Local Arts

Tri-City actors Erin Coon and James Knowlden play Robinson Crusoe and Witchdoctor Hugh in the Royal Canadian Theatre Company's Robinson Crusoe and the Pirates, which runs Dec. 20 to Jan. 6 at the Surrey Arts Centre.

Isabella Lyons (left) of Anmore plays Clara in the Royal City Youth Ballet's production of The Nutcracker. The performance, which runs this weekend at the Surrey Arts Centre and Dec.

Three new visual arts classes for adults have been added to the winter roster at Coquitlam's Place des Arts, which is marking its 40th anniversary this year.

In the early 1980s, David E. Burnell came up with a family Christmas tradition.

Gu Xiong sees many similarities between the Fraser River and China's Yangtze River, a waterway on the outer reaches of his hometown of Chongqing, Sichuan.

Songs from classic movies produced in the 1940s to '60s can be heard at a Coquitlam performance on Friday.

Sophie Bruneau, Catherine Cheneval, Marc Cheneval and Hannah Kelly are among the two dozen Dr. Charles Best secondary music students who will take part in the second annual Kids Music Fun Night next week. The Dec.

"I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree" wrote Joyce Kilmer more than 100 years ago. And now, Port Moody wants to commemorate the city's centenary with poetic verse about its history and heritage.

When shadows and monsters popped into his preschooler's bedroom when the lights were turned off for the night, Brian Robinson's imagination came alive, too.

Ring in the Christmas spirit - on the first day of December - at holiday celebrations in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.