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Culture Days grants

An information session will be held this month for artists wanting a grant to take part in this year's Culture Days activities. The event will be held on June 20 at 7 p.m.

A love triangle X five

It came down to time.

ARTS BRIEFS: Coq. festival reps place in provincials

A few artistic students from - or representing - the Tri-Cities scored well at last month's Performing Arts of BC festival.

Art workshops at PdA

Artist Jane Appleby will teach a painting workshop this month at Coquitlam's Place des Arts (1120 Brunette Ave.). Outdoor acrylics for adult painters runs Saturday and Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m.

The kids are all right

As hundreds of young people in - and from - the Tri-Cities get ready for graduation, many of them are getting news from the colleges, universities and employers they have so anxiously been waiting to hear back from.

ARTS BRIEFS: Caulfield students wrap up a year

Some 200 students with Port Moody's Caufield School of Dance will this week perform numbers inspired by "Shakespeare to Sinatra and Sesame Street to Super Mario Brothers," studio owner Cori Caulfield said.

Artwork of children on show

Riverside secondary students Paola Cervantes and her sister, Sandra, are among the 95 students of Evelia Espinosa who will show their artwork as part of the sixth annual Children's Art Festival next month at Port Moody city hall.

Fruits of their labour

Pieces by the Blackberry Artists' Society will be on the walls of the Port Moody Public Library in June.

Locals get Jessie nod

A Port Coquitlam native has been nominated for a Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for outstanding actor in a lead role.

VSO concertmaster to speak in Coquitlam

In last year's flick A Late Quartet, the character portrayed by Philip Seymour Hoffman is the second violinist in a world-renowned string foursome who is tired of playing second fiddle.