"CityNews" arts editor HELEN MUSA reveals that "The Canberra Times" is abandoning commissioning specialist arts critics ("purely a cost issue"), preferring to assign its occasional reviewing to staffers.
Helen Musa
“CityNews” arts editor
Music / “Coming Home”, Canberra Choral Society. At Wesley Uniting Church, June 18. Reviewed by…
"Rebus deftly handled the balance between its disturbing subject matter and the need to entertain entice an audience," writes reviewer HELEN MUSA.
The winner of this year’s National Photographic Portrait Prize is Melbourne photographer Shea Kirk, reports HELEN MUSA.
Photographer Rory King's journey to the interior became a metaphor for a journey into the self, into contemplation of loss, death, loneliness and longing, writes reviewer CON BOEKEL.
Rebus Theatre’s latest outing, “Systems and Sanity,” is a show that challenges traditional thinking about the mental health system, reports HELEN MUSA.
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.
