The National Library's refreshed Treasures Gallery now feels different yet familiar, with fresh carpets, paintwork, and new digital screens designed to answer the questions visitors always ask, reports HELEN MUSA.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
In a recent show-and-tell, National Gallery of Australia director Nick Mitzevich took a select group of journalists on a preview tour of the gallery’s plans for 2026. Arts editor HELEN MUSA was there.
It may be four months until Easter, but the National Folk Festival team is already in full swing preparing for its 60th celebration of culture at EPIC, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
A musical, written from scratch and inspired by child-led ideas, awaits participants in a week of sessions Mr Tim and Ms Nat, reports HELEN MUSA in her latest Arts in the City column.
Home from the US on a semester break, 19-year-old Canberra jazz singer Matilda Lorenz is planning to show off what she’s been learning at the renowned Eastman School of Music for the past six months.
Arts editor HELEN MUSA says that "brilliant individual artistry" triumphed in her picks for the best five arts moments in 2025.
Cornwall’s famed sea-shanty ensemble Fisherman’s Friends sails into Australia for the first time, reports Arts in the City columnist HELEN MUSA.
Canberra’s thriving independent theatre scene is currently the most active and vibrant it has been since the 1990s – and it’s not just confined to the inner city and suburbs.
Canberra-Queanbeyan designer and 3-D storyteller Caolán Mitchell has been awarded the Georgie Waterman Career Achievement Award for his impact and innovative approach to the unusual professional field of interpretation.
The annual Hawker Carols celebration on Christmas Eve will once again feature celebrated Australian soprano Lorina Gore.
Patrons of The Q can comfortably expect a year of delicious entertainment if artistic director Jordan Best’s announcement of the 2026 theatre season on Monday evening was anything to go by.
Canberra flautist Sally Walker has been nominated for Limelight magazine’s Artist of the Year this year – the only Canberra artist and the only wind player in the line-up.
