Here’s the latest edition of HELEN MUSA’s all-singing, all-dancing, all-arts column, Artsweek. 

Braidwood artist Ray Monde is game – with the aim of inspiring new art collectors via his upcoming show at Tyger Gallery – he’ll make three of his ghost-worked collage pieces available to new collectors on a “pay what you can” basis. The 21 works in his show, The Place We Feel Most Us explore intimate connections in vast and vivid landscapes. Memorial Hall, 84 Comur Street, Yass, May 24-June 7.

ArtsNational Molonglo Plains has an illustrated talk, The Beatles – Here There and Everywhere, by Jamie Hayes, C3 church, 116 Monaro Street Queanbeyan, May 22.

Marcel Dirsus will be in conversation with Allan Behm on Dirsus’s new book How Tyrants fall and how nations survive for ANU Meet the Authr. Kambri Cinema ANU, May 27.

Crocodile Dundee is back in the spotlight at the NFSA with the release of a remastered Encore Cut and a making-of documentary, which may spark new conversations about Australian identity, masculinity, race and our cultural relationship with the US.

Galleries

• Belco Arts has five new exhibitions opening on May 23: GW Bot: Portrait of a landscape; Habitat an open print making exhibition; Moons Shadow by Andrew Totmen; Rendering the Invisible by Igor Kochovski; and The beautiful place where we live An Pan. Belconne Arts Centre, Emu ridge, Until July 6.
• The National Archives of Australia’s newest free exhibition in Canberra, Camel trains to steel wheels: life on the Trans-Australian Railway, is on display at their East Block venue on Kings Avenue, Parkes, May 24-October 19.

Stage

• Jean Genet’s The Maids is at The Street Theatre, May 23-June 8.
• Home in Queanbeyan Movie Night, The Q, May 23.
• Acting teacher peter Wilkins presents The Actor and the Text, where participants can create a character, build a role, learn acting techniques, interpret text, and develop a part through the creation of a performance in a contemporary playtext. Hedley Beare Centre, Stirling, June 10-July 15. Inquiries to wilkinspeter45@gmail.com or phone 0408 034 373.

Concerts

• Tuggeranong Arts Centre has the Leisa Keen Trio with Lakeside at 5, May 23, then CSO Bassoonist, Ben Hoadley charts a journey through the history of the Bassoon in TAC’s Saturday Salon Series, May 24.
• SCUNA, ANU Choral Society, has Autumn with Mozart, All Saints’ Church, Ainslie, May 24.
• Blamey Street Big Band present a two-hour concert of Abba’s greatest hits, re-imagined for jazz orchestra. The B, Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, May 24.
• 2025 Austa Canbera String Festival is a free, non-competitive string Eisteddfod, Wesley Music Centre, May 24
• Canberra Bach Ensemble performs Jubilate Cantatas, St Christopher’s, Manuka, May 24 and 25.
• Soprano Rachel Mink joins Sally Whitwell for Art Song Canberra, Seven Necessary Sins, Wesley Music Centre, Forrest, May 25.
• Maruki Community Orchestra presents Dreams – Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky, Albert Hall, May 25.
• Canberra Community Chorale presents Snow Songs, directed by Olivia Swift, accompanied by Lucus Allerton. Wesley Music Centre, May 28.