Art Song Canberra‘s last concert of 2025 will be Young Voices of America. Presented by soprano Rachel Mink, with Canberra’s own Ellery Quartet, the program will include favorites by George Gershwin, the Australian premiere of Caroline Shaw’s song cycle ‘By and Bye’, as well as the world premiere of Aaron Mencher’s Atmospheres of the Night. The concert will be at the Wesley Music Centre, on Sunday November 24 at 3pm. More information is available from the Arts Song Canberra website.

At the Australian National Capital Artists Gallery On Scale, is the annual Australian National Capital Artist Group Show, co-curated this year by Bruce Reynolds and Ruth Waller. The curatorial brief asked the artists to explore scale: from the miniature to the monumental. On Scale runs from Wednesday, November 20 until Sunday December 8. The Australian National Capital Artists Gallery is at Rosevear Place, Dickson. Gallery hours Wednesday to Sunday 12–5pm.

ArtSound FM will be hosting its next Summer Garden concert on Sunday November 24. Come & enjoy the folk acoustic sounds of the Coolibah Coolective as well as the tunes of Box Hammers in the wonderful Manuka Arts Centre Gardens next to Manuka Pool from 3-5pm. Entry is $20 or $15 for ArtSound members and there’ll be drinks & snacks on sale.

At the Front Cafe & Gallery there’s Beyond the third annual exhibition by the Pluspic Collectiv, where the five member artists show their diverse digital works created with iPads and Procreate. Beyond will be on display until Sunday 8th December. The Front Cafe & Gallery is at Wattle Place, Lyneham and gallery hours are 7am–3pm Monday–Friday and 8am-2pm on weekends.

This year’s Hall Village Christmas Street Fair will feature a dedicated artisan Christmas market with over 60 stalls, food trucks, offerings from Hall’s local cafes and village pub, a distillery and cellar door, community group displays, live music and entertainment, which will include Santa and the Hall Fire Brigade Christmas elves (and the St. Michael’s Church choir). The Fair will take place on Victoria Street Hall from 4:30-8:30pm on Friday November 29. More information is available from the Hall Village Christmas Street Fair Facebook page.

Canberra Qwire presents The Sound of Us: A Celebration of Community in Song! :an afternoon of uplifting choral music that celebrates the richness of our identities and the stories that shape our vibrant community.  The concert will be at Llewellyn Hall on November 24 at 3pm. For further details visit the Canberra Qwire Facebook page.

The Irish Film Festival is coming to Canberra. The festival will showcase a total of 16 films, including the best dramas and  compelling documentaries. The festival will screen at the Dendy Canberra Cinema from Friday November 22 to Sunday November 24. For further information and the schedule of screenings visit the Dendy cinemas website.

At Rusten House in Queanbeyan there’s Christmas Squared a group exhibition celebrating local and regional artists.The exhibition will be on display from Saturday November 23 until Saturday December 14. Rusten House is at Collett St, Queenbeyan.

The Canberra Potters Gallery has its 2024 Members’ Exhibition featuring ceramic works crafted by Canberra Potters members over the past year, celebrating their commitment to exploring and expanding boundaries. The exhibition will be on display from 31st October Thursday until 1st December. Canberra Potters is at Aspinall St Watson. Gallery hours are 10am to 4pm, Tuesday to Saturday and 11am to 3pm Sunday.

The British Film Festival is coming to Canberra. The specially curated program features tender dramas, action packed thrillers, comedy, documentaries and retrospectives. The festival is screening at the Palace Electric cinema in New Acton from Wednesday 6th November–8th December. For further information and the schedule of screenings visit the Palace cinema’s website.

Studio Map conducts art classes for children & teens. They will be having an Open Day on  Saturday 9th November from 10am-4pm. Studio Map is located in the M16 Artspace studios at 21 Blaxland Crescent Griffith. For details about the Open Day, as well as their classes and workshops visit their website.

At The Street Theatre there’s the edgy, darkly funny, and absorbing Waiting For Godot by Samuel Beckett considered one of the most influential plays of the 20th century. Waiting For Godot  will be performed from Friday November 8 until Sunday November 24. For further information and performance times visit The Street Theatre’s website.

At the Canberra Contemporary Arts Space lakeside there’s Pattern Recognition, a celebration of female and non-binary artists from the ACT region who use abstraction and design principles to explore colour perception and spatial relationships, highlighting the variety of ways artists approach colour, geometry, and form. Pattern Recognition  will be on display until January 25. The Canberra Contemporary Art Space Lakeside  is at Queen Elizabeth Terrace, Parkes. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11am-5pm.

Belconnen Arts Centre has four new exhibitions:

First, there’s Kaleidoscope III: an open exhibition where LGBTQIA+ artists in can express their experiences of queerness, sexuality, gender, and unique individuality through art.

Then in Poetry of the Lakes Dianne Firth’s textile works are inspired by poems that celebrate the anniversaries of Lake Burley Griffin and Lake George.

Next, Fortress by Justin Wasserman presents a series of imagined fortresses – where in different contexts the fortress is either a prison or a place of refuge.

And, last, Lea Durie’s Threads and Traces uses the materiality of wild clay to take us on a journey through the suburbs of Canberra.

All four exhibitions run until Sunday December 1.

Belco Arts Gallery hours are 10am–4pm, Tuesday–Sunday.

M16 Artspace has four new exhibitions:

First, Notions of Place is the annual Studio Artists’ exhibition. This year’s theme calls on the artists to reflect on ideas or personal connections to place.

Then, Marion’s Vision by the Canberra Art Workshop explores and celebrates the legacy of Marion Mahony Griffin, an influential figure in Australian architectural history, who left a lasting impact on Canberra’s identity.

Next, the Hands On Studio’s Made In or Before 2024 is a tribute to the beauty and power of expression from the 115 talented artists who call the Hands On Studio home.

And, last, Di Broomhall’s Geometric Still Life uses contemporary found objects to execute a classical still life tableau.

All four exhibitions run from Thursday October 31 until Sunday November 24.

M16 Gallery hours are 10am–4pm, Tuesday–Sunday.

Tuggeranong Arts Centre has three new exhibitions. Firstly, this year’s Fuse Glass prize winner, renowned glass artist Tom Moore teams up with Canberra based sculptor Tom Buckland and multi award winning stop motion animators Eleanor Evans and Giovanni Aguilar in Objects in Motion. Next, there’s the Messenger’s Group Show. Fueled by a common desire to create; the young people in the Messengers program have spent the year exploring a range of new art-forms including sculpture, printmaking, textiles and more. And lastly, there’s It’s a wrap, a group exhibition of textile and fibre artists from the Canberra region showcasing their design and making skills in the timeless scarf format. All three exhibitions run until 13th December. More information is available from the Tuggeranong Arts Centre’s website.

At Photo Access’s Huw Davies Gallery Dark Matters 2024: An exhibition featuring new works from three artists as part of the Dark Matters residency. Over the past year, these artists have been working in the photo access darkroom, experimenting with materials and methods of image-making that challenge and expand the perceived boundaries of photography. Dark Matters 2024 will be on display from Friday October 25 until November 23. Also on Friday 25 October from 3pm Photoaccess will host its 40th birthday to celebrate four decades of creative brilliance in photography, film, and media arts with a range of creative activities, artists talks and live demonstrations. Photo Access is located at Manuka Circuit, Griffith. Gallery hours are Tuesday-Saturday 10am-4pm and for further information visit their website.

The next ANU Meet the Authors event will be best-selling Italian author Paolo Giordano in conversation with Marco Lazzarino on his semi-autobiographical novel Tasmania, which captures the fear, anxiety, wonder, and beauty of this time of uncertainty and upheaval, exploring how we can create and maintain relationships with other people when it feels increasingly difficult to connect. The event will take place at Harry Hartog Booksellers in the Kambri Cultural Center at ANU on Tuesday October 29 from 6pm. To find out more information visit the events section of the ANU website.

At the Grainger Gallery Neath the vast open sky by Rebecca Rath features paintings inspired by the ACT region. The Granger gallery is at Dairy road Fyshwick opening hours Wednesday-Sunday 11am-5pm.

M16 Gallery hours are 12–5pm, Wednesday–Sunday.

At the Canberra Glassworks, Mythica Ignota: Artefacts of the Oscillocene and the Warawana Mythologies by designer Elliat Rich taps into ancient and future ways of seeing the world by using mythology as a framework to nest scientific observation and more-than-human orientated values with artefact and narrative.The exhibition runs from Thursday October 3 until December 15. Canberra Glassworks is at Wentworth Avenue, Kingston. Gallery hours 10am-4pm Wednesday to Sunday.

At the National Gallery of Australia the exhibition Ever Present: First Peoples Art of Australia is a celebration of First Nations art and cultures, providing a visual dialogue into Australia’s complex histories with over 260 historical and contemporary works of art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists from across Australia. Ever Present will be on display until August 2025. Gallery hours are 10am-5pm daily.