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Spellbinding Harry Potter in 70 minutes

Potted Potter… The Playhouse, April 3-7.

HELEN MUSA has some news for Harry Potter fans in her latest Arts in the City column.

Potted Potter, created by actors Daniel Clarkson and Jefferson Turner, returns to Australia for its fifth tour, condensing all seven Harry Potter books into 70 minutes and including a new real-life game of Quidditch. Suitable for ages six to Dumbledore. The Playhouse, April 3-7.

Llewellyn Choir’s For M is Musick concert will feature soprano Elsa Huber, with Anthony Smith on organ. Wesley Music Centre, April 5. 

Musica da Camera will join mezzo soprano Christina Wilson in a program conceived by Chris Latham of music by Bach, Kelly, Rachmaninov and others, accompanied by slides of abstract art works from Monet, Mondrian, Klimt and more. Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Barton, April 6.

Canberra photo artist, Margaret Kalms, has taken three images from her Life with Endometriosis collection and three of her fantasy images to ArtExpo in New York, showing April 4-7. 

Julie Bradley, 2020 CityNews Artist of the Year, and glass artist Holly Grace, cut off in the high country of the Gudgenby Valley on a Craft+Design Canberra artist residency, have produced a resulting exhibition, South Facing. Craft+Design Gallery, level 1 North Building, Civic Square, until April 11. 

Rebus Theatre presents Re-Emergence: Every Storm Gives Way To A New Sunrise, an original film by disabled actors from across rural NSW, about their experiences of drought, bushfires and pandemic. Free for people with lived experience of disability or mental health challenges and their carers. Uniting Church, Queanbeyan, April 6.

Dianna Nixon continues her project devoted to rediscovering the work of Gunning farmer-playwright Millicent Armstrong with a dramaturgical exploration of her four-act drama, Fire, at The Street Theatre in April. There will be a second reading of the play in Armstrong’s old woolshed north of Gunning, on the property where the play was written 100 years ago, before a regional NSW tour in October. 

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