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Here's HELEN MUSA's "Arts in the City" column, a who's who and what's what of what's hot around the local arts scene.

HC Coombs Fellow takes out Miles Franklin award 19 July 2021 It was in a bare quiet room beside the ANU Classics Museum where prize-winning author Amanda Lohrey found the energy to continue writing. Here, Lohrey spent "three wonderfully quiet undistracted months" as the 2016 HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellow with the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. The fellowship was created to provide creatives with the space and time to undertake their work at the ANU.  By the end of her time writing in this room, Lohrey had finished her novel, The Labyrinth.  "I don't know if I could ...

Kate Robertson21:30, May 24 2021 TVNZ The Apprentice Aotearoa: The contestants hit the streets. OPINION: Throw on a comfy outfit and buckle up hunnies, because this week the teams were off to Rainbow’s End! (at 6:30am, no less). …. Seriously? What could they possibly be doing there? Making a social media campaign to get Kiwis to Hamilton, duh! What else does one do at Rainbow’s End? The teams were given two days to create relevant media assets, shoot influencer content and then present it to a mysterious “panel of experts”. Oh, and Cassie mixed up the teams. Tom Hollow/TVNZ Is there...

“Lost in Transit” cast members… clockwise, from left, Jolene, Rachel, Henry and Remus. Photo: Martin Ollman. “LOST in Transit” is billed as Canberra’s very first all transgender original musical. Written by and starring a local gender-diverse cast who traverse the wacky experiences of being trans and gender diverse, it was created by Tuggeranong Arts Centre in collaboration with performance artist and community builder Kat Reed (recently named 2021 Young Canberra Citizen of the Year) and artist and vocal coach Dianna Nixon from Wild Voices Music Theatre. At Tuggeranong Arts Centre...

Bangarra artists in “SandSong”. AFTER a year’s hiatus, Canberra Theatre Centre will welcome Bangarra Dance Theatre back in winter with its show, “SandSong: Stories from the Great Sandy Desert”. Created in consultation with Wangkatjungka/Walmajarri elders, it draws on the stories, knowledge and memories of the past and honours the legacy of the late actor, Ningali Josie Lawford-Wolf, whose family has long generational ties to this part of the Kimberley and are current owners of the pastoral lease for Bohemia Downs cattle station. July 15-17, bookings here or 6275 2700. Rachel Pengil...