Rebus Theatre’s latest outing, “Systems and Sanity,” is a show that challenges traditional thinking about the mental health system, reports HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
The 1996 massacre at Port Arthur, Tasmania, of 35 Australians by convicted killer Martin Bryant was front and centre on Thursday morning at the National Museum of Australia.
Recipients of the ACT government’s newly-created Cultural Arts Program funding have been announced, along with artists benefiting from the latest round of the regular Arts Activities fund.
From time immemorial, horse riding has been equated with sex, but in Eloise Snape's topical new play “Pony”, the connection is drawn a bit further, into parenthood., writes HELEN MUSA.
The Australian National Eisteddfod’s Bands & Orchestras event has returned to its former live format, with around 2000 participants in 70 ensembles competing in late May.
Arts events, it seems, are happening everywhere and this week's "Artsweek" column by HELEN MUSA has everything everywhere (pretty well) listed.
Jazz vocalist and songwriter Liam Budge, one of Canberra music's greatest success stories, is changing direction and, under his stage name Creswick, is about to stage a theatre work on the subject of fatherhood at The Street Theatre.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA picks the best of upcoming Canberra shows in her weekly "Arts in the City" column.
David Cossini’s portrait of Ugandan man Godfrey Baguma has been announced as the $2000 Art Handlers’ Award for the 2023 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
A business park centred around a light-filled town centre, the adaptive reuse of former industrial warehouses and a home built for sustainability are among the winners of the 2023 ACT Architecture Awards.
“SPORT is a storytelling machine,” says Guy Hansen, curator of the National Library’s new exhibition, “Grit & Gold: Tales from a Sporting Nation”.
There is no shortage of would-be Jets and Sharks, but, oddly, Dramatic Productions is having problems finding a Maria for its coming production of “West Side Story”. HELEN MUSA has the news in her latest "Artsweek" column.
