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[ 16 December, 2012; 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm. ]
Get your tight jeans and thick rimmed glasses out; the New Acton Suitcase Rummage is back!
This in from New Acton:
Suitcase Rummage started in Brisbane with a couple of people wanting people without pretension and markets without a mardi gras of racks and banners. Coupled with NewActon, they’re encouraging Canberrans to fill some suitcases with [...]
[ 14 December, 2012 to 13 January, 2013. ]
This just in:
Presenting the fourth annual College Express exhibition, with outstanding artworks by Year 11 & 12 students from eight colleges and schools in the Belconnen region: Dickson, Gungahlin, Hawker, Radford and St Francis Xavier Colleges, Burgmann Anglican School, Melba Copland Secondary School Copland College and UC Secondary College Lake Ginninderra. In a stunning array [...]
[ 16 December, 2012; 2:00 pm; ]
This just in and well worth your consideration:
Canberra?s top music promoters Kicks Entertainment, Pang, Sub Squad and Party By Jake are bringing the local dance music community together and hosting a benefit on Sunday the 16th of December at Trinity Bar Dickson, for the Azzopardi family.
The Azzopardi?s recently lost a son when Josh Azzopardi passed [...]
[ 1 June, 2013 to 9 September, 2013. ]
The official announcement is supposed to be at 10 this morning, but world+dog is reporting the National Gallery is putting on its first winter blockbuster in a decade and it’s going to be Turner. From Wikipedia:
Joseph Mallord William “J. M. W.” Turner, RA (23 April 1775 – 19 December 1851) was an English Romantic [...]
[ 12 December, 2012; 7:30 pm; ]
Facebook brings word:
The December BAD!SLAM!NO!BISCUIT! will be at the special time of the 2nd Wednesday of December.
So bring your words, your audience, your judges, your to do lists, your fridges, your poems, to The Phoenix Pub for prizes! Because we give you a stage, two microphones, two MCs, The Master of Conflict, The Score Adder, [...]
[ 7 December, 2012 to 9 December, 2012. ]
As the year draws down everything seems to be kicking off around Canberra.
What’s worth seeing and doing around town this weekend?
Just leave your thoughts in the comments.
[ 31 December, 2012; ] Andrew Barr is letting us know what free entertainment will be doing the rounds for New Year’s Eve:
From 9.00pm at Garema Place, Bass in the Place will provide an explosive countdown to 2013 and Canberra’s centenary, set to the beat of Timmy Trumpet, who is currently ranked No.5 DJ in the National Australian Electronic Music [...]
[ 9 December, 2012; 10:00 am to 3:00 pm. ] After a break for a few years, the Canberra Custom Knife Show is back on December 9th from 10am – 3pm. It will be held at the Tharwa Village Hall and focus on the work of local makers. Canberra has a small but growing knife making community.
There will be a range of kitchen, sporting, folding/pocket [...]
[ 9 December, 2012; 5:00 pm; ]
It’s unavoidably Christmas now. But one of Canberra’s nicer seasonal elements are the Carols at Lanyon.
I reviewed it back in 2008 and the Lanyon website has this to say:
An evening of magical Christmas fun. Bring your own picnic to enjoy in the beautiful
Lanyon gardens. Listen to the festive music of the Sing Australia Choir and [...]
[ 21 December, 2012; ]
The Mayan Calendar predicts the world will end on the 21st of December 2012 –
BRACE Cage Fighting is set to lay a path of destruction in Canberra. On the 21st of December BRACE returns to CANBERRA and MMA fans will not be disappointed. A BRACE title will be on the line, Be there for [...]
[ 5 December, 2012; 6:00 pm; ] Canberra United have let it be known they’re playing the Perth Glory tomorrow night:
Canberra United hosts Perth Glory at Deakin Stadium on a Wednesday evening in the first official match played by the club in midweek in a re-arranged match from Round 7 of the Westfield W-League. This game, of course, was originally scheduled for [...]
[ 7 December, 2012; 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. ]
This just in:
Meet the Authors and Book Signing:
The Marmalade Files by Steve Lewis and Chris Uhlmann.
Saturday December 8
11am – 12 noon
RSVP Friday December 7
Telephone 6295 6723 or
email info@paperchainbookstore.com.au
What are The Marmalade Files?
An imaginative romp through the dark underbelly of politics by two veteran Canberra insiders.
When seasoned newshound [...]
[ 16 December, 2012; 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] All welcome to COZMO’s Annual Summer Concert, featuring the COZYMO Learning Group
WHEN: Sunday 16 December 2012, 4–5pm
WHERE: Atlas Room, Hellenic Club In The City (13 Moore St)
TICKETS at the door: $10 Adults, $5 Concession*, Free for under-12s.
*Seniors 60+, Health Care Card holders, Full-time students, Children 12+
Come and enjoy COZMO’s beautiful program of classical [...]
[ 2 December, 2012; 1:00 pm; ]
Territory and Municipal Services are letting people know about their historic tours of the Googong woolshed and shearers’ quarters.
“On Sunday 2 December 2012, there is an opportunity to go on a 60 minute tour of the woolshed and see where the shearers worked and lived from the early 1900s,” said Geoff Webb, Operations Manager, Googong [...]
[ 30 November, 2012 to 2 December, 2012. ]
The year might be drawing to a close but there’s still much to be done.
What’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra this weekend?
Just leave your thoughts in the comments.
[ 1 December, 2012; 3:00 pm; ] In honour of Legacy, the Canberra Cavalry will be wearing special camouflage jerseys on 1 December 2012.
All fans who wear their military uniform or present their military ID at the gates can purchase GA tickets for $5.
The most decorated Australian soldier, Victorian cross winner Ben Roberts-Smith will be throwing out the first pitch @ 3pm
Game [...]
[ 7 December, 2012 to 11 December, 2012. ] This just in from Australian Fencing:
Canberra is hosting the 2012 Australian Fencing Circuit Open Championships and the 2012 Oceania & Australian Veteran Fencing Championship.
The event will be held at the Australian Institute of Sport (Main Arena) from Friday December 7 2012 to Tuesday December 11 2012.
Highlights include:
– Over 350 fencers
– Over 3000 bouts across [...]
[ 1 December, 2012; ]
If you our anyone you know wears clothes then you should come see some ridiculously interesting ones at the CIT Graduating Fashion Parade: Kinetic 2012 this Saturday, 1 December 2012.
My girlfriend and her classmates have been putting together a crazy collection of clothes, hats and other things that go on bodies.
Tickets are available through Out [...]
[ 8 December, 2012; 8:30 pm; ]
This very exciting news just in:
Five years ago Waterford first mounted the Phoenix stage. The band had formed two months prior, a last ditch attempt by Pete Huet to scratch that insistent rock itch before proper adulthood and its constraints arrived. He coerced his friend Glen Martin to finish the tunes he’d half-written over [...]
[ 1 December, 2012 to 19 January, 2013. ] December
Saturday 1st 9:30pm
Topnovil
Bladder Spasms
Rather be Dead
Sunday 2nd 8pm
Lloyd Spiegel
Jonno Zilber
$15
Monday 3rd 8pm
CMC presents The Bootleg Sessions
She & I
Cuddlefish
Fats Homicide
The Wanninashvilles
Tuesday 4th 7:30pm
Andrew and Shannon’s Pub Trivia
Wednesday 5th 9pm
CIT end of year Jam
Thursday 6th 9pm
Sean McMahon’s Western Union
Hannah Gillespie
Saturday 8th 9:30pm
Waterford’s 5th Birthday
Owen M Carroll (Voss)
Shoeb Ahmad
Monday 10th 8pm
2XX Local n Live presents The Bootleg Sessions
Fun [...]
[ 1 December, 2012; 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. ]
Come along to the Albert Hall this Saturday the 1st of December between 10am and 2pm for the International Day of People with Disability Expo and Market. This is a FREE community event, so it’s not just for people with disability and their families, EVERYONE’S INVITED! Come see all the wonderful, varied talents of people [...]
[ 29 November, 2012; 4:00 pm; ]
This just in:
Professor Ian Chubb, Chief Scientist of Australia, will this week launch a popular science book at UNSW Canberra that doesn’t explain the great mysteries of the universe, but instead tackles in easy-to-understand terms the science behind the objects and phenomena we encounter in everyday life.
From understanding why detergents work better on [...]
[ 30 November, 2012 to 1 December, 2012. ]
Friday 30 November 2012
Public Film Screening – Revenge of the Electric Car
A public screening of the hit film “Revenge of the Electric Car” at the big screen in Civic. This event is proudly supported by the Australian Electric Vehicle Association (AEVA).
Time: 7.30mm to 10.00pm
Cost: Free (donations welcome to help cover the cost of the screening).
Venue: [...]
[ 5 December, 2012; 6:00 pm; ]
This in from Paperchain:
Please join us to hear Paul Daley, author of Canberra, in conversation with journalist Chris Hammer.
An implicit sense of public service and ‘otherness’ has now come to permeate Canberra’s identity to a point that there is a great smugness, arrogance even, that the rest of Australia can hate us – [...]
[ 13 December, 2012; 7:30 pm; ]
A cracking night out via Facebook:
An evening of acoustic rock & roll at one of Canberra’s best music venues. Completely unplugged. Completely raw. Completely beautiful. Entry by donation (Rich = Note / Poor = Gold coin)…
[ 30 November, 2012 to 2 December, 2012. ]
For those not of a Corinbank bent we have word of the National Cherry Festival at Young this weekend:
The town of Young in NSW will this weekend host the 2012 National Cherry Festival. For three days, 30 November – 2 December, the 63rd National Cherry Festival will offer a highly colourful program of [...]
[ 10 December, 2012 to 21 December, 2012. ]
Canberra CBD are letting the world know about the extravaganza of summer fun they’re bringing to City Walk for their Christmas Carnival In The City:
Civic Square, City Walk and Garema Place will be transformed into an adventure playground as Canberra CBD Limited brings Christmas cheer to the City.
Bungee trampolines, camel rides, bumper boats and rock [...]
[ 23 November, 2012 to 25 November, 2012. ]
Once again hive mind we seek out your wisdom.
What’s worth seeing and doing around Canberra this weekend?
Just leave your thoughts in the comments.
[ 21 November, 2012; ]
Renewable Energy Day is tomorrow and there’s quite a lot to do around town including tours of the Woodlawn bio-reactor and the local wind farm.
Worth a look.
[ 26 November, 2012; 7:00 pm; ]
This just in:
The Malaysian state of Sarawak is about to be transformed by a major programme of dam construction which will displace tens of thousands of people and destroy hundreds of square kilometres of forests and farmlands.
Come and hear directly from Sarawak campaigners about the grim situation they face and the Australian company, Hydro [...]
[ 21 November, 2012; 5:30 pm; ] On November 21, The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) will launch its new policy paper series: The Centre of Gravity (COG) Series. The Series will launch with a public lecture by Rory Medcalf, of the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Rory is author of the first paper in the Series, Pivoting the Map of Asia: An Indo-Pacific [...]
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