Arts & Life

The urge to colour was lurking within adults - lurking until this year. Who knew? When publishers took a chance on marketing a line of colouring books to adults, the urge erupted.

There is a world of colours seen by those who are colourblind. They aren't the same hue as the ones the other 92 per cent of males see (less than one per cent of females are colourblind), but they are beautiful and they are nuanced.

Saturday night at the P.G. Playhouse might well have been the most significant event in Prince George music history. It was called The First Waltz, in homage to the famed concert The Last Waltz held on Nov.

B.C.'s Lieutenant Governor is welcoming entries for the third season of Sing Me A Song. It's an opportunity for musical groups of all ages and genres to write and sing an original song in the lead up to Canada's 150th birthday celebrations in 2017.

No need to worry, it's all there. Actually, there is more there. Whenever I hear a classic has been adapted, I cringe. I worry that the guts have been ripped out, or important bones have been removed.

Some families have secrets, but the Nowak family's was so shrouded, none of them even knew it.

Dallas Green is bringing the city and the colour to Prince George this spring.

Mental health hasn't the medical care or social safety net of other afflictions.

The Community Arts Council is selling tickets and selling a lifestyle, and it is all Prince George. The CAC is the umbrella group that supports and promotes arts of all kinds and almost all the other arts groups in the region.

When Nove Voce sings, it is sometimes hard to remember that there are individual people standing before you.