Arts & Life

Northern FanCon has gone almost as southern as a Canadian pop-culture festival can go. The first headliner announced for the spring celebrity showcase is a New Zealand star of film and television, and a screen hero right in the FanCon wheelhouse.

The premier pottery organization in northern B.C., the Prince George Potters Guild, is offering to share their expertise. "You've always wanted to learn to do pottery. You've been looking for a creative outlet. Now is the time to reward yourself.

Active aging in northern B.C.

B.C. Culture Days is an annual provincewide initiative, and this weekend, its time has come for 2016.

A lanky rider from out west is sauntering into Prince George. He wears a black hat and he's got a posse with him. They say he comes from parts all over, but his campfire these days is Wells-Barkerville high in the Cariboo mountains.

There are at least 50 shades of music style in Hewson Grey, maybe more. The Edmonton band is making its first trip into Prince George and can't wait to introduce some new fans to their brand of modern folk-rock blend.

Lauren Brotman and Amy Blanding are going to paint the streets of Prince George in theatre. Their canvas is paper, their brush is words and the first of them came from a letter to the editor published in The Citizen.

When the cosmic names of Canadian comedians is written in the stars, Bruce McCulloch's name will be somewhere near the top. In a nation known almost as much for comedy as it is for hockey, that's saying something significant.

The therapeutic power of art and the documentary power of art have met between the covers of a new book by Daniel Gallant.

Bryan Adams is coming back to Prince George, and he's coming soon. Never mind this six-month sales period so many artists embark on, Adams' date at CN Centre is Nov. 19. He has been to P.G.