Lots to see, hear and experience around the Canberra arts scene this coming week. Let HELEN MUSA’s latest Artsweek column be your guide…

An Evening with Vika & Linda will see Vika & Linda Bull perform a career-spanning selection of their favourite songs, performed as most people have never heard them before. Canberra Theatre, June 21.

The National Museum of Australia is exhibiting a selection of objects chosen by ABC personality Tony Armstrong for his five-part television series Tony Armstrong’s Extra-Ordinary Things. A vintage ute, a novelty cheque, an elite boxing trophy and a letter from former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, are among the “ordinary” objects on show from June 20.

The National Film and Sound Archive is screening The Trust Fall: Julian Assange which will be followed by a panel conversation with MPs Wilkie, Bridget Archer and Josh Wilson. Arc Cinema, June 25.

Birrarangga Film Festival, celebrating global indigenous films, is at The National Film and Sound Archive June 20-23.

Stage

• A Streetcar Named Desire is at ACTHub, Kingston, June 19-29.
• American Idiot is an energy-fuelled rock opera performed by Queanbeyan Players at The Q, June 20-29.
• Sydney Dance Company returns with the world premiere tour of artistic director Rafael Bonachela’s  momenta. Canberra Theatre, June 21-22.
• Crime and Punishment, adapted from Dostoevsky, is at The Street Theatre, June 21-July 7.
• Billed as the Ultimate Tribute to the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Tina features Caroline Borole. At The Playhouse, June 25.
• Dance Northside presents Reflections, looking back over 18 years of dance. Canberra Theatre, June 26.
• James and the Giant Peach is a new theatrical adaptation of the children’s classic book. Canberra Theatre, until June 29.

Concerts

• Violinist Jack Liebeck joins British vocal ensemble VOCES8 at Snow Concert Hall, June 21.
• Actor Duncan Driver joins Salut! Baroque in The Historian, where actor-scholar Driver appears as English music historian, composer and musician, Dr Charles Burney. Fairfax Theatre, NGA, June 21.
• Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the CSO Chorus under the baton of Brett Weymark, will present Handel’s Messiah. Llewellyn Hall, June 21.
• Canberra indie folk singer/songwriter/theatre director Ben Drysdale will perform his new single Listen Now at a performance at Smith’s Alternative, Civic, on June 22.
• Singer-songwriter and accessibility advocate Eliza Hull will perform for Ainslie Salon, supported by local artist Ruth O’Brien. Ainslie Arts Centre, June 22.
• Marcela Fiorillo Studio students are holding an afternoon of music at Greenaway Studio, 164 Namatjira Drive, Chapman, June 22.
• The Canberra Mandolin Orchestra performs with chanteuse Theodora Volti at the Polish White Eagle Club, Turner, June 23.
• Irish folk rock act The High Kings perform at Canberra Southern Cross Club, Woden, June 23.
• The Australian String Quartet performs Vanguard, a program of Australian composer Harry Sdraulig’s String Quartet No.2, Beethoven’s late string quartets and Korngold’s impressionistic String Quartet No.2. Gandel Hall, NGA, June 23.
• Pianist Margaret Legge-Wilkinson performs Birds of the Alps, a recital featuring works by Lily Boulanger (France), Olivier Messiaen (France) and Grazyna Bacewicz (Poland) along with her own composition and works by Stephanos Malikides and US composer, Nico Muhly. Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, June 23.
• Canberra artists Xanthe Allen (mezzo-soprano) and Michael Anthrak, (pianist) home from their studies at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music, Griffith University, will perform a selection of art song and arias. Wesley Music Centre, June 26.
• Soprano Madeline Anderson and pianist Hilda Visser-Scott will perform Mozart in Winter at Wesley Music Centre’s Wednesday Lunchtime series, June 26.

Galleries

• Canberra artist Allison Barnes’ exhibition, A Sense of Fragility, is at Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Manuka, from June 20.
• Manipulated Realities is a photography exhibition by Brian Rope at Manning Clark House, Forrest, June 22-July 13.