Calling all artists.
The Burnaby Arts Council is looking for participants for its Summer Arts Festival, coming up Saturday, Aug. 15 at the Deer Lake Gallery.
Artisan booths are available to rent ($50 for arts council members, $75 for non-members), and there will also be a juried sculpture exhibition featuring 3-D garden sculpture. Applications for the juried exhibition are due by June 30.
The day is planned to include live music, a summer theatre performance and an art workshop for kids, along with a barbecue. Check out www.burnabyartscoun
cil.org for more details or an application form, or call 604-298-7322.
Hands-on art for all
This one’s for artists and non-artists alike – as long as you’re willing to have fun with art.
The Burnaby Art Gallery is holding the next in its series of In the BAG family programs this Sunday, June 14.
Families can drop in anytime between 1 and 4 p.m. to take part in the program, which lets participants check out the current gallery exhibits and then create work connected to them.
The theme this time out is Contour Lines and Colour, in connection with the ongoing Gravure Automatique exhibition featuring the prints of Dalla Husband.
Incidentally, the exhibition is on until June 21, so you also still have a bit of time to pop in for that one.
Check out www.burnabyartgallery.ca for more details about the exhibition and related programs at the gallery.
Scrapyard art
Art lovers, if you haven’t checked out the Vanessa Lam exhibition at Deer Lake Gallery, you still have some time.
Lam’s Scrapyard Chronicles exhibition opened June 6 and runs until June 27.
Lam uses mixed-media assemblage “to explore urban environments and everyday objects,” as a press release says – incorporating traditional colour palettes with burlap, found papers and newspaper clippings and adding in colour digital photography and expressionist gestural painting.
The Deer Lake Gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. It’s at 6584 Deer Lake Ave.
Check out www.burnabyartscouncil.org for information.
Opera in concert
Opera fans, be sure to turn out to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts for the last Opera on a Sunday Afternoon concert of the season.
Burnaby Lyric Opera is staging its next concert on Sunday, June 21 at 3 p.m.
The concert is set to feature highlights from Georges Bizet’s opera The Pearl Fishers,all sung by emerging young opera stars from around the Lower Mainland.
Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is at 6450 Deer Lake Ave. see www.shadboltcentre.com for more.
Telling stories
The Burnaby Public Library is keeping the art of storytelling alive.
Everyone is invited to a free storytelling circle on Sunday, June 28 at the Tommy Douglas library branch.
The afternoon will feature “Tales from Our First Peoples,” plus graduates from the library’s storytelling workshop series.
The free program is open to tweens, teens and adults, and refreshments will be served. For more info or to sign up for the next workshop series, email [email protected].
Registration is required. Check out www.bpl.bc.ca/events for the details or call 604-436-5400. The Tommy Douglas branch is at 7311 Kingsway.
Symphony returning
Here’s a save-the-date heads up for all you Vancouver Symphony Orchestra fans.
The VSO is returning to Deer Lake for its ever-popular Symphony in the Park concert on Sunday, July 12.
The concert is set to run from 7 to 9 p.m., and, as always, everyone is encouraged to come early with picnic, chairs and blankets in hand to make an evening of it.
Share summer fun
Do you know of any good summer arty happenings for kids and teens? I’m compiling a list of arts-related summer camps and programs in Burnaby, and I’d love to hear from you. Email me at [email protected] with your details.
Do you have an item for Lively City? Send arts and entertainment ideas to Julie, [email protected], or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.
