Arts & Life

The third annual Kiwanis AleFest takes place Jan. 27 and 28, 2017 and with a successful year of fundraising behind the festival that saw more than $20,000 raised last year, tickets are on sale now.

Pops In The Park brought the whole community together to enjoy the Prince George Symphony Orchestra outside for free.

Carla Joseph was the winning warrior when Prince George's painters met on the field of Art Battle. The annual speed-painting tournament was held this past weekend at Hub Space.

One of warrior television's most popular leading men is coming to Northern FanCon.

One taste of Laphroaig Single Malt peated Whisky from Islay brings one local scotch drinker right onto the Scottish highlands under a grey November sky. Theatre NorthWest will once again host a Scotch and Social Oct. 15 at 7 p.m.

Sound Of The North is having its very own Octoberfest. The dormant local country-folk band is coming back to public presence in a big way, in the days ahead, with a traditional German theme as their primary motivation.

They already have saucy nicknames, spicy costumes, and sassy moves. If you're an active burlesque troupe, you're already nine-tenths of the way to the comic-con spirit.

New life has been breathed into Final Breath. The Prince George short-film project was just a proposal, but it was so compelling it won one the $10,000 production grants being offered by Telus through the StoryHive cultural stimulation program.

One of the province's top watercolour artists, Cliff Mann, has a hometown exhbition set to open this month. Mann was a finalist at the Art Battle provincial competition in Vancouver in 2015 after winning the Prince George regional round.

The band is called West My Friend but for frontwoman Eden Oliver, tours of these parts could invite a slight name change to Home My Friend.