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The insanity of exhibiting – twice
IN a late email to “Citynews”, artist Geoffrey Dunn has cast doubts on his own sanity. Dunn, you see, after a couple of years of not exhibiting at all, has not one but two exhibitions currently on...
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ANCA calls for exhibiting artists
ANCA Gallery in Rosevear Place Dickson is now calling out for exhibition proposals for the second half of 2015. ANCA Gallery. Photo: David Flanagan Curators, emerging artists and interested local and...
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Legacy of ceramicist Jane Crick in a new exhibition
Admired Canberra ceramicist Jane Crick took up clay in 1978, but her untimely death in 2013 cut short an artist in her full flush. Jane Crick, 2 Upright Bottles, 2008 Readers will recall a touching...
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Arts programs re-branded: enter the CCIP
ACT arts organisations have, from time immemorial, just loved rebranding, and yesterday the Minister for the Arts, Joy Burch, launched the rebranded ACT Community Cultural Inclusion Program. Joy Burch...
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Socials / Lyn Mills’ social event of the week
OPENING night of “Abstraction-creation JW Power in Europe 1921-1938”, at the National Library, was a chance to celebrate and acknowledge this significant Australian artist. Power (1881-1943) spent...
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Review / ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Movie’ (M) 1/2 a star
THE opening credits began with Universal’s logo, never a comfortable start for any aspiring film. Then up popped the logo of the BBC, which has made scads of good movies. Could that presage a mote of...
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Review / ‘Devil’s Knot’ (M) ***
FROM Egypt-born Canada-reared director Atom Egoyan comes a forensic docu-drama about the 1993 murder of three small boys that came to be known as the “West Memphis case”. Three teenaged boys were tried...
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West Row’s trees singing with the choir invisible
A great many good things are coming to an end as the redevelopment of the Canberra House annex comes to fruition. Among them is the trees along West Row, which have been cut down and their stumps...
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The Capital Metro propaganda flows thick and fast
TODAY Canberrans have been treated to six (!) exciting videos from their ACT Government pumped onto YouTube to convince us that spending hundreds of millions of dollars on a tram line to Gungahlin is...
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Lina Blair reaps the rewards of trolley tracking
LINA Blair of Nicholls has collected a $1,000 prize for reporting a wayward shopping trolley from Woolworths Gungahlin through Trolley Tracker. Since Trolley Tracker began it has taken over 1.3...
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Mt Rogers to remain off-leash
THE Labor members for Ginninderra are celebrating the retention of the Mount Rogers as an off-leash dog area. “This is a good decision by the Minister, TAMS have clearly heard the views of the...
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Socials / At Omar Musa’s book launch, Braddon
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Socials / At the Antonio Carluccio dinner, Kamberra Wine Company, Lyneham
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Ainslie grow house busted
ACT Policing has seized 23 cannabis plants following the execution of a warrant on a home in Ainslie yesterday (Friday July 25). About 5.10pm yesterday, police attended the location after receiving a...
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A review into domestic violence deaths
Simon Corbell. SIMON Corbell says the Domestic Violence Prevention Council will undertake a review into domestic violence deaths in the ACT. “The review will consider actual cases of domestic and...
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Review / Happy ‘Man’ with a few issues
WRITTEN by prolific Canberra songwriter Andrew Hackwill and Michael Heming, “The Rokitelly Man” is an engaging new original musical, complete with tuneful, toe-tapping songs, imaginative choreography...
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Motorcyclist struck – soccer mum on the run?
POLICE are seeking witnesses to a collision which occurred yesterday (Saturday, July 26) on Flinders Way, Griffith. About 1.15pm, a motorcyclist was travelling southbound along Flinders Way, towards...
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Macquarie house fire started by heater
Firefighters are working to extinguish a fire in a house on Fulton Street, Macquarie. Fire has been knocked down and has significantly damaged the house. Update to follow. 6:57 AM Fire has been...
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Socials / At The Stomp Latin dance event, Albert Hall
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Zed’s heroes? Abbott, Thatcher, and Reagan?
Walking down Bunda Street one can’t help but admire Liberal Senator Zed Seselja’s enormous head covering the exterior of his electoral office. But glancing through the door one is struck by the little...
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