Port Coquitlam's Leigh Square Community Arts Village will burst with music, visual arts, dance and literary readings this week in an effort to highlight the city facility.
The Friends of Leigh Square Society will host its open house on Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. "This event is meant to show our citizens what Leigh Square Arts Village has to offer," president Paul Shuley said in a press release. "We are inviting the community groups who use the facility to showcase their groups’ work and even give demonstrations."
The society's goal is to raise awareness of Leigh Square, which was constructed to LEED standards and includes The Outlet, the Gathering Place and the bandshell beside PoCo city hall.
Meanwhile, visual art and literary pieces created by PoCo city staff are now on show at Leigh Square.
The inaugural staff exhibit opened last Thursday in the Gathering Place and The Outlet and includes fine art, photography, craft and literature. A series of landscape paintings — done during their lunch breaks — is also on display. The show ends Feb. 29.
ART FOCUS DEMO
Contemporary acrylic artist Karen Holland will be the guest speaker for the Art Focus Artists' Association next week.
Holland will talk and show her work in The Outlet at Leigh Square Community Arts Village (behind PoCo city hall) on Wednesday, Feb. 24 from 7 to 9 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
