Champagne with a buzz | Canberra CityNews

Right here’s arts editor HELEN MUSA’s newest “Arts within the Metropolis” column. 

YOUNG Australian virtuoso acoustic guitar participant Daniel Champagne, recognized for “dropping jaws, making crowds buzz, and breaking guitars wherever he goes,” will assist The Avenue Theatre kick off for 2023 with the launch of his new album. Avenue One, 7.30pm, January 27.

PARLIAMENT Home has opened new reveals, “Representing the Nation: Australia’s Coat of Arms” and a show of authentic works commissioned from Australian artists for the Parliament Home artwork/craft program with loans and reproductions from different establishments, on show till April 16. 

“YOU Are Right here” producers Ketura Budd and Nick Delatovic have introduced they’re taking a break from working the “Cahoots” residency in 2023, with the hope of returning in 2024. Delivering Cahoots from 2019-2022, they are saying, has solely been doable by dipping into their reserves and dealing unpaid hours. However they’ll nonetheless be accessible for ad-hoc producer help and are planning to develop use-at-home assets for artists and producers and working the Cahoots LAB public occasion season in April.

THE venerable Canberra Males’s Choir, is looking out for newcomers who would get pleasure from singing opera, jazz and common music, particularly in four-part concord, underneath the tutelage of musical director Leanne McKean. The choir, established in 1986, holds live shows and performs recurrently at group occasions within the Canberra area. There’ll be an open evening within the auditorium of the Harmonie German Membership, Narrabundah, 7.30pm, January 30.

CELEBRATING 32 years, Flickerfest, Australia’s largest short-film competitors returns to the newly revamped Bondi Pavilion on Bondi Seaside with a 10-day competition, January 20-29, that includes 114 shorts starting from stay motion to documentary and animation.