A teacher-librarian at Hughes Primary School has been announced as the 2025 Reading Australia Fellow at the Australian Association for the Teaching of English/Australian Literacy Educators' Association National Conference.
The provocative character of Musetta in Puccini‘s La Bohème is a perennial crowd-pleaser and the perfect role for Aboriginal soprano Sarah Prestwidge, making her Opera Australia debut, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
When the ceramicist and former Canberra Artist of the Year, Hiroe Swen, leaves Canberra for her native Japan in early July, she will look back on having lived 57 of her 91 years here, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"The works all represent nature, one way or another, but in markedly different ways. It will call viewers back many times." MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews the exhibition Material Nature.
You could’ve heard a pin drop this morning at the National Museum of Australia when puppeteer Tom Hetherington-Welch, introduced a crowd to Mr. Snowman and other favourite characters, says arts editor HELEN MUSA.