Local Arts

Street art will be on display at Coquitlam's Place des Arts this weekend to mark Youth Arts Week. The facility's Youth Arts Council will launch the project on Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. and Sunday from 1 to 5 p.m.

Port Moody jazz musicians Kristian Alexandrov and Shannon Gaye will launch a weekly series at a bistro o Wednesday. The pair, which performed at the PoMo ArtsFest gala with Jens Lindemann in February, will play at the Gallery Bistro (2411 Clarke St.

Port Moody singer/songwriter Greg Drummond will test out his latest tunes at a show at the Inlet Theatre (100 Newport Dr.) on Friday.

Several performers will be in Port Coquitlam on Friday night at an anti-bullying concert.

Rumours of witchcraft swirl in the Puritan town of Salem, Mass., after a group of girls dances in the woods with a black slave. They are seen by the Rev. Samuel Parris, whose own daughter Betty is accused of practising in the dark craft.

A few years ago, Coquitlam harp teacher Rebecca Blair was in the Big Apple to see the Unicorn Tapestries, a woven work from the late Middle Ages that depicts scenes for the hunt of the magical creature.

He approached James Carrier's body, not so much to ensure he was dead - the gaping hole in the chest pretty much confirmed that - but because Ray Owens always liked to inspect his handiwork.

Is Maggie White seeing red, feeling the blues or just plain rockin' it? It appears to be all three as the Port Moody painter opens an exhibit of new and retrospective works at the Port Moody Arts Centre on Thursday.

It's been somewhat of a rocky road this season for Stage 43. Last September, the Coquitlam theatrical society started so far in the red that many members considered closing the club for good after more than 30 years.

Arts, culture and heritage groups - as well as individual artists - developing a new or sustaining art project in Port Coquitlam have until April 30 to apply for a city grant.