Local Arts

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Natasha Kozak, 18, of Anmore performed at the Aug. 20youth category semi-finals at the PNE Star Showdown. Placing first, Kozak now moves to the finals on Aug. 23.

ART EXHIBITS Evergreen Cultural Centre: Robert Young: Lacunarian Picturing, a retrospective from 1977 to the present (oil, watercolour gouache, egg tempera and acrylic) until Sept. 3.