Local Arts

A Coquitlam resident will mark two anniversaries with The Maple Leaf Singers at a special concert next weekend. Wilson Fowlie joined the 60-piece choir 20 years ago as a bass voice and, 10 years later, added music director to his résumé.

Why did Selina do it? Was it for the memory of Thea, the infant daughter of a co-worker who died at four-and-a-half-months? Or for Amelie, whose parents desperately wanted to give her a sibling? Or, perhaps, it was because Selina Robinson, the Coquit

Before a show starts, audience members are usually reminded to turn off their cell phones - or, at least, have them on vibrate - so the performance isn't interrupted.

Kaila Lee, Bryce MacGregor, Abbie Frost and Jayden Waggoner are in the Broadway Bound production of Bye Bye Birdie, which runs Friday and Saturday night at the Inlet Theatre (100 Newport Dr., Port Moody).

What is kindness? And how do you interpret it on a canvas? That was the three-week experiment last month between graphic artist and writer Joseph Bankier and 29 students in Kelly Selden's Art 10 class at Riverside secondary in Port Coquitlam.

A Port Coquitlam-based producer reeled in seven nominations for Leo Awards last week for his flick. Tim Puolitaipale of Citizen 11 Entertainment is up for Best Short Drama for Death Wish , which he co-produced with Chad Costen.

Twenty-five dancers will be on the Evergreen Cultural Centre stage on Sunday as part of the 15th annual Korean Dance Festival.

Coquitlam's Stage 43 won the best ensemble cast award for its show Hayfever at last week's Fraser Valley Zone Festival.

Pitt River middle school hosted the annual advanced band festival last week.

When Doris J. Paterson thinks about her artistic life, she uses the metaphor of a pyramid. At first, she painted common themes like flowers, landscapes and portraits, which sold well.