This Week in The Can | HerCanberra

It?s that time of year again, when Canberra bursts into bloom in Australia?s biggest celebration of spring ? Floriade! This iconic event runs for 30 days, kicking off this Saturday 15 September.

Showcasing one million flowers in bloom, Floriade is set in Canberra?s Commonwealth Park and entry is free. Dazzling garden beds, horticultural delights, engaging demonstrations and fun activities have all been inspired by this year?s theme,?Style and Design.

Here?s just a taste of what you can expect!

Week One ? Spring Palettes:?Welcome in spring with colour and inspiration through a kaleidoscope of activities.

Week Two ? Fashion & Design:?Spring fashion and stylish design will steal the spotlight with runway shows, style workshops and innovative displays.

Week Three ? His & Hers DIY:?Be inspired by the infinite possibilities for him and her to transform the home into an indoor and outdoor oasis.

Week Four ? Home Grown Living: Floriade?s final week is an ode to all things natural, from tips for sustainable living to celebrating home grown produce.

And don?t forget about?the five amazing nights of?Floriade NightFest, where you can enjoy great live music acts, renowned comedians, cutting edge DJ?s, night markets and roving entertainment!

SPECIAL EVENTS

Canberra Short Film Festival

The Canberra Short Film Festival represents the best films from Canberra, Australia and around the world through a variety of categories, in any genre, style and length up to 20 minutes.

This years festival is bigger and better than ever before with $5000 of prize money to be won, a regional tour, two new categories and two intensive?workshops?to help filmakers make their next work even better.

The festival runs from Friday 14 to Sunday 16 September?at Dendy Cinemas in Canberra City.

View the schedule and buy tickest from the Dendy website.

Tuliptop Gardens Festival

Floriade isn?t the only flower festival around town -dive into Spring at the Tuliptop Gardens Festival, from Saturday 15 September to Sunday 14 October.

Their 10 acre garden of tulips, daffodils, and other spring flowers creates a spectacular display. Hundreds of blossom trees provide a magic pathway to the cascading waterfall and watercourse. Classical music wafts through the air in the hidden valley. Walk past the rosemary field to the 70 metre high viewing platform for the perfect photo.?Enjoy a picnic and bottle of wine in the grounds.

Tulip Top Gardens is 15 minutes from Canberra on the Federal Highway.

Find out more at their website!

Light The Night/ Lifecycle

Light the Night?is the Leukaemia Foundation?s inspiring twilight walk to help cure blood cancer by raising funds for leukaemia, lymphoma and myeloma research. Gather with families, friends and colleagues to shine a beautiful lantern of hope: Gold to remember a loved one, White to reflect on your life with blood cancer or Blue to support others.

This year Light the Night in Canberra will combine with Lifecycle . Lifecycle is a 48 hour cycling event where participants can ride for as little or as long as they like around the shores of Lake Burley Griffin during the event window.

From 6-8pm this Thursday 13 September at Kings Park.

Big Things in Store

Big Things in Store?gives visitors a chance to see ?behind the scenes? of the?Australian War Memorial. Come and see the Large Technology Object workshops, where conservators preserve these intriguing items. Talk to conservators about their latest projects, such as the conservation of a Hudson Bomber and a rare Japanese Ha-Go tank.

With a sausage sizzle, precision drill team, and activities for the kids, Big Things in Store is a great day out for the whole family.

From 10am to 3pm this Sunday 16 September at?Treloar Technology Centre, 8 Callan St, Mitchell.

MARKETS & FAIRS

Old Bus Depot Markets Green Savvy Sunday

Participate in Canberra?s first interactive market which brings together products and community groups focused on domestic green sustainable living.

Discover the latest in green technology for the home environment, buy specialist green/sustainable products, and speak to a variety of government agencies and companies about what programs, assistance and products they provide to the community and householders. Indulge in some organic food and discover just how many of our stallholders make products using ecological methods/materials.

You?ll find products that have been recycled, upcycled or produced with low energy use or using organic techniques.

At the Old Bus Depot Markets this Sunday 16 September between 10am and 4pm.

The Bride?s Diary Wedding and Honeymoon Expo

Are you planning your wedding? Come to The Bride?s Diary Wedding and Honeymoon Expo at the National Convention Centre this Sunday 16 September.

This is your chance to meet Canberra?s leading wedding service providers and discuss every aspect of planning your big day! All brides-to-be attending will receive a FREE copy of The Bride?s Diary, a show bag of delightful wedding goodies and the chance to WIN a fabulous tropical honeymoon to the Cook Islands!

FOOD & WINE

Eat My Words

A celebration of food writing at its best, with Canberra?s own Marion Halligan telling table tales over dishes straight from the pages of one of her own favourite books, Elizabeth David?s A book of Mediterranean Food.

Share the pleasure with friends for lunch this Sunday 16 September at The Kitchen Cabinet, Old Parliament House. Places are filling fast.

Find out more and book here.

STAGE

Bangarra Dance Theatre: Terrain

Terrain is a new story told through music, theatre and dance by acclaimed choreographer and longtime member of the Bangarra family, Frances Rings.

Inspired by the landscape of one of Australia?s greatest natural wonders, this work explores the metamorphosis and timeless beauty of Lake Eyre. Tracing through the erosions of time see the challenges of man in a struggle for survival amongst the delicate ecology and the search for the rare phenomenon that is Australia?s inland sea. Travel through drought and deluge to witness this ephemeral transformation of place.

Performing at Canberra Theatre Centre from Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 September. Find out more and buy tickets from Canberra Ticketing.

Widowbird by Emma Gibson

A young woman, living in a kingdom divided by class, war and plague, discovers her tears have the power to heal.

From the pen of acclaimed Canberra playwright Emma Gibson, comes an ardent and impassioned fable moving from miraculous healing to ritual burning. Exploding with worlds and characters in opposition this riveting theatre work asks how healing turns into wounding.

There once was a bird. A sad, magical bird, doomed to never stop flying. Every beat of its wings caused it pain. But the bird flew. It flew until its useless legs dropped off. It flew ceaselessly towards its death.

Widowbird, developed through the Street Theatre?s Hive Writer?s program, is one of 100 new and original scripts from around the world selected for presentation at the 2012 Women Playwrights International Conference in Stockholm. Directed by New York stage director Joanne Schultz, this episodic play is a deeply charged, ensemble performance using stylized theatricality to create a world of invented antiquity and myth with live music by Stephen Fitzgerald.

An epic story of women and the need to be free of self-sacrifice, Widowbird is inspired by Antigone, Joan of Arc and A Thousand and One Nights and represents some of the best new theatre out of Canberra now.

Showing at The Street Theatre until 15 September.

Back to the 80s

From the era that brought the world The Rubik?s Cube, Max Headroom and The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comes this ?totally awesome? musical in the style of movies such as Back To The Future, Ferris Bueller?s Day Off, The Karate Kid and The Wedding Singer.

Join the graduating class of William Ocean High School as they live through their final senior year ? as they experience the fun, the heartbreak, the loves and the loneliness of growing up??Set in the USA, Back To The 80?s tells the story of the senior class of William Ocean High School that graduated in the 1980?s, as remembered and seen through the eyes of Corey Palmer,?who is now 30-something. all set to the biggest hits of the 80?s!

Throw in a Star Wars dream sequence, high-energy dance routines, the obligatory 80?s party scene, copious amounts of blue eye-shadow, twenty cans of hairspray, as well as some of the most popular songs ever written, and the result is a musical that will not only delight and amuse an audience of any age, but will also inspire any young cast.

Showing until Sunday 23 September at Canberra Theatre Centre. Find out more and buy tickets from Canberra Ticketing.

Panic Stations

When Chester Dreadnought buys a new house in the country he gets more than he bargained for, an unhelpful handyman, a new girlfriend that I?m sure his wife will object to, an eccentric archaeologist and an Army training camp within rifle range. Plus his in laws have come to help. Can he somehow keep everyone happy and survive the next Army manoeuvres?

Fun for everyone ? this English comedy is sure to tickle you.

Performing at Canberra Theatre Centre until Saturday 15 September. Find out more and buy tickets here.

MUSIC & DANCE

Julia Stone Live at The Abbey

After selling out shows in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, LA, New York and Sydney (in June), Julia Stone is performing in Canberra for one night only. Julia Stone is an Australian singer and songwriter from the northern beaches of Sydney.

Her musical career began in 2006 known internationally as the sister half of the Aria award winning brother-sister duo, Angus and Julia Stone. Julia ?released her second solo album By The Horns simultaneously around the world in May, and it debuted at # 11 on the Top 50 albums chart in Australia.

See Julia in action at The Abbey this Wednesday 12 September. Find out more and buy tickets from The Abbey website.

Mia Dyson

?The Moment? frames a three-year journey into a chaotic American landscape and the depths of uncertainty. It is an album about grabbing hold of what scares you most and letting go of trying to control your own fate.

Each song holds up a piece of broken heart and examines it through the fresh eyes of a woman who?s found her place, and is suddenly aware that not much in life can be planned. From the chronicle of an imploding relationship (?Pistol?) to the life-affirming heart-pounding joy of forging ahead (?When The Moment Comes?) to the empathetic gaze outward into a dark canon of Australian history in ?Jesse?. This is the kind of album America meant for Mia Dyson to make all along.

Join Mia Dyson at The Abbey for the launch of her new album ?The Moment? this Sunday 16 September. Get more information and buy tickets here.

Pseudo Echo

Best loved Aussie electro-pop pioneers, Pseudo Echo are back!! 2012 marks the band?s 30th anniversary and they?re ready to celebrate, armed with their first new single since the 80?s and performing live at The Abbey, Saturday September 15.

After notching up over one million album sales and topping the charts in Australia, US, UK, Canada, Sweden and more, Pseudo Echo became a household name across the globe, best known for their smash hit, Funky Town.

To celebrate this exciting release, Pseudo Echo are giving away Suddenly Silently digital download cards, handing them out to the first 100 punters who purchase tickets online.

Paul McDermott ? Paul Sings

Paul McDermott; well-known as the host of Good News Week, Strictly Dancing, The Sideshow, Melbourne International Comedy Festival TV Comedy Debates and Galas ? and for touring with The Doug Anthony Allstars and GUD.

Paul is taking time off from joking with audiences and teasing guests on TV,? to write and to sing.

Pauls great love has always been performing live and now he takes to the stage with accompanist Stu Hunter and an ?all star? band to sing songs and tell seriously funny stories about what art and life have wrought through the perspective of songs that go back to the DAAS and up to today.

Performing at the Canberra Theatre Centre this Sunday 16 September. More information and tickets from Canberra Ticketing.

Sing for your Supper

The George Harcourt Inn?is showing their?support for live music in Canberra, and in a bid to encourage aspiring young musicians, are launching ?Sing for your Supper? Wednesdays.

Entrants will be given the opportunity to perform for 15 to 30mins in exchange for a meal and a drink. This will provide a great chance for musicians to have their voices heard and make connections. ?Sing for your Super? may even lead to more regular paid gigs.

Find out more?here.

Live Local Music

This post isn?t long enough to list all the various gigs around town, but if you?re into live music I heartily suggest you check out what?s on offer at?The Phoenix,?Transit Bar,?The Front,?The Abbey, and?BMA?s gig guide.

NIGHTLIFE

Places to eat, dance and sing along

OutinCanberra?has a huge range of things to do after dark (and during the day, too!) Check them out?here.

FAMILY

Market Day Steam Train Experience

Take a trip back in time on a heritage steam train to Bungendore? with classic vintage steam loco 3016.

Be fascinated by the wide range of scenery the train travels through en route to Bungendore. The train climbs the scenic Molonglo Gorge before passing into the patchwork pastoral lands beyond. Native wildlife can also often be seen from the train.

Arrival time in Bungendore is a little after midday and you have two and half hours to explore this charming villiage, which has many different specialty shops, galleries and a number of cafes and restaurants to dine in. Alternatively, pack a picnic and enjoy the outdoors in Bungendore?s park, oval and playground.

The third?Sunday is also market day in Bungendore, where you can browse ?an extensive range of stalls, selling organic produce, craft, books, homewares and trash and treasure.

Find out more and book here.

Rolling Home

A fun-filled musical adventure about what makes home ?the best place in the world?

Figaro and Georgio are two gypsy friends who live in a caravan, travelling from town to town, selling stories. When disaster strikes their beloved home on wheels they are left with only their stories and each other. Faced with homelessness, they search for a new place to call home, creating a fantastical world of larger than life characters from their own stories.

Featuring live music, beautiful costumes, puppetry and stories that will amaze you, Rolling Home is a show that children and adults alike will love and remember.

Performing at Canberra Theatre Centre from Monday 17 to Saturday 22 September. Find out more and buy tickets from Canberra Ticketing.

Experience life on a sheep farm

Experience life on a working Australian sheep farm at Gold Creek Station every Thursday to Sunday over the Floriade season.

Leave technology behind and get back to nature at its best for up to two hours. Cuddle a lamb and feel quality Australian wool. Watch working dogs round up sheep and see them being shorn. Volunteer to get down and dirty and catch a sheep. See these glorious creatures jumping up to two metres in the air!

Unwind and experience great country views and fresh air with family and friends just 15 minutes from Canberra.

Make Your Own Glass: Off-The-Street

Got kids over 14? Take them along to the?Canberra Glassworks Hotshop?where they (and you!) can make your own glass paperweight, bird or bauble in just 20 minutes. It?s where science meets art.

Do it yourself or purchase a gift voucher for someone else to enjoy this hands-on hot glass experience.

Off-The-Street sessions are on each weekend.

Children?s Discovery Walk ? Who Lives Here?

Children love to learn by ?doing? so the?Australian National Botanic Gardens?(ANBG) has designed a fun 30 minute activity perfect for young ones.

?Who Lives Here?? provides nine activity stations that introduce children to the concept that plants are important for animal biodiversity.?An accompanying activity booklet provides parents and carers with interesting information and ideas for questions to ask their budding scientist.

Download the?Children?s Discovery Walk (Who Lives Here)?or pick up a booklet at the ANBG Visitor Centre.

Excite @ Q

Catch new exhibit?Excite@Q?at Questacon-The National Science and Technology Centre. Test your reflexes, skills and perception at the exhibition, which features hands-on and minds-on experiences.

Challenge yourself to slide the puck in cross-shaped air hockey. Look into the Disgustoscope tunnel of mirrors to see your hair and face magnified and reflected with a backdrop of earthworms. Hold the bar to see and hear your heart beat played on a bass drum. Walk through the Rototron tunnel of ?spinning? LEDs and try to keep a straight line.

Entry to Excite@Q is included in a general admission ticket. Open daily from 9am to 5pm.

SCREEN

Russian Resurrection Film Festival

The year 2012 ? commemorates the bicentenary of Russia?s 1812 defeat of Napoleon, celebrates 70 years of Australia-Russia diplomatic relations and marks the ninth Russian Resurrection Film Festival ? the largest festival of Russian Cinema outside of Russia today.

This year, the selection of films covers the grand scope of contemporary film making in Russia: 25 superb Russian national films offering a wide range of genres to cater to the most discerning cinematic tastes.?Every new film will be an Australian premier so whether you?re looking to immerse yourself in Russian culture, undertake a historical visual journey or succumb to an entertaining romance or something to take the kids to ? this year?s program will satisfy everyone.

Showing at Greater Union in Manuka between Friday 14 and Wednesday 19 September. Find out more here.

Great Adaptations: Words to Image

This free exhibition of film posters highlights some of the many film adaptations from Australian novels and plays held in the National Film and Sound Archive?s extensive collection. Included are beautiful posters from films such as: The Silence of Dean Maitland (1934), Don?s Party (1976), The Getting of Wisdom (1978), The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978), Rabbit Proof Fence (2002), The Year of Living Dangerously (1982) and many more.

Great Adaptations is showing at the National Film and Sound Archive until December 2012.

ANU Film Group

The ANU Film Group has been operating in Canberra for over 45 years and is one of Canberra?s worst kept movie secrets as, over the years, so many people have either been members, or have come along as guests to enjoy a movie or two.

The theatre is at the corner of Fellows and Garran Roads at the ANU, but everyone is welcome to come along?it?s a fun, community way to see movies on the big screen. And a big screen it is! The theatre is set up with an 8.5m wide screen, Dolby Surround Sound and screens movies from actual film.

For more info and the full programme (you can join up when you get there) go to www.anufg.org.au.

ART

Lino Tagliapietra

Lino Tagliapietra is arguably the world?s greatest living glass artist. His work is held in over 30 major museum collections around the world.

See this Italian Maestro and his internationally renowned team, Nancy Callan, David Walters and Darin Denison, demonstrating to glass artists in the Canberra Glassworks Hotshop.

At the Glassworks between Wednesday 12 and Sunday 16 September.

The Loaded Gallery

Well over a decade of working collaboratively through the controversial issues of cultural ownership, Imants Tillers and Michael Nelson Jagamara in this exhibition, are for the first time bringing their stories together in The Loaded Gallery.

Michael Nelson Jagamara is best known for creating the iconic ?Possum and Wallaby Dreaming ? for the forecourt of Parliament House and Imants Tillers is one of Australia?s foremost contemporary artists.

Both artists have been practising for over thirty years, are considered highly innovative and this collaboration shows their capacity to cross cultural borders as well as artistic and stylistic genres, illustrating the reconciliatory power of collaboration.

Showing at the Drill Hall Gallery until 23 September.

Ranamok Glass Prize 2012

Ranamok Glass Prize 2012 is the eighteenth year of this prestigious Australian and New Zealand annual Glass Prize. The finalists? work in this prize is shown first at Canberra Glassworks where the winner is announced. This show captures the amazing range of artworks currently being made in glass from Australia and New Zealand.

Showing at the Glassworks until 16 September 2012.

Sydney Long : The Spirit of The Land

Sydney Long is Australia?s foremost Art Nouveau painter. His art flourished in the imaginatively stimulating atmosphere in Sydney in the 1890s and 1900s. One of his best-known works is By Tranquil Waters, 1894. The piece was a precursor to the paintings in which he peopled the Australian bush with mythological figures, painted in an Art Nouveau style.

This exhibition is only showing at Canberra?s National Gallery of Australia until 11 November. Such a focussed presentation, looking in depth at the best of Long?s paintings, watercolours and prints is the first major survey of his work for over forty years and promises much to kindle the visual imagination.

Lewin: Wild Art

Lewin: Wild Art surveys the life and art of John William Lewin (1770 ? 1819), the first non-convict professional artist living in Australia.

Arriving in Sydney in 1800, Lewin?s ambition was to collect, draw and publish Australia?s natural history for European audiences. The challenge of confronting the new environment ? where he found everything ?contrary to our knowledge in England? ? inspired his beautifully observed illustrations, which are undoubtedly Australian.

At the National Library of Australia.

Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture

Menagerie is a unique and groundbreaking exhibition, which exposes the richness and breadth of contemporary Indigenous sculpture in Australia.

It includes both well-known and emerging artists, who have each produced outstanding sculptural works depicting a variety of animals.

Through these works, the artists share with us their cultural knowledge, expressions of identity and connections to country.

This exhibition highlights the sophistication and complexity of the art and culture of Australia?s Indigenous peoples.

Menagerie: Contemporary Indigenous Sculpture is an Object Gallery and Australian Museum Touring Exhibition and is showing at the?National Museum of Australia?until 14 October.

Political Porcelain

The?Museum of Australian Democracy?is hosting?Political Porcelain, featuring a selection of artworks by contemporary artist, Penny Byrne.

Byrne utilises objects familiar from mantelpieces, china cabinets and toy boxes to transform vintage porcelain into powerful works of political commentary. Her artworks convey her concern, anger or amusement. They voice her views on social justice, the environment, war and politics.

The work presented in Political Porcelain is ?a compelling illustration of the artist as activist.? Until 18 November 2012.

Russell Drysdale at War

The Australian War Memorial is paying tribute to one of Australia?s leading modernist painters, Sir Russell Drysdale, in a small exhibition, Russell Drysdale at War.

Drysdale is best known for his original interpretations of Australia?s outback landscape and its people of the late twentieth century, a period of great social change. During the Second World War he also produced a significant collection of works exploring the effects of war and the loneliness and displacement felt by many Australians based in rural communities.

At the AWM until 1 December 2012.

Other exhibitions

For a comprehensive round up of smaller exhibitions around town, visit Capital Magazine.

EXHIBITIONS

Nurses: From Zululand to Afghanistan

Discover the story of nursing in overseas conflicts at the Australian War Memorial. This important aspect of Australia?s wartime experience is often neglected. Many women served in dangerous conditions. Like other Australian service personnel, many paid the ultimate price.

The display draws on the Memorial?s rich collection of photographs, private records and personal objects to trace the involvement of nurses from the first known Australian contribution in the Zulu War of 1879 to operations in Afghanistan today.

On display until 17 October.

The Life of Patrick White

Celebrating the centenary of Patrick White?s birth, this exhibition showcases the Nobel Laureate?s achievements and his forceful presence in Australia?s cultural life.

Explore items from White?s personal collection, including letters, notebooks, paintings, photographs and unpublished manuscripts.

At the National Library of Australia.

Treasures Gallery

Discover new treasures as the National Library of Australia reveals more of its 10 million item-strong collection in the Treasures Gallery.

See manuscripts from authors and poets such as Christina Stead and Mem Fox; works from the Ducie collection of First Fleet art; and Norman Lindsay?s 1918 Fall-in recruitment poster for the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Visitors will notice other changes, including pages turned on items such as the Draft Constitution, Keith Murdoch?s Gallipoli Letter, and new notes passed between Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles Ulm in the flight cockpit.

Source: http://www.hercanberra.com.au/index.php/2012/09/10/this-week-in-the-can-79/

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