Arts editor HELEN MUSIC previews a week’s worth of arts and entertainment in her latest Artsweek column.

Australasia’s richest prize for glass, Fuse Glass Prize, saw 18 finalists selected and the major $20,000 cash prize awarded to Tom Moore, as part of an exhibition initially at Adelaide’s JamFactory and now at the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery August 2-11.

Poet Nam Le will be discussing his book 36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem with the artistic director of the Canberra Writers Festival, Beejay Silcox, National Library of Australia, August 1.

The Friends of the Classics Museum host Meaghan McEvoy, to talk about their latest acquisition, a gold Solidus purchased in honour of former Volunteer Guide, Randall Falkiner. August 1.

The Vinyl Lounge lets people share favourite records and music stories. NFSA, August 2.

Poetry Month begins on August 1 and the ACT Poetry Month Showcase, featuring author Nam Le and playwright/screenwriter Dylan Van Berg, who will bring to life two of the National Gallery’s paintings in poetry, NGA, August 3.

Geoff’s Poetry at Smith’s will feature Nicola Bowery from Braidwood and Sarah Day from Hobart. At Smith’s newish venue upstairs on August 5.

ArtsNational  is holding an illustrated lecture by Andrew Hopkins on The Perfect House: Andrea Palladio’s Venetian Villas on August 5 and The Rockefellers: A dynasty of Art Collectors, on August 6. National Library.

The ANU Art School Collective’s student film competition returns to Arc Cinema, NFSA, August 7.

Music

• The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, under the direction of Daniel Hyde, is at Llewellyn Hall, August 3.
• The Resonants,  Go Gently , 4pm, Weston Creek Uniting Church, August 3.
• Essential Tremors is an exploratory music and art series. Ainslie Arts Centre, Braddon, August 3.
• Luminescence Chamber Singers will be joined by Aperion Baroque for Magnificat, Wesley Uniting Church, August 4.
• In Full Swing and Blamey Street Big Band, will come together for Winter Ways, at the Polish White Eagle Club, David Street, Turner on August 4.
• The Alpenrose Piano Trio will perform Haydn, Faure, and Shostakovich at DW Music, Fyshwick, August 7.
• Marking the 200th anniversary of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, CSO will perform the entire work, including the Ode to Joy. Llewellyn Hall, August 7-8.
• Ensemble Offspring’s Light and Matter World features Australian premieres of innovative new music, The Street Theatre, August 7.
• Pianist Robert Schmidli and young flautist Liz Minkyung Kim will perform JS Bach, François Borne, Bizet, Paul Taffanel, and Benjamin Godard. Wesley lunchtime concert series, August 7.

Stage

• Wired is an original full-length dance work choreographed by Bonnie Neate and Suzy Piani, based on a true story of an individual who lived in the walls and ceiling of a family home. Erindale Theatre, August 2-3.      
• Maverick of the stage Eliza Sanders uses her blend of dance, clown and absurd philosophising to illuminate the limits of the power to communicate, in Manage Your Expectations, Courtyard Studio, August 2-4.
• Trophy Boys, where a toxic school debating competition is under the spotlight, is at the Courtyard Studio, August 5-10.

Galleries

• Growing up Modern: Alex Jelinek and Canberra’s Round House is an exhibition based on the book of the same name by Roger Benjamin of how the Round House in Deakin came to be designed, built and made into a home for his parents. Canberra Museum and Gallery, until August 10.
• Pink Moon is a solo show by Cobi Cockburn. Canberra Glassworks, August 1-September 22.
• In Lineaments, by painter Stephanie Scroope and sculptor Jay Kochel. ANCA Gallery in Dickson until August 25.