Local Arts

The Winchesters - made up of guitar players Neil Dayton and Martin Grice - will be on the Terry Fox Theatre stage next week as part of Rock the Fox 2015, a music showcase for Rock School students at the Port Coquitlam secondary school.

For photographers, the "golden hour" is magic. It's the time just after the sun rises and right before the sun sets when the landscape turns a soft red.

Joy Kirkwood was taught a very traditional way of making art. The East Coast native studied at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick, "where I got a very strong grounding in the classical arts," she says.

It's been a busy year on the arts and culture beat in the Tri-Cities. Not a day goes by when The Tri-City News isn't asked to publicize details about an upcoming event or activity from an artist or arts group.

A Port Moody poet who has a law degree from Sofia University will show her artistic side next month at the Port Moody Public Library. The work of Elitza Spasova will be on the library walls (100 Newport Dr.) during the month of January.

Loverboy will be playing its smash hits Hot Girls in Love, Lovin' Every Minute of It and Turn Me Loose for a New Year's Eve show in Coquitlam.

Coquitlam pianist Rosemary O'Connor was trying to master Bright Shen's Tibetan Dance, a challenging classical work for clarinet, violin and piano made up of three movements.

Fireworks will be shooting off on New Year's Eve - for the fifth year - outside Ecole Maple Creek middle school in Port Coquitlam.

Dance the night away as the Evergreen Cultural Centre turns into a Latin night club on New Year's Eve.

GATEWAY SHOW Gleneagle secondary graduates Allison Fligg and Lyndsey Britten play Follies dancers in Crazy For You - The New Gershwin Musical, which runs until Dec. 31 at the Gateway Theatre (6500 Gilbert Rd., Richmond).