Local Arts

The DOXA Documentary Film Festival is bringing its film series back to Shadbolt Centre for the Arts.

Members of the B.C. Boys' Choir are putting their feet and their voices to work this weekend. The choir is doing its first ever Walk-a-Song fundraiser in Burnaby on Saturday, Oct. 15.

Emerging young opera talent was in the spotlight at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts this weekend. The Clef Society of Burnaby held its October concert on Sunday, featuring students from the UBC Opera Ensemble.

The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is offering a special treat for film buffs. The centre is hosting a special screening of the 1926 film Faust, complete with live piano accompaniment, on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Pianist Robert Bruce (www.robertbruce music.

It promises to be a fiddling-and-stepdancing good time when April Verch takes to the stage at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The Canadian fiddler-singer-songwriter-stepdancer takes to the stage in the Studio Theatre at 8 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 5.

If you missed Awkward Stage Productions' successful run of Smile: The Musical at Vancouver Fringe, never fear: You have another chance to catch it. Smile takes to the stage at the Norman Rothstein Theatre in Vancouver from Oct. 26 to 30.

The Burnaby Artists' Guild is offering up its artistic take on People and Places. The People and Places exhibition and sale takes place at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts from Oct. 28 to 30.

The Shadbolt Centre for the Arts is offering a special treat for film buffs. The centre is hosting a special screening of the 1926 film Faust, complete with live piano accompaniment, on Wednesday, Oct. 19. Pianist Robert Bruce (www.robertbrucemusic.

Jen Miller's mission is to help new artists share their music

Burnaby residents will have a chance to enjoy some of the best classical dancers of India as part of the upcoming Gait To The Spirit festival. The second annual dance festival, presented by Mandala Arts and Culture, runs from Oct. 28 to 31.