Local Arts

The sounds of bebop, bossa and blues will come from Port Coquitlam's Terry Fox Theatre this Sunday as vocalist and composer Karin Plato takes to the stage as part of the city's 14th annual Sunday Coffee Concerts series.

Con artists in the French Riviera plotting to out-do each other is what's happening on stage at a Port Moody high school this week.

Tenor Ken Lavigne will sing at Coquitlam's Evergreen Cultural Centre next Wednesday as part of the Musical Mornings series that is hosted by pianist Sarah Hagen.

Well-known Canadian trumpeter, pianist, composer and arranger Alan Matheson rehearsed with music students at Coquitlam's Gleneagle secondary last Friday for the school's annual jazz gala.

Drama students at Port Coquitlam's Archbishop Carney regional secondary are sticking with the same era. But their new production will be a 180 turn from last spring's show also set in the 1950s.

This was the way it was supposed to happen.

DOUGLAS PLAYING Coquitlam's Nadia Bordignon and Paula Broderick of Port Moody will star in Top Girls, a production by the Douglas College Theatre and Stagecraft & Event Technology departments. Bordignon plays Griselda, Louise and Mrs.

Paintings, mixed-media, photography and graphics by Gleneagle secondary students will be on display next month at the Port Moody Public Library.

Last spring, as Port Coquitlam officials were searching for artistic ideas to mark the city's centennial year in 2013, Lindsay Watson suggested an anniversary project to the Art Focus Artists' Association, of which she's a member.

The cheery, colourful artwork of children will be up on the walls this week in a newly created space - designed exclusively for kids - at the Port Moody Arts Centre (PMAC).