Is there a small artist in your home?
Kids who are into art can find camaraderie at Kidz Club Art Nights offered by the Burnaby Art Gallery once a month.
The Thursday night sessions give kids a chance to get their hands on art, take part in gallery scavenger hunts, enjoy games and storytelling and more. Light bites, music and supervision are provided for the seven- to 12-year-old participants.
Each month has a different theme. The Feb. 25 session is about Light and Shadow and the March 31 session is called Crazy About Colour.
Check out the Burnaby Art Gallery’s program brochure at www.burnabyartgallery.ca to find out more.
There are also a couple of programs coming up at the gallery for young artists, both starting Feb. 20 and running for four Saturdays.
Six- to nine-year-olds can take part in Mixed Media: Paper Sculpture and Assemblage, while four- to six-year-olds can take part in A Bug’s Life: Macro Art, which incorporates drawing, mixed media and printmaking.
SOULFOOD ON DISPLAY
Finding joy in art is what Jenn Ashton’s all about – and she’s inviting everyone to experience that joy with her.
Ashton’s art is on display in SoulFood, an exhibition currently running at the Burnaby Arts Council’s Courtyard Gallery at Burnaby City Hall. The exhibition features Ashton’s acrylic works, and it’s underway until March 4.
“I want my art to be accessible to everybody,” Ashton writes in an artist’s statement. “I want my paintings to find the naïve child and deep down belly laugh that lives inside every person and connect to that spot, as that is where my art comes from.”
City hall is at 4949 Canada Way. The gallery is open Monday to Friday, 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
SINGIN' SENIORS NEED ACCOMPANIST
Are you an experienced accompanist? The Bonsor Singin’ Seniors could use your help.
The group is a four-part-harmony choir based at the Bonsor Recreation Centre, and it’s currently looking for an accompanist.
The choir rehearses from September to June on Fridays from 1 to 3 p.m., and the singers perform several concerts at seniors’ care centres in December and then again in May and June.
If you can volunteer your time to help out, contact the choir president, Christine Leston – you can call her at 604-516-0277 or email cleston@telus.net.
STORIES FROM THE PRISON YARD
Stories from the prison yard, a plane flight and a run-in with clowns are all part of the narrative when Patrick Keating takes to the stage at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
Keating is presenting his one-person theatre piece, the autobiographical Inside/Out, from Feb. 3 to 6 in the Studio Theatre.
Keating’s show looks at his years spent in and out of Canada’s penitentiary system – and how, at Matsqui Institution in Abbotsford, he enrolled in a theatre course and found the possibility of a new way of life.
“Patrick’s honest and engaging delivery of his funny, sad, and stirring true story helps dismantle our ideas of what a ‘criminal’ looks like – and helps us better understand how language, race and class play a very real part in our lives as Canadians,” says a write-up about the show. “It’s about a man’s search for community: the community of the street, the community of prison, and of the theatre.”
Intrigued? The show is on nightly at 8 p.m. from tonight (Wednesday) through Saturday. Tickets are $35 regular, $30 students and seniors, or $25 as part of the Shadbolt’s A La Carte series subscription. You can also buy $15 opening night special tickets for the Wednesday show, and two-for-one tickets for Thursday night. Call 604-205-3000 or see tickets.shadboltcentre.com.
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