Local Arts

A Coquitlam arts centre will turn from Disco Fever this week to Halloween-themed events later this month. Place des Arts has a "howler" of a Day of the Arts camp on Friday, Oct. 24 from 8:45 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.

She was surprised to see his name in the pile. Back in June, when Terry Fox Theatre general manager Mandara Lebovitz was sorting through resumes for the front-of-house job at the Port Coquitlam facility, she saw a CV from Graham Myers.

A Coquitlam community theatre troupe opens its new season on Thursday with a comedy about a road trip from hell.

The night Studio 54 opened in New York City, on April 26, 1977, celebrities were cramming to get in. Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Debbie Harry, Brooke Shields and Halston were among the A-list that got past the door.

Coquitlam artist Heather Anderson has waterfalls, oceans and urban neighbourhoods on canvas in a "pop up art show" in Port Moody until Nov. 6. And she will demonstrate her painting skills next week at the Gallery Bistro (2411 Clarke St.).

Kathryn Gibson O'Regan and Robert Shiozaki had been neighbours in Vancouver's Mergatroid Building for a dozen years, plying their photography and ceramic skills in separate studios. But it wasn't until this year when a group pulled the pair together.

Adi Parker is doing something she's not quite sure has been done before. As Port Coquitlam's newest artist-in-residence, Parker is stitching together old clothes - just like a quilt - and also brushing a layer of colour on top, just like a painting.

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The blues-funk band Brickhouse - a staple on the Vancouver live music scene that, over the past few years, has closed the PCT Summer Sunday Concerts series in Port Moody - will play Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre on Saturday night, with Gary C

A new display is on the walls of the Port Moody Public Library. The acrylic and oil paintings of Caroline Beutler will be shown at the library this month.