Following a string of sold-out shows across Australia, Khaled Khalafalla returns with a new show that evolves to meet the moment.
With every performance, Khaled has built a following of people who've left his shows laughing, gasping, and finally seeing their own unspoken thoughts woven into the stories on stage.
It's honest. It's (mostly) clean. It's hilarious.
You'll laugh a lot. But more importantly, you'll leave thinking about it on the way home.
After selling out theatres around the country, tickets are expected to sell quickly. Early booking is recommended.
Salsa on Saturday – Canberra's favourite Latin dance party!
Get ready to spice up your Saturday night with great music, fabulous dancing and an incredible atmosphere!
Established in 2004, Salsa on Saturday (SOS) is one of Canberra's longest-running once a month Latin dance events, bringing dancers together for a fantastic night of salsa, bachata, Cha-Cha-Cha and more.
Whether you're an experienced dancer or just discovering the joy of Latin music and dance, everyone is welcome! Come on your own, bring a partner or round up your friends for a fun, friendly and welcoming night out.
What to expect:
A one-hour dance workshop to kick off the evening
Fantastic Latin music from our resident and guest DJs
A spacious dance floor and a vibrant social atmosphere
A welcoming community of dancers of all levels
Come for the music, stay for the dancing and discover why Canberra dancers have been making Saturday nights special with SOS for over 20 years!
Good music. Great people. Fabulous dancing. See you on the dance floor!
Lebanese-born singer Lamia Yared and Spanish multi-instrumentalist Efrén López perform music from the Arab world and medieval Iberia.
Drawing on Yared's Syriac-Maronite heritage and her deep immersion in Arabic, Ottoman, Persian, and medieval repertoires, the program weaves together 4th-century Syriac hymns, Aleppine Muwashahāt, medieval Iberian song, Sufi poetry, and a rare 13th-century composition by Safi al-Din al-Urmawi, one of the great theorists of Middle Eastern music.
At once intimate, scholarly, and deeply expressive, From Minho to Euphrates invites listeners into a shared human story: one in which Christian hymns, Sufi poetry, courtly song, and ancient modal traditions continue to speak to one another across time.
Join Localjinni on a walking art experience through times and tides. This feminist-led projected night walk flips the Triangle, reskins architecture, and animates landscape. Together, you will conjure lost rivers, meet sheroes long missing in action, and leave nothing but a trail of thoughts. Join this collective art walk to share stories where they began under the night sky.
(Co-created by over 50 contributing artists. Held in association with the ANU School of Art & Design, ANU School of Music, Canberra Institute of Technology, Catchment Studio, Canberra Art Biennial, and Craft + Design Canberra Festival. Archival material supplied by the National Film and Sound Archive, National Library of Australia and the National Portrait Gallery.) Photographs by Jane Duong.
Explore Canberra's award-winning Architecture with new landmark buildings and ingenious sustainable residences through the Australian Institute of Architecture's ACT Chapter Tour program. Discover how local and national architects have challenged convention, pushed boundaries and dissented against the typical to shape our global city of design.
Presented by the Australian Institute of Architects (ACT Chapter) in partnership with the Craft + Design Canberra Festival.
As part of the La Fiesta Fringe Program, spend a full day in intimate, hands-on workshops exploring the music, dance, rhythm and cultural traditions of Latin America.
The program brings together visiting artists from SENES Flamenco, Suns of Mercury and iLe iLu, alongside Canberra collaborators, for extended sessions in flamenco, Cuban percussion and dance, batá, pandeiro and Samba rhythms.
At Latin Dance Canberra, SENES Flamenco leads a morning of flamenco dance, music and rhythm, including beginner and intermediate sessions with live accompaniment.
At Blank Cultural Platform, Adrian Hearn, Aloy Junco and Rodolfo "Panga" Hechavarría from Suns of Mercury lead an immersive Cuban percussion and dance workshop exploring rhythm, movement, batá, rumba and Afro-Cuban cultural traditions.
The day concludes with Pandeiro + Samba and Beyond!, led by Mestre Loki from Movimento Alto + Capoeira Angola and assisted by Raio de Sol, exploring samba, pandeiro, and their place in Brazilian music and culture.
These are more than technique classes. Each workshop combines practical participation with cultural and historical context, giving participants a deeper understanding of the traditions, communities and stories behind the music.
Come for one workshop, or make a full day of it.
This event is independently organised as part of the La Fiesta Fringe Program and is not an official La Fiesta Festival event.
Capital Performing Arts Warehouse and City Renewal Authority present Circus Anywhere: Circus in the City!
Free workshops, shows, and roving entertainment from now until June 2027.
All in Canberra City: Garema Place, Glebe Park, Hobart Place, and Braddon all come alive with amazing circus activities for everybody and every body!
With activities from Warehouse Circus, Warehouse Entertainment, Hand to Hand Academy, and professional, internationally touring street artists delivering fun shows for the whole family.
Check out the link, follow the calendar, and get yourself to the city and indulge some Civic pride today!
A two-hour movement workshop exploring Semangat as a living force of memory, endurance, resistance, and renewal. Through breath, rhythm, repetition, and sensory movement, participants listen to the body and discover how it responds to struggle, change, nature, and the world around you.
Drawing from Aida Redza's Penjaga (guardian) practice, participants explore the shifting states of the Pencerita (storyteller), Pendekar (warrior), and Pengubat (healer). Through simple movement scores, explore how stories, memories, and experiences can move through the body and become your own movement language.
No dance experience is required. Come as you are, listen to your body, and discover what it remembers, resists, releases—and how it moves forward.
Designed for persons with different abilities, including participants with Autism, Down Syndrome and other learning or physical differences, this workshop offers a safe, joyful and non-judgemental environment for creative movement exploration. Led by Aida Redza, this workshop explores the body that remembers as a pathway to authentic movement, connection and memory.
Through somatic and sensory practices, breath, touch, rhythm and object manipulation, participants explore how the body senses, remembers and responds. Objects (scarves, sticks, fans or any object from home) become sensory-motor tools inviting touch, play, interaction and repetition to awaken bodily memory and discover individual ways of expressing movement freely. Through playful and guided activities, participants can explore coordination, awareness, communication, confidence and connection. At the end of the workshop, participants will put together movements inspired by everyday gestures, familiar actions and sensory activities.
This workshop invites you to explore the history of protest through the traditional craft of rag rugging. Drawing on the long tradition of printing t-shirts with messages of Dissent, this workshop offers a hands-on and sustainable way to transform those messages into lasting textile artworks.
What you will be doing
You will begin by choosing a word or symbol of protest or dissent and drawing your design onto a piece hessian. You will then cut recycled t-shirts into strips and learn the traditional "hooky" rag rugging technique, attaching the fabric strips to your hessian backing to bring your design to life.
What you will need to bring
Participants are encouraged to bring their own old t-shirts. A selection will also be provided on the day to ensure a mix of colours and textures to work with.
This workshop is best suited for
All skill levels. No prior experience in rag rugging is required, only basic sewing skills are needed to participate in this workshop.
Curious about life drawing? Been sketching for years? Just after a fun time out with friends? The Tipsy Sketching Club is the place to be! Set in one of Canberra's favourite neighbourhood bars, join The Tipsy Sketching Club for an couple of hours of sipping, snacking and sketching with some fun and frivolity thrown into the mix.
The life drawing session runs for approximately two-hours with a range of timed poses from 2-30 minutes, and breaks for drinks, food, sharing and laughing. Drawing materials can be supplied, however if you have your own - bring them! All mediums and artistic abilities welcome.
The Northbourne Avenue flats are a piece of Canberra design history hiding in plain sight. Built in the 1950s and 1960s as elegant, low-rise public housing along the capital's ceremonial entrance, the flats embodied a postwar belief that good design and quality housing were a public right. Decades later, much of the original stock has been demolished but a significant remnant has been retained, renovated and reimagined for contemporary living by Canberra based developers Art Group.
Join The Fix It Chicks, architect Jenny Edwards and broadcaster Lish Fejer, alongside architect Marcus Graham from Stewart Architecture and Gabe Szivek from Art Group for an evening walking tour exploring how these mid-century flats have been retrofitted for the next generation. The tour includes access inside one of the retrofitted maisonettes, offering a rare look at how careful design has brough new life to a heritage building without losing its mid-century character.
The tour asks what we can learn from buildings that were almost lost: what good retrofit looks like, why retaining existing housing is one of the most powerful climate decisions a city can make, and how design dissents against the default of demolition. With Jenny's eye and Lish's curiosity for how things work, expect sharp observations, plenty of laughs and a fresh way of seeing buildings most Canberrans drive past without a second glance.
