Local Arts

Simon Fraser University choirs are singing in the season with a concert celebrating hope. The SFU Choir and SFU Chamber Choir are presenting their annual winter concert, Songs of Hope and Freedom, on Sunday, Dec. 4 at the university.

It’s a Christmas tradition for music lovers, and it’s coming back to Burnaby again this year. The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra is once again travelling around the Lower Mainland for its Traditional Christmas concert, with shows running from Dec.

ON NOW To Saturday, November 26 Retrospective Views, an exhibition of work by Chris Robson and Sabine Simons, running at the Burnaby Arts Council’s Deer Lake Gallery, 6584 Deer Lake Ave. Info: www.burnabyartscouncil.org .

SAVE THE DATE: A CHORAL CHRISTMAS Saturday, Dec. 10 WHAT’S UP? If “Christmas” and “choral singing” go hand in hand in your world, then this is your day.

Film buffs, be sure to save Sunday afternoon on your calendar. The Burnaby Public Library is continuing its Six Movies for 60 Years screening series.

A Burnaby cellist is onstage with the Borealis String Quartet this weekend. Sungyong Lim is part of the acclaimed quartet, which is presenting Out of Darkness Into Light at the Surrey Arts Centre this weekend.

Art lovers can find some new works to browse at Burnaby Public Library branches this month. Two new exhibitions have opened as part of the Burnaby Art Gallery’s off-site exhibition series.

Forte Theatre Society is back for another Christmas at Burnaby Village Museum. Forte Theatre is producing its fourth family-friendly play for the museum’s Heritage Christmas celebrations, running at Brookfield Hall on Saturdays and Sundays from Nov.

Two Burnaby performers are taking to the stage in a new production of The Threepenny Opera . Damon Jang and Katie Purych are in the cast of the Theatre in the Raw presentation of the 1928 classic musical by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill .