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gallery view with large white ceramic pot on a stand and artworks in background. CMAG
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Exhibition review: Bruce Reynolds and Hiroe and Cornel Swen, Canberra Museum and Gallery

Exploring material histories through ceramics and painting, these two exhibitions make for a sympathetic pairing.

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National Library of Australia

Exhibition - The Excellencies of Musick: Highlights from the Jamie and Michael Kassler Collection

Enter the musical world of Stuart and Georgian Britain, a world of concert-going, music-makers and thinkers, of printers and publishers.

Model and crew backstage for the Melbourne Fashion Festival. A tall female model with pale skin and red lips is wearing a red satin dress with a large floral feature over her chest, while the crew adjusts something around her ear.
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Fashion, craft and design calendar 2025

What’s on in fashion, craft and design this year, including exhibitions, fashion festivals, design weeks and makers' markets.

Two young women are dancing in 'Sauce". The lighting that falls on them is in tones of red. Sauce
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Theatre review: SAUCE, Smith's Alternative, Canberra

Two loners help each other through hurtful life experiences.

Sterling Notley and Matt Hogan in Canberra Youth Theatre's production of 'Work, But This Time Like You Mean It'. Two young men, both dressed in red and white shirts and black pants, sit in a pit of yellow balls against a red wall. One boy holds the other in his arms; both are shouting or screaming.
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Canberra Youth Theatre takes drastic steps to ensure its survival

The long-running company will not stage any productions in 2025 and is also cutting back and consolidating its training programs…

Ancient relics and videos of Pompeii
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Exhibition review: Pompeii, National Museum of Australia

Off the back of new discoveries and a wave of immersive exhibitions globally, Pompeii is the star of an exhibition…

Ceramic exhibition with green coloured walls. Anne Dangar
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Exhibition review: Ethel Carrick and Anne Dangar, National Gallery of Australia

Must-see summer viewing. Two women artists who shaped Australian art history get their day with parallel retrospective exhibitions.

Black and white image of a women in 1970s taking self portrait. Carol Jerrems
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Exhibition review: Carol Jerrems: Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, Canberra

Subtlety lost in nostalgic voyeurism, as a retake on Carol Jerrems work is not as fresh as implied.

Canberra Theatre Centre: The Playhouse, as seen from the stage.
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Canberra Theatre Centre celebrates 60th anniversary in 2025 and wants your memories

As part of its diamond jubilee, Canberra Theatre Centre has announced its first anniversary performance and launched a new project…

A publicity image for ACT Hub's 2025 season opener, 'Mojo' by English playwright Jez Butterworth. A dark-haired young man with fair skin holds a sword in front of his face. One side of his face is stern and impassive, the other side shows his eye and mouth wide open, as if shouting.
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ACT Hub, Canberra’s home of indie theatre, reveals 2025 season

A new festival of Australian works, a contemporary Irish classic, musical theatre and Macbeth feature in the ACT Hub’s recently…

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