Art workshops
In August, Belconnen Arts Centre is running several adult art workshops including Watercolour Light Effects, Drawing From Life and Collage Inspired Painting. belconnenartscentre.com.au.
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Stories from the Future
The Street Theatre is co-hosting the ACT Stories From The Future workshops with Diversity Arts Australia. It is calling for culturally diverse creatives, artists, arts workers, filmmakers, producers, performers, writers and more to join a workshop series to imagine a future where cultural diversity is present at every level in the arts.
If you are based in the ACT, register your interest for the next intake by July 31 by visiting: goo.gl/forms/shAqxCw7BNdAHcV83.
For more information see: diversityarts.org.au/project/stories-from-the-future/.
Geoff's Jazz at Smith's
8pm: Geoff Page's jazz series is on the first Tuesday of every month for the rest of the year at Smith's Alternative (76 Alinga St, Canberra) with doors opening at 7.30pm. On August 6, pianists Wayne Kelly and Hugh Barrett will perform with Brendan Clarke (bass) and Mark Sutton (drums). smithsalternative.com.
Saturday
Ultimate Women's Weekend Expo
10am: At Exhibition Park in Canberra, there are seminars, exhibitors and events dealing with subjects including nutrition, fitness, wellbeing and personal development. Until 3pm Saturday and Sunday. ultimatewomensweekend.com.au/.
Power Dressers at the NFSA
Noon: Supporting The Dressmaker Costume Exhibition, the National Film and Sound Archive presents films with classic costumes. At noon is Women He's Undressed, a documentary about Australian movie costume designer Orry-Kelly and at 2pm the classic comedy he won an Oscar for, Some Like It Hot. nsfa.gov.au.
Haydn & Wagner
3pm: The Canberra Sinfonia's first anniversary will be marked by Leonard Weiss conducting a concert featuring Wagner's Siegfried Idyll and Haydn's "Oxford" Symphony. Wesley Uniting Church, Forrest.
See canberrasinfonia.com.
Rugby League: the Musical
7.30pm: Sports satirist Denis Carnahan brings back his one-man show - combining sketches, satire and songs - with new material inspired by the current season. The Street Theatre. thestreet.org.au.
A Conversation on Narcos
7.30pm: Agents Steve Murphy and Javier Pena, who were the inspiration for the Netflix crime series Narcos, about Colombia's drug cartels will talk about their exploits. Canberra Theatre. canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 62752700.
The Art of Coarse Acting
8pm: Canberra Repertory Society presents a selection of short plays where things go wrong. Theatre 3. Tickets at the venue one hour before the show. canberrarep.org.au.
Sunday
Shall We Dance?
1pm: André Rieu's 2019 Maastricht Concert is dedicated to the waltz. Dendy and Capitol Manuka, also Saturday at 1pm. See cinema websites for details.
Kinky Boots
5pm: Free Rain presents this musical about a British shoe factory's novel way to stay in business: making boots for drag queens. Also Saturday at 2pm and 8pm. The Q. theq.net.au.
NEXT WEEK
Saturday
National Capital Orchestra
7.30pm: Leonard Weiss conducts Canberra composer Dante Clavijo's Images of Obsession: 0236, Berlioz's Harold in Italy and Respighi's Pines of Rome. Llewellyn Hall. Pre-concert talk at 6.45pm. nco.org.au.
New films
The Best of Enemies (M): Civil rights activist Ann Atwater faces off against C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops of the Ku Klux Klan over school integration in 1971. Stars Taraji P. Henson and Sam Rockwell.
Diego Maradona (M): Documentary about the Argentine soccer player on and off the field.
The Keeper (M): A soccer club manager gets a German out of a World War II prison camp to play for his team - and the new recruit falls in love with his daughter.
Guess How Much I Love You - Christmas in July (G): The adventures of Little Nutbrown Hare and his friends and family.
Tokyo Ghoul S (CTC): University student Ken, a half-human half-ghoul, agonises over the situation he finds himself in.