The Queanbeyan-Palerang Arts Trail returns to Braidwood, Bungendore and Queanbeyan, opening the doors to more than 20 artist studios and galleries over three weekends from September 30.
Rower and composer FS Kelly died in World War I.
ON Friday night at Wesley Music Centre, as part of the Anzac Day commemorations, Christopher Latham on violin and David Wickham on piano will perform a musical tribute to Frederick Septimus Kelly, which includes the first performance since Kelly’s death in 1916 of his D minor Violin Sonata.
To round out the portrait of this musician, rower and soldier, they’ll play his “Somme Lament” and newly-discovered piano music. At Wesley Music Centre, 20 National Circuit, Forrest, 6.30pm, Friday, April 23. Bookings here.
Melinda Schneider as Doris Day.
SINGER-songwriter Melinda Schneider’s “A Farewell To Doris Day” will feature hits such as “Que Sera, Sera”, “Everybody Loves a Lover” and “Secret Love” along with song from her movies. At Canberra Playhouse, Friday, April 23. Bookings at canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.
Inspector Keith Price and Matilda House perform the smoking ceremony.
UNESCO-designated World Art Day – that’s today, April 15 – purposely coincides with Leonardo Da Vinci’s birthday, so the arts officers at Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional Council decided to make an even bigger day of it.
The new Rusten House Arts Centre in Collett Street was previewed before a select group of arts insiders, gardeners, builders and local identities.
On hand was Queanbeyan sculptor and activist matriarch, Connee Colleen, still able to heckle the speechmakers, and Ngambri elder and artist, Matilda House, who said, “thanks to Connee… your footprint is here, you have walked here with me”.
The refurbished Rusten House today. Photo: Helen Musa
IT’s UNESCO World Art Day tomorrow (April 15) and members of the Queanbeyan arts community will have a sneak peek at exhibitions being hung for the official opening of the Rusten House Arts Centre next Thursday (April 22). The galleries will include a history of the historic Rusten House, now refurbished to become a home for the arts. At Collett Street, Queanbeyan (located on the grounds of the hospital).
“‘TO be or not to be’ means something entirely different when you’re 20 to when you’re 80,” says John Bell, who’ll be at the Playhouse until tomorrow, April 15, in “One Man In His Time: John Bell and Shakespeare”. Bookings here canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 6275 2700.