Local Arts

SPECIAL EVENTS Dec. 31: Quiring in the New Year with the Quiring Chamber Players, with special guests Catherine French and Joel Moerschel, is at 8 p.m. at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. Dec.

There's a certain part of Phil 'Philthy' Maloney's body that begins to twitch when he hears sugary sweet carols, replete with ringing bells and laments for snow, jam the airwaves in December. Politely put - it's his derrière.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, and Coquitlam's Daniel Cardoso will be helping to sing the lyrics when he performs in The Sound of Music , playing at the Gateway Theatre until Dec. 31.

EXHIBITS Evergreen Cultural Centre: Kovan Photo Club, Light on the Mind, to Jan. 7. Place des Arts: Kwai Sang Wong, When Imagination Meets Clay; Rachael Ashe, Transforming the Book, Jan. 5-28, and Karin Vengshoel, Expansions, Jan. 5 - Feb. 25.

With singing and dancing, humour and good cheer, the Christmas for a Cause show happening tomorrow (Thursday) will not only get you in the holiday spirit but will help out those less fortunate, too.

For this New Year's Eve, Reg Quiring will be in seventh heaven.

A parade of light will be shone during one of the darkest days of the year in Port Moody next week.

With titles like "Four Hugs a Day," "I am a Pizza," "The Hug Bug" and "Dicky Dicky Dinosaur," singer Charlotte Diamond has been making kids and adults alike smile for 25 years.

Most people know pantomime as wordless acting. Ellie King knows it as something quite different -- and timeless.

EXHIBITS Evergreen Cultural Centre: Gregg Simpson's Out of the Woods, until Dec. 10. Kovan Photo Club, Light on the Mind, Dec. 16 to Jan. 7; opening reception Dec. 18, 4 p.m. Place des Arts: Positively Petite and Christmas Boutique, until Dec. 17.