Arc Cinema presents a series of Friday night filmic feasts hosted by Venus Mantrap – local drag artist and culture warrior. Fright Night: Cult Cinema Classics at the NFSA will plumb the archives to showcase cinema with bite, edgy movies and fan favourites – films that unnerve, push buttons, ask questions and just look good on the big screen!
Bell Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night’s Dream features four young Athenians in a romantic tangle as residents of Athens mix with fairies from a local forest, with comic results.
Glass is a fluid medium that is constantly in a state of becoming. Louis Grant uses this material to speak of social and psychological spaces that can themselves be seen as ‘unstable compounds’. Moving outside of the conventions of studio glass, he produces works that are increasingly testing the relationships between glass and other materials.
Often generated from personal narratives, Grant fashions oversensitive, hyper-fragile entities that are not so much fragile because they’re made of glass, but because of the emotional tumult they’re arranged in and by. ‘I know my age and I act like ...
There are many things in life I have immense gratitude for. In this playful exhibition, I hold homage to two: my love for creating tiny ceramic architecture and my passion for clay.
In walls of warmth, our hearts to rest.Where love and laughter are our guests.We work and play, our minds create.A sanctuary, a place that’s safe.Cherish its rooms, our home embraceOur souls to be, we find our place.
~ Alexander Thatcher, 2023 -
'Place'
Belconnen Arts Centre GalleryExhibition Dates 5 April – 19 May 2024
LITTLE TREE STUDIO | INSTAGRAM
In this playful exhibition, Canberran Cermaic artist,...
You are invited to join us with the community and come together to reflect and remember at our AIDS Candlelight Memorial. Join us to remember all those who have passed away from HIV/AIDS and to thank those who have dedicated their lives to helping people living with and affected by HIV.
Catch two stunning Queer stories in our special screening of Best Of Flickerfest Canberra, featuring 9 award-winning shorts shining on the big screen, Thursday 16h May at Palace Electric Cinema!
The NFSA is honoured to host prominent LGBTQIA+ activist Barry Charles and screenwriter, director and multidisciplinary visual artist Samuel Leighton-Dore. This In Conversation event will unpack the challenges of times past, the power of activism, the impact of legislative change and transformations in how gender and sexuality is understood.
The debut feature from Hungarian director Ádám Császi, Land of Storms follows young German footballer Szabolcs, who abandons a promising sporting career for a rundown family farm on the Puszta (grassland on the Great Hungarian Plain) inherited from his grandfather.
Check out the upcoming spectacular Frank-N-Furter Friday screening of THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW hosted by some of our favourite Australian Drag Queens and sponsored by FUSE Magazine.
To top off this out-of-this-world event happening Australia-wide, drag legends Dammit Janet (Newtown Syndey), Toni Kola (Canberra), ShuShu Funtanna (Portside), Scarlett Fever (Southport) and Maxi-Bon (Brisbaine) will be offering each attendee a kit, complete with props and guides to participating in the fan-made antics of this cult classic.
On a wild and rain-swept late-November evening, somewhere at an e...
