Wondering what’s on in Canberra this weekend, 9-11 July? We’ve compiled a list of five things to do across the capital.
Mark Vincent @ The Q
The beloved Australian tenor brings his show A Tribute to Mario Lanza to The Q, Queanbeyan, Saturday 10 July 2pm and 7pm.
The show will see Vincent perform songs off his #1 classical crossover album that pays homage to the American/Italian tenor and Hollywood film star of the 1940s and 1950s.
Vincent said it’s fitting that in 2021, as we observe Lanza’s 100th birthday, he’s touring a show celebrating music.
“I have loved and revered Mario Lanza my whole life,” he said.
“From a young age I listened to Mario Lanza sing and his films have always been amongst my favourites.”
Play School ABC Concert @ Canberra Southern Cross Club Woden
Beloved presenters Matt Backer and Emma Palmer will bring the stage to life, 9-11 July at Canberra Southern Cross Club Woden with a brand-new show Let’s Play Together.
Set in the Play School games room, the concert is all about fun, games and imagination, taking children across the sea, up in the sky and over the moon.
As with the television program, there are songs to move to, as well as quiet times to watch and listen.
Join the fun of new discoveries, delightful games to play, songs to sing and stories to enjoy.
CMAG opens Ruth Lane-Poole: A Woman of influence
Canberra Museum and Gallery (CMAG) will be open 10-11 July from 10am-5 pm for the opening weekend of Ruth Lane-Poole: A Woman of Influence.
Lane-Poole was the Commonwealth’s first ‘interior furnisher’; her articles on interior decoration in popular magazines in the mid-1920s introduced many homemakers to good taste and practical design.
When the Federal Capital Commission was faced with the challenge of furnishing Canberra’s two official residences – Government House and The Lodge – in time for the opening of Parliament House in 1927, Lane-Poole was engaged to work with the architects on matters relating to interior furnishing.
This exhibition brings together personal items never exhibited before which explore the development of Ruth’s design philosophy and the rich legacy of her Irish associations with the family of William Butler Yeats.
Carmen @ the Canberra Theatre
Opera Australia’s production of Bizet’s famous opera is on at the Canberra Theatre Centre until 10 July.
Carmen, director Matthew Barclay explained, is one of the most famous femmes fatales in all literature and theatre.
He described Carmen as a gypsy who “wants to break the rules and live outside the boundaries” of normal life.
The opera, Barclay said, is full of pageantry and the numbers are catchy, pouring out with almost inexhaustible fertility.
Click here to read more and here for ticketing information.
I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You @ The Street
A one-hour tell-all that tackles life’s big (and little) questions.
Adults take a back seat as a powerful panel of 9-13-year-olds tackle the answers they receive to the questions they’ve always wanted to know.
Built in collaboration with and performed by local young people from across Canberra, it’s a true local production in every sense.
I’ve Been Meaning to Ask You will be performed at The Street Theatre, City West until 10 July; thestreet.org.au
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