The results are in from the piano eisteddfod held over the weekend as part of the Australian National Eisteddfod, adjudicated by Jerry Wong, head of keyboard at the Melbourne Conservatorium.
Among the many things that arts and science have in common is the encouragement of curiosity and creativity. Arts editor HELEN MUSA has an example of that in Questacon's current exhibition ZAP! CLANK! POW!
"This is a marvellous opportunity to gain some understanding of a modern opera classic." ALANNA MACLEAN reviews a reduced production of Der Rosenkavalier.
Veteran ceramic artist Cathy Franzi, known for depicting Canberra region flora in her works, won the $10,000 Lanyon Art Prize for her assemblage of nine porcelain vessels titled Fire Open Grassland 2025, reports HELEN MUSA.
In a significant accolade for Canberra-raised film director-producer Sophie Barksdale, it has been announced at an event held simultaneously in Denver and Oklahoma that her film, Who She Is, has won a Heartland Emmy Award.
A highly-focused new reduction of Richard Strauss’s famous opera Der Rosenkavalier (the knight of the rose) is coming to the Street Theatre this weekend. Reduction? HELEN MUSA explains.
Members of Canberra’s theatre community have been saddened to learn of the death in Cairns on August 17 of theatre identity Camilla Blunden after complications from a lung infection. She was 81.
After nearly six years at the helm of the Canberra Theatre Centre, director Alex Budd will step down to take up the role of CEO at Opera Australia later this year.