Another thumping week ahead for arts events and arts editor HELEN MUSA has it all wrapped up in one big Artsweek column.

Passing Through: A Journey in Song sees the Canberra Men’s Choir performing everything from sacred works to modern ballads, the rhythms of life, love and memory in a lunchtime concert at Wesley Music Centre, September 3.

Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens have Prof Alexander Mazarakis Ainian, from the University of Thessaly, in Greece, speaking in the Apollo Room, Hellenic Club, Woden, August 28.

Handmade Canberra’s August market is at Exhibition Park, Epic, August 30-31.

Lanyon Homestead will be turned into a living time machine for Turn Back Time, a one-day program that finishes with a courtyard bush dance with the Paverty Bush Band. Lanyon, Tharwa, August 30.

ANU Meet The Author will see Michael Brissenden in conversation with Chris Hammer on Brissenden’s new crime fiction novel, Dust, Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre, formerly Kambri, ANU. September 2.

Concerts

• Cuba is a celebration of Cuban music hosted by soprano Ayşe Göknur Shanal that has enjoyed two sellouts at Sydney Opera House. Smith’s Alternative, August 31.
• The Hive is swinging into spring with live music back in its garden with singer-songwriter and instrumentalist Garth Prentice, supported by local musician Jerikye Williams. Crawford Street, Queanbeyan, August 30.
• Apeiron Baroque is holding a “pre-concert concert” catering for young children and families before Apeiron and guest Alana Blackburn, showcase the full gamut of recorders. Wesley Uniting Church, August 31.
• The CSO Chamber Ensemble will perform Wieniawski’s Légende and Franck’s Violin Sonata along with Debussy’s Sunken Cathedral and two études-tableaux by Rachmaninov, Albert Hall, 2pm, August 31.
• Geoff’s Jazz at Smiths features the Con Campbell Quartet’s tribute to saxophone great Sonny Rollins, Smith’s Alternative, Civic, September 3.

Galleries

• ANCA’s 10th exhibition of wearable works, PIN 10, features 201 works by 45 artists from across Australia, in a broad range of media including precious metals and stones, found objects and materials, paper, feathers and glass. ANCA Gallery, Rosevear Place, Dickson, September 3-13.
• Canberra Potters presents Connecting Through Clay: 50 Years of Canberra Potters, marking five decades of ceramic artistry and community impact in the ACT. Watson Arts Centre, August 28-September 21.
• Maia Layton Thompson, a current student at ANU School of Art and Design, is exhibiting paintings under the title, Dragon Hoard, at Q Gallery, Ainslie shops, August 29-September 11.
• The Marsden Art Group is hosting a show, Ephemeral at Smith’s Alternative in Civic, September 2-28.

Stage

• Canberra Philharmonic Society is staging The Addams Family, at Erindale Theatre, opens August 28.
• Echo Theatre’s production of God of Carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza, will be back in Queanbeyan before a tour of NSW. Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, August 29-31.
• Bell Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet, The Playhouse, August 29-September 7.
• Crowns & Chaos: A Royal Court of Hearts and Shadows is billed as a transportive night of revelry, tomfoolery, heartbreak, and theatrical mischief, and features the talents of Mikelangelo, Joe Woodward, Pablo Latona, Reggie Cox (Meg Johnston), and host, Bambi Valentine. Dissent Bar & Café, Canberra City, August 29.
• Actor, writer and musician Leo Amadeus has put together a collection of comedy songs and characters for the Sydney Fringe and will present them as a one-hour show under the title Horse Brother at the Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre, August 30.
• The Australian premiere of Peter/Wendy by Jeremy Bloom, directed by Rachel Pengilly, in which Peter Pan lures Wendy Darling away from her home and her mother is at Mill Theatre, Fyshwick, September 3-27.