Exhibition – Music and Light

Column: Bit Parts | Date Published: Tuesday, 28 February 12 | Author: Julia Winterflood | 1 year, 2 months ago

WHO: Photographer Astrid Breuer
WHEN: Opening Fri March 9, 6pm. Running ‘til March 25
WHERE: Foyer of Belconnen Arts Centre

From the artist: “Music is transcendent. It can touch you deep down and can make you really happy, or it can bring a sense of melancholy. The challenge for photography is to communicate these transcendent moments. This exhibition explores the wealth of talent in the Canberra music scene, capturing the spirit and enthusiasm of these gifted musicians as they take their audiences to new places.”

This exhibition explores the wealth of talent in the Canberra music scene, capturing the spirit and enthusiasm of these gifted musicians as they take their audiences to new places. Music and Light is opening at 6pm on Friday March 9, and on Sunday March 18 there’s an opportunity to meet Astrid at 2pm. For more information head to www.bcsact.com.au .

	French Film Festival 2012: WHO: Alliance Française WHEN: Wednesday 14 March – Sunday 1 April WHERE: Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive and Greater Union Manuka A new generation of filmmakers will be showcasing the latest trends in contemporary French cinema, bringing startling cinematic experiences to the Alliance Française French Film Festival. This year the Festival will include two special events; The Francophone Day Special Film Nothing to Declare on Tuesday March 20 at 6.30pm (GU Manuka), sponsored by the Royal Embassy of Belgium - including Belgium chocolate tasting session and free Belgium beer, and the film Café de Flore, on Friday March 30 at 6pm (NFSA) - including a reception sponsored by the High Commission of Canada. Canberra is ready, yet again, to experience this first class event full of emotion, passion and food for thought. For ticketing visit www.affrenchfilmfestival.org or www.greaterunion.com.au .

	Skater: Portraits by Nikki Toole: WHO: Photographer Nikki Toole WHEN: Now until May 2 WHERE: National Portrait Gallery Since July 2009, Melbourne-based photographer Nikki Toole has been making photographic portraits of skateboarders around the world. Her subjects are captured in still frontal pose against the textured backdrop of their urban environments. Toole’s project is driven by the desire to understand and commune with her subjects, and asks whether there is a ‘global look’ or is there still a place for the individual or the loner to express him or herself. She is interested in the forces of identity that define the lone skateboarder. “Many skaters speak of a solitary mind space while skating; of entering into another state of consciousness,” Toole says. “To make these portraits I asked the skaters to place themselves within this meditative space.”

	Belco Flicks : WHO: Local filmmakers WHEN: Wed March 7 WHERE: theatre@BCS Belco Flicks is a night of Australian short films screened in theatre@BCS at Belconnen Community Centre. Since its beginning in 2009 Belco Flicks has offered filmmakers an opportunity to screen their work in a theatre setting. It also offers audiences a rare opportunity to see locally made, independent films that are often only screened privately. Belco Flicks IV - Reconciliation will be screened to coincide with the launch of BCS’s inaugural Reconciliation Action Plan. Films included in the program must in some way express or explore the theme Reconciliation. Films may explore the issue of reconciliation between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and other Australians but this is not essential as they may also explore the reconciliation of conflict within a family or interpersonal situation, reconciliation of an internal conflict within one individual or reconciliation within a community, national, global, universal or entirely imagined setting.

	Autumn Silents: WHO: Arc Cinema WHEN: March 3 - 12 WHERE: Arc Cinema, National Film and Sound Archive Autumn Silents is a unique opportunity for an original silent cinema experience. The season is focused on early polar cinema heritage in celebration of the centenary of Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Autumn Silents’ Antarctic silent cinema showcase - Shadows on White Ice - includes films from the NFSA’s own collection and film archives from around the globe. In the Shadows on White Ice program audiences can see rare films of the early 20th century polar expeditions of Ernest Shackleton, Douglas Mawson and others that are less familiar – expeditions that 100 years ago also visited Antarctic from France, Japan, and Scotland. Head to www.nfsa.gov.au for more info.