Interested in how the film industry works? The Burnaby Village Museum is offering a series of filmmaking demonstrations on Saturdays throughout the summer, in connection with its temporary summer display At the Movies.
This weekend (Saturday, June 28), you can check out green screen technology by Sim Digital, running from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Volunteers from the Blanche MacDonald Centre will also be on hand from noon to 4 p.m. to demonstrate special effects makeup - you can try out some beard stubble, lizard skin or perhaps a scab.
On July 5, you can experience special effects makeup or stunt performances - local stunt performers will be on hand to rehearse their scenes and then perform on the streets of the village.
Other demonstrations throughout the summer will include costuming, animal handling and Creating a Character, which will walk through makeup, prosthetics and costumes.
Burnaby Village Museum is at 6501 Deer Lake Ave. Call 604-297-4565 or see www.burnabyvillagemuseum.ca for more details.
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A Burnaby choreographer is featured in the upcoming Dancing on the Edge festival.
Michelle Olson, who teaches dance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, is the artistic director of the aboriginal dance company Raven Spirit Dance.
Her piece Northern Journey is a contemporary dance performance, inspired by a traditional First Nations story about the caribou.
A press release notes that the work is "inspired by the land we carry inside of us. This internal landscape carves out the pathways that lead to our animal instinct and lead us to images that hold our human experience."
The work is part of Edge One, a mixed dance night that also includes work by Sarah Chase of Astrid Dance and Brazilian choreographer Paulo Lima.
The performance runs Friday, July 4 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, July 6 at 2 p.m., both at the Firehall Arts Centre in Vancouver.
This year's Dancing on the Edge is the 26th annual festival, celebrating contemporary dance from Vancouver and across Canada. More than 70 dance artists are taking part in the festival's 10 days, July 3 to 12.
Check out www.dancingontheedge.org.
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Art lovers, don't forget to stop by the Deer Lake Gallery to see the latest work from the Burnaby Artists' Guild.
The guild's exhibition Nature Inspired is underway at the gallery, at 6584 Deer Lake Ave., until July 12.
The exhibition features the work of 23 guild members in a variety of styles and mediums, and admission is free.
The gallery is open Tuesday to Sunday.
See www.burnabyartistsguild.com for more details, or call 604-298-7322.
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Do you know an interesting artist or performer who deserves to be in the spotlight?
We're running a series of "Fill in the Blanks" profiles of interesting local people, and we're always on the lookout for suggestions.
Each participating person just has to fill out a questionnaire to tell us a little more about them, and have a photo taken for the paper.
Please send me your ideas - along with a few details and contact information. You can reach me by email, jmaclellan@
burnabynow.com, or come find me on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.
Do you have an item for Lively City? Send arts and entertainment ideas to Julie, [email protected], or find her on Twitter, @juliemaclellan.
