Fred Smith's eyewitness records and video from the 2021 Kabul evacuation are at the heart of the Australian War Memorial's new Afghanistan gallery, unveiled five years after the fall, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
A portrait celebrating the life and work of Gamilaroi Elder and bush food pioneer Aunty Beryl Van-Oploo was unveiled by the Governor-General, Sam Mostyn, on Tuesday at the National Portrait Gallery.
Virtuoso pianist Edward ‘Teddy’ Neeman will become part of a move to restore the reputation of one of Australia's most gifted composers when he performs Frederick Septimus Kelly's unfinished Sonata in F minor in Canberra next week.
A 17-hectare patch of remnant bush in O'Connor has been brought back from the brink by hundreds of helping hands, reports HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA with her latest Artsweek column on all that's happening this week in Canberra's arts and entertainment scene.
Canberra's theatre community is mourning the sudden death of actor, town crier and Guinness World Record holder Joseph "Joe" McGrail-Bateup, who died at his Gordon home on July 31. He was 58, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The late Canberra musician Michael Sollis will be posthumously honoured with the ACT's State and Territory Luminary Award at the 2026 Art Music Awards in Port Melbourne on Wednesday, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Mill Theatre is taking on one of Shakespeare's more rarely-produced plays, The Winter's Tale, as its first youth production.
More than 400 performances by young pianists from Canberra, interstate and overseas, will fill the Wesley Music Centre when the Australian National Eisteddfod's Piano competition returns from August 15 to 20, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Afternoon of the Harpies promises, or perhaps threatens, to be an exhibition of fantastical creatures, insect angels, carpets and luminescent fish-trap spaceships by two of the Canberra region's most provocative and adventurous artists.
Star Australian soprano Miriam Allan will return to Canberra next week with a Bach program that ranges from the moving to the comic, joined on stage by her father, baritone Christopher Allan, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
