Arts & Life

Prince George's fall fair is about cows and tractors, but also about guitars and actors. Entertainment is as much a focus of the BC Northern Exhibition as the agriculture and home crafts.

The first note of the orchestra's tuning was already a joke and the humour horse galloped along unbridled for the rest of the Spamalot production. And unhorsed, actually.

There is no filter for the spam of Monty Python. The world-famous musical hilarity of the British comedy group is coming to the Prince George stage this weekend, just in time to catch a historic break.

Music to dream by Your eyes are getting heavy. You are drifting off to sleep. You are having a Midsummer's Dream. The electronic and transformational music festival happens tonight and Saturday at a forest location near the airport.

When local writer Debora Broadhead landed a publishing deal with her first manuscript, it also meant a call up to the publishing big leagues for a local artist.

The creative teen mind has a place to unfurl this summer as, for the first time, the Two Rivers Gallery has rolled out the welcome mat for a Teen Art Week as part of its summer programming, from Aug. 11 to 15.

A vacant lot with an artistic personality will soon ring with music and downtown camaraderie.

The clash and swash of costumed warriors on a stage is not real battle, and the slashing of pallet knife and thrusts of paintbrush are no less theatre in the hands of Jerzy (George) Lesniewicz.

He is known for his artistic skills, but not these artistic skills. As the concertmaster of the Prince George Symphony Orchestra, Jose Delgado-Guevara is considered among the best musicians to live in northern B.C. But painting? Not so much.

Judy Russell is sharing the spam. The Prince George musical theatre director has done something new for the city, in the final days before her next major opening night.