Here’s arts editor HELEN MUSA’s Arts in the City column, a weekly look at, well, arts in the city.

The Australian Dance Party plans to put designers, artists and activists together for a day of workshops, talks, a giant clothes swap, installations, performances and a fashion parade, in Clothing the Loop: Sustainable Fashion Festival. The Vault, Dairy Road, Fyshwick, October 18.

Everyman Theatre is reprising one of its biggest hits, The Musical of Musicals (The Musical!). It follows a girl who can’t pay her rent through five mini-musicals lampooning Rodgers & Hammerstein, Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. ACT Hub, Kingston, October 15-25.

Monsieur Camembert is heading to town with a 10-piece ensemble to reimagine Leonard Cohen’s songs with new arrangements, audio clips, and a rotating line-up of guest vocalists in Cohen Noir: The Beauty, Mystery and Romance of Leonard Cohen, Canberra Theatre, October 17.

Liv Kidston has been announced winner of the 2025 ANU School of Art & Design Drawing Prize for her work Threads of My Thought by guest judge Dennis Golding, the HC Coombs Creative Arts Indigenous Fellow at ANU.

Greek Theatre Now, which brought Antigone to the National Botanic Gardens in April, is auditioning for Euripides’ The Trojan Women, to be directed by Cate Clelland. All welcome. Tooms Place (Scout Hall), Lyons, October 18-19.

Art lovers are breathing a sigh of relief Sculpture by the Sea will go ahead in Bondi after NRMA Insurance stepped in with $200,000, joined by an outpouring of public support that raised more than $125,000 in just 30 hours, all ensuring artists’ confidence, program continuity, and the revival of the School Education Program. Bondi, October 17-November 3.

Canberra Youth Theatre is back on the boards, taking Honor Webster-Mannison’s fast-food satire Work, But This Time Like You Mean It to Sydney, with eight young Canberran actors reprising their roles from the 2024 Canberra season. The Rebel Theatre, Walsh Bay, October 15-18.

Canberra artists Ross Andrews and Rodney Moss will feature their two-metre-wide triptych, Earthly Delights, alongside Moss’ northern European fjords, forests and rocky coves and Andrews’ impressions of the hidden natural landscapes of the ACT, coast and mountains. ArtBox Gallery, Barton, October 18-19 and 25-26.

Canberra composer Judith Clingan set seven poetic texts by Kahlil Gibran to music, performed as The Prophet this year. The Bellingen performance, featuring Gibran’s own images and subtitles, is now on YouTube.