Local Arts

How do you top a mirrored infinity room that became the talk of the town? A fire-breathing dragon seems like a good place to start.

Choral singers and choral music lovers have a concert treat in store. The legendary Swingles are coming to Vancouver, thanks to the efforts of the B.C.

A Burnaby artist is exploring her Indigenous heritage in the next exhibition at Amelia Douglas Gallery. Chapan Snares Rabbits, featuring work by Michelle Sound, is on at the Douglas College gallery in New Westminster from Feb. 28 to April 20.

Giovanna Morales Vargas’s film premieres at Vancouver International Women in Film Festival

The Burnaby Lyric Opera spring production of Donizetti’s comic L’elisir d’amore once again brings us a first-class show, with great voices, actors, costumes and setting.

Musical theatre fans, here’s one you won’t want to miss. Burnaby South Secondary is presenting Chicago: High School Edition onstage at the Michael J. Fox Theatre next week. It’s on Tuesday, March 5 and Wednesday, March 6 at 7 p.m., plus a 1 p.m.

It all started one long-ago Christmas Eve, when he took a shift at CBC studios in downtown Vancouver. His job? Cleaning off the blackboard that was used for the weather forecasts.

ON NOW To Saturday, Feb. 23 Enchanted Places, an exhibition of paintings by Chun Ping (Claire) Huang, at the Amelia Douglas Gallery, fourth floor north, Douglas College, 700 Royal Ave. Gallery open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Organizers say they are ‘currently working towards a 2020 return’

And four other reasons Vancouver is awesome this week