Local Arts

To Sunday, Jan. 24 Layers: Print and Beyond, an exhibition of work by Gillian Armitage, Kim Mi Hyang and Marie Price, guest curated by Susan Gransby, at Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Info: www.burnabyartgallery.ca. To Friday, Jan.

Usher in the new year with some poetry at the next Burnaby Writers’ Society Spoken Ink night. The next reading night is set for Thursday, Jan. 14 at Wings Pub and Grill. The night features poets Sheila Rosen and Chelsea Comeau.

Julie MacLellan salutes some folks who made a difference to the city's cultural scene in 2015

ON NOW To Sunday, Jan. 3, 2016 Making Scaries, a cross-generational exhibition in the Secret Gallery at New Westminster Museum, Anvil Centre, 777 Columbia St. – with kids’ imaginary monsters turned into stuffed characters with the help of seniors.

A new play by a B.C. playwright is the next Arts Club on Tour production, and it’s coming to Burnaby in the new year. Lucia Frangione’s In a Blue Moon is onstage at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts Jan. 11 and 12.

Deer Lake Gallery is ushering in the new year with an exhibition of portraiture. Moved by Portraits is a group exhibition featuring the work of Yue Baoyu, Bill Edmonds, Jeremy Henrickson and Louise Solecki-Weir, running Jan. 16 to Feb.

Once again, you can’t beat bookstores for one-stop Christmas or other gift shopping.

“The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” Hey, Buddy the Elf said it, so it must be true. Which means that everyone should plan to get themselves over to the McGill library branch on Tuesday, Dec.

Guys aged 12 to 20 invited to take part in program in Burnaby, North Vancouver and Vancouver