Here's HELEN MUSA's latest arts news column from around the traps, Arts in the City.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Arts editor HELEN MUSA despairs that the ANU's unpopular organisational changes are not primarily an attack on the Schools of Music and Art and Design, but on the very basis of the ANU as Australia’s national university.
The National Portrait Gallery has commissioned artist Samuel Hodge to create a work that marks the 20th anniversary of the fashion label, Romance Was Born.
In another coup for Canberra Theatre director Alex Budd, more than 80 of the country’s top opera singers and musicians will be here for a glamorous gala concert in October, reports HELEN MUSA.
Thirteen artists and arts groups will share in more than $415,000 in funding through the first round of the ACT government's 2025 Arts Activities ($5000 to $50,000) program, formerly known as project funding.
GRAHAM McDONALD reviews a performance by the Alma Moodie Quartet.
HELEN MUSA reviews Australia Opera's production of Antonin Dvořák’s Rusalka.
On the 10th anniversary of the fashion showcase, Country to Couture, two young First Nations artist-designers from Canberra have been invited to the Top End's Indigenous Fashion Awards, reports HELEN MUSA.
HELEN MUSA's Artweek column hits Wuthering Heights with news of a dance occasion dedicated to Kate Bush and her 1978 hit song of the same name...
Nicky Bomba is bringing his Melbourne Ska Orchestra to a gig at the University of Canberra early next month. He traces the ARIA-winning orchestra's evolution with arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Dance, music, photography and comedy feature in HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
The new Canberra Institute of Technology Woden campus officially opened on Thursday.
