Capital life October 5 2019: Jasper Jones, West Side Story and Much Ado About Nothing all feature

ACT Jewish Community Inc, Canberra was among the three recipients of Creativity Australia's grants of $10,000 to start a community choir. To celebrate Creativity Australia's 10-year anniversary, they are offering up to six more of their 10 grants of up to $10,000 in 2019. creativityaustralia.org.au.

The second festival, screening a variety of films, is on October 11 at Tuggeranong Community Centre from 6pm, Saturday October 12 at Gungahlin Community Centre from 6pm and Sunday October 14 at Palace Cinemas at 4pm. More information and tickets (online only): thisismybraveaustralia.com.

Cheeky Cabaret

5.30pm: At the Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre, this show features magic, musical theatre, comedy, burlesque and a little naughtiness. Bookings: canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 62752700.

Cabaret de Paris

8pm: Cabaret De Paris has adagio dancers, aerial pole artistry, comedy circus performers, contortionists, illusionists and French Cancan Dancers. The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre. canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 62752700.

Jasper Jones

8pm: Budding Theatre presents Kate Mulvany's adaptation of the award-winning novel about two boys - one white, one Indigenous - in an West Australian town in the 1960s trying to solve a terrible crime and discovering a lot more in the process. Courtyard Studio, Canberra Theatre Centre. Bookings: canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 62752700.

Frolic and Fantasy

1.30pm: Canberra's Black Mountain Piano Quartet will perform a free concert at the High Court of Australia playing works by Mozart, Mendelssohn and others. Registration essential: eventbrite.com.au.

The Virgin Suicides 20^th anniversary

2.15pm: Sofia Coppola's debut film as writer and director tells the story of five sisters placed under close scrutiny by their parents when one of them attempts suicide. Dendy. MA. Also Saturday at 7.15pm. dendy.com.au.

Roger Waters: Us + Them

3pm: Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017 -2018 Us + Them tour, this film features songs from Waters' Pink Floyd albums and from his last album, Is This The Life We Really Want? Rated M. Capitol Manuka. eventcinemas.com.au.

Wednesday

Jon Cleary

8pm: The veteran musician will bring his New Orleans sound to the Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre accompanied by his band, The Absolute Monster Gentlemen. Bookings: canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 62752700.

Thursday

West Side Story

7.30pm: The classic Leonard Bernstein-Stephen Sondheim musical that transposes Romeo and Juliet to the setting of street gangs in New York City is on at the Canberra Theatre in Opera Australia's production. Until October 27. Bookings: canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 62752700.

Friday

Much Ado About Nothing

7.30pm: Bell Shakespeare presents the comedy about two pairs of lovers who face obstacles to happiness. The Playhouse, Canberra Theatre Centre. Until October 19. Bookings: canberratheatrecentre.com.au or 62752700.

Birds of Passage (MA): In Northern Colombia in the 1970s, matriarch Ursula (Carmia Martnez) marries off Zaida (Natalia Reyes) to Rapayet (José Acosta), but wealth and power incite a destructive war.

Joker (MA): Struggling, alienated comedian Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix) is driven insane and becomes a killer.

Paw Patrol: Ready Race Rescue (G): One of the pups has to fill in for his idol in a championship race.