Inspired by April's Heritage Festival, HELEN MUSA talks with a group of volunteers who have discovered some of the big showbiz names who have played at Canberra's Albert Hall.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
HELEN MUSA spins all around the local arts world. Here's Arts in the City, full of news of her latest circumnavigation.
The new Viva Italia in Canberra Festival kicked off in fine style with its "night under the stars” by Lake Burley Griffin on Friday.
After a failed changing-of-the-guard to hand over the running of Bungendore Wood Works, reported in September, retired artistic director and owner David Mac Laren is closing the gallery.
Fyshwick artist Margaret Hadfield's her oil painting, #lestweforget@Wimbie Beach, has been announced as one of the 32 finalists in the 20th annual Gallipoli Art Prize, of which she was the inaugural winner in 2006.
"The Moors is a deranged romp through a world that echoes the Brontes," writes reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN.
Here's the latest burst of Artsweek, HELEN MUSA's weekly column that rounds up what's happening where on the local arts scene.
When actor Jay Laga'aia steps on The Playhouse stage as The Pirate King in the Gilbert & Sullivan classic, The Pirates of Penzance, he'll be doing what he likes best – interacting with audiences, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
BILL STEPHENS reviews Opera Australia's production of Dido & Aeneas at Sydney Opera House.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews A Total Work of Art: Sidney Nolan and The Stage now showing at Canberra Museum and Gallery.
As Ramadan (when Muslims fast from dawn to dusk) concludes, HELEN MUSA reports there's a distinctly Canberran angle on Iftar (fast-breaking) around the ACT in the ecumenical approach adopted by many organisations.
In a change of pace, entertainer Paul McDermott, of Doug Anthony All Stars and Good News Week fame, is bringing his show Poems to Smith’s Alternative, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
