Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews what’s on where this weekend and beyond in this week’s “Artsday” column.

ELIZABETH Cameron Dalman is holding an open day at her Lake George property Mirramu on Sunday. Visiting Taiwanese artists Dancecology and Ku & Dancers will be performing, along with Canberra soloists and community dance groups. At 849 Lake Road, 8.49kms from the turnoff into Lake Road, off Bungendore Road, 1pm-5pm, March 26.

CANBERRA Comedy Festival continues apace with various performances, including “Andrew Hansen is Cheap” Big Band Room, ANU 8pm, March 26.

“CIRQUE Mother Africa” is a 90-minute circus entertainment extravaganza coming to Canberra Theatre, Tuesday, March 28.

QUEANBEYAN’S Festival of Bees will kick-off at Queanbeyan Hive, in Crawford Street, March 24 at 5pm with live music, food and drinks, continuing into the weekend, Saturday, 10am-9pm and Sunday, 10am-4pm.

Concerts

• IRISH singer songwriter Niamh Regan, Smith’s Alternative, Civic, March 23.
• CHRIS Latham’s “Odes to Peace”, a preview concert of the “Peacekeeping Symphony”, with Musica da Camera. Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture, Barton, 3pm-5pm, March 25.
• SUPER Rats play drinking songs, ballads and dances from the backstreets of Bucharest. Smith’s Alternative, Civic, 3pm- 5pm, March 25.
• EARLY music ensemble Apeiron Baroque’s first concert, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, 5pm, March 25.
• UKRAINIAN-born pianist Konstantin Shamray performs “The Romantic Piano”, Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, 7pm, March 25. Free for Ukrainian refugees on presentation of passports.
• HC COOMBS Fellow, pianist Andrea Keller, performs works composed during her fellowship year, in trio with Miroslav Bukovsky and John Mackey. Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU School of Music, 6pm-8pm, March 28.
• HARPIST Rowan Phemister performs a blend of French harp music. Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, 12.40 to 1.20pm,  March 29.

Around the galleries

• “THREADS of Being”, Canberra Potters’ annual Emerging Artist Support Scheme exhibition, 1 Aspinall Street, Watson, Thursday, March 23-April 23.
• JAPANESE-born artist Kenji Uranishi is exhibiting ceramics in “Landing” alongside Elisabeth Kruger’s oil paintings, “There.” Beaver Galleries, Deakin, from March 23.
• PAINTINGS and poems by Arlene and Tony Williams are on show at Strathnairn Arts, Holt, until April 9.