Local Arts

The 11th annual Traveling World Community Film Festival is in town until March 15. There are 26 documentary films that offer intimate stories and insights into the world.

The cast has been made and the fly dangles over Prince George tonight, waiting for a hungry strike. Local fly fishing enthusiast Erich Franz can explain better than most the reverberating details of the zen-sport to which he pays so much attention.

There's a new hand on the baton at the Prince George Symphony Orchestra. Michael Hall has been appointed to the dual position of conductor and musical director after a year-long audition process.

The pathway between conscious life and the subconscious world leads over a bridge. Its name is Nicky Kumar.

Life might be a highway for Tom Cochrane, but it sure isn't a stretch of prairie pavement. It has hills and tight corners, bridges and even some potholes.

The 66th edition of the Prince George & District Music Festival has just finished, with scores of competitive performances in piano, vocal, and instrumental categories. There were soloists, duos, trios, choirs, ensembles large and small.

A local film director needs all the black-clad creeps available today for a little cloister in the woods. Prince George filmmaker Jon Chuby is throwing out an open casting call for a horror movie he is making.

Vancouver businessman Barj Dhahan's desire to preserve and nurture his native tongue led to the establishment three years ago of the annual Dhahan Prize for Punjabi literature worth $25,000. Now he is taking the campaign to B.C. high schools.

Leave it to a Canadian bluegrasser to put country music back on track. Meghan Patrick rolled her first thousand miles of touring and first blistered her fingers on guitar strings in the band The Stone Sparrows.

Have a Wild time at the Cinema CNC Film Festival this weekend. Nettie Wild is the director of one of the feature films on this year's roster and she will be in person at the screening to meet with the public and answer questions about her work.