Local Arts

Storytellers are joining forces in a special event celebrating holiday memories. Actors, artists, writers and broadcast personalities will tell their tales during a live television taping at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts on Wednesday, Nov.

An independent publishing company from Burnaby is celebrating a book launch next weekend. The Write Room Press is holding a special event at the Lynn Canyon Ecology Centre on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 2 p.m.

It's the first weekend of November and it's true, Burnaby - we might be facing some cold November rain. But don't worry, there is still plenty of fun to be had in the city.

Want to help set the direction of the Burnaby Art Gallery? The gallery is looking for volunteers to serve on its advisory committee, an appointed body of volunteers that acts at arm's length to help the director-curator in the development of the gall

Friday, November 1 Artisan Crafts for Africa, 4 to 8 p.m. at the CAW Hall, 326 12th St., New Westminster, proceeds to Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation.

It was a graveyard smash, and it caught on in a flash - a flash mob, that is. The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts caught the Halloween spirit over the weekend with a special dance mob edition of the Monster Mash on Saturday, Oct. 26.

Are you ready to find and tell your "shy stories"? A special workshop hosted by the Burnaby Writers' Society, Speaks From the Heart, is looking to help you do just that. The workshop is being presented by Crystal Favel - a.k.a.

If you're an art lover and you haven't yet seen Olive Leung's work, you still have a chance to do so. Leung has been the artist in residence with the Burnaby Arts Council this fall.

Footlight Theatre holding benefit concert instead of full-scale musical

Ongoing to Saturday, October 26 Let's Murder Marsha, a comedy-thriller opening the Vagabond Players' new season, Thursdays to Saturdays at 8 p.m., at Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen's Park, New Westminster. Tickets $15, or $13 students/seniors.