A glorious eight-day springtime feast of piano-playing awaits the Canberra public as the Australian National Eisteddfod launches into its piano section this weekend, reports HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
"Cobi Cockburn uses coloured light as a medium, much as she uses glass as a medium." writes MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE in her review of an exhibition at the Canberra Glassworks.
New York theatre-maker Heather Massie is coming to town with her one-woman tribute Hedy! The Life & Inventions of Hedy Lamarr, who was, says HELEN MUSA, one of Hollywood’s great enigmas.
When Marcia Hines first hit Australia in 1970, she was, famously, just 16 years old. Now at 71, she’s coming to Canberra in a show based on her 2023 album, Still Shining, reports HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA looks to the days ahead and lists lots of arts events in her latest Artsweek column.
Canberra’s music community is gearing up for a 90th birthday celebration for our most famous composer, Larry Sitsky, who moved to Canberra in late 1965 to become head of keyboard studies at the ANU's School of Music and made his home here.
HELEN MUSA's got news of the blues, a centenary and a film festival among her latest Arts in the City column.
Piano aficionados were treated to a rare, intense evening of piano playing by Sardinian-born pianist Giulio Biddau in Gandel Hall at the National Gallery on Sunday evening.
Visitors to the National Museum of Australia will soon be astonished to find a large halfpipe “wave” in the Gandel Atrium, reports HELEN MUSA.
“The sole purpose of Cirque Bon Bon is to entertain. There's no deep meaning, there's no story, it's just beautiful people doing beautiful things," Cirque Bon Bon co-creator Ash Jacks tells HELEN MUSA.
Three deceptively affable "rats" gathered with Deborah Tabart, chair of the Australian Koala Foundation, in front of Parliament House to announce the Koala Army’s March on September 1.
Here's Artsweek, arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest wrap of all things art around town.
![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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