Local Arts

For the past four years, Jeff Chiba Stearns has been shooting a documentary about how hard it is for multiracial people to find bone marrow donors. It's a project that, he hopes, will wrap up in another two years.

A Coquitlam-based theatre company that won a regional award last week for its inaugural show will follow up its successful run with a second production.

For years, Steve Sainas has seen the results of Minnekhada middle's music programs.

More than 20 Tri-City dancers are in A Night of Stars, a benefit for the Backstage Youth Performers Society. The Jan.

Heavy themes that played into German composer and pianist Johannes Brahms' works and life will be uncovered at a solo show in Coquitlam next week.

If you want to know what's going on inside the head of a teenager, take a look at the Evergreen Cultural Centre's latest exhibition.

A Tony Award-winning musical about a group of misfits vying to win a contest will be mounted by nine Heritage Woods secondary students this and next week.

Drop into Leigh Square Community Arts Village to meet Port Coquitlam's new artist-in-residence. Writer Nicole Hillman, who started the job last week, will be at the Gathering Place (1100-2253 Leigh Sq.) between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Two Coquitlam actors are in an Agatha Christie murder mystery this and next month with Vagabond Players. Richard Paré and Richard Wiens appear in Go Back for Murder, which opens next Thursday at The Bernie Legge Theatre in New Westminster.

The second annual fundraiser for a Port Moody-based society raising funds and building awareness about the sexual exploitation and trafficking of kids and women into the sex trade is next week.