The Weekend Edit
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What’s on in Canberra this weekend? Our Weekend Edit has you covered.
As we enter a COVID-normal era, we’re fortunate to enjoy most of the things that make our life in Canberra so wonderful.
Help keep Canberra safe and strong by checking in with Check In CBR, physically distancing, practising good hand and respiratory hygiene, staying home if unwell and getting tested if you have symptoms.
Australian Love Stories
Wesley Enoch and David McAllister, 2020 by Peter Brew-Bevan.
Family, friends, fanatics and foes (and everything in between!).
Reconnect and reflect with a new major exhibition, Australian Love Stories (in real life!) and explore love, affection and connection in all its guises. From the enduring to the forbidden, romantic to platonic, the unrequited, obsessive, scandalous or creative. Swoon over more than 200 artworks from across photography, painting, works on paper, small sculpture and an immersive glass installation.
Showing from 20 March–1 August 2021 at the National Portrait Gallery.
See portrait.gov.au/exhibitions/australian-love-stories-2020 for more information.
Tennis ACT’s Canberra Girls Get Active Day
Tennis ACT is teaming up with sports across the capital to host a FREE community event aimed at inspiring, energising and empowering young women to be more active.
Women and girls will have the opportunity to try out a number of sports onsite, free classes from Next Gen, Tennis 4 Teens lessons, a jumping castle, roaming characters, a fundraising BBQ, tunes from a local DJ and much more!
The first 100 girls aged 14 or under through the gates will receive a free tennis racquet. The event is open to women and girls of all ages and abilities, boys and men are more than welcome to attend also!
This is a COVID Safe event. Please check out the event guide the week of the event, including requirements and check-in policy.
Happening Sunday 21 March from 10 am –12 pm at Tennis ACT, 1 Riggall Place, Lyneham.
See Facebook for more information.
Watson Micro-Forest Dinner: Growing Community Together
The Watson Micro-Forest and The Knox Made in Watson cafe have combined forces to create a sustainable, local and delicious dinner!
Join in for a night out at the Knox café, meet the Micro-forest team and find out what’s next in this exciting climate cooling project. Indulge in a custom-designed three-course meal, or pick up a gourmet picnic pack to enjoy on the grass. All profits go to the Watson Microforest Project.
Be quick to secure your place at this sustainable and locally produced dinner for the Watson micro-forest on Sunday 21st March—tickets are limited!
They have the witty James Vyver from ABC Radio to emcee the night as well as the gorgeous voice and guitar of Lisa Richards to serenade you and all their awesome supporters.
Kicking off at 5 pm for drinks, with dinner and speeches from 6 pm. You’ll hear from landscape designer and Climate Factory founder Edwina Robinson on the potential of Microforest’s to cool our suburb, create habitat and grow a community at the same time.
Plus meet the Watson Microforest team and find out next steps and how you can be involved in the project everyone in Watson (and Canberra) is talking about.
Happening Sunday 21 March from 5–9.30 pm at The Knox Cafe, 13 Watson Place, Watson.
See Eventbrite for tickets and more information.
Hellenic Festival 2021
2021 is a highly symbolic year for Greece, as it marks the 200th anniversary of the outbreak of the country’s independence war against the Ottoman rule in 1821.
As part of the commemorations for the anniversary, the Hellenic Club of Canberra, in partnership with the Greek Community of Canberra and Fair Canberra Inc, will be bringing its own festival to the Hellenic Club Woden this March – Hellenic Festival: Street Food of the World.
To be held across two days on Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 March, the festival will feature traditional street food, music and dance from a wide range of cultures.
The festival is also expected to include a number of other events within the Club, including a commemorative art exhibition by Greek Australian artist, Angela Kiki Konstantinopoulou, titled 1821, a traditional Greek Taverna Night at Fillos Taverna + Bar and a range of free lectures.
Happening 20-21 March at the Hellenic Club Woden, Corinna Street, Woden.
Click here for the full program.
Canberra Craft Beer and Cider Festival
Australia’s premier craft beer and cider festival is held in the grounds around the heritage Mercure Canberra hotel.
Featuring over 40 exhibitors from around Australia, the Canberra Craft Beer & Cider Festival features the ‘best of the best’, with opportunities to meet the brewers, enjoy beer-food matching and demonstrations by master brewers.
The Festival offers live entertainment throughout the day, high-quality food and a wide range of family-friendly activities to ensure the whole family enjoys the day out.
The Festival is held in two ticketed sessions – 11am-2pm and 3pm-6pm and is a very relaxed, fun event where patrons can learn about Australia’s incredible craft beer evolution.
Happening Saturday 20 March from 11am–6 pm at Mercure Canberra, 39 Limestone Avenue, Braddon.
See canberrabeerfest.com.au for more information.
A Road Home: Bozhko Marshall, Baird and Crane
Home is wherever we gather with our family and friends. It can be the city, it can be the coast or somewhere in between. Houses get bought and sold; a home stays with you always.
Three Canberra based artists, Valentyna Crane, Elena Bozhko Marshall and Jennifer Baird explore the feeling of home in this expressive Group Exhibition.
Well known for her panoramic landscapes, Valentyna Crane is passionate about the beauty of Canberra, inviting everyone to fly over her much loved city and hills in her body of work. It is the unique combination of wild nature and urban life, vast horizons and blue hills that nourishes her creative spirit, providing a burning desire to paint and to capture her feelings on canvas every day.
In a gentle visual reminder that we are children of this universe, Elena Bozhko Marshall brings an interpretation of our home on this tiny blue planet called Earth. An imaginative view to the exhibition, her clay vessels are an earthy reminder that home is made of your family, past and present, kids, friends, good people around, gardens, seasons, holidays, rainbows and stars in the sky. Elena hopes her vases and platters will unite people around the table to share food, joy and happiness.
For Jennifer Baird, the body of work included in the exhibition is an intimate expression of her thoughts about Home. From her first home with her husband Marcus to feeling at home by the sea. Whether this is in Sydney or by the coast, she particularly embraces the feeling of being hugged by Jervis Bay, South Coast NSW.
Earth, City or Sea. Together three artists will provide a rich and diverse experience for the patrons of the gallery. Come and explore the feeling of home with three Canberra Artists.
Showing 10-28 March at Humble House gallery, 93 Wollongong Street, Fyshwick, Canberra.
Official Opening Saturday 13 March from 2 pm. Gallery hours: Wednesday – Sunday 10 am – 4 pm
Cost: Free
The Sound of Music
Queanbeyan Players is proud to present The Sound of Music as their first musical production for 2021. Featuring a talented local cast, the classic story of Maria and the von Trapp children will be performed at TheQ in Queanbeyan over 10 captivating performances.
In a convent in 1930s Austria, free-spirited postulant Maria Rainer is found ill-suited to life as a nun, and is sent to serve as governess to the seven children of Captain von Trapp, a widower and decorated Naval Officer.
Upon her arrival, Maria discovers the seven children living grim lives in a strict and regimented household, run by a father who has forgotten how to love. Soon, however, Maria’s zest for life, love and music infects not only the von Trapp children but Captain von Trapp himself.
Set against the historical backdrop of the Nazis’ rise to power and ultimate occupation of Austria, The Sound Of Music is a time-honoured story of love and patriotism, including such classic and well-loved songs as “My Favourite Things”, “Sixteen Going On Seventeen”, “Climb Every Mountain” and “So Long, Farewell”.
Young and young at heart will enjoy this classic family show.
DATES
- Friday 19 March 2021 – 7.30 pm
- Saturday 20 March 2021 – 1.30 pm and 7.30 pm
- Sunday 21 March 2021 – 1.30 pm
TICKETS
- Adult: $55
- Concession: $45
- Groups 6+: $45
- Under 25: $45
- Under 16: $30
Purchase tickets at theq.net.au/whats-on/productions/the-sound-of-music, email boxoffice@qprc.nsw.gov.au or phone (02) 6285 6290 during Box Office hours.
Box Office hours are:
- Monday to Friday 10 am – 4 pm
- Saturday 10 am – 2 pm
- Closed on public holidays.
Happening from 12-21 March at The Q, 251 Crawford Street, Queanbeyan.
See theq.net.au/whats-on/productions/the-sound-of-music for more information.
Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery
Jacopo Tintoretto. The Origin of the Milky Way. c. 1575. © The National Gallery, London.
Botticelli to Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the National Gallery, London draws exclusively from one of the greatest collections of European paintings in the world.
This unprecedented exhibition includes 500 years of art in 60 paintings and comprises the largest group of works ever to travel outside of Britain in the National Gallery’s 192-year history.
Botticelli to Van Gogh features 55 of the world’s most famous and admired artists from the fifteenth to the turn of the twentieth century, including Botticelli, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, El Greco, Velazquez, Goya, Turner, Constable, Van Dyck, Gainsborough, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin and Van Gogh.
Exclusive to the National Gallery of Australia—only in Canberra
Showing until 14 June at the National Gallery of Australia.
See nga.gov.au/masterpieces for more information.
Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion
Seedpods dress, 2019, Grace Rosendale, silk organza, elastic and sequinned fabric, Hopevale Arts and Cultural Centre and Queensland University of Technology. Model: Magnolia Maymuru. Photo: Bronwyn Kidd.
This stunning exhibition shines a light on Australia’s leading First Nations creatives and a design movement that is fast becoming a national fashion phenomenon.
Featuring the work of Indigenous artists and designers from the inner city to remote desert art centres, Piinpi highlights the strength and diversity of the rapidly epanding Indigenous fashion and textile industry.
Exhibition organised by Bendigo Art Gallery.
Showing until 8 August 2021 at the National Museum of Australia.
See nma.gov.au/exhibitions/piinpi-contemporary-indigenous-fashion for more information.
Magic of Marion: 150 Years of Marion Mahony Griffin
Happy Birthday Marion Mahony Griffin! Join the National Capital Authority and other National Cultural Partners as they celebrate a year of Marion Mahony Griffin in the national capital.
This year marks Marion’s 150th Birthday, a woman that played such in integral part in architectural designs across two continents.
Marion is known to have produced some of the finest architectural drawings in Australia and America but was also instrumental in the award-winning design plans with her husband Walter for the design of Australia’s Capital, Canberra.
From walks to lectures, launches to talks, see the full program at nca.gov.au/marion.
Various events happening until 10 August.
See nca.gov.au/marion for more information.
Make Your Own at Canberra Glassworks
Create your own artwork with one-on-one guidance from a highly skilled Teaching Artist at the Canberra Glassworks.
Make your own paperweight, bird, tumbler or vase in a short one-on-one session from 20 to 40 minutes long.
Saturday or Sunday sessions available at Canberra Glassworks. Book online at canberraglassworks.com/create/myo
Haig Park Village Markets
The Haig Park Village Markets are about creating a vibrant farmers market filled with fresh, nutritious, quality produce and products at reasonable prices, with the added bonus of supporting and promoting our regional farmers and businesses.
Rosie and Alex are born and raised Canberrans who love all things markets. Their markets will be an evolving collaboration of many farmers, bakers, artisans and talented people, seeking to share their crafted specialties. They want to support local creative talent and nurture local businesses.
Working together with regional growers and local business they can create a lively and community-driven market that seeks to become a destination for locals and visitors alike.
Happening Sundays from 8 am at Haig Park, Braddon.
See Facebook for more information.
