Local Arts

When Footlight Theatre Company set out its five-year plan for success, director and choreographer Lalainia Lindbjerg Strelau pushed for not only bigger shows but better emerging talent to showcase. Then, it had moved its productions to the Michael J.

A Tri-City band is in the Top 12 for AMP Records' Band Fight.

Port Moody Film Society's pick for November is an Australian work titled Beneath Hill 60 .

Damon Calderwood (left) reprises his role as the highest-scoring fighter pilot of the First World War in Billy Bishop Goes to War, at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre this week.

Photomotion 2012, adigital slide and sound event, will run on Saturday, Nov. 17 at Port Moody's Inlet Theatre (100 Newport Dr.), with two shows happening from 2 to 5 p.m. and 7 to 10 p.m. Guest photographer Chris Harris will also display his work.

Sip the finest from B.C. vineyards at the Best of BC Wines Uncorked at the Port Moody city hall galleria on Saturday. The event runs Nov. 3 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. and tickets at $45 include samples of vino, light appetizers and live music.

C oquitlam's Jennifer Gillis was the youngest and only West Coast contestant in the Top 10 on CBC-TV's Over the Rainbow , a live national competition that wraps up on Monday.

Hundreds of French-immersion students from Panorama Heights and Nestor elementaries joined their counterparts at Glen last Friday for a lively show by Charlotte Diamond and her Hug Bug Band.

A graduate of Emily Carr University of Art + Design will have a solo show opening on Thursday in Port Coquitlam.

Tuk Caldwell, a retired art teacher from Terry Fox secondary in Port Coquitlam, will have four original framed pieces as well as number of smaller, unframed works at this weekend's 45th annual Port Moody Art Association show - the largest art club sa