Arts editor HELEN MUSA rounds up what’s on where in her latest Arts in the City column. 

Poet Luka Lesson takes his audience through the different dimensions of love – Eros, Filia, Philoxenia, Philautia, Storgi and Pragma – in Agapi & Other Kinds of Love. Inspired by Plato’s Symposium and modern-day Athens, he blends rap, spoken word and ancient philosophy. The Vault, Fyshwick, September 21.

The Italian Film Festival opens at Palace Electric Cinema with Gloria! on September 19 and closes with Conclave on October 16.

ArtsNational Molonglo Plains has a talk on the Sculptures of the Parthenon, C3 Auditorium, Queanbeyan, September 19.

A poetry-meets-physics event will see Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rae Armantrout read and engage in conversation with ANU Prof Ben Buchler. The Street Theatre, September 19.

Kate Flaherty and actors from Bell Shakespeare uncover one of the most amusing and successful literary hoaxes of all time in Fakespeare: The Story of the Vortigern Hoax, National Library Theatre, September 20.

The book, Life Journeys: Love and Grief by Fijian poet and parliamentarian Prof Satendra Nandan, will be at The Street Theatre, September 20.

Exhibitions

• Emerging painter David Kindon’s exhibition Life’s a Beach feature’s oil paintings featuring the Australian coastline. Strathnairn Arts, Holt, until October 13.
• Masami Teraoka and Japanese Ukiyo-E-Print, focusing on contemporary themes using traditional ukiyo-e woodblock prints. National Gallery, September 21-March 2, 2025.
• Roger Beale’s exhibition of paintings opens at Humble House, Fyshwick, September 22.

Stage

• Canberra Youth Theatre presents Work, But This Time Like You Mean It by Honor Webster-Mannison, The Courtyard Studio, September 20-29.
• Steve Michaels, Louis Brown and Michael Chambliss star in Elvis: An American Trilogy’s Aloha from Hawaii . The Q, Queanbeyan, September 21.

Concerts

• Canberra Symphony Orchestra presents Celestial Visions , where Jessica Cottis conducts Mahler, Llewellyn Hall, September 18-19.
• Dan Russell and The Phoenix Collective present Program: Music by Schubert, Shostakovich, Arnalds, and Sigur Rós. All Saints’, Ainslie, September 20.
• Brisbane-born John Granger Fisher appear ins a Piano Recital, Wesley Music Centre, September 20.
• Flux Jazz Quintet, Miroslav Bukovsky and friends, will perform at ANU Drill Hall Gallery, September 20.
• Electric Light Orchestra Tribute Show is at The Q, Queanbeyan, September 20.
• This Shining Night by the Canberra Choral Society, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, September 21.
• Joe Camilleri & The Black Sorrows, at The Q, Queanbeyan, September 22.
• Tom Woodward’s Australian folk album Revolving Doors will be launched with performances by The Missing Lincolns, Julia Johnson, Happy Axe, Evan Buckley and Konrad Lenz. The Polo, Turner. September 22.
• Members of the ANU Women in Music Program and the Wamburang Women’s Choir present Woven Melodies, Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU, September 23.
• Shreyas Sunkaraneni and Ben Francis, from Marie Cull’s Piano Studio, will perform works by Beethoven, Chopin, Rachmaninoff, and Debussy. Wesley Music Centre Lunchtime Concert, September 25.