Local Arts

Piano students can learn from one of the best (in training, that is) at a master class Sunday, Jan. 8.

The Kovan Photo Club exhibition is only on for a short time at the Evergreen Cultural Centre, but it's worth a visit to check out the 50-plus photographic works on display from 22 members.

Think you have no artistic talent? Place des Arts wants you to think again. There are three new visual arts classes starting in the winter session specifically for adults.

A handful of Tri-City dancers are limbering up for the opening night of the Alberta Ballet's Nutcracker at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre tonight.

SPECIAL EVENTS Dec. 31: Quiring in the New Year with the Quiring Chamber Players, with special guests Catherine French and Joel Moerschel, is at 8 p.m. at the Evergreen Cultural Centre. Dec.

There's a certain part of Phil 'Philthy' Maloney's body that begins to twitch when he hears sugary sweet carols, replete with ringing bells and laments for snow, jam the airwaves in December. Politely put - it's his derrière.

The hills are alive with the sound of music, and Coquitlam's Daniel Cardoso will be helping to sing the lyrics when he performs in The Sound of Music , playing at the Gateway Theatre until Dec. 31.

EXHIBITS Evergreen Cultural Centre: Kovan Photo Club, Light on the Mind, to Jan. 7. Place des Arts: Kwai Sang Wong, When Imagination Meets Clay; Rachael Ashe, Transforming the Book, Jan. 5-28, and Karin Vengshoel, Expansions, Jan. 5 - Feb. 25.

With singing and dancing, humour and good cheer, the Christmas for a Cause show happening tomorrow (Thursday) will not only get you in the holiday spirit but will help out those less fortunate, too.

For this New Year's Eve, Reg Quiring will be in seventh heaven.