Canberra glass artist Akie Haga has won the 2026 People's Choice Award in the Waterhouse Natural Science Art Prize, with visitors at the South Australian Museum voting overwhelmingly for her luminous glass sculpture, Soft Echo.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Canberra Theatre Centre has joined forces with three of Australia's leading regional performing arts organisations in a landmark partnership designed to create more large scale Australian theatre.
Journalist Neil Lade has spent decades telling other people's stories, but arts editor HELEN MUSA discovers his lifelong passion has always been painting, drawing and creating surreal worlds of his own.
At the age of 36, Creswick feels he is facing middle age and, just as he did with his fatherhood show, he's been out interviewing people, this time a carefully selected group of senior artists, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA with her latest Artsweek column, featuring fundraisers and film festivals.
One of the world's most celebrated chamber ensembles, the Sitkovetsky Trio, will make its Canberra debut at Snow Concert Hall on August 2, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
What began as Henry Lawson's tale of an unnamed bushwoman defending her children from danger has become a play, a novel, a film and now, an opera, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
A new $1 collector coin recognising the United Nations' International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, has been released by The Royal Australian Mint on Wednesday.
NightFest will transform Commonwealth Park into a spectacular after-dark experience, it has been announced, combining live music, illuminated gardens, entertainment, food and family-friendly activities as part of Floriade.
One of the deadliest First Nations acts of all is heading to the Canberra Southern Cross Club in Woden, reports HELEN MUSA.
"Georgia Hendy has a talent for getting herself into rooms where things are happening." Arts editor HELEN MUSA meets the new boss of the Canberra Theatre Centre.
