Local Arts

Students from the Young Actors Project will show their short films and stage plays at Port Moody's Inlet Theatre on Saturday. The flicks include The Detention, a sitcom, and Deadly Vision, a high school thriller.

The Coastal Sound Youth Choir, under the direction of Carrie Tennant, won a choral section at the BC Performing Arts in Nanaimo this week.

Artwork from students of Sally's Art Studio is up this month at the Port Moody Public Library. PoMo artist Salomeh "Sally" Honarmand opened her Heritage Mountain facility last year and teaches classes to all ages and levels.

A famous Indian musician will be in Coquitlam this month to take part in a classical vocal concert with the Pandit Jasraj School of Music Foundation.

The students of Port Coquitlam's Broadway Bound will dance and sing in the popular musical Grease next week.

ArtsConnect is without an executive director. Helen Daniels quit the top job March 31 after more than a decade with the local arts council, a non-profit group that's funded by Tri-City municipalities and the provincial government.

S everal talented Tri-City teens as well as those representing the Coquitlam District Music Festival (CDMF) are on Vancouver Island this week for the Performing Arts BC provincials .

Two years ago, when Evan Mitchell was the assistant conductor for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, he conducted a Hallowe'en show with the Coquitlam-based Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble called Ghosts in the Attic.

Young people wanting to hone their theatrical and musical improv talents can sign up for summer camps offered by Port Coquitlam's Second Storey Theatre. The company (201-2550 Shaughnessy St.

A Coquitlam non-profit arts organization this week announced its new board of directors for the coming year.