Local Arts

Jeff Chiba Stearns' One Big Hapa Family returns for a 10th anniversary screening and panel discussion at Nikkei National Museum

The Retired Draft Horse and the Last Pulled Log will be officially unveiled Monday, March 2 at the Kings Crossing development at Edmonds and Kingsway

Longtime Burnaby NOW readers may recognize some faces when Family Feud Canada airs on March 4. The Cenas, now living in Port Moody, are former local residents who’ve been making headlines in the NOW since way back in 2005.

NOTE: This event has now been cancelled due to COVID-19 restrictions. A Newfoundland-based theatre company is bringing its newest work to the stage in Burnaby.

ON NOW To Friday, Feb. 28 Think Different, an exhibition of work by New Westminster Secondary School fine arts students, at the Plaskett Gallery, Massey Theatre, 735 Eighth Ave. Gallery open 1 to 5 p.m.

Dalannah Gail Bowen, hailed as the “Canadian matriarch of the blues,” is coming to the stage in Burnaby. Bowen will perform for Jazz Evensong at Brentwood Presbyterian Church on Wednesday, March 4.

If you’ve ever sat through a dysfunctional family holiday dinner – and who hasn’t? – you’ll enjoy this upcoming outing from the St. Thomas More Collegiate drama department.

Musicians from the Canadian Arctic, a classical harpist and a New York jazz singer are among the performers coming to the Shadbolt Centre stage in March.

Jared Miller is one of the contenders in the Classical Composition of the Year category for his work Under Sea, Above Sky

You can still catch the excellent production of the opera Madama Butterfly , in the intimate setting of the Shadbolt Centre’s James Cowan Theatre, with easy to read subtitles, talented acting and first-class voices.