Arts editor HELEN MUSA casts her net for arts news around Canberra. Here's her latest Arts in the City column.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
In a dramatic leap from winter to spring, Canberra Writers Festival launches into its ninth year with an emphasis on passion, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
"Saturday night’s concert had an upbeat, celebratory tone as it both marked 25 years since Andrew Koll had founded the ensemble and its recent return form the Leipzig Bach Festival in Germany," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
"There are professional orchestras out there that are not up this standard. It bodes well for the future of orchestral music in this country." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Pure Energy, a concert by the AYO Young Symphonists.
In a canny strategic move, Belconnen Arts Centre has announced that Christopher Baldock's company Mockingbird Theatre will become its company in residence, reports HELEN MUSA.
One of Canberra's leading philanthropists, writers and public intellectuals, Barbara Blackman, died at Clare Holland House on Friday afternoon. She was 95. HELEN MUSA reports...
The coming production of Little Shop of Horrors at Gungahlin Theatre will mark the 10-year anniversary of Dramatic Productions, founded by Richard Block, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
Another busy week looms on the Canberra arts scene. HELEN MUSA's latest Artsweek column has it all...
The visual arts community is rejoicing in long-awaited news that curator Tony Oates has been appointed to head up the ANU Drill Hall Gallery and ANU Art Collection.
Retiring principal of the Bungendore Woodworks David Mac Laren is known as a formidable personality in the arts, with interests that spread well beyond wood. Arts editor HELEN MUSA explains why.
The 2024 Canberra Art Biennial, which involves installations by 61 artists, is now taking place around Lake Burley Griffin, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
It seems almost incredible that Canberra actor Amy Kowalczuk has never acted in Shakespeare before. Now she's taking on the daunting role of "mad Meg", Henry VI’s wife Queen Margaret, in Rockspeare Henry Sixth Part Two.
