Love opera? You’ll be delighted to know that Burnaby Lyric Opera is back for its 2015/16 season.
The company is staging the first of its Sunday afternoon opera concerts on Oct. 4, 3 p.m. at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.
The concert will present opera highlights with excerpts from the upcoming season, featuring Burnaby’s Chloé Hurstalongside Scott Brooks and Gina McLellan Morel.
Audience members can enjoy excerpts from The Marriage of Figaro, La Traviata, La Bohème, Madama Butterfly, Don Pasqualeand Lucia di Lammermoor.
Tickets are $15. Call the Shadbolt box office at 604-205-3000 or see tickets.shadboltcentre.com.
Check out the view from the water’s edge
The Deer Lake Gallery has launched a new season – and art lovers should hurry on over to check out the latest offering, Water’s Edge.
The group exhibition includes work by John Haig, Peter GutmanisandRoderick Brown, and it opened over the weekend as part of Culture Days celebrations in the city.
A press release notes that all three artists “engage the ocean’s edge, where human industry and marine life collide.”
For Haig, that’s through paintings that record West Coast lifestyles through stylized landscapes. For Gutmanis, it’s watercolour abstractions based on photographs of coastal scenes. For Brown, it’s carving and engraving fish that become “monuments to materials, myths, sustenance, destruction and industry.”
Check out www.burnabyartscouncil.org for more on the exhibition, or drop in to Deer Lake Gallery to check it out for yourself.
The gallery is at 6584 Deer Lake Ave. and is open Tuesday to Saturday, noon to 4 p.m., with free admission.
The exhibition is underway until Oct. 17, so be sure to stop in soon to check it out. And if you’ve already visited, what did you think? Drop me a line to let me know.
Family story unfolds
A Burnaby author is exploring his own family’s history in a new book.
Jay Sherwood, a retired teacher-librarian, was looking into a family history project for his mother’s 90th birthday when he stumbled upon a story that intrigued him more: the life of his grandmother, Ruth Bowers.
A press release notes that, at a time when traditional women’s careers were nursing and teaching, Bowers hit the road as part of the “chautauqua” educational circuit in the U.S. Chautauqua tours, in the first part of the 20th century, brought music, education and entertainment to people around the country – and, for women like Bowers, opened up unheard-of independence in a time when women didn’t even have the right to vote.
Sherwood was able to use postcards, photographs and memorabilia from Bowers’ collection, as well as letters she sent home, together with research files from the University of Iowa to piece together her life against the backdrop of a unique time in history.
Chautauqua Serenade: Violinist Ruth Bowers on Tour, 1910 to 1912, is being published by Caitlin Press Inc. Check out the website at www.caitlin-press.com for more about the book.
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