Local Arts

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Coquitlam's Place des Arts has extended its submissions deadline for an annual miniature exhibition, which starts next month. Artists now have until Sunday, Oct. 21 to enter their work into the Positively Petite show that happens Nov. 15 to Dec.

Gleneagle secondary student Jennifer Gillis sang her farewell on Over the Rainbow after the 16-year-old Coquitlam teen was eliminated from the CBC reality show competition.