Local Arts

Place des Arts in Coquitlam has been turned into a Christmas wonderland with dozens of gifts ideas, craft workshops and lovely displays to make shopping local easy.

The birth of a child heralds many thing but for one Port Moody artist a new child changed her art and her view of the world. Paula Ledenko has spent the majority of her life in the Tri City area, currently in Port Moody.

The holiday season approaches and with it numerous opportunities for music and choral singing. With that in mind, the Coquitlam Chorale presents A Merry Little Christmas in two shows: Saturday, Dec. 1 at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Dec. 2 at 2 p.m.

As an actress, Ashley Whillans' brought happiness to movie-goers with her roles in movies like Juno and What Goes Up . But the 23-year-old Coquitlam resident is finding new ways of bringing smiles to people's faces.

Original works by prominent Tri-City painters Colin Craig, Anna Wagner and Arlene Connolly will be for sale at a Port Coquitlam fall exhibit this weekend.

In the makeshift studio Shari Pratt has been working in for the past two-and-a-half months, there's a lot of light and space - perfect for painter. There's also plenty of activity: Not only from the car and foot traffic outside on St.

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.