Local Arts

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.

Itai Erdal has made a name for himself as a lighting designer, winning awards and acclaim for his work behind the scenes for many theatre companies.

The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is bringing an award-winning documentary to Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The festival's Motion Picture Film Series continues at the Shadbolt on Monday, March 12, with a 7 p.m. screening in the Studio Theatre.

A Burnaby-based dance group will be part of an international festival of First Nations dance next week.

After her professor pans her doctoral thesis on Shakespeare, a student finds herself transported into the Bard's world, where she inadvertently sends his stories in hilarious new directions - and finds her true self along the way.