[ 14 June, 2012 to 27 June, 2012. ]

The CSIRO is letting people know they’ve got an exhibition running about “the textures and patterns of Black Mountain, a small yet diverse area of wilderness in the middle of Canberra City”.

Photographer Michael John Hood has captured this bushland by studying the surfaces and details of the mountain up close with high resolution macro imagery.

These [...]

[ 15 June, 2012 to 17 June, 2012. ]

The short week is over nearly before it’s begun.

But what are we going to do in and around Canberra this winter weekend?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

[ 17 June, 2012; 6:30 pm to 10:30 pm. ] Join us for a night of Bollywood-themed fun at Room to Read’s Bollywood Bonanza, raising funds for Room to Read’s literacy programs in 10 developing world countries.

[ 15 September, 2012 to 21 September, 2012. ]  50th ANNIVERSARY CONVENTION
AUSTRALIAN PHOTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
OPEN TO EVERYONE
From 15-21 September 2012 the Australian Photographic Society will hold its annual convention at the Southern Cross Club, Corinna Street, Phillip ACT. This year’s event is to celebrate their 50th anniversary and is open to everyone!

This event held over 7 days will include top Australian and overseas speakers, workshops [...]

The Canberra Liberals are celebrating a big win for them getting the Greens to smash up Labor’s Joy Burch and her decision to ignore committee recommendations about the future of the Fitters’ Workshop.
The Canberra Liberals today received majority Assembly support for a motion calling on ACT Labor to make the Fitters’ Workshop a multi-purpose facility. [...]

As promised the ANU Choral Society (spelt backwards as SCUNA) were protesting in song at the Legislative Assembly this lunchtime.
Meanwhile the Liberals’ Vicki Dunne is seeking to team up with the Greens to force a U-Turn out of the Arts Minister Joy Burch.
“Arts Minister Joy Burch has disregarded the community and the Assemblys’ wishes in [...]

Submissions for the inaugural Harrison Art Show are now being accepted which will be held at the Harrison School Performing Arts Centre on June 29.
The Art Show will support local artists and also have select works of art from the students of Harrison School on display and available for purchase.
Harrison School Principal Mr Dennis Yarrington [...]

[ 8 June, 2012 to 11 June, 2012. ]

A Jubilee Queen’s Birthday Long Weekend is upon us.

It’s too cold for the beach so what’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra this weekend?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments.

The ANU Choral Society is making their displeasure known over the Fitters’ Workshop decision:
In response to the government’s rejection of the recommendations of the Inquiry into the Future Use of the Fitters’ Workshop, members of Canberra’s many choral groups will protest in song outside the Legislative Assembly from 1 – 1:30pm tomorrow, Thursday 7 June [...]

Here at RiotACT we didn’t think Wikileaks expose of US diplomatic cables had anything worth Bradley Manning’s life or much information beyond what could be had through a subscription to The Economist.
So we’re a little surprised to see Cyber War News reporting that CraftACT has had their archives looted and their emails dumped out.
Still, if [...]

Under cover of the Budget comes a big screw you to the Legislative Assembly and the musical community from Joy Burch as she announces the Fitters’ Workshop print conversion is going ahead despite committee reports and public campaigns to the contrary.
Ms Burch said the Committee’s report had provided no basis for the Government to abandon [...]

[ 14 June, 2012; 8:00 pm; ]

On June 14 come check out the best of Canberra’s comedy talent at the CIT Music Industry Centre. Also featuring some musical interludes from Lavers. The gig will be filmed by CIT Media students. Some parts of the show might include coarse language and potentially offensive material.

Doors open 7:30pm for 8:00pm [...]

[ 8 September, 2012; ] The Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation is letting everyone know tickets are now on sale for their fundraiser dinner:

CAPO has begun selling tickets to its annual arts auction party and fundraising event on Saturday 8 September at M16 Artspace in Griffith. M16 is an artist-run organisation that provides valuable visual arts infrastructure and development to artists, [...]

[ 1 June, 2012 to 3 June, 2012. ]

Well the RiotACT team is going to Melbourne to watch the Brumbies bounce back into form.

But for those who remain what’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra this weekend?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments.

I can strongly recommend the Wright Space Gallery on Cork Street, Gundaroo. It’s gorgeous. There is a really good exhibition on there at the moment, until June 17th 2012 called Interpreting Spaces. Its looking at Canberra and the surrounding region, lots of birds, animals and maps. Very cool.
(way better than that ‘mapping the northside’ rubbish [...]

I’ve been wanting to have a closer look at this since I first saw it a few months ago.
I understand it’s representative of Bogong Moths in flight, but I call it “Finding Nemo”.
[Got an image of Canberra you want to share with the world? Email it in to images@the-riotact.com ]

The particularly odious game of budget pre-announcements is underway. Today we hear from Joy Burch that electoral battleground of Tuggeranong is going to see $2 million for making the arts centre less ghastly.
Ms Burch said the funding will see the internal building layout re-designed to provide a new gallery, a new multi-purpose space, a new [...]

[ 6 June, 2012; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]

Ex-Canberran comic Toby Halligan headlines Comedy Club at The Civic Pub on June 6.

Toby Halligan is one of Australia’s most exciting young comedians and improvisers. A NSW Raw Comedy semi-finalist, and winner of the Worlds Debating Comedy Award in 2003, he’s performed at the Midsumma Festival, LOL Comedy at Melbourne Fringe, on [...]

[ 25 May, 2012 to 27 May, 2012. ]

Well the all important Brumbies v Reds game looms large. But what else is on around Canberra this weekend?

Just leave your thoughts in the comments.

[ 30 May, 2012 to 13 June, 2012. ]

This has come across my desk and seems worthwhile.

Putting on a Show at Honkytonks
Photography by Sophie Penkethman-Young, Matthew Roll and Janis Lejins
People Objects Fetish
May 30 – June 13
Opening 7pm, May 20

Three students from the ANU School of Art Photomedia department will combine their powers to adorn the walls of Garema Place Bar, Honkytonks.

Exhibitor, [...]

Phoenix Players’ How 2 $ucceed in Business Without Really Trying is a fun and energetic show, packed full of comic and memorable characters. It’s also got a really long name, so from here on in, we’ll call it H2$.
H2$ is guaranteed to get toes tapping and people laughing, and RiotAct and Phoenix Players are giving [...]

[ 14 December, 2012 to 2 April, 2013. ]

The National Gallery has announced Toulouse-Lautrec: Paris & the Moulin Rouge is the big summer drawcard coming up.

‘The National Gallery of Australia is excited to bring together Australia’s first Toulouse-Lautrec retrospective exhibition, showing only in Canberra. Together with our own collection of works, the exhibition will provide a comprehensive insight into the artistic life of [...]

[ 20 May, 2012; 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] When: Sunday 20th May 11am-4pm

Where: Canberra Irish Club, Weston

May is the month of mums, and a lot of mums are superheroes, so in the 50 free Showbags for the May Bazaar, you get a Wonder Woman Lipstick!

$5 entry gets you 5 Kitka dollars that is redeemable at any stall when you spend over [...]

[ 18 May, 2012 to 20 May, 2012. ]

And so we come to the end of another fun filled week in the Capital.

What’s worth seeing and doing around town this weekend?

Just leave your ideas in the comments.

The Folk Festival is a strange beast for a few reasons:
– It relies on vast armies of volunteers working for free (often in highly professional capacities).
– It charges like a wounded bull. Seriously it hoovers money out of my wallet harder than any casino I’ve visited.
– It pays the most cursory to negligible [...]

[ 1 May, 2012 to 21 May, 2012. ]

Gosh, even art exhibitions get trailers now!

christineryan1 has posted this to YouTube with a note:

Michelle Harris is a quiet and extremely talented photographer and illustrator who hates the spotlight, unlike me. Her exhibition “I’m like a bird” was opened by ACT Minister for the Arts, Joy Burch on May 1. Michelle’s first solo exhibition runs [...]

[ 11 May, 2012 to 22 July, 2012. ]

The National Gallery has announced the opening of unDisclosed: 2nd National Indigenous Art Triennial:

unDisclosed features the work of 20 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from regional, remote and urban communities and is curated by Carly Lane, a Kalkadoon woman from North West Queensland with a background in curatorship, anthropology and art.

The artists featured [...]

Somehow we missed the appearance of two works by Jon Tarry in Civic West last November.
And yet there they are!

[ 11 May, 2012 to 13 May, 2012. ]

As another productive week draws down it’s time to consider the merriment of the weekend.

What is worth seeing and doing around Canebrra over the next few weeks?

Just leave your suggestions in the comments.

[ 11 May, 2012 to 20 May, 2012. ] This year’s festival brings the best of Australian, local and international classical, contemporary and jazz performers for a week of music in and around some of Canberra’s iconic landmarks.

Canberra has a reputation for having a large and vibrant music scene at least in proportion to the fairly small population of the city.
Though traditionally a stronghold of metal in the suburbs and jazz/avant garde among the School of Music graduates there is also some truly excellent punk rock music to come out of [...]

Local artist Luke Chiswell has given us some of the more thoughtful pieces adorning the stormways of Canberra.
Recently he got featured in Frankie.
Last night we were rather thrilled to discover he was opening an exhibition at Honkytonks.
And I was able to buy one of his t-shirts which I might never take off.