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Marking International Day of Peace, Tobias Cole leads a celebration of singing, featuring children and young adults from Turner Trebles, Canberra Children’s Choir, Lyneham High Voices, Vocal Fry and ANU Chamber Choir.
Free.Join us for an evening of cabaret with the extraordinary Paul Capsis at this 18+ event. Check out The Look afterhours, as well as the general collection, while music drifts through the galleries, then grab a beverage and enjoy the show.
Featuring the glorious sounds of the Clarion vocal ensemble, directed by Tobias Cole.
Free.Celebrating fashion as important expressive medium, the Australian Dance Party challenge the conveyor belt industry driven by economics, advertising and disposability, to contemplate a different kind of ‘vogue’
Free.Celebrating fashion as important expressive medium, the Australian Dance Party challenge the conveyor belt industry driven by economics, advertising and disposability, to contemplate a different kind of ‘vogue’
Free.A recital of joyous and uplifting music from Canberra-based musicians aged 10 to 17.
Free.Four LGBTIQ+ choirs from across Australasia will perform throughout the afternoon in the beautiful acoustics of the Gordon Darling Hall.
Free.Led by Oboist Diana Doherty, this concert showcases the finest new wind music Australia has to offer, culminating in a collaborative performance for oboe and the sound of waterfalls played through your smartphone.
Bookings requiredFeaturing the glorious sounds of the Clarion vocal ensemble, directed by Tobias Cole.
Free.Let your spirits soar with Christmas carols by chamber choir Igitur Nos.
Free.Featuring the glorious sounds of the Clarion vocal ensemble, directed by Tobias Cole.
Free.Featuring the glorious sounds of the Clarion vocal ensemble, directed by Tobias Cole.
Free.I Progetti Chamber Choir’s trademark Christmas selection of tunes beautiful yet little-known, interspersed with more familiar seasonal works.
Free.The performance explores music as a powerful, healing response to pain. Directed by Kirsten Williams, the CSO Chamber Orchestra will premiere two work by rising Australian composers.
Bookings requiredDancers Tammi Gissell, Natasha Lee Rogers and Emma Laverty join to present a performance of unity and celebration of culture on Ngunnawal land. Accompanied by violinist Michael Liu.
Free.A selection of works composed during times of pandemics, epidemics, and highly contagious diseases that celebrate the beauty that can be created in, and despite, the darkest of times.
Free. Bookings requiredA Christmas themed concert featuring the glorious sounds of the Clarion vocal ensemble, directed by Tobias Cole.
Free. Bookings requiredProgetti Chamber Choir invites you to share in this programme of Christmas music, and in the invocation of the dawning of a new day, where light and hope are reborn.
Free. Bookings requiredA Christmas themed concert featuring the glorious sounds of the Clarion vocal ensemble, directed by Tobias Cole.
Free. Bookings requiredQL2 Director Ruth Osborne, working in close collaboration with seven recent tertiary dance graduates, brings you a performance that will move through the three themes to explore creative spaces, connection to landscape and their collective story.
Free.Explore portraiture and come face to face with Australian identity, history, culture, creativity and diversity.
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