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ALTER

7.30pm 6th November

Belco Arts Centre

a double bill of extraordinary dance and design exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange presented by Liz Lea Creates as part of the 2026 Craft + Design Festival

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ALTER

2pm 7th November

Belco Arts Centre

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a double bill of extraordinary dance and design exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange presented by Liz Lea Creates as part of the 2026 Craft + Design Festival

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ALTER

7.30pm 7th November

Belco Arts Centre

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a double bill of extraordinary dance and design exploring the interplay between body, identity and cross-cultural exchange presented by Liz Lea Creates as part of the 2026 Craft + Design Festival

The Semangat Body

10.30-12.30pm, 8th November

D Block, Gorman Arts Centre

A 2-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 how it responds to struggle, change, nature, and the world around us.

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Moving Freely - An Inclusive Sensory Workshop

10.30-12.30pm, 8th November

D Block, Gorman Arts Centre

Designed for persons with different abilities, including participants with Autism, Down Syndrome and other learning or physical differences, this workshop offers a safe, joyful  environment for creative movement exploration 

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BOLD Dissent - A Symposium

10-5pm, 12th November

Canberra Museum and Gallery

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BOLD Dissent '26 brings together Canberra's arts leaders of international standing with nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, inviting creatives living with and without disability to speak about their experience of dissenting from convention through dance and design. 

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BOLD Dissent - A Symposium

10-5pm, 13th November

Canberra Museum and Gallery

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BOLD Dissent '26 brings together Canberra's arts leaders of international standing with nationally and internationally acclaimed artists, inviting creatives living with and without disability to speak about their experience of dissenting from convention through dance and design. 

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A Stellar Lineup

5pm, 13th November

Free event!

Civic Square

A Stellar Lineup celebrates the power of inclusion and imperative for excellence with a stunning lineup of Canberra’s most engaging community dance companies. Our program features a range of artists of all ages, backgrounds, identities and abilities.

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Interdisciplinary Arts (tea)Party

5.30-8pm, 13th November

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A Block Theatre, Quantum Leap Australia

Welcome to the second annual Interdisciplinary Arts (tea)Party! In this 2 hour workshop queer author, multi-disciplinary artist Emma Batchelor will share the creative process behind the development of her new novel Bloomwaves.

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Moving & Making

10.30-12.30pm 14 November

D Block Studio, Gorman Arts Centre

Exploring possibilities of movement through instant reaction as well as considered planning and creation.

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Reef Rangers

10.30-12.30pm 14 November

Canberra Museum and Gallery

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Sue workshop

10.30-12.30pm, 15th November

D Block, Gorman Arts Centre

Morag Deyes, OBE, in conversation with Dr Michelle Potter, AM, with a focus on the power of lasting, connecting, cultural connectivity and community. 

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Dance of Dissent

6pm 14 November

National Film and Sound Archive

Join us in the courtyard of the National Film and Sound Archive to close the 2026 Craft + Design Canberra Festival with an evening of dance, design and celebration under the Canberra sky. 

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Smaranam - memory embodied

6pm, 15th November

Quantum Leap Australia Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

A Bharata Natyam dance performance by Vaidehi Subramanyan - a traditional margam repertoire, bringing memory to life and tracing movement and lineage as practice continues to inspire.

 

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Being BOLD

7.30pm, 15th November

Quantum Leap Australia Theatre, Gorman Arts Centre

A double bill of dance and film presented by Australian dance legends Anca Frankenhauser, Patrick Harding-Irmer, Chrissie Koltai and Sue Healey exploring longevity and artistry

 

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Online Offerings

 12-13th November

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