Local Arts

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.

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.