Artsday / ‘Horny however honest’, a brand new form of circus

Spine Circus. Photograph: Hamish McCormick

“BACKBONE” is billed as a brand new form of circus – “Horny however honest. Uncooked but totally disciplined”. It performed on the Edinburgh Worldwide Arts Pageant to a stadium viewers of 20,000. The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre, October 13-15.

ITALIAN piano duo, Eleonora Spina and Michele Benignetti, who had been to have carried out at Wesley Music Centre on October 12 and October 23, have been pressured to cancel due to visa issues.

MusicACT is internet hosting two days of on-line free workshops to empower feminine and non-gender conforming musicians run by Melbourne-based social enterprise, Music Manufacturing for Ladies. The occasion will likely be held on-line and will likely be free for all to attend. Particulars at  musicproductionforwomen.com

ANU Faculty of Music has a Jazz & Up to date Voice & Guitar lunchtime live performance, Massive Band Room, 1-2pm, Thursday, October 13. Free.

THE ANU Faculty of Music’s Chamber Orchestra presents a free end-of-semester live performance within the Larry Sitsky Recital Room, ANU Faculty of Music, 6pm, Thursday, October 13.

Camelia Smith, “Autumn Bounty” element.

CANBERRA miniature artist Camelia Smith has a mini solo exhibition of watercolours impressed by the seasons in her backyard with Wren’s Neat Studio Gallery of Miniature Artwork, Fyshwick,  October 11-November 13.

NZ songwriter Don McGlashan

NZ songwriter Don McGlashan, who fronted the Mutton Birds and has labored with Neil Finn and Crowded Home, will seem in a live performance that includes his newest single, “All The Goodbyes within the World”. Smith’s Different, Thursday, October 13.

A NEW group exhibition of pottery showcases the current works of eight clay employees who’re members of the LGBTQIA+ group dwelling and thriving within the Canberra Area. Canberra Potters Gallery, Watson, October 13-November 6.