Local Arts

The Tri-City arts council is short of members, funds

That flirty French maid dressed as a feather duster for the Art Club Theatre’s Christmas production of Beauty and the Beast?

Movie-goers looking for some Christmas magic screen time can watch holiday classics at the SilverCity Theatre in Coquitlam this and next month.

Seven Tri-City girls with the Penk O’Donnell School of Dance will be flying to Greensboro, North Carolina, next spring to compete in the World Irish Dance Championships.

A Coquitlam child actor and a set designer from Coquitlam are part of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, a play directed by Jessie-award nominee Tamara McCarthy.

Pianist Bill Mays, who started his music career as a bandsman in the U.S. Navy and later as a session player in Hollywood studios, will bring his jazz septet to Coquitlam next week.

Theatre students in Tri-City high schools this week will vie for a chance to represent School District 43 at a provincial competition next spring.

The concert is in three parts, on Dec. 8, at the Evergreen Cultural Centre in Coquitlam.

A 'significant gift' from the Marianne and Edward Gibson Trust and family has paved the way for a new 12,000-square-foot facility slated for completion by 2022

Production is still a work in progress: composer