Songmakers Australia celebrate Claude Debussy's extraordinary musical creation with a selection of songs, the beautifully evocative Cello Sonata and L'isle Joyeuse, The Happy Island, composed whilst in Jersey and inspired by Watteau's painting L'embarquement pour Cythère. Songmakers Australia - Merlyn Quaife, soprano, Nicholas Dinopoulos, bass-baritone and Andrea Katz, piano are joined by Blair Harris, guest cello. Buy tickets online

Adam Simmons’ second concert will feature guest artists , the Clocked Out Duo, Erik Griswold and Vanessa Tomlinson who create new music with a sense of play and adventure using prepared piano, percussion, found objects and toys to craft their trademark "warped grooves" and evocative soundscapes. Buy tickets now

Seraphim Trio is joined by brilliant trumpeter David Elton for this virtuosic program. Hummel's brilliant Trumpet Concerto is presented in its original 1802 version, for trumpet and piano trio. Beethoven's Trio in No. 3 also unfolds with virtuosity, in his signature key of C minor. After interval, the group premieres colourful new arrangements of Kurt Weill and de Falla, for this unusual but breathtakingly exciting combination of instruments. Buy tickets now!

A constant thread that weaves through the work of painter Chris Rowe, who is based at Lyonville near Daylesford, is the interaction of people with each other and their environment and she invites the viewers to create their own dialogue.

To celebrate its 75th Anniversary, Ballarat National Theatre is presenting a series of events through the year at the Gallery. For this fifth event, BNT welcomes third year drama students from the University of Ballarat Arts Academy.

Recorder students of local teacher Helen Fairhall.

Marion Mahony Griffin, wife of Walter Burley Griffin, was a superb artist in her own right, worked with her husband on the winning design for Canberra. Greta Christie discusses her in the light of the forthcoming exhibition Capital and Country, celebrating the centenary of Canberra.

The final Adam Simmons concert features Tania Bosak, one of Australia's foremost interdisciplinary musicians and performers on voice and percussion. Buy tickets now

An afternoon of solo works that aims to showcase the talent of Victoria's up and coming musicians from the University of Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Victorian College of the Arts, raising money for the Afghan Youth Orchestra, the first orchestra founded in Afghanistan for over 30 years, which it is hoped will be a training ground for an Afghan National Orchestra. Due to the tight budget and limited resources provided to the however, these students need help.

Joan Luxemburg tells the of story James Meek, pioneer, sly grog seller, artist, fisherman, is one of the unsung geniuses of colonial Victoria.