The performance year may be starting to slow, but HELEN MUSA’s still got an Artsweek column full of entertaining events.

The Italian Tenors, a trio of Luca Sala, Sabino Gaita, and Evans Tonon, return to town with arias, Neapolitan classics and Popera. The Q Queanbeyan, November 29.

Manning Clark House in Forrest, features Kerrie Nelson and Kathy Kituai reading their poetry, November 28, and their annual Christmas party, November 30.

Canberra International Film Festival returns with a screening of The Coolbaroo Club from 1996, restored from the original film negatives, along with another newly restored classic, Warwick Thornton’s Green Bush. Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive, November 30.

Geoff’s Poetry at Smiths has Ross Gillett from Daylesford and Carmel Summers from Canberra, Smith’s Alternative upstairs, Civic, December 2.

Stage

• Goulburn’s Lieder Theatre Company presents Anne of Green Gables, November 29-December 14.

Galleries

• The final Friends of the ANU Classics Museum event for 2024 will see the University of Melbourne archaeologist, Claudia Sagona, talk about the significance of Phoenician pottery from Malta, RSSS Auditorium, followed by a reception in the ANU Classics Museum. November 28.
• The 2024 ANU School of Art & Design graduating exhibition, ANU School of Art & Design, Building 105, open daily November 30-December 8.
• Aarwun Gallery has Ebony Bennet’s Habitat, Bridie O’Brien’s Miles to Go Before I Sleep, Pamela Pauline’s Tea Party in the Gardens and Kasey Sealy’s Italy to Australia, 11 Federation Square, Nicholls, November 29-January 12.

Concerts

• The Australian Rugby Choir’s annual concert, The Spirit of The Earth, will be held at the Hughes Baptist Church, November 30.
• Canberra Choral Society has assembled impressive forces for Mendelssohn’s oratorio, Elijah, including operatic Bass Teddy Tahu Rhodes in the title role, Llewellyn Hall, November 30.
• Magnify, Canberra Community Chorale under the direction of Olivia Swift, will include works by Vivaldi, contemporary American composers Eric Whitacre and Julia Wolfe, and Australian composer Paul Stanhope, Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest, December 1.
• The National Capital Orchestra’s Symphonie Fantastique with Canberra violist Alina Zamfir, Snow Concert Hall, Red Hill, December 1.
• Australian Haydn Ensemble’s Haydn’s Passion, music by Mozart and Haydn, Gandel Hall, National Gallery, December 2.