Bridget Mac (Born 1985, Sydney based) has won the National Youth Self Portrait Prize 2010 for her self portrait titled masculine/feminine. The fourteen short-listed works will be exhibited alongside the winning entry in the National Portrait Gallery until 12 September 2010.

Foreshore is back! Canberra’s number one summer youth music festival has just announced a stellar line up for the concert on the lake foreshore. Hear the best beats in the best location in town. Tickets are on sale now.

These school holidays, visit Tidbinbilla and join an interpreter who will guide you to discoveries of wonder in the Sanctuary. There’s plenty of activities and discoveries to entertain and inspire kids of all ages. Discover more...

Canberra is one of the few places in the world where you can float over a city and national parliament in a balloon. Take a flight and see your nation’s capital in a whole new light with a lifetime of floating memories. Take off here...

The National Library of Australia houses an enormous range of materials and they’re not all books! You could spend hours in their awesome bookshop or visit their online collection of images, manuscripts, music, images and oral history. Read on…

Corin Forest is a year round recreation facility set in natural Australian mountain bushland setting. Visit nearby waterfalls, ride the alpine bobsled and breathe in our crisp, fresh mountain air. Discover a mountain of fun…

Alexander Bunyip is The Monster that Ate Canberra. Since 1972, he’s fed the imagination of Australian children with books and on national TV for 10 years. Discover Alexander’s illustrated adventures, available from the National Capital Exhibition at Regatta Point.

See yourself and your loved ones warming to winter in Canberra with a gift voucher from the Canberra and Region Visitors Centre. Vouchers are a great gift for accommodation at over 70 properties, admission to major exhibitions and attractions and a range of souvenirs and gifts from our store. Call 1300 554 114 to order now.

Make your first stop 330 Northbourne Avenue when you drive into Canberra. Meet a helpful, friendly local for maps, brochures, souvenirs, and guidance on accommodation, attractions, tours, tickets and things to see and do while in your nation’s capital. Call in or call us on 1300 554 114.