Arts & Life

Rebekah Massey is about to take on her biggest dance roll yet - that of a munchkin in the upcoming national tour of the Wizard of Oz.

It's showtime in the Keith Gordon Room at the Prince George Public Library. Teenagers out of school for the Christmas break can sop up hours of entertainment watching 13 episodes of the hit D. Gray-man from noon to 3:30 Monday.

American folk singer-songwriter David Wilcox will be making an appearance at Prince George's Coldsnap Festival, playing January 29.

Coldsnap welcomes exotic royalty to this year's festival. The Sultans of String have been announced as one of the acts local fans will be bowing to when the annual winter concert series opens next month. They will headline a show on Jan.

The Prince George and District Music Festival is preparing to celebrate its 60th anniversary, with organizers are expecting more than 900 participants to enter from communities like Burns Lake, McBride, Vanderhoof and Prince George.

In the early 1900s there was great hope in Central British Columbia for a thriving economy.

The Prince George Symphony Orchestra presents "PGSO Home for the Holidays" on Saturday night, 7:30 p.m. at Vanier Hall. Joining the orchestra is guest soloist Veera Khare Asher, a Prince George girl now a renowned singer in the United States.

The next edition of PG's Got Talent is only a couple weeks away, and the performers are in rehearsal mode. Close to 20 acts will get a spotlight at the Prince George Playhouse on Jan. 8, having prevailed through an audition process.

The life of Guy Lacelle, a world-class ice climber who made his home in Prince George, was celebrated Friday at the Bozeman Ice Climbing Festival in the United States.

A special production of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol will be presented by the Prince George Public Library Dec. 10. The reading will be offered by local on-air radio personalities at 7 p.m. in the Keith Gordon Room at the library.