Here’s HELEN MUSA’s  latest Artsweek column, looking at what’s happening where and when around the Canberra arts scene.

Brazilian-Australian Canberra  photographer Fernanda Pedroso’s edgy show, unBECOMING, is at Grainger Gallery, Fyshwick, November 15-December 14.

ArtsNational Molonglo Plains closes its 2025 program with The Superb Silver in Jane Austen’s Time, a lecture by Anne Habers at C3 Church, Queanbeyan, November 13.

The Museum of Australian Democracy marks the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal with exhibitions, events and tours exploring this political milestone, Old Parliament House, until February 2026.

SpringOUT returns as a month-long celebration of Queer Pride with more than 40 events across Canberra, including Sport Your Pride, November 14-16.

Film

• The Japanese Film Festival is running at Palace Electric and the National Film and Sound Archive, until November 18.
• The 30th Canberra Short Film Festival continues citywide until November 16.
• The British Film Festival screens nationally at Palace Cinemas, Luna Palace and Palace Nova until December 7.

Concerts

• Canberra drummer and composer Somesh Putcha performs his ABC Jazz-commissioned Ever Playful with his quartet. Smith’s Alternative, November 13.
• The NFSA’s Arc Cinema hosts a Beauty and the Beast singalong screening, November 14.
• East Row Rabble, with front man Ben Drysdale, reunites Smith’s Alternative, November 14.
• World Angklung Day will be marked with a carillon and recorded angklung music by the Indonesian Ladies Association concert on Aspen Island, November 16.
• Flautist Ana de la Vega performs My Paris, Snow Concert Hall, November 15.
• National Capital Orchestra’s Broadway! conducted by Louis Sharpe, Snow Concert Hall, November 16.
• Pianist Marcela Fiorillo performs Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Scriabin at Wesley Uniting Church, November 16.
• Baritone David Greco and pianist Roland Peelman with Love Lost and Love Found for Art Song, Wesley Music Centre, November 16.
• Jazz singer Hetty Kate launches Spring (Volume 1) in Taste of Jazz at The Street Theatre, November 16.
• The annual Brass on the Grass returns to Hall Heritage Centre, November 16.

Galleries

• Suki & Hugh Gallery in Bungendore stages its final exhibition, featuring glass artist Kirstie Rea and Annette Blair, 38A Gibraltar Street, Bungendore, November 15-December 13.
• The Tyger Gallery in Yass unveils A Saturated Life by Rozalie Sherwood and Steve Tomlin.
• Canberra artist Eryn Marshall unveils Envy, Upcycled, a solo exhibition of art made from recycled materials. Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, November 18.

Stage

• Aussie comedian Monty Franklin delivers laughs in Is That Your Mate? at The Street Theatre, November 15.
• Off the Ledge Theatre debuts with Kendall Feaver’s play, The Almighty Sometimes at The Q, Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, November 19-22.