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Open call for RCYB's Nutcracker

A prominent youth ballet company that has Tri-City dancers will hold auditions next month for its 23rd run of the Nutcracker. The Royal City Youth Ballet is calling for dancers as young as seven years old to audition on either Sept.

Freemantle takes first step in Frisco

Benjamin Freemantle just turned 16 and acts like a typical teenager. The Grade 11 Port Moody secondary student is polite but mumbles. He likes to hang out with his buddies. And he's learning how to drive. But he's anything but average.

Mini doc fest in Port Moody

Port Moody will host a documentary mini-festival at the same time celebrities are flocking to Toronto for the 36th annual TIFF. Organizers with the PoMo Film Society will show The English Surgeon (UK/Ukraine, 2007) at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 9.

Last concert at Lions

Vancouver's Maria In The Shower performed for an audience of about 100 spectators at Lions Park on Sunday for the final show in Port Coquitlam's Music in the Park series.

Arts events in September

EXHIBITS Evergreen Cultural Centre: Robert Young's Lacunarian Picturing, until Sept. 3; Kwikwetlem First Nation's Red Fish Up the River, from Sept. 16 to Nov. 5, opening reception on Sept. 18 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Singing his heart out

Chris James of Coquitlam competed in the semi-finals of the adults division at the Fair at the PNE Star Showdown on Monday.

Brickhouse to lay the beat

Brickhouse singer Rob Bracken can't wait to get his "blue funk" band out of the clubs of Vancouver and into some sunshine. If only for an hour or two.

Maria swings in PoCo

It is not uncommon for audience members at a Maria In The Shower concert to feel like they have travelled back in time.

Great destinations for Huggins

On Jeff Huggins' bedroom wall, a new road map to his future has begun.

National win for Coastal Sound

A Coquitlam-based youth choir came off a music fest this month on a high note after taking first place.