Omar Musa wins Newcastle short story award
Omar Musa, visual artist, rapper and poet from Queanbeyan, has won first and second prize in the 2024 Newcastle Short Story Award for his two stories, Langsat and Boogeyman.
Arts & Entertainment
Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance
"A gifted storyteller with a relaxed stream-of-consciousness style, all her stories were around food." BILL STEPHENS reviews Michelle Pearson's Comfort Food Cabaret.
IAN McLEAN reviews Angels & Serenades, a performance by Musica Da Camera Canberra, conducted by Brad Tham.
MICHAEL WILSON reviews Days of Miracle and Wonder, performed by the project choir Coro under the direction of David Mackay.
Streaming
New season and Black Mirror keeps pushing the boundaries
There is perhaps no show in the last decade that has pushed the boundaries of television as boldly as Black Mirror, says streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
Dance
Swan Lake comes with an astonishing ending
"Well pointed feet make a huge difference to the quality of ballet dancing and poor use of the feet prevented this Swan Lake being as strong as it might have been." MICHELLE POTTER reviews the Victorian State Ballet.
Music
Barefoot pianist’s intimate evocations of landscape
Reviewer ALANNA MACLEAN says Sophie Hutchings' Resonant Spaces performance was an unusual and rewarding evening.
"It’s all delightfully silly, but remarkably, in all the threatening chaos, WS Gilbert’s story gets told... and Arthur Sullivan’s music is respected." BILL STEPHENS reviews the wickedly silly laugh fest that's The Pirates of Penzance.
ROB KENNEDY reviews Opera's Bad Girl, Sarahlouise Owens' one-woman performance recounting the remarkable life of Victorian Diva Anna Bishop.
Canberra comedians Jacquelyn Richards and Trish Hurley will be representing the Women's Room initiative at the Melbourne Comedy Festival next week with their new show, Punchline.
Arts here, arts there and arts everywhere! HELEN MUSA rounds up what's on where in her latest Artsweek column.
Louise Skačej has been named as the artist selected to create a public artwork honouring the late Stasia Dabrowski, Canberra’s Soup Kitchen Lady.
DAVID TURNBULL continues his series of profiles on Canberrans with a story. This week he meets a familiar TV news face who's gone from writing fact to fiction.
JK Kazzi, who plays the title role of Bell Shakespeare's upcoming production of Henry 5, tells arts editor HELEN MUSA that he plans to expose the dark side of the role.
HELEN MUSA spins all around the local arts world. Here's Arts in the City, full of news of her latest circumnavigation.
A new streaming service offers a host of big movies and small-screen hits, posing questions about the future of a crowded market for on-demand viewing.
LEN POWER reviews Across Space and Time, a piano recital by Stuart Long of moving movie music.
"The ensemble’s dramatic approach to the work brought out a new experience of Mozart’s astonishing harmonic adventurism." NICK HORN reviews the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
"The applause grew and was sustained as the audience realised that they had just heard something quite remarkable." GRAHAM McDONALD reviews Gesualdo Tenebrae, a performance by the Luminescence Chamber Singers.
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![Evie Hudson is a woman with amnesia, who forgets the last 13 years. Piecing her life back together, she navigates the harsh realities of coercive control.
Evie is the leading character in local author @emmagreyauthor's second novel Pictures of You.
Her debut book, The Last Love Note, sold more than 100,000 books worldwide within a few months of being published last year.
“I think that using amnesia really helped [show the effects of coercive control] because she had that sense of being completely lost in her own life,” Emma says of her new work of fiction.
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