"This year the folk festival was openly focused on recapturing the character and essence of earlier years and there was a marked sense of community, exhibited by happy artists, volunteers and staff," writes reviewer CASSIDY RICHENS.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
There was a distinctly different flavour to this year’s Four Winds festival at Bermagui and it had a lot to do with the fact that its new creative director, Matthew Hoy, is a working instrumentalist, reports HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA's off to the circus, the theatre and everywhere else in this week's "Artsday" column.
In an unusual departure from conventional festival programming, the final concert of the 2023 Canberra International Music Festival is likely to raise the roof of the Fitters’ Workshop in Kingston, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.
In a canny move to mark International Dance Day on April 29, the Canberra Theatre's “New Works” program, has picked up on the fact that two of our dance artists, James Batchelor and Liz Lea, have been working on the international stage.
Here's HELEN MUSA's latest "Arts in the City" column, a who's who and what's what of arts around the town.
CASSIDY RICHENS reviews the opening concert of the National Folk Festival.
Arts, theatre, music, film and burlesque... it's all happening in this week's "Arts in the City", by HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA previews a weekend of music, theatre and art in this week's "Artsday" column.
Bell Shakespeare's excitement is palpable that the Palestinian-Australian actor playing the lead role in the coming production of "Macbeth" won a Logie in 2018, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Mill Theatre in Fyshwick, seems bent upon revising conventional Canberra approaches to theatre-making, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Seven finalists have been shortlisted for the 2022 ACT Book of the Year Award, from 43 eligible nominations received for books published in 2021.
