Usually, the only time people run in a shopping mall is for Boxing Day sales, but people will run at Canberra Outlet on Saturday 26 September not for bargains but for the joy of running.
Goulburn may boast the big merino, but Canberra has the big crab, a 10m x 3m inflatable red crab that’s part of the Canberra Art Biennial (11 September to 31 October).
It’s the people that artist David Hockney didn’t paint that make him stand out (he once turned down a request from the Queen); instead sketching portraits of friends, lovers and artists.
The Canberra Moon Festival, one of the ACT’s largest multicultural celebrations, returns to Civic this weekend, bringing three days of culture, food and family activities.
The event runs from 4 to 6 September...
Australian-Thai artist Nathan Beard has won the final National Photographic Portrait Prize for an intimate photograph of his late aunt, taken after a fall at her home in Thailand.
She died six weeks...
Girls’ night out is sorted, with the show Diamond promising nightclub bangers (from our misspent youth), a flash of burlesque and cabaret and a homage to the life of a showgirl.
Canberra Milk is synonymous with our capital city and now music festival Spilt Milk has become a Canberra institution, with first release tickets selling out within an hour.
Eddie Izzard is an interesting character: she’s transgender, a stand-up comedian, dyslexic, and a Shakespearian actor poised to play 23 roles in Hamlet at The Playhouse (31 July-1 August).
For those who’d like to suspend reality for a while and escape into fantasy, Geek Expo is on this weekend (18-19 July), and The Hobbit is here to transport you to Middle Earth.
One of Casey Donovan’s former managers once said: “You can put a dress on her but you'll never take her out of Bankstown,” and that’s why we love this girl next door who we’ve watched grow up since she was 16.
Local Questacon exhibition developer Michaela Ripper’s connection to the iconic science centre began in childhood, when frequent visits fuelled an enduring broad curiosity for science.
There were lots of VIPs at today’s media launch of the National Museum of Australia’s Antarctica exhibition, but the real stars were the huskies (living and taxidermied).
Bryan Fitzpatrick failed art at Weston Creek High, but after making homemade Halloween decorations a couple of years ago, he has transformed 1,300 laundry hamper lids into a kaleidoscope of art.
His preferred...
A family holiday to Fiji is up for grabs as part of South.Point's Christmas in July celebrations, which will bring festive fun, entertainment and family-friendly activities to Tuggeranong throughout the school holidays.
For breakfast cereal this morning it was lucerne (technically not a cereal but a legume) because it’s World Giraffe Day on 21 June and Mzungu, Shaba and Mkali from the National Zoo and Aquarium turned up for a media call.
A stand-up comedian walks into a wedding and discovers a mother lode of comedy material, after 53 years of being either a flower girl, bridesmaid, bride, emcee, guest and now celebrant.
It’s taken 51 years to exhibit Arthur Boyd’s full suite of 20 monumental tapestries – a feat even the late artist never saw – and this world-first display at the National Gallery of Australia is free.
The National Archives of Australia (NAA) resembled a “winternats” this morning as a dozen restored Holdens rolled up for the media launch of Rear vision: the Holden collection.
In 2017, when Canberran, Mary Liondi-Barlow knitted a beanie for a loved one undergoing chemotherapy years ago, she could not have imagined that her creativity and love of knitting would someday provide meaning, purpose and comfort to so many.
World Bee Day is back at Canberra's Capital Region Farmers Market on Saturday 16 May, with a full morning of activities celebrating the bees and pollinators that put food on our plates.
We’ve recently marked ANZAC Day where uniforms and ranks are proudly on display but there’s a plain-clothed gathering where service and ranks are not on show – the Australian Military Wives Choir (AMWChoir).
