Local Arts

Coquitlam's Place des Arts is offering Taiko drumming to youth and adults again this fall. Taiko, the Japanese word for drum, involves playing the instrument with martial arts-like choreography (visit: http://www.youtube.

In the fall of 2009, Elizabeth Russell produced a show at the Richmond Art Gallery called Migration/Immigrant Stories , a research project that gathered tales from new Canadians.

A Port Moody artist says he's "clearing house" for the Evergreen Line. David Bizzo is selling about 100 artworks - original paintings, giclees and prints, about half of which he created - over the long weekend at his studio in the old Andres Winery.

Artisans, crafters, makers and needle workers can apply to sell their wares in Port Coquitlam's fifth annual juried winter fair, which runs Dec. 1 and Dec. 2.

Four Tri-City residents will be performing in the Vancouver International Fringe Festival next month. Coquitlam's Dave Secunda will present In the Time of the Dream Warrior with his daughter, Joylyn.

A Coquitlam musician with the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band has returned home from Scottish competitions with three piping awards for his solo work.

Music, comedy and a teen dance are on the bill for next month's 15th annual Port Moody Festival of the Arts, running Sept. 20 to 30. Singers Cole Armour, 13, and Téa will be featured at the festival gala on Saturday, Sept. 22.

Three major art centres in the Tri-Cities have joined forces to commission work on a common theme.

Port Coquitlam's Autumn Thespians - including, from left to right, Gayle Redfern, Bill Redfern and Pat Bader - will feature a comedy written by Phyllis Mohr at the BC Seniors' Games this week in Burnaby.

For DragonDiva Operatic Theatre's fifth anniversary production o f The Old Maid and the Thief - the first radio opera commissioned by NBC in 1939 - the cast and crew were each given a part to transcribe.