Local Arts

Care to be blindfolded during a live music show? What about listening to the sounds in a sea of beautiful aromas? Next week, the city of Port Coquitlam launches a new, experimental series called the Sensory Sound Lounge that aims to lead participants

Twenty-one images of the Inlet Artists at work - and captured by Port Moody photographers Tracy Riddell, Gerry Moss, Gaetan Royer, Rainer Daniels and Markus Fahrner - will be on the walls of the Port Moody Public Library next month.

Port Coquitlam actor Cindy Peterson Good plays a temptress in Becky's New Car , a Surrey Little Theatre production that opens tomorrow. Tickets for the show, which runs until March 1, are $15 through [email protected].

The Port Coquitlam improv company, Second Storey Theatre, will put an arrow through lovers' hearts with a Valentine special starting next month.

Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre has a new series of Family Day workshops starting next month. On Feb. 8., participants can tour the current exhibit, Emerging Talent 17, then create their own artwork based on the gallery images.

A Coquitlam father and daughter will perform in the Vagabond Players' Alone Together, which opens next week at the Bernie Legge Theatre in New Westminster.

The cost to take part in a life drawing class at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre is now cheaper. Artists of any level are invited to the gallery - on the last Wednesday of the month - to draw an undraped model. The sessions run from 6 to 9 p.m.

Port Coquitlam's second artist-in-residence started last week at Leigh Square Community Arts Village. Vancouver-based Bernadine Fox will be creating paintings until March 18 as well as leading an assemblage workshop on March 4.

A young Port Moody singer will be playing the part of Annie in the Royal City Musical Theatre's 25th anniversary show this spring. Julia MacLean won the lead role in the production, which runs at the Massey Theatre from April 10 to 26.

Terry Fox Theatre has a new manager. And he's looking for volunteers to give him a hand to run the Port Coquitlam venue that's attached to the high school on Riverwood Gate.