and collage, 50 x 150cmFirst prize went to Julie...
View ArticlePoets from Perth and Hobart
TOMORROW’S “Poetry at The Gods” at the Gods Cafe, ANU Arts Centre, will feature two poets from Perth and Hobart respectively, Lucy Dougan and Adrienne Eberhard. Dougan’s books include “White Clay”...
View ArticleDigital Edition December 12
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Marist ‘Mates’ win community service award
Year 12 students from Marist College collect the prize. Far left is managing teacher Nathan Ahearne, right is principal Richard Sidorko and, back row, third from right, sponsor Mark Sullivan. MARIST...
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Same-sex marriage laws overturned
CHIEF Minister Katy Gallagher says the ACT Government’s campaign to legalise same-sex marriage will “continue to gain momentum” despite today’s ruling by the High Court that ACT’s Marriage Equality...
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Camels come back for the twelve days of Christmas
CANBERRA’S own Christmas Carnival in the City kicked off today for the second year running, with free rock climbing, rides and twice as many camels as last year. The 12-day family event starts runs...
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