Acknowledged for his boundless energy, drive and focus, Garth Lawrence Mansfield was a tireless advocate for music and the founding force behind the Wesley Music Centre in Forrest, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Busy artistic director of The Q in Queanbeyan, Jordan Best, has made life a little busier by casting herself in the double roles of Titania and Hippolyta in an upcoming revival of her outdoor A Midsummer Night’s Dream, writes HELEN MUSA.
Cementing its reputation as one of the go-to places for play watching, ACT Hub announced its fifth annual season at a celebratory event at the Old Causeway Hall in Kingston on Thursday.
An unusual charcoal portrait of the artist’s mother and uncle in their youth has won Surya Bajracharya the $10,000 M16 Artspace Drawing Prize, it was announced at the M16 galleries in Griffith on Thursday.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA says People Power seems to have triumphed in bringing the School of Music back from the brink, but the devil is often in the detail when it comes to implementation.
At a chic ceremony in the Residence of France, ambassador Pierre-André Imbert awarded the insignia of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters to dance artist Elizabeth Cameron Dalman on Tuesday evening, reports HELEN MUSA.
“This show is equal parts comedy, chaos, and blasphemy… The Exorcist meets Sesame Street, with more swearing. Perfect for December," says director Jarrad West, who is reviving the play Hand to God.
After astounding audiences in New York, Montreal and London, a video installation of Hollywood glamour and pop-culture makes its Australian debut in a Canberra-exclusive showing, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.