Local Arts

When Canadian icon and folk singer Connie Kaldor appears in Pender Harbour Feb. 26, it will be her first visit to the community. If she follows the same pattern as other performers, she won't want to leave.

In a foreword to the book Illuminated Verses, photographer Ricardo Scipio describes his decade of fashion photography in New York, Toronto and Miami.

This is us: Africa speaking to Africa and to the world. So begins an original show, African Voices, opening at Heritage Playhouse on Feb. 17 in celebration of Black History Month, written and directed by Gibsons' performer Jean Pierre Makosso.

The 12-member, Vancouver-based choir, musica intima, will make their Coast Recital Society debut at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, at the Raven's Cry Theatre in Sechelt.

Welcome to the 500-channel universe. Television is hungry for new material, and documentary film-makers with something to say can jumpstart their career using equipment that is simpler, lighter and less expensive than ever before.

Many musicians perform with a water bottle on stage, but few use it as a centerpiece for an impromptu percussion number.

Five trombones one extraordinary experience.

When Shelley Dillon, local voice teacher, saw the work of Rena Sharon at a recent International Congress of Voice Teachers held in Vancouver this past summer, she became fired up to ask this veteran performer of the Coast Recital Society to give a wo

For the third year in a row, local Sweet Adelines chapter Arbutus Sounds Chorus is offering a singing Valentine service for the Feb. 14 holiday. In the past two years this service has been extremely popular.

Baeleay Callister is accomplishing something about which most of us would never even dream.