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Open call for RCYB's Nutcracker

A prominent youth ballet company that has Tri-City dancers will hold auditions next month for its 23rd run of the Nutcracker. The Royal City Youth Ballet is calling for dancers as young as seven years old to audition on either Sept.

A prominent youth ballet company that has Tri-City dancers will hold auditions next month for its 23rd run of the Nutcracker.

The Royal City Youth Ballet is calling for dancers as young as seven years old to audition on either Sept. 10 or 11 in New Westminster for the November and December production.

Audition times start at noon on Sept. 10 for juniors, with intermediates and advanced dancers on stage at 1 p.m. and 2 p.m., respectively.

And on Sept. 11, auditions for non-company members begin at 1 p.m. The events are held at 511 Columbia St., New West. For more information, call 604-521-7290 or email rcyb@telus.net.

ADULTS ONLY

Coquitlam's Place des Arts will open its doors next month to entice students to sign up for music, drama and visual arts classes this season.

The Maillardville facility's first event is for adults only, called Ignite... An Affair with Art!, on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 7 to 10 p.m.

The second annual open house for adults, which is sponsored in part byThe Tri-City News, is tied to the centre's monthly art exhibition featuring works by Jennifer McAuley, Jim Keayes and PdA teachers and staff.

McAuley and Keayes will be on hand to talk about their displays while PdA teachers will show participants a variety of visual arts techniques like fibre arts, pottery, drawing and painting.

Meanwhile, an open house geared for families will be held on Saturday, Sept. 10 from 2 to 4 p.m., with teacher demonstrations, art activities, tours and cake.

Among the instructors on hand will be Taiko drummer Eien Hunter-Ishikawa, visual artist Joy Kirkwood, cartoonist Kenten Bowick and violinist Joshua Dean. As well, author James McCann will offer a creative writing workshop, while dance teachers Kristen Pickell and Philippa Myler will host a dance sampler for 4-to-8 year olds and a contemporary dance workshop for 8-to-16 year olds, respectively.

For more information to the free open houses, call 604-664-1636.

TOUR GROUP

A girls' choir that has five Coquitlam singers and whose director is a former Tri-City resident is looking for new voices.

The BC Girls Tour Choir, which includes Juliana Carpenetti, Amalia Urloiu, Diana Emelianova, Sara Lahey and Makayla Zanatta, and director Fiona Blackburn, sang before thousands of people in July while visiting Utah, Montana and Wyoming, including an audience of 15,000 at the Utah State University Stadium on July 4.

"Taking the singers beyond our borders is an important aspect of our program," Blackburn said in a news release. "In the past few years, we've sung in Australia, China and Europe; on this tour to the States, we took girls as young as 10 years old. Canada should be very proud of the way they sang - like true professionals."

Visit www.bcgirlschoir.org.