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Dylan Van Den Berg… won the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting. CANBERRAâS Dylan Van Den Berg took out the $30,000 Nick Enright Prize for Playwriting for “Milk” at the NSW Premierâs Literary Awards yesterday (April 26). Van Den Berg accepted the award at the State Library of NSW, where a total of $305,000 was awarded across 13 prizes. Van Den Bergâs win was announced alongside people such as Ellen van Neerven, who won the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Multicultural NSW Award and Book of the Year, and Kate Grenville, who won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. The third was Van Den Bergâs win. ....
Artistic director of The Street Theatre, Caroline Stacey. IN A mighty affirmation of Canberra-made theatre, The Street Theatre was named on Tuesday (April 13) as a recipient of a 2020 Sidney Myer Performing Arts Award. Other recipients were Andrew Ford (Music, NSW), Metro Arts (Multi-Arts, Queensland), Kylie Bracknell (Theatre, WA), Sally Chance (Dance, SA), Second Echo Ensemble (Dance, Tasmania), Robin Fox (Music, Victoria) and Sean Pardy (Theatre, NT). The awards were established in 1984 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of the late arts philanthropist Sidney Myer. They have awarded more than $4 million over 38 years and have this year been expanded from the usual three (individual, facilitator and group) to eight prizes of $25,000, including at least one in each Australian state and territory. ....
Recent work at The Street. THOSE working near The Street Theatre on the corner of Childers Street and University Avenue in Civic may have been astonished at what’s happening on one of its walls. This time it’s not, like Pink Floyd’s 1979 hit, a tribute to “the wall”, but rather an artistic response to the wide-open, red-brick spaces. Canberra stencil artist Luke Cornish (also known as ELK, and the first stencil artist to have been hung in the Archibald Prize) is busy transforming 175 square metres of red-brick space into a visual ode to the theatre’s most celebrated image, Hamlet’s hand holding the skull of Yorick. ....
Creative director of the Four Winds Festival, Lindy Hume. Photo: Lisa Herbert. THE sense of excitement is palpable at the Four Winds office in Bermagui as its inaugural creative director, Lindy Hume, takes over the reins for the 2021 and 2022 Easter fes tivals. Hume is one of Australia’s best-known festival and opera directors, with stints heading up Sydney Festival, Perth International Arts Festival, West Australian Opera, Victoria State Opera, OzOpera and Opera Queensland, but she’s no stranger to Canberra. In 1991 she directed Rossini’s “La Cenerentola” (Cinderella) at the Canberra Theatre for the now-defunct Opera ACT, then in 1995 she directed “A Dinner Engagement” by Lennox Berkeley and “Three’s Company” by Anthony Hopkins for the chamber opera company, Stopera. ....
Feb 3, 2021 ESCANABA The Escanaba Public Library is now open for walk-in use. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Browsing, check out, computer use, printing, photocopy and fax services will be available with no appointment necessary. Library visits will be limited to one hour and masks are required. In addition to walk-in hours, the library will continue to offer drive-up services from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday. Library patrons may place their own holds via the library’s online catalog at www.escanabalibrary.org, or call the library at 789-7323 for staff assistance. Materials return, photocopy, scan and fax services are also provided via drive-up. Free WiFi is available both inside and outside of the building. Users can access the library’s wireless printer from the parking lot and pick up prints at the drive-up window. ....