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It’s the final week of November, and there’s lots to do in Canberra.
Because the countdown to Christmas begins, fill your days with the Canberra Spirits Pageant, Christmas markets, the ultimate days the Craft + Design Canberra Pageant and extra.
Particular Occasions and Festivals
Sakhi Inc Fundraising Dinner
This shall be an unforgettable immersive night celebrating Indian tradition whereas championing the empowerment of South Asian girls.
Sakhi Inc ia devoted to selling girls’s security, addressing home and household violence, and supporting monetary independence – important pillars that assist break the cycle of vulnerability many South Asian girls face. At this dinner, you’ll expertise cultural performances showcasing the richness of South Asian traditions, whereas having fun with an beautiful three course connoisseur menu. Plus you’ll see how your generosity will straight contribute to the protection, confidence, and monetary independence of south Asian girls within the ACT!
Tuesday 26 November, 6.30 pm | Hellenic Membership of Canberra, 1 Matilda Road, Phillip | Guide here.
Be MPowered 2024
The convention for enterprise proudly owning mums by Mums & Co. Be MPowered 2024 is a FREE, on-line convention designed to attach business-owning girls again to their function and group. This signature occasion by Mums & Co provides a novel alternative to community, upskill, and develop inside a supportive atmosphere.
That includes globally recognised audio system akin to parenting writer and educator Maggie Dent and Kate Watson from the favored The Squiz podcast, the occasion addresses key themes like partnerships, group constructing, and balancing enterprise with residence life. Held throughout college hours, it ensures accessibility for working mother and father, permitting attendees to tune in from anyplace with an web connection.
Thursday 28 November, 9.30 am – 2.30 pm | On-line solely | Register here.
Analysis Pageant 2024
Held by the College of Canberra, the Analysis Pageant 2024 shall be held throughout November at places round Canberra and the College’s Bruce campus.
Focussing on sharing the influence of College of Canberra analysis on folks and place, the competition will see the launch of the Lifetime of a CBRn set up and hands-on schooling actions.
Till Thursday 28 November | Varied location | Extra data here.
The Canberra Distillery Pop-Up Bar
Who doesm’t love gin? Native Gin distillery, The Canberra Distillery, are showcasing their great vary of gin’s at Westfield Woden with an unique Christmas pop-up at Westfield Woden.
Westfield members can go to The Canberra Distillery Pop Up Bar Friday to Sunday to redeem a free drink! You doubtlessly might get some Christmas items sorted as nicely!
Friday 29 November till Sunday 22 December | Westfield Woden, Keltie Road, Phillip | Extra data here.
Opening Get together – Carol Jerrems: Portraits
Be a part of the opening of Carol Jerrems: Portraits to have a good time the work, life and legacy of one in every of Australia’s most influential photographers.
You’ll be capable of see the exhibition without cost, seize a drink and take in the vibe of DJ Charlie Villas’ genre- and generation-bending beats. Showcasing greater than 140 images, from Jerrems’ lesser-known early work to the now iconic Vale Road 1975, and portraits of cultural figures like Anne Summers, Bobbi Sykes, Evonne Goolagong, the Skyhooks and Linda Jackson, that is an occasion you received’t wish to miss.
Friday 29 November, 6 pm – 9 pm | Nationwide Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Parkes | Guide here.
Canberra Spirits Pageant
Two days devoted to Australian and imported spirits? You’ll be sure you discover a tipple that tickles your fancy right here.
Serving to locals get into spirit simply earlier than the foolish season kicks off (get it?), The Canberra Spirits Pageant is coming to the College of Canberra to supply alcohol lovers the prospect to style over 120 of the very best spirits from fashionable distillers. We’re speaking whisky, bourbon, gin, tequila, and rum – and sure, there’ll even be vodka paired with a caviar bump.
With tickets on sale now, competitions to enter, and prizes to be received, run, don’t stroll – or drive – so that you don’t miss out.
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 November | College Canberra, 11 Kirinari Road, UC Refectory, Constructing 1, Bruce | Guide here.
Good Goodies Flea Market
This month-to-month market is run by Gang Gang Café, and also you’ll be sure you discover one thing distinctive. Giving native creatives have the prospect to have a stall without charge to share their goodies.
You’ll discover the whole lot from artwork, to preloved and classic garments, pottery, ebook, LP data, desserts and far more. Head alongside to benefit from the laid-back environment, and seize your self some meals and drinks from the café!
Saturday 30 November, 3 pm – 6 pm | Shop4/2 Frencham Place Downer | Extra data here.
2024 Craft + Design Canberra Pageant
It’s the tenth yr of the Craft + Design Canberra Pageant, and there’s lots to see and do. Connecting Canberra’s group with over 500 artists, craftspeople, designers and designers, the 2024 Pageant advocates for design considering, collaboration and making by hand to generate innovation and resolve issues, offering hope for the longer term.
With a theme of Regenerate, this system of occasions consists of exhibitions, talks, excursions, activations, open studios and workshops responding to the competition theme and celebrating Canberra as a artistic capital and a worldwide metropolis of design.
Till Saturday 30 November | Varied places | Extra data here.
Canberra Knife Present
Head alongside to see what the very best customized knifemakers in Australia have made.
There shall be looking, collectables, kitchen and folding knives obtainable on the market, in addition to knifemaking, leatherwork and blacksmithing provides so you will get making! Meet the makers, see demonstrations and luxuriate in nibbles from native distributors.
Sunday 1 December, 10 am – 3 pm | Cuppacumbalong, 21 Naas Highway, Tharwa | Extra data here.
Model by Wesson: Style Edit – Autumn Winter 24/25
Don’t miss this unique vogue preview on the gorgeous Park Hyatt Lodge.
Wesson is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, and through this preview, you’ll have the chance to achieve intimate insights into the person clothes and be taught in regards to the origins of the exquisitely curated collections. Their group {of professional} stylists shall be readily available to supply skilled commentary and steerage, including an additional layer of sophistication to your vogue journey.
Tickets embody bubbles, canapés, and a particular present bag!
Sunday 1 December, 2.30 pm – 4 pm | Hyatt Lodge Canberra, Commonwealth Avenue, Yarralumla | Guide here.
SpringOUT Pleasure Pageant
Celebrating Australia’s most LGBTQIA+ pleasant metropolis and Canberra’s LGBTQIA+ group in all its fabulous range, it’s time to SpringOUT with ‘PRIDE within the Capital’ on their twenty fifth anniversary!
Held all through November, the competition showcases a various array of occasions that remember Canberra’s LGBTQIA+ group. With an occasion for each price range (together with free and low-cost occasions), there’s no excuse to overlook out. Ensure to take a look at the total programme!
Till Sunday 1 December | Varied places | Extra data here.
Markets
Corridor Village Christmas Road Get together
It is perhaps November however with Christmas proper across the nook, it’s time to get jolly with the annual Christmas Road Get together in Corridor.
Operating the size of the village on Victoria Road between Gladstone and Hoskins streets, wander via the artisan Christmas avenue market with over 100 distributors and seize a chew from one of many tasty meals vans or native cafés. Operating late into the evening, get pleasure from reside music, leisure and extra!
Friday 29 November, 4 pm – 8.30 pm | Corridor Heritage Village, Victoria Road, Corridor | Extra data here.
Hartley Corridor Markets
Go to one in every of Australia’s largest, and oldest home-made and home-grown markets—Hartley Corridor Markets, this Sunday from 9am to 2pm on the Corridor Showgrounds.
With heaps of distinctive items, and a variety of meals choices to discover and luxuriate in. It’s a gold coin entry serving to Hartley Lifecare help folks with incapacity in Canberra.
Sunday 1 December, 9 am – 2 pm | Corridor Showgrounds | hartley.org.au
Geek Markets Xmas Version
Prepare for some season geekings! It’s time for Geek Markets Xmas Version.
This can be a festive celebration of the whole lot geeky! From stallholders promoting the whole lot from unique artwork to comedian books, merchandise and extra, you should buy that excellent current for household and associates, or simply purchase your personal current as a substitute. This popular culture extravaganza is ideal for the entire household.
Saturday 30 November, 9 am – 5 pm | Exhibition Park in Canberra, Nook Flemington Highway and Northbourne Avenue, Mitchell | Extra data here.
Summer time German Markets
The Summer time German Markets are again for an additional yr! Providing quite a lot of stalls providing German meals akin to home made desserts, deli items and groceries, in addition to wine, beer and schnapps.
They may even have their much-loved sausage stall cooking contemporary German sausages and loads of beloved group stallholders! Take alongside the children to benefit from the free leaping citadel.
Sunday 1 December, 9 am – 1 pm | Harmonie German Membership, 49 Jerrabomberra Avenue, Narrabundah | Extra data here.
Tremendous Christmas Sundays
‘Tis the season to do some last-minute purchasing. Tremendous Christmas Sunday is again on the Previous Bus Depot Markets that will help you discover the excellent Christmas current.
From contemporary Christmas bushes to handcrafted decorations, and pet images with Santa, they’ve made positive that everybody can discover unforgettable items for household and associates.
Sunday 1 December | The Previous Bus Depot Markets, 21 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston | Extra data here.
Christmas at Haig Park Village Markets
The final word Christmas expertise awaits this December, and you could find it in Haig Park.
Happening throughout 4 fun-filled Sundays, the Haig Park Village Markets shall be serving to you sleigh the present sport with their festive extravaganza. Count on present purchasing, culinary delights (hey Christmas puddings), free images with Santa, gingerbread making, carols, and extra!
Sunday 1 December, 8 am – 2 pm |Haig Park, 14 Girrahween Road, Braddon | Extra data here.
Arboretum Harvest Stall
Clear up your Christmas present issues with this market on the Arboretum! There shall be scrumptious jams, preserves, Christmas wreaths, lavender and plenty extra produce from the Discovery Kitchen Backyard shall be on sale.
Sunday 1 December, 10 am | Forest Drive, Canberra | Extra data here.
Little Burley Markets
Providing a various array of multicultural meals, much-loved drinks and brunchables, stunning blooms, domestically made artwork, vogue, pictures and homewares, artisanal bread, delectable pastries, seafood, smoked charcuterie, truffles, meats, pet treats, and far more, you’ll be capable of discover loads of goodies at this bespoke lakeside market
8 am – 1 pm Saturday | Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes | thelittleburleymarket.com.au
Southside Farmers Markets
This village market is positioned at Canberra Faculty, making it the proper place to duck in to seize what you want (and possibly a number of belongings you don’t). Order an egg and bacon roll to start out the morning as you discover the very best of contemporary seasonal veggies, handmade pasta and pet treats.
8 am–11.30 am Sunday | 2 Launceston Road, Phillip | facebook.com
Meals and Wine
Cooking with Spices Christmas Version
Eager to make some handmade goodies you’ll be able to present to others (or your self!) for Christmas? Then this workshop is for you!
Be a part of Holistic Yoga Instructor Tracey Murray within the Mandala Studio kitchen to discover ways to make spiced mixes, blends and combos. You’ll take residence some spicy goodies and easy details about how you should use spices for your self and your loved ones.
Saturday 30 November, 2 pm – 3.15 pm | Mandala Studio, 253 Northbourne Avenue, G06, Lyneham | Guide here.
Excessive Tea at Louis
Searching for a complicated and refined expertise excessive tea expertise? Nestled throughout the elegant confines of Lodge Realm, you’ll be able to’t go previous excessive tea at Louis.
Providing a meticulously curated array of delicate finger sandwiches, freshly baked scones, and an beautiful choice of pastries and desserts that showcase the best craftsmanship (together with a formidable tea menu) will probably be an event to recollect.
Each Saturday, 2 pm – 4 pm | Louis, 18 Nationwide Circuit, Barton | Guide here.
QTea Excessive Tea x Area Kitchen
There’s no cucumber sandwich in sight at this excessive tea expertise. And also you higher get excited as a result of QT has partnered with Area Kitchen in what be probably the most scrumptious collaboration ever.
Taking their excessive tea providing to the subsequent degree, the QTea Excessive Tea x Area Kitchen expertise is all about indulgence – from the candy to the savoury. Lock eyes with Canberra’s first cake trolley that includes Area Kitchen desserts, select from 28 teas (together with the prettiest of cocktails that includes particular brews) and dig into tiers of treats that embody Wagyu bresaola bites and picture-perfect serves of duck liver parfait for a decadent eating expertise.
Each Saturday, sittings at 12 pm and 12.30 pm | 1 London Circuit, Metropolis | Guide here.
Stage and Display screen
Jon Ronson’s Psychopath Night time
Do Psychopaths rule the world? How can we outline regular? Are you associates with a psychopath? Are you anxious YOU is perhaps one?
Fifteen years has handed since he launched into the journey that turned his ground-breaking and best-selling work, The Psychopath Take a look at, and now famend journalist, filmmaker, and writer Jon Ronson is reopening the case to take you on an exciting exploration of insanity and the elusive psychopathic thoughts.
Monday 25 November, 7.30 pm – 9 pm | Canberra Theatre Centre, London Circuit, Metropolis | Guide here.
Nurse Georgie Carroll – Survival of the Fittest
Nurse turned comic Georgie Carroll is constructing her subsequent comedy present and also you get the be the lab rats.
Head alongside to determine what lives and what dies as you expertise the method of one of many nation’s finest comedy author/performers.
Tuesday 26 November till Sunday 1 December, 7.30 pm – 8.25 pm | Canberra Theatre Centre, London Circuit, Metropolis | Guide here.
Jackie Loeb
Introduced in affiliation with SpringOUT 24, Jackie Loeb is coming to Canberra!
Don’t miss the stand-up comedian, actor, singer and musician reside on the Road Theatre Stage.
Friday 29 November, 7.30 pm – 8.30 pm | The Road Theatre, 15 Childers Road, Metropolis | Guide here.
Emma Holland – Right here Comes Mr Brow
Emma Holland is coming to Canberra and also you higher be excited.
Nominee for Most Excellent Present on the 2023 Melbourne Worldwide Comedy Pageant, head alongside to take slightly looksie into Emma’s sick and twisted thoughts. This guarantees to be the most important present of the summer time.
Friday 29 November, 6 pm – 7 pm | Smith’s Various, 76 Alinga Road, Metropolis | Guide here.
A Midsummer Night time’s Dream
This thrilling manufacturing guarantees laughter and romance, moonlit woods, love potions, and various misunderstandings.
Transporting theatregoers to an enchanted forest this summer time, Echo Theatre is bringing Shakespeare’s well-known comedy, A Midsummer Night time’s Dream, to the good open air. Starring among the area’s most interesting and funniest actors, Shakespeare’s traditional play shall be introduced in The Q’s new outside efficiency house: Aunty Louise Brown Park.
With no efficiency precisely the identical, will probably be a night of outrageous enjoyable for the entire household. Pack a picnic and make an evening of it!
Friday 29 November till Sunday 15 December | Aunty Louise Brown Park, Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre | Guide here.
Titus O’Reily – Sport: The Unauthorised Historical past
Titus O’Reily is returning to the stage to discover how sport has grown from an newbie pursuit to requiring you to take out a financial institution mortgage to buy a mid-strength beer at a sport.
Protecting the highs, the lows, the heroes, the dishonest, the corruption and the enjoyment that comes from watching England lose, don’t miss him reside on stage.
Saturday 30 November, 5.30 pm – 8 pm | Enjoyable Time Pony, 122 Alinga Road, Metropolis | Guide here.
Bloody Homicide
It started as a traditional British murder-mystery however, after yet one more poisoning, Girl Somerset has had sufficient! Now the characters are rebelling in opposition to their writer and it’s bloody homicide…
That is homicide most meta in a diabolical comedy stuffed with twists, turns, and tangled tropes. However who can have the final chortle?
Till Sunday 1 December, 7.30 pm – 10 pm | Canberra REP Theatre, 3 Repertory Lane, Acton | Guide here.
Eurydice
In Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl reimagines the traditional fantasy of Orpheus via the eyes of its heroine.
Initially produced by Madison Repertory Theatre, in Madison, Wisconsin, in 2003, you’ll see modern characters, ingenious plot twists, and breathtaking visible results. It’s a contemporary have a look at a timeless love story.
Till Saturday 14 December, 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm | Mill Theatre at Dairy Highway, Constructing 3.3, 1 Dairy Highway, Fyshwick | Guide here.
Sundown Cinema
Your favorite outside cinema is again for the summer time with their signature combine of recent releases, all-time classics and household favourites.
Catch new summer time blockbusters like Gladiator 2, the newest superhero motion Venom: The Final Dance and don’t miss the model new darkish comedy sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice within the gorgeous Australian Nationwide Botanic Gardens. Seize your self a bean bag, some snacks and luxuriate in!
Till Sunday 22 February 2025, 6.30 pm – 11.30 pm | The Australian Nationwide Botanic Gardens, Clunies Ross Road, Acton | Guide here.
Music
Celebrating Music
The Wesley Lunchtime collection is presenting native jazz vocal choral group Rhythm Syndicate as they showcase their fabulous fashionable numbers along with some stunning Christmas tunes. All their four-part concord songs are composed by the greats of the music world.
Wednesday 27 November, 12.40 pm – 1.20 pm | Wesley Music Centre, 20 Nationwide Circuit, Forrest | Guide here.
Hoodoo Gurus, Again To The Stoneage
The Hoodoo Gurus have introduced a nationwide tour celebrating 40 years since they launched Stoneage Romeos, they usually’re coming to Llewellyn Corridor!
The Again to the Stoneage 2024 nationwide tour will see the band play the Stoneage Romeos album in full adopted by a choice of hit songs and album tracks. With particular visitors Spy V Spy, don’t miss out.
Thursday 28 November, 7.30 pm – 10.30 pm | Llewellyn Corridor, 100 William Herbert Place, Metropolis | Guide here.
Operating within the Shadows: Fleetwood Mac
The internationally acclaimed The Australian Fleetwood Mac Present “Operating In The Shadows of Fleetwood Mac” is heading to the Zeppelin Room to pay homage to the celebrity band this November.
Exploring Fleetwood Mac’s intensive again catalogue, overlaying all of the traditional ballads, blues and rock songs from their 5 decade plus profession, you’ll hear the whole lot from the early hits to a few of Stevie Nicks solo materials. There’s one thing for each Fleetwood Mac fan to get pleasure from!
Friday 29 November, 7 pm – 11 pm | The Zeppelin Room, 49 Jerrabomberra Avenue, Narrabundah | Guide here.
Punk Invasion
Unbiased Australian autistic punk band Relays arrive in Canberra as a part of their 24 date East Coast tour, musically for followers of Cosmic Psychos, Wipers and The Chats. Supported by The Pingers and All Hope Stays.
Saturday 30 November, 9 pm begin | Smith’s Various, 76 Alinga Road, Canberra Metropolis | Tickets at linktr.ee/relayspunk
Elijah by Felix Mendelssohn
The Canberra Choral Society (CCS) is happy to current Elijah, Felix Mendelssohn’s magnificent Biblical masterpiece.
Assembling spectacular forces for this gorgeous Oratorio which displays the influences of Handel and Bach, that is not often carried out in Canberra and to not be missed.
Saturday 30 November, 7.30 pm – 10 pm | Llewellyn Corridor, 100 William Herbert Place, Metropolis | Guide here.
Adam Harvey – Let The Track Take You Residence Tour
Be a part of nation music legend Adam Harvey for an unforgettable night of traditional nation.
With a profession spanning over twenty years ,the reside present will function traditional nation songs in addition to songs from the brand new album and all of Harvey’s hits. Supported by Taylor Moss, it is a uncommon likelihood to see one in every of Australia’s hottest and enduring recording artists.
Saturday 30 November, 7.30 pm – 10 pm | The Road Theatre, 15 Childers Road, Metropolis | Guide here.
Pisco Bitter
Pisco Bitter are a high-energy five-piece that packs a punch.
Coming all the way in which from Melbourne, for at some point solely you’ll be able to hear one in every of Naarm’s most riveting and charismatic reside acts.
Saturday 30 November, 8 pm – 11 pm | UC Hub, 11 Kirinari Road, Bruce | Guide here.
Symphonie Fantastique
The Nationwide Capital Orchestra’s 2024 VISIONS season is concluding with its most dramatic live performance but!
Prepare for an unforgettable afternoon of enjoyment and delirium because the orchestra presents a charming live performance that includes three outstanding works that may take the viewers on a journey from the top of pleasure to the fires of damnation.
Sunday 1 December, 3 pm to five pm | Snow Live performance Corridor, Canberra Grammar Faculty, 40 Monaro Crescent, Crimson Hill | Guide here.
Exhibitions
20 Years of Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Yr
For 20 years, the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Yr competitors has offered a platform for rising and established photographers to seize probably the most outstanding flora, fauna, and landscapes of Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and New Guinea.
This yr, Nationwide Archives of Australia is showcasing 20 Years of the Australian Geographic Nature Photographer of the Yr with successful entries from annually of the competitors. Head alongside to this free exhibition to discover how photographic strategies have advanced over the previous twenty years, and the way pictures is a robust medium for capturing and understanding our pure world.
Thursday 28 November till April 2025 | Nationwide Archives of Australia, Kings Avenue, Parkes | Extra data here.
Lifetime of a CBRn
That is an experiential timeline of a Canberran’s life and the way UC analysis has interacted with or impacted them at completely different levels throughout their life.
Go to the pop-up exhibition to discover how analysis has formed the lives of Canberrans. Throughout the month of November, the pop-up exhibition may even be a hub of analysis storytelling and engagement actions!
Till Thursday 28 November | Floor Ground Lobby, exterior the Dangerfield and LEGO shops (subsequent to Bunda Road), Canberra Centre | Extra data here.
2024 ANU Faculty of Artwork & Design Graduating Exhibition
Head alongside to have a good time and see the fruits of the ANU Faculty of Artwork & Design college students’ efforts throughout a variety of practices in Visible Arts and Design.
It’s solely working for a number of days, so make sure that to put aside a while.
Saturday 30 November till Sunday 8 December, 10 am – 4 pm | ANU Faculty of Artwork & Design, Constructing 105 Childers Road, Acton | Extra data here.
A Feeling for Place
Hosted at Civic Library, A Feeling for Place reveals locations and scenes in Canberra, Sydney and India.
Starting from picnic areas, group centres, cultural actions at residence or at festivals in a park, to a picture of a café managed by a Burmese refugee, behind the photographs introduced within the exhibition lie each an emotional and narrative content material arising from the artist’s household and cultural background.
Friday 29 November till Friday 13 December | Civic Library, Civic Sq. London Circuit, Metropolis | Extra data here.
Carol Jerrems: Portraits
This can be a main exhibition of one in every of Australia’s most influential photographers.
On present solely on the Nationwide Portrait Gallery till 2 March 2025, Jerrems’ intimate portraits of associates, lovers and creative friends transcend the purely private and have come to form Australian visible tradition. Set in opposition to the backdrop of social change within the Seventies, head alongside to see it for your self.
Saturday 30 November till Sunday 2 March 2025 | Nationwide Portrait Gallery, King Edward Terrace, Parkes | Extra data here.
Canberra Potters 2024 Members’ Exhibition
The Canberra Potters Members’ Exhibition is again for an additional yr.
This showcase options ceramic works crafted by our members over the previous yr, celebrating their dedication to exploring and increasing the boundaries of this historical artwork kind. You’ll see all kinds of items, from delicate porcelain vessels to placing hand-built sculptures and the whole lot in between.
Till Sunday 1 December | Canberra Potters Gallery, 1 Aspinall Road, Watson | Extra data here.
There’s a crack in the whole lot… that’s how the sunshine will get in
Impressed by the numerous poems celebrating imperfection, 5 native potters have mixed their artistic forces to current this stunning exhibition.
A research of the wonder, or mild, that lies throughout the imperfections of the bodily kind, the 5 artists discover their completely different views, and the inconsistencies and flaws which might be inherent within the follow of the handcrafted and the wonder that emerges. With works starting from the practical to the sculptural, entry is free and all pots are on the market.
Till Sunday 8 December | Strathnairn Arts Centre Woolshed Gallery, Strathnairn | Extra data here.
Megalo Wayzgoose
Megalo Print Studio’s Megalo Wayzgoose exhibition will carry collectively over 100 artworks by greater than 50 modern printmakers from throughout ACT, NSW, SA, Victoria and Tasmania.
In case you’ve by no means heard of a wayzgoose earlier than, it’s an annual printmakers’ custom relationship again to the mid-1700s when a printing home would have an occasion to have a good time the printers’ work. This exhibition options artists from throughout Australia who’re working with print in its multiplicitous varieties:
Till Saturday 14 December | Megalo Print Studio, 21 Wentworth Ave, Kingston | megalo.org
Mythica Ignota: Solo Exhibition by Elliat Wealthy
Showcasing new work developed throughout Elliat Wealthy’s residency at Canberra Glassworks all through 2024, Mythica Ignota makes use of mythology as a framework to nest scientific statement and more-than-human oriented values with artefact and narrative.
Curated by Aimee Frodsham, on this exhibition Alice Springs designer Elliat Wealthy faucets into historical and future methods of seeing the world.
Till Sunday 15 December, 10 am – 4 pm | Canberra Glassworks, 11 Wentworth Avenue, Kingston | Extra data here.
Sample Recognition
Sample Recognition celebrates feminine and non-binary artists from the ACT area who use abstraction and design rules to discover color notion and spatial relationships, highlighting the methods artists method color, geometry, and kind.
Whereas the artists within the exhibition discover related visible terrain, embracing non-objective abstraction, repetition and sample, their underlying conceptual investigations and influences fluctuate and embody post-colonial and feminist frameworks, local weather activism, structure, reminiscence, prolonged pictorial house, mindfulness, and sensory engagement with the supplies. The exhibition investigates regeneration, exploring the affect of conventional craft disciplines on modern artwork follow.
A collaborative undertaking introduced as a part of the 2024 Craft + Design Canberra Pageant
Till 25 January 2025 | Canberra Modern Artwork Area, 44 Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes | ccas.com.au/current
Hiroe and Cornel Swen: Making a Inventive Life
This can be a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the lifelong artistic partnership of two of Canberra’s most admired artists: Hiroe and Cornel Swen, charting their course from Kyoto to Canberra.
Operating till 16 March 2025, this exhibition marks the primary time each artists’ works are showcased collectively, providing profound insights into their particular person journeys and shared contributions to Canberra’s cultural panorama. You’ll have the prospect to view a choice of Hiroe and Cornel’s works, together with archival photos and beforehand unexhibited items. It’s a novel glimpse into their artistic connection!
Till 16 March 2025 | Canberra Museum and Gallery, 176 London Circuit, Metropolis | Extra data here.
Kulata Tjuta: Tirkilpa
Kulata Tjuta is an ongoing cultural upkeep undertaking that shares the abilities of carving and making the punu kulata (wood spear) throughout generations.
Beginning as a undertaking involving a small group of males in Amata, it grew to incorporate over 100 Aṉangu males throughout the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara (APY) Lands. As the biggest and most vital set up of the culturally vital and visually spectacular Kulata Tjuta (Many Spears) Challenge, you’ll see large-scale, multi-disciplinary installations which incorporate movie, sound, reside efficiency and different creative collaborations.
Till July 2025 | Nationwide Gallery of Australia, Parkes Place East, Parkes | Extra data here.
Sport
NICA Strive-It-Out Day
The Nationwide Interscholastic Biking Affiliation is working a Strive-It-Out day at Mt Stromlo, and also you’re invited!
This cross-country mountain bike program is for anybody aged 12-17 years. There are not any trials, no bench – everybody performs! Every session shall be hosted by trip leaders, and final roughly 90 minutes, throughout which you’re going to get to expertise a style of what NICA has to supply. See you there?
Saturday 30 November, 9 am – 5 pm | Mt Stromlo, Dave McInnes Highway, Wright | Guide here.
The Prime Ministers XI
It’s cricket season! The Prime Ministers XI is again in Canberra for a two-day match in opposition to India at Manuka Oval.
Safe your seats in the present day to be amongst the gang because the gamers put together for the NRMA Insurance coverage Males’s Border-Gavaskar Sequence.
Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December | Manuka Oval, Manuka Circuit, Griffith | Guide here.
Workshops, Excursions and Talks
Australia’s Journey with the World Financial institution with Dr Nicholas Ferns
Be a part of Dr Nicholas Ferns as he presents a lecture on his 2024 Nationwide Library Fellowship analysis into the historical past of the connection between Australia and the World Financial institution, with a specific deal with the connections between worldwide finance and nationwide improvement.
Wednesday 27 November, 12.30 pm – 1.30 pm Nationwide Library of Australia, Parkes Place West, Parkes | Guide here.
Guide Launch – Sorrows Yield, by Diana O’Neil
Sorrows Yield is Diana O’Neil’s debut ebook. Head alongside for the Australian launch at Paperchain.
Drinks shall be offered and there are restricted seats to verify to reach early!
Thursday 28 November, 5.30 pm | 34 Franklin Road, Manuka | Extra data here.
Guide launch – Max Dupain: A Portrait by Helen Ennis
Be a part of Helen Ennis in dialog with journalist Alex Sloan as they talk about Ennis’s newest ebook, Max Dupain: A Portrait.
That is the primary ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, probably the most influential Australian photographer of the twentieth century. Head alongside to listen to the multi-award-winning author discuss her expertise of placing collectively this ebook!
Thursday 28 November, 6 pm – 7.30 pm | Nationwide Library of Australia, Parkes Place West, Parkes | Guide here.
Intercourse Impersonators to Drag Race Down Below: An Australian Historical past of Drag
To have a good time SpringOUT, Libraries ACT are welcoming author, historian and podcaster Yves Rees!
Head alongside to be taught in regards to the Historical past of drag with Yves, adopted by a particular drag efficiency by Ravi Oli. From the hit movie Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994), to the worldwide repute of the Sydney Mardi Gras, you’ll hear all in regards to the historical past – together with the untold facet.
Friday 29 November, 6 pm – 7.30 pm | Dickson Library, Antill Road, Dickson | Extra data here.
Road Pictures Workshop
Designed for photographers seeking to construct confidence and sharpen their eye for compelling photos in public areas, this workshop provides sensible steerage on growing your photographic type, mastering digicam strategies and enhancing your work with function.
Unlock your imaginative and prescient via this palms on one-day workshop, full with a lecture, dialogue, and on-location taking pictures.
Saturday 30 November, 10 am – 4 pm | PhotoAccess, 30 Manuka Circle, Griffith | Guide here.
Summer time Backyard Vase- A Floral Workshop with Miss Moss
On this class you’ll discover ways to remodel the very best domestically grown spring blooms into preparations for residence or for an occasion.
From an introduction to floristry fundamentals to the care and preparation of flowers, strategies to increase vase life and important instruments of the commerce, you’ll be taught the entire suggestions and methods the professionals use. Plus, grazing platters, tea, espresso and bubbles may even be offered
Saturday 30 November, 10.30 am – 1.30 pm | Miss Moss Florals Residence Studio, 19 Derwent Road, Lyons | Guide here.
Artists in Dialog: Dianne Firth
Be a part of a particular artist speak with Dianne Firth to be taught extra about her exhibition, Poetry of the Lakes, on the Belconnen Arts Centre.
Through the occasion, poets will learn their poems and textile artist Dianne Firth will discuss the way in which these poems impressed her work. Registrations are required, so don’t miss out!
Saturday 30 November, 2 pm – 3 pm | Pivot Gallery, Belconnen Arts Centre, 118 Emu Financial institution, Belconnen | Register here.
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