Local Arts

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Forty-one students part of Port Coquitlam's Broadway Bound Performing Arts Studio will be in the spring production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, at the Evergreen Cultural Centre (1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam).

Sip some of B.C.'s best vino on Saturday to help pour in cash for the Port Moody Arts Centre Society.

Auditions will be held next month for teens wanting to be part of a new theatre company in Coquitlam. Young thespians aged 13 to 17 can try out on Sunday, June 9, for the Place des Arts troupe that launches in September and meets twice a week.

LydiaQuerengesser, 13, has a been a songbird since she was a child. But, three years ago, her Coquitlam vocal coach - soprano Maria Cristina Fantini - suggested she switch genres from contemporary to classical.

In support of Culture Days and the advanced planning running up to the Culture Days weekend this fall, the Evergreen Cultural Centre is opening its doors to the public and hosting afree information session on Wednesday from 6 to 7 p.m.