Here’s arts editor HELEN MUSA’S latest Artsweek column, a weekly round up of what’s on where around Canberra. 

Artist Brenda Runnegar’s Special K girls, Kate, Kylie and Kirsten, will be on show in her open studio, part of the Craft+Design Canberra Festival, at 63 Ambalindum Street, Hawker, November 9-10.

A symposium on Coins of Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Reception, Activation will be held in the AD Hope Conference Room and the ANU Classics Museum on November 13.

The second annual WTF (What The Film) Festival runs at the National Film and Sound Archive from November 7-9.

Poli Tataraki and Michael Winters will present their book of poetry and prints, Into the Moonlit Village, at the ACT Heritage Library, Fyshwick, November 9.

A first-of-its-kind, all-day program, Screen Stories, is a multifaceted conference for screen storytellers telling LGBTIQA+ stories. National Film and Sound Archive, November 7.

Stage

• A Balloon Will Pop At Some Point During This Play, billed as Part stand-up, part monologue, directed by Eric Loren Performed by Andrew Macmillan, at ACT Hub, Kingston, November 8-9.
• Waiting for Godot is easily the most famous play of the 20th century, one that turned the very idea of theatre upside down. The Street Theatre, November 9-24.
• Smile is a physical comedy show about the life and films of Charlie Chaplin. Marcel Cole plays Chaplin. Tuggeranong Arts Centre, November 9.
• Comedian Steve Lynch’s show U.S. of Eh?!? is a comedic exploration of his year-long adventure in America. Smith’s Alternative, November 9-10.
• Dianna Nixon’s cabaret show The Gentleman’s Companion, based on Charles H Baker Jnr’s recipes and travels will be at the Yazzbar in Yass, November 10.

Concerts

• Mikelangelo returns to the stage with a band of troupers to mark the eighth anniversary of Leonard Cohen’s death with a show at The Vault, Fyshwick, November 8.
• A concert of musical collaboration featuring Joel Bulger on Didgeridoo and Henry Liang on 7th century Japanese Sho will be at Gunning Shire Hall, November 8.
• Violinist Lina Tur Bonet, a fearless musical imaginista, and her team of period-instrument professionals, perform for Musica Viva in Musica Alchemica, Llewellyn Hall, November 9.
• Apeiron Baroque’s chamber concert, Sanguine/Melancholy, will feature duelling violins. Wesley Music Uniting Church, Forrest, November 10.
• US singer-songwriter George Mann will be at the Merry Muse, Canberra Irish Club, Weston, November 10.
• The Band of the Royal Military College Brass Group will perform The Brass is Always Greener in the Wesley Music Centre Lunchtime Concert series, November 13.