Local Arts

Vancouver Youth Symphony concert features concerto competition winners

Chances are that last time you boarded a bus, you weren't thinking about its artistic potential. But while others may consider buses only a mundane form of transportation, Cindy Buckshon considers them inspiration for art.

The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts was alive with the sounds of music on Sunday, as the Clef Society of Burnaby presented its monthly concert.

Burnaby musicians will be in the spotlight for a special memorial tribute concert. The Vancouver Academy of Music Symphony Orchestra is presenting Eternal Light on Sunday, Feb. 19 at 7: 30 p.m. at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver.

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 starting this weekend, with a stop at the Shadbolt

More than 50 dances of all ages will be taking to the stage for Douglas Ballet Academy's first full-length ballet production. The Burnaby-based dance school is staging Coppelia on Feb. 25 and 26 at the Inlet Theatre in Port Moody.

A Burnaby performer is singing her way back to the 1950s in the Vancouver premiere of The Marvelous Wonderettes. The musical, which opened Feb.

She's a rising start in the world of choreography - and now Burnaby's Shannon Moreno has a chance to see her work take centre stage. The world premiere of Moreno's work Something(s) Relative will take to the stage at the Scotiabank Dance Centre Feb.

The work of a Burnaby artist will soon be seen at a new East Side gallery in Vancouver. Carly Lovett, along with other members of the artist collective The Seasonal Workers, is presenting work in the new exhibition The Romance Capital of the Yukon.

Love theatre? Here's one that sounds fascinating. Confessions of the Other Woman is onstage at the Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from Feb. 22 to 25.