Local Arts

On the heels of the Oscars and the Canadian Screen Awards comes the Port Moody Film Festival, featuring the best of last year's Canadian documentaries, comedies and dramas.

Student artists wanting to further their career by mounting an exhibit at the Port Moody Arts Centre can now apply for a scholarship.

Last week, while touring theatres and schools in B.C. and Alberta with Monster Theatre, Tara Travis and Jon Paterson hit black ice.

The inaugural show by a Port Moody group of thespians will be dedicated to their late co-founder. On Saturday, the Port Moody Arts Centre's seniors theatre class will perform an adaptation of Stone Soup in honour of Gaye LePage, who died last month.

Emerging artists and art groups have until May 2 to apply to exhibit on Place des Arts' walls next year. The Maillardville facility is now accepting proposals from B.C. artists - not represented by a professional gallery - for displays in 2015.

Coquitlam's Parker Thompson will act in a Douglas College play that opens next Friday.

Plan your next trip with art in mind at a new workshop offered next Thursday at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

Sample on olives, artisan bread and fine cheeses with one hand while keeping the other busy with a paintbrush at Coquitlam's Place des Arts next weekend. The Maillardville venue is offering a new program called Palette...

Youth aged eight to 16 can learn how to act on the spot at improv camps offered during spring break in Port Coquitlam. Second Storey Theatre (201-2550 Shaughnessy St.

Aseries of classical music morning recitals - now in its second season at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre - has gained so much popularity the organizer is now making plans for her third installment this fall.