Patrons of the Australian War Memorial’s Napier Waller Art Prize were in furious agreement when retired major Anneke Jamieson was voted in as winner of the 2022 Napier Waller Art people's choice for her portrait, “The Promotion”.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
A writer's writer, who has become equally famous as a novelist and a tireless advocate for the arts, was named "CityNews Canberra Artist of the Year" at the 32nd annual ACT Arts Awards evening, held in the Canberra Museum & Gallery.
A powerful actor-director who gave up her day job to get behind a new theatrical enterprise in Canberra was presented with the Helen Tsongas Award for excellence in acting.
Diego Torre is used to playing the nice guys in opera – that normally goes with being a tenor – but as Carmen’s lover Don José in Opera Australia’s new Opera on Cockatoo Island, he gets to plays a wimp.
A new production of a new play coming to Belconnen Arts Centre this week is equally theatre and dance.
The silly season has well and truly hit Canberra’s arts scene, says "Arts in the City" columnist HELEN MUSA.
Canberra writer Christine Helliwell has won the Australian War Memorial’s $10,000 Les Carlyon Literary Prize.
HELEN MUSA previews a week's worth of arts in today's "Artsday" column.
DEFYING gravity is a byword for singer Lisa Richards. Not only is “Waiting to Fly” the title of her eighth album, but its launch later this month will be a musical celebration of “taking flight” with her own songs and stories.
HELEN MUSA scans all things arts in and around Canberra in this week's "Arts in the City" column.
With a musical Samoan father and a watchful Polish mother, Koebi Faumui and his siblings were destined to be musicians, writes HELEN MUSA.
Former artistic director Dave O'Neill and former Folk Festival office manager Jo Creswell are co-artistic directors for the next National Folk Festival.
