Local Arts

Two Tri-City high school grads will play the roles of best friends to lead characters in the Arts Club Theatre Company's production of Hairspray , which opens on Thursday.

Students from Vancouver's Nimbus School of Recording Arts will team up with Terry Fox secondary next week to document Rock the Fox 2011 at the Port Coquitlam school.

More than half a century ago, Nat "King" Cole played the Hotel Vancouver but, because of racial segregation, wasn't allowed to stay there.

A French school in Port Coquitlam will fete its 25th anniversary with an art show and sale on Thursday. Francophone students from L'Ecole des Pionniers (3550 Wellington St.) will have their work on display starting at 6 p.m.

The fifth annual Social Justice Film Festival in Port Coquitlam opens this week with this year's Oscar-winning documentary feature.

Seven community theatre groups in the region that includes the Tri-Cities will perform their best stage plays of the season in Coquitlam next week.

Three years ago, Rick Valiant re-discovered a gift he always knew he had but never truly unveiled it. His voice.

If you notice Lolo dancing and jumping a little less during her show with Bobs at this Saturday's Fingerling Festival in Port Moody, she has good reason. Lolo is eight months pregnant.

The work of a newly formed art group in Port Moody will be shown this month on the city's library walls.

EXHIBITS Evergreen Cultural Centre: Mappa by Bettina Matzkuhn, until June 3. Leigh Square Community Arts Village: Metamorphosis by Chris Dobranski, David New Small, Roger Bryant, Danny Jay and Warren Walker, until May 15.