Local Arts

The Burnaby Art Gallery is reaching out into the community with two new exhibitions at Burnaby Public Library branches. At the Bob Prittie (Metrotown) library branch, visitors can check out collages by Bob Steele.

Type the name "Frankie Cena" into the Burnaby NOW archives, and you'll get a list of stories that dates back to 2005, when the then-14-year-old was a semifinalist at the PNE Discovery Search and took to the stage in Burnaby's Cavalcade of Stars.

ON NOW To Sunday, June 22 Saskia Jetten, an exhibition of the work of the contemporary printmaker, upstairs at Burnaby Art Gallery, 6344 Deer Lake Ave. Info: 604-297-4422, www.burnabyartgallery.ca.

Burnaby's multi-talented Heather Laura Gray is set to perform with the Vancouver-based contemporary dance company, The Response, in the world premier of The Art of Stealing, a tale of surviving in a post-apocalyptic world.

ON NOW To June 2 Linda Ohama, an off-site exhibition by the Burnaby Art Gallery at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts, featuring Obachan's Smile and Inherited Gifts, in honour of Asian Heritage Month.

Rock, Roll and Remember offers chart-toppers from the 1950s through the 1980s

If you've got talent, then the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre wants to hear from you.

Everywhere he goes his latest tour is earning raves – and now Burnaby audiences will have a chance to find out why. Beck has just been announced as the next artist for the Deer Lake Park concert series this summer.

Songs and Stories onstage at Michael J. Fox Theatre June 24

With wedding season now upon us, we must address a vital but oft-overlooked aspect of the special day: The wedding music. Since not everyone can afford a wedding band or even for a DJ, many will rely on their iPods to rock the dance floor.