Hughes Community Centre
Friday – 20th of March 2026
ZEST Dance for Wellbeing – Dance class
ZEST Dance for Wellbeing offer joyful movement classes designed for adults who want to keep their body and brain active and healthy, regardless of their mobility, skill or age. We start sitting in a chair, with options to stand and travel. No partner needed, no previous dance experience necessary.
Saturday – 21st of March 2026
It’s Never Too Late to Swing – Workshop
UpstAGEING’s event It’s Never Too Late To Swing is a friendly, feel-good swing dance experience all about connection, movement, and enjoying time together. Designed with seniors in mind, but open to everyone, it’s relaxed, social, and genuinely welcoming.
Sunday – 22nd of March 2026
It’s Never Too Late to Swing – Savoy Ballroom-Style Dance
UpstAGEING’s event It’s Never Too Late To Swing is a friendly, feel-good swing dance experience all about connection, movement, and enjoying time together. Designed with seniors in mind, but open to everyone, it’s relaxed, social, and genuinely welcoming.
Tuesday – 24th of March 2026
Silver Tongues and Golden Lines – Intro to the Elements of Songwriting
EVERYONE has a story and ANYONE can write a song… No Musical Experience Necessary! Just bring your curiosity, an open mind and a story about the best thing that’s happened to you recently.
Balkan Folk Fitness – by Dancers Without Borders
Balkan Folk Fitness embraces folk music and traditional dance culture from across the Balkans, and uses it to bring people together of ANY age and experience for a fun, social and active session that allows the group to move, sweat and enjoy the vibrant rhythms of the Balkans!
Wednesday – 25th of March 2026
TANGO PERFORMANCE WITH LIVE MUSIC
Live Tango music with guitar and bandoneon presented with a social dance demonstration by the Tango Social Club of Canberra
Tango Workshop
Tango Workshop – “if you can walk- you can Tango!’
Singalong Ukulele Fun
U3A Ukulele Fun group has been running for about two years. The group originated from a Michael Rossenberg beginners class at U3A and progressed to continue as a fun si galong group. The group has song at a couple of venues for fun. We sing and play ukulele with fun and laughs all around.
Thursday- 26th of March 2026
Seated or Standing Smooth Disco Class by Fusion Fitness
Move and groove to some great disco songs from the 70s & 80s! We’ll be doing a seated warmup to get the whole body ready to move, then choose to stay seated or stand for the simple but fun exercise moves that will keep you moving and grooving. No experience necessary! We’ll cool down at the end with a lovely series of stretches.
Wear a touch of disco, comfortable clothes and shoes to exercise in, and a water bottle!
Friday – 27th of March 2026
ZEST Dance for Well being – Dance class
ZEST Dance for Wellbeing offer joyful movement classes designed for adults who want to keep their body and brain active and healthy, regardless of their mobility, skill or age. We start sitting in a chair, with options to stand and travel. No partner needed, no previous dance experience necessary.
EXPLORING CREATIVITY IN YOUR THIRD AGE: New thinking, making & experiences by John Wells
CREATIVITY IN YOUR THIRD AGE: new thinking, making, experiencing
Wherever you’re at in life, creativity brings ideas + inspiration, light + colour, movement + momentum. Take a snapshot of your third age creativity and build your creative roadmap for the years ahead. FREE 2-hour workshop
“Creativity is intelligence having fun”. – Albert Einstein
Saturday – 28th of March 2026
She did it HER WAY
She did it HER WAY
Somebody’s Aunt expands their private personas in public guises and bringing the incongruity of private women’s work into the public domain, challenging ideas on the visibility and invisibility of older women and women’s work.
Women and Creative Aging: A forum
Join Postcards from the Sky, for a forum on Women and Creative Ageing. The forum is open to all women creatives and those who are seeking to open up their creative drive and vision to what is possible. After brief talks by the Postcarders, we open up for a full conversation.
Sunday the 29th of March 2026
The Sound of Canberrans
The Australian Rugby Choir and string players of Brindabella Orchestra jointly present a concert as part of the Upstaging Festival, Australia’s first large-scale Creative Ageing Arts Festival, celebrating the bold, brilliant, and diverse creative expression of older Canberrans.
Additional Details
Ticketing Type - Drop In - No Booking Required
