[ 15 April, 2011 to 17 April, 2011. ]

Here comes the weekend.

What’s worth seeing and doing around town?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

[ 13 April, 2011 to 27 April, 2011. ]

The Friends of the Botanic Gardens Art Group are giving notice that they have an exhibition running this month at the Gardens, with some works available for sale.

[ 17 April, 2011; 11:00 am to 3:30 pm. ]

Well they can!

Canberra & Southern NSW Dart Tag (Nerf Wars, HvZ) run events every month in Canberra. It’s an all ages event with appropriate safety and supervision. And best of all – totally free!

We are hosting an event this Sunday at 57 Ormond St, Turner (Haig Park). You can check out the event details on [...]

[ 14 April, 2011 to 17 April, 2011. ]

The Jane Austen Festival Australia is entering its 4th year. Although it still takes place over three days in the middle of April, and is still centered around the beautiful historic St John’s Church in Reid, the program has grown from a single stream to three simultaneous streams, making use of every hall and room [...]

[ 2 April, 2011 to 17 April, 2011. ] This exhibition at M16 Artspace is outstanding for its luminous colour.

It presents experiments by the artists in expressing the landscapes of south eastern NSW – principally Charlotte Pass, Rosedale Beach and Murramarang National Park.

Ross Andrews shows how varied and experimental watercolour can be. There are au premier coup, single, fast-paced attacks that execute the painting all at once. And there are systematic layers of foreground detail flooded into tiny peaks and contours of rock-like texture that can be enjoyed as infinitesimal micro-landscapes, in compositions that draw the eye toward the mid-picture colours.

Rick Cochrane borrows the gorgeous palette of Gustav Klimt to explore the colours of the Rosedale coastline and the Snowy Mountains. He finds genius loci of the landscape often takes over, making him a medium for its expression, via the sensuous qualities of his oil paint.

[ 9 April, 2011 to 24 April, 2011. ]

The Heritage Festival is kicking off in April:

To celebrate our enthusiastic and committed event organisers have created a program that will have patrons thinking, exploring and rehashing their notion of design.

Festival highlights include a Rolls Royce Rally, the ever popular Jane Austen Festival and a series of National Trust expert led guided tours.

For families there [...]

[ 24 February, 2011 to 29 May, 2011. ]

The National Gallery is giving warning that next week they’re starting up an exhibition of art from the Solomon Islands:

Before World War II there was a period of peace in the Solomon Islands beginning with the 1893 establishment of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate. Prior to this era, particularly in the Western Solomon Islands, [...]