Local Arts

Burnaby performers are taking to the stage in the next Broadway outing by Royal City Musical Theatre. The theatre company is bringing Cole Porter’s Anything Goes to the stage at Massey Theatre in New Westminster from April 6 to 23.

A renowned jazz pianist and organist is coming to the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. Mike LeDonne is bringing the music of American jazz/R&B legends Earth, Wind & Fire to the stage in a performance on Thursday, April 6 at 8 p.m. LeDonne – a.k.a.

The Burnaby Artists’ Guild is ushering in spring with an art exhibition and sale. Showers of Art is running at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts April 21 to 23.

The three young people who wandered up onto the Deer Lake Gallery lawn on Saturday night can be forgiven for asking, with casual curiosity: “Is this a house party?” It wasn’t. It was the opening for Luminescence II.

ON NOW To Sunday, March 19 Remembering Ingeborg Raymer: Work from the Malaspina Printshop Archive, a Burnaby Art Gallery off-site exhibition at the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) branch of Burnaby Public Library, 6100 Willingdon Ave. Info: www.

Burnaby performers are taking to the stage in a musical that explores issues of immigration and war. Songs for a New World, presented by Fabulist Theatre, is onstage at the PAL Studio Theatre in Vancouver from March 23 to April 1.

A documentary chronicling the challenges of mixed-race blood cancer patients is screening at the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre next weekend.

A Burnaby singer has taken the helm as the new artistic manager of musica intima. Siri Olesen, a singer and music educator who has been singing with the ensemble for nearly 20 years, is taking over as the artistic manager.

The Burnaby Arts Council has planned a series of artist talks and demonstrations throughout the Luminescence exhibition.

For Stuart Ward, art is an ever-evolving process. Ward was a painter until he came to realize that the idea of creating a two-dimensional, non-interactive work no longer reflected the society he sees around him.