Local Arts

Bard on the Beach instructor Mike Stack played focus games with youth at Port Coquitlam's Hyde Creek community church last week after wrapping up the speech arts portion of the annual Coquitlam District Music Festival (CDMF).

Get your kids enrolled in arts and culture camps during this month's school spring break in the Tri-Cities. Place des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave., Coquitlam) has Shakespeare 101: Hamlet Made Fun! for students in grades 6 to 8.

The Evergreen Cultural Centre recently announced the next show in its Family Series, Cinderella, presented by the touring ensemble Vancouver Opera in Schools on Sunday, March 13 at 2pm in the Studio Theatre.

Tri-City residents Andrea Ashton and Jonathan Hamilton play Olivia and Curio in the Shakespearean comedy Twelfth Night at the New Westminster campus of Douglas College.

EXHIBITS Place des Arts: Joy Kirkwood's Stories to Tell (mixed media), Rose Eysmond's Windows (oil and acrylic) and Catherine Tableau's Earth's Dream, Stone's Dream (mixed media), March 10 to April 9.

Joy Kirkwood and Rose Eysmond come from different worlds.

Incendies may have lost the Oscar last week but the critically acclaimed movie will be in the spotlight to launch the 11th annual Port Moody Canadian Film Festival tomorrow (Thursday).

The penultimate show for the 12th annual Sunday coffee concerts in Port Coquitlam is a Spanish dance interpretation of a Shakespearean tragedy.

When May Ling Kwok designs a recital program for Place des Arts, where the Victoria pianist has played half a dozen times, she has two aims: to please the audience and to educate young musicians at the Coquitlam facility.

Tri-City students in Grades 6 to 8 can learn the prose of William Shakespeare over the School District 43 two-week spring break this month.