Local Arts

"I think that I shall never see/A poem lovely as a tree" wrote Joyce Kilmer more than 100 years ago. And now, Port Moody wants to commemorate the city's centenary with poetic verse about its history and heritage.

When shadows and monsters popped into his preschooler's bedroom when the lights were turned off for the night, Brian Robinson's imagination came alive, too.

Ring in the Christmas spirit - on the first day of December - at holiday celebrations in Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam.

Tri-City Grade 11 and 12 students wanting a career in digital media, film production and visual arts can hear about what programs are available at the first-ever School District 43 gathering for post-secondary art institutions.

A Port Coquitlam art group will host a free artist demonstration next week. Art Focus Artists' Association will present Marney-Rose Edge on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at The Outlet (2253 Leigh Sq.) in the Leigh Square Community Arts Village at 7 p.m.

Laugh your way into the holiday season with the Vagabond Players' Christmas comedy Dear Santa by Norm Foster, featuring Helen Volkow of Port Coquitlam at the Bernie Legge Theatre.

Robin Esrock thinks his six-and-a-half minute slideshow for PechaKucha Coquitlam next week will be just a surprise for him as it will be for the audience.

For the first faculty concert of the season at Coquitlam's Place des Arts, soprano Lambroula Pappas wants to take her audience around the world through song. And it wasn't an easy task to whittle down the selection, she admits.

Acommunity art project is taking shape in the basement of a Port Moody home that, stitch by carefully placed stitch, will tell the story of a city celebrating its 100th birthday next year.

Truth be known, it's not so hard being on a three-month tour with a baby. Though it may be a little cumbersome at times for the new mom.