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The daily ritual of burrowing into bed. Made in collaboration with U-P and Alyssa McClelland. Starring Alyssa McClelland in Creative Sun room 205.

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The Daily Ritual of Burrowing into Bed

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Botanical soundscape by Dylan Martorell

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WRITTEN BY Steph (27.6.2017)

Porosity Kabari… Ideas that passed through junk.

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WRITTEN BY Steph (19.6.2017)

Brutti was very Buoni

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WRITTEN BY Steph (9.6.2017)

Brutti ma Buoni

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WRITTEN BY Steph (8.5.2017)

Somewhere Else

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WRITTEN BY Steph (26.4.2017)

Suzi McKinnon and Jai Tongbor

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WRITTEN BY Steph (22.12.2015)

Dale, doing good

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WRITTEN BY Dan (30.11.2015)

The Ownership of Things

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WRITTEN BY Bubble (9.11.2015)

Many Many

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WRITTEN BY Steph (21.10.2015)

Adam and Amy Coombes

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Sam and Claire Johnson

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The Daily Ritual of Burrowing into Bed

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WRITTEN BY Steph (12.7.2017)

Daily Rituals by Jessica Tremp

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WRITTEN BY Steph (21.7.2016)

The daily rituals of Matt and Lentil

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WRITTEN BY Dan (28.1.2016)

New rituals for play

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WRITTEN BY Dan (25.10.2015)

The daily nap

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The daily rituals of others (part two)

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WRITTEN BY Dan (31.8.2015)

THAT OBJECT NEEDS THERAPY

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WRITTEN BY Steph (2.11.2016)

Object Therapy

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WRITTEN BY Dan (11.10.2016)

Cucumber and lime granita

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WRITTEN BY Steph (3.10.2016)

Oyster dressing with guanciale with piquillo peppers, basil and chilli

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WRITTEN BY Steph (16.6.2016)

How to make toys from trash

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Oscar Wilde quote

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We Collapse, We Build New Cities

WHEN Runs 23 August to 10 September
WHERE ANCA Dickson

A Curious Cabinet

WHEN Friday 28 July to Friday 11 August
WHERE Hotel Hotel Cabinets

Way Out West

WHEN Thursday 10 August, 7:30PM - 9:30PM
WHERE Ainslie Arts Centre

Object Subject

WHEN Friday 10 November and Saturday 11 November
WHERE Shine Dome

Setting up a small farm

WHEN Tuesday 25 July, from 6PM
WHERE Canberra Environment Centre

Dirty Girls Adventure Film Tour

WHEN Thursday 27 July from 8.30PM
WHERE Arc Cinema, NFSA

The beginning of genius is being scared shitless. ― Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Daily Rituals, Stories, Visual Essay

Daily Rituals by Jessica Tremp

Jessica Tremp came to stay and she took some photos while she was here. We made a visual essay with them.

Daily Rituals, Stories

New rituals for play

Botanical soundscape by Dylan Martorell

A soundscape of the Australian National Botanical Gardens made by Dylan Martorell for our 'Making as Meditation - patterns from plants' workshop with Sally Blake as part of Fix and Make last week...

Made (with thanks) from sound recordings provided by the Australian National Botanic Gardens www.anbg.gov.au.

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Porosity Kabari… Ideas that passed through junk.

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‘Porosity Kabari’ by Trent Jansen, Richard Goodwin and Ishan Khosla is exhibiting at the Nishi Gallery in Canberra until Sunday 9 July.

‘Porosity Kabari’ is an interdisciplinary, cross-cultural, collaborative project between Australian object designer Trent Jansen, artist and architect Richard Goodwin, and Indian design thinker Ishan Khosla.

The trio worked over three weeks to produce furniture and object pieces made from materials and craftsmanship sourced solely from the ‘Chor Bazaar’ (thieves market) and ‘Kabari Bazaars’ (junk markets) in Mumbai, India.

The project is aptly named. Porosity – the ability of a membrane or material to let liquid and gases pass through it; or in this case ideas and people. Kabari – the Hindi work for junk.

The market neighbourhoods within which this project took place are where many of India’s useful objects end up. It is also where they are often given a second life – car panels are transformed into ad-hock cookers and old clothing is quilted into rugs for snake charmers. The designers learnt from conversation and experimentation with the vendors and crafts people working in these manic marketplaces.

The process challenged them to ‘make something from something else’ – the essence of sustainable design. In a society such as India, without many of the common social safeguards that other “more economically developed” nations enjoy, the survival is determined by people’s ability to be creative and resourceful. India is a place where resourcefulness is part of the everyday. On the flip side, developed nations struggle with the environmental implications of designed obsolescence and disposable consumption. This project forced the designers to adopt a human oriented design approach and to make do with what was on hand.

Works by Trent Jansen

For this project Trent Jansen explored the process of jugaad – of doing just enough with what you have on hand and figuring it out as you go. At first it made him a little nervous. In contrast to his usual thoroughly researched projects; and used to working through production processes in a strict and controlled environment; this three week jugaad process was a free fall.

The process was based on observations and reactions – generating ideas by improvising forms based on those that were possible and using the techniques and materials that were readily available. It was also improvised – options and problems were decided upon and solved as solutions came to mind and were therefore also dependant on current mood and state of mind. These reflexive decisions based on availability and mood determined the destiny of each object.

Jansen made a stool, side table and crockery from terracotta, ‘Jugaad with Pottery’, with potter Abbas Galwani; and stools from metal with a small metal workshop, reshaping a car bonnet, copper panels and copper rivets, ‘Jugaad with Car Parts’.

For ‘Dropping a Kubhar Wala Matka’ Jansen pays homage to Ai Wei Wei’s controversial work, ‘Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn’, 1995. In this work, Abbas Galwani, a kumbhar wala (potter) living and working in Dharavi, drops a traditional Indian Matka. With this act, Abbas denounces the cultural structures that restrict his social mobility, impede his ability to gain recognition and respect for his unquestionable skill, and hinder his capacity to provide for his family. The piece is a critique of the traditions and history that underpin Indian social conventions. In India, the kumbhar wala is among the lower castes, meaning that these craftspeople, who make functional objects serving millions of Indians on a daily basis, do not earn the respect that they deserve for their role within Indian society.

Works by Richard Goodwin

With his ‘Binary Maquettes’ Goodwin explores the ratio of the golden mean (1:√2 – one as to the square root of two) a mathematical ratio found in nature and used in design to create compositions that are in proportion. In ancient Greek philosophy, the golden mean is the desirable middle state between excess and deficiency. With these maquettes Goodwin investigates the current threats to our existence as human beings.

With his installation ‘1-√2 Charpai For Mumbai’ Goodwin combines a motor scooter and an Indian charpai bed. With this high-rise bed on the move he explores where the body ends and architecture begins. He ponders on the lessons that the Mumbai slums can offer for 21st century architecture – by drawing on its highly developed social constructions, the problems there can be continuously addressed by the people that live and work there.

With his ‘Klein Chair’ Goodwin explores his obsession with the Klein bottle – in mathematics, an impossible vessel that swallows itself, it has no inside or outside.

Works by Ishan Khosla

Khosla’s works meditate on his contemporary India.

‘Construct:Deconstruct’ is a collection of furniture made from found objects and pieces of wood scavenged from the streets of Mumbai. It references the cycle of material use and reuse (and further reuse) in India. These naïve objects don’t follow any design principles, choosing instead to emulate or force gestures – for example a stool that forces the sitter to prop one of their feet up (a common sitting pose in India).

‘Partition of the Mind’ represents the division between idealised “progress” and the economy in India versus traditional values and ideals of egalitarianism. With everyday domestic objects – brass thali, lassi glasses and tifins; Khosla speaks of the endless cycle of consumerism and desire in his globalised India and the increase in the divide between those with plenty and those with nothing.

‘Porosity Kabari’ is exhibiting at the Nishi Gallery in Canberra until Sunday 9 July.

Portrait of Abbas Galwani for 'Dropping A Kumbhar Wala Matka' by Trent Jansen. Shot by Trent Jansen. An homage to Ai Wei Wei’s controversial work, ‘Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn’, 1995.

'Dropping A Kumbhar Wala Matka' by Trent Jansen. Shot by Neville Sukhia.

'1-√2 Charpai For Mumbai' by Richard Goodwin. Shot by Neville Sukhia.

'Klein Chair' by Richard Goodwin. Shot by Neville Sukhia.

'Construct:Deconstruct' by Ishan Khosla. Shot by Neville Sukhia.

'Partition of the Mind' by Ishan Khosla. Shot by Neville Sukhia.

Brutti was very Buoni

'Brutti ma Buoni' is the name of a biscuit.

It literally translates from Italian as 'ugly but nice'. It's also the name of the short film we commissioned about Brutalist architecture in Canberra. Co-directed by Coco & Maximilian and U-P the film's score is a live one performed by Speak Percussion.

Brutalist buildings are polarising beasts. Over here, we love them dearly. Some see them as oppressive and unliveable. We wanted to try and understand them in a different way - just through our eyes and ears.

Canberra's reception of the little Brutti last Friday at the Nishi Gallery was immense. We wanted to give everyone a big kiss on the mouth for coming out in the cold and for being a beautiful and thoughtful crowd. After the screening Tilman played modern minimalist records. We drank Monster cocktails and wine and talked about the need to protect and preserve our big Canberra brutes.

Below are some photos of the night shot by Arnad Hajdic.

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Brutti ma Buoni

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Screening on Friday 2 June from 6.30PM at the Nishi Gallery. Monster will be running a cash bar. This event is free (like air) but spots are limited (like water) so please RSVP here.

‘Brutti ma Buoni’ is a commissioned work by Hotel Hotel which seeks to build knowledge and appreciation of Brutalist architecture in Canberra.

The work consists of two parts – a short film of Brutalist buildings, co-directed by Coco & Maximilian and U-P; and an accompanying score by Speak Percussion that interprets them aurally. Together they observe and orchestrally arrange Brutalism.

The screening and performance work together to create a different experience of Brutalism – one that doesn’t ask us what we think, but rather, one that asks us to feel and question Brutalist architecture with our senses.

What can we see when we really look at these monolithic structures in detail? When holding our gaze what do their rough textures, shadows and unadorned geometries reveal? What might these beasts sound like? Cavernous and vast? Drone-like? Repetitive? Hypnotic? Oppressive, optimistic or sublime?

This is the first screening and performance of ‘Brutti ma Buoni’ in Canberra – Australia’s home of Brutalism.

After the screening, Australian composer and sound designer Tilman Robinson will play a vinyl set with 20th century art music, modern minimalism and experimental music that reflects on the stark and modular nature of the brutalist-style.

‘Brutti ma Buoni’ features the interiors and exteriors of some of Canberra’s most notable Brutalist buildings including Llewellyn Hall, National Gallery of Australia, National Carillon, High Court of Australia, University of Canberra Village, and Black Mountain Library.

Here is a preview. Tix here.

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Somewhere Else

Photography by Abigail Varney.

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Original room

The Botanical Gardens

The Botanical Gardens

View from Telstra Tower

Hotel Hotel

The Shine Dome

The Shine Dome

Xanthorrhoea johnsonii at the National Gallery of Australia

Telstra Tower

Telstra Tower

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Angélique’s raspberry, lychee and rose tartlets

Makes 6

Ingredients

Crust

Filo pastry
100 grams of butter
50 grams of icing sugar

Ricotta cream

200 grams fresh ricotta
200 grams Philadelphia cream cheese
1 tablespoon rose water
1 vanilla pod
100 grams of icing sugar

Toppings

One punnet of fresh raspberries
1 tin lychees
Rose petals (you can find dry ones at Essential Ingredient or dry your own from your garden).

Method

Crust

Making your own filo pastry takes a long time so I propose you use the shop bought Fillo Pastry brand. It has a nice crunchy texture and you can get it at most supermarkets.

Set yourself up on your work bench and lay the pastry flat. Separate the sheets with lots of care and brush each sheet one with the melted butter and sprinkle icing sugar over them to sweeten the crust. Repeat this with ten sheets and lay the sheets one on top over the other.

Just a side note on butter. Contrary to popular belief, butter is not the villain everyone says it is, especially if you use real, good quality butter. I suggest the unsalted Pepe Saya, it’s perfect.

Work quickly as the filo pastry tends to dry out.

Then cut the sheets in two length wise and in three width wise, this will give you six bases. Put each one into a baking tin that are around 5 centimeters in diameter (a muffin tin will work).

Don’t forget to press the base all around the tins to avoid them cooking into a funny shape.

Now it’s time to bake them at 180° Celsius for 10 to 15 minutes.

Ricotta cream

Use an electric mixer and the paddle attachment to gently work the cream cheese for five minutes.

Then add the sugar and vanilla with love.

Before adding the ricotta the cream must be soft and fluffy. If it is go ahead and finish it with the secret ingredient – rose water.

Toppings

Take your filo cases out of the oven and let them cool a little. Then fill them to the top with the ricotta cream. Depending on how you feel top with as many lychees and raspberries as you want.

Arrange them and decorate them with the rose petals. These are really nice served with vanilla ice cream or berry sorbet. Or you can drizzle them with honey and eat them as they are.

Xylouris White

You can’t walk into a Xylouris White gig and not not walk out a little different.

They tap into something primal, spiritual? – they blow away the modern skins of the body and leave you with just your ancient bones.

Through them we get to connect to our distant past. A reflex. It’s not music from someplace but music from everyplace. It’s music that reminds us that, despite our differences, inside, in this way, we are all the same.

Xylouris White came to play for us in the Monster Salon and Dining rooms on Saturday 11 March.

Xylouris White are George Xylouris and Jim White. Together their music is one of conversation and shared authorship. George is a Cretan singer and lute player – an instrument with a history of more than 3000 years that crosses borders like few others do. He sings in a deep baritone that vibrates through your core. Jim White is part of Melbourne’s enormously and long loved instrumental rock trio ‘Dirty Three’. He moves like a deep sea animal gliding from soldier's beats to ferocious to soft delicate sounds.

But first, we ate. Monster kitchen and bar chef Sean McConnell made us dinner based on things he had eaten on a recent trip to Athens. We served each other from small plates of fava beans, chicory and calamari. Pan-fried haloumi with tiny slivers of okra. Baked eggplant with Labna. Fish bones piled up on our plates as we ate sardines and small red fish in barbounaki style. We drank Ouzo and wine from Kelafonia, Thessaloniki and the Peloponnese.

Then came the music. The corked walls, terrazzo floors and low-hung perforated panelled wooden roof created a resonant sound that you couldn't escape from. There is no stage in there, so it felt like they were playing to us in our own family room.

Xylouris White played for two hours straight, treating us to two traditional syrtos that made the Greeks amongst us that night go a little wild. They twisted back and forth between an unstoppable barrage of power and gooey, transcendental melody. The final two songs had us all on our feet. The sounds they were making together seemed impossible. We were overcome.

Ευχαριστώ. Please come back soon.

Written by Dan Honey and Stéph Donse. Images shot by Will Neill. Song, 'Forging' by Xylouris White from their 'Black Peak' album.

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Jim White and George Xylouris

Nikos on the decks

Jim White

Xylouris White

'Stuck on you' made by Kirsten Perry.

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An Ode to Désirée

POSTED BY Steph (24.2.2017)

Written by Dr Anika Ramholdt for the exhibition ‘Not Wow’ – new works by Kirsten Perry shown at Mr Kitly gallery (Melbourne) in October 2016.

Perry’s ceramics works, presented by Mr Kitly, are coming to Canberra to stay a while in the Cabinets on the ground floor. They’ll be on show from Saturday 11 March until Sunday 30 April.

There’s a lot of noise out there. Amidst the relentless wellness dogma and never-ending dog memes (although they’re pretty awesome), there’s very little space for personal reverie. That’s why it’s so refreshing to encounter objects and spaces (perhaps even people if we’re lucky), which we can experience intuitively rather than intelligibly. Things, which via their modesty, creep up on us slowly and affect us profoundly.

The Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi is pertinent to this idea. Often defined simplistically as a ‘nature based aesthetic paradigm’ [1] that celebrates the imperfect, accidental and modest, wabi-sabi is a complex and arguably indefinable nexus of spiritualism and the material world.

In his writing on wabi-sabi, Leonard Koren attempts to elucidate the characteristics of the aesthetic as private, idiosyncratic, intuitive, variable, natural, crude, ambiguous, impermanent and warm. The wabi-sabi universe, according to Koren, is where ‘things are either devolving toward, or evolving from, nothingness’[2]. Its objects and spaces are simultaneously crude and ancient, becoming and decaying. In this realm ‘beauty can be coaxed out of ugliness’ [3] and there is an obvious reverence for materiality, transience and impermanence.

Wabi-sabi is an aesthetic that can be all too easily ascribed to what Koren describes as ‘ostentatious austerity.’[4] Just because something has the hashtag of #authentic, #rustic or #totesnatural doesn’t mean that it innately typifies the cyclical nature of being and nothingness. We’re not all elevated to a state of spiritual ascension by a roughly whittled spoon, although we might be. Just because you’ve attached the doorknob poorly doesn’t make you a master of Zen balance. Entirely subjective, a wabi-sabi expression for one may be dismissed as insipidly quirky or just plain lazy by another. The essence of wabi-sabi, as I’ve come to understand it, lies in the invocation of transience, the reminder that nothing is permanent and therefore perfection is an impossible ideal.

We live in the wow. Floating in this soup of the over-cooked it’s sometimes nice to swim with the onions, to find something humble, to stumble upon a reliable pulse. Sipping at an ok but not particular wow green smoothie, it occurs to me that it’s hard out there for a Désirée potato; things aren’t what they used to be for white foods. In the ever-changing whirlwind of values and ideals it seems important to make one’s own shrine (metaphorically or otherwise) to that we she finds holy. Inside our private niche we pin and prop the objects, memories, values and experiences that pave the way to our unique ascension. Where personal reverie may eclipse for a moment the onslaught of dogma and dog memes and we can light a candle for poor Désirée, if that’s how we roll.

1 Koren, Leonard, ‘Wabi-Sabi for artists, Designers, Poets and Philosophers’ (Berkley, California: Stone Bridge Press, 1994), 9.
2 Koren, 40.
3 Koren, 51.
4 Koren, 72.

This week

What's on in Canberra in December

Monthly Calendar

The Best of What’s On in Canberra in December

Exhibition

We Collapse, We Build New Cities

An exhibition exploring the way we inhabit spaces, particularly the walls and hidden corners of our contemporary existence.

WHEN	Runs 23 August to 10 September
WHERE	ANCA Dickson
COST	Free
GO	ANCA

Exhibition

A Curious Cabinet

Unlike most curious cabinets (otherwise known as wunderkammern) this exhibition draws on the other definition of 'curious' - those who are ‘eager to know or learn something’.

WHEN	Friday 28 July to Friday 11 August
WHERE	Hotel Hotel Cabinets
COST	Free

Music

Way Out West

Integrating Asian, African, and jazz influences, this is an utterly unique musical experience.

WHEN	Thursday 10 August, 7:30PM - 9:30PM
WHERE	Ainslie Arts Centre
GO	Tix

Talk

Object Subject

The first ever design writing conference - looking at the way that design speaks and the way we speak about design. Keynote speakers include - Alice Rawsthorn and Dana Tomic Hughes.

WHEN	Friday 10 November and Saturday 11 November
WHERE	Shine Dome
COST	TBC
GO	DCF

Film

Dirty Girls Adventure Film Tour

Rejoice in the realities of being an adventurous woman; sweat stains, helmet hair, broken nails, dirty faces and all.

WHEN	Thursday 27 July from 8.30PM
WHERE	Arc Cinema, NFSA
GO	Facebook

Music

BJORN AGAIN

Because sometimes you want to have a tacky night dancing to ABBA classics.

WHEN	Friday 28 July
WHERE	Southern Cross Club
GO	Facebook

Music

Splendour in the Bar

Strangeways DJS, Megan Bones, Bob Crane (aka Soul Crane), Manila Folder, Genie, Radar (aka PMA) and a synthetic grass dance floor...

WHEN	Saturday 29 July from 8PM til late
WHERE	Transit Bar
GO	Facebook

Exhibition

This Way II

A solo exhibition of work by Heidi Strachan, a recipient of the Emerging Artist Support Scheme Award.

WHEN	From 29 July to 20 August
WHERE	Belconnen Arts Centre
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Music

Julia Johnson single launch

Julia Johnson (Julia & the Deep Sea Sirens) with psychedelic synth-folk.

WHEN	Saturday 22 July from 9.30PM
WHERE	Smiths Alternative
GO	Facebook

Music

Camp Cope+ Worriers (USA)

Over the past 15 months Camp Cope have become a force in modern music, a wholly independent band. Supported by New York’s WORRIERS.

WHEN	Tuesday 19 September, from 8PM
WHERE	The Basement
GO	Facebook

Film

The Year My Voice Broke + Flirting

A double feature of John Duigan’s personal and moving coming-of-age films.

WHEN	Saturday 26 August, from 5PM
WHERE	Arc Cinema, NFSA
COST	$14/$12 each
GO	Facebook

Talk

Scissors Paper Pen’s Open Mic

Short stories, memoir, novel extracts, poems, monologues. Whatever you want as it's five minutes and under, and it's your own work. Sign up on the night.

WHEN	Tuesday 15 August, from 5:30PM
WHERE	Smiths Alturnative
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Exhibition

The Meeting Place

Featuring emerging Canberra artists, Tamsin McLure, Colin White and Rebecca Worth, these artists look for spirituality in the environment through their chosen medium.

WHEN	From the 12 to the 30 July
WHERE	ANCA Dickson
COST	Free
GO	ANCA

Exhibition

Namatjira: Painting Country

An exhibition of watercolour paintings by the late Western Arrarnta artist Albert Namatjira of his Country.

WHEN	Opens 15 July
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
GO	More

Eat Drink

MasterCake

Angélique Peretto, is doing a cooking demonstration – how to make the MasterCake (the now supes famous green tea and raspberry mille feuille that Angélique made on MasterChef that time).

WHEN	Sunday 23 July, 3PM - 4:30PM
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	$35 and include a drink and, of course, cake.
GO	TIX

Workshop

Meditation with Lidija

Calm abiding meditation sessions.

WHEN	Every Tuesday, beginning 18 July, 6PM
WHERE	Flow Yoga Studio @ Nishi, NewActon (‘H’ level, directly above Palace Electric Cinema)
COST	$10 drop-in / free for Hotel Hotel guests (just rock up and show your room or apartment key)
GO	Tibetan Buddhist Society of Canberra

Party

CANBERRA OBSCURA: METROPOLIS

Escape the weight of a long winter and immerse yourself in our art playground. CANBERRA OBSCURA: METROPOLIS is a night of performance, beats, experimentation and the unexpected.

WHEN	Friday July 28 from 7PM to 11PM
WHERE	Ainslie Arts Centre
COST	$15 early bird \| $20 presale \| $25 on the door

Music

Live at the Polo

Waterford, Oranges, Betty Alto, Slow Turismo and Mondecreen with special guests.

WHEN	Saturday 29 July, from 8PM
WHERE	Polish Club
COST	$23.50
GO	TIX

Exhibition

Sadness

Sadness, is an examination of the tenuous boundaries between material and digital. Solo exhibition by Nicholas Shearer.

WHEN	From 9 to 19 August
WHERE	Tributary Projects
COST	Free
GO	Tributary Projects

Exhibition

BEAT

BEAT reconciles Peter Maloney’s photographic work with the important context of industrial music in his practice, also highlighting and focusing on its gay content.

WHEN	Runs 3 - 6 August
WHERE	Tributary Projects
COST	Free
GO	Tributary Projects

Exhibition

INTO SPACE

INTO SPACE is a solo exhibition of constructions and installations from Kael Stasce.

WHEN	Runs 19 -22 July
WHERE	Tributary Projects
COST	Free
GO	Tributary Projects

Exhibition

Mexican Modernism

Mexico after the Mexican Revolution and its subsequent independence from Spain. An exhibition of photographs that at once witnessed and created a new post-revolutionary identity.

WHEN	Until Sunday 26 November
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
GO	More

Exhibition

Porosity Kabari

An exhibition by object designer Trent Jansen, artist/architect Richard Goodwin and design thinker Ishan Khosla of objects made from materials and craft sourced solely from Mumbai's junk markets.

WHEN	Opens on Friday 9 June at 6PM and runs until Sunday 9 July
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free

Exhibition

Defying Empire

'Defying Empire' - the third national Indigenous art triennial.

WHEN	From Friday 26 May to Sunday 10 September
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
GO	NGA

Exhibition

Pipilotti Rist – ‘Worry Will Vanish Revelation’

The ever amazing Pipilotti Rist is in town with this immersive projection work that asks you to slow down, step inside the human, and dissolve your mind.

WHEN	Until Sunday 20 August
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Exhibition

Rodel Tapaya

A newly commissioned triptych by Filipino artist, Rodel Tapaya - 'The promise land: the moon, the sun, the stars' (2016), as well as paintings, works on paper and sculptural installations.

WHEN	Until Sunday 20 August
WHERE	NGA, Contemporary galleries
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Film Talk

Mabo: Life of an Island Man

Screening and Q&A with Trevor Graham, director of 'Mabo: Life of an Island Man', 1993; and artist Gail Mabo.

WHEN	Wednesday 5 July from 7PM to 8.30PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
GO	More

Talk

A Talk with Matilda House

A talk with Ngambri-Ngunnawal elder, activist and artist, Matilda House.

WHEN	Friday 7 July from 1PM
WHERE	CMAG
GO	More

Talk

Life Without Plastic

It’s time to ditch plastic. A talk with three plastic free lovelies on how to do it and why.

WHEN	Wednesday 19 July from 6PM to 7PM
WHERE	The Food Co-op
COST	Free but you need to RSVP
GO	More

Music

Wavevom // Totty // Marlon Bando

Newcastle surf punks Wavevom are down to celebrate their second album 'Eternal Summer'. Banging about with TOTTY and Marlon Bando.

WHEN	Saturday 8 July from 8PM
WHERE	Lowbrow
COST	$5 / $10
GO	More

Music

Lower Body with PTSD, Video Breezy and Loveplus

Lower Body with PTSD, Video Breezy and Loveplus - celebrating Lower Body's new cassette - 'The Lower Body Demonstration' with songs heart break and sexual frustration.

WHEN	Saturday 1 July at 7.30PM to 11PM
WHERE	The Front
GO	More

Talk

Ghost Tour of the NFSA

A ghost tour of the National Film and Sound Archive (previously home to the Institute of Anatomy) with Tim the Yowie man.

WHEN	Friday 14 July from 8PM to 10.15PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$59
GO	Scary

Shop

Hurly Burley Winter Fair

Live music, face painting, jumping castle, a magic show, dance, performance art, stalls and a fire.

WHEN	Friday 30 June from 4PM to 9PM
WHERE	Hobart Place
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Exhibition

This is not a place

An exhibition by Clare Jackson - etchings exploring personal experience through depictions of reminiscent yet constructed spaces

WHEN	Opens Thursday 6 June at 6PM until Saturday 22 July
WHERE	Megalo Print Studio and Gallery
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Music

John Huckle

Message of love and truth through blues and folk Wiradjuri style with John Huckle.

WHEN	Saturday 1 July at 7PM
WHERE	Smith's
COST	$10
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Talk

Bring Them Here

Bring Them Here - a day of action.

WHEN	Wednesday 19 July from 8AM
GO	Go

Exhibition

Underneath Tomorrow

Works by Gemma Bonshek Kane, John Hart, Saara March, Steve Roper that imagine the subconscious imagination.

WHEN	Until Sunday 2 July
WHERE	M16
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Performance

Slamboree with Fresh Violet

Slamboree with with poetry and rapper Fresh Violet (she'll be rapping about breakfast and potentially other meals).

WHEN	Friday 30 June
WHERE	The Front
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Talk

Shelter: Life on the Move talk with Rebecca Roke

In this lunch-time talk Rebecca Roke, author of ‘Mobitecture’ and ‘Nanotecture’ (published by Phaidon Press), will discuss mobile architecture in all its variety.

WHEN	Wednesday 5 July, 12:30PM - 1:15PM
WHERE	Mosaic Room, Hotel Hotel
COST	$25, includes lunch
GO	TIX

Performance

Salt Room

From slam poets to experimental musicians, The Salt Room effortlessly weaves together performance and storytelling to showcase some of the brightest sparks in the national poetry scene.

WHEN	Friday 7 July, from 7:30PM
WHERE	AGAC Main Hall
COST	$10 / $15
GO	TIX

Party

Sound and Fury: Cold Winter. Hot Party.

Music, theatre, dance, spoken word and song. After a sold-out event at the National Film and Sound Archive earlier this year, Sound and Fury returns to Nishi Gallery.

WHEN	Saturday 15 July, 8PM to late
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	$20
GO	TIX

Music

Kids’ Cushion Concert with CSO

Canberra Symphony Orchestra returns to NewActon for another instalment in the popular Kids' Cushion Concert series.

WHEN	Tuesday 11 July, 10AM and 11.15AM
WHERE	Nishi Grand Staircase
COST	$10 kids / Free for supervising adults
GO	TIX

Music

Winter Strings in the Salon

Mozart, String Quintet in G minor, K516. In the Salon. By the fire. Choice of lunch or simple entry.

WHEN	Sunday 23 July from 1PM to 3PM
WHERE	The Monster kitchen and bar in the Salon
COST	$20/$70
GO	Tix

Music

mask-ed

A minimalist soul trip with lush harmonies and slow grooves, "mask-ed" narrates the struggles of true identity and secrets kept around gender expression.

WHEN	Saturday 8 July, 6:30PM
WHERE	AGAC
COST	$15/$10 includes one drink
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Music

Mikelangelo

Mikelangelo returns to the Phoenix backed by the National Capital Allstars. It's gonna be magic.

WHEN	Friday 16 June, 9PM
WHERE	The Phoenix
COST	$10 / $15
GO	Facebook

Music

MERE WOMEN Album Launch

Packed with a dozen tunes exploring women's experiences over generations, and the simultaneous isolation and confinement felt by many women living in regional communities.

WHEN	Thursday 22 June, 8PM
WHERE	Transit
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Exhibition

Bro..och

Bro..och - a collection of brooches.

WHEN	Exhibition runs 16 June - 8 July
WHERE	Bilk
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Film

Frozen Mash: Cinema Antarctic Style

Australian Antarctic Division’s ‘midwinterers’ are locked in for months on end. Tired of watching the same movies over and over, they got creative – splicing, dicing, adding voice-overs. Come watch.

WHEN	Wednesday 21 June, 6PM
WHERE	Arc Cinema, NFSA
COST	Free, bookings essential
GO	Facebook

Music

Fossil Rabbit Farewell Show

Fossil Rabbit is heading overseas for a while, so celebrate Fossil Rabbit’s final Canberra show, with special guests Aphir and Ben Drury

WHEN	Friday 16 June, 9:30PM
WHERE	Smith's
COST	$7 / $10
GO	Facebook

Music

PROM: Graduation with Dead DJ Joke

Prom will play their final glam-soaked gig at the event they were born to play: Graduation.

WHEN	Saturday 17 June, 8PM
WHERE	AGAC
COST	$15/ $20 / $30
GO	Facebook

Exhibition

Hyper Real

Humanity amplified. From eerily lifelike sculptures to out-of-this-world virtual reality, this exhibition charts the evolution of hyperrealism into the 21st century and asks ‘what makes us human?’.

WHEN	Friday 20 October to Sunday 18 February
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
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Exhibition

Australian Impressionism

An exhibition of Australian Impressionist paintings from the likes of Tom Roberts, Charles Douglas Richardson and Arthur Streeton.

WHEN	From Saturday 24 June
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
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Performance

Bennelong by Bangarra

The story of Woollarawarre Bennelong. A senior man of the Eora, from the Port Jackson area in Sydney. Performed by Bangarra, choreographed by artistic director Stephen Page, inspired by true events.

WHEN	Thursday 3 to Saturday 5 August
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
GO	Tix

Performance

RocKwiz

RocKwiz! Total babes. All of them. No intro needed - book your tix... Such babes.

WHEN	Thursday 22 June 7.30PM
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
COST	$90
GO	Tix

Performance

Melbourne International Comedy Festival Roadshow

New comers and international performers from the Melbourne International Comedy Festival are coming, as they do every year, to make wine come out of your nose.

WHEN	Saturday 24 June at 7PM
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
COST	$50
GO	Tix

Performance

1984

April, 1984. 13:00. Comrade 6079, Winston Smith, thinks a thought, starts a diary, and falls in love. But Big Brother is always watching.

WHEN	Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 July
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
GO	Book

Music

Beth Orton

For the first time in a long time Beth Orton and her full band are coming to play. Folktronica.

WHEN	Friday 16 June at 8PM
WHERE	The Playhouse
COST	$65/$85
GO	Tix

Exhibition

Hoods

Hoods brings together four artists whose art practices investigate their urban environments, pop culture and sub cultures: Nicole Breedon, Sean Davey, Rowan Kane and Paul Williams.

WHEN	Runs 7 - 25 June
WHERE	ANCA Gallery Dickson
COST	Free
GO	ANCA

Exhibition

Superman 3

Superman 3 is based around abstraction focused on internal compositional relationships between formal elements.

WHEN	Runs 5 - 15 July
WHERE	Tributary Projects
COST	Free
GO	Tributary Projects

Talk

Artist Talk: Hannah Quinlivan

Hannah Quinlivan will talk about her site specific installation 'Anatomy of a Drawing' and her artistic practice at the intersection of drawing and sculpture.

WHEN	Thursday 6 July from 1PM to 2PM
WHERE	CMAG
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Exhibition

Aviary

A collection of works of birds - sculptures, paintings, prints and drawings. Jan Brown, Linda Davy, Nicola Dickson, Annie Franklin, Kevin Gilbert, Patsy Hely, Steven Holland, and Danie Mellor.

WHEN	Until Sunday 30 July
WHERE	CMAG
GO	Deets

Talk

Curator Floor Talk: Deborah Clark

A talk about the works on birds in CMAG's current show 'Aviary', with Deborah Clark, CMAG’s Senior Curator, Visual Arts.

WHEN	Thursday 1 June at 1PM
WHERE	CMAG
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Talk

Floor talk: International Glass Market

Curator and writer Robert Bell will talk about the Australian glass art and how it has developed such a successful international reputation; in particular of glass work produced in Canberra with speci

WHEN	Thursday 10 August from 1.15PM to 2 PM
WHERE	Canberra Museum and Gallery
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Music

Pleased To Jive You

Hip hop / funk/ rock / pop - Canberra mob Pleased To Jive You are coming to make you move those feet and them hips. With First Gulf War, Jedbrii and Cultured Pelican.

WHEN	Sunday June 11 at 8PM
WHERE	The Phoenix
COST	Free
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Music

Fukushima Suite

Jazz baby - Satoko Fujii, and trumpeter Natsuki Tamura are mashing it up with the 18 piece Sirens Big Band to perform Fujii’s 'Fukushima Suite' and other works.

WHEN	Friday 2 June at 7PM
WHERE	The Street Theatre
COST	$29 / $35
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Performance

Twin Peaks Trivia

'Twin Peaks' Trivia. No further explanation required. Hosted by Travis and Bob.

WHEN	Tuesday 13 June 6.30 PM to 9.30 PM
WHERE	The Phoenix
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Workshop

‘Making Do: Utility Wear with Annie Wu’

Annie Wu will teach you how to make a contemporary utilitarian uniform (that can be worn every day) - functional garments that reduce waste.

WHEN	Saturday 12 August, 10AM – 11.30AM and 2PM – 3.30PM
WHERE	Mosaic room, Hotel Hotel
COST	$45
GO	Tix

Exhibition

NONSTOP

A solo exhibition by Cat Mueller.

WHEN	17 May – 4 June
WHERE	ANCA Dickson
COST	Free
GO	Website

Exhibition

Oi Oi Oi

Representations of the Australian landscape from a bunch of disciplines and social, political and environmental viewpoints.

WHEN	Wednesday 14 June to Saturday 1 July
WHERE	Tributary Projects
GO	TP

Exhibition

Flatpack

Old and new works appropriating the imperative design ideology of the ‘flat pack’, as typified by IKEA.

WHEN	Tuesday 30 May to Friday 9 June
WHERE	Tributary Projects
GO	TP

Film

Human Rights Arts and Film Festival

Stories of social justice and human rights through film, art, music and forums.

WHEN	Monday 29 May to Wednesday 31 May
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Tix

Music

Cumbia Massive – Global Bass + Tropical Beats

The best Digital Cumbia and reggae out of Melbourne and Sydney - Cumbia Massive brings you a night of bass and heavy global rhythms in a sound system style.

WHEN	Saturday 6th May from 8PM to 2AM
WHERE	The Polish Club
COST	$15 / $20
GO	Tix

Talk

The Ritual of Reading in Bed – Rosanna Stevens

The ‘Ritual of Reading in Bed’ is a series of short and sweet Sunday night readings by writers and performers held inside Creative Room 105. The author for this event is Rosanna Stevens.

WHEN	Sunday 28 May, 6PM - 6:30PM
WHERE	Creative Room 105, Hotel Hotel
COST	Free but booking is essential
GO	Book here

Shop

Hunter + Luke Chiswell One Day Store

Local fashion label, Hunter, and Luke Chiswell are putting on a one day store. Selling Hunter goods as well as limited edition pieces made from repurposed materials from Chiswell's latest exhibition.

WHEN	Saturday 6 May 11AM to 3PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
GO	HTL

Film Music

Brutti ma Buoni

‘Brutti ma Buoni’ is a short film of Brutalist buildings in Canberra screened to a live score. Post performance vinyl set with Tilman Robinson and a brutalist inspired cash bar by Monster.

WHEN	Friday 2 June from 6:30PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free, RSVP essential
GO	RSVP

Eat Drink Music

Autumn Strings in the Salon

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra are bringing a string duo for the Autumn Strings in the Salon session.

There are two ticket types – one involves lunch.

WHEN	Sunday 21 May at 1PM
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$20/$70
GO	Tix

Music

ANU Bar Finale

The ANU Bar is being demolished : ( Over 60 years, thousands of gigs, tens of thousands of acts, we've all been there and had a good mosh. This is their last shebang over 11 acts. Goodbye friends.

WHEN	Saturday 17 June from 12 noon
WHERE	ANU bar
COST	$25
GO	Tix

Music

Migration: Australian String Quartet

The ASQ are on their national tour; they'll be playing with guitarist Slava Grigoryan, blurring the lines between jazz and classical. The concert is crowned by Schubert’s G major String quartet.

WHEN	Sunday 28 May from 2PM to 3.30PM
WHERE	NGA, Gandel Hall
COST	$30 / $55 / $60 / $75
GO	NGA

Talk

The 67 Referendum: in conversation

Richard Bell, Dr Gary Foley and Judy Watson discuss and reflect the truths, powers, misnomers and setbacks throughout the span of the Referendum and up until now.

WHEN	Friday 26 May 6PM to 8.30PM
WHERE	NGA at the James O Fairfax Theatre
COST	$20/ $15
GO	NGA

Music

The Hard Aches w. Muncie Girls + The Football Club

Indie punk rockers The Hard Aches are releasing a new single ‘Brain Drain' and they are bringing their with UK friends, the Muncie Girls, and Melbourne friends, The Football Club.

WHEN	Sunday June 11 from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
GO	Go

Music

Proxemics

Proxemics - the branch of knowledge that deals with the amount of space that people feel it necessary to set between themselves and others. That with J:Kenzo (UK) & Chimpo (UK).

WHEN	Thursday 4 May from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
GO	Go

Music

Lyall Moloney

Singer/DJ Lyall Moloney it on his 'Get Up' tour. Dance / hip hop/ punk/ reggae.

WHEN	Saturday 27 May at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$12
GO	Tix

Music

Agency Dub Collective

Agency Dub Collective are playing to happy happy their 12 inch LP 'Bang 4 your Buck'. Dance it up.

WHEN	Friday 5 May at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	Free
GO	FB

Music

AFRO-Funk Latin SKA Rock Hiphop!

A triple threat throwdown live with Lyre Byrdland (SYD), Los Chavos (ACT), Coolio Desgracias and House Mouse (ACT). Yes x 6.

WHEN	Saturday 22 April at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$15
GO	Tix

Talk

NIAT III Artist Talks

Artists from National Indigenous Art Triennial III discuss their work in relation to the 1967 Referendum and other significant periods of resistance within the Australian context.

WHEN	Friday 26 from 11.30AM to 4PM and Saturday 27 May from 10AM to 4.30PM
WHERE	NGA, Temporary Exhibitions Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Film

The Reel McCoy Film Club

Cult classics, timeless classics, and fringe dwelling gems. A really good film club.

WHEN	Usually the second and last Sundays of each month at 1PM
WHERE	CMAG Theatre
COST	$50 per annum
GO	Program

Film

Banff Mountain Film Festival

For the love of mountains - short films shot in some of the most wild and remote corners of the world.

WHEN	Sunday 13 to Tuesday 16 May
WHERE	Arc Cinema
GO	Book

Film

Fire of the Land and Freedom Ride

Two essential documentaries commemorating two landmark moments in activism by Indigenous Australians - 'Fire of the Land' and 'Freedom Ride'.

WHEN	Screening until Friday 28 April from 9.15PM to 5PM weekdays, looped with intermissions.
WHERE	Arc Cinema
COST	Free
GO	NFSA

Film

Essential Kurosawa

Seven films by the great Akira Kurosawa selected by the great David Stratton.

WHEN	Screenings between 14 and 30 June
WHERE	Arc Cinema
COST	Season pass $80/75
GO	Book

Film

Voices Against the Vietnam War

Counter-culture hits combining protest with heart, wit and mayhem.

WHEN	Screenings between the 3 to the 31 May
WHERE	Arc Cinema
GO	NFSA

Film

Blacklisted Hollywood

Classic film noir screenings from filmmakers who were controversially blacklisted in the 1950s (and beyond) because of their suspected communist sympathies.

WHEN	Friday 21 April at 7PM and 26 April at 7.15PM
WHERE	NFSA
GO	NFSA

Exhibition

The ANU’s Art Collection

As you can imagine, over the past decade or so, the ANU have amassed a pretty epic art collection.

WHEN	Friday 21 April to Sunday 28 May
WHERE	Drill Hall Gallery, ANU
GO	ANU

Exhibition

Woman in a Wash Basket

Vee Malnar paints portraits of household objects. With them come reflections on mothering and multi-tasking, on identity in the chaos of housework.

WHEN	Until Sunday 30 April
WHERE	Belconnen Arts Centre
GO	BAC

Talk

Cézanne Lecture Series

A seres of seven lectures on Sundays about Paul Cézanne.

WHEN	First Sunday of each month (except July)
WHERE	ANU School of Art and Design Lecture Theatre
GO	DHG

Exhibition

Common Ground

36 new and existing PhotoAccess members have documented and interpreted public space through photography and photo-based art.

WHEN	Until Sunday 23 April
WHERE	PhotoAccess
GO	PA

Mt. Stromlo Public Astronomy Nights

Come star gaze.

WHEN	Friday 5 May from 7PM - 9PM
WHERE	Mt. Stromlo Observatory
COST	Gold coin donation
GO	TIX

Shop

Suitcase Rummage

A mini market set up in suitcases. Come for a bargain, a swap, or an old-fashioned haggle. Vintage goods, arts and craft, bric-a-brac, clothing, books, jewellery, records...

WHEN	Sunday 14 May from 11AM to 3PM
WHERE	A. Baker Courtyard and surrounds
COST	Free entry, or run your own stall for $20
GO	Suitcase Rummage

Shop Talk Workshop

Independent Publishing Fair

More than 50 independent publishers, zinemakers, artists and literary organisations from across Australia will offer up their wares for your perusing and purchasing pleasure.

WHEN	Sunday 7 May from 10AM - 3PM
WHERE	Gorman Arts Centre
COST	Free
GO	Noted

Party Talk

Noted Writers Festival

Noted Writers Festival is an independent celebration of words and writing for anyone and everyone who loves to write. The festival runs 3 - 7 May and all events are free.

WHEN	Runs 3 - 7 May
WHERE	Various locations around Canberra
COST	Free
GO	Noted

Party Talk

Lit Hop

Wear good walking shoes, BYO protest placards and shout your words into the night. Noted's beloved multi-venue literary bar hop is back and it's gone absolutely BONKERS!

WHEN	Saturday 6 May from 5PM
WHERE	Various locations around the city
COST	Free
GO	Noted

Exhibition

Fire and Rain

Sally Blake’s solo exhibition at ANCA Gallery exploring the elements of fire and rain.

WHEN	Exhibition runs 12 April – 30 April
WHERE	ANCA Gallery
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Exhibition

Chinese Whispers and Other Stories

Four emerging female artists of Chinese descent explore the complex and shifting nature of cultural difference, identity and migrant stories in ‘multicultural' Australia.

WHEN	Exhibition runs 27 April - 21 May
WHERE	PhotoAccess
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Music

Glitoris – Girls to the Front!

Glitoris are bringing Girls to the Front. A night celebrating that there are in fact at least three bands in the ACT comprised mostly of females.

WHEN	Friday 28 April from 8PM
WHERE	The Basement
GO	Facebook

Music

Canberra International Music Festival

The CIMF theme this year is 'Revolution' - music from the barricades of time. With twenty curated concerts, talks and dinners.

WHEN	Thursday 27 April to Sunday 7 May
WHERE	All around Canberra
GO	CIMF

Exhibition Talk

Heritage Festival

The Heritage Festival peeps are exploring ‘Questions and Change’; the festival will facilitate conversation around Indigenous inclusion and recognition through art, architecture and the bush.

WHEN	Tuesday 18 April to 7 May
WHERE	Lots of different locations
GO	Program

Performance

48 Hr Palm Sunday Vigil for Refugees

From 1PM to the end of the Palm Sunday rally, the Refugee Action Committee will be holding a 48 hour vigil in Civic Square. There will be film screenings, public lectures, performances and good vibes.

WHEN	From 1pm on Friday 7 April
WHERE	Civic Square
GO	FB

Music

Music in Turrell’s Skyspace

A newly commissioned piece for double bass by Benjamin Drury played by Rohan Dasika. Sunset. At James Turrell's 'Within Without' Skyspace. Mwah. Yes.

WHEN	Monday 1 May to Friday 5 May at 5.10PM
WHERE	James Turrell's Skyspace at the NGA
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Film

A Very Long Engagement

'Un long dimanche de fiançailles' - a young woman’s relentless search for her fiancé, who disappeared from the trenches of the Somme during World War One.

WHEN	Tuesday 25 April at 2:15pm
WHERE	NGA, James O Fairfax Theatre
COST	Free (but you have to book)
GO	NGA

Music

Cinnamon Records Farewell

Come say goodbye to one of Canberra's favourite record labels - Cinnamon Records

WHEN	Saturday 6 May from 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$5
GO	Facebook

Party

Electric Avenues at You Are Here

You Are Here festival is turning Haig Park on its head. Armed with music, art and good company, they’ll transform this iconic inner-city space into a weird and magical world.

WHEN	Friday 7 April, from 6PM 'til late
WHERE	Haig Park
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Performance

Autonomous

Positioning the car as the dancer, Australian Dance Party examines the motorised car choreographies of our lives and ask 'Does the freedom of car ownership mitigate its impact?'

WHEN	Wednesday 5 April from 7:30PM
WHERE	CBD carpark
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Exhibition

‘Borrow Tomorrow’ by Luke Chiswell

A new body of work by Luke Chiswell that continues his exploration of objects within space, abstracting perception and scale.

WHEN	Opens Friday 7 April at 6PM. On show until Sunday 7 May 2017.
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
GO	FB

Performance

Intoxication

Intimacy is dead, and we’re partying with its corpse online.

WHEN	Thursday 6 April from 6.30PM to 10PM
WHERE	A house in the inner north (they'll let you know when you book)
COST	$20
GO	YAH17

Talk

Australian Dream Consultancy

A talk with Canberrans (that's you!) about cost of living pressures and how the concept of the domestic is changing.

WHEN	Friday 7 to Saturday 8 April
WHERE	Garema Place
GO	YAH17

Exhibition

Garage Gallery

A walking group exhibition with video artworks from Luke Aleksandrow, Oscar Capezio, Tony Curran, Heath Franco, Nathan Gray, Alex Hobba, Shags and Angela Tiatia.

WHEN	Wednesday 5 April from 6PM
WHERE	Anvil Studio, The Hamlet, Braddon
GO	YAH17

Exhibition Party

Drinking Class # 1

Beer brewers Young Henry and whisky distillers Bruichladdich are holding a tasting at the Monster kitchen and bar. They will be serving up four brews and four spirits to taste and talk about.

WHEN	Thursday 20 April from 7PM
WHERE	Mosaic room at Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$50
GO	Tix

Talk

Paul Fuog / Appropriation

Paul Fuog (of U-P and Field Experiments) is doing an AGDA talk on the appropriation and restraint. Appropriation - a dirty word or an important design tool?

WHEN	Monday 10 April from 6PM for 6.30PM start
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	$20 / $25 / $45
GO	AGDA

Music

Polish Club at Transit

The loudest goddamn soul outfit you’ve ever heard. Good good gooooood stuff.

WHEN	Thursday 1 June at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
GO	TB

Music

Moaning Lisa – The Sweetest

A pre-order show for Moaning Lisa's debut EP 'The Sweetest'.

WHEN	Thursday March 23 at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
GO	More

Exhibition

M8

This exhibition of eight artists highlights the way relationships between each others’ practices have evolved and how conceptual and aesthetic inspiration has developed in each individuals’ work.

WHEN	Opens Thursday 23 March at 6PM until 9 April
WHERE	M16, gallery one
GO	M16

Music Party

F#ck Art Let’s Party

Art Not Apart's electronic dance party. BYO. 18+. Not in NewActon but there is a bus here that will take you there.

WHEN	Saturday 18 March from 9.30PM to 7AM
WHERE	Warehouse in Fyshwick
COST	From $25
GO	Tix

Music Party

Sound and Fury

The official performance art after-party of Art, Not Apart 2017.

WHEN	Saturday 18 March from 7PM to 1AM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	From $10
GO	FB

Film

Art Not Apart at NFSA

Art, Not Apart has grown like a big old vine and crossed the road into the NFSA. Giving light to the lesser heard and lesser seen with live performances and experimental projections.

WHEN	Saturday 18 March from 1PM to 7PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
GO	ANA FB

Music

Lost + Found

'Lost + Found' is the debut album of prolific local favourite, Endrey.

WHEN	Friday 7 April, 8-10PM
WHERE	Mosaic Room, Hotel Hotel
COST	$20/$15
GO	TIX

Exhibition

Other People’s Lives

An exhibition of 80 documentary photos by local photographer Hardy Lohse on people living in small Australian towns in decline.

WHEN	Until Saturday 25 March
WHERE	ANU School of Art and Design Gallery
GO	SOA

Music

Waterford the Rock Band

Waterford the Rock Band are releasing a new single, 'Libra II (Who must be Obeid)'.
They'll be playing with Nick Craft (ex Sidewinder). Come rock and roll.

WHEN	Saturday 1 April from 7PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
COST	$7 CMC members / $10
GO	Tix

Canberra Balloon Spectacular

Get up eeeeeearly to see Canberra's famous hot air balloons. Sadly no Skywhale this year.

WHEN	11 – 19 March 2017 from 6:15AM
WHERE	Lawns of Old Parliament House
GO	Website

Film

Scandinavian Film Festival

Some of the best films coming out of Scandinavia - from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland.

WHEN	Tuesday 18 July to Wednesday 2 August
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Tix

Film

Flickerfest

Australia's best short film festival comes to Canberra.

WHEN	5 - 6 April
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Website

Eat Drink

Enlighten Noodle Market

Enlighten is back on. Come for the lights, stay for the noodles (and dumpling, dosa, Pad Thai, gyoza...)

WHEN	Friday March 3 to Sunday March 12, from 5PM - 9PM
WHERE	Reconciliation Place
GO	Read

Exhibition

National Portrait Prize

49 works chosen from 3000 entries - choosing the final 49 would have been a super hard job. Photographic portraits taken by Australian photographers - this is definitely one to go to.

WHEN	Saturday 1 April to Sunday 18 June
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
GO	NPG

Exhibition

Digital Portraiture Award

Digital portraiture - short films that dissect a little piece of a person.

WHEN	Until Sunday 9 April
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
GO	NPG

Film

French Film Festival

You know the drill - French films from France.

WHEN	Thursday 9 March to Tuesday 4 April
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Program

Australian Series Companion Pieces

Dog is god - a performance by Arcadia Winds and Dr Natalie Williams in response to the NPG's 'Popular Pet Show' exhibition. The first of the CSO's 'Companion Pieces' series. And there is a bar.

WHEN	Thursday 2 March at 6.30PM
WHERE	Gordon Darling Hall, National Portrait Gallery
COST	$45 (includes performance and exhibition)
GO	Tix online or at the door

Eat Drink

Monster Mash # 2

Chefs and good friends Sean McConnell (Monster kitchen and bar) and Matt Wilkinson (Pope Joan) are cooking up a collaborative lunch. Except yabby jaffles, banofee pies and good times.

WHEN	Saturday 25 March at 12.30PM
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$125 (for lunch but not drinks)
GO	Tickets

Music

Aphir Album Launch

Aphir returns to her Canberra roots to launch her new album, Twin Earth.

WHEN	Friday March 17 from 9PM to 12AM
WHERE	La De Da Bar
GO	Facebook

Performance

The Age of Bones (Jaman Belulang)

A biting and magical satire set deep beneath the sea!

WHEN	Runs Wednesday 8 - Saturday 11 March
WHERE	AGAC

Talk

All About Women Satellite

Talking all things feminism. Amanda Palmer (yes!), Zoya Patel, Alana Valentine and Katy Gallagher with host Virginia Haussegger.
Also, Gena Davis is making a (digital) appearance.

WHEN	Sunday 5 March, 10AM - 2PM
WHERE	Canberra Theater
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Music

Soundscapes #8

Experimental, electronic and improvised sound.

WHEN	Thursday 2 March from 9:30PM
WHERE	Smiths Alternative
COST	$10
GO	Facebook

Exhibition

Limiting Entropy

Artist Tony Curran and poet Lachlan Brown - a painter and a poet - collaborate through image and text.

WHEN	Runs 1 - 19 March
WHERE	ANCA Gallery
COST	Free
GO	ANCA

Exhibition

Planetary Gardening

An exhibition investigating the space between cultural and chemical, organic and technological.

WHEN	Runs 3 - 26 March 2017
WHERE	Photoaccess
COST	Free
GO	Photoaccess

Performance Talk

The Ritual of Reading in Bed

The ‘Ritual of Reading in Bed’ is a series of Sunday night readings by writers and performers held inside Creative Room 105.

WHEN	Sunday 26 March, 6:00PM
WHERE	Room 105, Hotel Hotel
COST	Free, bookings essential
GO	TIX

Music

The Ritual of Bush Bathing – Mt Majura

The first of a series of seasonal bush walks developed in collaboration with Tyronne Bell. Walks to make us feel good by getting us back in there amongst the trees and the birds.

WHEN	Sunday 19 March, 3:00PM - 5:00PM
WHERE	Mt Majura
COST	$55.50
GO	TIX

Exhibition

Not Wow

Melbourne’s Mr Kitly presents ‘Not Wow’ by Kirsten Perry. It’s a series of totems of moments that hold personal significance alluding to folk craftsmanship and subconscious spiritual rituals.

WHEN	Saturday 11 March – Sunday 30 April
WHERE	Hotel Hotel Cabinets
COST	Free

Film

The Last Moose of Aoluguya

The Last Moose of Aoluguya is an intimate portrait of Weijia, a heavy drinking, soul-searching painter and herder, from the Ewenki people of Inner Mongolia.

WHEN	Wednesday 22 February from 5:15PM
WHERE	The Auditorium, China in the World Building
COST	Free
GO	ANU

Film

Dersu Uzala

Against a backdrop of the treacherous mountains and icy plains of the Siberian wilderness, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa stages an extraordinary adventure of comradeship and survival

WHEN	Sunday 19 February 2017 from 2PM
WHERE	The Auditorium, Australian Centre on China in the World
COST	Free
GO	ANU

Exhibition

Tributary Projects Opening

The first opening for Canberra's newest artist-run gallery.

WHEN	Thursday 16 February, 6PM
WHERE	Tributary Projects
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Eat Drink Music Party Performance Shop

Canberra Multicultural Festival

Food! Lines for food! Culture! Crowds!
Bring ya' stretchy pants.

WHEN	17 - 19 February
WHERE	Civic
COST	Free
GO	Festival website

Exhibition Music Party Performance

Canberra Fringe

Things are going to get a bit weird...

WHEN	Saturday 18 February, 10AM - 12PM
WHERE	City
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Talk

Madeleine Thien at the NLA

A conversation with the Man Booker-shortlisted writer.

WHEN	Tuesday 28 February, 6PM - 8PM
WHERE	National Library of Australia
GO	Facebook

Talk

Gravitational Waves and Spacetime

Colliding black holes! Gravitational waves! Radiant energy! Confused? Not after Professor Dean Rickles schools you.

WHEN	Tuesday 7 February from 5.30PM
WHERE	Australian Academy of Science
COST	$10
GO	Australian Academy of Science

Music

The Vinyl Lounge

A safe place for vinyl addicts to come together share music and stories in pure analogue.

WHEN	The first Friday of every month
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	Free
GO	NSFA

Talk

Versailles: On Gesture

The Australian Brandenburg Orchestra will transport you to Versailles, playing the most popular court music of the day.

WHEN	Saturday 4 February from 2PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	$45.00
GO	NGA

Performance

Richard 3

“Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe”- Richard III, Act V, Scene III.

WHEN	Preview Thursday 6 April at 7.30PM. Opens Friday 7 April at 7.30PM. Until Saturday 15 April.
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
COST	$95.50
GO	Canberra Theatre

Exhibition

Large Portraits

A solo exhibition of large portraits by Charlie White.

WHEN	Saturday 11 February, 6PM - 10PM
WHERE	Fitters Workshop in Kingston
GO	Facebook

Eat Drink

Eat something sexy

The Monster has thought up a special dinner menu for the day of love.

WHEN	Tuesday 14 February
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$90 per person
GO	Book

Exhibition

‘Coincidences’ – John Wardle Architects

An architectural exhibition that interrogates the boundaries between public and private spaces.

WHEN	Until 17 February
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
GO	Opening event

Eat Drink Music

Summer Strings in the Salon

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra are bringing their string quartet to play us some music in the Salon and Dinging rooms. Two ticket types – one involves lunch.

WHEN	Sunday 12 February
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$20/$70
GO	Tix

Music

Soundscapes #7

Experimental, electronic and improvised sound.
Featuring Reuben Ingall's multi-tasking Microwave Drone Ritual: creating lush drone music at the same time as cooking a meat pie.

WHEN	Thursday 2 February from 9:30PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
GO	Facebook / TIX

Eat Drink Music

Xylouris White at Monster // Sold Out

Xylouris White is playing at the Monster and Sean McConnell will be serving up his spin on a shared taverna dinner before the performance. It’s too bad we can’t smoke ciggies in there.

WHEN	Saturday 11 March. Dinner from 7PM. Performance from 9PM.
WHERE	Monster’s Salon and Dining rooms
COST	$25/$80
GO	Tix

Exhibition

Finlandia Hymn

Exploring photographic representations of Finnish culture, intertwined with landscape.
A solo exhibition by Anja Loughhead.

WHEN	Runs 2 'til 26 February
WHERE	PhotoAccess
COST	Free
GO	PhotoAccess

Exhibition

The Sell: Australian Advertising 1790s to 1990s

This exhibition sells itself

WHEN	Until April 25.
WHERE	National Library of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NLA

Music Performance

CSO: The Shell Prom Picnic Concert

Picnic on the grounds of Government House while the Canberra Symphony Orchestra supplies sweet music to your ears.

WHEN	Saturday 18 February 2017. Gates open at 4.45PM for a 6PM start
WHERE	Lawns of Government House
COST	$30.00
GO	CSO

Exhibition Music Party

Art, Not Apart

Everywhere you look: art art art art art art art art.

WHEN	Saturday 18 March from 1PM - 7PM
WHERE	NewActon Precinct, West Basin and the NFSA
GO	Art, Not Apart

Party

ANU School of Art Ruby Ball

Art School Ball has a reputation for being … memorable. This one is going to be big – celebrating 40 years of the ANU School of Art.

WHEN	Saturday April 1 from 6:00 PM
WHERE	ANU School of Art
GO	TIX

Music

Tim Rogers at Smith’s

Tim Rogers is doing a gig at Smith's. Yeah, really.

WHEN	Monday 9 January at 7PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
GO	Facebook

Talk

Same Same Different // Sold Out

A conversation between two friends - Italian born architects Enrico Taglietti and Gianmatteo Romegialli working (respectively) in Canberra and Milan. Presented by Hotel Hotel.

WHEN	Sunday 15 January at 3PM
WHERE	Monster Salon and Dining Rooms, Hotel Hotel
COST	Free
GO	Sold out!

Performance Talk

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

Poetry and beer and yelling.

WHEN	Wednesday 18 January from 7:30PM
WHERE	The Phoenix
COST	Free
GO	BAD!SLAM!

Music

The Whitlams

Time flies. Those Whitlam boys are celebrating their 25th anniversary. To celebrate they are bringing along an orchestra.

WHEN	Friday 5 May
WHERE	Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$80/$90
GO	Tix

Performance

Amanda Palmer

Amanda Palmer is bringing her title of 'queen of punk cabaret' to town.

WHEN	Saturday 4 March
WHERE	Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$66/$86
GO	Tix

Music

Skeggs

Skegss brings the surfer slash summer viiiiibes.

WHEN	Friday 13 January from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$12
GO	More

Music

Bootleg Rascal

YAY! Bootleg Rascal are on a 'Shake N Bake' tour.

WHEN	Friday 20 January at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$15
GO	Tix

Exhibition Party

PAWS for Art

Dogs plus art.
BYO dog.

WHEN	Saturday 21 January, 11AM - 3PM
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	Facebook

Performance

The Screwtape Letters

A wry and witty insight into human nature through the correspondence between senior demon, Screwtape and his nephew and junior tempter Wormwood.

WHEN	Monday 19 December from 7:30PM. Until Friday 23 December
WHERE	The Courtyard Studio
COST	$40.00
GO	CTC

Film

The Miracle Woman

Preacher's daughter turned con artist. Fake miracles abound in this 1931 film.

WHEN	Sunday 19 February at 2PM
WHERE	Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive
GO	NFSA

Film

Lost Horizon

Frank Capra's 1937 vision of paradise on Earth, Shangri-La.

WHEN	Sunday 5 February at 4:30PM
WHERE	Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive
GO	NFSA

Film

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

1950s American sci-fi. Alien invasions. Giant, human-growing seed pods. What more could you want for your Sunday arvo?

WHEN	Sunday 29 January at 2:00PM
WHERE	Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive
GO	NFSA

Music

Arboretum After Hours

The National Arboretum is staying up late(ish) this January. Spend a summer evening listening to live music amongst the trees.

WHEN	Friday 6, 13 and 20 January from 4:30PM
WHERE	National Arboretum Canberra
COST	Free
GO	Arboretum

Eat Drink Party

NYE – Business As Usual

The Monster will be open as usual on New Year's Eve! Come play.

WHEN	Saturday 31st January - New Year's Eve
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar
GO	Monster

Music

Duo Amythis

Make lunchtime extra fancy with some classical guitar at the High Court.

WHEN	Tuesday 20 December at 12:30 PM
WHERE	High Court of Australia
COST	Free
GO	Book

Music

Cell Block 69

Canberra’s 80's rock and synth pop megastars. No really, we promise this will be good.

WHEN	Friday 16 December at 8PM
WHERE	The Basement
GO	Facebook

Eat Drink

New Years Eve at A.Baker

Chef Bernd Brademann is cooking up a six course shared menu for NYE din dins.

WHEN	Saturday 31 December at 7.30 PM
WHERE	A.Baker
COST	$160
GO	Menu and tix

Eat Drink

The Commons Street Feast

A proper food truck line up and martini, beer and wine bars. The line up includes Gelato Messina (yum), El Poco Loco (Mexican), Vutu (Nepalese), Yalla Yalla (Lebanese)... Bring your stretchy pants.

WHEN	Friday 9 to Sunday 18 December
WHERE	Commonwealth Park, Albert Street
GO	Opening hours

Music

Boy and Bear

Sydney based indie folk rock band 'Boy and Bear' are coming to play.

WHEN	Thursday 8 December at 7PM
WHERE	ANU Bar
COST	$46
GO	Tix

Music

Spilt Milk

Music. Food. Art.- No need to cry over Spilt Milk (Unless you didn't get a ticket)

WHEN	Saturday 3 December from 11AM
WHERE	Commonwealth Park
COST	$90.00
GO	FB

Music Performance

Glitoris – The Disgrace

Local femme-powered protest band Glitoris present their debut: ‘The Disgrace EP’. With special friends Faux Faux Amis and Moaning Lisa.

WHEN	Saturday 10th December at 7PM
WHERE	ANU Bar
COST	$30
GO	Tix

Music

Julia Jacklin

Blue Mountains artist Julia Jacklin is heading our way as part of a big Australian tour. Have a listen and book your tix. It's a goodie.

WHEN	Thursday 1 December at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$17.40
GO	Tix

Eat Drink

Christmas lunch at Monster

You don’t have to spend half your day with your hand up a turkey and the other half doing the dishes. Monster kitchen and bar are putting on Christmas lunch.

WHEN	Sunday 25 December from 12PM to 4PM
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$155 (lunch only) / $220 (with matching wines)
GO	Book

Exhibition

Temporality by Enrico Scotece

Experimental landscape photographic works printed in the PhotoAccess darkroom by mid-career Sydney-based photographer Enrico Scotece.

WHEN	Until Sunday 27 November
WHERE	Photo Access
GO	PA

Exhibition

Finding Focus by Laura Hindmarsh

An exhibition by London-based mid-career Australian artist Laura Hindmarsh, incorporating film, performance and experimental photographic techniques.

WHEN	Until Sunday 27 November
WHERE	Photo Access
GO	PA

Exhibition

Fugitive Faith – a conscripted oath

An exhibition by Mariana del Castillo - recycled materials in a surreal reflection on identity, migration, religion and the body.

WHEN	Until Sunday 26 March
WHERE	CMAG
GO	CMAG

Exhibition

High Rise Low Rise

A contemporary art Contiki Tour put together by artists from Canberra and the Gold Coast whose disparate practices share regional connections, architectural references and touristic motifs.

WHEN	Friday 9 December to Saturday 11 February
WHERE	Gorman Arts Centre
GO	AGAC

Performance

Vinegar Tom

A live performance by experimental art collective COUP about the witch trials in 17th century England.

WHEN	Tuesday 29 November to Saturday 3 December
WHERE	Gorman Arts Centre, Ralph Wilson Theatre
COST	$30 full / $20 concession
GO	AGAC

Exhibition

Ode to Frosta

An exhibition by Susan Buret about how we set up home... In lament for Ikea's mass produced rip off of Alvar Aalto’s stool and how the 21st century first world nomad establishes domestic space.

WHEN	Until Sunday 4 December
WHERE	CCAS Manuka
GO	AG

Exhibition

Mother Tongue by Andy Mullens

An installation by emerging artist Andy Mullens exploring her Vietnamese heritage through video performance and language.

WHEN	Opens Thursday 1 December at 6PM to Sunday 11 December
WHERE	Photo Access
GO	PA

Exhibition

Collective Rhythm by Casey Crockford

A social documentary project exploring Canberra’s swing dance community by emerging artist Casey Crockford.

WHEN	Opens Thursday 1 December at 6PM to Sunday 11 December
WHERE	Photo Access
GO	PA

Film

Out of the Past

Film noir... "My feelings? About ten years ago, I hid them somewhere and haven't been able to find them."

WHEN	Sunday 27 November at 1PM
WHERE	Canberra Museum and Gallery
GO	Reel McCoy

Music

Black Milk

In his first time in Canberra, Black Milk will be showcasing his mix of top flight production and insightful lyricism.

WHEN	Thursday 24 November 2016 from 8PM
WHERE	Transit Bar
COST	$20.00
GO	FB

Music

REMI- Divas and Demons Tour

REMI will be in town to offer some of his true blue Aussie MC mastery.

WHEN	Wednesday 30 November from 8PM.
WHERE	Transit Bar
COST	$22.00
GO	FB

Performance

Abbe May: Doomsday Clock Tour

Abbe May will take you to church! You will find yourself dancing to bells in ways you never knew you could.

WHEN	Friday 18 November from 8PM.
WHERE	Transit Bar
COST	$15.00
GO	FB

Exhibition

Iconic Australian Houses

An exhibition of iconic Australian houses by the ever impressive Karen McCartney - 30 of the most important homes in Australia that have been designed in the last 60 years.

WHEN	From Friday 25 November to Monday 13 March
WHERE	National Archives of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NAA

Exhibition

Down to Earth

A collection of works created by South Coast artist Nicole Grimm-Hewitt that look at the Earth from an aerial perspective.

WHEN	Thursday 24 November until Sunday 11 December. Opening launch Saturday 26 November at 6PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery, 17 Kendall Lane, NewActon
COST	Free
GO	Nicole Grimm-Hewitt

Shop

ANU glass sale

It's just one hour to snap up all the prototypes, seconds and extra glassware made by ANU School of Art students and teachers.

WHEN	Friday 2 December from 12.30PM to 1.30PM
WHERE	Outside the ANU School of Art Library, Childers Street, Acton

Shop

La Grande Fête

There are few things more Canberran than a school fête. This one is one of the biggest. Except street food and rides. Bring lots of gold coins.

WHEN	Saturday 5 November 2.30PM to 7PM
WHERE	Telopea Park School, Barton
GO	The old Le Burp

Exhibition

School of Art Grad show

Come have a geez at work from students that might be the next big deal in Australia at the ANU School of Art Grad show.

WHEN	Opens Friday 25 November at 6PM. Until Sunday 4 December.
WHERE	Main gallery, School of Art
GO	SOA

Exhibition Shop

Meraki at Močan

The lovelies at Močan regularly host Meraki night - a small collection of local designers and craftspeople to exhibit and sell their works. It will include ceramic tablewares, textiles and wood work.

WHEN	Sunday 13 November at 5PM
WHERE	Močan and Green Grout
GO	MGG

Exhibition Talk

Design Canberra Festival

Design and design related events happening all around town.

WHEN	Until Friday 25 November
WHERE	All around town
GO	DCF

Music

Weird Frontier

A one-day music festival that celebrates the new wave of alternative and experimental Australian music. With Aphir, beatrice, Elisabeth DIXON, Kane Ikin, KANGAROO LIFE SAVER, Monica Brooks...

WHEN	Saturday 12 November from 2PM to 11PM
WHERE	Ainslie Arts Centre
COST	$25 early bird / $35 pre sale / $40 at the door
GO	FB

Music

Day of the dead fiesta

Clave Manía, Los Chavos, Zambezi Sounds, Mandacaru, Brass Knuckle Brass Band. Read latin jazz, new orleans funk, ska reggae, Brazilian forro and West African dance music. Read booty shakin'.

WHEN	Saturday 5 November from 3PM to 11.30PM
WHERE	Ainslie Arts Centre
GO	RIP

Exhibition

The popular pet show

Portraits of famous and obscure Australians and their pets by contemporary artists.

WHEN	Friday 4 November to Monday 13 March
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
GO	NPG

Talk

The relevance of design

A talk by leading design festival curator and thinker Giovanna Massoni on why design matters in the contemporary world.

WHEN	Saturday 19 November at 2PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA
COST	$20, $15 Craft ACT/NGA members
GO	Tix

Film

Rembrandt

A film that is all about an exhibition from the National Gallery, London and the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - all about Rembrandt.

WHEN	Sunday 20 November at 2PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA
COST	$12, $10 (members/concession)
GO	Tix

Film

Girl with a pearl earring

Mauritshuis is the place to go and see paintings from Holland's Golden Age. The film looks at the mysteries behind Vermeer's ''Girl with a pearl earring' and lots of other Golden Age masterpieces.

WHEN	Sunday 13 November at 2PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA
COST	$12, $10 NGA members/concession
GO	Tix

Film

Manet: Portraying life

The NGA's exhibitions on screen series - Manet. The man. Some say the father of modern art.

WHEN	Sunday 6 November at 2PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA
COST	$12, $10 NGA members/concession
GO	Tix

Exhibition Performance

Reading for the End of Time

Mike Parr's durational performance based on Roland Barthes' 'Camera Lucida' ('La Chamber Claire'). The book is at once an essay on the essence of photography and a eulogy to Barthes' mother.

WHEN	Saturday 5 November at 10.30AM
WHERE	Mike Parr Information Centre at the NGA
COST	Free just rock up
GO	NGA

Film

Greek Film Festival

Contemporary films from Greece. Ouzo at the Prosecco bar. έλα.

WHEN	From Thursday 17 to Sunday 20 November
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Program

Film

German Film Festival

Contemporary, award-winning, and internationally acclaimed German-language films with English subs. Is gut. Ya.

WHEN	Thursday 24 November to Sunday 27 November
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Titles and tix

Film

British Film Festival

The British Film Festival is back again with contemporary and classic titles.

WHEN	Until Wednesday 16 November
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Titles and tix

Exhibition Party

Sketching process launch

'Sketching Process’ is a self-published design sketching book created by local maker SKEEHAN studio. Come and support the book at the kickstart launch.

WHEN	Friday 28th October at 6PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
GO	FB

Music Party

Gay cliché

Super gay dance party for Canberra's lovely LGBTI community and friends. Anyone with good vibes and big love is welcome.

WHEN	Saturday 5 November at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$10 at the door
GO	Transit

Music

Bad Manners tour

SKA! Bad Manners (made in the UK in '76) are touring Australia and New Zealand. Bring yo braces and doc martins and come skank! This is a once in a lifetime type SUPER FUN gig.

WHEN	Sunday 30 October from 6PM
WHERE	Transit Bar
COST	18+ tix are $50
GO	TB

Music

The Laurels – Sonicology tour

A beer and a boogie to these guys = yes, yes, yes lets do it now. The Laurels are releasing their second record 'Sonicology' and it's a goodie.

WHEN	Thursday 3 November at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
GO	TB

Exhibition

Make/Shift

Those kids at ANU have some skills! Check out what has been cooked up in the ANU Furniture Studio with this showcase of students' work.

WHEN	Opens Friday 18 November with opening party from 6PM. Until Sunday 20 November.
WHERE	Desgincraft, 8 Tralee Street, Hume 2620
COST	Free
GO	FB

Wonga Pop Up Exhibition

Pop down to the Wonga Street House for this Pop Up exhibition featuring 5 local designers/makers.

WHEN	Sunday 30 October and 13 November 10AM to 11.30AM.
WHERE	Wonga Street Eco House, 3 Wonga Street O'Connor
COST	Free
GO	FB

Exhibition

Luminary: Remembering Robert Foster

A celebration of the creativity, craftsmanship and beauty of F!NK + Co creator Robert Foster.

WHEN	Opens Thursday 27 October from 9AM. Until Friday 25 November.
WHERE	ACTEW AGL, 40 Bunda Street Civic
COST	Free
GO	Design Canberra

Music

Sunhaus Bobby tour

Brisbane-based indie rockers, Sunhaus, and trucking around on their 'Bobby' tour (to launch their 'Bobby' album). They are super sweet. They are bringing House of Strangers and Moaning Lisa along.

WHEN	Saturday 22 October from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	Pre-sale tix are $10
GO	Tix and info

Music

D’Opus and Roshambo

Hip hoppers D'Opus and Roshambo are launching their new release 'Mayday' supported by suavess., Jedbrii, Lash and DJs Faux Real and Chemi-Cal.

WHEN	Friday 28 October at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$10 at the door
GO	TB

Music

Andrea Kirwin

The very excellent Andrea Kirwin has come back for a bit to hang out like in the good old days (yeaaaaaah). Hi lady! It's nice to see you again.

WHEN	Wednesday 16 November from 7PM
WHERE	The Front
COST	$10 at the door
GO	FB

Music

One Day Block Party

Hip hop collective One Day (Horrorshow, Spit Syndicate, Joyride and Jackie Onassis) are holding a block party and you're invited.

WHEN	Sunday 18 December from 1PM
WHERE	Westside Village
COST	Free entry
GO	FB

Party

Sparky’s Reggae Party

Sparkys Jerk BBQ + reggae band Kinsky + local mob Zambezi Sounds Canberra + records for sale from Revolve = BAM BAM.

WHEN	Saturday 22 October from 9AM to 11PM (bands start at 2PM)
WHERE	Old Canberra Inn
GO	Deets

Exhibition

SOA PRO

An exhibition that showcases recent works by the pros and technical staff at ANU School of Art.

WHEN	Until Saturday 29 October
WHERE	ANU School of Art Gallery
GO	FB

Exhibition

Mud men

Mud men by Ramesh Nithiyendran: five giant sculptures made of clay... as well as concrete, sea shells, human hair and teeth, beads, cardboard, polystyrene, rubber snakes and the like...

WHEN	Until Sunday 26 February
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Performance

Antigone

High stakes drama courtesy of Sophocles' classic Greek Tragedy.

WHEN	Opening Thursday 27 October at 8PM. Runs until Saturday 29 October
WHERE	Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$45.00
GO	Canberra Theatre Centre

Performance

Othello

Bell Shakespeare's rendition of 'Othello', one of William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies (they are all pretty great though aren’t they).

WHEN	Opens Friday 14 October at 7:30PM. Until Saturday 22 October.
WHERE	The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre
COST	$93.50
GO	Canberra Theatre Centre

Exhibition

Kaninjaku: Stories from the Canning Stock Route

This is the story of the Canning, told from the perspectives of the Aboriginal people whose country it crossed.

WHEN	Until 2017
WHERE	National Museum of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NMA

Music

Joseph Tawadros Quartet

Oud player and composer, Joseph Tawadros will be bringing his skill, imagination and facial hair to the Street Theatre stage.

WHEN	Friday 14 October from 7:30PM
WHERE	The Street Theatre
COST	$39
GO	The Street Theatre

Film

Environmental Film Festival

A catalyst for positive and sustainable change and some bloody good films.

WHEN	From Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 October
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	EFFA

Exhibition

As It Is

A shared exhibition by Tess Horwitz, Caroline Huf, Janet Long. Using video, objects and images, the artists explore themes of impermanence and failure as inevitable, both in art and life.

WHEN	Until Sunday 16 October
WHERE	M16 Gallery One
GO	More

Music

Birth Write Beats

Local music producers have a little live battle to make music from existing samples. This time the rumble is between Tumbles, Eelad, Whoa Nut, Uncle Dunc.

WHEN	Friday 7 October from 8PM
WHERE	Lowbrow
GO	More

Music Party

Ping Pong Jam

Ping pong, music and Polish beer. Money, minimal glory and possibly a pat on the back.

WHEN	Thursday 13 October
WHERE	Polish Club
GO	More

Music

Shining Bird

Experimental pop band, Shining Bird are playing supported by Sings and Symbols. This should be a goodie.

WHEN	Wednesday 5 October at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	Free
GO	More

Music

Kingfisha

Six piece reggae dub band Kingfisha are releasing their second album - 'Offered It Up'.

WHEN	Friday 21 October at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$20
GO	Tix

Party

CLIPPED Music Video Festival

If video killed the radio star, CLIPPED is out to dance on the grave. A jam packed night of music videos, premieres, industry speakers, VJS and live music are all part and parcel of the program.

WHEN	Friday 30 September 2016
WHERE	Arc Cinema, Canberra, ACT
COST	$20.00
GO	NFSA

Film

Queer Screen Film Fest

Queer Screen Film Fest showcases the best in LGBTIQ cinema. Arc Cinema will be screening two of the festival's highlights; 'Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four' and 'Other People'.

WHEN	Saturday 1 Ocotber 2016
WHERE	The National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$19.00
GO	Queer Screen

Exhibition

Mutable Realities

Looking beyond the everyday, 'Mutable Realities' draws together artists who use their work to explore the inexplicable intangible realms where meaning might be found or reason lost.

WHEN	Opens Thursday 13 October at 6PM. Until Sunday 30 Ocotber
WHERE	Nishi Gallery, 17 Kendall Lane, NewActon
COST	Free

Object Therapy Talk at ANU

Convened by Genevieve Jacobs and ANU’s Niklavs Rubenis, the Object Therapy panel invites a selection of Canberra contributors to discuss their repair works, including Alison Jackson and Rohan Nicol.

WHEN	Thursday 27 October from 6PM
WHERE	ANU, Sir Roland Wilson Building, Level 2 (ground floor) Theatre; 120 McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2601
COST	Free
GO	Fix and Make

Object Therapy Talk at UNSW

Convened by UNSW’s Guy Keulemans, this Object Therapy panel discussion invites a selection of Sydney contributors to discuss their repair projects.

WHEN	Thursday 20 October from 5.30PM
WHERE	The Lecture Theatre, EGO2, E Block, UNSW Art & Design
COST	Free
GO	Fix and Make

Object Therapy Exhibition

Object Therapy is a design project that helps us re-evaluate the broken objects that surround us. This exhibition features 30 repaired objects and excerpts of video interviews with the owners.

WHEN	Friday 14 October to Sunday 30 October
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	Free
GO	Fix and Make

Performance Talk

AGDA Pecha Kucha / Sink or Swim

1.Take five creative leaders.
2.Allow each seven minutes.
3.Mix with turbulent professional experiences.

BAM! You have a recipe for inspiration.

WHEN	Thursday 8 September from 6.30PM
WHERE	LoBrow Gallery & Bar
COST	$40 Standard / $20 Member / $20 Student
GO	AGDA

Talk

A month of Saturdays with Chris Richardson

The second in the ‘A Month of Saturdays’ conversation series. Karen Middleton sits down to talk about the big issues with economist Chris Richards

WHEN	Saturday 10 September from 3PM
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NPG

Talk

A month of Saturdays with Madeline Gleeson

The first in the ‘A Month of Saturdays’ conversation series. Karen Middleton sits down to talk about the big issues with lawyer Madeline Gleeson.

WHEN	Saturday 3 September from 3PM
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NPG

Film

Italian Film Festival

Crime dramas, comedies, biopics, leading Italian actresses and of course love stories. The Italian Film Festival is on.

WHEN	Tuesday 19 September to Wednesday October 11
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	LIFF

Talk

A month of Saturdays with Marcia Langton

The fourth in the ‘A Month of Saturdays’ conversation series. Karen Middleton sits down to talk about the big issues with Indigenous leader Marcia Langton.

WHEN	Saturday 24 September from 3PM
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NPG

Talk

Festival of Dangerous Ideas Satellite

If you can't get to Sydney this weekend for the very excellent Festival of Dangerous Ideas, the Canberra Theatre Centre is streaming two of the conversations live at Civic Square.

WHEN	Saturday 3 September at 11.30AM
WHERE	Civic Square in the City
GO	CTC

Exhibition

Preset memory

A group exhibition by local photographers Lee Grant, Ellis Hutch, Blaide Lallemand, Mark Van Veen, Brenton McGeachie.

WHEN	OpensThursday 8 September at 6PM runs until Sunday 25 September
WHERE	M16
GO	M16

Exhibition

Granite and grain

An exhibition by Jane Duong and Chris Holly of hand printed argentotypes made over two years at Namadgi.

WHEN	Opens Thursday 8 September at 6PM runs Sunday 25 September
WHERE	M16
GO	M16

Music

Myles Mac’s five hour set

Soul Crane and Friends is back with curator of the Melbourne Deepcast and resident at Boney's Lost Weekend, Myles Mac. He'll be sweating it out with a five hour set with Not Quite Disco and Cressy.

WHEN	Sunday 18 September
WHERE	Bar Rocheford
COST	$5 entry
GO	FB

Music

Rebel Yell, California Girls, Alpha Male and Playful Sound

Say goodbye to old man winter with a little boogie on the dance floor with some electro pop from Rebel Yell, California Girls, Alpha Male and Playful Sound. This is going to be good, good, good.

WHEN	Saturday 3 September 8PM to 2AM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	Free
GO	FB

Music

Foreign Kings

Local band, Foreign Kings, are playing at Transit alongside the Central Coat's IVY and local Sorrel Nation. If you like a little big of a head bang you'll like the Kings.

WHEN	Friday 2 September at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
GO	TB

Music

The John Steel Singers and Alex Lahey

Six piece Brisbane band, The John Steel Singers, have just released their album 'Midnight At The Plutonium'. It's a goodie. They are celebrating at Transit along side Melbourne's Alex Lahey.

WHEN	Thursday 25 August at 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
GO	TB

Eat Drink Music

Strings in the Salon

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra are coming back to play us some more beautiful music in the Monster Salon and Dining rooms. There are two ticket types - one with lunch and simple entry.

WHEN	Sunday 18 September from 1PM to 3PM
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar Salon and Dining rooms
COST	Two course lunch (main and dessert) and entry $65 / simple entry $15
GO	Tickets

Exhibition Film

Re-screening- Entropy: Painting the Sky After Turner

Alex Hobba and Amelia Chapman present eight short films based on a week the two spent in Tasmania.

WHEN	Thursday 26 August drink at 6PM screening at 6.30
WHERE	Photospace at ANU SOA
GO	FB

Music

Holy Balm: activity album launch

Holy Balm is highly recommended for those who find their Sunday a little dry. The ‘mutant house’ trio will be launching their new album ‘Activity’. Be warned shoulder shimmying is a common side effect

WHEN	Sunday 25 September at 8PM
WHERE	Lobrow Gallery and Bar
GO	Chapter

Talk

Manus Island and Nauru

A talk that includes personal insights into Australia’s treatment of refugee’s in off shore detention centers.

WHEN	Tuesday 16 August at 6.30PM
WHERE	ANU, Manning Clark Lecture Theatre
COST	Free
GO	FB

Talk

The Minotaur and the Mirror

A talk with Professor Edward Scheer about presence, performance and representation in Mike Parr's works.

WHEN	Saturday 17 September at 2PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia, James O Fairfax Theatre
COST	Free but you need to book
GO	NGA

Film

Latin American Film Festival

13 films from Latin America screened over 13 days.

WHERE	National Gallery of Australia, James O Fairfax Theatre
COST	Free but you need to book
GO	NGA

Talk

Ritual and Extreme Actions: Performance Art and its Context

A discussion about performance art in Australia and internationally with a focus on ritual practice and extreme body actions.

WHEN	Saturday 24 September at 2PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia, James O Fairfax Theatre
COST	Free but you need to book
GO	NGA

Exhibition

Nervous: Installation

A collaborative installation with Heather B Swann - 'Nervous'.

WHEN	Thursday 18 August to Sunday 20 November
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia, Gallery One
GO	More

Exhibition Performance

Nervous: Performance

This looks fricking amazing. Heather B. Swann's 'Nervous' is a collaborative live performance and art installation. Spinning out of the theme of intense and extreme emotional states of being.

WHEN	Saturday 3 September at 7.30PM and Sunday 4 September at 2.00PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia, Gandel Hall
COST	$45 adults, $40 members/concessions
GO	More

Talk

Absence of Totality

A talk with Mike Parr about his latest exhibition at the NGA, 'Foreign Looking' and his artistic practice of the last 40 years.

WHEN	Saturday 13 August at 2PM
WHERE	NGA in the James O Fairfax Theatre
COST	Free but you need to book
GO	Book

Eat Drink

Moon Festival

Eat moon cakes and worship the moon.

WHEN	Saturday 10 September from 2PM to 8PM
WHERE	Lennox Gardens
COST	Gold coin
GO	FB

Exhibition

Mike Parr: Foreign Looking

This is the first exhibition to bring together works by Mike Parr in all media across his experimental practice from 1970 to the present.

WHEN	Friday 12 August to Sunday 6 November
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Exhibition

Marking the Spirit

The two bodies of work by artists John Forrester Clack and Tobias Oliver Clack in this exhibition are expressions of the process of seeking out the self and of the human physical and spiritual existen

WHEN	Friday 19 August to Sunday 11 September, opens launch Friday 19th August at 6PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
GO	Clack

Talk

Lecture 2: Blainey North and Tim Browne

The first in the contemporary architects speaker series put on by the ACT Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects and the National Gallery of Australia... With Blainey North and Tim Browne.

WHEN	Wednesday 14 September at 6PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA
COST	Series of single tickets available
GO	CASS

Talk

Lecture 1: James Russell Architects

The first in the contemporary architects speaker series put on by the ACT Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects and the National Gallery of Australia... With James Russell Architects.

WHEN	Wednesday 7 September at 6PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre, NGA
COST	Series of single tickets available.
GO	CASS

Music

Winnie the Pooh

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra's wind quintet are performing alongside a narrator to tell the story of 'Winnie the Pooh'.

BYO cushion to sit on and teddy bear to cuddle.

WHEN	Tuesday 4 October at 10AM (sold out) and 11.15AM
WHERE	Nishi Grand Stair, NewActon
COST	$10 for children / free for accompanying adults
GO	Tix

Exhibition

Cross Phase

A group exploration of materiality.

WHEN	Until Sunday 14 August
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
GO	FB

Exhibition

Tough and Tender

Art by a group of American and Australian artists from the 1960s to now explore the complexities of personal relations and individual expression – their work is intimate and raw.

WHEN	Friday 15 July to Sunday 16 October
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	TT

Music

Regurgitator

They don't need an intro... Regurgitator are playing at UC.

WHEN	Saturday 22 October at 7PM
WHERE	UC Refectory
COST	$45
GO	FB

Exhibition

Diane Arbus – American portraits

The photographs of Diane Arbus (1923–1971) are powerful allegories of postwar America. Once seen they are rarely forgotten.

WHEN	Until Sunday 30 October
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
GO	NGA

Eat Drink

The Forage at Odgers Lane

The Forage is putting on a mini market at Odgers Lane in the city - street food, drinks and good vibes in one of Canberra's oldest lane ways.

WHEN	Friday 12 August, 5PM to 9PM
WHERE	Odger's Lane, City
GO	FB

Talk

Plant Growth in a Changing Climate

Professor Graham Farqhuar (Professor of Environmental Biology at the ANU) will discuss the impact of climate change on vegetation around the world.

WHEN	Thursday 25 August at 12.30PM
WHERE	Australian National Botanic Gardens
GO	ANBG

Talk

Gardens That Have Influenced Us

Ben and Ros Walcott, the creators of a large native garden in Red Hill, reflects on the many gardens world-wide that have inspired its creation.

WHEN	Thursday 4 August at 12.30PM
WHERE	Australian National Botanic Gardens
GO	ANBG

Exhibition

Objects of Virtue

Maker and collector Greybox Design and forager and florist Field & Coppice have put together a little show at Močan and Green Grout.

WHEN	Monday 15 August to Sunday 11 September
WHERE	Močan and Green Grout
COST	Free
GO	Močan

Talk

Future Possible

A series of conversations about the possible future(s) of creative practice. How can creative thinking help us to understand what futures we face?

WHEN	Tuesday 23 August from 6PM to 7.30PM
WHERE	Gorman Arts Centre
COST	$15/$10 (includes a drink)
GO	Tix

Exhibition

No Feeling Whatsoever

Jay Kochel utilises 3D scanning, machine code and mechanised drawing to explore the aesthetics of meaning and mark making.

WHEN	Until Saturday 17 September
WHERE	CCAS City
GO	AGAC

Exhibition

Shapes of Doubt

An exhibition by Hannah Beasley - tension between flatness and relief, between abstract form and spatial illusion, between the centre and the infinite repeat, between lines collected into shapes...

WHEN	Until Sunday 14 August
WHERE	CCAS Manuka
GO	AGAC

Music

Bang!! Beng!! Bing!! Bong!! Bung!

For years now Nigel and Beth and the Canberra Musician's Club have been running a gig on their back veranda in Downer once a month called Bang! Bang! Bang! Now the Bangers have graduated...

WHEN	Tuesday 16 August, 7PM to 10PM
WHERE	Smith's
COST	$5 at the door
GO	FB

Music

If You Know What I Mean Canberra

Hiphoppers 'Horrorshow' are touring with 'B WISE' and this is their first stop.

WHEN	Wednesday 12 October at 8 PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$30
GO	Tix

Music

Crooked Colours

'Crooked Colours' - "a live electronic trio, creating music that has one foot in the indie genre and one foot in a darker electronic realm".

WHEN	Friday 19 August 19 from 10 PM
WHERE	Mr Wolf
GO	FB

Music

Yoncé Appreciation Night

Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no
Uh oh, uh oh, uh oh, oh no no

'Cause Beyoncé rocks thats why.

WHEN	Friday 26th August from 9PM
WHERE	Mr Wolf
GO	FB

Music

Soundscapes #2

Soundscapes - electronic and instrumental experiments with Reuben Ingall, Future Conduits and pxxl hxslxn.

WHEN	Saturday 6 August from 9.30PM
WHERE	Smith's
COST	$7 / $10
GO	Smith's

Film

Arab Film Festival

The latest in contemporary Arab cinema from Australia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Palestine and Qatar.

WHEN	Friday 5 to Sunday 7 August
WHERE	NFSA
GO	NFSA

Film

Alliance Française French Film Festival

Celebrating five iconic French actresses from films made between 1952 to 1975: Catherine Deneuve, Brigitte Bardot, Jean Seberg, Simone Signoret and Romy Schneideider.

WHEN	Friday 2 to Sunday 4 September
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	AFFFF

Exhibition

FINK exhibition

An exhibition made by friends in loving memory of Robert Foster - local iconic designer and silversmith, artist, and visionary.

WHEN	Until Saturday 3 September
WHERE	Craft ACT
GO	Craft ACT

Eat Drink

Diverse. Delicious. Durif.

A night put on by the Rutherglen wine mob in homage to the spicy, plummy little gem that is Durif wine. A four course dinner matched with Durif wines from the Rutherglen region.

WHEN	Saturday 27 August from 7PM to 10PM
WHERE	Mosaic room at Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$140
GO	Book

Eat Drink

Muscat Mixology

A night of Muscat cocktails, canapé eating, and wine maker mingling. Come and learn about this Australian sweetie, Muscat.

WHEN	Friday 26th August 6PM to 9PM
WHERE	The Mosaic room at Monster kitchen and bar
COST	$100 per person
GO	Book

A History of the World in 100 Objects

Based on the acclaimed BBC radio series by former British Museum director Neil MacGregor - a history of the world and shared humanity told through objects from Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe.

WHEN	From Friday 9 September until Sunday 29 January
WHERE	National Museum of Australia
COST	$20 adult / $15 concession / $8 child / $45 family
GO	NMA

Performance

The Salt Room: Poetry As Dissent

Poetry and performance about the social institutions and cultural norms that shape the way we think. From objectification to the government's asylum seeing policy.

WHEN	Friday 22 July from 7.30PM to 10.30PM
WHERE	Gorman Arts Centre in the Gorman Main Hall
COST	$5/$10
GO	AGAC

Performance

Slip Lane

Love, loneliness and Gungahlin. An absurdist original play about loneliness and human connection set on the fringes of Canberra…

WHEN	Thursday 28 to Saturday 30 July at 7.30PM and Sunday 31 July at 6.30PM
WHERE	The Street Theatre
COST	$32/$38
GO	AGAC

Music

Matthew Sheens: Cloud Appreciation Day

Pianist and composer Matthew Sheens is launching his new album, 'Cloud Appreciation Day' - it sources from all sorts of place like West African grooves and 20th Century poetry.

WHEN	Sunday 24 July from 2PM to 3.30PM
WHERE	Ainslie Arts Centre
COST	$20/$25
GO	AAC

Exhibition

Versailles: Treasures from the Palace

The Palais de Versailles - generally know as the home of Louis XIV (aka Louis the Great aka the Sun King) and absolutism in Europe. The Palace has loaned the NGA some of its treasures.

WHEN	From Friday 9 December.
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
GO	NGA

Music Party

Can I Have My Hat Back?

Hamish and Heath are bringing haus, techno and confused dancing to the parish floor. Hats are optional but nice.

WHEN	Saturday 23 July from 9PM
WHERE	St Volodymyr's Church 82 Archibald St, Lyneham
COST	$6/$11 online
GO	FB

Music

Unsustainable #1: Marcus (Whale, Syd) + Alphamale

Marcus (with a solo set of non-album tunes) and Alphamale with electronics, viola and vocals.

WHEN	Friday 19 August 8PM
WHERE	Lowbrow
COST	$5
GO	FB

Music

The Gaps

The Gaps. "Get a slice of funk, put some blues sauce on it, then slam it between two slabs of rock and enjoy."

WHEN	Friday 29 July 29 at 8PM
WHERE	Lowbrow
GO	FB

Music

Leah Senior + Melanie Horsnell

Leah Senior and Melanie Horsnell and their pretty folk roots.

WHEN	Friday 29 July at 7PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
COST	$7/$10
GO	FB

Music

William Crighton + Claire Anne Taylor

William Crighton and Claire Anne Taylor are making their way in from the NSW bush and the TAS rainforest to rip it up slowly and melodically.

WHEN	Sunday 24 July from 8PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
GO	FB

Music

The Transylvaniacs

Hungarian, Romanian and Gypsy music from Transylvania and beyond. Drink vodka. Cry tears. Hug one another.

WHEN	Saturday 27 August from 7PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
COST	$7/$10
GO	FB

Music

Three bands one mic

Old timey, bluegrass, country and 1920s style Hokum. Blues and ragtime baby. With The Plough, Den Hanrahan and the Rum Runners and Doctor Stovepipe.

WHEN	Friday 22 July at 8PM
WHERE	Polish White Eagle Club
COST	$10/$12/$15 online or at the door
GO	FB

Music

Hey Hey Tour

The Canberra Musicians Club and Skandy Gramatic present 'The Hey Hey it's Saturday' tour with Latham's Grip, The Treehouse Children, Azim Zain and His Lovely Bones, and Duck Duck Ghost.

WHEN	Saturday 3 September from 8PM
WHERE	Polish White Eagle Club
COST	$15/$10/$8 online
GO	FB

Music

Plutonic Lab: ‘Deep Above the Noise’

The master! Plutonic Lab (Leigh Ryan (see Muph and Plutonic ('cause you know that we're heaps good!))) is coming to launch his new full length 'Deep Above The Noise'.

WHEN	Saturday 8 October from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$20 online
GO	FB

Music

Camp Cope + Cayetana

Indie pop punk bands Camp Cope (MELBS) and Cayetana (USA) are playing a sideshow. Practice your high kicks.

WHEN	Wednesday 14 September from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$25 online
GO	FB

Music

Lulu Raes – EP launch ‘All Our Parents Are Divorced’

Pop rock outfit the Lulu Raes are launching their new EP 'All Our Parents Are Divorced'. Come for a shimmy.

WHEN	Saturday 10 September from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$15 online
GO	FB

Music

L-Fresh + Omar Musa + Sukhjit

L-Fresh THE LION is coming to make you put your hands up and get sweaty. With our much loved Omar Musa (rapper, poet, author) and Melb's Sukhjit (spoken word artist).

WHEN	Friday 9 September from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$15 online
GO	FB

Music

Foam – single launch tour

Garage band Foam are launching their new single 'I Could Milk Myself' à la late 80’s/early 90’s.

WHEN	Thursday 18 August from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	Free
GO	FB

Music

Rumblr EP launch

Rumblr - local Andalusian desert rock band are launching their first EP. Yes please times a million. Friends OrbisTertius and Babyfreeze will be there to warm and shake things up.

WHEN	Saturday 23 July from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$10 at the door
GO	FB

Eat Drink

Breaky at Monster

Monster has some new dishes on their breaky menu like Terra Preta truffled scrambled eggs on toast; and spelt and maple granola with roasted rhubarb, berries and whipped ricotta...

WHEN	Open every day from 6.30AM
WHERE	Monster kitchen and bar
COST	From $9
GO	Monster

Make a Swarm Trap

Help a bee out by making a swarm trap – a safe house for honey bees. In this workshop, you'll make your very own swarm trap to take home and install with the hope of providing shelter to a bee colony.

WHEN	Saturday 27.8 at 9AM to 12PM
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	$95/$60 Concession
GO	Fix and Make

Shop

Perimeter One-day Art Bookshop

Melbourne’s Perimeter Books is holding a one-day art book shop in the Hotel Hotel x Perimeter library. With Warwick Baker, author of 'Belanglo' and Bartolomeo Celestino author of 'Surface Phenomena'.

WHEN	Saturday 16 July from 10AM to 5PM.
WHERE	Hotel Hotel library on the ground floor

Shop

Record Fair

It's all in the name really. Records - rock, funk, soul, jazz, reggae, blues, folk, psych, hip hop and more. Hosted by Moonshine Records and Sugar Sounds.

WHEN	Saturday 30 July from 10AM to 5PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
GO	FB

Party

Braddon Block Party

They are (partially) closing the road and having a block party on Eloera and Lonsdale Streets. Market, street races, live acts, music and (it's not a party without) a float parade.

WHEN	Saturday 29th October 10AM to 10PM
WHERE	Elouera and Lonsdale Streets, Braddon
GO	FB

Talk

Canberra Writers Festival – Power, Politics, Passion

Bob Brown! Omar Musa! Stan Grant! Sarah Wilson! Very many excellent beings will explore the theme of power, politics and passion in the inaugural Canberra Writer's Festival.

WHEN	Friday 26 to Sunday 28 August
WHERE	Multiple locations
GO	CWF

Film Talk Workshop

Canberra International Film Festival

Local, national and international film screenings and workshops and talks on all things film related.

WHEN	Thursday 27 October to Sunday 6 November
WHERE	NFSA
GO	Program

Exhibition

2°

A group exhibition curated by Alexander Boynes - 2° investigates climate change, it’s effect on the present, and the struggle to avoid environmental disaster.

WHEN	Opens Friday 15 July at 6PM, until Saturday 20 August
WHERE	CCAS, Gorman Arts Centre
GO	FB

Music

Splendour in the bar

Strangeways DJs is putting on a night of booty shaking till dawn (which is pretty late). Featuring Architect DJs, Eddie Shaggz, Growly Radar, Ced Nada, Megan Bones and more.

WHEN	Saturday August 6 at 8PM to 4AM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$10 if you get there before 10PM
GO	FB

Music

The Big Sarong tour

Joseph Liddy and the Skeleton Horse are on tour sprucing their new album 'The Big Sarong'. Get your funk on and shake it off with some hypnotic transcendental rock.

WHEN	Friday 15 July
WHERE	The Phoenix
COST	$10 at the door
GO	FB

Party

Dance Off II

80's prom gear! Dance off! With MC Duane LeCorey Michaels and Corey DJ's.

WHEN	Saturday 13 August from 7PM
WHERE	Polish Club
COST	$25
GO	FB

Talk

What kind of city do you want to live in?

The Sunday Assembly asks the National Capital Authority, Malcolm Snow 'what kind of city do you want to live in'? In this talk Snow will be answering this question and many more.

WHEN	Sunday 17 July from 2.30PM to 4PM
WHERE	Majura Hall, Dickson
COST	Free
GO	FB

Shop

Show and Tell

A design market with stalls from designers, makers, illustrators and graphic artists in Canberra. ?

WHEN	Saturday 23 July
WHERE	Belconnen Arts Centre
GO	Here

Exhibition

Fiona Hall: Wrong Way Time

The NGA hosts Australian artist Fiona Hall's installation from the 2015 Venice Biennale. Hall brings together disparate elements that find alignment around politics, finance and the environment.

WHEN	Until Sunday 17 July
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	Free
GO	Wrong Way Times

Eat Drink

Barrio hotdog night

A super casual hotdog night. They'll have a variety of dogs available, vegetarian included. Actual dogs welcome. Walk-ins only. BYO.

WHEN	Thursday 7 June from 5PM
WHERE	Barrio Coffee Collective
GO	FB

Repair. Make. Swap.

You will love again. BYO neglected clothes to be repaired, re-imagined, remade or swapped. Expertise and materials will be on hand to ensure that you leave with a piece you can love again.

WHEN	Saturday 9.7 at 9.30AM to 11.30AM or 2.30PM to 4.30PM
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	$10/$7 Concession
GO	Fix and Make

Film

Stronger than Fiction

Canberra's own world class documentary film festival. Docos about equality, human rights, sustainability, refugees, disabilities, LGBT stories, technology in the modern world and music.

WHEN	Thursday 28 to Sunday 31 July
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Program

Talk

A month of Saturdays with Tim Flannery

The third in the ‘A Month of Saturdays’ conversation series. Karen Middleton sits down to talk about the big issues with environmentalist Tim Flannery.

WHEN	Saturday 17 September from 3PM
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NPG

Exhibition

Within Without

A major Skyspace by American artist James Turrell. It's a beauty - a pyramid, a stupa, a viewing chamber, an offering to and from the sun gods.

WHEN	Every day at sunset and sunrise
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Exhibition

Streets of Papunya

Works from the new generation of painters from the epicentre of Western Desert art.

WHEN	Sunday 15 July until Sunday 14 August
WHERE	Drill Hall Gallery, ANU
GO	Deets

Exhibition

Dissections

Technologically-precise sculpture depicts an artist. Speculative painting depicts a philosopher. Together, in this focus display, they explore physical and psychological manifestations of self-hood.

WHEN	Friday 19 August until Sunday 27 November
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery of Australia
GO	NPGA

Exhibition

Swarm Trap

‘Swarm Trap’ is an exhibition of conceptual and functional architectural objects made for one of the planet’s more important species – bees.

WHEN	Until Sunday 10 July.
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free
GO	ST

Exhibition

Michael Taylor: A Survey 1963-2016

The first major survey of expressionist painter Michael Taylor’s works - paintings and drawings from six decades, sourced from major public and private collections throughout Australia.

WHEN	Saturday 9 July to Sunday 2 October
WHERE	CMAG
GO	Deets

Exhibition

Jay Kochel avarice : auspice

Large, gold and inflatable, this ambitious project by Canberra artist, Jay Kochel, continues his exploration of the Japanese concept of ‘reading air’.

WHEN	Until 18 September
WHERE	CMAG
GO	CMAG

Exhibition

Highway to the Wilderness

A solo exhibition by Canberra-based emerging artist Anja Loughhead.

WHEN	Wednesday 13 July Sunday 31 July
WHERE	ANCA
GO	ANCA

Exhibition

Black Box – life, walls and houses

A solo exhibition by Judi Elliott. This body of work is inspired by a description of a life journey and is using Elliott's signature, technical glass styles of cast, cut, fused and assembled glass.

WHEN	Until Wednesday 27 August
WHERE	Craft ACT
GO	Craft ACT

Exhibition

Embracing Innovation Volume 6

The sixth in the series, 'Embracing Innovation', looks at innovation in the arts with a focus on craft and design.

WHEN	Until Saturday 27 August
WHERE	Craft ACT
GO	Craft ACT

Exhibition

Behind your eyes, between your ears

Digital media artist George Khut is making an interactive artwork with his brainwaves by using biomedical sensing technologies to explore embodiment and mind-body processes.

WHEN	Wednesday 29 June to Sunday 17 July
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NPG

Film Music

Heartbeats and GL

'Hear My Eyes' screening series - screening Xavier Dolan's 'Heartbeats' to a live score performed by Melbourne 80's analogue synth pop duo GL featuring Ella Thompson and Graeme Pogson. Good good good!

WHEN	Thursday 30 June at 7.30PM
WHERE	The Street Theatre
COST	$30
GO	Street

Music

Slumberhaze Neon Demon Tour

Sydney-based 'Slumberhaze' are releasing the first single “Neon Demon” off their upcoming EP. Melodic electro pop. Real nice. Playing with Slow Tourismo' and 'Cape'.

WHEN	Thursday 30 June at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
GO	TB

Music Party

Welcome Refugees Solidarity Concert

Beating the drums in the name of the rich contributions made by refugees through mediums not often seen. With 'Tapestries Of Sound', 'Kazuki', 'Raio De Sol', 'Ghostnoises' and lots more.

WHEN	Friday 24 June from 7.30PM
WHERE	Polish Club
COST	$10 - $15 tix online or at the door
GO	Tix

Film

Don’t blink: Robert Frank (R 18+)

A film about Swiss-born American photographer Robert Frank, best known for his 1958 photographs 'The Americans'.

WHEN	Wednesday 22 June at 6.30PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	$12 - $16
GO	NGA

Film

Hot Docs

The world's latest 'hottest' docos. True to form the line up is preeeeetty great.

WHEN	Wednesday 15 to Sunday 26 June
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Line up

Film

The Wolf in Australian Art

A documentary about Russian-born Australian painter and sculptor, Danila Vassilieff, often referred to as the 'father of Australian modernism'.

WHEN	Saturday 23 July at 2PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Film

Philip Dadson: Sonics from Scratch

A portrait of sound artist and musician Phil Dadson, his ensemble 'Scratch' and the role of collectivism in art.

WHEN	Wednesday 13 July at 6.30PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	$12 - $16
GO	NGA

Film

Heart of a dog (R 15+)

A story by musician and performance artist Laurie Anderson about love, death and what it means to be human... With her dog Lolabelle as guide.

WHEN	Wednesday 6 July at 6.30PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	$12 0 $16
GO	NGA

Film

Francophonia (R 15+)

Directed by Russian film maker Alexander Sokurov - an essay about the Louvre, war booty, and the role of art as the spirit of civilisation. It's his love letter to the Louvre.

WHEN	Wednesday 29 June at 6.30PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	$12 - $16
GO	NGA

Music

Juñor Free-Mined Mix Tape Launch

Dreamland hip-hop artist, Melbourne's 'Juñor' is taking his psychedelic show on the road for a debut national tour. With 'Genesis Owusu' and local fave 'Jedbrii'.

WHEN	Thursday 7 July at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$15
GO	Tix

Music

Ngaiire

Electronic folk soul - Sydney based 'Ngaiire' is on a national tour with her second album 'Blastoma' with her friends LANKS and Jack Grace.

WHEN	Saturday 9 July from 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$20
GO	Tix

Music

Playful Sound: Adi Toohey

'Playful Sound' (experimental multimedia event curators) are bring Adi Toohey to town to DJ. Come for a boogie.

WHEN	Friday 1 July from 9PM to 2AM
WHERE	Transit
COST	Free
GO	FB

Music

Rockabilly vs Psychobilly Rumble

Yup its a rockabilly/psychobilly rumble! With 'The Fire Katz', 'Bad Luck Kitty', 'The King Hits' and 'Raygun Rampage'.

WHEN	Saturday 25 June at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
COST	$10 / $15 at the door
GO	TB

Party

Martini Party

The Martini Whisperer is holding a Martini Party in the Nishi Gallery. Martinis made with the good stuff (premium Australian craft spirits), canapés and jazz. Dress lounge glam.

Yes please.

WHEN	Saturday 19 June at 6.30 PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	$89
GO	Tix

Music

The Beards

"Just get freaky with a beard tonight". 'The Beards' are saying goodbye to their glamorous rock star lifestyle. But they are touring first. They are very silly.

WHEN	Wednesday 29 June at 8PM
WHERE	ANU Bar
COST	$30
GO	ANU

Music

The Northern Folk + Tessa Devine

Albury 10-piece band The Northern Folk are heading up the Hume to team up with their good friend Tessa Devine to play their first Canberra Show.

WHEN	Friday 10 June at 8PM
WHERE	Transit Bar
COST	$5
GO	Transit

Music

Dylan Joel – Still Sippin’

Aussie hip hop!

WHEN	Thursday 9 June at 8PM
WHERE	Transit Bar
COST	$15
GO	Transit

Exhibition

Other Loves

Shanti Shea An's work explores the role of intimacy and touch in painting.

WHEN	Thursday 23 June to Sunday 3 July
WHERE	CCAS Manuka
GO	More

Film

Scandinavian Film Festival

The Scandinavian Film Festival is back. Australian premieres of films from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland.

WHEN	Tuesday 12 July to Sunday 24 July
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	SFF

Film

Bringing Out the Dead

Often overlooked, this film makes the most of Nicolas Cage’s borderline psychotic onscreen persona. Cage is Frank, an emergency paramedic working the skeleton shift for too many years.

WHEN	Friday 15 July at 7PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14 / $12
GO	NFSA

Film

New York, New York

Liza Minnelli’s singer and Robert De Niro’s saxophonist meet on VJ Day, and together they make amazing music.

WHEN	Sunday 10 July at 2PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14 / $12
GO	NFSA

Film

Goodfellas

One of Scorsese’s greatest.

WHEN	Friday 8 July at 7PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14 / $12
GO	NFSA

Film

Raging Bull

It’s Scorsese at NFSA. Good and creepy times. Love Scorcese. Love De Niro. Double love 'Raging Bull' (1980, M).

WHEN	Saturday 2 July at 7PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14 / $12
GO	NFSA

Film

Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974, PG). When Alice’s bore of a husband is killed in a highway accident, she takes to the road with her young son, seeking a new life, possibly as a singer.

WHEN	Saturday 2 July at 2PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14 / $12
GO	NFSA

Film

Taxi Driver

Taxi Driver (1976, R18+). 'Are you talking to me?’ Robert De Niro’s Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle works a night job driving taxis in New York, driven to action by the crime and debauchery...

WHEN	Friday 1 July at 7PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14 / $12
GO	NFSA

Film

Oriented

'Oriented' (2015, MA15+) directed by Jake Witzenfeld is the story of three Palestinian friends exploring their sexual identity to the backdrop of Tel Aviv during the Israel-Gaza conflict of 2014.

WHEN	Thursday 2, Friday 3, Tuesday 7 and Wednesday 8 June at 7PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14 / $12
GO	NFSA

Party

Canberra Obscura

An exploration of what you see when you’re looking sideways.

WHEN	Saturday 28 May 7.30PM to 11PM
WHERE	Ainslie Arts Centre
COST	$15 / $10 tix at the door or online
GO	Creeky

Performance

Anatomy of the Ideal Woman

This performative work by Julia Higgs about the body, consumption and Western social ideologies that make up the ideal woman.

WHEN	Wednesday 1 June from 5.30PM to 6PM
WHERE	Main Gallery, School of Art, ANU
GO	ANU

Exhibition

Material Objects

'Material Objects' a furniture exhibition by Elliot Bastianon and Andrew Carvolth.

WHEN	Opening party Friday 3 June from 6PM to 8PM; runs until Sunday 26 June.
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free
GO	Nishi Gallery

Exhibition

Re:Place

An exhibition of recent paintings and mono-prints by Sue Chancellor, Elisa Crossing and Phil Page that brings together their thoughts on places over time.

WHEN	Thursday 16 June Sunday 3 July
WHERE	M16
COST	Free
GO	M16

Exhibition

It’s For Your Own Good

Memories can be triggered by the simplest things – bindiis in the lawn, the smell of dagwood dogs at the show, floaties at the swimming pool.

WHEN	Thursday 26 May until Sunday 12 June
WHERE	M16
COST	Free
GO	M16

Exhibition

The Divided Works

An homage to minimalism and the process of construction. Hugonnet recreates horizons with building materials that have a horizontal element.

WHEN	Thursday 26 May to Sunday 5 June
WHERE	CCAS, Mauka
COST	Free
GO	CCAS

Exhibition

Relics

'Relics' by Diana Ellinger. "Bleached, saturated, uncomfortably laden with pattern, just a little bit tired, my paintings speak of their working process, the scars of their birth on their face."

WHEN	Thursday 9 June to Sunday 19 June
WHERE	CCAS, Manuka
COST	Free
GO	CCAS

Music

Mulatu Astatke and the Black Jesus Experience

Mulatu Astatke and the Black Jesus Experience. The father of Ethio-Jazz and an eight piece global-funk-machine? Yes please.

WHEN	Monday 13 June at 6PM
WHERE	The Street Theatre
COST	$49
GO	Street

Music

Stu Hunter: The Migration

Jazz and improv. With some of Australia's best musos.

WHEN	Saturday 11 June at 8PM
WHERE	The Street Theatre
COST	$40 / $35
GO	Street

Film

Yolgnu Boy

Three Yolngu boys reluctantly face the transition to adulthood navigating the constant push-pull between European and traditional culture.

WHEN	Friday 27 May at 2PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive, Arc Cinema
COST	$5
GO	NFSA

Film

Star Stories of the Dreaming

When the ancient wisdoms of the universe held by the oldest culture on earth meet modern astrophysics, a new concept is born – cultural astronomy. A doc.

WHEN	Wednesday 1 June at 6.30PM
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$10 / $8
GO	NFSA

Make a Utility Apron

Designer Suzan Dlouhy makes new clothes from old clothes. BYO old denim to this workshop led by Suzan and make a new Japanese boro style utility apron or tote to take home. Tix fixandmake.com.au

WHEN	Saturday 11 June at 9AM to 12PM or 10.15AM to 1.15PM
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	$95/$60 Concession
GO	Fix and Make

Music

Laura Palmer (MELB) w/ Agency, Office Jerk + TBA

Laura Palmer = melodic punk that should not be missed live.

WHEN	Friday 3 June
WHERE	The Basement
GO	FB

Object Therapy

A hands-on investigation into the objects that surround us – how they work, how to fix them, how to reclaim them, how to transform them and how to love them long time.

WHEN	Call for entries closes on Monday 5 June
WHERE	Apply online at fixandmake.com.au
COST	Free
GO	Fix and Make

Exhibition

Colour in at the Nishi Gallery with George Raftopoulos

Join Sydney painter George Raftopoulos at the Nishi Gallery for an afternoon of colouring in and chatting about travelling the world.

WHEN	Saturday 21 May 1.30PM to 3PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free
GO	FB

Performance

Countermove

A new contemporary dance double bill by the Sydney Dance Company.

WHEN	Thursday 19 May to Saturday 21 May
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
COST	$30/$69
GO	SDC

Eat Drink Shop

Souper Bowl

A nice hand made bowl with hot soup in it.

WHEN	Sunday 22 May from 10AM
WHERE	Straithnairn Gallery
GO	Bowl

Music

Mere Women with Wives and Little Lunch

Two good bands - Mere Women (SYD) and Wives (CBR) and a first timer - Little Lunch are playing an ode to the forty-minute break between classes, complete with Le Snak cheese and cracker combo packs.

WHEN	Sunday 22 May
WHERE	Lacklustre HQ
GO	Deets

Music

Heart Beach, Wives, Low Talk, Tom Woodward

Mellow sounds from Heart Beach (TAS), Low Talk (MELBS), Tom Woodward (CBR) and Low Stars (CBR).

WHEN	Friday 27 May at 8PM
WHERE	The Polish Club
COST	$15/$12/$10
GO	More

Music

Old Man Luedecke with Black Mountain String Band

Straight from Nova Scotia comes banjo songster Old Man Luedecke - this is a bizarre type of music Doc Boggs might have made if he'd studied poetry. Supported by Black Mountain String Band.

WHEN	Saturday 14 May at 8PM
WHERE	The Polish Club
GO	Old mate

Exhibition

Unfolding Memories

Solo exhibition by Colombian artist Rosario López.

WHEN	Wednesday 18 May to Sunday 5 June
WHERE	ANCA
COST	Free
GO	ANCA

Exhibition

The Void Embrace

A solo exhibition by Shellaine Godbold.

WHEN	Wednesday 8 June to Sunday 26 June
WHERE	ANCA
COST	Free
GO	More

Performance

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! Poetry slam every third Wednesday of the month. Sign-up 7:30pm, SLAM from 8PM.

WHEN	Every third Wednesday of the month. Sign up from 7.30PM.
WHERE	The Phoenix
GO	BAD!

Exhibition

Obnoxious Ladies in the Australian Landscape

Australian art history frequently references male depictions of harsh and unforgiving lands to be conquered or celebrated as a great untouchable beauty often leaving out women’s experience altogether.

WHEN	Until Saturday 18 June
WHERE	Gorman Arts Centre
COST	Free
GO	The ladies

Performance

Not Today Satan: Bianca Del Rio

Actor, insult comedian, costume designer, and drag queen Bianca Del Rio is a pretty permanent fixture in the New York and New Orleans scene.

WHEN	Tuesday 24 May
WHERE	The Playhouse
COST	$53.40/$73.50
GO	Book

Performance

Tim Rogers and Davey Lane

Member of 'You Am I', dilettante, football fan, songsmith, legend, and all round nice man Tim Rogers plays songs from the last 20 years of his career and will be joined by compadre Davey Lane no less.

WHEN	Friday 13 May at 8PM
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
COST	$40
GO	Tim

Performance

Little Shop of Horrors

It's alive! Frank Oz's 1986 cult rock musical horror comedy 'The Little Shop of Horrors' has been revived. It's the story of a love sick hero and a blood thirsty plant.

WHEN	Wednesday 25 May to Sunday 29 May
WHERE	Canberra Theatre
GO	Horror

Music

Sugar Fed Leopards

Like a glitter comet from the wild side of the disco globe, Sugar Fed Leopards are a blazing sextet igniting dance-floors with a cosmic cocktail of disco, soul, doo-wop and hip swinging rock ‘n’ roll.

WHEN	Thursday 12 May
WHERE	The Pheonix
GO	The Pheonix

Exhibition

The Transported by George Raftopoulos

George Raftopoulos plays with the notion of the migrant identity. His works are odd and he knows it. But being an oddity is all part of the migrant experience, it is a part of everyone’s humanity.

WHEN	Opens Friday 13 May at 6PM. Until Sunday 29 May
WHERE	Nishi Gallery, 17 Kendall Lane, NewActon
COST	Free
GO	G Raf

Music

Soweto Gospel Choir

Let the light in with some gospel music brought to you by the angelic voices of the Soweto Gospel Choir, all the way from South Africa.

WHEN	Tuesday 16 August
WHERE	Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$70-$95
GO	Canberra Theatre Centre

Performance

Appropriately Inappropriate: Thao Thanh Cao

Test your threshold of sensitivity and head to comedian Thao Thanh Cao's very politically incorrect and inappropriate stand up comedy show at Smith's Alternative.

WHEN	Thursday 12th May at 9.30PM
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
COST	$10/$15
GO	Smith's Alternative

Music

The Funkoars: ‘Mad as Hell’ Tour

Aussie hip hop legends The Funkoars will be rocking Transit and all its contents as part of their Mad as Hell Tour. You'd be crazy to miss this gig.

WHEN	Wednesday 15 June at 8PM
WHERE	Transit
GO	Transit

Film

American Essentials Film Festival

New films from the USA - thriller, melodrama, adventure, comedy, coming of age, body horror, political documentary, symphonic documentary, classics, music, cult, art, and biography.

WHEN	Tuesday 16 May to Sunday 28 May
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	Tix

Music

Boogie Down Vol. 2

Get down, get loose, get buzzzyy at Transit's regular hip hop event 'Boogie Down Vol. 2', where Canberra favourites roll up and represent so you can krunk it Crooklyn style.

WHEN	Thursday 12 May at 8PM
WHERE	Transit Bar
COST	Free
GO	Transit

Exhibition

Perfect Imperfect

An exhibition of perfectly imperfect objects, collected from around the world. Curated by Karen McCartney, Sharyn Cairns and Glen Proebstel, in collaboration with Hotel Hotel.

WHEN	Until Sunday 8 May.
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free

Shop

Suitcase Rummage

A mini market set up in suitcases. Come for a bargain, a swap, or an old-fashioned haggle.

WHEN	Sunday 27 November from 10AM to 2PM
WHERE	NewActon Precinct
COST	Free
GO	Come

Party

Sound and Fury: cold winter hot party

Performance art in a party format. Expect music, theatre, dance, spoken word and live art. Last time it was an immersive performance party with guest appearances by all-girl punk band Glitoris.

WHEN	Saturday 4 June at 8PM
WHERE	NewActon Precinct
COST	$20 early bird / $37
GO	NA

Exhibition Performance

‘stCloud: Frost Drawing’ by Gosia Wlodarczak

An eight-day drawing performance titled 'stCloud: Frost Drawing' by Gosia Wlodarczak. Wlodarczak looks to connect cultural spaces and their systems of sharing artwork, knowledge and information.

WHEN	Saturday 7 May to Sunday 15 May 9AM to 5PM
WHERE	The Street Theatre
GO	Street

Talk

Gosia Wlodarczak artist talk

Melbourne based artist Gosia Wlodarczak does drawing performances - intricate archival networks. She'll be talking about her work in the lead up to her eight day drawing performance.

WHEN	Saturday 7 May at 2PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre at the NGA
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Music Performance

Nishi Sequenza

Come and listen to some talented humans make beautiful music in our belly, on Nishi's grand staircase in the Hotel Hotel foyer. Tix at cimf.org.au.

WHEN	Tuesday 3 May, 12:30-2:00pm
WHERE	New Acton grand staircase, Nishi Gallery and courtyard. Meeting place: John Avery Gardens next to Nishi Gallery in Kendall Lane.
COST	$25/$55
GO	Canberra International Music Festival

Music Performance

Naked Bodies at The Front

The Naked Bodies foursome have built a reputation for being one of the most electrifying and confronting live acts in the country. Their debut LP 'Piranha' is a chameleonic, genre-hopping explosion.

WHEN	Tuesday 21 June
WHERE	The Front Gallery and Cafe
COST	$10
GO	The Front Gallery and Cafe

Film

Banff Mountain Film Festival 2016

Live vicariously via the Banff Mountain Film Festival; basically an international film festival for people who love those crazy extreme mountain sports and her majesty mother nature.

WHEN	Saturday 14 May to Wednesday 18 May
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive Arc Cinema
GO	Banff Mountain Film Festival

Talk

Why we need Batman

Why is Batman so much better than Superman? What does the Dark Knight reveal about our struggle for truth and justice? If these questions ignite your bat senses then suit up and join the convo.

WHEN	Thursday 5 May at 6pm
WHERE	Coombs Lecture Theatre, ANU
GO	Australian National University

Exhibition Performance

Ocean Island… Mine! by Latai Taumoepeau

A live performance by Latai Taumoepeau where she relocates a 500kg block of ice with a shovel.

WHEN	Friday 29 April from 5.15PM to 7.30PM
WHERE	Kendall Lane, beside Goodspeed Bicycle Co.
COST	Free

Talk

Human Rights and Refugees

Emeritus Professor Gillian Triggs is coming to have a chat about Human Rights and Refugees. It's not going to be a light chat but it will be an important one.

WHEN	Wednesday 27 April 27 at 7PM
WHERE	Llewellyn Hall, ANU
COST	Free
GO	CRAC

Party

Gay cliché

A dance party with good viiiiiibes. It's a good excuse to shake yo booty and make some $$ for Youth Care Canberra. Featuring - Cheese, Nay Nay, Victoria Mean and Megan Bones.

WHEN	Saturday 23 April from 8PM
WHERE	Transit bar
COST	$10 big ones
GO	Cliché

Music Talk

Barbara Blackman’s Festival Blessing

What does it mean to be an artist working in the Middle East today? Come and join the discussion punctuated by music from oud player, Joseph Tawadros.

WHEN	Sunday 1 May
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	$25-$55
GO	Canberra International Music Festival

Performance

A Midnight Tale: Il Racconto Di Mezzanotte

Italian classical tenor vocalist and musicologist Marco Beasley tells a tale accompanied by nothing more than some spooky candlelight, a book of tales and your imagination.

WHEN	Saturday 30 April
WHERE	Fitters' Workshop
COST	$25-$65
GO	Canberra International Music Festival

Music Performance

Fandango

Thirty fingers in perfect synchronicity. Direct from Spain come the three brothers Zapico: Aarón, Pablo and Daniel, aka Forma Antiqva.

WHEN	Saturday 30 April
WHERE	Fitters' Workshop
COST	$25-$55
GO	Canberra International Music Festival

Music Performance

Opening Gala: Tango Tambuco

The opening gala to the Canberra International Music Festival features a star-studded concert with flavours from Mexico, Argentina and Australia.

WHEN	Friday 29 April
WHERE	Fitters' Workshop
COST	$25-$65
GO	Canberra International Music Festival

Exhibition

Covet 2

Artists explore personal desires to have and to hold, sinful yearnings, urges to consume and possess through sensual and multi-disciplinary practices.

WHEN	Tuesday 3 May to Saturday 14 May
WHERE	School of Art Foyer Gallery
GO	ANU school of Art

Exhibition

Deadpan: Heidi Lefebvre

Deadpan is an exhibition of drawings responding to humanities absurd notions of self- importance.

WHEN	Tuesday 19 April to Saturday 30 April
WHERE	School of Art Foyer Gallery
GO	ANU School of Art

Exhibition

Mysterious Eyes: Arthur Boyd portraits

In this focus exhibition Boyd’s self-portrait at age 25 is joined by his portraits of those around him.

WHEN	Wednesday 4 May to Sunday 14 August
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NPG

Exhibition

National Photographic Portrait Prize

Check out this years National Photographic Portrait Prize exhibition and introduce yourself to some talented Australian photographers and their beautiful muses.

WHEN	Saturday 19 March to Sunday 26 June
WHERE	National Portrait Gallery
COST	Free
GO	NPG

Eat Drink Exhibition

Wrong Way Dinner

A tour of Fiona Hall's 'Wrong Way Time' exhibition with the senior curator Deborah Hart followed by a dinner that will be served to you the wrong way around.

WHEN	Friday May 20 at 6PM
WHERE	NGA
COST	$100 / $120
GO	Book

Film

Land Grabbing

Urgent and outrageous, 'Land Grabbing', shows us both sides of the contentious issue of land ‘acquisitions’.

WHEN	Saturday 4 June at 7PM
WHERE	Palace Electric
COST	$18.50 / $15
GO	HRAFF

Exhibition

Black

A collection-based focus display that looks at the colour Black, like what it means in 20th-century art, its capacity to elicit strong feelings or associations, whether poetic or political.

WHEN	Until Monday 13 June
WHERE	National Gallery Australia
COST	Free
GO	Black

Workshop

Yoga with Odona

Yoga in the Shed. Classes are free for Hotel Hotel guests. Just ask for a code at reception and book online.

WHEN	Monday 6.15PM to 7.30PM. Tuesday 12PM to 1PM, Wednesday 6.45AM to 7.45AM. Thursday 6.15PM to 7.30PM. Saturday 8AM to 9.15AM.
WHERE	Flow Yoga Studio @ Nishi, NewActon (‘H’ level, directly above Palace Electric Cinema)
COST	$18 / free for Hotel Hotel guests (just ask reception for a booking code).
GO	Yoga

Performance

Attempt To Perform Kill Climate Deniers

What happens when the unstoppable force of climate change meets the immovable object of Australian politics?

WHEN	Saturday 16.4 9PM to 10.30PM
WHERE	The Club
GO	YAH

Talk

Bite the Hand that Feeds You

Should taxpayers pay for ‘controversial’ art? Is political art compromised by taking money from the government? Ginger Gorman hosts a conversation featuring Mark Fletcher and Bernie Slater.

WHEN	Saturday 16.4 from 2PM to 3.30PM
WHERE	CMAG
GO	YAH

Party

Everything at once and all together

Over 30 artists partying it up in a laneway in Civic.

WHEN	Friday 15.4 from 6PM
WHERE	Verity Lane, Civic
COST	Free
GO	YAH

Exhibition Party Performance

It’s all about Eve

A solo exhibition by abstract painter Emma Beer.

WHEN	Until Sunday 15 May
WHERE	ANCA
GO	ANCA

Exhibition

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral

A solo exhibition by object maker Rosalind Lemoh. Lemon's works look to find beauty in the banal and the discarded.

WHEN	Opens Wednesday 6.4 at 6PM to 24.4
WHERE	ANCA
GO	ANCA

Film

Screening: Vermeer

The National Gallery, London, offers a fresh look at one of the most startling and fascinating artists of all – Johannes Vermeer, focusing on his relationship with music.

WHEN	Wednesday 11 May at 6.30PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre National Gallery of Australia

Film

Screening: Vincent van Gogh

Total access to Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. Amazing. The film also has interviews with curators and art historians who offer their interpretations and explanations of his work.

WHEN	Wednesday 18.5 from 6.30PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre at the National Gallery of Australia
COST	$12/$10
GO	NGA

Film

Screening – Matisse: from the Tate Modern and MOMA

An intimate, behind-the-scenes documentary of 'Henri Matisse: The cut-outs' is about the most successful exhibition in the history of London's Tate Modern.

WHEN	Wednesday 4 May from 6.30PM to 8PM
WHERE	James O Fairfax Theatre at the National Gallery of Australia
COST	$12/$10
GO	NGA

Workshop

Tjanpi weavers workshop

The Tjanpi weavers from the Central Desert, who collaborated with Fiona Hall on works in her 'Fiona Hall: Wrong way time' exhibition are holding a drop in meet, weave demo and workshop.

WHEN	Saturday 23.4 from 11AM to 4PM
WHERE	National Gallery of Australia
COST	Free
GO	NGA

Performance

Venus Mantrap

A coming-of-drag story - 'Life, Love and Lip Synching'.

Mantrap straddles musical genres which span trip-hop and rock, to dance and folk, as a way of painting a hilarious and sometimes heart-wrenchin

WHEN	Saturday 16.4 10PM to 11PM (door open at 9.30 PM)
WHERE	Smith's Alternative
COST	$10
GO	Tickets

Exhibition

✌GVCCI☯THVVG✌

✌GVCCI☯THVVG✌ is an irl exhibition that explores the representation and misrepresentation of women within cyber-culture.

WHEN	Thursday 14.4 to Sunday 24.4
WHERE	CCAS Manuka
COST	Free
GO	Cyber

Exhibition

Lost Plans

'The Lost Plans' - an exhibition by painter Yanni Pounartzis about Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahony Griffin's plans for Canberra from 1912.

WHEN	Opens Thursday 24.3 at 6PM until Sunday 10.4
WHERE	M16 Gallery
GO	M16

Eat Drink

Easter Opening Hours in NewActon

Here is what's open and when in NewActon over the Easter bunny long weekend.

WHEN	Easter long weekend
WHERE	NewActon Precinct

Repair. Remake. Swap.

You will love again. BYO neglected clothes to be repaired, re-imagined, remade or swapped. Expertise and materials will be on hand to ensure that you leave with a piece you can love again.

WHEN	Saturday 16.4 at 9.30AM to 11.30AM or 2.30PM to 4.30PM
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	$10/$7
GO	Fix and Make

Exhibition

Wei Leng Tay: The Other Shore

The Other Shore asks how one’s sense of self is entwined with national identity, and how a host environment affects our outlook and everyday lives.

WHEN	Until Friday 15 July
WHERE	Australian Centre on China in the World, Fellows Lane, ANU
COST	Free
GO	Shore

Talk

Eat, Drink and be Artistic with Ken Done

Iconic Australian, Ken Done will talk about his new memoir, A Life Coloured In. His most recent claim to fame is a commissioned work for Tay Tay.

WHEN	Friday 8.4 at 6.15PM
WHERE	ANU
COST	$70
GO	Done it

Party

F_ck Art Lets Party

Everyone gets to a point: enough art, let’s party. And that’s the plan. The Art, Not Apart Festival takes over Westside with an afterparty. 3D projections, acrobatics, fireworks and TOO MANY DJS.

WHEN	Saturday 19.3 at 7PM
WHERE	Westside Acton Park
COST	Free
GO	F_ck

Exhibition

Patterns of Now

Patterns of Now is the festival theme for Art, Not Apart 2016. This exhibition presents artists’ opinions on social, environmental and political issues facing the world today.

WHEN	Friday 18.3 to Sunday 3.4 OPENING party Friday 18.3 at 6PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free
GO	Now

Exhibition

Art Not Apart

Art, Not Apart is a little festival for the arts. Canberra arts. No-one’s apart. The theme this year is Patterns of Now. The action is all in New Acton.

WHEN	Saturday 19.3 at 1PM to 7PM + After Parties
WHERE	New Acton
COST	Free
GO	Not Apart

Party

Art Not Apart After Party

Sound and Fury is the performance art after-party following Art, Not Apart. This latest instalment will flaunt and fuse the exceptional skills of performance artists from the region.

WHEN	Saturday 19.3 at 7PM
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	$20
GO	Sound and Fury

Suitcase Rummage

Suitcase Rummage is a mini scaled market with giant rewards; it promises to be everything that is a market without the hassle. Bring a suitcase and sell, or just have a rummage.

WHEN	Saturday 19.3 at 1PM to 6PM
WHERE	Kendall Lane New Acton
GO	Rummage

Eat Drink

Oyster Appreciation

Make your own shucker with Alison Jackson. Learn how to shuck like a pro with Steve Feletti from Moonlight Flat Oysters. Bring out an oyster’s delicate flavour with Dan Flatt from Monster.

WHEN	Sat 2.4 at 9AM to 2.30PM
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	$165 / $115 concession (including light lunch)
GO	Fix and Make

Eat Drink

Bar Lourinhã Hits Monster

We are celebrating Good Food Month with two Good Brothers, Sean and Matt McConnell. Matt of Bar Lourinhã and his brother Sean of Monster kitchen and bar are cooking Easter Lunch.

WHEN	Sunday 27.3 at 12.30PM
WHERE	Monster Kitchen Bar
COST	$100/$170 with matched wines
GO	Good Food Month

Exhibition

Bread + Honey

Bees are excellent architects. And they pollinate up to 80% of the food we eat. This little display of twelve sculptures was made by artist Giorgia Mocilnik, beekeeper Honeyfingers and honeybees.

WHEN	From Sat 6.2 to Sun 20.3
WHERE	Display cases on the ground floor of Hotel Hotel
COST	Free
GO	The Planthunter

Talk

Barbara Blackman in Conversation with Kerry Stokes

Join Barbara Blackman in conversation with Kerry Stokes for the launch of Barbara's new collection of essays, All My Januaries: Pleasures of Life and Other Essays.

WHEN	Sunday 24.4 at 12PM
WHERE	National Library Australia
COST	$15
GO	Blackman

Film

Spanish Film Festival

The Spanish Film Festival. Dramas, romances, thrillers and major box-office hit comedies from across Spain, plus a selection of gems from Latin America.

WHEN	Until Sunday 8 May
WHERE	Palace Electric
GO	Espanyol

Talk

Meet the Author: Niki Savva

She's been writing books and she knows what up. Join ANU and The Canberra Times and meet Niki Savva and get the inside info. She'll be in convo with Kerry-Anne Walsh to discuss her new book.

WHEN	Monday 21.3 at 6.30PM
WHERE	ANU
COST	Free
GO	Savvy

Music

Grace Barbe

From Seychelles to Fremantle, Grace Barbe is bringing her Afro-Kreol tunes - a fusion of tropical island rhythms with African percussion, reggae, pop, rock and latin flavours to Canberra.

WHEN	Friday 15.4 at 8PM
WHERE	The Polish Club
COST	$20/$15/$10
GO	Barbes

Music

Cat Empire

These kewl kats, a band of party animals are bringing their empire to Canberra for their Rising With The Sun Tour. Rising with the sun is definitely optional.

WHEN	Sunday 22 May at 8PM
WHERE	Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$65
GO	Cats

Exhibition

Bald Archy

The twenty year old spoof of the illustrious Archibald Prize - the Baldy Archy paintings range from the hilarious to the that's just rude.

WHEN	Until Monday 14.3
WHERE	Watson Arts Centre
COST	$4/$5
GO	Baldy

Performance

Slamboree feat Harry Baker (UK)

Canberra Slamboree featuring 2012 World Poetry Champion Harry Baker, Raphael Kabo, poetry from you (yeah you, do it) and others, DJ Sailor V and Brown Owl. Fun fun fun.

WHEN	Friday 1st April 7.30PM to 10PM
WHERE	The Front
GO	Slam

Film

Spear

Bangarra’s Stephen Page makes his feature film directorial debut with this vibrant dance film, depicting the journey of young Aboriginal man Djali.

WHEN	Thursday 10.3 to Wednesday 23.3
WHERE	National Film and Sound Archive
COST	$14/$12
GO	Spear

Music

Confluence ft. Austin Buckett

Sydney based composer and sound artist Austin Buckett performs a set of solo piano improvisations followed by a performance of his Grain Loops piece, recently released as an LP.

WHEN	Thursday 10.3 at 7PM
WHERE	Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre
COST	$10/$15
GO	Buckett

Shop

Hunter and Sunday Pop up Shop

Hunter the label (Canberra fashion label) and Sunday (Melbourne fashion label) have a pop up shop. All locally designed and made.

WHEN	Until Sunday 28.2
WHERE	Unit 5, 26 Elouera St, Braddon
GO	Hunter X Sunday

Talk

Something from Nothing

The average Australian household with children has in excess of 100 toys. Yikes. Most end up as landfill. A talk with Arvind Gupta – a scientist, day-dreamer, inventor and toymaker. fixandmake.com.au

WHEN	Friday 26.2
WHERE	Mosaic room, Hotel Hotel
COST	$25 / $15
GO	Fix and Make

Workshop

Meet the Toymaker

Drop on in to meet Arvind Gupta – a scientist, day-dreamer, inventor and toymaker who lives and works in India. He’ll be hanging out whipping up toys from household waste. fixandmake.com.au

WHEN	Saturday 27.2
WHERE	Mosaic room, Hotel Hotel
COST	Free
GO	Fix and Make

Workshop

Toys from Trash (kids workshop) 6 -11YRS

Make toys and create experiments from household materials usually thrown away with Arvind Gupta – a scientist, day-dreamer, inventor and toymaker who lives and works in India. fixandmake.com.au

WHEN	Saturday 27.2 at 2PM to 4PM
WHERE	Fix and Make Shed, Hotel Hotel
COST	$30
GO	Fix and Make

Exhibition

Mamu, Moments and Memories

Maruku Arts is an Aboriginal owned and run business which gathers art from the Ngaanyattjara Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara lands. They show their vibrant paintings and wood carvings at ANU.

WHEN	Saturday 5.3 to Saturday 12.3 OPENING Friday 4.3 at 7PM
WHERE	ANU School of Art
COST	Free
GO	Maruku

Exhibition

Fringe Dwellings

Fringe Dwellings interrogates Canberra’s rapid suburban development and considers the aesthetics of progress, and the ongoing dispossession of Indigenous Australia.

WHEN	Until Sunday 20.3
WHERE	Photo Access
COST	Free
GO	Fringe

Guided Forest Walk

Get acquainted with the trees of the Arboretum's forests and enjoy the views on a guided forest walk.

WHEN	Every Sunday at 10AM
WHERE	National Arboretum. Meet at the Village Centre
COST	Free
GO	Walk

Exhibition

Far South

Matt Chun re-imagines the environment of his hometown in an act of personal quietude, dissembling spatial expanse and tangible form, to distil thought and sensory perception into drawing.

WHEN	Until Sunday 13.3
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free
GO	South

Film

Alliance Française French Film Festival

Oui Oui it's the Alliance Française Film Festival. It's always a good time.

WHEN	Thursday 3.3 to Tuesday 29.3
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
GO	C'est la vie.

Music

Groovin’ the Moo

Groovers get grooving. Ratatat, The Rubens, British India and many more are coming to Canberra for a day and you can see them.

WHEN	Sunday 24.4
WHERE	Canberra Uni
COST	$110
GO	Moo

Shop

Portobello Road (Canberra)

Collectibles and small antiques at Canberra's Portobello Road market. It's all about the thrill of the chase. Fossick, hunt, stalk...

WHEN	Sunday 27.3 at 10AM to 4PM
WHERE	Old Bus Depot Market
COST	Free
GO	Portobello

Shop

Bicycle Market

Goodspeed bikes are all geared up for their monthly market. Second hand, spare, rare, collectable and vintage parts for sale.

WHEN	First Sunday of the Month
WHERE	Kendall Lane New Acton
GO	Good

Performance

Bowie Ball

An evening to commemorate the life and art of David Bowie. With live music from Alice Cottee, spoken word tributes by Hannah McCann and Duncan Driver and a special performance by Venus Mantrap.

WHEN	Saturday 13.2 at 7PM
WHERE	Ainslie and Gorman Arts Centre
COST	$10
GO	Bowie Balls

Talk

Crystal Clear: Talking Glass

This glass is full. An afternoon of glass artist chats with Ausglass Artist in Residence Simon Maberley, Marina Hanser and Debra Jurrs.

WHEN	Thursday 4.2 at 4.30PM
WHERE	Canberra Glassworks Foyer
COST	Free
GO	Glassy

Eat Drink

KNIFE MAKING AND PRESERVING

Learn three preserving techniques with Monster head chef Dan Flatt. Sharpen your own knives with expert sharpener Cheng Fei. Find out how knives are made with Rowan McLachlan of Rowsaan.

WHEN	Sat 12.3, 9AM - 3PM
WHERE	Hotel Hotel
COST	$165 / $115 concession (including light lunch)
GO	Fix and Make

Performance

They’ve Already Won

Darlings of the critics, Harriet and Pierce play the exaggerated worst versions of themselves. In pantsuits and pom poms that confront everything that is wrong with this evil selfish world.

WHEN	Tuesday 16.2 to Saturday 20.2
WHERE	Gorman Arts Centre
COST	$25/$20
GO	Won

Eat Drink

Picnic

Everyday can't be a picnic but Fridays can be. There's a new pop up bar happening on the National Library's Terrace. Views of Lake Burley, cocktails, yum cha and noodles.

WHEN	Fridays from 5PM
WHERE	Picnic. Terrace of the National Library
GO	Picnic

Talk

The Love of Things

This talks explores the dynamics of why we buy. Why are we seduced by certain objects? Does buying make us happy? Why do we keep coming back for more? fixandmake.com.au

WHEN	Wednesday 10.2
WHERE	Palace Electric Cinema
COST	$25 / $15
GO	Fix and Make

Exhibition

For School

An exhibition of handmade objects curated by Bree Claffey (Mr Kitly) and Sarah K (The Other Hemisphere / super cyclers) for school. 13 designers from around Australia. fixandmake.com.au

WHEN	Saturday 7.11 to 5.2 2016
WHERE	The object cabinets in the public lounge of Hotel Hotel
COST	Free
GO	Fix and Make

Talk

ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author with Stan Grant

Journalist and author Stan Grant will discuss his new book, Talking To My Country, a personal meditation on race, culture and national identity.

WHEN	Tuesday 23.2 at 6PM to 7.30PM
WHERE	ANU
COST	Free
GO	Stan

Performance

The Famous Spiegeltent

The Famous Spiegeltent comes to Civic Square again. There's mimes, magic, cabaret, reggae and more from all over the world, plus 40 sideshows.

WHEN	Friday 19.2 to Monday 14.3
WHERE	Spiegeltent
GO	Spiegel

Music

SoundOut Festival

SoundOut is an international free improvisational, free jazz and experimental music festival.

WHEN	Saturday 30.1 to Sunday 31.1
WHERE	Ainslie Arts Centre
COST	$35 to $115
GO	Out

Music

Sunday Afternoon Jazz

For all the sophisticats. Sunday Afternoon Jazz at the Museum of Australian Democracy.

WHEN	Sundays at 1PM to 2.30PM
WHERE	Museum of Australian Democracy
COST	Free
GO	Jazz

Workshop

Gunna Writing Class

Gunna write? Gunna write better, different... Catherine Deveny, comedian and all round excellent lady is coming to tellya how you can unblock ya creative digestive system with her writing masterclass.

WHEN	Saturday 27.2 from 10AM to 4PM
WHERE	A. Baker
COST	$250/$290
GO	Gunna book

Exhibition

Voyage

Tommy Balogh pushes the gallery opening hours well into the night with his ambitious project Voyage. Opening party Friday 5.2 from 6PM. Come for wine and space travel.

WHEN	Friday 5.2 to Sunday 21.2
WHERE	Nishi Gallery
COST	Free
GO	Voyage

Music

Cinemusica

Synergy Percussion and the ACO showcase the thrilling sonic possibilities of strings, percussion and the music of some great films.

WHEN	Saturday 9.4 at 7.15PM
WHERE	Llewellyn Hall
COST	$46 to $98
GO	Cine

Film

Openair Cinema

With music by day and movies by night, Openair Cinemas support local musicians and play a mix of favourite cult classics and new release films.

WHEN	Thursday 14.1 to Sunday 21.2
WHERE	Patrick White Lawns Parkes Place West
COST	$30/$25
GO	Cinema

Party

Hottest 100 Beach Party

Bring your swimmers and a beach towel, feel the sand between your toes, relax in baby pools or spend the day on the water slide all while listening to Triple J's Hottest 100 at Westside Acton Park.

WHEN	Tuesday 26.1 at 10AM to 11PM
WHERE	Westside Acton Park
COST	$39/$34
GO	Hottest

Enlighten

The city’s national attractions open their doors after-hours to host an array of events and surprising experiences.

WHEN	Friday 4.3 to Saturday 12.3
WHERE	Around Town
COST	Free
GO	Light

Music

Continuing Culture: Australia Day Festival

With the Encounters exhibition as a backdrop, meet new generations of Indigenous artists and practitioners who are keeping culture alive and strong. Talks, music, film and more.

WHEN	Tuesday 26.1 at 10AM to 2PM
WHERE	National Museum
COST	Free
GO	Continuing Culture

Eat, Drink and be Literary with Anna Funder

Join acclaimed Australian author Anna Funder for a night of literary chat, wine and dinner. She will be joined in conversation by ABC presenter Alex Sloan to discuss her books and much more.

WHEN	Thursday 18.2 at 6.15PM
WHERE	ANU University House
COST	$70
GO	Eat Drink

Performance

Romeo and Juliet

Violence rumbles through the streets, with two families at war. From such angry beginnings flame the fire of passion and forbidden love. Presented by Bell Shakespeare.

WHEN	Friday 1.4 to Saturday 9.4
WHERE	Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$35 - $90
GO	Roses are Sweet

Performance

Canberra Comedy Festival

Get giggly at the Canberra Comedy Festival. All the funny people will be there.

WHEN	Tuesday 15.3 to Sunday 20.3
WHERE	About Town
GO	LOLS

Performance

Lawrence Mooney

Lawrence Mooney will throw ideas at you and you get decide what lives and what dies — you got the power.

WHEN	Wednesday 3.2 to Wednesday 10.2
WHERE	Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$25
GO	Mooney

Music

Sufjan Stevens!

Sufjan Stevens! Oh ma gawd! Many exclamation points.

WHEN	Thursday 25.2 at 7.30PM
WHERE	Canberra Theatre Centre
COST	$98.40
GO	Tickets

Canberra Harvest Festival

The Harvest Festival returns. The Environment Centre will be cooking gourmet, organic food made entirely from local produce while local producers showcase their harvest.

WHEN	Saturday 19.3
WHERE	Canberra Environment Centre
GO	Harvest

Exhibition

Behind the Scenes: Tyler Graphics

An exhibition of the work and collaborations of master printer Kenneth Tyler. Elaborate graphic artworks from a diverse range of artists are shown here in the context of their making.

WHEN	until Sunday 8.5
WHERE	NGA Contemporary
COST	Free
GO	Behind the Scenes

Iconic Tree Walks

See and learn about Australia’s iconic trees on a one hour guided walk through the National Botanic Gardens which has one third of all Australian plant species.

WHEN	Until Sunday 26.7 at 11AM or 2PM
WHERE	National Botanic Gardens
COST	Free
GO	NBG

Performance

BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT!

Poetry Slam. 12 poets, 6 judges. Sign up to be judged or come along and just judge. It's on the third Wednesday of every month.

WHEN	Every third Wednesday at 7PM
WHERE	The Phoenix
COST	Free
GO	The Phoenix

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Coincidences

FILED UNDER Stories POSTED BY Steph (2.2.2017)

‘Centre for Advanced Imaging’ at the University of Queensland in St Lucia, Brisbane, designed by JWA in association with Wilson Architects in 2013. Photographed by Peter Bennett.

Context is a material to work with.

Our memories of particular types of form and their relationship to place can make for architecture dissonance and resonance.

Working with the public realm, moments can be found where the prosaic requirements of a bridge are recognised as a mechanism to frame civic space.

One building for work, another for the weekend – both seek to transform and amplify a material condition.

The words above have been lifted from John Wardle Architect’s recent monograph ‘This Building Likes Me‘. The book assembles thirty-six JWA projects as pairs, documented through photographs, drawings and models. The relationships between these pairs are sometimes obvious and sometimes obscure. It is also littered with short critical essays and reflections on contemporary architectural processes, preoccupations and projects…

The book has been extended from the page to the physical space with an exhibition called ‘Coincidences’. It is an interrogation into the boundaries between public and private spaces. Can a foyer have the intimacy of a living room? How might a house have the civic atmosphere of a university hall? These are questions we like.

This interrogation has been carried out by a number of prominent architectural photographers – Sharyn Cairns, Erieta Attali, Sam Noonan, Kristoffer Paulsen, Brett Boardman, Earl Carter, Peter Hyatt, Dianna Snape, Peter Bennett, John Gollings, Shannon McGrath, Trevor Mein, Max Creasy and artist, Peter Kennedy.

The photographers each visited two JWA buildings and took a single image of each site. The images are presented as a pair; thus drawing out points of commonality, ‘coincidences’, across seemingly unconnected architectural contexts.

We are presenting ‘Coincidences’ at the Nishi Gallery as part of our ongoing study of public and private realms and the ephemeral borders that connect and divide them.

‘Coincidences’ will be on show at the Nishi Gallery until 17 February.

We are having a little shindig on Friday 3 February to celebrate. At the Nishi Gallery from 6PM. Come and have a wine and a chat.

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