Local Arts

Children's entertainer and comedian Norman Foote tends to shy away from preaching to his audience. So when his young son suggested his new CD and its title track be called Always Be Yourself, Foote was hesitant at first.

A Coquitlam actor will star this month in the Capilano University production of Pride and Prejudice . Grace Cullingworth, a Gleneagle secondary graduate, will play Elizabeth Bennet in the show that opens Nov.

When Louise Smith was a teen, she saw an artist working with silks, threads and fabrics to create a lovely piece. The British native was intrigued and tucked the image in the back of her mind to do at a later date.

The first faculty concert of the season at Coquitlam's Place des Arts next week will be a whirlwind journey to four continents.

Bumble- and honeybees will be all the buzz in a new art exhibit at Port Moody Public Library next month. PoMo resident and Gleneagle secondary grad Deanna Fligg will show paintings and photographs of bees in her first solo display.

As a math, computer science and art teacher, which included a stint in the 1970s in the Coquitlam school district, as well as a mother of two, Myda Schmidt had little time to dabble in her creative hobbies.

Tri-City residents are being asked to send "messages from the heart" to Alberta school children evacuated from their High River homes earlier this year.

The sounds of classical music will be coming from Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre next week at a morning and an afternoon concert. On Sunday at 2 p.m.

A Coquitlam composer is about to present several original works in three separate classical music concerts and while that would seem extraordinary on its own, it's notable as well that the musician is a 16-year-old girl who is yet to graduate.

Several "triple threats" from the Tri-Cities will appear in a benefit concert for the Footlight Theatre Society. The Burnaby company decided not to produce a fall musical but focus on rebuilding its base for next year, said board member Jane Wace.