CW brings you the latest in arts and entertainment news from around the Canberra region. Highlights this week: Regional youth are in the spotlight with a holiday dance program, and an invitation to join an art competition.
Free dance workshop for NSW youth
Young people living in regional NSW are invited to learn from dance industry experts during Create NSW’s holiday break program.
Spring in your Step will see a number of young adults aged between 12 and 24 partake in the five-day program, which culminates in an in-house dance performance. Experienced instructors will teach students elements of hip-hop, lyrical, contemporary, tap, cabaret, and musical theatre.
Hosted by Bom Funk in Queanbeyan, the end-of-week performance will be held in their new Highlight Theatrette. Applicants are asked to have some experience with dance as the program offers insights into a professional pathway for prospective dancers.
Apply to learn the art of dance at bomfunk.com.au
Love explored in traditional South Indian dance
Canberra-based Bharatanatyam dancer, Vaidehi Subramanyan, will perform her solo show, Nāyika, at Gorman Arts Centre on Saturday 10 September.
Bharatanatyam, or Sadir, is a classical dance originating from Tamil, South India, incorporating rhythm, grace, and acting. Nāyika means the state of being a person may experience when in love, which the performance explores from different perspectives.
Relating the divine with the everyday are themes from Hindu scripture and folklore, while centuries-old music and poetry tell the story of the lover distressed by separation, the one who is confident in her significant other’s devotion, and the one who feels deceived.
See the story unfold in Nāyikaat Gorman Arts Centre, Saturday 10 September 7pm; ainslieandgorman.com.au
Fuse glass prize in Kingston
The Fuse glass prize, a biennial showcase of glass artists in Australia and New Zealand, is on at the Canberra Glassworks this month.
This year’s winner of the $20,000 cash prize for an established artist is Queanbeyan-based Matthew Curtis, with his work titled Margin.
The winner of the David Henshall Emerging Artist Award was Bronte Cormican-Jones for her work Sightlines; she takes home $2,500 cash and a professional development opportunity at renowned workspace the JamFactory.
This year, the competition featured four works by artists from the ACT region. These pieces, along with the other finalists, can be seen at the Canberra Glassworks until 25 September. From there, the exhibition will then travel to The Australian Design Centre in Sydney, showing from 7 October.
Find out more at canberraglassworks.com
Regional children invited to be history makers
Children from schools around the country are encouraged to create a short video about a moment of history as part of the History Makers Competition.
Run by the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, the competition is open to students from kindergarten to year 12. Each school can submit a video of less than four minutes’ duration, that highlights a historical or contemporary defining moment which is important to them.
Winners in each of the five categories – regional stories, research skills, collaboration, creativity, and clever use of technology – will receive $2,000. Organisers are calling on students from regional, rural, and remote schools to submit a defining moment from their local community for the regional stories section of the competition.
The videos will be featured on the Museum’s Australia’s Defining Moments Digital Classroom website. The site features a list of defining moments the students can refer to for their works.
Submissions are open until 4 November.
For more information, visit digital-classroom.nma.gov.au
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