Here’s HELEN MUSA’s latest Arts in the City column.

A dark cabaret experience featuring Amita Hachidori, known for a striking full fishnet bodystocking and powerful vocals, joins forces with button accordionist Kentaro Tamura in a show that has enticed audiences since 2009. The Pot Belly, Belconnen, April 10, Smith’s Alternative, April 11-12.

Wangka Wakanutja: The Story of the Papunya Literature Production Centre, explores the extraordinary output of the Papunya Literature Production Centre between 1979 and 1990, highlighting hundreds of bilingual Pintupi-Luritja readers created with community elders and artists of the Western Desert movement. National Library of Australia until October 11. Entry is free. 

ANU Meet the Author has Susan Lever in conversation with Robert Hefner on her new biography of poet AD Hope. Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre, ANU, April 21.

Australian musician Tim Rogers brings his Le Charme Defensif east coast tour to Canberra, showcasing a career spanning more than 30 years, over 20 albums, 10 ARIA Awards and work across music, film, theatre and writing. Smith’s Alternative, April 10.

Welsh singer and broadcaster Aled Jones returns to Australia with an intimate new show, tracing his early life in North Wales through the ’70s and ’80s and sharing encounters with figures such as Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Princess Diana, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Leonard Bernstein, before moving into a second half of global highlights, including duets, television moments and audience singalongs. The B, Queanbeyan, April 17.