Arts & Life

The District 57 Tapestry Singers finished their singing year strongly. They hope to start the new school year riding that momentum.

The heart and the mind, the spirit and the intellect, science and art. These twins are conjoined in all people, and two local writers will flip to the deeper pages in the book of how those two conditions dance with each other.

As Randall Heppner's solo art exhibition comes to a close, the Two Rivers Gallery is hosting a reception to thank him for his work and give the public one last chance to meet him before his paintings come down at their facility.

When Dani Paivarinta starts her first year of high school next week, she already knows what her favourite class is going to be. She can't wait for Art at PGSS. It's a pursuit that has already made her into a professional.

Matthew Hughes is listed as one of Canada's top fantasy writers. He is also ranked among Canada's top science fiction writers. For added flavour, Hughes also won an Arthur Ellis Award for writing Canada's best short story in the crime genre.

After a tumultuous forest fire season, a different view of the great outdoors is coming to Prince George. The annual Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour is stopping in at the Prince George Playhouse on Sept. 25. The first film rolls at 7 p.m.

The steampunk movement has a natural home in Prince George. The Central BC Railway & Forestry Museum is tailor made for the cultural aesthetic that marries the fashion and tools of the early 20th century, and that's right in the museum's wheelhouse.

The BCNE's got talent. Limelight Quest has become one of the annual highlights of the BC Northern Exhibition. The singing competition has been holding preliminary elimination rounds through July, leading up to tonight's finals.

What a perfect weekend to rock. OK, there was some wildfire smoke, but it wasn't actually that bad (begging the pardon of the singers) and by the third day of Cariboo Rocks The North (CRTN) we even had some blue sky.

Some Atomic Love is about to detonate at the Two Rivers Gallery.