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Three-day dance workshop at PdA

Learn how to dance with professionals from SQx Danza at Coquitlam's Place des Arts next weekend. Participants at the workshop, which runs Nov.

SD43 teachers show their art

Jennifer Shaw believes strongly about how the arts can play a role in classroom learning, no matter what subject or grade level. The University of B.C.

Music on tap at ECC next week

Evergreen Cultural Centre will be a music hub next week as the Coquitlam facility celebrates classical piano and violin, acoustic guitar, big band and woodwinds.

The sound of silence from Studio 6

What was once a storage space is now a sunny soundproofed music room for Port Moody Arts Centre students to study. Last week, the St.

City of the Arts to mark Int'l Artist Day

International Artist Day will be celebrated at the Port Moody Arts Centre on Wednesday with a "pop-up event." Art organizers have invited dozens of Tri-City craftspeople to the St. John's Street facility to make artist trading cards on Oct. 24.

Dogwood Songsters entertain Thursday

Coquitlam's Dogwood Songsters will lead an afternoon sing-a-long tomorrow (Thursday) at Dogwood Pavilion. The group will entertain with "favourite songs that will bring good memories," spokesperson Mario Acosta said. The Oct.

A decade of quilting for guild

Wendy Squires unfolds a quilt she recently stitched up for her mother. The Port Coquitlam resident spent weeks on the internet searching for the right material to include in her bed cover.

Trash turned into sculpture

Ron Simmer won't have the usual reception when his first solo art show opens on Thursday at Coquitlam's Place des Arts.

What's that you're selling?

Veda Hille and Bill Richardson tried hard not to mock. The writers of Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata were overwhelmed with wacky ads from the online personal ads site.

Trading cards for artists' day

International Artist Day will be celebrated at the Port Moody Arts Centre next week with a "pop-up event." Arts organizers have invited dozens of Tri-City craftspeople to the St. John's Street facility to make artist trading cards on Oct. 24.