Arts & Life

Casse-Tte: A Festival of Experimental Music Now in its fourth year, this unique music showcase brings cutting edge composers and performers onto the stage at Exploration Place from June 23-26. Williams Lake Stampede The premier rodeo in northern B.C.

According to Roger Klein, if you can't take a joke, piss on ya. Life is just too short to get all grumpy about humour, and art is too personable to stick its nose in the air.

Whereas The Debaters is the funniest show on the public's network, and whereas Prince George is the coolest city between Whitehorse and Tsawwassen, and whereas The Debaters has yet to stage an episode here in its 10-year history, be it resolved that

The concerts are free. The workshops are free. The live panel discussions are free. Now that is an avant-garde music festival.

The season of concerts has come to a close for the Northern Orchestra, but that doesn't signal the slow season.

Don't look so perplexed. Why must you be vexed? Can't you see you're next? Yes, you're next. You're so next.

A new artist will be moving into Studio 2880. A search is underway to determine the new artist-in-residence at the arts facility. The application process is now open.

A spate of recent announcements has been filling up the live entertainment calendar for the city.

An artist who has been through harsh experiences is compelled, almost duty-bound, to express it directly. Niska Napoleon took a long time to come to this realization.

Britt Meierhofer is well known as a solo musician, a member of the band Crones, the alterego of music projects like Britt AM and Goodnightmare, but her latest project is a hearse of a different colour. "This is straight-up political punk," she said.