Local Arts

Local music students are being invited to take part in the annual Festival on the Lake at the Shadbolt Centre. The registration deadline is March 24 for the festival, which runs from April 30 to May 3, May 14 to 16 and May 28 to 30.

Three Burnaby restaurants are taking part in next week's annual Dining Out For Life event.

FRESCO delves into little-known side of Italian-Canadian history

Lovers of dance, this one's for you. Don't miss out this Sunday afternoon, March 11, as the Shadbolt Centre hosts the LINK Community Dance Showcase.

Love mystery novels? You may want to turn up at the next Spoken Ink night. The Burnaby Writers' Society's next reading session and open mike night, Tuesday, March 20 at La Fontana Caffe, features mystery author Debra Purdy Kong.

First it was a sellout concert at the Orpheum in 2011 - not to mention six Grammy nominations and two wins, including Best New Artist.

Students at Burnaby Central Secondary are getting into character for a play in the school's brand new theatre. Jabberwock, written by Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin, is based on the life of James Thurber, cartoonist for The New Yorker.

What happens when an unlikely collection of strangers sign up for a small-town Adult Creative Drama class? That's the premise of Circle Mirror Transformation, an Arts Club Theatre show that's on tour around the Lower Mainland now, with a stop at the

A Burnaby piano studio can lay claim to six of the top young piano students in B.C. Six students of the Donna Fishwick studio have earned gold medals from the Royal Conservatory of Music for their 2011 exam results.