Arts & Life

The next stage in your entertainment career might just be front and centre at the fair. The BC Northern Exhibition (BCNE) put out the call Wednesday for local performers interested in the major summer event.

Theatre North West found more water for their latest play to swim in. The hit drama The Girl In The Goldfish Bowl has been extended due to popular demand. Ticket sales were so strong, said TNW staff, that two additional performances have been added.

Belgium lost an aspiring artist for the year when Florence Merken departed for Canada. Belgium will gain a fully realized artist when she returns later this summer.

Four Neat Holes have been punched in National Poetry Month. Local wordsmith Al Rempel and imagesmith Mo Hamilton cobbled together a new chapbook of original work.

No sooner did the PGSO mainstage season come to an end than their 2016-17 season got announced.

The choral voices of the region are harmonizing in Vanier Hall this week. The annual School District 57 Singfest choir event is taking place tonight through Thursday.

Tonight, the PGSO main stage season ends on a personal note. "It is all music that was commissioned by the PGSO, spanning from our first year of operations until now," said the orchestra's general manager Jeremy Stewart.

There is an epic artistic pileup happening at the end of the alphabet. Zelda meets Zakresky. Millions of gamers and home entertainment fans cannot hear the name Zelda and not envision the famous character of the video game world.

Vandalism can be a real kick in the paints. A pain in the arts. Sonny Gomez used to be the guy who did the damage, as a graffiti artist who would emblazon walls that did not belong to him.

Dancers and audiences go together like rama lamma dinga dong, or like shoo bop yippity boom de boom. They go together like pink ladies and greasers. They go together like Danny Zuko and Sandra Dee.