Q season promises year of ‘delicious’ entertainment
Patrons of The Q can comfortably expect a year of delicious entertainment if artistic director Jordan Best’s announcement of the 2026 theatre season on Monday evening was anything to go by.
Arts & Entertainment
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Canberra flautist Sally Walker has been nominated for Limelight magazine’s Artist of the Year this year – the only Canberra artist and the only wind player in the line-up.
BRIAN ROPE reviews two complementary, but different photo exhibitions.
HELEN MUSA rounds up all sorts of arts news in her latest Art in the City column.
Dance
Young choreographers step into the spotlight
MICHELLE POTTER reviews the Emerging Choreographers Program 2025 by Quantum Leap Australia.
Music
Choir’s ‘true celebration’ of Handel’s music
LEN POWER reviews A Handel Celebration, a performance by the Canberra Choral Society.
Exhibitions
Museum opens its Korean wave
The Canberra-only exhibition, Hallyu! The Korean Wave is now open at the National Museum.
America – and indeed the world – is celebrating Dick Van Dyke, as the beloved entertainment icon reaches his 100th birthday.
Benoit Blanc has fast become something of a Sherlock Holmes for the streaming age, writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"A most satisfied audience ventured home with the real spirit of Christmas firmly in their hearts and minds." IAN McLEAN reviews the 2025 Luminous Christmas concert.
BILL STEPHENS remembers musical theatre star Toni Lamond, who died in Sydney on November 29. She was 93.
Why are there so many murder mysteries set at Christmas, asks book reviewer COLIN STEELE.
KERRY-ANNE COUSINS reviews the 5th National Indigenous Art Triennial: After the Rain.
Acknowledged for his boundless energy, drive and focus, Garth Lawrence Mansfield was a tireless advocate for music and the founding force behind the Wesley Music Centre in Forrest, writes arts editor HELEN MUSA.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews Bridges, a glass exhibition.
MEREDITH HINCHLIFFE reviews the 2025 Craft + Design Canberra Annual Members Exhibition.
“My father, who was in advertising, had heard of this new little industry that was just developing called market research and he made an appointment for me to go to a job interview." ROD HENSHAW talks to social psychologist Hugh Mackay.
Here's Artweek – arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest look at what's on where this week around the Canberra arts scene.
Busy artistic director of The Q in Queanbeyan, Jordan Best, has made life a little busier by casting herself in the double roles of Titania and Hippolyta in an upcoming revival of her outdoor A Midsummer Night’s Dream, writes HELEN MUSA.
