Miroslav Bukovsky on trumpet.
CANBERRAâS experimental SoundOut Music Festival is back for the 12th time this weekend at the ANU Drill Hall Gallery, and its survival is due to the resilience of one man.
Canberra sax and clarinet player, Richard Johnson, who won a 2015 ART Music Award for the festival, is a true believer that music need not be confined to the page. For many years he has spearheaded this summit of sometimes notated and sometimes purely improvised music on all kinds of instruments, great and small, usually performed by a line-up from across the globe.
Over the years heâs battled against indifference from ACT funding authorities, in spite of evidence that there are many Canberrans who are deeply interested in exploring the boundaries of music.
A moment from “This Is My Place”.
QL2 IS coming to the National Portrait Gallery with “This Is My Place”. Ruth Osborne, working in collaboration with Olivia Fyfe and seven recent tertiary dance graduates, creates a performance that will move through three themes to explore the gallery’s creative spaces, connection to landscape and their collective story. Daily from Thursday, January 21 until Sunday, January 24, 11am, noon and 1:30pm. Free, but timed bookings essential.
WORKSHOP POP at G12/27 Lonsdale St, Braddon has a crafty program of activities for children which continues this Friday, January 22, with a creative craft play workshop for ages six years and up from 1pm-2pm, a beaded jewellery workshop for five years and up from 2.30pm-3.30pm, and the Pom Pom Pets Workshop for five years and up from 4pm-5pm. Book here or email workshoppop@popcanberra.com.au.