We've been reporting on Canberra’s busiest conductor, Leonard “Lenny” Weiss, since he was a whippersnapper, and he’s showing no sign of slowing down, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
For the second time, Canberra playwright Dylan Van Den Berg has won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
“BRING in a honeypot, and the bees will come,” virtuoso flautist Ana de la Vega says of the new $20 million Snow Concert Hall, which opens its doors for the first time on Saturday at Canberra Grammar School.
A work praised by Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council Mayor Kenrick Winchester for its “quality of light” has won the $5000 QPRC Acquisitive Art Awards.
“CANBERRA/KAMBERRI, Place & People”, the new permanent exhibition at Canberra Museum and Gallery, has won a 2023 Museum and Galleries National Award in the “Permanent Exhibition or Gallery Fit-Out”.
If you believe ANU Film Group sponsorship officer Brett Yeats – and he's pretty persuasive – you'd be mad not to join the 57-year-old society which started in 1966 and is still going strong.