Author: OutInCanberra

Sunset Cinema: Life of Pi

Sunset Cinema presents Life of Pi on the Eucalypt Lawn at the National Botanic Gardens on Saturday 2nd March.

Based on the best-selling novel by Yann Martel, is a magical adventure story centering on Pi Patel, the precocious son of a zoo keeper. Dwellers in Pondicherry, India, the family decides to move to Canada, hitching a ride on a huge freighter. After a shipwreck, Pi finds himself adrift in the Pacific Ocean on a 26-foot lifeboat with a zebra, a hyena, an orangutan and a 450-pound Bengal tiger named Richard Parker, all fighting for survival.

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Tina Arena

Tina Arena in bringing her band, augmented by a string quartet to Canberra to perform a full concert program on Friday 1st March at The Canberra Theatre Centre.

Don’t miss Tina Arena, singer, songwriter and musical theatre star and one of our most successful international recording and performing artists with a career spanning four decades and millions of album sales worldwide.

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Henry 4

Henry 4 is being performed at The Canberra Theatre Centre from 23rd February to 9th March 2013.

King Henry IV risked everything for the crown, but his son doesn’t seem to share the same ambition. Instead, he’d rather hang around with petty criminals and lowlife drunkards. But when the King’s former supporters stage a rebellion against him, we’re drawn into a sprawling tale of adventure, ambition and political intrigue.

Directed by John Bell, this comedy with have you on the edge of your chair.

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The legendary Gryphons

Working this amazing job, I am consistently ashamed at the number of brilliant Canberra venues I haven’t visited on my own steam. This week was no exception as I took a trip down to Gryphon’s Caffe and Bar nestled in a homely corner at Griffith shops. The atmosphere is a relaxed and unique combination of quiet cultured cafe, spacious fine dining and socially encouraged bar. How on earth the mix of venue types co-exists as seamlessly as it does I couldn’t say – but it does it with undeniable perfection.

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