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Arts & Entertainment

Canberra’s best coverage of local arts news plus reviews, including dining, film, theatre, music, visual arts and dance

Books

Omar’s new book finds humanity in surreal worlds

"The Vape Lord of Queanbeyan, reads like the rantings of a lunatic, like prophecy, like poetry, like messages passed between the cells of some imaginary jail. There really isn't another book like it," writes JUDITH NANGALA CRISPIN.

Exhibitions

Remembering the car that carried Australia

Public reaction to Australia’s first locally made car in 1948 was extraordinary. Now an aptly titled exhibition at the National Archives, Rear Vision: the Holden Collection, brings to life memories and stories of GMH, reports HELEN MUSA.

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