Local Arts

Join in the opening festivities this Saturday night at Deer Lake Gallery as the Burnaby Arts Council marks the spring equinox with a show of two- and three-dimensional works celebrating light

Perhaps it was fate that made Julia Chien late for band class that first day. Or perhaps it was just pure dumb luck.

The cherry blossoms are coming. Really they are. And with them comes O Hanami, the Nikkei National Museum and Cultural Centre’s annual spring festival. It’s coming Friday, April 5 and Saturday, April 6.

A group billed as the “fresh face of Canadian a cappella” is coming to Burnaby – and they’re promising some “next-level a cappella” for music fans. Countermeasure will be onstage Saturday, March 16 at Brentwood Presbyterian Church, 1600 Delta Ave.

A Burnaby performer is taking to the stage in a musical made famous by Dolly Parton. Yes, that’s 9 to 5: The Musical , and Capilano University is staging it from March 14 to 23 at the university’s Blueshore Financial Centre for the Performing Arts.

Salsa meets politics in a new show at Shadbolt Centre for the Arts. The Shadbolt Centre is hosting Nightswimming’s Broken Tailbone from March 13 to 16.

The Burnaby Art Gallery is getting set to reopen with an exhibition that’s part of the Capture Photography Festival. The gallery has been closed for renovations since Jan. 14.

Burnaby Art Gallery is holding an Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Sunday, March 24

ON NOW To Saturday, March 2 Rabbit Hole, presented by the Vagabond Players at Bernie Legge Theatre, Queen’s Park, with Thursday to Saturday shows at 8 p.m., and Sunday matinees at 2 p.m. Tickets $17 regular or $15 for seniors and youth. See www.

Mamma mia! Diners at Vancouver’s Pepino’s , the contemporary revamp of the venerable Nick’s Spaghetti House on the Drive, spotted something pretty awesome besides the saucy plates of pasta at the Italian joint: actor Seth Rogen.