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miss this!
  • 28 - 29 Oct 2025
  • Dance

2025 Youth Dance Festival ‘Life on Mars’

Don’t miss this non-competitive celebration of dance, passion, and storytelling – created and performed by the next generation of local talent.
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miss this!
  • 15 - 18 Oct 2025
  • Theatre

Gorman Arts Centre

ANU Shakespeare Society Presents: Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare meets the 70s in this colourful, vibrant production of Much Ado About Nothing! Nothing says Shakespeare more than tie-dye and bell-bottom jeans.
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A delicate painted ceramic artwork of a violin play surrounded by moorish style arch.
  • 24 - 25 Oct 2025
  • Exhibition

Gorman Arts Centre

Retrospective Exhibition: Evelyn Sarvaas Ortiz

This art exhibition celebrates the unique woodcarvings and painted ceramics of the late Evelyn Sarvaas Ortiz.
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miss this!
  • 13 Oct - 15 Dec 2025
  • Class

Gorman Arts Centre

iDrama

iDrama is designed to encourage participants to develop their creative expression, build confidence, make new friends, and learn a few performance skills along the way. No acting experience required!

What’s On

Events

Children of all ages stand on a theatre stage in brightly colour costumes smiling at the camera
  • 14 Aug 2025
  • Music
Canberra Children’s Choir Open Day

Ainslie Arts Centre

A colourful and densely textured oil painting of two people reclining on a pile of leaves and flowers with four intricately illustrated panels behind depicting fantastical oceans, gardens of old women and monsters.
  • 10 Aug 2025
  • Exhibition
Funny Old Stuff

Gorman Arts Centre

A close-up image of a flutist playing on stage wearing black.
  • 16 Aug 2025
  • Music
Canberra Youth Orchestra Open Day

Ainslie Arts Centre

A table is scattering with old magazines and glue with people scrap booking.
  • 26 Jul 2025
  • Class
Collage Night with Scrap Society x Bigger Things Club

Ainslie Arts Centre

A group of young actors play in a theatre space.
  • 28 Apr - 04 Jul 2025
  • Class
Weekly Ensembles Drama Workshops

Gorman Arts Centre

A dance dressed in black strikes a confident pose as black gauze-like wings spread out behind her. She is set against a silky orange backdrop.
  • 24 Jul 2025
  • Dance
Ausdance ACT presents a Workshop with Bangarra Dance Theatre

Gorman Arts Centre

A young actor with cropped blond hair stands reading aloud from a script in from of them.
  • 08 May - 25 Jul 2025
  • Class
Actors Studio

Gorman Arts Centre

A toddler looks at a violin being held by an adult violinist.
  • 18 Jul 2025
  • Kids and Families
Explore the Orchestra: Meet the Strings

Ainslie Arts Centre

A white and grey lotus flower sits on a green background.
  • 15 Jun 2025
  • Class
How to Let Go Meditation & Buddhism Workshop

Ainslie Arts Centre

  • 03 Mar - 23 Jun 2025
  • Class
Traditional Hatha and Ashtanga Yoga Classes

Gorman Arts Centre

A colourful watercolour painting of people happily gathering, sitting and talking.
  • 29 Jun 2025
  • Festival
ZOUINA art – print – sound

Gorman Arts Centre

The reception hall at Ainslie Arts Centre is filled with children singing and a male conductor standing in front of them, all surrounded by parents and onlookers.
  • 29 May 2025
  • Music
Canberra Children’s Choir Open Day

Ainslie Arts Centre