Capital Life: What's on in the Canberra arts scene from Saturday April 9, 2021

Canberra Youth Theatre is reviving the Debra Oswald play about Gillian, who has a crush on the most popular boy in school. It's on Saturday at the Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre, at 2pm and 7.30pm and April 11-13 at 7.30pm. See: canberratheatrecentre.com.au.

Opening on Friday April 15 at 10am at Studio Altenburg, Braidwood, will be Julie Mia Holmes' Wild Abandon and Glenda Fell Jones's From Araluen, both explorations of landscapes from the artists' individual perspectives. The exhibitions run until May 14. See: studioaltenburg.com.au.

On Saturday April 9, I Have Arrived at Yellow will feature new work - sculptures, installations and performances - from Natalie Quan Yau Tso, investigating yellow as the layered colour of anti-erasure within the contexts of both racial identity in Australia and cultural-political tensions in Hong Kong. On the same day, Luca's Daughters: Ventre will have a series of live performances in which things will grow and change and Karri McPherson's exhibition More Than Meets the Eye calls attention to the way we view public spaces. See: tuggeranongarts.com.

Sadly, the Canberra Symphony Orchestra's chief conductor Jessica Cotter is recovering from COVID-19 and is unable to conduct the CSO's concert Redemption at Llewellyn Hall on April 13 and 14 at 7.30pm. Replacing her will be Fabian Russell, conducting Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Bernard Herrmann's Suite from Vertigo, Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 5 in D major, op. 107 "Reformation" and Margaret Sutherland's Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. See: cso.org.au.

Opening on Sunday, April 10 at noon at Nancy Sever Gallery is Fragile, an exhibition of works by Annie Franklin and Gordon Robinson. Franklin's works are a response to the 2019-20 fires while Gordon's works are a selection from an ongoing paper series called Constellations, which he started at the height of the fire season. The exhibition is on until May 8, See: nancysevergallery.com.au.

Aarwun Gallery has four solo exhibitions until April 25. Peter Yu's The Endless View contains landscapes that reflect his serene outlook on life. Ebony Bennett's Feather & Blossom reflects her fascination with nature and colours. Pop! Politics by Mark Wilson takes on today's life, fusing abstract expressionism, colour and street art stencilling, and Bruce Taylor's Blotter Drawings form a diary of the pandemic. See: aarwungallery.com.

At the Q on Sunday April 10 at 3pm, the National Capital Orchestra will perform works by Dvorak, Dulcie Holland, Barber and Liszt. See: theq.net.au.

From April 9 to July 9, Canberra Museum and Gallery will host Sir Sidney Nolan's nine-panel 1966 painting, Inferno, on loan from The Estate of Lady Nolan. Nolan painted it in response to reading Dante's Inferno and Homer's The Iliad and after visiting Gallipoli. See: cmag.com.au.

The ABC comedy star is performing songs from his album Symphony in J Minor and beyond. The Canberra Theatre, Saturday April 9 at 7.30pm. See: canberratheatrecentre.com.au.

This has Charles Firth (The Chaser), James Schloeffel (The Shovel) and Mark Humphries (7.30) on the art of lying. The Canberra Theatre, Wednesday April 13 at 7.30pm. See: canberratheatrecentre.com.au.