CALISTHENICS ACT has its annual Calisthenics Showcase at the Canberra Theatre, this Saturday June 4.
Calisthenics
You’ll see the teams about to travel interstate to represent the ACT at the Calisthenics Nationals, in Adelaide, perform their dances.
This year the ACT is sending two teams to compete in the Seniors (ages 16 and above) and the Juniors (ages 11 to 13) sections in Adelaide.
Bookings for the showcase to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
Events:
THE Embassies of Ecuador, Chile and Cuba are holding “Event for Ecuador” to assist with the restoring of critical services and the rebuilding process Ecuador suffered a devastating earthquake of a 7.8 magnitude in April. Theo Notaras Multicultural Centre, Function Room, 5pm until late, this Saturday June 4. Entry: $10.
SOUND and Fury is back with another party, starting at the pebble courtyard outside the Nishi Gallery from 7pm this Saturday. There will be heaters, a funky DJ, and cocktails – all to get you ready for the party. Here’s the key details: Sound and Fury: Cold Winter Hot Party, June 4, 8pm to 11pm (plus pre show cocktails in the pebble courtyard). Bookings to soundandfuryparty.eventbrite.com.au
“FAITH Fashion Fusion: Muslim Women’s Style in Australia”, a curated discovery of emerging modest fashion trends and the work of a new generation of Muslim fashionistas – designers and entrepreneurs – making a mark on the local fashion industry. It’s a travelling exhibition developed by the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, Sydney. At the National Archives of Australia, Queen Victoria Terrace, daily until September 4.
Talk:
MUSE Cafe in the East Hotel, Kingston, has an intriguing session called ” From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11″ featuring writer and commentator Shakira Hussein, boxer Bianca ‘Bam Bam’ Elmir and journalist Julie Posetti discussing representations of Muslim women, from Afghan refugee camps to suburban Australia. 3-4pm, Sunday June 5, $10 (includes glass of wine or soft drink) bookings to musecanberra.com.au/events/
Films:
THE new film festival “Essential Independents: American Cinema, Now” has been curated by artistic director Richard Sowada, who says, “there’s no holding back and there’s no compromise.” The festival will showcase the past, present and future of independent cinema from the United States and 14 of the 32 films will have their Australian premiere. At Palace Cinemas, NewActon, bookings to palacecinemas.com.au
Arts business:
Queanbeyan, Highly Commended Award 2014, Letters from Home by Leah-Kate Hannaford
QUEANBEYAN Art Society will hold its ninth Charity Art Show in City Walk during Floriade this year and will for the first time be supporting a local charity, the Ricky Stuart Foundation. QAS President Barry Cranston expects an average of 900 a day viewing the art works and Stuart says his foundation was set up to help families who struggle daily with autism. Entries close on June 16, inquiries to 0439 392 709.
IN THE City Canberra has just launched ‘Grants In The City, making $340,000 available to individuals, groups and businesses for events and projects to enrich the CBD in the next 12 month. For more information and how to apply, visit inthecitycanberra.com.au
THE Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council extends an invitation to all artists and craftspeople who reside in the Queanbeyan, Palerang, Cooma Monaro or Yass Valley local government areas, to enter the Council Regional Art Awards, Over $4000 in cash and prizes on offer. All interested artists and craftspeople are encouraged to apply at qprc.nsw.gov.au and present work on July 20.
All entries are welcome for the “Sole Mate” fundraiser exhibition for the SoART Gallery, which is a community- run gallery in Narooma, just next to the Narooma Kinema. Entries of a single shoe, boot or sandal due by June 3. Opens with drinks & nibbles on Thursday June 9 at 6pm and the show runs until June 21. All details at infosoartgallery@gmail.com or 0400 442945.
QUEANBEYAN City Council is calling on interested stallholders to apply for a site for the inaugural Queanbeyan Christmas in July Fair to be held at the Queanbeyan Showground on Sunday, July 24 from 10am-3pm. To apply for a stallholder site visit qcc.nsw.gov.au or contact Cultural Services at Queanbeyan City Council on 6285 6170 or email cultural.services@qcc.nsw.gov.au
THE Luminescence Chamber Singers have announced the launch of a new venture, The Luminescence Children’s Choir – a treble choir for 10-17 year olds. Founded by 21-year-old AJ America and 24-year-old Veronica Milroy, the ensemble provides a comprehensive and holistic approach to music making. Applications are now open for Semester 2. Information from luminescencesingers.wix.com
HANDEL in the Theatre, Toby Cole’s new artistic company has launched a crowd funding campaign to raise $10,000 for the professional fees, travel and accommodation of his soloists and instrumentalists. Creative Partnerships Australia’s ‘MATCH’ program will match donations dollar for dollar. Visit handelinthetheatre.com.au
APPLICATIONS for exhibitions at M16 Artspace in 2017 are now open until May 31. M16 aims to present high-quality exhibitions from both emerging and established artists and curators from Canberra, interstate and overseas. Application details at m16artspace.com.au ANCA Gallery is holding its hugely popular ‘PIN’ annual exhibition of miniature wearable artworks (mostly brooches) again in 2016. Professional artists residing anywhere in Australia are encouraged to apply by 5pm June 1. For the application form and details visit anca.net.au
Workshops and classes:
Singfling
SINGER, songwriter and voice teacher extraordinaire Lisa Richards will introduce everyone, but especially the ‘Shy and Vocally Challenged’ to their singing voices in a fun, critique free group singing environment. You need ZERO experience singing and ZERO belief in your ability to sing. Every second Tuesday at Smith’s Alternative, Alinga St Civic. Smith’s Alternative ‘Sing Fling: Live Dangerously’. Entry $10 at the door.
“OBJECT THERAPY” seeks to creatively repair, nay, transform people’s broken objects and as part of a collaboration between Fix and Make, ANU and UNSW, the organisers are looking for people who have a damaged or broken object and want to be part of this investigation. Objects will be returned to their owners at the end of the project, which will culminate in an exhibition on September 29 at Hotel Hotel. Entries for participation close on Sunday June 5. Cost – Free. Info at hotel-hotel.com.au
“BRUSH up your Shakespeare” is a six week course in playing Shakespeare, including exercises in the theories and practices of Cicely Berry, John Barton, Peter Brook and other actors and directors of Shakespeare. Until Sunday July 19. For further information email course tutor Peter Wilkins at peterbwilkins@aol.com or peterwilkins@grapevine.com.au or phone 0408 034 373.
Damian Corniola
THE GROOVE Warehouse has Damian Corniola, one of Australia’s most exciting drummers and educators, running a Drum Kit Holiday Programs at 1 Sawmill Circuit Hume, July 5, ages 13 – 18 inquiries to 0410 685 753.
JAPANESE Taiko drumming classes with Taikoz Australia Artist, Ryuji Hamada, are being offered at Four Winds, Bermagui over the June long weekend. Taiko is for all age groups, music and fitness levels. No previous experience is necessary. The Youth Beginner Workshop (8 to 16 yrs) is on at 1pm, Saturday June 11. The Adult Beginner Workshop is on at 1pm, Sunday June 12. At The Four Winds’ Windsong Pavilion, Bermagui. Bookings are essential to fourwinds.com.au or call the Four Winds office on 6493 3414.
‘DARRYL’S Den supported arts and craft studio’ Wednesday creative art class in painting sculpture printing techniques and mosaic wall tiles, at Holt community hub 80 Beaurepaire Crescent Holt. 10am-noon, until June 22. Materials and morning tea provided, inquiries and bookings to darrylsdenactoptusnet.com.au
Prizes and Awards:
ENTRIES are open until 24 June for the 2016 Archibald Prize. Artists are invited to submit their entries online for the prize, valued at $100,000. The prize will be awarded to the best portrait ‘preferentially of some man or woman distinguished in art, letters, science or politics, painted by any artist resident in Australasia during the 12 months preceding the date fixed by the Trustees for sending in the pictures’. The Trustees also invite artists to submit paintings for the Wynne and Sulman Prizes valued this year at $50,000 and $40,000 respectively. Entries to artgallery.nsw.gov.au by June 24.
THE 2016 Paul Lowin music prizes are now open for nomination. The Orchestral Prize ($25,000) is awarded for a work for modern chamber or symphony orchestra of at least 30 players and 15 independent lines. The Song Cycle Prize ($15,000) will be awarded to a work suitable for chamber performance, using no more than 1-8 independent vocal lines, accompanied by up to 10 instrumental players. Nominations are accepted from anyone, including the general public. Entries close 5pm June 30.
ENTRIES for the 2016 Australian Catholic University Prize for Poetry are now welcome, with writers from all over the country competing for the coveted first prize. The $7,000 ACU Prize for Poetry will be awarded for outstanding poetry with the theme “Loving Kindness.” Closing date Monday June 6, information at acu.edu.au
Theatre:
The Peasant Prince
LI CUNXIN’S celebrated book “Mao’s Last Dancer” tells a real-life story and so does his children’s book “The Peasant Prince,” now an optimistic children’s play being brought to Canberra by Monkey Baa Theatre Company. In it, a 10-year old peasant boy, is plucked from his village in rural China and sent to a ballet academy in the big city, later becoming a giant of the international dance scene. The Playhouse, June 3-4. Bookings
‘THE PROJECT’S’ Peter Helliar is in Canberra next month (3 & 4) to perform his new hit stand-up show, “One Hot Mess” is going to be both hot and messy, we hear. At The Canberra Theatre, June 3 and 4, bookings to canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
“CATCH Me If You Can”, the musical, traces the real life story of a charming rogue, Frank Abagnale Jnr, played by Leonardo di Caprio in the movie, who was always one step ahead of the FBI until he was caught forging millions of dollars of cheques, and posing as a pilot, doctor and lawyer. Alex Clubb plays Frank with Gerard Ninnes as FBI agent Carl Hanratty. At Gungahlin Theatre, May 27- June 11, bookings to stagecenta.com
Concerts and gigs:
THE UNIVERSITY of Canberra Chorale has two concerts of American music planned this weekend, the first at St Clements Anglican Church, corner of Church and Rossi Streets, Yass, 2.30pm this Saturday June 4 and the second , Cook Community Hall, Templeton St, Cook, ACT, 2.30pm Sun June 5. ‘Hearts All Whole’ features works by Barber, Copland, Gordon and Lauridsen. Bookings to trybooking.com, or at the door.
DONNA Amini has performed music that draws on her Persian heritage for years in various bands in styles ranging from folk to punk to experimental improv. She be performing with Happy Axe at Smiths Alternative, this Friday June 3, 7pm – 9pm (Doors open 6:30pm) bookings to smithsalternative.com
Foster and Allen
MICK Foster and Tony Allen have been performing together for over 30 years and between them they have sold 20 million records, making them one of Ireland’s biggest entertainment exports. With their current tour they are releasing “Celebration”, which celebrates Foster and Allen’s 40 years as a performing, touring and recording duo. At Canberra Southern Cross Club, Friday June 3, bookings to 6283 7288 or cscc.com.au
IN “EASTERN European Odyssey” the Kompactus Youth Choir brings to life the rich and varied choral sound of Eastern Europe, featuring traditional folk songs, masters like Dvorak and Janacek, as well as more contemporary offerings such as Latvian Eriks Esenvalds and Lithuanian Donatas Zakaras. 2pm Sunday June 5, Wesley Music Centre Forrest, bookings to trybooking.com or at the door.
“CONCERTO competition” presented by Music for Canberra sees finalists from the Canberra Youth Orchestra performing their chosen Concerto pieces, as they compete for a soloist performance at Llewellyn Hall later in 2016. All members of the public are invited to this competition performance at Wesley Uniting Church, 5pm, Sunday June 5, (finalists do not need a ticket for entry; under 16 free). Bookings to eventbrite.com.au
GIGS this weekend at The Phoenix Pub in Civic are: Thursday June 2, 9pm, $10/$5 The Sugarcanes Loose Tooth The King Hits; Friday June 3, 9pm, $10/$5 The Gypsy Scholars Tate Sheridan Gus & Jim; and Saturday June 4, 9:30pm, $10 Shining Bird Brother Be Passive Smoke.
Exhibitions:
Luis Millingalli, N.A 566, Titulo Arbol de Magnolia, Tecnica Lienzo-Acrilico, Formato
ECUADORIAN Indigenous artist Luis Millingalli taught himself to paint, as a means to express himself and make his own way. Millingalli’s vivid work captures in bold colours, the people and landscapes of rural Ecuador. It has been shown around the world in Europe, Asia and the Americas. His current exhibition, “A Mountain of Flowers and Forests”, will be opened by the Ambassador of Ecuador, Raul Gangotena at 6pm on Thursday June 2, at Tuggeranong Arts Centre.
CANBERRA Glassworks has a new show, “Light Translations”, of new works by Holly Grace and Lisa Cahill exploring place and identity, reflecting the natural and cultural environments of Denmark and Australia, here from the Ebeltoft Glass Museum, Denmark. Until July 17, floor talk 2pm, Sat June 4.
“MATERIAL Objects,” a furniture exhibition by Elliot Bastianon and Andrew Carvolth, opens at the Nishi Gallery 6pm this Friday June 3. Bastianon’s work is a speculation of material possibilities that draws inspiration from folded structures. Carvolth’s work looks to create a contemporary Australian vernacular through a series of thoughtful objects that celebrates regional materials and processes. All works are for sale. At 17 Kendall Lane NewActon, until June 26.
Peter Alwast, The Night Sky
IN “Here and There”, a solo show by Peter Alwast, The Garage project (co- directed by Sabrina Baker & Sara d’Alessandro) moves out from private garages and takes over an empty shop inside the Garema Centre on Garema Place, offered by Notaras Commercial. The opening party will take place on Friday June 3, from 6pm to 9pm. The Garage is an independent project born from the idea that art could be shown everywhere. The show is curated by Sara d’Alessandro. Closes June 12.
“EX LIBRIS” is an exhibition of Megalo Print Studio + Gallery members’ printworks inspired by the art of the bookplate. The majority of works are only 14 x 10cm in size. Megalo, 21 Wentworth Avenue Kingston, June 4 – 25, Tuesday – Saturday 9.30am – 5pm.
BRAIDWOOD artist and teacher at St Bede’s Primary School, Julian Laffan, challenges the usual notion of bringing home a reminder of travel in an exhibition of woodcuts, each hand rendered and hand painted. Inspired by late 19th century hand painted photographs, the images capture Laffan’s recent observations of travel to Europe and the United States in 2015-2016. Suki & Hugh Gallery 38A Gibraltar Street Bungendore, opens 3 – 5pm on Saturday, June 4 and runs until July 31.
QUEANBEYAN’S latest public art installation – 20 Indigenous street sails – will be installed along Monaro St this week. The sails were designed at a one-day workshop with high school and primary school students from around the region and well-known Aboriginal artist, Dale Huddleston. The artworks were superimposed on 20 street flags which will line Queanbeyan’s Monaro St until July 29 and at other times during the year. The 13 original artworks which formed the basis of the sails will be on display at Riverside Plaza until June 6.
Felt work
THE annual Canberra Region Feltmakers’ show “Rapt in Felt” opens at 5.30pm on Tuesday May 31 in Queanbeyan. Almost 40 felt makers who will have their creations on display, including 10-year-old Tomas Keily, who has made a fedora. There will be felt jackets, dresses, skirts, hats, wraps and scarves, bags and jewellery and homewares on sale. At The Q in Queanbeyan, until June 11 10am-4pm weekdays and 10am-2pm Saturdays. Fashion parade 11am Saturday June 4.
THE National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature still has “Seeing Stories”, an exhibition of framed original artworks from the John Barrow collection. Forty works from the 135 in the collection cover the years from the 1980s through the early 2000s and provide a visual documentary of an important period in the history of Australian children’s literature. The ten artists on exhibition are Ann James, Alison Lester, Julie Vivas, Bob Graham, Peter Gouldthorpe, Andrew McLean, Patricia Mullins, Terry Denton, Elizabeth Honey and Leigh Hobbs. At University of Canberra Hub Exhibition Space (opposite Mizzuna Café) until August 26, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays & Fridays 10.30am-2.30pm Sundays 1pm-4.pm.
A ‘CONFIDENT Collecting Course’ is at M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, on June 6, June 20 and June 27, showing the where, how and what of art collecting. Details at m16artspace.com.au
PHOTOACCESS has two exhibitions in the Huw Davies Gallery celebrating the materiality of photography: Cihuateotl’s “Myth” by Canberra-based Mexican born emerging artist Octavio Garcia Alvarado, and “An Endless Horizon” by Sydney-based emerging photographer Matthew James. Exhibitions continue until Sunday, June 19.
IN “Crafting Waste,” local designer/maker Niklavs Rubenis addresses contemporary critical concerns around design, consumption, material culture and waste. Rubenis’ exhibition features propositional and prototype furniture and lighting crafted from de-valued resources. In “Aesthetics in a Time of Emergency,” Sarah Field, Jennifer Ashley King, Jasmine Targett, Nadia Mercuri and Bethany Wheeler, primarily glass makers, explore an idea surrounding a current ‘state of emergency’ that impacts upon the individual and society collectively. In the Crucible Showcase, Canberra Potters Society Craft ACT award winner Hsin-Yi Yang presents her interlocking ceramic objects. All at Craft ACT: Craft + Design Centre Gallery, Level 1, North Building, 180 London Circuit, until July 9.
Jas Hugonnet, Hughes Studio 2016
IN “Jas Hugonnet the divided works,” Hugonnet pays homage to minimalism and the process of construction. A key idea in this series was to stick to a set of rules around proportion and let the surface of the work convey a sense of space. CCAS Manuka 19 Furneaux St, Manuka. The show runs until 5pm Sunday June 5, 11-5pm Thursday to Sunday.
ARTISTS Ned Bott, Christopher Dalzell, Hannah Gason, Hilary Hanrahan, Sanne Koelemij, Jacob Potter and Fiona Veikkanen will be featured in “Reverb”, the CAPO Emerging Artists’ Prize exhibition Curated by Oscar Capezio and Gemma Pike, at M16 Artspace, 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith, until June 12.
IN HER new show at M16 Artspace, Monde Monde explores our childhood memories – seen through the lens of the warnings our parents give us. Are your memories real? “Wait till your father gets home!” bindies in the lawn—this kind of memory. Runs until June 12.
Margy Duyke artwork at bcs
GALLERY@BCS ‘RESPECT’ series has “Exo State,” a collaborative exhibition of wearable art, by Nathan Carter of “Scar Tree Gear”, and Radayne Tanna in celebration of Reconciliation Week. Nathan has Yalanji, Cherokee, Irish, and African American heritage and is also a Deadly Award winning musician. Radayne has Yalanji and Torres Strait islander heritage. He is a visual artist, dancer and yidaki player, who is currently working on a new comic book series. Until June 3 at Belconnen Community Centre, Swanson Crt, Belconnen, normal opening hours Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.
“OBNOXIOUS Ladies in the Australian Landscape” is the title of a new show curated by Sabrina Baker that brings artists Emma Beer, Jacqueline Bradley, Anna Davern, Lucy Forsberg, Camille Serisier and Alex Pye. “All are assertive and determined in their ideas, uncompromising and not without a sense of humour,” Baker says. At Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman Arts until June 18, Tuesday to Friday 11am to 5pm, Saturday 10am to 4pm.
THE National Portrait Gallery has a focus exhibition of portraits by Arthur Boyd, titled “Mysterious eyes: Arthur Boyd portraits from 1945.” Gallery One, National Portrait Gallery, until August 14. Open 10am–5pm daily.
ARTIST, teacher, graphic designer, musician and now photographer, Eva Schroeder, won a photography internship at the UN Women’s office in Fiji last September. Now she’s exhibiting the results, 16 black and white images of “staunch, proud” female market vendors, under the title “Beneath the Bula Smile.” It’s her first solo exhibition and a satellite exhibition for Sydney’s coming ‘Head On’ photo festival. At Tuggeranong Arts Centre, until June 18.
Isabelle Mackay-Sim, Creeper 2
CANBERRA Potters has been running its artist-in-residence program since 2012 and since that time has welcomed ceramic artists from around the world, as well as some from closer to home. Resulting pieces will, for the first time, be shown together. CPS Artist-in-Residence Collection, at Watson Arts Centre, Aspinall St, Watson until June 19, 10am – 4pm Thursday to Sunday.
“ETCHED In the Sun I” is a selection of prints by indigenous artists in collaboration with distinguished printmaker Basil Hall, at Nancy Sever Gallery, 4/6 Kennedy Street, Kingston, 11 am to 6 pm Wednesdays to Sundays until June 5.
“BLACK & White Landscapes” by Michael Masters, at The Photography Room, Kingston Bus Depot, May 27 – June 5. Artist reception Friday May 27, 6pm, all welcome. The artist will be in the gallery on Sunday, June 5 at noon. Gallery hours: Fridays 4-7pm & Sundays 10-4pm (and by appointment). The exhibition will open in conjunction with the newly established Farmers & Foodies Market at the Old Bus Depot, open every Friday evening from 3-7pm.
Judy Holding – ‘Bird Landscape’, watercolour and ink on paper
JUDY Holding’s “The loaded landscape: sculpture and paintings” is on with Dean Bowen’s “New morning: paintings, prints & sculpture” at Beaver Galleries 81 Denison Street Deakin 81 Denison St Deakin, until June 12.
“WRONG Way Time”, the art of Fiona Hall, comes to us direct from the 2015 Venice Biennale. The Canberra-only exhibition provides Australian audiences with a window into this international art event and Hall was the first artist to represent Australia in the new Australian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale. At the NGA, until July 10. FREE ENTRY.
Rosario Lopez artwork
“UNFOLDING Memories” is a solo exhibition by Colombian artist Rosario López, who has been living and working in Canberra since August last year as a visiting fellow in the Centre of Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra. During this time, López has also had a studio at ANCA’s Mitchell campus. López has also had a studio at ANCA’s Mitchell campus. The show is at ANCA Gallery, 1 Rosevear Place Dickson, until June 5, 12pm-5pm Wednesday-Sunday.
“BARBARA Hanrahan: Words + Art” exhibits Barbara Hanrahan’s prints alongside her unique imaginative fiction, displaying the fertile relationship between her visual and textual languages, at Building 13 ADFA Northcote Drive, Campbell 9am to 5pm until June 17. Exhibition Floor Talk 5.30pm June 2, with Nicole Moore Professor of English Literature Studies UNSW Canberra and dealer, valuer, consultant, curator Helen Maxwell.
‘CLICK + Capture’ is the U3A Canberra Camera Club Photographic Exhibition, showing at Gallery 1+2, Strathnairn Arts, 90 Stockdill Dr Holt until June 12. 24 of the members, some with a life-time of experience, others new to amateur photography, are showing their work for the first time in a commercial gallery.
CANBERRA Museum and Gallery aims to further the enjoyment of the complexity of the nature of the Canberra region and our ‘bush capital’, in photos, paintings, sculpture, natural history illustration and drawing, scientific specimens and audio-visual material and a program of walks and talks, which can be found at cmag.com.au
CANBERRA Grammar School Gallery, Monaro Cresc Red Hill, has a new exhibition of printmaking and sculpture until June 18.
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