Want to hear from some emerging stars in the classical music world?
Then stop by the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Feb. 21 for a Royal Conservatory of Music scholarship recital.
The recital features senior piano, voice and violin students who received the top marks in the 2014 RCM examinations.
They're onstage on Saturday, Feb. 21 at 7:30 p.m. in Room 102. Tickets are $10 regular, or $8 for students and seniors, and a reception will follow the recital.
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Here's one that sounds fascinating.
Flamenco Rosario is presenting a world premiere performance at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts at the end of this month.
The company is presenting Quadrilogue Affective, an exploration of modern relationships in dance and musical form, onstage at the Shadbolt Feb. 25 to 28 at 8 p.m.
Flamenco Rosario's artistic and musical directors, Rosario Ancer and Victor Kolstee, teamed up with another artistic romantic couple, Mariano Cruceta and Caroline Plante, to create the work, which explores the balance between their domestic and artistic lives.
"As anyone who runs a family business knows, it is not always easy to leave work in the office and not bring it home," a write-up about the event says. "This is especially true in the performing arts, where many marital love boats have ended up broken on the reefs of great expectations and greater egos, to later pick up the pieces and create magic on the stage."
Ancer and Cruceta are dancer-choreographers for the work, while Kolstee and Plante are guitarists and composers.
Tickets are $35 regular, $30 for students and seniors. Reserve at tickets.shadboltcentre.com or call 604-205-3000.
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Anything that involves good food and good music just sounds like a good idea to me.
The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is continuing with its monthly series of A Little Lunch Music concerts.
The concerts, which are generally on the fourth Thursday of the month, take place in the Shadbolt's Encores Café. You can enjoy a concert and a special buffet lunch - the concert starts at noon, the lunch runs from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The lunch is $12, but the concert (which is open to everyone) is free.
Coming up on Feb. 26, you can enjoy the pop-folk sounds of Pawn Shop Diamond. On March 26, it's the Ron Samworth Trio's jazz sounds, and on April 23, it's the Sharon Minemoto Trio of piano, clarinet and guitar. Then, on May 28, you can enjoy the rock-jazz fusion sounds of Rocket Science.
Check out www.shadboltcentre.com for more details.
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Art lovers, you still have some time to check out the ongoing Expressions in Abstract exhibition at the Burnaby Arts Council's Deer Lake Gallery.
The exhibition features the work of three emerging artists - Evan Locke, Iris Low and Karen Santos - from different generations and backgrounds, sharing their own interpretations and philosophies of what abstract art means.
It's underway at the gallery until Feb. 28.
If you haven't been by, be sure to pop in - the gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave., and it's open Tuesday to Saturday, n oon to 4 p.m., with free admission. See www.burnabyartscouncil.org for more details.
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Got a crafty kid in the house? The Cameron branch of Burnaby Public Library is hosting a Lunar New Year Papercrafts session on Sunday, Feb. 15.
The event runs from 2 to 4 p.m., and it's aimed at kids aged four to 12. Caregivers are required to accompany kids aged 10 and under.
The program is free, but you must register ahead - call 604-421-5454, see www.bpl.bc.ca/events, or drop in to the library - it's in the Cameron Recreation Complex at 9523 Cameron St.
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