Here’s HELEN MUSA’s weekly Arts in the City, a quick wrap of making arts news around town.
The Cruel Sea will launch their first album in 23 years by running through two sets in an intimate theatre setting as they perform the album, Straight Into The Sun, in whole as well as a set of Cruel Sea classics and selected tunes. Canberra Theatre, May 3.
Truth to Power Café is an international performance event created by artist Jeremy Goldstein, inspired by the beliefs of playwright Harold Pinter and his Hackney Gang. The 60-minute event combines memoir, image, poetry, music, film and live testimony from participants of all ages, experiences and backgrounds speaking their truth to power in response to the question: “Who has power over you and what do you want to say to them?” Tuggeranong Arts Centre, May 3.
Canberra Choral Society will perform Handel’s Dixit Dominus and Arvo Pärt’s Berliner Messe, directed by Dan Walker, with soprano soloists Josephine Brereton and Rachel Mink, mezzo soprano AJ America, tenor Tom Hallworth and bass-baritone Alasdair Stretch. St Paul’s Anglican Church, Manuka, May 3.
The next National Indigenous Art Triennial, After the Rain, will feature 10 large-scale multi-disciplinary installations that celebrate inter-generational legacies and cultural warriors of the past, present and future. Artistic director Tony Albert says he decided to commission fewer projects on a more expansive scale and challenge everyone to come and sit and think – resonate or respond. Free exhibition, National Gallery, December 4-April 26, 2026.
Greenaway Studio will host vocalist Annaliesa Rose, bass player John Burgess and pianist Daryl Wallis (piano) for Three Views of a Secret, an afternoon jazz concert, 164 Namatjira Drive, Chapman, April 27.
Former CityNews Artist of the Year, Elizabeth Cameron Dalman’s new book Nature Moves will be launched with a short dance performance by Vivienne Rogis and Peng Hsiao-yin at The Book Cow, Kingston, April 27. The book is a detailed but approachable account of some of her lifelong work in dance.
Ali McGregor, the opera star-turned-cabaret-queen, will be joined by Signum Saxophone Quartet for a musical journey from Berlin to Hollywood in Musica Viva’s Hollywood Songbook. Llewellyn Hall, May 3.
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