Local Arts

Nathan Sartore may only be 15 years old, but already he's racking up an impressive list of musical theatre credits.

Ceramic artists Eliza Au and Ying-Yueh Chuang are transforming the Evergreen Cultural Centre art gallery into a world where structure and symmetry, pattern and proportion define their art work while challenging the boundaries of their medium.

They are as different as day and night but two grads from Kwantlen Polytechnic University both share a passion for fashion and are willing to work hard for their futures.

Crazy8s is an annual Vancouver-area short film competition in which dozens of aspiring filmmakers pitch their short film idea and just six will get $800 and eight days to make that idea a reality.

Place des Arts is exploring nature in three upcoming exhibits, with each artist using a different medium to showcase unique ways of viewing the environment around us. Lone is Vancouver-based photographer John Lee's exhibit of mainly landscape photos.

Teens looking for a creative way to spend some after-school time can drop in to a new program at Leigh Square in Port Coquitlam.

Two Coquitlam dancers are hoping to cha cha their way to the finals in the upcoming national ballroom dance competition. Maryana Dudchenko and Vlad Bohdanov, the current B.C.

The Port Moody Public Library is displaying the work of M. David Eades next month. Eades works in poured acrylic mixed media, watercolour and pencil, in styles ranging from abstract to technical illustration, cartooning and pencil drawing.

Spring is certainly roaring in like a lion. Take shelter and check out some of the great shows and events happening this weekend.

A Port Coquitlam native is starring in the Arts Club Theatre production of The Importance of Being Earnest , playing at the Stanley Industrial Alliance Stage in Vancouver until April 15.