Local Arts

Second Storey veteran performer Jennifer Pielak will show kids and teens how toimprovise this summer. Pielak has led the camps for the past three years and, next month, she will be teaching week-long sessions to children aged eight to 16.

Frankie Cena is many things - actor, singer, debater, emcee, model, Mr. World Canada. But there's one title the 22-year-old Port Moody resident feels could capture it all: Entertainer.

For the past three years, The Tri-City News has talked to more than a dozen recent high school graduates about their dreams of making it big in the arts.

Students at Port Moody's Heritage Woods secondary captured four out of nine awards for high schools at an international film festival last month.

If ever there were a poster girl for Place des Arts, Hristina Hristozova would be it. A stay-at-home mom who moved from her native Bulgaria to Coquitlam four years ago, Hristozova got her kids involved in the Maillardville facility a few years back.

BIG STEP A Port Moody dancer studying with the San Francisco Ballet School has been promoted for the 2015 repertory season.

For the past three years, The Tri-City News has talked to more than a dozen recent high school graduates about their dreams of making it big in the arts.

Port Coquitlam will show four family-friendly flicks this summer as part of its annual Cinema Under the Stars program, sponsored by G&F Financial Group.

Students with Caulfield School of Dance will appear in the Port Moody company's year-end show this weekend. Dreams will run at the Terry Fox Theatre (1260 Riverwood Gate, Port Coquitlam) on Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 1 and 7 p.m.

Young musicians who joined the Coquitlam Youth Orchestra last September will end their inaugural year with a concert this weekend.