Latest news: Arts

Highlights this week include arts funding and the story of Canberra receiving national recognition.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week include sustainable art projects, a podcast and legends on stage.

Four artists (three of them locally based) will create artworks for the Canberra Hospital Expansion Project’s new Critical Services Building.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week include an art prize and scholarship applications opening.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week include a dance workshop and the return of REP.

Through puppets and animation, children are invited to tackle some of life’s biggest issues, including loss and climate change, when Tim Watt’s theatre shows come to Canberra.

The National Gallery of Australia will expand its lending program as part of the country's new cultural policy.

A new multimillion-dollar body supporting Australians in the creative arts will be the centrepiece of an overhaul of the country's cultural sector.

Canberra artist Cathy Newton, from the ANU School of Art and Design’s Glass Workshop, makes the Australian of the Year awards.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week: a culture cruise, and music by the water.

CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. This week: award winners and a journey to outer space.  

Fire breathing, belly dancing, burlesque … showstopping Rachel Reid, or Jazida as she is better known, has many tricks up her sleeve. Jazida brings the biggest international and homegrown alternative performers to Canberra in her burlesque variety nights, Decadence and Debauchery; the latest instalment hits Belconnen Arts Centre on Saturday 10 December.

The latest round of the ACT Government’s Arts Activities $5,000 to $50,000 funding is now open, and Canberra’s creative sector can apply.

The ACT Government has awarded more than $9 million in annual arts funding to Canberra arts and cultural organisations and arts centres.

A major new arts prize will encourage the region’s artists to capture their visions of idyllic Lanyon Homestead and its complex history.

The much-anticipated DESIGN Canberra Festival returns in November, bigger and better than ever. This year, the celebration of Canberra creatives embodies the theme of ‘transformation’ and sees the creative Capital come to life with installations, symposiums, workshops, markets, and exhibitions over 19 days, 2-22 November.