Here’s arts editor HELEN MUSA’s latest loop around what’s happening where in this week’s Arts in the City column.

Lanyon Homestead will be turned into a living time machine for Turn Back Time, a one-day program of candle dipping, heirloom-conservation tips, cemetery ghost tales with Tim the Yowie Man and a courtyard bush dance with the Paverty Bush Band under the stars. Lanyon, Tharwa, August 30.

Luminescence Chamber Singers are the ACT recipients of the 2025 State and Territory Luminary Awards.

Ignite Trio, a young ensemble from Canberra Girls Grammar School made up of Demi Katheklakis on marimba, Isabelle Hung on flute and Sanithi Herath on clarinet, are finalists in the Championship Section of Musica Viva Australia’s Strike A Chord competition. They will perform at the national final in Melbourne Recital Centre on August 30. 

Actor, writer and musician Leo Amadeus has put together a collection of comedy songs and characters for the Sydney Fringe and will present them as a one-hour show under the title Horse Brother at the Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre, on August 30. Among his original numbers are I Can’t Perform Classical Music and Patience is a Virtue (That I’ve Never Had). 

CAPO, the Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation, now in its 42nd year, has 23 grants available, as well as the exclusive CAPO Fellowship, with a total prize pool of more than $53,000. Applications by September 24 to capitalartspatronsorganisation.org 

A return season of The Q’s production of God of Carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza, will be back in Queanbeyan after a tour of NSW, a feather in the cap of director Jordan Best. Queanbeyan Performing Arts Centre, August 29-31.

Local theatre and musical identity Dianna Nixon will talk about her nine-year mission to reclaim the plays of Gunning farmer-playwright Millicent Armstrong, as part of Theatre Heritage Australia’s The Stage on Sunday. At Seaborn, Broughton & Walford Foundation, Young Street, Neutral Bay, Sydney, August 24.

Teatro, a 300-seat venue in the Italian Forum at Leichhardt, is a new professional theatre opening in the heart of Sydney’s inner west during spring, say artistic directors Nathan M Wright and Andrew Bevis.