May

Saturday May 25

MODERN Craft and Design Market

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MODERN is Craft ACT's inaugural craft and design market, featuring high-quality, innovative and emerging makers from Canberra and across the nation.

MODERN Market offers visitors the unique opportunity to meet and buy directly from the craft and design talent of the future. The event will showcase a diversity of mediums, concepts and approaches to contemporary creativity and will include the work of jewellers, ceramicists, illustrators, as well as textile, product, fashion, industrial and surface pattern designers. More information can be found here.

July

Saturday July 6

ACTEW Grand Gala: Bernstein on Broadway

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The annual ACTEW Grand Gala concerts have become the hottest tickets in town. Each of these events have sold out and this year will be no exception when the Canberra Symphony Orchestra presents Bernstein on Broadway. Where better than the USA to travel for a Centenary Gala event which is a “must see” concert in the 2013 calendar!

A celebrated and sometimes controversial figure, Leonard Bernstein was one of the 20th century’s greatest American composer/conductor. The ACTEW Grand Gala will feature all of his biggest hits, including the overture from Candide and favourites from On the Town. Conducted by Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, Nicholas Milton, Bernstein on Broadway features the sublime voice of one of Australia’s most versatile and brilliant sopranos, former Canberran Lorina Gore, in some wonderful selections including Tonight, I Feel Pretty, and Somewhere from “West Side Story”.

Saturday 6 July 2013
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music
7:30pm
Free pre-concert talk 6:45pm

August

Wednesday August 21

From the New World

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When Dvorak’s soulful “From the New World” Symphony premiered in New York it was proclaimed to be “the greatest symphonic work ever composed in this country”. Under the baton of our inspirational Chief Conductor & Artistic Director, Nicholas Milton, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s interpretation of this work is an intense and moving experience.

Before intermission, the CSO’s own Virginia Taylor, an undisputed Australian musical legend, performs the premiere of Matthew Hindson’s Flute Concerto, House Music. Australia’s classical music rebel/bad boy, Hindson composes music of electrifying energy and spirit. He writes in response to contemporary society and culture, translating techno computer music to performances by living musicians on acoustic instruments. This will be an unforgettable concert event.

Wednesday and Thursday 21 & 22 August 2013
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music
7.30pm
Free pre-concert talk at 6.45pm

September

Saturday September 21

Canberra Weekly Matinee Magic: Strike Up the Band

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Afternoon favourite, the Canberra Weekly Matinee Magic concert presents a special Centenary collaboration between the Canberra Symphony Orchestra and the Band of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 2013.

The Canberra Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor, Nicholas Milton, marshals this magnificent musical battalion in repertoire that has been especially selected to reflect the place of pride held by the RMC Band as the musical cornerstone at events of national and international significance. Our grand finale, of course, is the 1812 Overture, delivered with full military strength!

The Canberra Weekly Matinee Magic event is a wonderfully moving collaboration between two of the capital’s most distinguished musical traditions.

Saturday 21 September 2013
Llewellyn Hall, ANU School of Music
2.00pm

NewActon Social

NewActon Precinct Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre and Palace Electric are presenting a stimulating forum exploring the role of craft and design in creating our nation’s capital. That's on May 24, and the MODERN Market is in Nishi following day. Explore the program or make a booking here: How has curatorial practice developed over the past 100 years? Can an exhibition define the space and time we live in? Come along and hear from the entrepreneurs developing curatorial practices outside the square. Designing a Capital: Crafting a Nation 2 days 11 hours ago.
NewActon Precinct Next Saturday, Craft ACT and NewActon are bringing a national craft and design market to Nishi. MODERN, Craft ACT's inaugural craft and design market, will feature high-quality, innovative and emerging makers from Canberra and across the nation. MODERN offers visitors the unique opportunity to meet and buy directly from the craft and design talent of the future. The event will showcase a diversity of mediums, concepts and approaches to contemporary creativity and will include the work of jewellers, ceramicists, illustrators, as well as textile, product, fashion, industrial and surface pattern designers. 4-9pm, Saturday May 25, Nishi. Free. Check out the flyer: 3 days 12 hours ago.
NewActon Precinct Well done to the The Australian National University for this wonderful public art installation. The highly polished four-metre diameter stainless steel sphere, entitled UNA, features 9,000 laser and hand-cut perforations which represent the stars visible to the naked eye in the Southern Hemisphere, sized according to their luminosity. An astronomy-inspired sculpture by renowned international artist Wolfgang Buttress will be unveiled by ANU Vice-Chancellor Professor Ian Young AO today in the new ANU Science Precinct. a window to night sky | ANU 1 week 1 day ago.
NewActon Precinct After a funky venue for a film, presentation or seminar? We have a 35-seat theatrette in NewActon South available for hire. It's great for music sessions, AGMs, film series and conferences. Have a look here: NewActon is a keen supporter of cinema, and we’re proud to bring you three unique movie-going experiences, to suit every taste and every occasion – including an outdoor cinema, a boutique theatrette and a state-of-the-art eight digital screen cinema complex. Cinemas | NewActon 1 week 4 days ago.
NewActon Precinct Thank you artists and mighty fine audience for an incredible audio journey. From single strokes to pulsing beats, Sense exceeded all expectations. Whether you like jazz or progressive techno, we hope you agree: the music was superb and the vibe unique. (Thanks to Adam Thomas for this photo. Many more coming.) 1 week 6 days ago.
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