The Craft & Design Canberra Festival (5-15 November), is offering dance, exhibitions, talks, heritage walks and other opportunities to explore innovative designs and sustainability including in architecture, ceramics, craft, sculpture, furniture and fashion, with artists and designers from wide-ranging media. Itineraries: First Nations Voices; Canberra City of Design; Adapt Our World; Make + Connect; Kids + Families; Walk + Explore. … Read more.
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Presented by the Japanese Foundation and marking its 30th edition, this year’s Japanese Film festival in Canberra (7-13 October) is showcasing the best of contemporary Japanese cinema, anime and classics, with a program to suit all tastes. Highlights include the opening-night with Hirokazu Koreeda’s Look Back; Tokyo Taxi, directed by Yoji Yamada; Kohei Kadowaki’s Cannes-premiering directorial debut, We Are Aliens; and two of Japanese’s biggest 2025 box office successes, the romantic fantasy film, 1st Kiss and the tense crime thriller, Suzuki-Bakudan. … Read more.
The Canberra Writers Festival (15-18 October 2026) once again promises a program to suit everyone: top writers and a diverse range of genres, including crime, fantasy and memoir. And there’ll be a fair bit of political discussion for politics enthusiasts. www.canberrawritersfestival.com.au … Read more.
There’s always something interesting happening in Canberra. Floriade (12 September-11 October) not only offers well-planned and magnificent flower displays, but there’s children’s entertainment and workshops there too, and cooking demonstrations and opportunities to learn more about the Dreamtime story of the Rainbow Serpent and Ngunnawal land. And there’s small specialty shops and an array of food and drinks options. … Read more.
Visitors to the Museum of Australian Democracy’s (Old Parliament House) very informative exhibition on the press gallery are treated to an array of painstakingly-collated pieces of memorabilia showing the work of reporters, camera operators, editors and news support staff and their cramped work conditions, from earlier times. Some of their tools-of-trade shown include large manual typewriters, teleprinters, microphones and interactive recording machines. … Read more.
This Sunday, Emeritus Professor of Politics and International Relations from the ANU, John Minns, will be discussing immigration issues, at Manning Clark House, Forrest. Named an “ANU Distinguished Educator” for his teaching excellence and commitment, Professor Minns’ research has focussed largely on the political economy of development in developing countries, and refugee politics. … Read more.
The cosy Italian restaurant, Narrabundah’s La Cantina, was the perfect setting to hear highly-acclaimed broadcaster and former foreign correspondent, Nick Bryant, share insights from his vast experience in reporting on many major international events. Now the host of Radio National’s Saturday Extra, Nick attended the gathering to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Friends of the ABC. … Read more.
For those interested in politics, A Different Kind of Power, the recent memoir of former New Zealand prime minister, Jacinda Ardern, would certainly be of interest. She candidly tells of her early life in New Zealand and very supportive parents and sister, her after-school work in the local fish and chips shop, the inspiration of a high-school teacher, her strong interest in New Zealand’s early history and the early settlers’ treatment of Maori people, and the complexities of growing up as a Mormon. … Read more.
Many positive and negative events from 1975 in Australia (and across the world) are etched in our minds, and the National Library of Australia’s Living in the Seventies photographic exhibition has captured many of them. It was a colourful time, in more ways than one, and it wasn’t uncommon for home décor especially in the newer suburbs, to include a mix of green, orange and purple in the lounge room, along with the mission-brown exterior. … Read more.
Author, Susannah Fullerton, has a special interest in Jane Austen, and has written many books about her, but Susannah’s latest book, Great Writers & the Cats Who Owned Them, is an ode to cats and the inspiration they’ve provided for their owners who also happened to be great writers, and cat lovers. … Read more.