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  • 29 Mar 2026
  • Dance

Ainslie Arts Centre

UPSTAGEING Festival: Canberra Mandolin Orchestra – Dancing Feet ‘26

Take part in an afternoon of bush and social dancing, foot tapping music and dancing demonstrations with the Canberra Mandolin Orchestra.
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  • 28 Mar 2026
  • Music

Ainslie Arts Centre

UPSTAGEING Festival: The World at Our Feet

Two community groups join forces in a fusion of world music (Shortis and Simpson’s Worldly Goods Choir) and dance (Canberra Dance Theatre’s GOLD dancers). The result is a fascinating mélange of rhythm, harmony, shape and texture.
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  • 03 Apr 2026
  • Workshop

Gorman Arts Centre

Friday Freedom Sound Bath

Let go of the week and reset for your weekend with a luxurious sound bath that will melt away the week's stress and leave you feeling refreshed.
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miss this!
  • 12 Apr - 10 May 2026
  • Tours

Gorman Arts Centre

She Writes History – Walking Tour

Join MARION Writers ACT and She Shapes History for a two-hour walk tracing Canberra’s hidden history of women writers.

What’s On

Events

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

A collage of students playing brass and woodwind instruments with pruple, blue and teal colours overlayed
  • 31 May 2025
  • Kids and Families
Canberra Youth Concert Band Open Day

Ainslie Arts Centre