HELEN MUSA reviews Tangata, a performance of the music of Astor Piazzolla by pianist Marcela Fiorillo.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
We already knew that the blockbuster Discovering Ancient Egypt was National Museum of Australia’s most popular show, but now it has figures showing the exhibition generated $27.7 million in total economic stimulus for the ACT.
A big week of arts looms in Canberra as HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column will attest.
In a tale of two pianists, Canberra is to be entertained with fine piano playing on Friday, when French virtuoso Jean-Efflam Bavouzet and rising Italian star Andrea Molteni take the stage, but in separate concerts, writes HELEN MUSA.
Street Theatre director Caroline Stacey is determined that audiences should know that Waiting for Godot is not a difficult intellectual play, but one that “offers an affirming act of hope”, writes HELEN MUSA.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA reports in her latest Artsweek column that Marcel Cole is channelling Charlie Chaplin in his upcoming new show.
"As the buzz of excitement increases in volume at Craft + Design Canberra in the lead-up to its 10th Craft + Design Canberra Festival, there’s an even louder sound emitting from its headquarters – exultation," writes HELEN MUSA.
A gift made to King Charles during the recent royal visit on behalf of the Royal Australian Armoured Corps, puts paid once and for all to the monarch’s father’s notorious quip that Canberra was "a city without a soul”, writes HELEN MUSA.
Lisa Freshwater has been appointed to the new role of executive producer at Canberra Theatre Centre.
Canberra artist Solomon Karmel-Shann is one of five artists awarded residencies at Shark Island, a creative arts hub in Kangaroo Valley, in the 26th annual Brett Whiteley Travelling Art Scholarship.
HELEN MUSA rounds up the town's arts events and rolls out another busy Artsweek column.
A reproduction of the Gutenberg Bible, considered to be the first major work printed in Europe with moveable metal type, has been given to the National Library of Australia.
