Arts & Life

Coldsnap Music Festival will be in full swing next week with the Boom Booms, Dear Rouge, Miss Quincy & the Showdown, the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer and many more headliners.

Theatre North West's new play development program called TrueNorth New Works has found its two finalists.

January North Winds, features a chamber music quintet who will perform Enescu's Romanian Rhapsody, Dvorak's Three Slavonic Dances, Prokofiev's Suite from Romeo and Juliet and Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite. The concert takes place at St.

He wrote South of Sixty, non fiction, in 2006, and now Michael Warr is back to launch his latest work, Murder in the Antarctic, his first try at fiction. Warr will host a book signing at Books & Co., Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Local painter, Lesley White, is one of 14 artists whose work has been chosen to go into the National Art Portfolio for Ducks Unlimited Canada in an effort to raise funds for wetland conservation.

The area was treated to a very white Christmas, and now a local singer-songwriter hopes you'll have a White new year as well.

Coldsnap Music Festival, presented by the Prince George Folkfest Society, invites audiences to come in from the cold and generate a little heat with the Boom Booms during the Prince George Block Party Friday, Jan. 24, 7:30 p.m.

We fill our lives with our best efforts and then at some point a simple mistake can be the catalyst to our greatest creations. Alex Moffat, photographer, was walking in Lynn Valley with his mother one day, his camera, as usual, in hand.

Boogie with the Stars, the New Year's Eve event at the Civic Centre, brought $36,000 to the Spirit of the North Healthcare Foundation.

Friday Night Mics will showcase local talent and invites anyone interested in taking to the stage to come to Cafe Voltaire, in Books & Co., 1685 Third Ave. at 8 p.m. As always, this is a free event for participants and audience members alike.