Local Arts

Love the arts? Interested in the Burnaby arts scene? The Burnaby Arts Council is calling for volunteers to help in a number of capacities, including a volunteer coordinator and a gallery coordinator.

ON NOW Month of August Anna Tsybulnyk has an art exhibition at Burnaby Neighbourhood House North House, with work inspired by classical art, Ukrainian fairy tales and Canadian landscapes, 4908 Hastings St.

From the "better late than never" files, congratulations to the painters who won the Park’s Edge Paint Off at this summer’s Deer Lake Summer Arts Festival, held July 7.

Love Celtic music? All Saints Anglican Church is hosting a performance by the four-member band Blackthorn. The band is bringing its brand of toe-tapping Irish, Scottish and English- and French-Canadian music to the stage on Thursday, Sept. 6 at 7 p.

Live at the Gallery is back. Deer Lake Gallery is hosting its next live music performance evening on Friday, Aug. 24. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the music begins at 7 p.m.

A Burnaby native is onstage in a tale of three sisters at the Kay Meek Arts Centre this fall. Marion Bridge, the classic Canadian drama by Daniel MacIvor, is onstage Sept. 5 through 20 at the arts centre in West Vancouver.

Thinking it’s maybe just a teeny-tiny bit too early to start thinking about Christmas? Not if you’re an artisan or artist who’d like to get involved in the ever-popular Deer Lake Craft Festival.

Love to sing? The Maple Leaf Singers are holding auditions to find new members for the dynamic show chorus. The group, which celebrated its 50 th anniversary last year, rehearses Monday evenings from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Burnaby Lake Pavilion.

An estimated 7,500 people packed Deer Lake Park on Saturday to hear Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats play – making this year’s Burnaby Blues + Roots Festival one of the most successful in recent years.

The Burnaby Art Gallery is getting ready to represent a retrospective of the work of master Canadian printmaker Anna Wong. Anna Wong: Traveller on Two Roads is on at the gallery from Friday, Aug. 31 to Saturday, Nov. 3.