Local Arts

He turned 40 watching his home region burn. Maybe it was turning a page of personal age or maybe it was the intense worry for his neighbours, but something moved him to create art in that moment.

Lindsay Anderson is inviting her hometown to a feast. Some feasts are several courses; hers will be laid out before you in 296 pages. And what luxurious pages they are.

A celebrity scientist will be choo-chooing into The Exploration Place this weekend. Dr.

Caitlin McCormick danced to new heights in her youthful career as a performer. The 16-year-old dancer from Dance Your Hart Out Studio was the runner up in the Modern II class at this year's Performing Arts B.C. provincial championships.

The big top will rise once again, inflated by the sounds of music, laughter and the ahhhhhs of the audience.

The life of the Prince George party is being celebrated tonight. For decades, Royce Unruh was the leader of the city's main house band and was the mentor of the city's future musicians.

Rock 'n' roll poets are few, but Bruce Cockburn is one of those rare legends of both instrument and word. His songs have been quoted in books and movies and even in other songs (by U2 in God Part II).

Few Canadian painters are household names. Emily Carr comes to mind, as does Roy Henry Vickers, Tom Thomson, Robert Bateman, Norval Morrisseau or perhaps Jack Shadbolt.

International music roots are tangled around the feet of Chris Ronald. He plants some of those shoots in Prince George tonight. The up-and-coming soloist has garnered a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination (for Songwriter of the Year, no less).

When you think of the colours of Canada, one jumps out more than any other. It dominates the flag, it's definitive of the Mounties, the most successful NHL team in history wears it and so do our national teams of all sporting description.