BEAVER Galleries have an exhibition of work by the late Andrew Sayers, comprising a series of paintings distilled from notes and memories of three decades living and working in the capital, as well as time spent on the south coast of NSW.
Andrew Sayers-‘The Rowers, Herring Island’, oil on canvas
IN a second exhibition, there are watercolours, prints and small objects by cartoonist/artist Judy Horacek, inspired by her love of old maps, travel, boats and flying. At the galleries, 81 Denison St, Deakin, Both shows run at Beaver, Tue to Fri 10am-5pm, Sat and Sun 9am-5pm, until November 29.
Festivals and events:
TUGGERANONG Arts Centre’s Silvery Moon Festival runs this Saturday by the Lake from 1-9pm, with music, dance, art and talks – all welcome.
ARTSOUND FM’s popular book and music fair is part of the station/studio’s open day at Manuka Arts Centre (next to Manuka Pool) on Sunday, November 8 from 9am to 4pm – there’ll also be live local music on the lawns, studio tours, a chance to record your voice for radio airplay and food and drink. Also its annual Radiothon runs from October 31 to November 8, all details at artsound.fm
THE popular Queanbeyan Arts Trail Bus Tour is running again this year 10am – 3pm on Sunday 8 November 8. For $25 you can travel the arts trail in chauffeured comfort enjoying a picnic lunch and afternoon tea. Bookings essential to 6285 6290 or 6285 6170 or in person at The Q.
THE ‘Men from Snowy River’ re-enactment march and commemorative ceremony, takes place in Queanbeyan, from the RSL Building corner of Crawford and Monaro Sts, from the RSL Building corner of Crawford and Monaro Sts, at 10.30am sharp, this Sunday November 8, then moves along Monaro St to the Cenotaph where the ceremony will be held.
EL SALVADOR Australia Friendship Association is hosting a Fiesta to support a brighter future for El Salvador, at the Hall of St James Uniting Church, 40 Gillies St, Curtin, 6:30pm –midnight Saturday Nov 7, all welcome, and $10 at the door.
CANBERRA Seniors Centre Saturday are hosting a fete with Trash and Treasure, cakes and jams, second hand books, plants, craft items, preloved clothes, kids toys & games and delicious food, at the Centre, 10 Watson Street Turner, 9am to 3pm this Saturday, November 7, all welcome.
THE regular markets at Westside Acton Park, 3 Barrine Drive, Acton run from noon to 6pm on Sunday.
Talks:
ILLUSTRATOR Judy Horacek will be promoting her latest picture book (authored by Mem Fox) at a story time event for the families of Canberra at Muse (East Hotel – 69 Canberra Ave Kingston) 3.30 to 4.30 pm this Saturday, November 7. Details at musecanberra.com.au
Arts business:
YOUNG musicians interested in joining the Canberra Youth Orchestra, or Music for Canberra’s younger string and orchestral ensembles, are warmly welcomed to audition for 2016 over the weekends November 7-8 and November 14-15. Details at musicforcanberra.org.au (see “Audition for 2016”).
BELCONNEN Community Centre’s gallery@bcs is an affordable alternative to commercial galleries and is now taking expressions of interest for exhibitions in 2016. Inquiries to gallery@bcsact.com.au
Film:
THE 19th Canberra International Film Festival, opens tonight, exclusively at the National Film and Sound Archive’s Arc Cinema, November 5-15, bookings to ciff.com.au
THE 2015 Russian Resurrection Film Festival is at Greater Union Manuka until November 11, bookings to eventcinemas.com.au/EventsFestivals/RussianFilmFestival or 6295 9042.
The 2015 BBC First British Film Festival is at Palace Electric, NewActon until Nov 18, details at britishfilmfestival.com.au
Theatre:
“The Mikado”, is opening at The Q, Queanbeyan, on Friday November 6 then running to Nov15, bookings to theq.net.au or 6285 6290.
FREE Rain Theatre presents the cabaret “Buzzing Broadway” at The Courtyard Studio until November 7, Bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
THE PIRATES of Penzance, based on Simon Gallaher’s award winning production, opens for Canberra Philharmonic at Erindale Theatre, McBryde Crescent, Wanniassa runs to Nov 7, bookings to philo.org.au
“THANK You for Being a Friend” is the ultimate Golden Girls experience, at The Playhouse, November 6-7, bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
Concerts:
A drawing by Leunig
TWELVE composers have created a new musical almanac for Australia with The Song Company, drawing on the words and works of Michael Leunig. It’s a farewell to long-time director Roland Peelman. Wesley Uniting Church, 6pm Saturday, Nov 7. Bookings to songcompany.com.au.
IN “A Journey of Piano Duets”, Elena Nikulina & Natalia Tkachenko will perform French and Russian masterpieces. Wesley Music Centre, 3pm Sunday Nov 8. Tickets at the door.
ALSO at Wesley, Hilda Visser-Scott piano; Miriam Rose soprano; Harry Hall cello and Peter Scott clarinet will perform chamber works for clarinet, cello, piano & soprano. Wesley Music Centre, 7pm,
Sunday November 8.
Tickets at the door or phone 0401 281 319 or email scott_hil@yahoo.com.au
Kate Rafferty
KATE and Carl Rafferty present a Twilight Champagne concert at St. John’s Church Reid (Corner of Anzac Parade and Constitution Ave) at 6pm This Friday and Saturday, Nov 6 & 7. Champagne on the lawns afterwards. Bookings to carlrafferty@bigpond.com
BARBARA Baikie and Peter Fletcher will open their rural property near Hall for a 3 course Nepali dinner, traditional Nepali music and after-dinner music. Funds go to rebuilding Sundar Suryodaya Primary School near Kathmandu. Saturday, November 7. Bookings to trybooking.com/JCQJ
ARIA winning oud-player Joseph Tawadros brings his “Angel Suite”, performed in memory of his parents, to The Street Theatre for one night only at 6pm on Sunday, November 8. Bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.
Gigs:
CHANTEUSE Katie Noonan is heading to Street Theatre, this Friday, November 6, Bookings to thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.
The Paper Kites
A CONCERT of gypsy jazz guitar by international touring artists Ian Date and Nigel Date will be held at Artistic Vision Gallery 1/61 Colbee Court Phillip, at 5.30pm on Sat November 7, seats at the door.
MIX 106.3 LIVE will host a concert featuring three hours of hits and memories with 12 of Australia’s 70s, 80s and 90s hit makers, at the Royal Theatre, at 7pm, this Saturday Nov 7, bookings to premier.ticketek.com.au
MELBOURNE folksters the Paper Kites have released their second album ‘twelvefour’ and are on a national album tour coming to the ANU this Sat Nov 7, bookings to ticketek.com.au or 132 849.
Exhibitions:
IVY Hill Gallery has “Take a Line,” drawings by Veronica O’Leary, Peter Tucker and Simon Weber, at 1795 Tathra-Bermagui Road, Wapengo, Thursday to Sunday 10 – 5, November 5 to December 6. Drinks with the Artists 5pm Saturday, November 7.
Aspden, Outer Spice, 1969
“BIRTH of the Cool” is a great name for an exhibition. A selection of major works by David Aspden, Sydney Ball, Michael Johnson and Dick Watkins, it surveys the decade between 1963 and 1973, a golden era of Australian art once praised as the first genuine avant-garde to appear in Australia since the Heidelberg School in the 1880s. It’s curated by Terence Maloon, director of the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, where the show runs 12 – 5pm Wednesday to Sunday Nov 6-Dec 13. At 12 noon this Friday, November 6, artists and special guests will be remembering the 1960s all welcome.
THE Gallery of Australian Design and the Land Development Agency have “Front Door,” a snapshot of images recollecting the story of the Northbourne Housing Precinct, Gallery of Australian Design, 47 Jardine St Kingston, and November 6 – 29.
“THE Art of Lest We Forget” is an exhibition of WW1 themed artworks from members of the Queanbeyan Art Society in The Q’s Exhibition Space until November 14.
THE Studio Gallery in Duffy reopens for one weekend only to raise much needed funds to support Animals Asia. The exhibition will include works on paper and canvas, textiles, glass, ceramics and hand-made cards. At 57 Warragamba Avenue Duffy, 11am to 4pm, Saturday, November 7 and 11am to 4pm Sunday November 8. Entry by gold coin
Wen Miao Yeh space brooch, at Bilk
THE exhibition ‘Oh me, oh my!’ sees the gallery for contemporary metal and glass decorated and filled with rings, bracelets, pendants, objects and brooches from artists new and old, at Bilk Gallery Palmerston Lane Manuka. Opens this Saturday November 7, then runs until December 24.
Avi Amesbury_Untitled 2014
IN “Elements of Place” ceramic artist Avi Amesbury exhibits solo, at FORM Studio and Gallery 1/30 Aurora Ave Queanbeyan, until Nov 22.
CRAFT ACT: Craft + Design Centre has two exhibitions opening at Level 1 North Building, 180 London Circuit, 6pm, today, Thursday, November 5. The shows are “Thought – Process”, new furniture and drawings by Tom Skeehan and “discover define develop deliver,” this year’s annual Accredited Professional Members exhibition.
“B5761626572” – the title contains the birth years of the exhibiting artists, Christoph Preussman, Ham Darroch, Derek O’Connor, Paul Uhlmann and Robert Cleworth. At M16 Artspace, Blaxland Crs Griffith, 12 – 5pm, Wednesday – Sunday until November 15.
THE CAPO exhibition can be seen at CMAG in Galleries 2 and 3 until this Saturday, November 7 when the CAPO Auction Gala takes place.
Pieces from the Heart’
ABSTRACTION x 3 works by Andrew Christofides Mark Galea , Donald Laycock at the Nancy Sever Gallery, 6 Kennedy Street Kingston runs until November 29 Wednesday–Sunday 11 am–6 pm.
GALLERY@BCS’s Piece of Mind Series presents ‘Pieces from the Heart’, paintings by mother and daughter Anne Maree and Saskia Vogt. At Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Court, Belconnen, 9am-4:30pm Monday-Friday until Nov 13.
MOTHER and daughter artists Libby Hobbs and Dimity Kidston are exhibiting “MEDLEY,” mixed works, in at POD, the Craft ACT space at Shop 5, The Hamlet 16 Lonsdale St Braddon, 11-3, Nov 5-15, with the opening 6-8pm Friday Nov 6.
ANOTHER mother and daughter exhibition by Pamela and Victoria Collins is showing at Yarralumla Gallery behind the nursery running to Nov 27.
THE Greinke Drawing-Ballis Portrait and Queanbeyan Art Society Miniature Art Competition is still running at the Gallery, 6 Trinculo Place, Queanbeyan under the bridge.
GEORGINA Poulos is the first artist to have a solo exhibition at Margaret Hadfield’s ‘Artistic Vision’ Gallery, 1/61 Colbee Court, Phillip, with paintings on display until November 28.
AN exhibition and celebration of the tree run at Bungendore Wood Works Gallery and until December 6.
CANBERRA Potters’ Members’ show of 85 exhibits at Watson Arts Centre, Aspinall Street, Watson, 10am – 4pm Thursday to Sunday until November 8.
PHOTOACCESS has ‘A Film of One’s Own’ [Archive Fever] by Canberra filmmaker, archivist and artist Louise Curham and ‘The Apostle’ by Juhani Koivumaki, a Helsinki-based media artist, at Manuka Arts Centre, PhotoAccess until Sunday November 15.
RANDOM9 ( www.random-9.com ) is a group of independent emerging visual artists, whose latest exhibition “Landscapes of Decay” is at Belconnen Arts Centre, 10am to 4pm Tues to Sun until Nov 15.
BELCONNEN Arts Centre also has ‘Transpire,’ works by University of Canberra Landscape Architecture students and ‘Borderline’ by Hayley Lander, until Nov 15.
MEANTIME in the Outdoor Gallery at BAC, recipient of the Emerging Artist Support Scheme, artist Anton Poon has used the metaphor of a bridge to explore the concept of cultural transition. Until Dec 13.
STRATHNAIRN Arts has its annual member’s exhibition at the Strathnairn Homestead Gallery, 90 Stockdill Drive, Holt running to November 15.
‘ECLECTIC’ celebrates the curious places in which we find beauty and divinity, as seen by 5 artists. At Aarwun Gallery in Federation Square until November 20.
“THE Fire did not beat us – 100 years of fighting bushfires in the Australian Capital Territory: 1915 – 2015”, is showing at Tuggeranong Arts Centre until November 15.
“THE Barbed Maze,” an installation by local artists Denise Higgins and Gary Smith, is at the Canberra Contemporary Art Space – Gorman Arts Centre until November 21.
“THE Distant Warriors: Ka Maumahara (We Will Remember Them) Let Us Not Be Forgotten” is the ANZAC Centenary exhibition inspired by the stories of Indigenous Australian and Maori soldiers still running at Canberra Glassworks until November 19.
‘PUNUKU Tjukurpa’ an Artback NT touring exhibition of works from the Maruku Arts archive at Mutitjulu near Uluru and is developed with Maruku Arts, now at the Canberra Museum and Gallery.
“FASHION and fantasy: 21st century fashion dolls”, from the collection of Julie Manley, can now be seen in CMAG’s ‘Open Collections gallery’ and in the showcase by the London Circuit entrance. Until Nov 22.
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